IBM can’t afford an unreliable cloud
Opening the door for competitors IBM has traditionally been a niche player in the cloud market, holding a 2% global market share compared to AWS (30%), Microsoft Azure (21%), and Google Cloud (11%). IBM Cloud targets a specific enterprise audience with hybrid cloud integration and enterprise-grade features. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud have consistently demonstrated […]
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Google adds VM monitoring to Database Center amid enterprise demand
This capability, according to Google, is a result of several enterprises demanding support for monitoring self-managed databases to gain full oversight of all their deployed databases. “This holistic visibility helps identify critical security vulnerabilities, improve security posture, and simplify compliance,” said Charlie Dai, VP and principal analyst at Forrester. These security vulnerabilities could include outdated […]
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Monitoring microservices: Best practices for robust systems
Logging. Implement a pre-defined logging with a well-known format (e.g., JSON). This ensures that logs from distinctive offerings are easily parsable and searchable, and provides quicker identification of issues. Include essential records like timestamps, provider names, log levels and unique request IDs. Distributed tracing. When a request flows via multiple services, distributed tracing presents a […]
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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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