The Engineer’s Roundtable

1,120,000,000 contributions were made to open source projects on GitHub in 2025.

36,000,000 new developers joined the platform that same year.

Open source is no longer just a side project for the passionate few.

It's the most publicly verifiable portfolio you can build.

One that a hiring manager can read, review, and respect before they ever open your CV.

This June on The Engineers' Roundtable, we're having the real conversation:
Contributing To Open Source as a Career Strategy – How Does It Work?

Where do you start?

What do you contribute?

And how do you make sure the right people see your work?

📅 Wed. 24th June 2026
🕑 5 pm BST
📍 LinkedIn Live @EverythingDevOps
🔗 Event link

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Today’s issue is a mix of AI breaking things, scaling fast, and slipping into every layer of the stack, from cloud costs and coding agents to Kubernetes, security, and even operating systems.

You will also find upcoming events, a podcast worth listening to, and curated job opportunities across the ecosystem.

Let’s dive in👇🏼

Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice
A user racked up over $30k in AWS Bedrock Claude costs without alerts, due to Marketplace billing not being covered by AWS Cost Anomaly Detection. The case highlights how AI spend can slip through cloud cost controls. Read more.

Anthropic Traces Six Weeks of Claude Code Quality Complaints
Anthropic traced weeks of Claude Code quality issues to three product-layer changes: a reasoning effort downgrade, a caching bug that erased session context, and a verbosity-limiting system prompt change that reduced output quality. Read more.

xAI Enters the Coding Agent Race With Grok Build
xAI’s Grok Build introduces multi-agent coding, automated evaluation, and local-first execution to compete with Claude and Codex, aiming to speed up and rank code generation before human review. Read more.

OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
Codex can now be monitored and managed from the ChatGPT mobile app, letting developers review outputs, approve actions, and control running tasks remotely across devices. Read more.

AWS upgrades Kiro with parallel AI coding and planning
AWS Kiro now runs tasks in parallel and can auto-plan and analyze requirements before coding, pushing it further into agent-driven development. Read more.

Platform Engineering Labs Introduces Kubernetes Support and Public Hub for formae
formae now supports native Helm integration, multi-cloud Kubernetes management, and a public plugin hub, aiming to unify infrastructure-as-code across Kubernetes and cloud environments. Read more.

F5 Collaborates with Red Hat on Kubernetes and AI Application Security
F5 is bringing WAF protection and AI security blueprints to Red Hat OpenShift, extending enterprise security into Kubernetes-native and AI workflows with deployable, DevOps-ready templates. Read more.

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support – soon
Fedora and Ubuntu are preparing support for local generative AI workloads, focusing on privacy-first developer tooling and offline models. The shift is already sparking backlash from parts of the open source community. Read more.

What happens when AI starts building itself?
Richard Socher, founder of You.com, is building Recursive Superintelligence, a new startup focused on AI systems that can autonomously identify weaknesses and improve themselves through fully automated research loops. Read more.

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APIs / Software Engineering

The Engineer’s Roundtable

1,120,000,000 contributions were made to open source projects on GitHub in 2025.

36,000,000 new developers joined the platform that same year.

Open source is no longer just a side project for the passionate few.

It's the most publicly verifiable portfolio you can build.

One that a hiring manager can read, review, and respect before they ever open your CV.

This June on The Engineers' Roundtable, we're having the real conversation:
Contributing To Open Source as a Career Strategy – How Does It Work?

Where do you start?

What do you contribute?

And how do you make sure the right people see your work?

📅 Wed. 24th June 2026
🕑 5 pm BST
📍 LinkedIn Live @EverythingDevOps
🔗 Event link

🔁 Share this with a developer in your network who needs to hear this.