In six days DeepSeek replaced flat pricing with peak and off-peak rates, OpenAI ran a 50% discount at two resellers only, Stripe bought one of those resellers, and OpenAI cut its list price for exactly three months. The sticker price on a token is no longer information.
Read more →Stripe is buying OpenRouter, its largest acquisition ever, three months after Alphabet's growth fund valued it at $1.3 billion. Patrick Collison's stated reason is that tokens are the central currency for companies building with AI. Currencies need exchanges, and the price of a token just stopped being a fixed number.
Read more →MCP shipped its biggest change since launch. No handshake, no sessions, so servers finally scale behind a plain load balancer. The catch: everything the connection used to remember now has to be carried by the model, and asking the user a yes/no question costs you the entire request a second time.
Read more →A production outage caused by Cloudflare's anti-bot systems flagging Google Cloud datacenter IPs, and why API aggregation layers matter more than you think
Read more →Part 2: Adding inter-service communication to .NET Core microservices using HttpClient and custom logging services.
Read more →Building lightweight microservices with .NET Core and Nancy framework before ASP.NET Core MVC reached maturity.
Read more →This article is from 2016. Code samples may no longer work. Transactional emails can be a real bugbear for business and for marketers. They are often buried
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