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📅 Conference radar (Q4 you don’t want to miss)

• PyCon India — Bengaluru, Sept 12–15 (workshops, conf, dev sprints).

• GitHub Universe 2025 — Oct 28–29, San Francisco (Fort Mason)
  GitHub’s flagship event returns; broadcast schedule lands in September. Expect AI-powered dev, security, and OSS tracks.

• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America — Nov 10–13, Atlanta
  CNCF’s 10th-anniversary edition; schedule announced. If you live in Kubernetes land (platform, SRE, observability), start travel approvals now.

• Microsoft Ignite — Nov 17–21, 2025
  Microsoft’s enterprise developer/AI/cloud conference (dates published; watch for session catalog updates).

• AWS re:Invent — Dec 1–5, Las Vegas
  AWS’ biggest week of the year; lodging fills early. If you need hands-on labs, book now.

Action items (5 min):

• Put holds on calendars and begin budget approvals for Universe, KubeCon, Ignite, and re:Invent.

• If you’re speaking: double-check CFP outcomes for KubeCon (schedule is live).

🤖 AI Updates

• AWS’s silicon + supercomputer bets mean more non-NVIDIA options for training by late 2025.
  At re:Invent, AWS previewed Trainium 3 timing (late 2025) and “Project Rainier,” a mega AI supercomputer (with Anthropic). Translation: expect additional training backends and pricing dynamics to shift as these come online. Start keeping your frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow) portable across accelerators.

• Agentic AI keeps getting airtime in AWS ecosystems.
  Recent AWS briefings/summits are leaning into agent-style automation (Bedrock/Q/SageMaker integrations). Evaluate where agents can safely own “tickets → actions” loops in your ops or support flows.

• Jules (Google’s coding agent) is now open to everyone; works asynchronously and posts PRs instead of live-editing. The new critic catches bugs before they hit review. Worth piloting on non-critical repos.

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• Copilot model picker: enable Gemini 2.5 Pro or GPT-5 per project/org; both emphasize long-context code reasoning.

• Gemini API: URL-context tool is GA; Imagen 4 models are GA too (nice for doc/UX pipelines).

• Anthropic: Opus 4.1 upgrade + 1M-token context beta on Sonnet 4 (API/Bedrock). Good for whole-repo refactors.

• Mistral: Codestral 25.08 + full coding stack (Devstral, IDE extensions). If you want on-prem/OSS-friendly flows, test it.

• VS Code (July v1.103) shipped earlier this month; Copilot extension got stability and agent-flow tweaks; Python/Jupyter extensions updated.

Action items:

• Map your MLOps stack to a “multi-accelerator” posture (containerize training jobs; avoid vendor-specific ops glue where possible).

• Pilot one agentic workflow with real guardrails (e.g., read-only IAM first; staged rollouts).

Languages, Frameworks & Runtimes

• Go 1.25: performance/runtime improvements; optional experimental GC; new testing/synctest. Read notes before flipping prod.

• Rust 1.89: routine train update; check clippy/rustfmt compatibility in CI.

• Python: patch to 3.13.6 (bugfixes). Also watch advisories around tarfile and ecosystem libs (see Security).

• .NET: August servicing updates — .NET 9.0.8 / 8.0.19. Patch if you’re on those trains.

• React 19 (stable since ’24) continues to iterate (v19.1 in March). If you’re still on 18, plan your upgrade.

• Angular: v20.2 targeted for the week of Aug 18; v21 slated for Nov. Track breaking notes.

• Deno: current LTS track around 2.4.x (2.4.5 on Aug 21). Useful if you want Node+npm compatibility with secure defaults.

What to do this week

• Pre-Universe & KubeCon prep: assemble a “shopping list” of three problems you want solved (e.g., flaky CI, observability cost). Use those to pick sessions and expo targets.

• Budget sanity: flights/hotels are already trending up for late-Oct/Nov SF and Atlanta; lock refundable options now if you’re going to an event.

• Re:Invent labs: if hands-on GPU/Trainium time matters, plan your re:Invent catalog watchlist so you can register the hour schedules drop.

That’s all for this week! Let us know what you thought of this week’s recap!

— The Dev List Team