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

A developer’s guide to code generation

How can developers get the most from AI code generators? Experts weigh in with tips, recommendations, and warnings.

By Isaac Sacolick

Aug 12, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems

How bundled model catalogs, tools, and billing are reshaping developer onboarding and revenue sharing for cloud users.

By David Linthicum

Aug 12, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Managed Cloud Services SaaS

Who does the unsexy but essential work for open source?

We all depend on open source basics like the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, or security and maintenance software. Let’s take a moment to acknowledge the people—and companies—keeping them in shape.

By Matt Asay

Aug 11, 2025 7 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers Technology Industry

Should public clouds enforce government policies?

Recent government sanctions are causing public cloud providers to wonder if they must act as unofficial enforcers. Some businesses are responding by moving to private or sovereign clouds.

By David Linthicum

Aug 8, 2025 6 mins

Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud Technology Industry

Getting started with A2A in .NET

The Agent2Agent communication protocol simplifies the development of self-orchestrating agentic workflows. Start building them with the new A2A .NET SDK.

By Simon Bisson

Aug 7, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft .NET

The Claude party is almost over

Anthropic has pulled the plug on all-you-can-eat LLM code generation. Where will developers turn next?

By Andrew C. Oliver

Aug 7, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

How to measure coupled code

There is in fact a way to describe the type and severity of coupling that can occur in your code. It’s called connascence.

By Nick Hodges

Aug 6, 2025 4 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

The problem with AI agent-to-agent communication protocols

Once again, too many standards are vying for dominance in solving a relatively simple problem. The IT industry needs to break this counterproductive pattern.

By David Linthicum

Aug 5, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Bridging the trust gap in AI-driven development

If you want trustworthy AI results, you need trustworthy people shaping the prompts, verifying the data, and overseeing the whole AI process.

By Matt Asay

Aug 4, 2025 7 mins

Engineer Generative AI Technology Industry

Fun and profit with ECMAScript 2025: What’s new in JavaScript

The latest JavaScript update dropped recently, with three big new features that are worth your time. Also this month: A fresh look at Lit, embracing the human side of AI-driven development, and more.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 1, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI JavaScript Programming Languages

Dedicated servers outpace public clouds for AI

A new survey reveals that enterprises are purchasing their hardware rather than relying on public cloud providers. Their reasons are not surprising.

By David Linthicum

Aug 1, 2025 6 mins

Computer Components Generative AI Hybrid Cloud

Managing Azure VMs with Project Flash

Microsoft’s tools for monitoring virtual machines bridge the cloud and the underlying data centers.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 31, 2025 7 mins

Cloud-Native Development Tools Microsoft Azure

How to write a good bug report

Bugs are inevitable, but confusion about what they do or don’t do and how to reproduce them is not. Make sure your bug reports have these five ingredients.

By Nick Hodges

Jul 30, 2025 6 mins

Careers Devops Engineer

How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist

The question today is not whether to support multicloud operations but how to excel at it. Here’s what experts are saying about the challenges and opportunities in multiple cloud operations.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 29, 2025 14 mins

Cloud Computing SaaS Software Development

Are cloud ops teams too reliant on AI?

AI-driven automation is transforming cloud operations, but when the AI makes a mistake, the consequences can be dire. Human oversight is still vital.

By David Linthicum

Jul 29, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing IT Skills and Training

The importance of memory for AI

The humble database offers the key to giving AI context and adaptation, accessing data beyond its training cutoff.

By Matt Asay

Jul 28, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

What public cloud gets wrong with AI

The big providers spend a lot on artificial intelligence, but they are not offering the things enterprises care about most. Here are the important questions to ask.

By David Linthicum

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy

What you can do now with Python 3.14 RC1

Free-threaded builds are fully supported in the first Python 3.14 release candidate, and that’s not all. Get the rundown of what’s new and shiny in RC1, and more, in this week’s report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 25, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Programming Languages Python

Microsoft’s action-focused small language model Mu

The future of AI is on the edge. The tiny Mu model is how Microsoft is building its new Windows agents.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 24, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Are coding interviews necessary?

Companies need developers who can solve problems and write good code. Thinking fast under pressure isn’t part of the job description.

By Nick Hodges

Jul 23, 2025 5 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

Artificial general intelligence is an artificial general illusion

Big cloud brands are using nonexistent AGI as a marketing gimmick to boost interest in their cloud offerings.

By David Linthicum

Jul 22, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence IT Strategy Technology Industry

Why front-end development will persist

By focusing on the skills that large language models lack, ‘designgineers’ can adapt to a market upended by AI.

By Matt Asay

Jul 21, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Software Development

Alternative clouds are on the rise

The market is moving beyond the Big Three as enterprises seek more customized options for their industry, location, or workload. Platform selection is becoming a critical strategic decision.

By David Linthicum

Jul 18, 2025 7 mins

Hybrid Cloud Multicloud Private Cloud

AI’s not-so-secret agents

Agent-based development is here, and everyone from Google to Deutsche Telekom is figuring out how to make it work.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jul 18, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Orchestrating AI-driven data pipelines with Azure ADF and Databricks: An architectural evolution

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving engines of insight.

By Vikram Garg

Jul 17, 2025 7 mins

Database Administration Microsoft Azure SQL

Taking .NET Aspire for a spin

The latest release of Microsoft’s cloud-native development tool simplifies necessary platform work so you can quickly stand up a development environment. It’s well worth trying out.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 17, 2025 8 mins

Cloud-Native Development Tools Software Development

It’s time to completely change how data management works

Quality shifted left. Security shifted left. Data is next. When data contracts join the CI gate, teams finally ship faster and sleep better.

By Andrew C. Oliver

Jul 17, 2025 5 mins

Data Management Software Development

Database design tips for developers

Good software habits apply to databases too. Trust in these little design tips to build a useful, rot-resistant database schema.

By Nick Hodges

Jul 16, 2025 12 mins

Careers Databases Engineer

How agentic AI will transform mobile apps and field operations

Industries with significant field operations are poised to leverage mobile AI agents for operational agility. Here’s a first look at rolling out mobile AI in construction, manufacturing, and healthcare.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 15, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Mobile Development

Does public cloud AI cost too much?

A recent Deloitte study finds that public cloud is not the best TCO option for AI infrastructure.

By David Linthicum

Jul 15, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Critical Infrastructure Digital Transformation

Why LLMs demand a new approach to authorization

Give a large language model broad access to data and it becomes the perfect insider threat, operating at machine speed and without human judgment.

By Matt Asay

Jul 14, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Security Practices

Python-powered AI agents are here

Python has been the language of data science since before machine learning was trendy, and now you can use it for building AI agents, too. Get the scoop on the new Google Agent Development Kit and more in this week’s report.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 11, 2025 3 mins

Careers Programming Languages Python

Sovereign clouds in the age of cost control and AI

Enterprises wanting to avoid hyperscalers have typically chosen private clouds, managed service providers, or colocation, but sovereign clouds are a solid alternative.

By David Linthicum

Jul 11, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing

How AI is quietly saving enterprises thousands on Azure costs

Your Azure bill is bleeding cash, but AI can be the scalpel that slashes waste, spots spikes and silently saves you thousands before finance sees the damage.

By Sachin Suryawanshi

Jul 10, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Management Microsoft Azure

NLWeb: Tapping MCP for natural language web search

Microsoft and partners are building an open toolkit to add natural language interfaces to web content, using the Model Context Protocol to serve both humans and AI agents.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 10, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Web Development

Artificial intelligence is a commodity, but understanding is a superpower

Developers have nothing to fear from generative AI, but self-cultivation is key.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 9, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

The ultimate software engineering abstraction

Someday, we won’t even look at the code that our AI agent produces. We’ll take it for granted, just as we do the assembly code in our software today.

By Nick Hodges

Jul 9, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Nvidia doubles down on GPUs as a service

Enterprises will want to evaluate how this game-changing move by the AI juggernaut can effectively enhance their AI and machine learning capabilities.

By David Linthicum

Jul 8, 2025 5 mins

Computer Components Generative AI Machine Learning

What you absolutely cannot vibe code right now

Large language models fail at hard and medium difficulty problems where they can’t stitch together well-known templates. You should still use them.

By Andrew C. Oliver

Jul 8, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI

Enterprises move slowly and are looking for solid value, not flashy demos. Increase developer adoption and they’ll create a bottom-up wave of momentum.

By Matt Asay

Jul 7, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Engineer

Developing JavaScript apps with AI agents

AI assistance is increasingly woven into JavaScript development tools and processes, which is both a boon and a peril depending on how you use it.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 4, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks

Risk management in the public cloud is your job

Don’t wait until an incident costs you billions of dollars to create backup and recovery plans.

By David Linthicum

Jul 4, 2025 6 mins

Hybrid Cloud Multicloud Risk Management

6 techniques to reduce cloud observability cost

Don't let your observability bill break the bank; slash costs by mastering data ingestion and retention without flying blind.

By Neel Shah

Jul 3, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Devops

Working with Microsoft 365’s new Copilot APIs

Build AI into your enterprise content and knowledge management platform with 5 APIs that help you base your AI on enterprise data and speed up development.

By Simon Bisson

Jul 3, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

Anonymity should not be free

Online anonymity hasn’t made the Internet a better place. Making people pay for anonymity on social platforms could shift the balance of incentives in a better direction.

By Nick Hodges

Jul 2, 2025 5 mins

Engineer Software Development Technology Industry

How to shift left on finops, and why you need to

Spiking cloud costs are bad enough, but the mounting technical debt can put a real dent in your production roadmap. Here’s how smart organizations are shifting left on finops, before disaster strikes.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jul 1, 2025 7 mins

Devops IT Leadership Technology Industry

The private cloud comeback

Recent advancements are paving the way for private cloud platforms to deploy AI and other essential workloads, causing enterprises to rethink a public cloud–only strategy.

By David Linthicum

Jul 1, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud

Cloud finally gets some new competition

Cloudflare and Oracle are coming for the Big Three, but they’re doing it from different angles.

By Matt Asay

Jun 30, 2025 15 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

Dumping mainframes for cloud can be a costly mistake

Mainframes were the punchline of jokes in the early days of cloud computing, but their steady dependability is still critical to IT architectures.

By David Linthicum

Jun 27, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Critical Infrastructure

Rust-powered: Two new Python tools to watch

Pyrefly and Ty are so new they still smell like shrinkwrap, but we still took them both out for a spin. We also have a starter guide to Python's new type hints, a look ahead to what's on the horizon for free-threaded Python, a sneaky malwar

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 27, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Python Rust