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

Coding for agents

Savvy developers are realizing the advantages of writing explicit, consistent, well-documented code that agents easily understand. Boring makes agents more reliable.

By Matt Asay

Mar 9, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Developer Roles

Why enterprises are still bad at multicloud

Large orgs are multicloud by default but rarely as a coherent operating model. The gap isn’t about choosing clouds; it’s about operationalizing them as one business capability.

By David Linthicum

Mar 6, 2026 6 mins

Cloud Architecture IT Strategy Multicloud

Why local-first matters for JavaScript

Every developer should be paying attention to the local-first architecture movement and what it means for JavaScript. Here’s why.

By Matthew Tyson

Mar 6, 2026 3 mins

JavaScript Node.js TypeScript

What I learned as an undercover agent on Moltbook

Activity on the Reddit-style social network for OpenClaw agents raises serious cybersecurity and privacy concerns.

By Ben Smith

Mar 5, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Generative AI

An ode to craftsmanship in software development

Neither an art nor a science, writing software is more akin to carpentry or watchmaking. We’re going to miss it.

By Nick Hodges

Mar 4, 2026 4 mins

Careers Developer Roles

Under the hood with .NET 11 Preview 1

The next .NET platform brings changes to runtime and hardware, as well as runtime async support.

By Simon Bisson

Mar 3, 2026 7 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Cloud architects earn the highest salaries

Cloud keeps changing, but the need for disciplined architecture does not. Architects who can align platforms, people, and economics remain scarce.

By David Linthicum

Mar 3, 2026 6 mins

Careers Cloud Architecture IT Skills and Training

Why AI requires rethinking the storage-compute divide

The inefficiencies exposed by AI workloads point to a fundamental shift in how storage and compute must interact.

By Rajan Goyal

Mar 3, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Generative AI

FinOps for agents: Loop limits, tool-call caps and the new unit economics of agentic SaaS

Ship an AI agent without loop limits and cost guardrails, and your cloud bill becomes the real product demo.

By Nikhil Mungel

Mar 2, 2026 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Management SaaS

AI makes networking matter again

The cloud era taught developers to mostly ignore infrastructure. AI is making them pay attention again.

By Matt Asay

Mar 2, 2026 7 mins

Development Approaches Network Architect Roles

The reliability cost of default timeouts

How unbounded waiting turns slowness into outages.

By Violetta Pidvolotska

Feb 27, 2026 11 mins

Cloud Architecture Data Architecture Devops

Cloud sovereignty isn’t a toggle feature

Coinerella’s European cloud rebuild shows why alternative clouds cost less and demand more, but they can be worth it.

By David Linthicum

Feb 27, 2026 7 mins

Cloud Architecture IT Strategy Technology Industry

Mobile platforms operate under fundamentally different trust assumptions than we relied on for web security. Your mobile pipeline could be missing these threats.

By Ryan Lloyd

Feb 26, 2026 9 mins

DevSecOps Mobile Development Web Development

Claude Code is blowing me away

What Claude does is eye-opening. One thing he has taught me is that the future belongs to the APIs and CLIs.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 25, 2026 5 mins

Developer Generative AI Roles

7 ways to tame multicloud chaos with generative AI

Devops teams are partnering with AI copilots and agents to manage multicloud complexity. Here are seven ways genAI can improve multicloud adoption, governance, observability, and more.

By Isaac Sacolick

Feb 24, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Multicloud

Microsoft’s Copilot push irks customers, stirs FTC

Pushing Copilot on customers raises antitrust concerns as the end of Windows 10 forces hardware purchases and customer frustrations mount.

By David Linthicum

Feb 24, 2026 6 mins

Generative AI Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

A checklist for enterprise database success

Five essential strategies to reduce costs, avoid licensing risk, simplify operations, and future-proof your data infrastructure for the AI era.

By Bennie Grant

Feb 24, 2026 7 mins

Data Management Databases Open Source

How AI redefines software engineering expertise

AI removes the difficulty of writing code. It does not remove the responsibility of designing systems.

By Sonu Kapoor

Feb 23, 2026 7 mins

Developer Generative AI Roles

AI agents and bad productivity metrics

Generating code without a rigorous validation framework is not engineering. It is simply mass-producing technical debt.

By Matt Asay

Feb 23, 2026 7 mins

Code Security Devops Software Deployment

The data center gold rush is warping reality

Is the data center building boom driven by competitive signaling or real demand? If adoption falls short, today’s boom will bring tomorrow’s bust.

By David Linthicum

Feb 20, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Critical Infrastructure Technology Industry

Python’s popularity slip: Here’s what we know

Get the scoop on the most recent ranking from the Tiobe programming language index, learn a no-fuss way to distribute DIY tooling across Python projects, and take a peek at ComfyUI: interactive, node-based tools for generative AI workloads in Python.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 20, 2026 3 mins

Databases Generative AI Python

The 200ms latency: A developer’s guide to real-time personalization

User engagement metrics do not care about the complexity of your AI model. They care about latency.

By Manoj Yerrasani

Feb 19, 2026 9 mins

Cloud Architecture Data Architecture Devops

What happens when you add AI to SAST

Bringing AI agents and multi-modal analysis to SAST dramatically reduces the false positives that plague traditional SAST and rules-based SAST tools.

By Jenn Gile

Feb 19, 2026 9 mins

App Testing Application Security DevSecOps

Let a million apps bloom

Something big is happening, all right. But there is reason for optimism in the AI turmoil.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 18, 2026 4 mins

Developer Generative AI Roles

Why cloud outages are becoming normal

Monthly cloud outages, like the recent Azure one, continue to disrupt enterprises worldwide. The culprits include hiring challenges, neglected resilience, and increasing complexity.

By David Linthicum

Feb 17, 2026 6 mins

Hybrid Cloud IaaS Microsoft Azure

Working with the Windows App Development CLI

Microsoft is previewing an open-source command-line tool designed to speed up Windows application development, testing, and delivery.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 17, 2026 8 mins

JavaScript Node.js Rust

Why cloud migration needs a new approach

Cloud-native migration tools, infrastructure as code, and governance solutions have all failed to deliver the infrastructure portability we really need.

By Harshit Omar

Feb 17, 2026 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Multicloud

Cloud Cloning: A new approach to infrastructure portability

Cloud Cloning captures a snapshot of the source cloud infrastructure and maps that infrastructure onto the target cloud’s services and configuration model. Here’s how it works.

By Harshit Omar

Feb 17, 2026 10 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Multicloud

Finding the key to the AI agent control plane

Permissions for agentic systems are a mess of vendor-specific toggles. We need something like a ‘Creative Commons’ for agent behavior.

By Matt Asay

Feb 16, 2026 8 mins

Generative AI Identity and Access Management Open Source

The cure for the AI hype hangover

The road ahead for enterprise AI is not hopeless, but will require more discipline and patience than the hype led us to believe.

By David Linthicum

Feb 13, 2026 5 mins

Data Governance Data Quality Technology Industry

How neoclouds meet the demands of AI workloads

For customers who must run high-performance AI workloads cost-effectively at scale, neoclouds provide a truly purpose-built solution.

By Nadav Eiron

Feb 12, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning

The death of reactive IT: How predictive engineering will redefine cloud performance in 10 years

Waiting for alerts is obsolete — predictive engineering lets cloud systems see trouble coming and fix it before users ever notice.

By Sopuluchukwu Ani

Feb 11, 2026 9 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud

How vibe coding will supercharge IT teams

IT teams are stretched to their limit. The solution lies in rethinking who gets to build, who gets to automate, and how work actually gets done.

By Muddu Sudhakar

Feb 11, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Leadership

Software at the speed of AI

We are fast approaching the day when anyone with an idea will be able to create an application or a website in hours.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 11, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

10 essential release criteria for launching AI agents

How will you know your AI agent is ready to launch? Here’s the release-readiness checklist every devops team needs.

By Isaac Sacolick

Feb 10, 2026 12 mins

Data Science Devops Generative AI

AI hardware too expensive? ‘Just rent it,’ cloud providers say

Cloud providers’ hoarding of GPUs, memory, and other hardware to support AI workloads is causing scarcity, pricing out consumers and businesses alike.

By David Linthicum

Feb 10, 2026 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry

How to advance a tech career without managing

Engineers who love building, mentoring, and solving complex problems don’t need to manage people to keep growing. You can lead through influence instead.

By Ankush Dhar and Ashok Singamaneni

Feb 10, 2026 9 mins

Data Scientist Developer Engineer

AI-augmented data quality engineering

How deep learning, generative models and trust scoring are transforming modern data systems.

By Sunil Kumar Mudusu

Feb 9, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Architecture Data Quality

Is AI killing open source?

As LLMs and coding agents reduce reliance on small open-source libraries and make large ones harder to maintain, the future of open source looks smaller, quieter, and much more exclusive.

By Matt Asay

Feb 9, 2026 8 mins

GitHub Open Source Technology Industry

Python everywhere! But are we there yet?

Which Python JIT compiles faster, what’s the easiest way to run PostgreSQL in Python, and can we run Python apps in Wasm yet? Find answers to these questions and more in this week’s report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 6, 2026 3 mins

Python Rust WebAssembly

Windows PCs fade away

The era of true ownership is ending as cloud services and AI are transforming the PC. What does this mean for user control?

By David Linthicum

Feb 6, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Technology Industry

The ‘Super Bowl’ standard: Architecting distributed systems for massive concurrency

When millions click at once, auto-scaling won’t save you — smart systems survive with load shedding, isolation and lots of brutal game-day drills.

By Manoj Yerrasani

Feb 5, 2026 8 mins

Cloud Architecture Concurrency Development Approaches

How to reduce the risks of AI-generated code

Vibe coding is fast, useful, and here to stay. The freedom it brings must be matched with awareness that security is necessary and cannot be assumed.

By Crystal Morin

Feb 5, 2026 7 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Generative AI

AI is not coming for your developer job

AI can read and write code, but context and architecture still belong to humans.

By Kyle Campos

Feb 4, 2026 5 mins

Developer Generative AI Roles

Six reasons to use coding agents

Coding agents make software developers more productive today, and will change their jobs dramatically tomorrow.

By Nick Hodges

Feb 4, 2026 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Building AI agents with the GitHub Copilot SDK

The GitHub Copilot SDK turns the Copilot CLI into a cross-platform agent host with Model Context Protocol support.

By Simon Bisson

Feb 3, 2026 8 mins

Development Tools GitHub Version Control Systems

Weighing the benefits of AWS Lambda’s durable functions

The addition of durable execution to the popular serverless compute service is a big step forward, but beware the lock-in trap.

By David Linthicum

Feb 3, 2026 6 mins

AWS Lambda Cloud-Native Serverless Computing

Three ways AI will change engineering practices

The ongoing integration of AI into engineering workflows will drive both engineering efficiencies and business advantages.

By Dan Cruse

Feb 3, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Generative AI

AI will not save developer productivity

Improving developer productivity isn’t about producing more code faster, but producing well-architected, secure, and maintainable code. It’s about platforms, golden paths, and guardrails.

By Matt Asay

Feb 2, 2026 7 mins

Developer Development Tools Roles