Google’s new toolset to help connect AI agents to BigQuery
Google has come out with a new toolset that will allow enterprises to connect their AI agents to data stored inside BigQuery in the wake of rising demand for agentic applications. Agentic applications, which can perform tasks without manual interventi...
Intro to the Lit: A standards-based reactive library
Lit is an interesting option among front-end JavaScript frameworks for reactive programming. It’s caught quite a bit of interest from developers, but remains relatively under-the-radar compared to some other reactive frameworks. Lit is built on top ...
First look: Guided code generation with Kiro
Kiro is the new Amazon Web Services IDE for creating software projects using agentic AI. A developer using Kiro creates a specification for the desired program, and Kiro uses Claude Sonnet (3.7 or 4.0) to iteratively generate a set of requirements, a ...
How to write a good bug report
Bug fixing is part of the job of every developer. Whether you are building a brand-spanking-new greenfield application or maintaining a 30-year-old ball of mud, you are going to have to fix bugs. Fixing bugs can be a challenge. Most of us have exp...
Intro to Lit: A standards-based reactive library
Lit is an interesting option among front-end JavaScript frameworks for reactive programming. It’s caught quite a bit of interest from developers, but remains relatively under-the-radar compared to some other reactive frameworks. Lit is built on top ...
FluidCloud introduces ‘cloud cloning’ platform
Startup FluidCloud, described as a portable cloud infrastructure provider, has launched the FluidCloud Platform, a “cloud cloning” platform that lets users clone, migrate, restore, and optimize infrastructure across clouds in minutes, according to...
Teradata joins Snowflake, Databricks in expanding MCP ecosystem
Teradata has released its first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to enable enterprises to connect their agents to data stored within the data analytics provider’s databases, amid rising demand for agentic applications. The Teradata MCP ...
How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist
Several years ago, I wrote a multicloud readiness checklist and discussed the advantages of hybrid multicloud. Today, the vast majority of medium-sized businesses and large enterprises diversify with multiple hyperscalers, operate private clouds, depl...
Are cloud ops teams too reliant on AI?
The use of artificial intelligence to manage cloud operations has significantly changed how businesses design and oversee their IT systems. The consensus is that using AI for automation provides greater scalability, reliability, and consistency, as we...
Nuxt 3.18
Nuxt 3.18 is out - bringing v4 features to v3, improved accessibility, better browser dev tooling integration, and performance enhancements!
12 coding agents at the cutting edge
A year ago, almost nobody had heard of coding agents, and if they did, it was in the context of technologies that didn’t yet work. What a difference a year makes. Today, coding agents are all around us, touching on every aspect of the software devel...
How agentic AI will change database management
Generative AI has already had a profound impact on the world of database management. In just a few short years, we’ve watched this technology simplify, accelerate, and automate an expanding list of essential aspects of database management—cleansin...
The importance of memory for AI
AI systems are the ultimate amnesiacs. Despite an impressive ability to generate text, code, music, and more, they’re limited by the prompt immediately in front of them. Ask ChatGPT about a recipe it recommended last week, and you’ll likely get a ...
JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language
JetBrains, creator of the popular Kotlin programming language, is developing a new programming language intended to make AI and code much more controllable and transparent. In a July 23 interview with InfoWorld, JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan elaborated...
Announcing TypeScript 5.9 RC
Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 5.9! To get started using the Release Candidate, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc Let’s take a look at what’s new in TypeSc...
