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

Are you ready for JavaScript in 2026?

Strip the types and hotwire the HTML—and triple check your package security while you are at it. JavaScript in 2026 is just getting started.

By Matthew Tyson

Jan 30, 2026 4 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

Why your next microservices should be streaming SQL-driven

Built-in functions, UDFs, materialized results, and integrations with ML and AI models make streaming SQL a compelling choice when building microservices.

By Adam Bellemare

Jan 29, 2026 12 mins

Databases Development Approaches Microservices

Is code a cow path?

There is probably a more direct route from AI models to the software we want than having agents work with code.

By Nick Hodges

Jan 28, 2026 4 mins

Developer Engineer Roles

From devops to CTO: 8 things to start doing now

You can’t control when opportunity comes knocking, but you can prepare. Here are eight ways tech leaders in devops roles can level up for an invitation to the C-suite.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jan 27, 2026 12 mins

Careers Devops IT Leadership

The private cloud returns for AI workloads

AI economics are exposing a gap between what people think the cloud costs and what the cloud actually costs.

By David Linthicum

Jan 27, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Private Cloud

What is the future for MySQL?

While PostgreSQL has thrived in recent years, MySQL has languished. MySQL backers are coming together to change that.

By Laura Czajkowski

Jan 27, 2026 5 mins

Databases MySQL Relational Databases

Stop treating force multiplication as a side gig. Make it intentional

Being a “10x engineer” isn’t about shipping more code — it’s about helping everyone around you ship better, faster and with fewer fires.

By Ritvika Nagula

Jan 26, 2026 9 mins

Developer Engineer IT Jobs

Why your AI agents need a trust layer before it’s too late

One hacked AI agent took down 50 others, proving that agentic AI needs a “DNS for trust” before autonomy turns into chaos.

By Akshay Mittal

Jan 26, 2026 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

AI is changing the way we think about databases

The database is no longer just where data lives, but where context gets assembled. And in AI, context is everything.

By Matt Asay

Jan 26, 2026 8 mins

Database Administration Database Design Databases

Python picks up speed with a new JIT

Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jan 23, 2026 3 mins

Development Tools Python Rust

Agentic AI exposes what we’re doing wrong

Autonomous software is forcing cloud teams to confront weaknesses in networking, identity, cost, and architecture.

By David Linthicum

Jan 23, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Identity and Access Management

AI agents and IT ops: Cowboy chaos rides again

Sure, let your AI agents propose changes to image definitions, playbooks, or other artifacts. But never let them loose on production systems.

By Scott McCarty

Jan 22, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Devops Generative AI

Tailwind, AI, and building the future of software

If AI continues to trample the creators of new code and frameworks, then where will our new code and frameworks come from?

By Nick Hodges

Jan 21, 2026 4 mins

Development Approaches Generative AI Web Development

A first look at XAML Studio 2.0

Microsoft has open sourced a tool to help build XAML user interfaces in .NET. How does the GitHub-hosted project shape up?

By Simon Bisson

Jan 20, 2026 8 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

AI is rewriting the sustainability playbook

Is cloud AI growth turning good intentions into a carbon accounting crisis? For many organizations, greenops goes out the window the moment AI becomes strategic.

By David Linthicum

Jan 20, 2026 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture IT Governance

AI coding requires developers to become better managers

To keep AI coding assistants from running amok, developers must learn to write good specs and develop product management skills.

By Matt Asay

Jan 19, 2026 9 mins

Developer Development Tools IT Skills and Training

How Ansible does the real work in hyperautomation

Hyperautomation isn’t robots taking over—it’s smart orchestration, and Ansible is the set of hands that actually gets the work done.

By Raul Leite

Jan 16, 2026 5 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Open Source

Caught in the great SaaS squeeze

Cloud mandates from enterprise software vendors are leaving on-premises options behind and changing enterprise decisions about strategy, risk, and control.

By David Linthicum

Jan 16, 2026 7 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing SaaS

When your platform team can’t say yes: How away-teaming unlocks stuck roadmaps

The modern product organization is constantly hitting a critical bottleneck: Platform teams are the engine of leverage, but their capacity is finite.

By Pratik Gupta

Jan 15, 2026 11 mins

Developer IT Leadership Roles

For agentic AI, other disciplines need their own Git

Git provides the structure that makes agentic workflows in software engineering viable. Other disciplines need an equivalent backbone.

By Abigail Wall

Jan 15, 2026 5 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Version Control Systems

When writing code is no longer the bottleneck

What if writing code becomes something that happens over days and weeks, rather than weeks, months, or even years?

By Nick Hodges

Jan 14, 2026 4 mins

Careers Developer Roles

From distributed monolith to composable architecture on AWS: A modern approach to scalable software

If your “microservices” still deploy like a monolith, maybe it’s time to break free with a truly composable AWS architecture.

By Neel Shah

Jan 13, 2026 8 mins

APIs Amazon Web Services Microservices

Which development platforms and tools should you learn now?

For software developers, choosing which technologies and skills to master next has never been more difficult. Experts offer their recommendations.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jan 13, 2026 8 mins

Development Tools Devops Generative AI

Why hybrid cloud is the future of enterprise platforms

The rise of artificial intelligence makes cloud and on-premises integration the best path forward for scalable, effective deployments.

By David Linthicum

Jan 13, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud

Stack thinking: Why a single AI platform won’t cut it

It’s time to build an AI toolbench instead.

By Tom Popomaronis

Jan 12, 2026 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Why ‘boring’ VS Code keeps winning

Developer trust in tools and a reliable ecosystem are a hard combination to beat. Competing tools, like Google’s Antigravity, need to deliver more than innovation.

By Matt Asay

Jan 12, 2026 7 mins

Developer GitHub Visual Studio Code

The hidden devops crisis that AI workloads are about to expose

Devops teams that cling to component-level testing and basic monitoring will struggle to keep pace with the data demands of AI.

By Joseph Morais

Jan 8, 2026 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Devops Generative AI

Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end

In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.

By Matthew Tyson

Jan 7, 2026 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

What the loom tells us about AI and coding

Like the loom, AI may turn the job market upside down. And enable new technologies and jobs that we simply can’t predict.

By Nick Hodges

Jan 7, 2026 4 mins

Developer Engineer Generative AI

What drives your cloud security strategy?

As cloud breaches increase, organizations should prioritize skills and training over the latest tech to address the actual root problems.

By David Linthicum

Jan 6, 2026 5 mins

Careers Cloud Security IT Skills and Training

How to make AI agents reliable

We need to stop trying to build ‘God-tier’ agents that can do everything and start building ‘intern-tier’ agents that do one thing perfectly.

By Matt Asay

Jan 5, 2026 7 mins

Databases Generative AI IT Skills and Training

Back to the future: The most popular JavaScript stories and themes of 2025

The major themes that defined the year behind us will also shape the one ahead. The most-read articles of 2025 tracked a return to simplicity; coalescence on the server side; AI promises (with some delivery); and the steady evolution of the JavaScrip

By Matthew Tyson

Jan 2, 2026 4 mins

JavaScript Node.js TypeScript

What’s next for Azure containers?

More from Mark Russinovich’s Ignite 2025 sessions, detailing software developments that underpin Microsoft’s move to serverless containers.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 1, 2026 9 mins

Kubernetes and Containers Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing

2026: The year we stop trusting any single cloud

The next wave of cloud transformation will be about strategic dependence, resilience, and architectural honesty.

By David Linthicum

Dec 30, 2025 6 mins

Business Continuity Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud

How to build RAG at scale

Retrieval-augmented generation breaks at scale because organizations treat it like an LLM feature rather than a platform discipline. Enterprises that succeed with RAG rely on a layered architecture.

By Ankush Dhar

Dec 30, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Architecture Generative AI

4 New Year’s resolutions for devops success

AI-driven development will continue to redefine the software industry in 2026, and successful devops teams will embrace the transformation.

By Isaac Sacolick

Dec 29, 2025 10 mins

Development Tools Devops Technology Industry

AI’s trust tax for developers

When AI-assisted coding is 20% slower and almost half of it introduces Top 10-level threats, it’s time to make sure we're not running purely on 'vibes.'

By Matt Asay

Dec 29, 2025 6 mins

Developer Development Tools IT Skills and Training

Reader picks: The most popular Python stories of 2025

Wind down the year with our picks from the most-read Python developer features and tutorials of 2025.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 26, 2025 3 mins

Python Rust Web Development

A small language model blueprint for automation in IT and HR

For IT and HR teams, SLMs can reduce the burden of repetitive tasks by automating ticket handling, routing, and approvals, while providing substantial cost savings versus LLMs.

By Muddu Sudhakar

Dec 25, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

When is an AI agent not really an agent?

Marketing hype is calling everything an agent, but mislabeling automations or souped-up chatbots as agents is a governance failure waiting to happen.

By David Linthicum

Dec 23, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Stop letting ‘urgent’ derail delivery. Manage interruptions proactively

A simple mechanism to protect your teams’ roadmap, deliverables and productivity when the next fire drill hits.

By Priyank Desai and Shubham Amilkanthwar

Dec 22, 2025 6 mins

Careers IT Jobs IT Leadership

6 AI breakthroughs that will define 2026

The most significant advances in the coming year won’t come from building larger models.

By Dwarak Rajagopal

Dec 22, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Building AI agents the safe way

The best defense against prompt injection and other AI attacks is to do some basic engineering, test more, and not rely on AI to protect you.

By Matt Asay

Dec 22, 2025 7 mins

Code Security Generative AI Technology Industry

Agents, protocols, and vibes: The best AI stories of 2025

Start winding down the year with our picks from the most-read generative AI features and tutorials of 2025.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Dec 19, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Devops Technology Industry

Why your next cloud bill could be a trap

Your enterprise may be more locked into a vendor’s AI than you realize, thanks to AI-native features in services you’re already using.

By David Linthicum

Dec 19, 2025 7 mins

Analytics Generative AI Predictive Analytics

What’s next for Azure infrastructure

Azure CTO Mark Russinovich’s annual “Inside Azure Innovations” presentations give us a look at cooling innovations, bare-metal servers, and better storage.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 18, 2025 9 mins

Cloud Computing IaaS Microsoft Azure

Designing the agent-ready data stack

AI initiatives don’t stall because models aren’t good enough, but because data architecture lags the requirements of agentic systems.

By Tobie Morgan Hitchcock

Dec 18, 2025 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

What developers call themselves

Are you a programmer, coder, developer, or engineer? The names for software makers tell us what it means to be in the software business.

By Nick Hodges

Dec 17, 2025 5 mins

Developer Programming Languages Roles

5 key agenticops practices to start building now

The time is now for IT leaders and teams to start transforming existing operations for the incoming AI agent workforce.

By Isaac Sacolick

Dec 16, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Devops Generative AI

AWS AI Factories: Innovation or complication?

Enterprises that adopt any vendor’s AI package are likely to face higher costs, lock-in, and complexity. Here’s why building your own AI architecture is the smarter move.

By David Linthicum

Dec 16, 2025 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Architecture IaaS