The truth about Python’s AI-powered popularity surge
Python’s popularity is surging thanks to AI, but also its power and ease of use. Editable installs for Python packages and the newly refined type hinting in Python 3.14 are just two examples, and the brand new, in-beta installation manager also help...
Can your cloud provider really scale?
On July 29, 2025, enterprises relying on Microsoft Azure’s East US region experienced an unexpected disruption that reverberated across numerous organizations. Attempted allocations for virtual machines failed. The root cause wasn’t a network brea...
Monitoring microservices: Best practices for robust systems
Microservices architecture, while offering exceptional agility and scalability, introduces a new layer of complexity in terms of tracking. Gone are the times of monolithic applications where a single set of logs ought to tell you the whole tale. In...
Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP
Microsoft’s fascination with AI agents as a tool for developers continues with Wassette, a new open source release from its Azure Core Uptime team. Built in Rust and designed to host pieces of functionality written as WebAssembly Components, it’s ...
Five kinds of static code coupling
Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is good, but what that means isn’t always clear. Connascence helps us reason about how code is coupled. You can’t decouple your code i...
Rubrik unveils ‘undo button’ for AI agent mistakes
Rubrik has announced Agent Rewind, software that provides visibility into agent actions and enables enterprises to undo agent mistakes by rewinding changes to applications and data. Announced August 12, Agent Rewind combines Predibase AI infrastructur...
Devops, SRE and platform engineering: What’s the difference?
Many modern development teams incorporate devops, site reliability engineering (SRE), and platform engineering — or at least they claim to. But figuring out what each of these buzzwords actually means can be a slippery proposition, and at first glan...
Devops, SRE, and platform engineering: What’s the difference?
Many modern development teams incorporate devops, site reliability engineering (SRE), and platform engineering—or at least they claim to. But figuring out what each of these buzzwords actually means can be a slippery proposition, and at first glance...
A developer’s guide to code generation
I started my career as an architect and coder working on AI algorithms for image processing, natural language processing, and search. Flash-forward to today, my coding is limited to low-code platforms to perform basic automation, data collection, and ...
The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems
The rapid growth of model catalogs from hyperscalers and third-party providers is creating an environment where the heavy lifting of model hosting, versioning, monitoring, and billing can be outsourced. I appreciate others’ model efforts because the...
Rust 1.89 underscores arguments to const generics
The Rust team has released Rust 1.89.0 stable, an update to the fast and safe programming language that features support for explicitly inferred arguments to const generics. The Rust release team announced the new version on August 7. Developers who ...
The advantages of stack-based internal developer platforms
As organizations double down on developer experience, one of the most meaningful, and technical, investments they can make is in an internal developer platform (IDP). Not the mythical one-size-fits-all “platform in a box,” but a fully composable, ...
Multi-agent AI workflows: The next evolution of AI coding
As AI-assisted coding becomes more common, a new pattern is emerging: multi-agent workflows. A multi-agent workflow refers to using various AI agents in parallel for specific software development life cycle (SDLC) tasks, whether for planning, scaffold...
Who does the unsexy but essential work for open source?
Walk into any developer conference and you’ll see a predictable parade of laptop stickers: the cloud-native darlings, the hip new database, the obligatory mascot or two. It’s the developer variation of virtue signalling or calling out one’s trib...
Should public clouds enforce government policies?
In the world of cloud computing, trust is everything. Businesses migrate to the cloud because they expect reliability, scalability, and uninterrupted operations, regardless of their location or external pressures that may arise. But what happens when ...
Google rolls out AI coding tool for GitHub repos
Google has introduced Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a no-cost, autonomous agent for GitHub repos that works asynchronously in the background on routine coding tasks. The product is currently in beta. Announced August 6, Gemini CLI GitHub Actions can be f...
Getting started with A2A in .NET
As we continue to move away from using AI tools to power chatbots, new ways of working are becoming more important. Agent technologies have proven to be an interesting way to automate business processes. They treat AI models as a flexible orchestratio...
