Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report
Developers spend more time on operational and background tasks than they do on coding, according to an IDC analyst report published this month. Application development accounted for 16% of developers’ time in 2024, up from 15% the year before, while...
10 machine learning mistakes and how to avoid them
Machine learning technology is taking hold across many sectors as its applications are more widely adopted. The research firm Fortune Business Insights forecasts the global machine-learning market will expand from $26.03 billion in 2023 to $225.91 bil...
A smarter approach to training AI models
Artificial intelligence, which was thought to be handily dominated by American labs and researchers, was thrown for a loop with DeepSeek’s R1. And yet, R1 is still subject to many of the same pitfalls as other models—we must make radical advances ...
AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral
We’re living in a strange time for software development. On the one hand, AI-driven coding assistants have shaken up a hitherto calcified IDE market. As RedMonk Cofounder James Governor puts it, “suddenly we’re in a position where there is a sur...
GenAI is my copilot? Developers weigh pains and gains
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s ...
GenAI is my copilot? Developers play whack-a-hallucination
Developers are quicker than most to embrace generative AI tools as part of their workflow. That can mean enhanced productivity and easing cognitive burdens, but it also means learning new technologies while they’re still being built. This month’s ...
Why enterprises fail at finops
As cloud spending continues to climb, the discipline known as finops (financial operations) has emerged as a critical strategy for managing and optimizing cloud investments. This is no longer news. Finops has been a discipline and a toolkit for years....
Deno adds OpenTelemetry integration
Deno Land has released Deno 2.2, a new version of the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that features built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces. The new Deno release also features Linter updates that include a new plugi...
Deno update brings OpenTelemetry integration
Deno Land has released Deno 2.2, a new version of the Deno runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript that features built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces. The new Deno release also features Linter updates that include a new plugi...
Apollo GraphQL ships connectors for REST APIs
Apollo GraphQL, provider of the GraphOS API orchestration platform, has introduced Apollo Connectors for REST APIs, a way to integrate REST APIs into a composable GraphQL architecture without writing boilerplate code. The company also announced Graph...
Microsoft’s first step to scalable quantum computing
There’s a race going on. Not the one to build artificial general intelligence, whatever that may be, but to deliver the first at-scale quantum computer that’s able to solve a class of massive problems that would take far too long using even the mo...
Microsoft updates VS Code C# Dev Kit extension
Microsoft announced updates to its C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code extension, including enhancements to Razor/Blazor Hot Reload and for debugging and testing Blazor web pages. In a February 11 blog post, Wendy Breiding, Microsoft senior manager for ...
GitHub Copilot for Azure DevOps users
Azure DevOps customers frequently ask us when GitHub Copilot will be available to them. What many don’t realize is that GitHub Copilot for Business is already accessible to all customers, including those using Azure DevOps. Even better, much of its p...
Oracle extends support for on-prem Oracle Database 19c
As the status of an on-premises version of Oracle Database 23ai remains in limbo, the company has tossed a bone to its on-prem Oracle Database 19c customers in the form of an extension of Premier Support to Dec. 31, 2029, and Extended Support to Dec. ...
How to use asyncio: Python’s built-in async library
Python’s asynchronous programming functionality, or async for short, allows you to write programs that get more work done by not waiting for independent tasks to finish. The asyncio library is a set of tools included with Python for asynchronously p...
Intro to Elixir: A fresh take on functional programming
Elixir is one of the most interesting stories in the world of programming languages right now. Built on the Erlang ecosystem, Elixir offers a fresh take on functional programming and new ways of thinking about concurrency and fault tolerance. We’ll ...
Generative AI vs. the software developer
If you aren’t aware of the tectonic shift that is generative artificial intelligence, then I can only assume your phone has been on Airplane mode for the last year. You can’t swing a laptop bag these days without knocking over four startups doing...
