Multicloud is having a crisis. Gartner predicts that over 50% of multicloud or cross-cloud efforts won’t deliver on expected benefits by 2029, with poor interoperability and fragmentation serving as key culprits. While these numbers don’t speak to cloud migration directly, from my own experience as an IT leader, plus from my field research in developing

DeDeno Land, maker of the Deno runtime, has introduced Deno Sandbox, a secure environment built for code generated by AI agents. The company also announced the long-awaited general availability of Deno Deploy, a serverless platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Both were announced on February 3. Now in beta, Deno Sandbox offers lightweight Linux

Context engineering is the practice of designing systems that determine what information an AI model sees before it generates a response to user input. It goes beyond formatting prompts or crafting instructions, instead shaping the entire environment the model operates in: grounding data, schemas, tools, constraints, policies, and the mechanisms that decide which pieces of

NPM, the Node Package Manager, hosts millions of packages and serves billions of downloads annually. It has served well over the years but has its shortcomings, including with TypeScript build complexity and package provenance. Recently, NPM’s provenance issues have resulted in prominent security breaches, leading more developers to seek alternatives. The JavaScript Registry (JSR), brought

Vibe coding is the latest tech accelerator, and yes, it kind of rocks. New AI-assisted coding practices are helping developers ship new applications faster, and they’re even allowing other business professionals to prototype workflows and tools without waiting for a full engineering cycle. Using a chatbot and tailored prompts, vibe coders can build applications in

In the world of streaming, the “Super Bowl” isn’t just a game. It is a distributed systems stress test that happens in real-time before tens of millions of people. When I manage infrastructure for major events (whether it is the Olympics, a Premier League match or a season finale) I am dealing with a “thundering

Databricks’ Mosaic AI Research team has added a new framework, MemAlign, to MLflow, its managed machine learning and generative AI lifecycle development service. MemAlign is designed to help enterprises lower the cost and latency of training LLM-based judges, in turn making AI evaluation scalable and trustworthy enough for production deployments. The new framework, according to

Intel is making a new push into GPUs, this time with a focus on data center workloads, as the chipmaker looks to reestablish itself in a market increasingly shaped by AI-driven demand and dominated by Nvidia. CEO Lip-Bu Tan said that after hiring a senior GPU architect, the company is working directly with customers to define

Google Calendar is a core part of the Android productivity package — but if all you’re using is what you see on the app’s surface, you’re missing out on some pretty powerful possibilities. Yes, oh yes: Just like so many of our modern digital tools, there’s more to Google Calendar than meets the eye. And

Windows 11’s long-term servicing option — initially identified in Windows 10 as the Long-Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) — is now branded Long-Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) and remains an important pillar for enterprises in specific industries.  What is Windows 11 LTSC? LTSC is a specialized edition of Windows 11 Enterprise built for devices that require maximum