The truth about Python’s AI-powered popularity surge
Python’s popularity is surging thanks to AI, but also its power and ease of use. Editable installs for Python packages and the newly refined type hinting in Python 3.14 are just two examples, and the brand new, in-beta installation manager also helps. We get you started with all three—and more—in this week’s Python Report. Top […]
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Can your cloud provider really scale?
Holding providers accountable As cloud capacity challenges continue to emerge, enterprises must reassess how they engage with public cloud providers. The first step is a renewed focus on service-level agreements (SLAs). For years, SLAs have served as a measure of trust between cloud providers and their customers. These agreements outline performance metrics such as uptime, […]
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Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP
Microsoft’s fascination with AI agents as a tool for developers continues with Wassette, a new open source release from its Azure Core Uptime team. Built in Rust and designed to host pieces of functionality written as WebAssembly Components, it’s a first step to delivering customizable and composable functionality that can be deployed as a tool […]
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Claude Sonnet 4 upgrade enables full codebase processing in a single request
“With expanded context windows, enterprises can potentially accelerate their development and debugging at scale,” said Neil Shah, vice president for research and partner at Counterpoint Research. “Over time, as models become more proficient in generating, validating, and refining boilerplate code, enterprise-grade quality output would be the north star. This gives the enterprise time-to-optimize and time-to-market […]
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Devops, SRE and platform engineering: What’s the difference?
Benjamin Brial, founder of platform engineering company Cycloid.io, emphasizes that all three “share a common goal, which is to improve the efficiency, reliability, and speed of software delivery. Each plays a role in bridging the gap between developers and operations, but they have different focuses and methodologies.” “While all have a different focus, they all […]
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Who does the unsexy but essential work for open source?
Walk into any developer conference and you’ll see a predictable parade of laptop stickers: the cloud-native darlings, the hip new database, the obligatory mascot or two. It’s the developer variation of virtue signalling or calling out one’s tribe. What you won’t see—at least not often—are the logos of the companies that quietly push more code […]
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Getting started with A2A in .NET
The first release of the SDK covers most key features of the protocol: handling agent capability discovery, direct messaging, task-based interactions, and working with streaming data. It supports quick interactions, long workflows, and real-time operations. On the remote agent side, you can use ASP.NET Core to add A2A support to existing agents. The .NET A2A […]
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Ultimate IoT implementation guide for businesses
The internet of things, or IoT, provides organizations with real-time data and business insights that, when acted upon, can improve processes and operations to be more accurate, efficient and safer. IT administrators, architects, developers and CIOs planning an IoT deployment must clearly understand what IoT is, how it works, its uses, requirements, tradeoffs and how […]
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Google rolls out AI coding tool for GitHub repos
Google has introduced Gemini CLI GitHub Actions, a no-cost, autonomous agent for GitHub repos that works asynchronously in the background on routine coding tasks. The product is currently in beta. Announced August 6, Gemini CLI GitHub Actions can be found on GitHub at google-github-actions/run-gemini-cli. The tool acts both as an autonomous agent for critical routine […]
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What is narrowband IoT (NB-IoT)?
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a wireless internet of things (IoT) standard that uses low-power wide area network (LPWAN) technology. It was developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for connecting IoT devices to established mobile networks. NB-IoT is one of the three main 3GPP LPWAN standards. NB-IoT enables small amounts of infrequent two-way data […]
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