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

The challenge of cloud computing forensics

NIST recently published a report that garnered little attention, but it's a must-read document for people in business and law enforcement.

By David Linthicum

Sep 24, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Data Management

What you need to know about AI governance

As more organizations embrace AI, it is vital to document the policies and procedures that govern its use. Here are seven questions that define effective AI governance.

By Isaac Sacolick

Sep 23, 2024 13 mins

Data Governance Generative AI Software Development

Too much assembly required for AI

The average user doesn’t want (or isn’t able) to decide which model to use or how to finesse a useful prompt. We need software applications that can handle this.

By Matt Asay

Sep 23, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Cloud architects: Try thinking like a CFO

Companies suffer when cloud computing architects are not directly aligned with their business's overall goals. Let’s readjust our perspectives from purely technical.

By David Linthicum

Sep 20, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Architecture IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

Bringing Universal Windows Platform apps to .NET 9

Microsoft’s new UWP-friendly tools bridge the gap between the old and the new worlds of .NET to help old code into the latest .NET stack.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 19, 2024 8 mins

Development Tools Microsoft .NET Software Development

When your cloud strategy is ‘it depends’

Enterprise IT moves slowly, and people may not embrace change. What does it take to encourage your company to move into the future?

By Matt Asay

Sep 16, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Technology Industry

Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries’

Python 3.13 is coming soon, and it will leave Python’s ‘dead batteries’ behind. Now’s the time to learn how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow, enums, and the 'ast' library.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 13, 2024 2 mins

Data Science Python Web Development

New AI reporting regulations

The government’s intentions to promote cybersecurity for cloud-based AI are good, but its track record of successfully managing technology is poor.

By David Linthicum

Sep 13, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Data and Information Security

Using the Pinecone vector database in .NET

Build RAG-powered LLM applications using the tools you know with a managed vector index in Azure.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 12, 2024 7 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft .NET

A critical juncture for public cloud providers

As more enterprises leave the cloud or express real concern with rising prices, vendors must adapt to retain enterprise customers.

By David Linthicum

Sep 10, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

When the PC and Internet were new

The early PC and Internet days were a glorious time for technology, when magical new developments in hardware and software were thrilling and life-changing. Kind of like today.

By Nick Hodges

Sep 10, 2024 8 mins

Technology Industry

Does your organization need a data fabric?

More companies are leveraging data fabrics to solve complex data management challenges. Here's what business and IT leaders need to know.

By Isaac Sacolick

Sep 9, 2024 11 mins

Data Architecture Data Management

Junior developers and AI

The companies replacing their junior developers with AI will be in big trouble when they realize they have no one to become a senior developer.

By Matt Asay

Sep 9, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Software Development Technology Industry

Are you ready for data hyperaggregation?

The idea of integrating data gathered from multiple sources is hardly new, but interest in digital transformation and AI is pushing enterprises to tackle it again.

By David Linthicum

Sep 6, 2024 4 mins

Cloud Computing Data Integration Data Management

What is GitHub? More than Git version control in the cloud

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why.

By Martin Heller

Sep 6, 2024 19 mins

Development Tools Open Source Version Control Systems

DirectML on Arm is here at last, almost

Microsoft has unveiled the first piece of the Windows Copilot Runtime. We tried it out and had disappointing results, with many bugs and few supported models.

By Simon Bisson

Sep 5, 2024 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Microsoft .NET

Generative AI and coding: Time to rethink software development

Despite serious dangers, the efficiency benefits of using generative AI tools for programming are all-but-impossible to resist. We need an entirely new human-in-the-loop approach to software management.

By Evan Schuman

Sep 5, 2024 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

The open source community strikes back

Look no further than the recent forkings of Redis and Terraform to see where the true power lies in the land of open source.

By Ann Schlemmer

Sep 4, 2024 8 mins

Open Source Software Development

Elastic’s return to open source

When AWS ships other companies’ open source code as its own, it’s hard for the code to stay open source. That says something about cloud competition versus partnerships.

By Matt Asay

Sep 3, 2024 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Open Source Technology Industry

Cloud application portability remains unrealistic

We’ve known for years that application portability between public cloud providers is not easy or cheap. Here are a few approaches to try instead.

By David Linthicum

Sep 3, 2024 6 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management Multicloud

Wider horizons: New tools (and languages) for Python developers

The end-of-summer report includes more than one way to tackle data science, a get-started guide to beat the Django 5 learning curve, and what's up with all these new Python tools written in Rust?

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 30, 2024 2 mins

Python Software Development

The paradox of chaos engineering

Does simulating attacks and failures help you harden your infrastructure, or is it a risky distraction for unprepared teams?

By David Linthicum

Aug 30, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Security Practices

Simpler web APIs in .NET with Sisk

The lightweight .NET web framework has arrived in a stable 1.0 release, ready to help build front ends and RESTful APIs for cloud applications.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 29, 2024 8 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

Best practices for handling exceptions in C#

A good knowledge of exception handling is needed to build applications that are capable of handling runtime errors efficiently. Start with these simple guidelines.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Aug 29, 2024 6 mins

C# Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

I switched to a vertical mouse and I’m never looking back. Here’s why.

They look weird and they feel awkward—at first. But a vertical mouse was ergonomically more comfortable and easier on my hands than I ever imagined.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 28, 2024 5 mins

Engineer Software Development

Quantum computing attacks on cloud-based systems

NIST has some recommendations for navigating the evolving cybersecurity landscape with quantum-resistant strategies, and they should absolutely be on your radar.

By David Linthicum

Aug 27, 2024 6 mins

Cloud Security Emerging Technology Quantum Computing

Are you the boss of your feed?

You probably get an endless barrage of news, information, social media, and who-knows-what-else through several automated feeds every day. How’s that working out?

By Nick Hodges

Aug 27, 2024 5 mins

Technology Industry

The definitive guide to data pipelines

Data pipelines are essential for connecting data across systems and platforms. Here's a deep dive into how data pipelines are implemented, what they're used for, and how they're evolving with genAI.

By Isaac Sacolick

Aug 26, 2024 14 mins

Data Architecture Enterprise Buyer’s Guides Generative AI

The slow evolution of enterprise tech

Enterprises have largely favored the same programming languages and databases for the past decade, so don’t panic if you haven’t mastered artificial intelligence yet.

By Matt Asay

Aug 26, 2024 6 mins

Databases Programming Languages Technology Industry

Navigating the AI frontier

The expensive, painful lessons we learned from the early days of cloud computing are relevant to the generative AI era.

By David Linthicum

Aug 23, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

Take advantage of dev containers

Dev containers allow developers to build and share development environments in containers and start coding faster with more consistency and security.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 22, 2024 7 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers Microsoft Azure

Achieving cloudops excellence

If enterprises want to sustain their digital transformation journeys, cloud operations must be a priority, with the funding to match.

By David Linthicum

Aug 20, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Security takes a front seat

Threats that have always existed but are now amped up by generative AI are making enterprise leadership take notice and open the purse strings.

By Matt Asay

Aug 19, 2024 4 mins

Application Security Cloud Security Technology Industry

Revolutionizing cloud security with AI

Artificial intelligence will redefine cloud security with adaptive frameworks, enhanced threat intelligence, and predictive analytics to usher in an era of proactive protection.

By David Linthicum

Aug 16, 2024 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Security Generative AI

Everything’s coming up Python!

Python tops the charts in the Tiobe programming language index. Also, who broke setuptools, and what’s the best way to install Python? It’s all here, in the mid-month Python report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 16, 2024 2 mins

Development Tools Python Software Development

Red-teaming AI with PyRIT

Microsoft has open sourced a key piece of its AI security, offering a toolkit that links data sets to targets and scores results, in the cloud or with small language models.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 15, 2024 7 mins

Application Security Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Remember quantum computing in the cloud?

Overshadowed by generative AI and GPUs, quantum computing still offers value for specialized applications.

By David Linthicum

Aug 13, 2024 5 mins

Computer Components Generative AI Quantum Computing

Why I don’t buy Apple products

Sure, Apple is a great company that makes great products. But many of its policies and practices rub me the wrong way.

By Nick Hodges

Aug 13, 2024 5 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

5 things great data science product managers do

Product management has similar objectives for any kind of software rollout, but some responsibilities are specific to analytics and data products. Here are five ways a great product manager improves the results of data science initiatives.

By Isaac Sacolick

Aug 12, 2024 11 mins

Agile Development Careers Devops

AI software resists open source

A core group of smart and well-meaning people would dearly love all AI to be open source. If only developers cared.

By Matt Asay

Aug 12, 2024 4 mins

Generative AI Open Source Technology Industry

A strategic road map for navigating the cloud skills shortage

Comprehensive strategies to attract, retain, and develop top talent in cloud computing to ensure sustainable growth and innovation.

By David Linthicum

Aug 9, 2024 6 mins

Careers Cloud Computing IT Skills and Training

Microsoft Teams offers more for developers

Microsoft is making its collaboration platform more developer-friendly as a place to host apps and a place to build them.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 8, 2024 8 mins

Development Tools Software Development

Is efficiency on your cloud architect’s radar?

We seem to have lost our ability to build efficient cloud systems, resulting in billions of dollars of lost business value. We need to find that metric again and find it now.

By David Linthicum

Aug 6, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Design Patterns

Turning AI hype into reality

Enterprises are overwhelmed by AI dreams and employees who lack the skills to make them come true. May I suggest a hackathon?

By Matt Asay

Aug 5, 2024 4 mins

Engineer Generative AI IT Skills and Training

Small language models and open source are transforming AI

From cutting costs to boosting efficiency, lean AI is reshaping the business landscape and democratizing advanced technology for enterprises of all sizes.

By David Linthicum

Aug 2, 2024 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

How Dapr improves cloud-native development

Open-source application framework combines building blocks for Kubernetes and support for classic distributed application design patterns. More is on the way.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 1, 2024 8 mins

Cloud-Native Development Tools Kubernetes and Containers

Who should own cloud costs?

Engineers are ideally placed to manage high cloud expenses but may not want one more thing on their plate. What role should finops teams play?

By David Linthicum

Jul 30, 2024 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Engineer

The rise and fall of Stack Overflow

Big question marks hang over the programming and software development website with all the answers.

By Nick Hodges

Jul 30, 2024 5 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

How to choose the right low-code, no-code, or process automation platform

Which low-code, no-code, or process automation platform is right for your organization? It depends on how well the platform meets your business objectives. Here are seven questions to help you narrow the field.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 29, 2024 14 mins

Development Tools Enterprise Buyer’s Guides No Code and Low Code