F-strings with superpowers: What’s new in Python 3.14 beta
Are you ready for Python Pi? The 3.14 beta is out now, and we’ve got the rundown on what’s so great about it, including the new template strings feature, or “f-strings with superpowers.” You can also learn how to deploy Python (and other langu...
A wake-up call for real cloud ROI
Enterprise adoption of public cloud platforms has been skyrocketing. More than half of all enterprise workloads are now running in public clouds, with spending projected to rise by nearly a third this year alone. Many organizations are allocating more...
Using Microsoft Fabric to create digital twins
Digital twins are an important part of modern control systems. They let you create a model of a physical system that serves as a tool for simulation and prediction. It models the inputs and outputs of a system, using real-time data to keep it at the s...
AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and experiments in self-governance gone bizarrely wrong...
How to hire software developers
Salaries are usually a business’s top expense, and a bad hire can cause all kinds of problems, financially and culturally. In some places, getting rid of someone who just isn’t working out can be a challenge. Add in laws, rules, and regulations s...
Microsoft rolls out TypeScript Native Previews
Microsoft has announced the availability of TypeScript Native Previews, featuring early previews of a native TypeScript compiler and tool set based on the Go language. The port has achieved “a 10x speed-up on most projects,” the company said. Anno...
Mistral unveils Mistral Agents API
Artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI Tuesday announced the Mistral Agents API, a complement to its Chat Completion API that “simplifies implementing agentic use cases,” the company said. The Agents API combines Mistral’s large language mod...
Azure DevOps with GitHub Repositories – Your path to Agentic AI
GitHub Copilot has evolved beyond a coding assistant in the IDE into an agentic teammate – providing actionable feedback on pull requests, fixing bugs and implementing new features, creating pull requests and responding to feedback, and much more. Th...
Salesforce to buy Informatica in $8 billion deal
Salesforce has agreed to buy Informatica in an $8 billion deal as a way to quickly access far more data for its AI efforts, it said Tuesday. Steve Fisher, President and CTO of Salesforce, made the argument for how this acquisition helps customers of b...
AWS adds observability support to Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added observability support to its managed Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless service to help enterprises monitor the health of their database fleet and troubleshoot issues around it. Observability of databases is crucial for en...
IT leadership lessons from ‘Leroy Jenkins’
In 2005, Leroy Jenkins gained notoriety in the gaming world as a hapless World of Warcraft player immortalized in a viral video. Leroy single-handedly wrecked a carefully planned mission by charging headfirst into danger, shouting his name in a spur-o...
What we know now about generative AI for software development
Last year, I wrote about the 10 ways generative AI would transform software development, including early use cases in code generation, code validation, and other improvements in the software development process. Over the past year, I’ve also covered...
Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants
Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has quickly risen to become one of the most popular architectures when building AI assistants, especially in scenarios where combining the power of language models with proprietary information is key. Integrating a...
