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,...
JavaScript, MacOS lead usage in worldwide developer survey
JavaScript was the most-used language and MacOS the most-used desktop OS in a recent survey of nearly 9,000 developers worldwide that asked about technology usage as well as about demographics, income, and workplace. The findings of The State of Devs ...
Announcing Nuxt 4.0
Nuxt 4.0 is here! A thoughtful evolution focused on developer experience, with better project organization, smarter data fetching, and improved type safety.
How agentic AI will transform mobile apps and field operations
Many first-generation mobile applications were direct adaptations of their web equivalents. Poor user experiences, slow performance, and low adoption forced organizations to rethink their business objectives and implementation strategies. As developme...
Does public cloud AI cost too much?
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, artificial intelligence remains the most transformative technology on the horizon. As organizations seek to integrate AI into mission-critical operations, the question of where to run these workloads is...
Next.js 15.4
Next.js 15.4 includes updates to performance, stability, and Turbopack compatibility.
Can System Initiative fix devops?
Let’s face it. Devops hasn’t seen much innovation in recent years, particularly in infrastructure automation. Despite radical shifts in technology, infrastructure automation has remained largely unchanged. Sure, it’s evolved — from on-prem con...
Why zero CVEs makes zero sense
If a vendor tells you it can enable zero CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), you should run, not walk, away. Not only is it impossible to get to zero CVEs, there’s really no need to even try. In fact, the very act of trying to achieve zero ...
