US engineering salaries keep climbing while hiring stays slow. More US teams are solving both problems the same way: hiring senior nearshore developers in Latin America who work US hours, communicate in fluent English, and cost meaningfully less than a domestic hire. Here’s how to do it well. Want vetted LATAM engineers on your team in days, not months? See LATAM developers or book a free call. Offshore vs nearshore vs onshore “Cheaper engineers” usually means far-offshore - and the timezone gap is what kills it. Nearshore is different: ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week. Published context: June 16, 2026. Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said it has observed exploitation of CVE-2026-39813, CVE-2026-39808, and CVE-2026-25089 over the past 24 hours. CVE-2026-39813 (CVSS score: 9.1) refers to a path traversal vulnerability ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Transform now supports Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (Public Preview). Published context: June 16, 2026. Today, AWS announces the public preview of a new storage migration capability for AWS Transform that enables application owners, database administrators, and cloud migration teams to migrate block storage workloads from any on-premises or cloud source to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP (FSx for ONTAP), alongside the existing Amazon EBS option. AWS Transform for ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS Lambda Managed Instances now supports Tag Propagation for Managed Resources. Published context: June 15, 2026. AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI) now supports tag propagation, enabling you to automatically apply tags to managed resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and Amazon ENIs. This helps you enforce cost allocation, service control policies (SCPs), and compliance requirements across all resources provisioned by your capacity providers. LMI ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon ECS Express Mode is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Published context: June 15, 2026. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Express Mode is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. ECS Express Mode empowers developers to rapidly launch containerized applications, including web applications and APIs, making it easy to orchestrate and manage cloud architecture while maintaining full control over in ...

When you need to ship more software than your team can handle, you have three options: hire full-time (in-house), hand a project to an agency (outsourcing), or add vetted engineers who work inside your team (staff augmentation). They are not interchangeable - and picking the wrong one is expensive. Here’s a clear breakdown of how the three compare, and a simple way to choose. Weighing the models for a specific role or project? See staff augmentation services or book a free call to talk it through. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Palo Alto Warns of Active Exploitation of PAN-OS GlobalProtect VPN Flaw. Published context: June 15, 2026. Palo Alto Networks has revealed that it has observed “active exploitation” of a recently disclosed PAN-OS vulnerability by an unknown threat actor to obtain unauthorized access to GlobalProtect portals. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw affecting the portal and gateway components of PAN-OS softwar ...

Today’s signal AWS News Blog recently reported AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026). Published context: June 15, 2026. This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be […] ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs introduces additional metadata. Published context: June 10, 2026. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Flow Logs now supports EC2 resource tags and next-hop interface metadata, simplifying network monitoring and troubleshooting by eliminating the need to manually correlate flow log data with resource metadata. VPC Flow Logs enable you to capture and log information about your VPC network traffic to monitor and troubleshoot n ...

Today’s signal Hacker News recently reported Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI. Published context: June 15, 2026. Article URL: https://github.com/themartiano/luz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538833 Points: 35 # Comments: 9 The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. The service angle: Staff Augmentation For US engineering leaders, this points back to a practical operating need: augment US development teams with senior LATAM engineering resources. ...

Today’s signal The Hacker News recently reported Critical Splunk Enterprise Flaw Lets Attackers Run Code Without Authentication. Published context: June 13, 2026. Splunk has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in Splunk Enterprise that could be exploited to conduct unauthenticated file operations and even remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20253, is rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. “In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.2.4 and 10.0.7, an unauthenticated user ...

Today’s signal AWS What’s New recently reported AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider. Published context: June 11, 2026. AWS announces AWS Workload Credentials Provider, a lightweight client-side provider that automates deployment of exported certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) and local caching of secrets from AWS Secrets Manager across AWS and non-AWS workloads. Previously, customers exporting public or private certificates from ACM had to build custom automation The reason this matters is simple: buyers are paying attention to speed, operational resilience, and credible technical execution. A trending story can create awareness, but the business question is what a team should do with that attention. ...