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First look: Guided code generation with Kiro

AWS’s Claude-powered IDE generates spec-driven code and tests, but keep an eye on the results.

Jul 30, 2025 8 mins

What is Model Context Protocol? How MCP bridges AI and external services

With an open, plug-and-play architecture, MCP is the key to enabling AI agents to interact seamlessly with external tools and real-world data.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jul 29, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence

How agentic AI will change database management

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time.

By Bennie Grant

Jul 28, 2025 7 mins

Database AdministrationDatabasesGenerative AI

12 coding agents at the cutting edge

AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects.

By Martin Heller

Jul 28, 2025 15 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

Mem0: An open-source memory layer for LLM applications and AI agents

Combining an innovative hybrid data store and intelligent retrieval, Mem0 provides a robust foundation for building personalized AI experiences that improve over time.

By Janakiram MSV

Jul 24, 2025 7 mins

Development Libraries and FrameworksGenerative AIOpen Source

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14

Official support for free-threaded Python, an experimental JIT, and a smarter installation manager for Windows are among the goodies in Python 3.14. Now in a release candidate.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 23, 2025 11 mins

Programming LanguagesPythonSoftware Development

Amp your Python superpowers with ‘uv run’

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here's the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 23, 2025 4 mins

Development ToolsProgramming LanguagesPython

Rethinking and realigning IT for the AI era

CIOs from a range of industries discuss how AI’s emergence as a transformative force is leading them to adapt and reimagine how IT operates to better harness the technology’s potential to revolutionize their business.

By Esther Shein

Jul 22, 2025 1 min

Artificial IntelligenceIT Leadership

A pragmatic approach to enterprise AI

Consider these six ways to approach AI to help your organization unlock efficiencies while preventing major setbacks and significant cost overruns.

By Jason Hardy

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIIT Strategy

How CodeRabbit brings AI to code reviews

CodeRabbit combines code graph analysis and the power of large language models to identify issues in pull requests and suggest improvements, or even generate those improvements in a new branch.

By Travis Van

Jul 21, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

9 AI development skills tech companies want

Developers seeking jobs in AI-driven organizations want to know what tech leaders and hiring managers are looking for. Here’s our list.

By Bob Violino

Jul 21, 2025 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AITechnology Industry

Orchestrating AI-driven data pipelines with Azure ADF and Databricks: An architectural evolution

Who needs rewrites? This metadata-powered architecture fuses AI and ETL so smoothly, it turns pipelines into self-evolving engines of insight.

By Vikram Garg

Jul 17, 2025 7 mins

ETLMicrosoft AzureSQL

Google’s new toolset to help connect AI agents to BigQuery

The new toolset, though, can only be implemented in combination with Google’s Agent Development Kit and MCP Toolbox for Databases.

Jul 30, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence

Intro to Lit: A standards-based reactive library

Lit builds on Mozilla’s Web Components standard to deliver simple, compliant reactive front ends. In a world of sprawling tech alternatives, it may offer a clear path forward.

Jul 30, 2025 10 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks JavaScript Typescript

How to write a good bug report

Bugs are inevitable, but confusion about what they do or don’t do and how to reproduce them is not. Make sure your bug reports have these five ingredients.

Jul 30, 2025 6 mins

Bugs Developer Devops

TypeScript 5.9 brings deferred module evaluation, expandable hovers

Deferred module evaluation imports a module without immediately executing the module and its dependencies, avoiding unnecessary CPU work during initialization.

Jul 29, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Typescript

Google patches Gemini CLI tool after prompt injection flaw uncovered

Critical flaw in new tool could allow attackers to steal data at will from developers working with untrusted repositories.

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Security Software Development

FluidCloud introduces ‘cloud cloning’ platform

Startup leverages infrastructure-as-code principles to enable cloning, migration, and remapping of infrastructure across heterogeneous clouds.

Jul 29, 2025 2 mins

Cloud Management Hybrid Cloud Multicloud

Debian shifts to 64-bit time storage to head off Epochalypse

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now.

Jul 29, 2025 1 min

Software Development

Snowflake brings analytics workloads into its cloud with Snowpark Connect for Apache Spark

Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the data is.

Jul 29, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Apache Spark Data Warehousing

Teradata joins Snowflake, Databricks in expanding MCP ecosystem

The new Community Edition Model Context Protocol server supports agentic workflows and generative AI use cases, with a commercial-grade version in the works.

Jul 29, 2025 4 mins

Analytics Generative AI

How to excel in multicloud: The new checklist

The question today is not whether to support multicloud operations but how to excel at it. Here’s what experts are saying about the challenges and opportunities in multiple cloud operations.

Jul 29, 2025 14 mins

Cloud Computing SaaS Software Development

Are cloud ops teams too reliant on AI?

AI-driven automation is transforming cloud operations, but when the AI makes a mistake, the consequences can be dire. Human oversight is still vital.

Jul 29, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing IT Skills

GitHub previews natural language app builder for AI-powered apps

GitHub Spark allows developers to build and deploy full-stack, LLM-powered apps on the GitHub platform by describing their idea for an app.

Jul 28, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI GitHub

The importance of memory for AI

The humble database offers the key to giving AI context and adaptation, accessing data beyond its training cutoff.

Jul 28, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Databases Generative AI

JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language

The as-yet-unnamed language in development would produce cross-platform applications and make AI code generation more controllable, transparent, and useful.

Jul 25, 2025 2 mins

Generative AI Kotlin Programming Languages

What public cloud gets wrong with AI

The big providers spend a lot on artificial intelligence, but they are not offering the things enterprises care about most. Here are the important questions to ask.

Jul 25, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud IT Strategy

How to use Dapper Plus in .NET Core

Take advantage of Dapper Plus in to speed up bulk data operations and improve the performance and efficiency of your .NET Core applications.

Jul 25, 2025 8 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

What you can do now with Python 3.14 RC1

Free-threaded builds are fully supported in the first Python 3.14 release candidate, and that’s not all. Get the rundown of what’s new and shiny in RC1, and more, in this week’s report.

Jul 25, 2025 3 mins

Development Tools Programming Languages Python

Not ready for prime time: Agentic IDEs need maturity before enterprise rollout

Analysts advise IT leaders to experiment cautiously as pricing volatility, latency, and security concerns plague early adopters of autonomous development tools.

Jul 25, 2025 7 mins

Developer Generative AI

Supply chain attack compromises NPM packages to spread backdoor malware

Phishing attacks on package maintainer accounts led to infected JavaScript type testing utilities.

Jul 24, 2025 1 min

Developer Malware Open Source

Google Labs introduces Opal for developing AI mini apps

Now in public beta, developers can use Opal to build and remix AI mini apps using conversational natural language commands, a visual editor, or both.

Jul 24, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Natural Language Processing

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