Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs
The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs. microservices), programming languages (JVM langu...
Top 6 multicloud management solutions
Multicloud is increasingly common in today’s enterprises. The use of multiple public clouds, even spreading applications across clouds, can help with compliance, boost availability, reduce risk, or avoid vendor lock-in. Companies also adopt multiple...
The key to Oracle’s AI future
Oracle’s stock is finally catching up with its talk about cloud, fueled by surging infrastructure and AI demand. In its recent Q4 2025 earnings statement, the 46-year-old database giant surprised Wall Street with an 11% jump in revenue (to $15.9 bil...
Visual Studio Code bolsters MCP support
Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, expands support for the Model Context Protocol, a technology that standardizes how applications provide context to large language models. VS Code 1.101 was relea...
New Python projects to watch and try
Get a first look at the new Python Installation Manager for Windows, or try your hand at developing AI agents with Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python, or check out template strings in Python 3.14. Would you rather debate virtual threads in Py...
Nifty new Python projects to watch and try
Get a first look at the new Python Installation Manager for Windows, or try your hand at developing AI agents with Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python, or check out template strings in Python 3.14. Would you rather debate virtual threads in Py...
Europe is caught in a cloud dilemma
Europe stands at a crucial crossroads as it navigates two significant influences: the European Union’s desire for digital independence from foreign cloud providers and its desire for access to state-of-the-art cloud technologies. Certain foreign hyp...
.NET 10 Preview 5 highlights improvements to C# 14
Microsoft has launched the fifth preview of its planned .NET 10 open source developer platform. The preview release fits C# 14 with user-defined compound assignment operators and enhances the .NET runtime with escape analysis, among other updates. Ann...
.NET 10 Preview 5 highlights C# 14, runtime improvements
Microsoft has launched the fifth preview of its planned .NET 10 open source developer platform. The preview release fits C# 14 with user-defined compound assignment operators and enhances the .NET runtime with escape analysis, among other updates. Ann...
How to use frozen collections in C#
Developers often grapple with the available options in their quest to use the most suitable data structure for their application. The various collections in C# offer different ways to store data objects and search, sort, insert, modify, delete, and it...
Use geospatial data in Azure with Planetary Computer Pro
Among his many achievements, pioneering computer scientist and Microsoft Technical Fellow Jim Gray came up with what he called the “fifth paradigm” of science: using large amounts of data and machine learning to discover new things about the world...
Apple rolls out Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode updates
Apple at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week announced the latest advancements for the Swift language, SwiftUI framework, and Xcode IDE. Highlights include concurrency enhancements and improved C++ and Java interoperability for Swift,...
