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Making sure open source doesn’t fail AI
The lessons learned from cloud are spurring a proactive examination of what it means to be 'open source' in the rapidly evolving world of AI.
6 ways automation bites software developers
The dream of fully automated development is getting more real by the day, but is that a good thing? Beware of these six gotchas.
Learning from Let’s Encrypt’s 10 years of success
Yes, having the support of a foundation helps, but more important is a solid technological solution to a recognized problem.
Microsoft ships Java 21 builds
Microsoft made Microsoft Build for OpenJDK 21 binaries available for free download and announced that JDK 21 will soon be available in Azure PaaS services.
Building for Linux and Android on Windows
Updates to Windows Subsystem for Linux and Windows Subsystem for Android make cross-platform development on Windows easy.
Computer vision's next breakthrough
Computer vision can do more than reduce costs and improve quality. Here's how hardware, software, and AI innovations are saving lives and improving safety on and off the factory floor.
Intro to Winget: Microsoft's package manager for Windows
Add, remove, and manage Windows applications from the command line using Winget, Microsoft's open source package manager.
How to get started with prompt engineering
Are you ready to become an 'AI psychologist'? Now is the time to get in on the ground floor of this lucrative new career. Here's how to do it.
Testing the limits of generative AI
As part of the learning curve with AI and LLMs, experiment all you want, but take the results with some skepticism, especially if you’re using it to write your code.
Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs
Having let go of over 250 employees at the end of last year, low-code platform provider Airtable has announced more job cuts in order to make the company “cash flow positive.”
3 things to do right now to enhance your cloud computing career
You might think that running back to get a master's degree or joining a country club to make business contacts is the best strategy. It’s simpler than that.
A new way of thinking about open source sustainability
Go beyond paying developers to maintain the software your business depends on. Pay the companies that pay the developers and watch the whole ecosystem thrive.
Generative AI may displace traditional cloud development
With the explosion of interest (and money) in generative AI, what will be left for traditional cloud service development and enhancement that companies need?
What CTOs are learning from generative AI
Generative AI is ripe with opportunity, and CTOs are definitely paying attention. Here's how three technical leaders see the present and future of GenAI.
What happens when finops finds bad cloud architecture?
Finops practices and tools can spot inefficiencies and opportunities to optimize. Here's what to do when you find waste in cloud deployments.
Google Cloud’s Colab Enterprise environment to help tune LLMs
At its Cloud Next conference, the company added new features for advanced MLOps for generative AI and launched Ray on Vertex AI for scaling AI workloads efficiently.
Google’s new Vertex AI features to unlock advanced LLM capabilities
At its annual Cloud Next conference, the company announced new tools, such as Vertex AI Extensions and Vertex AI Connectors, while updating Vertex AI Search and Vertex AI Conversations with new features.
The digital divide, rural businesses, and cloud computing
Rural businesses lack easy access to high-speed internet and thus cloud-based resources, causing vast disadvantages that affect the overall economy.