Opinion

Stop worrying: Instead, imagine software developers’ next great pivot

Pessimism in the face of coding agents like Claude Code is often just a lack of imagination. From steam engines to LLMs, efficiency has always been a catalyst for growth, not a death knell for careers.

By Nick Hodges

Mar 25, 20264 mins

Software Development

3 application modernization mistakes to avoid

Using application modernization to pursue cloud-native development at all costs or to gain portability and avoid vendor lock-in are expensive decisions.

By David Linthicum

Jul 26, 2022 4 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Development Tools

3 data quality metrics dataops should prioritize

Data-driven decisions require data that is trustworthy, available, and timely. Upping the dataops game is a worthwhile way to offer business leaders reliable insights.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 25, 2022 6 mins

Analytics Data Quality Data Science

How observability tools help with legacy software

Legacy software isn't just dusty code on mainframes. It's the stuff you wrote a few months or years ago. Observability tools and good documentation help find and fix problems.

By Matt Asay

Jul 25, 2022 5 mins

Development Tools Engineer Software Development

Why do businesses suck at using data?

Few enterprises can effectively leverage their data inside or outside of the cloud, and a new study says that's still the case. It's time to make a plan.

By David Linthicum

Jul 22, 2022 3 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Data Science

Trying out the Azure Developer CLI

Microsoft’s new Azure developer tool streamlines development in the Azure cloud, from deploying dev environments to running CI/CD.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 20, 2022 8 mins

Build Automation Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Responding to your feedback on ‘metacloud’

My last post about the emerging ‘metacloud’ or ‘supercloud’ struck a nerve. Here’s a follow-up to your comments and questions about the future of cloud-based systems.

By David Linthicum

Jul 19, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

Open source isn’t working for AI

What’s the point of open sourcing code that runs at a scale no one can replicate? AI needs collaboration, but let’s think about it differently.

By Matt Asay

Jul 18, 2022 6 mins

Analytics Open Source Technology Industry

The next frontier in cloud computing

Supercloud? Metacloud? The race is on to name the emerging layer of abstraction and automation that will remove the complexity of multicloud.

By David Linthicum

Jul 15, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

Azure Artifacts helps you standardize on packages and modules

Microsoft’s Azure DevOps offers a feed-based artifact repository for your own and third-party code that’s well worth a look.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 13, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

How resilient are digital transformation budgets?

Many businesses will remain on the digital enablement path despite economic speed bumps. But the constraints of today's technology and the skills shortage remain.

By David Linthicum

Jul 12, 2022 3 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Emerging Technology

Open source job security through recessions

Stay close to free software, either through companies that support open source projects or by contributing directly to project communities.

By Matt Asay

Jul 11, 2022 5 mins

Diversity and Inclusion Engineer Open Source

Why you should modernize search technologies

Important knowledge is scattered throughout the organization. Simplify everything, make it easy for employees to find what they need, and use machine learning.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 11, 2022 5 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning No Code and Low Code

What happens when cloud spend surpasses traditional systems

Big news: Money spent on public clouds will overtake funds for traditional data center hardware for the first time. It's time to both celebrate and be concerned.

By David Linthicum

Jul 8, 2022 3 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Working with Microsoft’s .NET Rules Engine

Manage application workflow with open source tools that add basic rules processing to your code.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 6, 2022 6 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Open Source

How to nail your cloud computing job interview

With thousands of people looking for a first cloud computing job or attempting to upgrade their career, here are some ways to make a great impression.

By David Linthicum

Jul 5, 2022 4 mins

Careers Diversity and Inclusion Salaries

Identity, trust, and their role in modern applications

Identity, trust, and trust sharing are indispensable to our belief in the validity of the services we interact with on the internet.

By Lee Atchison

Jul 4, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Security

What happens when there’s not enough cloud?

Multicloud may be the answer to the struggle to keep up with the overwhelming demand for cloud resources.

By Matt Asay

Jul 4, 2022 5 mins

Careers Cloud Computing

Traditional architecture still has a place in the cloud

Abstraction, orchestration, and automation are important, fundamental concepts that cloud architects need to better understand.

By David Linthicum

Jul 1, 2022 4 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing IT Skills and Training

Using Azure Communication Services for email

Microsoft’s Azure multichannel communications APIs get support for email.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 29, 2022 7 mins

APIs Development Tools Microsoft Azure

Cloud security risks remain very human

Most of us picture cloud security threats as bad actors in some hostile country. More often, it’s you and your coworkers.

By David Linthicum

Jun 28, 2022 4 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Cloud Security

7 devops practices to improve application performance

Devops is tough, but the choice between faster development and improving reliability shouldn't be. Consider shifting-left security, better observability, AIops platforms, and more.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jun 27, 2022 6 mins

App Testing Build Automation Devops

Security survives the budget axe

All the security funding in the world won’t help if you don’t train your people to patch your software.

By Matt Asay

Jun 27, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Security IT Skills and Training Open Source

Making application modernization pragmatic and useful

Moving legacy applications to the cloud to leverage modern security and data, containers, microservices, and portability usually makes things worse. Here’s why.

By David Linthicum

Jun 24, 2022 4 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Technology Industry

What’s new in Microsoft Azure’s NLP AI services

Microsoft is finally close to delivering its long-promised natural user interfaces. Here’s how you can build them into your code.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 22, 2022 7 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Legacy systems are the new attack vectors for hackers

The public cloud has better security than your data center, so you're likely to see more attacks on legacy systems to gain access to cloud data. Here’s how to fight back.

By David Linthicum

Jun 21, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Security IoT Security Technology Industry

Microsoft’s complicated dance with open source

The decision to make the C# extension in Visual Studio Code proprietary is raising hackles, but Microsoft is still a consistent supporter of open source.

By Matt Asay

Jun 20, 2022 6 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Technology Industry

Migration to the cloud may be slowing down

Despite conflicting analyst opinions, we could be in a slowdown for application and data migration to public clouds. Here are 3 reasons I see.

By David Linthicum

Jun 17, 2022 4 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Microsoft is expanding access to its Fluid Framework real-time collaboration tools with a new application platform for Teams developers.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 15, 2022 8 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks No Code and Low Code

Complexity leads to cloud outages. Here’s the proof

Complexity is a natural byproduct of a highly heterogeneous and distributed architecture. Now we better understand its impact.

By David Linthicum

Jun 14, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

What is behavioral analytics and when is it important?

The ability to mine large amounts of data to study how users act offers long-reaching business benefits and risk reduction opportunities.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jun 13, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

Repatriating data and applications from the cloud

As hardware prices continue to plunge, some applications and data could return to enterprise data centers. Perhaps that’s a good thing.

By David Linthicum

Jun 10, 2022 4 mins

Careers Cloud Architecture Technology Industry

MongoDB grows up

Jokes aside, MongoDB is popular and consistently solid. MongoDB World shows the latest commitments to analytics, security, and open source.

By Matt Asay

Jun 8, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Open Source

Microsoft Azure eases Kubernetes development with a new Draft

Microsoft resurrects Deis Labs’ Kubernetes quick-start tool to help you package existing code for Azure Kubernetes Service.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 8, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

It’s a serverless and containerized world

A new survey shows what most of us already know: Cloud solutions are focused on serverless and containers. Know the good and bad of this popular combo.

By David Linthicum

Jun 7, 2022 3 mins

Cloud Computing Serverless Computing Software Development

Cloud complicates development, but GraphQL and supergraphs offer hope

Application development in the cloud is a complex mess of countless moving parts. GraphQL and supergraphs could make life a whole lot easier for developers.

By Matt Asay

Jun 6, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Engineer

Legacy systems should be part of a multicloud strategy

Multicloud is the direction many enterprises are heading, but legacy systems need to be part of the road map.

By David Linthicum

Jun 3, 2022 3 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Microsoft Dev Box: Your development workstation on Azure

Build 2022 had a developer focus, with new tools to make it easier to write code in a world of hybrid work. Dev Box promises to make your development environments easier to manage.

By Simon Bisson

Jun 1, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Development Tools Microsoft Azure

3 business solutions where AI is a good choice

Now that AI is cheap and widely available, we often leverage it too often and for the wrong reason. Here's where cloud-based AI provides the most value.

By David Linthicum

May 31, 2022 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Predictive Analytics

As data science goes mainstream, so does its language

Python may be the second choice to R, but its popularity and ease of use positions it to dominate data science.

By Matt Asay

May 30, 2022 5 mins

Data Science Programming Languages Python

3 ways devops can support continuous architecture

Continuous architecture offers flexibility to adapt to new business requirements and user needs.

By Isaac Sacolick

May 30, 2022 6 mins

Agile Development Devops Software Development

Multicloud complexity is a major operational challenge

Multicloud is everywhere, but the complexity, risks, and costs are becoming big concerns. Your best bet is to plan carefully and fix problems before you migrate.

By David Linthicum

May 27, 2022 4 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

Introducing Microsoft’s Power Pages

Microsoft’s Power Platform low-code tools now build web apps and turn pictures into code.

By Simon Bisson

May 24, 2022 7 mins

No Code and Low Code Technology Industry Web Development

Cloud architecture by committee is always a bad idea

'Design by committee' is a pejorative term and a punchline for many jokes, but it’s still seeing a comeback, and that’s scary.

By David Linthicum

May 24, 2022 3 mins

Careers Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

You’re missing the boat on cloud-native

Cloud-native application development is not a future-state dream. It’s a business necessity right now.

By Lee Atchison

May 23, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

Thoughtworks weighs in on multicloud

Multicloud requires a lot of specialized work to be successful, but there’s really no alternative.

By Matt Asay

May 23, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Understand the trade-offs with reactive and proactive cloudops

Before you get excited about proactive cloudops tools, know their limitations, especially if you're using a cloud service provider.

By David Linthicum

May 20, 2022 4 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Managed Cloud Services

Add security to Azure applications with Azure WAF

Microsoft’s latest updates to Azure’s Web Application Firewall make it an essential component of cloud architectures.

By Simon Bisson

May 18, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Security Microsoft Azure

You’re doing cloudops planning too late

If cloudops isn't going well, perhaps important planning is being overlooked or left until too late in the process.

By David Linthicum

May 17, 2022 3 mins

Agile Development Cloud Computing Devops

More money for open source security won’t work

Funding pledged to secure open source software is an important start, but creative hackers and a proliferation of targets mean there are no guarantees.

By Matt Asay

May 16, 2022 5 mins

Careers Open Source Security