Programming the Windows kernel with eBPF | InfoWorld
Microsoft brings an important Linux kernel tool to Windows.| InfoWorld
Microsoft brings an important Linux kernel tool to Windows.| InfoWorld
Vector database offers on-prem, cloud-native, or SaaS deployment, leading performance, a rich set of integrations and language drivers, and a dizzying array of optimization options.| InfoWorld
Large language models like GPT-4 and tools like GitHub Copilot can make good programmers more efficient and bad programmers more dangerous. Are you ready to dive in?| InfoWorld
Llama 2 Chat can generate and explain Python code quite well, right out of the box. Code Llama’s fine-tuned models offer even better capabilities for code generation.| InfoWorld
Business technology, IT news, product reviews and enterprise IT strategies.| InfoWorld
Java | News, how-tos, features, reviews, and videos| InfoWorld
Oracle Database 23ai has been updated with new features to support AI-based application development and other tasks.| InfoWorld
Kiro’s structured, agentic workflow challenges the Copilot model, offering a spec-first IDE with hooks, task orchestration, and enterprise-grade design generation.| InfoWorld
Broadcom is pushing its new data lakehouse platform as the answer to all an enterprise’s data challenges — or almost. VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence will enable users to curate incoming data across many different environments with its data ingestion, streaming, and pipeline engine, the company said its VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday. It provides unified access to structured, unstructured, native, or federated data with full data lineage to improve observability, the com...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Broadcom and Canonical are expanding their partnership, saying they will help customers create container-based and AI applications more quickly and securely, and at lower cost. “Canonical is the number-one Cloud OS provider in the market with the Ubuntu containers, and VMware by Broadcom, with our VCF Foundation, is the number-one private cloud platform,” said Prashanth Shenoy, VP of product marketing, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) division of Broadcom, during a media briefing. “So thos...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
In early 2025, GitHub lit up with confusion and more than a little panic. Thousands of developers found suspicious issues posted in their public repositories, flagged with a GitHub-style “Security Alert: Unusual Access Attempt” warning. The problem? It wasn’t GitHub. It was an attacker masquerading as GitHub support, luring developers into authorizing a malicious OAuth app (gitsecurityapp) under the guise of incident response. No zero-day. No credential theft. Just OAuth abuse, at scale...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
In a recent poll of technology executives, 92% said they expected to increase AI spending over the next year. Half expected more than 50% of their organization’s AI deployments to be autonomous within the next 24 months. These AI investments include machine learning, private large language models, AI agents, and more autonomous agentic AI capabilities. “The rise of agentic AI means organizations need to make their systems ‘agent-ready’ to successfully use this technology while also ma...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Drawing on key insights from the paper “AI Risk Atlas: Taxonomy and Tools for Navigating AI Risks,” it’s clear the industry faces a crucial challenge. The authors provide a comprehensive framework for understanding, classifying, and mitigating the risks tied to today’s most advanced AI. But while tools and taxonomies are maturing, most enterprises are dangerously behind in how they manage these new and rapidly evolving threats. The AI Risk Atlas offers a powerful framework for categor...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
The newly released Visual Studio Code 1.103, also known as the July 2025 version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, adds the ability to configure auto-start behavior for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Announced August 7, VS Code 1.103 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and Mac from visualstudio.com. For MCP, a standard protocol that allows applications to provide context to large language models, the newly added support for auto-starting MCP servers means VS Code users no ...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
To perform tasks as well as a human, AI agents need context — something that has been lacking in many systems to date, according to Databricks. It hopes to fill that gap with a new acquisition, that of San Francisco-based machine learning startup Tecton. Databricks intends to use Tecton’s technology in its Agent Bricks offering to quickly turn data from its data lakehouse into context for AI agents to use, especially real-time data generated by event-driven data architectures. “Without...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
AI pipelines are transforming how enterprises handle data, but they’re also prime targets for security risks. In “Designing a metadata-driven ETL framework with Azure ADF,” I showed how metadata can streamline data integration with Azure Data Factory (ADF). With AI now at the forefront, securing these pipelines — data, models and all — is critical. So, I set out to build a zero-trust architecture for MLOps in Azure, using Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault and Private Link, all orc...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Alternative clouds are having a moment. Nearly 75% of organizations are using two or more alternative cloud providers, according to a HostingAdvice.com survey of 500 IT leaders from May 2025. These alternative clouds refer to cloud providers outside the major hyperscalers, like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, or IBM Cloud. “You’re able to get enterprise-grade hosting from alternative cloud providers,” says Joe Warnimont, senior analyst at Hosti...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Every day brings a new, better large language model (LLM) or a new approach to finding signal in all the AI noise. It’s exhausting to try to keep up. But here’s a comforting yet uncomfortable truth about enterprise AI: Most of what’s loud today won’t persist tomorrow. While models trend like memes, frameworks spawn like rabbits, and at any given moment a new “this time it’s different” pattern elbows yesterday’s breakthrough into irrelevance, the reality is you don’t need to ...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Visual Studio, its flagship integrated development environment (IDE), in an effort to allow developers to connect their AI agents to tools and services available as MCP servers from directly within the IDE. MCP, which was introduced by Anthropic in November last year, is an open protocol that enables AI agents within applications to access external tools and data to complete a user request using a client-server mechanism, where the c...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
AI agents are undeniably powerful, but wielding that power responsibly is another story. This month’s picks dive into the real-world dos and don’ts of generative AI: Best practices for using genAI tools for code generation, how to avoid the trap of over-relying on a single tool, and why so many agents fail at understanding business context. And if you get things wrong? One company is offering a new ‘undo’ option for AI mistakes. Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld A devel...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
The vision of the cloud as a cost-efficient solution captured the imagination of IT leaders during its years of mass adoption. Enterprises expected to save significantly by leveraging the scalability of public cloud infrastructure and paying only for the resources they used. However, as reflected in the 2025 Crayon IT Cost Optimization Report, the reality has been far more complex. The report, based on insights from more than 2,000 IT leaders, reveals that a staggering 94% of global IT lea...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Anthropic has bundled Claude Code, its agent-based command line interface (CLI) coding tool, into the enterprise plans for its generative AI chatbot Claude, in an effort to help streamline developer workflows as well as to take on rivals such as Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot. “Enterprise and Team [plan] customers can now upgrade to premium seats that include more usage and Claude Code — bringing our app and powerful coding agent together under one subscription,” the company wrote in a b...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here. We’ve examined how we can implement in-memory caching, route constraints, model binding, parameter binding, anti-forgery tokens, versioning, JWT authentication, identity authentication, authentication handler, logging, and testing in ASP.NET Core minimal API applications. In this post, we’ll e...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
When Anthropic announced its Claude 4 models, the marketing focused heavily on improved reasoning and coding capabilities. But having spent months working with AI coding assistants, I’ve learned that the real revolution isn’t about generating better code snippets — it’s about the emergence of genuine agency. Most discussions about AI coding capabilities focus narrowly on syntactic correctness, benchmark scores or the ability to produce working code. But my hands-on testing of Claude 4...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure; others are part of Azure’s Internet of Things platform. However, one of the most important is almost invisible: Azure Linux. First unveiled as CBL-Mariner, Azure Linux was designed to be a base Linux platform for Microsoft’s various container services, one that Microsoft controlled an...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
GitHub has unveiled an agents panel, available on every page of github.com, that allows developers to delegate coding tasks to GitHub Copilot throughout the GitHub platform. The agents panel allows developers to assign tasks to Copilot and manage these tasks from a single interface, GitHub said. Launched August 19, the agents panel is available in public preview for all paid Copilot users. The agents panel serves as a mission control center for agentic workflows on GitHub, allowing developers...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
Perforce Software has introduced JRebel Enterprise, software that promises to accelerate the configuration of cloud-based Java development environments, and that enables incremental code changes to Java applications, eliminating the need to redeploy entire applications for every change, the company said. Announced August 19, JRebel Enterprise skips Java application redeploys for minor code changes and automatically configures Java environments to support changing Java development environment...| Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Intelligence and Tanzu Platform 10.3 to d...
A bug in AWS’ agentic IDE, Kiro, caused tasks to consume multiple requests, leading to the rapid exhaustion of usage limits and developer frustration just days after a pricing overhaul.| InfoWorld
The new staff are expected to contribute to the development of LLMs and new capabilities for managing multi-cloud deployments.| InfoWorld
Test-time Adaptive Optimization can be used to increase the efficiency of inexpensive models, such as Llama, the company said.| InfoWorld
Analysts view the updates as Databricks’ strategy to get closer to enterprise users and increase stickiness of its offerings.| InfoWorld
BladeBridge will help enterprises migrate to Databricks’ lakehouse.| InfoWorld
Databricks will add MosaicML's model-training capabilities to its lakehouse platform.| InfoWorld
While Snowflake is talking up its use of Iceberg to promote interoperability, Databricks is buying Tabular, the tool built on Iceberg’s table format by Iceberg’s creators.| InfoWorld
We all depend on open source basics like the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, or security and maintenance software. Let’s take a moment to acknowledge the people—and companies—keeping them in shape.| InfoWorld
The open protocol is designed to automate complex workflows that span multiple systems, increasing productivity and reducing integration costs.| InfoWorld
Better error messages, support for Linux profiling tools, and many improvements to Python's type hinting have just landed. Let's take a look.| InfoWorld
Data mining is the automated process of sorting through huge data sets to identify trends and patterns and establish relationships.| InfoWorld
Buyers have plenty of choice in NoSQL databases, so how do you choose? Here are five questions that could help you narrow it down.| InfoWorld
Anaconda provides a handy GUI, a slew of work environments, and tools to simplify the process of using Python for data science.| InfoWorld
Get started using the open source R programming language to do statistical computing and graphics on large data sets| InfoWorld
When it comes to wrangling data at scale, R, Python, Scala, and Java have you covered -- mostly| InfoWorld
When relationships between entities are more important than the entities themselves, you have a business problem made for graph analysis| InfoWorld
Called Kineto, the AI-powered platform promises to let anyone create, deploy, and maintain websites and apps without writing a single line of code.| InfoWorld
If you want trustworthy AI results, you need trustworthy people shaping the prompts, verifying the data, and overseeing the whole AI process.| InfoWorld
Don't let runaway cloud costs take you by surprise. Here are seven ways to keep cloud costs under control while making the most of cloud services.| InfoWorld
A new survey reveals that enterprises are purchasing their hardware rather than relying on public cloud providers. Their reasons are not surprising.| InfoWorld
Vertex AI is also getting a new Agent Engine for deploying and maintaining agents or multi-agent systems.| InfoWorld
The open-source server, currently in public beta, is also compatible with LangChain — a modular framework for Python and JavaScript that simplifies the development of generative AI-based applications.| InfoWorld
The new toolset, though, can only be implemented in combination with Google’s Agent Development Kit and MCP Toolbox for Databases.| InfoWorld
Now in public preview, Snowpark Connect promises to reduce latency and complexity by moving analytics workloads where the data is.| InfoWorld
Cloud computing has become the ideal way to deliver enterprise applications—and the preferred solution for companies extending their infrastructure or launching new innovations.| InfoWorld
The new Community Edition Model Context Protocol server supports agentic workflows and generative AI use cases, with a commercial-grade version in the works.| InfoWorld
AI-driven automation is transforming cloud operations, but when the AI makes a mistake, the consequences can be dire. Human oversight is still vital.| InfoWorld
The humble database offers the key to giving AI context and adaptation, accessing data beyond its training cutoff.| InfoWorld
The latest advances and the future of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing in general are on display at Google Cloud Next ’25 (April 9-11, in Las Vegas).| InfoWorld
Despite glowing reviews, a rigorous study shows experienced coders take longer to complete tasks with AI, while still believing they’re faster.| InfoWorld
Deploying a large language model on your own system can be surprisingly simple—if you have the right tools. Here’s how to use LLMs like Meta’s new Llama 3 on your desktop.| InfoWorld
Companies investing in generative AI find that testing and quality assurance are two of the most critical areas for improvement. Here are four strategies for testing LLMs embedded in generative AI apps.| InfoWorld
Five key questions you should ask before embarking on the journey to create your own in-house large language model.| InfoWorld
Amazon Bedrock smooths the path to building generative AI apps with prompt engineering and RAG, providing a good assortment of text, chat, and image-based foundation models.| InfoWorld
In a head-to-head comparison, o3-pro was far less reliable and secure, and reasoned excessively compared to GPT-4o.| InfoWorld
Learn how to use Python’s optional type-hinting syntax to create cleaner and more useful code.| InfoWorld
We thought cloud was all about cost savings, but that metric was wrong. We need to put a value on the agility and innovation cloud brings, not just dollars and cents.| InfoWorld
The time to figure out how to use generative AI and large language models in your code is now.| InfoWorld
Fine-tuning and retrieval augmentation are time-consuming and expensive. A better way of specializing LLMs is on the horizon.| InfoWorld
It is one of the key enterprise software development trends of the past decade, but devops is still often misunderstood. Here, we define the term and explain why it has proved so popular across the industry.| InfoWorld
Premium request limits reflect the industry-wide transition to sustainable AI business models.| InfoWorld
Big question marks hang over the programming and software development website with all the answers.| InfoWorld
GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why.| InfoWorld
How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.| InfoWorld
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models.| InfoWorld
Extended support for Oracle Database 19c will last until 2032, with caveats. Still no news of an on-prem edition of Oracle Database 23ai.| InfoWorld
Google I/O 2025 impressively demonstrates that we are in the middle of an AI revolution — and Google wants to be at the forefront of it.| InfoWorld
Open-source MCP protocol provides a universal, open standard for connecting AI systems to data sources, Anthropic says.| InfoWorld
With AI at its core, Google's annual developer conference will showcase major advancements in its Gemini models, alongside updates to Android 16 and a deeper look into its Project Astra.| InfoWorld
Recent survey data indicates that cloud will push traditional enterprise data centers into extinction. However, extinction events are rarely that simple.| InfoWorld
Neon can spin up databases in milliseconds, making it ideal for building, and running, agentic AI.| InfoWorld
An agentic mesh is a way to turn fragmented agents into a connected, reliable, enterprise-grade ecosystem. It lets agents find each other, and safely and securely collaborate, interact, and even transact.| InfoWorld
A slew of obsolete modules are slated to be dropped from Python, a possible prelude to a process for keeping the standard library cleaner.| InfoWorld
The company says developers can expect meaningful improvements for front-end and UI development as well as for fundamental coding tasks.| InfoWorld
Analyzing large volumes of data is only part of what makes big data analytics different from traditional data analytics| InfoWorld
Cloud-native data platform puts Spark, Presto, Hive, and Airflow at your fingertips, while controlling your cloud spending| InfoWorld
SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.| InfoWorld
Perhaps the biggest thing since open source or Google, LLMs may have companies fighting for supremacy, but it’s the developers who come out ahead.| InfoWorld
The integration will provide developers and enterprises easier access to AI tools, better UI, support, and increased productivity, analysts say.| InfoWorld
A new JIT compiler, the first no-GIL edition of Python, better errors and typing enhancement, and the removal of dead batteries are all part of Python 3.13.| InfoWorld
Incremental improvements are on the way that promise to speed up Python by a factor of 2x to 5x, and remain compatible with existing code.| InfoWorld
Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses.| InfoWorld
Enterprise data warehouses are comprehensive structured data stores designed for analysis. They often serve as the data sources for BI systems and machine learning.| InfoWorld
Large language models evolved alongside deep-learning neural networks and are critical to generative AI. Here's a first look, including the top LLMs and what they're used for today.| InfoWorld
Modern data warehouses can query structured data and semi-structured data simultaneously, and even combine historical data and streaming live data for analysis.| InfoWorld
Cloud-native computing takes advantage of many modern software development techniques including microservices, containers, CI/CD, agile methodologies, and devops.| InfoWorld
Empowering data-driven organizations requires the right tools and practices—and a boss who gets it. Here's how to explain critical data concepts to your CEO.| InfoWorld
Databricks is open sourcing Delta Lake to counter criticism from rivals and take on Apache Iceberg as well as data warehouse products from Snowflake, Starburst, Dremio, Google Cloud, AWS, Oracle and HPE.| InfoWorld
Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services.| InfoWorld
Fast, flexible, and developer-friendly, Apache Spark is the leading platform for large-scale SQL, batch processing, stream processing, and machine learning.| InfoWorld
SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why| InfoWorld
Find out what makes Python a versatile powerhouse for modern software development—from data science to machine learning, systems automation, web and API development, and more.| InfoWorld
Deep learning has improved machine translation and other natural language processing tasks by leaps and bounds| InfoWorld
