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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

APIsDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

A brief history of AI

Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding?

By Martin Heller

Sep 29, 2025 29 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AITechnology Industry

What is infrastructure as code? Automating your infrastructure builds

Treating computing infrastructure as code is the smart and modern way to provision software in the cloud. Here’s what it is and why it’s better.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Sep 26, 2025 8 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud ManagementDevops

The best new features in Postgres 18

Asynchronous I/O, OAuth authentication, expanded SQL standards support, and new extension capabilities give developers faster performance, stronger security, and greater flexibility.

By Tom Kincaid

Sep 25, 2025 6 mins

DatabasesPostgreSQLRelational Databases

The productivity paradox of AI-assisted coding

AI is increasing both the number of pull requests and the volume of code within them, creating bottlenecks in code review, integration, and testing. Here’s how to address them.

By Edgar Kussberg

Sep 23, 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

Advanced debug logging techniques: A technical guide

Smarter debug logging helps devs cut through noise, spot issues fast, and keep apps healthy at any scale.

By Neel Shah

Sep 22, 2025 5 mins

Development ToolsJavaScriptPython

Do vector-native databases beat add-ons for AI applications?

Even though traditional databases now support vector types, vector-native databases have the edge for AI development. Here’s how to choose.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Sep 22, 2025 10 mins

AnalyticsDatabasesGenerative AI

How AI changes the data analyst role

Rather than spending their time executing manual queries, data analysts will increasingly operate like AI engineers—reviewing, refining, and validating AI-generated outputs.

By Carl Perry

Sep 19, 2025 6 mins

AnalyticsBusiness AnalystCareers

Designing AI-ready architectures in compliance-heavy environments

AI in healthcare and other industries won’t fly unless compliance is baked in from day one — not bolted on after.

By Rama Devi Drakshpalli

Sep 18, 2025 12 mins

Artificial IntelligenceData GovernanceData and Information Security

The rise of AI-ready private clouds

Why Kubernetes is powering the next wave of enterprise infrastructure.

By Mark Cusack

Sep 17, 2025 11 mins

ContainersKubernetesMachine Learning

The three game-changing features of JDK 25

Out of 18 new features, three improvements sharpen Java’s edge for cloud-native, containerized, and cost-sensitive deployments.

By Simon Ritter

Sep 16, 2025 6 mins

JavaProgramming LanguagesSoftware Development

2-agent architecture: Separating context from execution in AI systems

AI works better when one agent thinks and another acts — splitting context from execution makes conversations smoother and smarter.

By Jenil Shah

Sep 15, 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISoftware Development

F-strings with superpowers: What’s new in Python 3.14 beta

The latest version of Python is sweet as pi and packs a punch. Here’s the rundown on all the new features to start using now.

May 30, 2025 3 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Programming Languages Python

A wake-up call for real cloud ROI

Skyrocketing cloud bills aren’t delivering on their promises, and proactive enterprises are doing something about it.

May 30, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Private Cloud

Unlocking data’s true potential: The open lakehouse as AI’s foundation

Artificial intelligence has increased the urgency for unified data. Here’s how to achieve it.

May 29, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Management

Google Cloud’s BigLake-driven lakehouse updates aim to optimize performance, costs

Some of the updates could help enterprises increase the accuracy of AI applications and agents, and increase developer productivity with AI.

May 29, 2025 5 mins

Data Warehousing

Microsoft envisions Windows Update as the unified platform for all software updates

Centralizing app updates could ease IT workflows but raises concerns over control and compliance.

May 29, 2025 4 mins

Developer

Mistral AI launches code embedding model, claims edge over OpenAI and Cohere

However, analysts note that the real-world impact of such models will require validation beyond initial benchmark results.

May 29, 2025 1 min

Developer Generative AI

Using Microsoft Fabric to create digital twins

Microsoft’s data lakes meet the industrial internet of things, helping you create complex models with data from multiple sources.

May 29, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Machine Learning Microsoft Azure

Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing

Docling uses state-of-the-art models for layout analysis and table structure recognition to transform unstructured documents into formats readily consumable by modern AI systems.

May 29, 2025 6 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Generative AI Open Source

Reports of Deno’s demise ‘greatly exaggerated,’ Deno creator says

Deno creator and Deno Land co-founder Ryan Dahl responds to criticisms of the platform, reduced edge hosting regions, and a perceived lack of momentum.

May 28, 2025 4 mins

JavaScript Typescript Web Development

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.

May 28, 2025 9 mins

Developer Generative AI Technology Industry

How to hire software developers

You’ll only attract top-tier developers if your organization is built to support them. And if you avoid these common mistakes.

May 28, 2025 5 mins

Careers Developer IT Leadership

Microsoft rolls out TypeScript Native Previews

Native TypeScript compiler and tool set based on the Go programming language has achieved a 10x speed-up on most projects, Microsoft said.

May 28, 2025 2 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Typescript

Mistral unveils Mistral Agents API

The company is the latest AI vendor to launch an API to help developers embed its AI in their software. Analyst calls it a ‘parity play.’

May 27, 2025 3 mins

APIs Generative AI PaaS

Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8 billion deal

The deal, which has been in the works for more than a year, will deliver a ton of new data for Salesforce users, but the implications for Informatica users are less clear.

May 27, 2025 1 min

Data Management Master Data Management

AWS adds observability support to Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless

Enterprises will be able to monitor the health of their Aurora Limitless database fleet and troubleshoot issues via the CloudWatch Database Insights module.

May 27, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web Services Databases

Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants

Getting retrieval-augmented generation right requires a deep understanding of embedding models, similarity metrics, chunking, and retrieval techniques. Here’s a brief guide.

May 27, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

What we know now about generative AI for software development

GenAI coding assistance capabilities are evolving quickly as developers and devops teams find new ways to integrate AI copilots into the software development lifecycle.

May 27, 2025 9 mins

Development Tools Devops Generative AI

IT leadership lessons from Leeroy Jenkins

A viral video from years ago reminds us of the importance of strategy over impulse, an especially valuable point in light of AI and cloud computing.

May 27, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Multicloud developer lessons from the trenches

Experts offer advice on strategically approaching multicloud development, from balancing features from disparate clouds to mastering observability and automation.

May 26, 2025 11 mins

Cloud Computing Developer Multicloud

Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

A significant percentage of enterprise cloud network spending is wasted, due to preventable mistakes and manual processes, and the recent spike in AI deployments is adding to the problem.

May 26, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

InfluxDB’s new model for time series workloads

The embedded Python Processing Engine in InfluxDB 3 allows developers to write Python code that analyzes and acts on time series data in real time.

May 26, 2025 6 mins

Databases NoSQL Databases Software Development

The tough task of making AI code production-ready

With AI introducing errors and security vulnerabilities as it writes code, humans still have a vital role in testing and evaluation. New AI-based review software hopes to help solve the problem.

May 26, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Kotlin gets a new AI agent framework

JetBrains introduces Koog, an open source framework for building agents within the JVM ecosystem.

May 24, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Kotlin Programming Languages

Over 91% of companies sacrifice hybrid cloud security in the AI adoption rush

New data shows that a surge in AI and hybrid cloud architectures is creating dangerous gaps, and security teams can’t keep up.

May 23, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Security

Over 91% of companies sacrifice hybrid cloud security in the AI adoption rush

New data shows that a surge in AI and hybrid cloud architectures is creating dangerous gaps, and security teams can’t keep up.

May 23, 2025 1 min

Cloud Security Hybrid Cloud

Google I/O 2025: All eyes on AI and Gemini

With AI at its core, Google's annual developer conference will showcase major advancements in its Gemini models, alongside updates to Android 16 and a deeper look into its Project Astra.

May 23, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Google Cloud Platform

How generative AI rollouts fail, and how to fix them

Too many generative AI rollouts fail, or fail to live up to expectations. Here’s what developers and tech leaders are learning about putting genAI first in enterprise development.

May 23, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

.NET Aspire update includes AI debugging via GitHub Copilot

.NET Aspire 9.3 also boasts dashboard improvements for resource tracing and easier access to a resource’s telemetry, commands, URLs, and more.

May 23, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Microsoft .NET

Java turns 30, and there’s no stopping it now

Proponents say Java is the 'here to stay' language, prized for its enterprise-grade stability and ongoing innovation through the OpenJDK community.

May 23, 2025 4 mins

Java Python Rust

Enterprises are wasting the cloud’s potential

High cloud costs rooted in insufficient training and inadequate architectural oversight use up money that could go to innovation or new markets.

May 23, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing IT Strategy

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4

Claude Opus 4 is the world’s best coding model, Anthropic said. The company also released a safety report for the hybrid reasoning models.

May 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

How to use method references in Java

Get a deep dive into using method references in your Java programs, including stream operations, event listeners, and constructors and factories.

May 22, 2025 17 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

How to add user context to request traces in ASP.NET Core

User context makes life easier when tracing Http requests in ASP.NET Core applications. It’s easy to add with custom middleware.

May 22, 2025 7 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

The Windows AI platform takes shape

Windows AI Foundry supersedes Windows Copilot Runtime, as Microsoft doubles down on delivering AI-powered applications on Windows.

May 22, 2025 14 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Development Tools Generative AI

Red Hat readies Advanced Developer Suite

Integrated suite of tools includes an internal developer platform, trusted software supply chain capabilities, and integration with the Red Hat OpenShift cloud platform.

May 21, 2025 2 mins

CI/CD Development Tools Generative AI

CloudBees unveils AI-enhanced devops platform

CloudBees Unify brings an AI-enhanced control plane to existing developer tool chains, avoiding lift-and-shift migrations, the company said.

May 21, 2025 2 mins

CI/CD Devops Software Development

Google releases agent development kits for Python and Java

The Python ADK is now ready for building and deploying intelligent agents in live environments, Google says, while the Java ADK is an initial release.

May 21, 2025 2 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Development Tools Generative AI

Microsoft beefs up SQL Server 2025 for AI-driven applications

A public preview of SQL Server 2025 adds new vector capabilities already found in rival databases, along with JSON support and change event streaming.

May 21, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Microsoft SQL Server

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 adds AI-powered management

Lightspeed is an AI-powered service that allows users to build, deploy, and manage Red Hat’s Linux using simplified commands.

May 21, 2025 2 mins

Cloud Management Configuration Management Generative AI

Google I/O 2025: The most important new launches

Google I/O 2025 impressively demonstrates that we are in the middle of an AI revolution — and Google wants to be at the forefront of it.

May 21, 2025 11 mins

Generative AI Google I/O

Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio

Building a database-backed web application with Gemini in Firebase is far from perfect, but it’s better than coding without AI.

May 21, 2025 14 mins

Generative AI Integrated Development Environments JavaScript

What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

May 21, 2025 8 mins

HTML Software Development Web Development

OWASP proposes a way for enterprises to automatically identify AI agents

The approach, written by employees of AWS, Cisco, and Intuit, wants to take what DNS did for the Web and apply it to global agents. Analysts agree that it just might be adopted.

May 20, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence

Five rules for coding with Booleans

Booleans may seem harmless, but using them can be fraught with peril. When you can’t avoid them, follow these five rules.

May 20, 2025 6 mins

Careers Developer Engineer

Why Microsoft is unifying data and AI within Fabric

Fabric is being transformed as a decision infrastructure layer to support faster decision making and easier development of agentic applications, analysts say.

May 20, 2025 4 mins

Databases Generative AI Microsoft Azure

GitHub unveils coding agent for GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot coding agent spins up its own development environment to work on GitHub issues, pushing its changes to a draft pull request.

May 20, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI GitHub

Why is Microsoft offering to turn websites into AI apps with NLWeb?

Analysts say the open project could be Microsoft’s strategy to stake its claim on the agentic web before rivals Google and Amazon do.

May 20, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence

Cloud asset management: A crucial missing ingredient

Complicated cloud infrastructures can greatly benefit from automated oversight that tracks cloud resources, links costs to applications, and integrates security.

May 20, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Cloud Security

Rust 1.87 shines on anonymous pipes, architecture intrinsics

Happy birthday, Rust! The latest release of the increasingly popular fast and safe programming language coincides with its 10th birthday.

May 19, 2025 3 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Deployment

Microsoft aims to improve agent versatility with Copilot Studio updates

New features focus on ease of creation, interoperability, and overall usefulness of agents, while doubling down on management, security and governance, analysts say.

May 19, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence

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Smoothing out AI’s rough edges

By Matt Asay

Sep 29, 20258 mins

Data and Information SecurityDevelopment ApproachesGenerative AI

From answer engine to infrastructure: Perplexity launches Search API for developers

By Taryn Plumb

Sep 26, 20256 mins

APIsArtificial IntelligenceDevelopment Tools

Articles

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

A brief history of AI

What is infrastructure as code? Automating your infrastructure builds

The best new features in Postgres 18

The productivity paradox of AI-assisted coding

Advanced debug logging techniques: A technical guide

Do vector-native databases beat add-ons for AI applications?

How AI changes the data analyst role

Designing AI-ready architectures in compliance-heavy environments

The rise of AI-ready private clouds

The three game-changing features of JDK 25

2-agent architecture: Separating context from execution in AI systems

F-strings with superpowers: What’s new in Python 3.14 beta

A wake-up call for real cloud ROI

Unlocking data’s true potential: The open lakehouse as AI’s foundation

Google Cloud’s BigLake-driven lakehouse updates aim to optimize performance, costs

Microsoft envisions Windows Update as the unified platform for all software updates

Mistral AI launches code embedding model, claims edge over OpenAI and Cohere

Using Microsoft Fabric to create digital twins

Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing

Reports of Deno’s demise ‘greatly exaggerated,’ Deno creator says

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How to hire software developers

Microsoft rolls out TypeScript Native Previews

Mistral unveils Mistral Agents API

Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8 billion deal

AWS adds observability support to Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless

Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants

What we know now about generative AI for software development

IT leadership lessons from Leeroy Jenkins

Multicloud developer lessons from the trenches

Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

InfluxDB’s new model for time series workloads

The tough task of making AI code production-ready

Kotlin gets a new AI agent framework

Over 91% of companies sacrifice hybrid cloud security in the AI adoption rush

Over 91% of companies sacrifice hybrid cloud security in the AI adoption rush

Google I/O 2025: All eyes on AI and Gemini

How generative AI rollouts fail, and how to fix them

.NET Aspire update includes AI debugging via GitHub Copilot

Java turns 30, and there’s no stopping it now

Enterprises are wasting the cloud’s potential

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4

How to use method references in Java

How to add user context to request traces in ASP.NET Core

The Windows AI platform takes shape

Red Hat readies Advanced Developer Suite

CloudBees unveils AI-enhanced devops platform

Google releases agent development kits for Python and Java

Microsoft beefs up SQL Server 2025 for AI-driven applications

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 adds AI-powered management

Google I/O 2025: The most important new launches

Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio

What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings

OWASP proposes a way for enterprises to automatically identify AI agents

Five rules for coding with Booleans

Why Microsoft is unifying data and AI within Fabric

GitHub unveils coding agent for GitHub Copilot

Why is Microsoft offering to turn websites into AI apps with NLWeb?

Cloud asset management: A crucial missing ingredient

Rust 1.87 shines on anonymous pipes, architecture intrinsics

Microsoft aims to improve agent versatility with Copilot Studio updates

Show me more

Smoothing out AI’s rough edges

From answer engine to infrastructure: Perplexity launches Search API for developers

Python and Poetry: 4 tools for keeping Python simple

Python 3.14's live debugging interface

Easier Chrome browser automation with PyDoll

How to use Rust workspaces to speed up compile times