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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

Developers don’t care about Kubernetes clusters

If you force developers to learn Helm, Kustomize, or how Kubernetes manifests work, you are wasting their time. Give them environments instead.

By Kostis Kapelonis

Nov 6, 2025 10 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Devops

How multi-agent collaboration is redefining real-world problem solving

From concept to practice: Moving from single model to collaborative intelligence.

By Minav Patel

Nov 5, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Some thoughts on AI and coding

Large language models are astonishingly good at coding and getting better. What will this mean for software and software developers?

By Nick Hodges

Nov 5, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

10 top devops practices no one is talking about

There’s more to devops success than flashy technology and the latest agile techniques. Here are 10 critical but often overlooked devops practices experts recommend.

By Isaac Sacolick

Nov 4, 2025 10 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Devops

Diversifying cloud resources is essential

Although complexity increases with diversity, the advantages of multicloud and hybrid cloud environments far outweigh the challenges.

By David Linthicum

Nov 4, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy

Agentic AI is complex, not complicated

Understanding the difference between deterministic and non-deterministic systems is key to thriving in this new world of AI.

By Scott McCarty

Nov 4, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Was data mesh just a fad?

The data mesh architecture promised to eliminate the inefficiencies and errors of the data lake. What went wrong?

By Nidhin Ponon

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

Analytics Big Data Data Architecture

What developers should know about network APIs

Telecom networks are no longer just dumb pipes for connecting applications. New APIs are giving developers access to device location and other powerful network functionalities.

By Praveen Cherukuru

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

APIs Mobile Development Mobile Security

Boring governance is the path to real AI adoption

The shiniest new technology rarely wins unless it can inherit the boring controls enterprises already trust. This is the paradox of enterprise innovation.

By Matt Asay

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

Data Governance Generative AI Technology Industry

Learning from the AWS outage: Actions and resources

The recent AWS outage has lessons about contracts, options, and risk management for cloud-dependent businesses.

By David Linthicum

Oct 31, 2025 6 mins

Business Continuity Digital Transformation Hybrid Cloud

Run Azure DevOps on premises

Building code as a team doesn’t require handing over everything to the cloud.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 30, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Architecture Development Tools Microsoft Azure

The quiet glory of REST and JSON

Before REST/JSON made exchanging data and code between networked computers routine, we had arcane standards, brittle integrations, and lots of miserable developers.

By Nick Hodges

Oct 29, 2025 5 mins

Careers Software Development

It takes an AWS outage to prioritize diversification

Sometimes people need to touch the stove, but endangering your revenue pipeline or losing customers is a hard lesson.

By David Linthicum

Oct 28, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture IT Strategy Technology Industry

How to vibe code for free, or almost free

Thanks to new subscription plans and Chinese open-weight models, developers can have high-quality code generation on the cheap. Here are your best options.

By Andrew C. Oliver

Oct 28, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Maximizing speed: How continuous batching unlocks unprecedented LLM throughput

Think of continuous batching as the LLM world’s turbocharger — keeping GPUs busy nonstop and cranking out results up to 20x faster.

By Raul Leite

Oct 27, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

Taming the Java cold-start beast: A practical guide to high-performance serverless with GraalVM and Spring

Turns out Java can do serverless right — with GraalVM and Spring, cold starts are tamed and performance finally heats up.

By Prasanna Kumar Ramachandran

Oct 27, 2025 10 mins

Java JavaScript Python

Building a golden path to AI

Developers aren’t waiting while leadership dithers over a standardized, official AI platform. Better to treat a platform as a set of services or composable APIs to guide developer innovation.

By Matt Asay

Oct 27, 2025 6 mins

Development Approaches Generative AI IT Strategy

The day the cloud went dark

Even industry-leading cloud infrastructure cannot protect businesses from expensive, disruptive outages.

By David Linthicum

Oct 24, 2025 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Business Continuity Cloud Architecture

Python has a friend in Rust

Read about the big new Python 3.14 release, a Rust-powered utility to package Python apps to go, a smarter Python package manager, a Python rival for AI development, and more in our biweekly Python Report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 24, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Python

Using the SkiaSharp graphics library in .NET

Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting dependencies, including a fork of Google’s Skia, now to be co-maintained with Uno Platform.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 23, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

How to improve technical documentation with generative AI

Generative AI tools are putting a new spin on the age-old chore of writing and consuming technical documentation. The key is knowing your audience, your purpose, and which tools to use for the job.

By Isaac Sacolick

Oct 21, 2025 10 mins

Agile Development Development Tools Devops

Should you jump for a neocloud?

This AI-first innovation challenges the big three cloud providers and creates new opportunities for enterprises. Naturally, there are trade-offs.

By David Linthicum

Oct 21, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Generative AI Hybrid Cloud

Implementing predictive monitoring with AIOps

AIOps isn’t just a buzzword — it helps teams predict issues before they happen and fix them automatically with smart, connected monitoring.

By Sopuluchukwu Ani

Oct 20, 2025 6 mins

Analytics Hybrid Cloud Predictive Analytics

How AI is reshaping the future of startups

Startups that embrace AI are unlocking growth like never before — smarter, faster and ready to take on the world.

By Neel Shah

Oct 20, 2025 12 mins

IT Strategy Markets Technology Industry

Should enterprise developers care about Nvidia?

As AI becomes ubiquitous in software, Nvidia platform skills will become crucial for developers. The company is trying to meet them halfway.

By Matt Asay

Oct 20, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Agents of chaos

AI agents are learning fast—and sometimes learning the wrong lessons. Can they be trained to act responsibly before they run wild?

By Josh Fruhlinger

Oct 17, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

An EU breakup with US cloud providers

The motivations, complexities, and steps toward European cloud independence run up against enterprise multicloud strategy.

By David Linthicum

Oct 17, 2025 6 mins

Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy Multicloud

Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire

The open source Redis fork is slowly getting support across Microsoft’s various platforms.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 16, 2025 7 mins

Cloud-Native Microsoft .NET Microsoft Azure

Zoom dooms the developer’s afternoon

Working in a flow state is precious and meetings are a dime a dozen. Software developers and their managers need to set boundaries.

By Nick Hodges

Oct 15, 2025 4 mins

Careers Software Development

The rise of purpose-built clouds

Specialized cloud solutions continue to drive multicloud adoption as AI requirements and compliance regulations grow.

By David Linthicum

Oct 14, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy

How to run RAG projects for better data analytics results

RAG can make your AI analytics way smarter — but only if your data’s clean, your prompts sharp and your setup solid.

By Yash Mehta

Oct 13, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Java or Python for building agents?

The surest way to value with AI is to use the tools that leverage your organization’s hard-won expertise and that integrate with the systems you have now.

By Matt Asay

Oct 13, 2025 7 mins

Devops Java Python

Lessons from the Salesforce breach

A high-profile data breach reveals that the interconnectedness of enterprise data means providers and customers must continually evolve their cloud security.

By David Linthicum

Oct 10, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Security SaaS Security Practices

Unpacking the Microsoft Agent Framework

Bringing together two very different ways of building AI applications is a challenging task. Has Microsoft bitten off more than it can chew?

By Simon Bisson

Oct 9, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Open Source

How GitHub won software development

Collaborating on code used to be hard. Then Git made branching and merging easy, and GitHub took care of the rest.

By Nick Hodges

Oct 8, 2025 5 mins

Devops Open Source Version Control Systems

How to write nonfunctional requirements for AI agents

Nonfunctional requirements for AI agents are similar to NFRs for traditional applications, but they require additional layers. Here are the key areas to focus on, with examples to help you get started.

By Isaac Sacolick

Oct 7, 2025 8 mins

Agile Development Development Approaches Devops

Pros and cons of microservices in genAI systems

Look past the trends to understand the fundamental business drivers and pitfalls of microservices in generative AI architectures.

By David Linthicum

Oct 7, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud-Native Generative AI

Optimizing queries by using observability

Want faster, smarter queries? Observability gives engineers the visibility to tune performance before users ever notice a slowdown.

By Neel Shah

Oct 6, 2025 4 mins

Databases Java SQL

AI’s biggest supply chain shortage is people

Rather than compete with every other company for skilled staff, teach the people who already understand your business the skills to leverage artificial intelligence.

By Matt Asay

Oct 6, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Skills and Training Technology Industry

The JavaScript code won’t write itself

This month’s theme is: Keep an eye on the future but hone your coding craft in the now. Start here, with nine timeless JavaScript coding concepts, a look at Nitro.js—fast becoming the go-to server option for JavaScript and Node—and

By Matthew Tyson

Oct 3, 2025 3 mins

Application Security JavaScript Web Development

Who stops wasteful cloud spending?

A lack of discipline from cloud leadership drives runaway expenses. Finops offers a path forward, but IT leaders must create a culture of cost awareness and accountability.

By David Linthicum

Oct 3, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management IT Leadership

Using Microsoft’s Data API builder for Azure databases

Microsoft’s declarative REST and GraphQL API design tool supports MySQL and Postgres as well as Azure databases and works anywhere you can run a Docker container.

By Simon Bisson

Oct 2, 2025 8 mins

APIs Databases Microsoft Azure

Why we need junior developers

One of the great advantages of having junior developers on the development team is that they aren’t senior developers.

By Nick Hodges

Oct 1, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Generative AI

When personal ambitions undermine enterprise security

When career motives take precedence over strategic use of cloud computing, organizations face an increased risk of breaches and failures. Here’s how to fix the problem.

By David Linthicum

Sep 30, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Security Data and Information Security IT Skills and Training

How MCP is making AI agents actually do things in the real world

If you think AI is just talk, think again — MCP is turning chatbots into doers, and the future of work may never look the same.

By Raul Leite

Sep 29, 2025 7 mins

APIs Development Tools Generative AI

Overcoming AI development challenges

Turning dazzling AI capabilities into durable software applications poses fresh new challenges, but the keys to overcoming them are basic and boring.

By Matt Asay

Sep 29, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management Generative AI

Python and Poetry: 4 tools for keeping Python simple

Package Python apps for easy delivery as executables, dig into Python 3.14's new debugging interface, and get live coding help for making sense of datasets. Want extra credit? Try wrangling Python projects the Poetry way.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 26, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Python

SaaS: The quiet power behind cloud computing

Despite generating more revenue than IaaS and PaaS combined, SaaS rarely takes center stage in cloud conversations, causing enterprises to miss a source of strategic differentiation.

By David Linthicum

Sep 26, 2025 5 mins

IaaS PaaS SaaS