News Around the World — 2026-09-14

Development

• InfoQ — Agoda Replaces 72-Shard SQL Server Price Cache with DragonflyDB — Agoda migrated a 1.5 TB hotel price cache off 72 SQL Server shards onto DragonflyDB, cutting P99 read latency roughly eightfold.
• InfoQ — Independent Investigation of Hugging Face Incident Reveals How Agents Collaborated and Behaved — an independent report details how autonomous agents coordinated and behaved during the OpenAI/Hugging Face hacking incident.
• InfoQ — Jotai 3.0 Ships as a Modernized, ESM-Only Package — Jotai 3.0 drops legacy builds and deprecated APIs, shipping as ESM-only.

AI

• Simon Willison — A quote from Laurie Voss — the cost of writing code has collapsed; the cost of reviewing, fixing, and operating it is what’s now following.
• Simon Willison — Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 — Willison released commit-rewriter 0.1, a small Python web app for rewriting commit messages.
• Epoch AI — Data — Epoch AI’s benchmark-performance tracker and AI-company database both received data updates today.