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Will WhatsApp's rising costs expose South Africa’s digital dependency?

Will the new WhatsApp pricing shake South Africa's business landscape? Explore how digital sovereignty and dependency challenge the future of communication in the nation.

Will WhatsApp's rising costs expose South Africa’s digital dependency?

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Preview the November 2026 AWS SDK for Java retry defaults on your own traffic

If you run a Java app that talks to AWS, there's a change coming on November 1, 2026 that will quietly alter how your services behave under partial failure — and unless you take deliberate action, you…

  • AWS will change SDK retry defaults on November 1, 2026.
  • DynamoDB sees largest shift from 9 to 4 retries.
  • Developers can use retrylens to simulate new defaults.

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