GitLab introduces AI agent-enabled devsecops platform
Moving forward on AI, GitLab is offering a public beta of GitLab Duo Agent Platform, a devsecops orchestration platform intended to unlock asynchronous collaboration between developers and AI agents. Announced July 17, GitLab Duo Agent Platform estab...
Alternative clouds are on the rise
After attending a recent analyst and influencer event hosted by one of the major hyperscalers, I found myself reflecting not just on the future of the big cloud providers but also on the evolution of the entire cloud computing market. The event’s fo...
AI’s not-so-secret agents
The buzz around agentic AI is getting louder, and this month’s picks showcase the breadth of what is possible—or in some cases, not yet possible. Spin up an AI agent of your own with Google’s new Agent Development Kit, take notes on how Deutsche...
AWS previews enterprise services to ease AI agent deployment
AWS has launched a preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a set of enterprise-grade services developers can use to securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model. Announced July 16, AgentCore services can be hosted on Amazo...
MCP server announced for JFrog supply chain management platform
Software supply chain management provider JFrog has become the latest vendor to release a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its platform so developers can securely link Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents to tools and data sources. “Unt...
How to create your own RAG applications in R
One of the handiest tasks large language models can do for us is answer questions about a specific collection of information. This is often done using a technique called RAG, or retrieval augmented generation. Instead of relying on what the model know...
Taking .NET Aspire for a spin
.NET Aspire is an interesting piece of the .NET ecosystem, providing a framework for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications. Still relatively new, Aspire takes an opinionated approach to distributed systems development while also p...
Perforce unveils agentic AI test tool for web and mobile apps
Seeking to ease web and mobile app testing by leveraging AI, Perforce Software has unveiled Perfecto AI, an agentic AI testing tool that removes the need for test scripts, frameworks, or maintenance and streamlines testing workflows, according to the ...
4 tips for getting started with free-threaded Python
Until recently, Python threads ran without true parallelism, as threads yielded to each other for CPU-bound operations. The introduction of free-threaded or ‘no-GIL’ builds in Python 3.13 was one of the biggest architectural changes to the CPython...
ECMAScript 2025: The best new features in JavaScript
This year’s update to the JavaScript specification covers a lot of ground. The headline addition is the new built-in Iterator object and its functional operators. Other updates include new Set methods, a direct JSON module import, improvements to re...
Database design tips for developers
It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots. Things slowly get worse. What starts out as cool and clean becomes “what the hell were they thinking” before you know it. But that doesn’t mean we sit back and let it happen...
Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf
AI builders are starving for agentic integrated development environments (IDEs), which help developers code more efficiently and thus, ideally, speed up production. And nowhere has this been more apparent than in the tug-of-war over Windsurf. In the l...
Akka releases platform for agentic AI
Akka, provider of a popular framework for building reactive, distributed applications on the JVM, has introduced the Akka Agentic Platform, an integrated suite of offerings for building, operating, and evaluating agentic AI systems. Announced July 14,...
