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

Before you build your first enterprise AI app

No need to panic if you haven’t jumped into the crazy world of AI development yet. Find a problem to solve and get your data in order first.

By Matt Asay

Dec 15, 2025 8 mins

Analytics Data Quality Data Science

PythoC: An alternative to Cython

PythoC is a brand-new project that takes a different approach to converting Python to C code. Could it be the Cython challenger we’ve been waiting for?

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 12, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Python

AWS finally listened to its customers

After years of resisting multicloud, AWS has unveiled Interconnect and acknowledged what practitioners have long known: Best of breed is better than single-cloud dogma.

By David Linthicum

Dec 12, 2025 5 mins

Amazon Web Services IaaS Multicloud

Microsoft’s Dev Proxy puts APIs to the test

Building distributed apps requires specialized tools. Microsoft delivers with an API simulator that supports complex mocks and a wide range of API operating modes.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 11, 2025 8 mins

Cloud-Native Development Tools Microservices

Document databases – understanding your options

MongoDB is still the most popular NoSQL document database for developers, but compatible alternatives such as DocumentDB offer more choices than ever.

By Radek Szulgo

Dec 11, 2025 8 mins

Databases Document Databases NoSQL Databases

Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?

The exhilarating speed of AI-assisted development must be united with a human mind that bridges inspiration and engineering. Without it, vibe coding becomes a fast track to crushing technical debt.

By Matthew Tyson

Dec 10, 2025 7 mins

Development Approaches Development Tools Generative AI

Why AI agents are so good at coding

Soon LLMs will write better code than any human, for several simple reasons. Developers should rejoice.

By Nick Hodges

Dec 10, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

The hidden cost of Amazon Nova 2

The tech is impressive, the trajectory problematic. Betting your agents on one cloud is a strategic mistake.

By David Linthicum

Dec 9, 2025 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Generative AI IaaS

AI memory is really a database problem

If we want to avoid making AI agents a huge new attack surface, we’ve got to treat agent memory the way we treat databases: with firewalls, audits, and access privileges.

By Matt Asay

Dec 8, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

All I want for Christmas is a server-side JavaScript framework

Could 2026 be the year of the beautiful back end? We explore the range of options for server-side JavaScript development, from Express to Next and all the rest.

By Matthew Tyson

Dec 5, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools JavaScript TypeScript

Local clouds shape Europe’s AI future

European organizations are choosing homegrown, country-focused sovereign cloud providers over global giants’ versions as the region doubles down on digital autonomy and AI innovation.

By David Linthicum

Dec 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Technology Industry

The first building blocks of an agentic Windows OS

Microsoft rolls out Model Context Protocol support in Windows ML, providing tools to build agentic Windows applications that work with local and remote resources securely.

By Simon Bisson

Dec 4, 2025 8 mins

Data and Information Security Endpoint Protection Windows Security

A proactive defense against npm supply chain attacks

Supply chain risk is unavoidable, but not unmanageable. Proactively prevent supply chain attacks by embedding YARA into developer workflows.

By Mike Wiacek

Dec 4, 2025 5 mins

Application Security DevSecOps JavaScript

Seven coding domains no developer really understands

Maybe you do truly understand one or two of these areas of coding mystery. Most of your fellow programmers are faking it.

By Nick Hodges

Dec 3, 2025 6 mins

Developer Engineer Roles

How to ensure your enterprise data is ‘AI ready’

For organizations introducing AI agents into employee workflows and customer experiences, data risk cannot be an afterthought. Here are seven practices to ensure your enterprise data is ready for AI.

By Isaac Sacolick

Dec 2, 2025 12 mins

Business Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning

The ripple effects of a VPN ban

Some state lawmakers are considering limiting VPN access. The far-reaching consequences would cripple business, education, and everyday internet use.

By David Linthicum

Dec 2, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Network Security Technology Industry

Why data contracts need Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key capabilities.

By Matthew OKeefe

Dec 2, 2025 11 mins

Analytics Big Data Data Management

How much will openness matter to AI?

The history of open source is not a straight line toward total openness. The value in AI will come from proprietary guardrails, agents, and data.

By Matt Asay

Dec 1, 2025 8 mins

Generative AI Open Source Technology Industry

Python vs. Kotlin: Which loops do you like better?

Which language has the best loops? See for yourself, with our side-by-side (loop-for-loop) Python vs. Kotlin showdown. Find more stories in this week’s report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 28, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Kotlin Python

Cloud fragility is costing us billions

The complex interconnectedness of cloud services means companies may not even realize their vulnerabilities. Don’t let an outage catch you off guard.

By David Linthicum

Nov 28, 2025 5 mins

Business Continuity Cloud Computing Critical Infrastructure

Agentic cloud ops with the new Azure Copilot

Azure Copilot’s six new AI agents assist with a wide range of Azure cloud management tasks, either on their own or working together.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 27, 2025 8 mins

Devops Generative AI Microsoft Azure

Four important lessons about context engineering

Four big lessons, seven practical tips, three useful patterns, and five common antipatterns we learned from building an AI CRM.

By Md Abdul Halim Rafi

Nov 27, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering Generative AI

Writing code is so over

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly.

By Nick Hodges

Nov 26, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Where AI meets cloud-native computing

Developers need to master cloud-native strategies, such as microservices, containers, and orchestration, to unlock AI’s full business potential.

By David Linthicum

Nov 25, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud-Native Generative AI

7 ways AI is changing software testing

From generating test cases and transforming test data to accelerating planning and improving developer communication, AI is having a profound impact on software testing.

By Fitz Nowlan

Nov 24, 2025 8 mins

App Testing Devops Generative AI

Software development has a ‘996’ problem

Letting AI churn out an endless supply of crappy code that humans then have to debug and maintain doesn’t move anybody’s business forward.

By Matt Asay

Nov 24, 2025 7 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Technology Industry

It’s the end of vibe coding, already

As genAI takes hold in the enterprise, improvisation is giving way to engineering. Can organizations build the guardrails needed to turn clever prompts into dependable systems?

By Josh Fruhlinger

Nov 21, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Technology Industry

How pairing SAST with AI dramatically reduces false positives in code security

In our study, a novel SAST-LLM mashup slashed false positives by 91% compared to a widely used standalone SAST tool.

By Vaibhav Agrawal

Nov 20, 2025 6 mins

Development Tools Devops Vulnerabilities

Azure HorizonDB: Microsoft goes big with PostgreSQL

Microsoft’s latest database is a fast, scalable PostgreSQL for cloud-native and AI developers.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 20, 2025 8 mins

Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL Relational Databases

How to alienate cloud customers and undermine revenue

As the big cloud providers prioritize artificial intelligence, they risk leaving traditional cloud technologies—and cloud customers—in the dust.

By David Linthicum

Nov 20, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Improving annotation quality with machine learning

Treating annotation as a data understanding problem, rather than a labeling workflow challenge, can systematically drive down error rates and reduce the time and cost of producing high-quality data sets.

By Nick Lotz

Nov 20, 2025 9 mins

Data Engineering Generative AI Machine Learning

Building a scalable document management system: Lessons from separating metadata and content

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run.

By Prasanna Kumar Ramachandran

Nov 19, 2025 10 mins

Databases Document Databases NoSQL Databases

A developer’s guide to avoiding the brambles

Seven opinionated tips for navigating the treacherous trail of coding an application with a minimum of snags, missteps, and misadventures.

By Nick Hodges

Nov 19, 2025 7 mins

Careers Developer Roles

How to automate the testing of AI agents

Is it reasonable to develop and deploy AI agents without a continuous testing strategy? Consider these test-driven approaches to ensure the release readiness of AI agents.

By Isaac Sacolick

Nov 18, 2025 10 mins

App Testing Devops Generative AI

Do you really need all those GPUs?

For most enterprises, high-end GPUs are not as essential as the providers want you to think. Old GPUs or CPUs often deliver sufficient cloud AI performance at drastically reduced costs.

By David Linthicum

Nov 18, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

Why context engineering will define the next era of enterprise AI

Agentic AI systems need a deep understanding of where they are, what they know, and the constraints that apply. Context engineering provides the foundation.

By Saket Saurabh

Nov 18, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Generative AI

Why software development slows to a crawl

How governance diffuses responsibility across owners, reviewers, and committees, and how engineering leaders can fix it.

By Rohit Dhawan

Nov 17, 2025 9 mins

IT Governance IT Leadership Software Development

The rebellion against robot drivel

When we use large language models to augment, improve, or accelerate our writing, they erase our human voice in the process. Let’s not be erased.

By Matt Asay

Nov 17, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Python vs. Mojo (and Java, Go, Rust, and .NET)

Python is taking on all contenders these days, as more languages elbow into Python’s domain of AI, machine learning, and data science. Those stories and more, in this week’s report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Nov 14, 2025 2 mins

Careers Programming Languages Python

Tech mega-deals are a distraction, not a breakthrough

Tech executives and journalists get caught up in the buzz over expensive deals, but enterprises are still waiting for affordable, reliable solutions to real business problems.

By David Linthicum

Nov 14, 2025 6 mins

Amazon Web Services IaaS Technology Industry

Running managed Ray on Azure Kubernetes Service

Microsoft is working with Anyscale to help you build, train, and run your own ML models with PyTorch on AKS.

By Simon Bisson

Nov 13, 2025 7 mins

Kubernetes Microsoft Azure PyTorch

When will browser agents do real work?

While computer-use models are still too slow and unreliable, browser agents are already becoming production-ready, even in critical sectors such as healthcare and insurance.

By Edward Upton and Thomas Diacono

Nov 13, 2025 6 mins

Development Approaches Generative AI Web Development

The economics of the software development business

Decade after decade, software and software business models keep changing. But the economics never really do.

By Nick Hodges

Nov 12, 2025 9 mins

Software Development Technology Industry

Breaking Europe’s cloud deadlock

Can Europe balance sovereignty with innovation? A US perspective on sovereign clouds and economic pragmatism.

By David Linthicum

Nov 11, 2025 6 mins

Critical Infrastructure Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry

The dawn of the AI-native database

With agentic AI, the database must evolve from a passive ledger to an active reasoning engine that informs, guides, and enables autonomous action.

By Yasmeen Ahmad

Nov 11, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

AI is all about inference now

You train the model once, but you run it every day. Making sure your model has business context and guardrails to guarantee reliability is more valuable than fussing over LLMs.

By Matt Asay

Nov 10, 2025 8 mins

Data Governance Generative AI Technology Industry

NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 A glimpse into our AI-powered future

From supercomputers to robotaxis, NVIDIA’s GTC 2025 made one thing clear — AI’s future is here, and it’s being built in America.

By Raul Leite

Nov 7, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Open Source

AI makes JavaScript programming fun again

What if AI-assisted development is less of a threat, and more of a jetpack? This month’s report tackles vibe coding, along with new JavaScript tools and techniques to explore in your AI-assisted free time.

By Matthew Tyson

Nov 7, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks