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...
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...
IT leadership lessons from Leeroy Jenkins
In 2005, Leeroy Jenkins gained notoriety in the gaming world as a hapless World of Warcraft player immortalized in a viral video. Leeroy single-handedly wrecked a carefully planned mission by charging headfirst into danger, shouting his name in a spur...
Multicloud developer lessons from the trenches
If the features of one cloud environment are a business benefit, deploying multiple clouds has to be even better, right? It’s true that a multicloud architecture promises to give you the best of all possible worlds, letting you take advantage of...
Spring I/O 2025
Spring I/O 2025 Spring I/O 2025 was a great experience! It is an extremely well-organized conference with an awesome community. It was my second time as a speaker, and I will definitely send talk abstracts to the upcoming editions as well. It does not ...
The tough task of making AI code production-ready
Developers are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) to crank out code at astonishing volumes. As much as 41% of all code is now written by machines, totaling 256 billion lines in 2024 alone. Even Google, which employs some of the best ...
Maintainer Month Speaker Spotlight: Felix Reda
Maintainer Month Speaker Spotlight: Felix Reda As part of Maintainer Month—a time to recognize and support the open source maintainers who keep our digital infrastructure running—Open Regulatory Compliance (ORC) is hosting a special panel on 27 May...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #282
Hashtag Jakarta EE #282 Welcome to issue number two hundred and eighty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I have just returned from Spring I/O 2025 in Barcelona. A write-up from this conference will follow shortly. This was my last conference in May, so I hav...
Kotlin gets a new AI agent framework
Looking to make Kotlin a first-class language for AI, JetBrains has introduced Koog, an open source agentic framework for building AI agents within the Java virtual machine (JVM) ecosystem via a Kotlin domain-specific language (DSL). Introduced May 2...
Gemini API I/O updates
Announcing new features and models for the Gemini API, with the introduction of Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview with improved reasoning and efficiency, Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash text-to-speech supporting multiple languages and speakers, and Gemini 2.5 Flash na...
Enterprises are wasting the cloud’s potential
Imagine a once-renowned international manufacturing corporation, known for its flexibility in responding to market shifts, embarks on a cloud venture with a commitment to enhancing operational efficiency and stimulating creativity. After two years, th...
Java turns 30, and there’s no stopping it now
Happy Birthday, Java! Even as rivals Python and Rust claim the spotlight, proponents say the 30-year-old language will continue to forge ahead. Introduced by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, Java is a pillar of enterprise computing. The language has ...
