JetBrains AI Assistant panned in JetBrains Marketplace
Despite having been downloaded nearly 23 million times, the JetBrains AI Assistant has received bad reviews on the company’s JetBrains Marketplace website, prompting JetBrains to remove some of the reviews. Unveiled in December 2023, the JetBrains A...
Redis bets big on an open source return
Today, Redis makes a dramatic return to its open source roots, offering Redis 8 under the AGPLv3 license. The shift follows a similar move by Elastic in August 2024 and completes the company’s somewhat circuitous licensing path. In both cases, I sus...
How to use the IServiceProvider interface in ASP.NET Core
One of the most essential dependency injection (DI) components in ASP.NET Core is the IServiceProvider interface, which specifies a way to access service objects or instances of types from ASP.NET Core’s built-in DI container. To build modular and m...
Using the Model Context Protocol in Azure and beyond
One of the biggest issues with large language models (LLMs) is working with your own data. They may have been trained on terabytes of text from across the internet, but that only provides them with a way to predict and generate text based on your prom...
Oracle releases FIPS-validated crypto module for Java
Oracle has announced Oracle Jipher, which makes cryptographic services available for Java developers using the standard Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) framework. Announced April 29, Jipher is a Java cryptographic service provider that packages a...
Zoho adds AI capabilities to its low code dev platform
Zoho on Wednesday announced the addition of 10 AI-centric services and features within Zoho Creator, the company’s low code application development platform, that it said are part of its pledge to invest only in “AI capabilities that drive real-ti...
Meta will offer its Llama AI model as an API too
Meta has unveiled a preview version of an API for its Llama large language models. The new offering will transform Meta’s popular open-source models into an enterprise-ready service directly challenging established players like OpenAI while addressi...
Catching up with Angular 19
Angular 19 continues its ongoing project of simplifying and improving developer experience while boosting performance. The development team’s well-publicized attention to these goals has paid off in the general perception of Angular as a project on ...
Four essential ingredients of software development
Somewhere between marching to a screaming Marine Corps drill instructor, watching Naval Aviators smash into a steel deck, and living in constant fear of getting chewed out for an “Irish pennant,” I learned some valuable lessons about writing good ...
Apiiro launches AI-powered risk analysis map for software
Agentic application security provider Apiiro has unveiled Software Graph Visualization, an AI-powered interactive map that enables real-time visualization of software architectures across all components, vulnerabilities, data exposure, and material ch...
5 ways generative AI boosts cloud and IT operations
Anyone who thinks engineers, administrators, and analysts in IT operations have an easy job hasn’t spent enough time in their shoes. Automation, observability, and machine learning help IT operations deploy and manage many more large-scale and missi...
Why hasn’t cheaper hardware lowered cloud prices?
Public cloud providers have established themselves as the primary lifeline for modern enterprise IT, delivering unprecedented scalability, operational efficiency, and innovation. Despite all the advancements they’ve ushered in, businesses are notici...
Microsoft previews SignalR client for iOS
Microsoft has introduced a Swift client for its SignalR library for ASP.NET, allowing iOS developers to add real-time web functionality to their applications. SignalR Swift is a client library for connecting to SignalR servers from Swift applications...
AWS updates Amazon Bedrock’s Data Automation capability
AWS has updated the Data Automation capability inside its generative AI service Amazon Bedrock to further support the automation of generating insights from unstructured data and bring down the development time required for building applications under...
14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings
When the cost of cloud computing is listed in cents or even fractions of a cent, it’s hard to remember that even small numbers can add up to big bills. Yet they do, and every month it seems CFOs come close to dying of multiple heart attacks when the...
OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork
Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud services, vendors have fiercely competed for enterprise...
