Metadata: Your ticket to the AI party
Agentic AI is fundamentally reshaping how software interacts with the world. New frameworks for agent-to-agent collaboration and multi-agent control planes promise a future where software acts with more autonomy and shared context than ever before. Yet amid all this excitement, one quietly persistent idea holds everything together: metadata. Known in data management circles for decades, […]
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Arriving at ‘Hello World’ in enterprise AI
Enterprise AI sells like middleware, not SaaS. You’re not dropping an API into Slack; you’re rewiring 20-year-old ERP systems. Procurement cycles are long and bespoke scoping kills product velocity. Then there’s the potential for things to go very wrong. “Small deals are just as much work as larger deals, but are just way less lucrative,” […]
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AWS adds incremental and distributed training to Clean Rooms for scalable ML collaboration
“The need for secure data collaboration is more critical than ever, with the need to protect sensitive information, yet share data with partners and other collaborators to improve machine learning models with collective data,” said Kathy Lange, research director at IDC. “Often, enterprises cannot collect enough of their own data to cover a broad spectrum […]
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Developing JavaScript apps with AI agents
Matthew Tyson is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. A seasoned technology journalist and expert in enterprise software development, Matthew has written about programming, programming languages, language frameworks, application platforms, development tools, databases, cryptography, information security, cloud computing, and emerging technologies such as blockchain and machine learning for more than 15 years. His work has appeared […]
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Risk management in the public cloud is your job
I was excited to speak at a regional cloud computing summit hosted by one of the major cloud providers. My presentation focused on the many opportunities of public cloud and the essential need for risk management. Just before the event, I received an email stating that three of my slides, which discussed cloud outages and […]
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How to use editable installs for Python packages
When you install Python packages into a given instance of Python, the default behavior is for the package’s files to be copied into the target installation. But sometimes you don’t want to copy the files—sometimes, you want to link to them, so any installed version of the package can be updated by simply editing the […]
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Google touts Python client library for Data Commons
Google has released version 2 of its Python client library to query the Data Commons platform, which organizes the world’s publicly available statistical data. The library supports custom instances, among other capabilities. Announced June 26, the Data Commons Python library can be used to explore the Data Common knowledge graph and retrieve statistical data from […]
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Rust 1.88 adds support for naked functions
With Rust 1.88, the cfg predicate language now backs Boolean literals, true and false, acting as a configuration that is always enabled or disabled. This works in Rust conditional compilation with cfgand cfg_attr attributes, in the built-in cfg! macro, and in Cargo [target] tables in both configuration and manifests, the Rust team said. Previously, empty predicate […]
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Ktor adds dependency injection and HTMX modules
JetBrains has released Ktor 3.2.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous applications that brings modules for dependency injection and HTMX and automatic deserialization of configuration files into data classes, among other new capabilities. Unveiled June 19, Ktor 3.2.0 also offers tools updates and performance improvements for different platforms. Instructions for getting started […]
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Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 11
The Jakarta EE 11 release builds on previous Core Profile (December 2024) and Web Profile (March 2025) versions and represents a significant advancement in simplifying enterprise Java for cloud-native development, Eclipse said. Microsoft and Red Hat were among the companies that participated in the development of the release. “Our collaboration with esteemed partners IBM, Red […]
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