Cloud fragility is costing us billions
The domino effect Beneath the elegant veneer of mobile apps, dashboards, and connected devices lies a labyrinth of technical dependencies. Cloud computing promised affordable scalability and offloaded complexity. As adoption snowballed, a handful of giants (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and a small circle of others became the backbone for modern digital […]
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Spotlight: Making the most of multicloud
For IT leaders navigating multicloud environments, success depends on strategic alignment across business units, robust governance frameworks, and proactive security postures. While multicloud offers agility and vendor flexibility, it also introduces challenges in visibility, compliance, and developer productivity. In this special report, you’ll learn how to take advantage of the benefits of using multiple clouds, […]
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AWS launches Flexible Training Plans for inference endpoints in SageMaker AI
However, the auto-scaling nature of these inference endpoints might not be enough for several situations that enterprises may encounter, including workloads that require low latency and consistent high performance, critical testing and pre-production environments where resource availability must be guaranteed, and any situation where a slow scale-up time is not acceptable and could harm the […]
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OpenAI admits data breach after analytics partner hit by phishing attack
“We are in the process of notifying impacted organizations, admins, and users directly. While we have found no evidence of any effect on systems or data outside Mixpanel’s environment, we continue to monitor closely for any signs of misuse,” OpenAI said. “This was not a breach of OpenAI’s systems. No chat, API requests, API usage […]
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Writing code is so over
My first web page (tragically unavailable in the Wayback Machine) was literally a single, large, sprawling index.html file at the root of my directory. I thought I was super cool because I had these thin, wide, rainbow GIF files that separated the sections of my page, divided into Hobbies, Favorite Movies, and, of course, the Under […]
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Snowflake: Latest news and insights
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) has rapidly become a staple for data professionals and has arguably changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists interact with data. Its architecture is designed to decouple storage and compute, allowing organizations to scale resources independently to optimize costs and performance. For cloud developers, Snowflake’s platform is built to be scalable […]
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AWS open-sources Agent SOPs to simplify AI agent development
However, AWS claims that during its internal use of Strands Agents, its developers encountered issues while deploying agents built with the SDK. The SDK’s reliance on model-driven reasoning, according to AWS, often produced unpredictable outcomes once agents hit production workloads, leading to inconsistent results, misinterpreted instructions, and high-maintenance prompt engineering — all of which were […]
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F# 10 features scoped warning suppression
The newest version of Microsoft’s multi-paradigm language features a much-sought ability to suppress warnings in specified code sections. With the scoped warning suppression capability, the compiler now supports the #warnon directive, which is paired with #nowarn to disable or enable warnings within a specific code span. The F# 10 update was introduced along with .NET […]
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PHP 8.5 enables secure URI and URL parsing
PHP 8.5 has been released, adding an extension for securely parsing URIs and URLs to the now-30-year-old server-side scripting language. Described as a major update, PHP 8.5 was released November 20 and can be accessed at PHP.net. The URI extension featured in the update is always available and provides APIs to securely parse and modify […]
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It’s the end of vibe coding, already
In the early days of generative AI, AI-driven programming seemed to promise endless possibility, or at least a free pass to vibe code your way into quick wins. But now that era of freewheeling experimentation is coming to an end. As AI works its way deeper into the enterprise, a more mature architecture is taking […]
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