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Monday June 30, 2025. 11:00 AM
Generative AI has officially entered the infrastructure as code (IaC) trenches. What started as a bottom-up phenomenon — developers using ChatGPT and Copilot to avoid Googling Terraform syntax or getting bogged down in endless StackExchange threads — has grown into...
Saturday June 28, 2025. 12:16 AM
Google has released version 2 of its Python client library to query the Data Commons platform, which organizes the world’s publicly available statistical data. The library supports custom instances, among other capabilities. Announced June 26, the Data Commons Python...
Friday June 27, 2025. 11:00 AM
This week in Python brings us a toe-to-toe showdown between two Rust-powered Python type checking tools. We also have a gentle introduction to type hinting, a look at the perils—and promises—ahead for a free-threaded, no-GIL Python, and a shocking exposé (okay, just...
A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided to fully embrace the cloud. Executive memos indicated that all their new initiatives would be “cloud-first.” Teams were encouraged to re-architect everything, including mission-critical transaction processing that had...
Rust 1.88 has been released, featuring support for writing naked functions, as well as backing for Boolean literals. The update of the popular fast and safe programming language was announced June 26 by the Rust Release Team. Current Rust users can get Rust 1.88 by running...
Thursday June 26, 2025. 05:10 PM
Running AI workloads on premises has often meant overloading shared infrastructure or relying on complex hybrid setups. In an effort to reduce this friction, Teradata has bundled some of its existing tools into a new AI Factory to help data scientists manage the full AI...
In today’s data-driven landscape, integrating diverse data sources into a cohesive system is a complex challenge. As an architect, I set out to design a solution that could seamlessly connect on-premises databases, cloud applications and file systems to a centralized data...
Moving forward with the development of its enterprise Java application platform, the Eclipse Foundation has released Jakarta EE 11 Platform, which promises simpler data access and streamlined testing processes. Java 21 support also is featured. Rolled out June 26, Jakarta...
Much of what we do to keep our online lives secure relies on public-key cryptography and its complex mathematical operations. At the heart of these techniques are sets of one-way functions that generate the public and private keys used to encrypt and decrypt data. Those...
When working with minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core, you can define routes for the HTTP verbs using mapping methods such as MapGet, MapPut, MapPost, and MapDelete. While these methods allow you to route each request to the correct destination, you should also have a way to...
Wednesday June 25, 2025. 03:00 PM
Google has introduced Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent that brings Gemini AI capabilities right to a developer’s terminal. Unveiled June 25, Gemini CLI is a command-line AI workflow tool that connects to a developer’s tools, understands the developer’s code, and...
The McNamara Fallacy is the idea that it is an error to make decisions purely on measurements or quantitative data. Robert McNamara was the US Secretary of Defense during most of the 1960s, during the first half of the Vietnam War. He came to the position after a...
What is most striking about Python’s latest wave of third-party tooling is that they aren’t written in Python. Instead, many of the newer tools for project management, code formatting, and now type checking, are written in Rust. This isn’t a swipe at Python; every...
A new AI benchmark for enterprise applications is now available following the launch of xbench, a testing initiative developed in-house by Chinese venture capital firm HongShan Capital Group (HSG). The challenge with many of the current benchmarks is that they are widely...
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.2.0, the latest version of the company’s general purpose, statically typed language perhaps best known as a rival to Java for JVM and Android development. The update previews context parameters, stabilizes guard conditions, and offers...
Tuesday June 24, 2025. 02:01 PM
Unlike general-purpose large language models (LLMs), more specialized reasoning models break complex problems into steps that they ‘reason’ about, and show their work in a chain of thought (CoT) process. This is meant to improve their decision-making and accuracy and...
Since the dawn of the public cloud era, the narrative has focused on disruption and innovation. The Big Three providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud) have commanded center stage by captivating customers and analysts alike with their relentless...
The major builders of large language models (LLMs)—OpenAI, DeepSeek, and others—are mistaken when they claim that their latest models, like OpenAI’s o-series or DeepSeek’s R1, can now “reason.” What they’re offering isn’t reasoning. It’s simply an advanced...
The Linux Foundation is the new home of the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open protocol developed by Google to enable agentic AI interoperability and trusted agent communication across systems and platforms. Launched by Google in April, the A2A protocol addresses the need...
JetBrains has released Ktor 3.2.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous applications that brings modules for dependency injection and HTMX and automatic deserialization of configuration files into data classes, among other new capabilities....
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