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Google's borderless lakehouse wires AWS, Databricks and Snowflake catalogs into one Iceberg REST surface

Google Cloud has pushed a preview of catalog federation that lets BigQuery and Managed Spark read AWS Glue, Databricks Unity Catalog and Snowflake Horizon through an Iceberg REST catalog, and shipped an open-source Data Agent Kit that hands the same tables to MCP-speaking agents. For pipeline teams the practical shift is that the protocol coding agents already talk now reaches a synchronised view of a multi-cloud data estate.

Jul 30, 2026 · Priya Nair Platform engineering

MCP's next release candidate drops sessions and the handshake, pushes state into handles

The next Model Context Protocol release candidate removes sessions and the initialization handshake and shifts state into handles, moving remote MCP servers toward a stateless HTTP shape. Lead maintainers froze the release ahead of the rewrite, and it invalidates assumptions many existing server implementations were built on.

Jul 27, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

GitHub's MCP Server tracks the stateless MCP spec, and the Redis session drops out

Ahead of a 28 July 2026 move to a stateless MCP core, GitHub says its MCP Server has been updated to run without per-session Redis state. For teams wiring coding agents into CI, that changes what the server has to remember between calls.

Jul 24, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Developer experience

CircleCI's CLI is now a Go rewrite with an MCP server bolted on

CircleCI announced a ground-up Go rewrite of its CLI on July 7, shipped as 1.0 beta with predictable JSON on every command, a browser OAuth login, a debugging TUI and a built-in MCP server for Claude, Cursor and VS Code. It is a small announcement with an outsized effect on anyone who has watched a coding agent flail through unstructured CLI output.

Jul 23, 2026 · Priya Nair Developer experience

Codex lands in JetBrains: an in-IDE agent slot, and less config to babysit

GitHub's Copilot integration for JetBrains adds Codex as an agent provider in public preview, moves hook and MCP server management into the editor, and now honours admin-configured custom models. Here is what a JetBrains user should try first, and where the preview edges still show.

Jul 13, 2026 · Priya Nair Developer experience

A running cost meter and an MCP tripwire land in Visual Studio's June update

Visual Studio's June Stable Channel update adds a real-time Copilot usage window with configurable alerts and a trust check that pauses MCP servers whose configuration has changed between sessions. Both arrive in the same weeks engineers have been posting screenshots of surprise Copilot invoices after GitHub moved to usage-based billing on June 1.

Jul 11, 2026 · Priya Nair Incident response

AWS wires its DevOps Agent into PagerDuty incidents

AWS has paired its DevOps Agent with PagerDuty so that the moment an incident is created, the agent runs a root-cause investigation across AWS telemetry, deployment history and a short list of third-party observability tools, posting its findings back onto the incident record.

Jun 21, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Incident response

AWS DevOps Agent reaches GA with the Datadog MCP Server in tow

AWS has moved its DevOps Agent from preview to general availability, shipping it alongside the Datadog MCP Server so the agent can correlate monitoring signals with AWS-deployed infrastructure during an incident. The badge change is the smaller story; the bigger one is what SRE teams now have to write down before the agent touches production.

Jun 20, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Incident response

AWS teaches its DevOps Agent to flip feature flags during incidents

The AWS DevOps Blog details an integration where the AWS DevOps Agent's MCP server talks to LaunchDarkly so an agent can identify and toggle the flags relevant to a live outage instead of paging three teams to do it by hand. The integration removes a real coordination step, and forces every shop to write down which actions an agent is allowed to take unattended.

Jun 20, 2026 · Tomás Vega Security & supply chain

Enterprise MCP adoption keeps outrunning its authorization layer

The Model Context Protocol has become the default way enterprises wire AI agents to internal tools, but the authorization layer between agent, protocol and downstream resource is still the part most platform teams are stitching together by hand.

Jun 19, 2026 · Tomás Vega Platform engineering

GitHub's agent finder lets Copilot look up its own tools

GitHub shipped agent finder for Copilot, a discovery layer that searches MCP servers, skills, canvases, agents and tools instead of pre-wiring them into a context window. It implements the open Agentic Resource Discovery specification developed with Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face and Microsoft.

Jun 18, 2026 · Priya Nair Incident response

AWS pushes its DevOps Agent's diagnostic reach down to the EKS node via a custom MCP server

AWS has published a pattern for extending its autonomous DevOps Agent into EKS node OS and runtime data through a custom Model Context Protocol server, addressing incidents that live outside the agent's native cluster-control-plane visibility. The post is explicit that the implementation is a proof of concept, not a production replacement for monitoring or log shipping.

Jun 17, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Infrastructure as code

Terraform MCP server hits 1.0: what it actually changes for the engineer running the plan

HashiCorp's Terraform MCP server is generally available, giving AI assistants a sanctioned door into the registry, workspaces and plan output. For pipeline owners, it shifts where the agent ends and Terraform begins.

Jun 16, 2026 · Priya Nair