Opinion

The ‘toggle-away’ efficiencies: Cutting AI costs inside the training loop

You don't need the newest GPUs to save money on AI; simple tweaks like "smoke tests" and fixing data bottlenecks can slash your cloud bill and carbon footprint.

By Jayachander Reddy Kandakatla

Mar 20, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AITechnology Industry

By Gautam Sikka

Mar 20, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceSoftware DevelopmentTechnology Industry

When cloud providers go out of business

The end of NetEase’s public cloud service has important lessons for how enterprises can mitigate risks and prepare for unexpected cloud provider closures.

By David Linthicum

Mar 18, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud

AI can give you code but not community

LLMs train on the data from Q&A sites, but when developers stop using those sites, they also lose the expertise and guidance of mentors.

By Matt Asay

Mar 17, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Stupendous Python stunts without a net

Dare to speed up Python with Zig, jazz up Django with HTMX, juggle Python threads with async, or set up an air-gapped Python machine. Plus, Python cozies up to Linux and more.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 14, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Python Web Development

IT leaders are driving a new cloud computing era

Dissatisfied with the major cloud providers, CIOs are increasingly exploring hybrid models and niche providers to enhance agility and control over their infrastructure.

By David Linthicum

Mar 14, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud

Speeding up .NET application development with Uno Studio

Uno Studio’s preview of its new Hot Design tool makes working with live XAML a convenient, interactive process for designers and developers.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 13, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

How Wasm reinvents web development

Imagine a world where you can build web applications in any programming language you like. We’re close.

By Nick Hodges

Mar 12, 2025 4 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages Web Development

Has AWS lost its edge?

The tech giant offers a plan to form a group focused on agentic AI but no actual technologies or systems. What does this say about the future of its cloud leadership?

By David Linthicum

Mar 11, 2025 5 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI Technology Industry

Vibes won’t make your software successful

How important is it that software be open? AWS, the Linux Foundation, and Hugging Face all offer different models that show what customers really think.

By Matt Asay

Mar 10, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Technology Industry

JavaScript tools and frameworks we’re watching now

The rapid evolution in JavaScript tools and frameworks moves at a breakneck speed. Here's our monthly roundup of news, tutorials, and updates to help you keep up.

By Matthew Tyson

Mar 7, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

When to choose a bare-metal cloud

These little-known cloud resources offer lower latency and higher compute power but are best for specific use cases. Here’s how to determine when they offer reasonable solutions.

By David Linthicum

Mar 7, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

The key new features in .NET 10

Microsoft has rolled out the first preview of .NET 10, with improvements to the runtime, ASP.NET Core, APIs, and developer productivity.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 6, 2025 7 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Why you should use dependency injection

By coding against abstractions instead of hard-coding the implementation, you can create a flexible, testable, and extensible system that will be vastly easier to maintain.

By Nick Hodges

Mar 5, 2025 5 mins

Software Development

Improving intelligent document processing with generative AI

Generative AI is bringing greater accuracy, flexibility, and automation to intelligent document processing, with significant business benefits. Here’s what you should know.

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 4, 2025 10 mins

Generative AI Software Development

Does Microsoft’s Majorana chip meet enterprise needs?

For companies struggling with high cloud costs, talent shortages, and data integration problems, a groundbreaking quantum processor isn’t the answer.

By David Linthicum

Mar 4, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Quantum Computing

Who needs Google technology? Probably not you

Google has created a dazzling portfolio of cutting-edge technologies to meet its needs. You probably need something different.

By Matt Asay

Mar 3, 2025 6 mins

Google Cloud Platform Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

Do more with Python’s new built-in async programming library

Gear up for spring with our favorite how-to's and to-do's for Python developers—starting with the new, built-in async/await syntax and asyncio library.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 28, 2025 3 mins

Concurrency Development Approaches Python

The rising threat of shadow AI

The uncontrolled and ungoverned AI apps your employees are using are becoming a real threat to cloud deployments, but banning them won’t work. Here’s what to do.

By David Linthicum

Feb 28, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Security Data Governance Generative AI

What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel

Microsoft steers its agentic AI development kit toward complex workflows using the Agent Framework and no-code agent development using AutoGen.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 27, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

11 rules for writing better code

Complexity makes misery. Folow these hard-earned and time-tested guidelines to keep your code simple, clear, and easy to maintain.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 26, 2025 8 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

What the private sector can teach government about cloud computing

All organizations, public and private, must embrace a cloud-smart mindset, platform diversity, and skill modernization to drive smarter IT decisions.

By David Linthicum

Feb 25, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud Multicloud

AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral

When established technologies take up the most space in training data sets, what’s to make LLMs recommend new technologies (even if they’re better)?

By Matt Asay

Feb 24, 2025 5 mins

Development Tools Generative AI

GenAI is my copilot? Developers weigh pains and gains

In this month's report: Software developers and technology leaders are embracing generative AI, but not everyone is happy about it.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Feb 21, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Engineer Generative AI

Why enterprises fail at finops

Let’s take a realistic look at the effectiveness of finops. Great potential is often wasted because the finance team isn’t working with the engineers.

By David Linthicum

Feb 21, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management IT Leadership

Microsoft’s first step to scalable quantum computing

After many years of work, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum hardware, the Majorana 1 processor. Let’s grok its topoconductor and tetron-based qubits.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 20, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Quantum Computing

Generative AI vs. the software developer

AI isn’t going to replace you. But a developer who knows how to leverage AI in the development process just might.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 19, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

3 reasons to consider a data security posture management platform

Data must be protected no matter where it's stored or how it's being used. Here's how DSPM platforms prevent data breaches—whether the data is stored, in transit, or used by AI.

By Isaac Sacolick

Feb 18, 2025 8 mins

Data Architecture Data and Information Security Software Development

Serverless was never a cure-all

Enterprises are finally discovering that serverless computing is not a universal remedy. A mix of serverless and traditional architectures is almost always a better approach.

By David Linthicum

Feb 18, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud Serverless Computing

What if generative AI can’t get it right?

GenAI is getting faster but not more accurate. If the technology can’t provide correct answers, we should limit it to use cases where plausibility is enough.

By Matt Asay

Feb 17, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

Buckle up for faster Python programs

Grok the faster interpreter in Python 3.14, learn what’s new in Python packages and PyPI, explore the new Python-to-C features in Cython 3.1, and seize the power of Python’s abstract base classes.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 14, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Avoiding the cloud migration graveyard

Don’t let your cloud journey die. Discover how to overcome common challenges to accomplish genuine digital transformation.

By David Linthicum

Feb 14, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Devops

Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime

Microsoft has finally delivered an experimental release of the Windows App SDK with artificial intelligence APIs. I took it for a spin.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 13, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

How to use mutexes and semaphores in C#

Take advantage of the Mutex class to synchronize threads in different processes and the Semaphore class to limit the number of threads that can access a shared resource.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Feb 13, 2025 7 mins

Software Development

Keep your code open to possibilities

The best software is built by keeping as many doors open for as long as possible. Resist premature decisions and locking in implementations too soon.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 12, 2025 5 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

The cloud giants stumble

While enterprises question the value of public cloud services and AI investments sputter, specialized providers and private solutions are gaining momentum.

By David Linthicum

Feb 11, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud

When LLMs become influencers

As developers increasingly turn to AI models for guidance, both developers and toolmakers want to ensure that models’ recommendations are fair, accurate, and not for sale. But how?

By Matt Asay

Feb 10, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools

Full-stack JavaScript leads the way

Take a peek at the JavaScript tools and frameworks leading in 2025, including updates from Angular, Bun, and Vitest, an in-depth look at JavaScript frameworks and trends to watch, and a couple of articles demonstrating the power and flexibility of HT

By Matthew Tyson

Feb 7, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

The hidden threat of neglected cloud infrastructure

Alarming new research shows that if your enterprise is careless about managing cloud resources, it's just a matter of time before you're compromised.

By David Linthicum

Feb 7, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Cloud Security

Using NATS with .NET Aspire

Open source messaging tools find a home in .NET distributed applications. NATS makes it easier for the messages of at-scale applications to work with various service endpoints.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 6, 2025 8 mins

Cloud-Native Microsoft .NET

Cloud development environments for the win

Cloud-based development environments have so many advantages they’re pretty much a no-brainer. We’ve come a long way, developers.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 5, 2025 5 mins

Development Tools Software Development

What you need to know about developing AI agents

AI agents are already transforming the future of work and the workforce. Here's what developers and tech leaders need to know about agentic AI.

By Isaac Sacolick

Feb 4, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Public cloud providers are missing the mark with AI

Burned by astronomical cloud bills, enterprises need a strategic road map that balances flexibility and control to unlock the full potential of AI investments.

By David Linthicum

Feb 4, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Kubernetes and Containers

The DeepSeek lesson

The AI vendors that will end up winning will be those that earn customers’ trust. OpenAI seems to be doing the opposite.

By Matt Asay

Feb 3, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Open Source

Plunge into Python: New tools and tips for Python developers

Take a deep dive into Python virtual environments, find your next best Python web framework, and grab up a couple of new Python utilities while they're hot.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jan 31, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

The quantum computing reality check

Being a quantum pioneer is turning out to be an expensive experiment. Quantum is still years away from widespread enterprise ROI.

By David Linthicum

Jan 31, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Quantum Computing

Microsoft’s new DocumentDB rethinks NoSQL on PostgreSQL

Standalone document-oriented database gives developers an open-source alternative to MongoDB now and perhaps an industry standard NoSQL API and engine later.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 30, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

The biggest ideas in software and technology today

Astonishing advancements fueled by AI, agentic AI, quantum computing, brain-computer interfaces, and blockchain are on the horizon.

By Matthew Tyson

Jan 29, 2025 9 mins

Emerging Technology Software Development Technology Industry

Doing authentication right

The do’s and don’ts of implementing an authentication process that provides strong security without irritating your users.

By Nick Hodges

Jan 29, 2025 8 mins

Access Control Authentication Software Development

The crisis of AI’s hidden costs

Overprovisioning cloud resources to handle AI has sparked an epidemic of sky-high cloud bills. Adopt these strategies to control cloud spending.

By David Linthicum

Jan 28, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Management Generative AI

Is ChatGPT making us stupid?

Developers aren’t asking questions on Stack Overflow or putting in the work to learn programming languages. When humans choose the quick fix over learning, we lose the ability to know if AI is getting it right.

By Matt Asay

Jan 27, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Generative AI