Reacting to surges in traffic means you are already behind the curve, reports TNS Senior Editor Joab Jackson. That’s why Amazon engineers prioritize predictive scaling over reactive methods, especially for peak events like Black Friday. Joab has the details on how the leading e-commerce platform ensures high service availability.

In other technology topics we’re covering today:

• OpenAI launched GPT-5.1-Codex-Max today. It’s a new variant of OpenAI’s foundation model specifically trained and optimized for complex, autonomous software engineering tasks. TNS Senior Editor for AI Frederic Lardinois writes that it excels on coding benchmarks and is the first model trained to work across multiple context windows.
• The proliferation of APIs has created an “API Wild West” in many organizations, with insufficient security and governance causing costly breaches and deployment delays that API gateways cannot solve alone. To tame this chaos, DevGrid CTO Jason Ehmke advocates investing in a comprehensive platform built on six pillars of API success.

Uber automated a massive JUnit upgrade using OpenRewrite and AI-driven static analysis—finishing over 4,000 pull requests in two weeks instead of months. Join this webinar on Dec. 12 to learn how they scaled change safely.

Running Kafka at scale often brings cost, complexity, and operational headaches. Join us tomorrow to explore how leading companies are using Kafka to deliver real business impact.