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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 herd” problem that few systems ever face. Millions of users log in, browse and hit “p…

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 a flash and get them into produc…

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 to u…

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 information make it int…

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 microVMs running as protecte…

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 FluidCloud, I can tell you that multicloud …

Apple is previewing Xcode 26.3 with integrated support for coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex . Announced February 3 , Xcode 26.3, the Apple-platforms-centered IDE, is available as a release candidate for members of the Apple Developer Program , with a release coming soon to the App Store . This latest version expands on intelligence features introduced in Xcode 26 …

GitHub helped open the floodgates to AI-written code with its Copilot. Now it’s considering closing the door, at least in part, for the short term. GitHub is exploring what already seems like a controversial idea that would allow maintainers of repositories or projects to delete pull requests (PRs) or turn off the ability to receive pull requests as a way to address an influx of low-quality, ofte…

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, began at 19:46 UTC on Monday and was resolved by 06:05 UTC on Tuesday. The incident initially left customers unable to deploy or scale virtual machines in multiple regions. This was followed by a rel…

For any application that works with a lot of data, the obvious approach is to store it in some kind of database. Depending on your ambitions, that can be something as modest as SQLite , or as upscale as PostgreSQL . What often complicates things is not which database to use, but how to use it. Enterprise-scale databases like PostgreSQL give you great power but impose an infrastructure tax: Settin…

It’s easy to see why anxiety around AI is growing—especially in engineering circles. If you’re a software engineer, you’ve probably seen the headlines: AI is coming for your job . That fear, while understandable, does not reflect how these systems actually work today, or where they’re realistically heading in the near term. Despite the noise, agentic AI is still confined to deterministic systems.…

I use coding agents every day. I haven’t written a line of code for any of my side projects in many weeks. I don’t use coding agents in my day job yet, but only because the work requires a deeper knowledge of a huge code base than most large language models can deal with. I expect that will change. Like everyone else in the software development business, I have been thinking a lot about agentic c…

Centered on vibe coding , AI-powered Vercel’s v0 development platform has been fitted with security and integrations geared to shipping real software instead of just making demos, the company said. The platform has been rebuilt from the ground up to close the prototype-to-production gap for vibe coding in the enterprise, according to the company. Called the “new v0” and detailed in a February 3 b…

Snowflake ( NYSE:SNOW ) has rapidly become a staple for data professionals and has arguably changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists interact with data. Its architecture is designed to decouple storage and compute, allowing organizations to scale resources independently to optimize costs and performance. For cloud developers, Snowflake’s platform is built to be scalable and…

OpenAI has launched a standalone Codex app to manage multiple AI coding agents across projects, pushing beyond chat-based code generation as enterprises weigh the impact of more autonomous tools on development workflows and governance. The move comes as OpenAI faces intensifying competition from rivals such as Anthropic and GitHub. Last month, Anthropic introduced Cowork , a research-preview feat…