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Meta’s new “small and fast” AI model, Muse Spark, is an acknowledgement that as enterprises scale AI systems beyond millions of users and for use on a greater variety of devices, they must make things more efficient and more application-specific. Muse Spark now powers the Meta AI assistant on the web and in the Meta AI app, and the company plans to roll it out across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook…

Running databases on Kubernetes is popular. For cloud-native organizations, Kubernetes is the de facto standard approach to running databases. According to Datadog , databases are the most popular workload to deploy in containers, with 45 percent of container-using organizations using this approach. The Data on Kubernetes Community found that production deployments were now common, with the most …

Forms remain one of the most important interaction surfaces in modern web applications. Nearly every product relies on them to capture user input, validate data, and coordinate workflows between users and back-end systems. Yet despite their importance, forms are also one of the areas where front-end complexity tends to accumulate quietly over time. For simple scenarios, Angular forms feel straigh…

Generative AI has revolutionized the space of software development in such a way that developers can now write code at an unprecedented speed. Various tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer and ChatGPT have become a normal part of how engineers carry out their work nowadays. I have experienced this firsthand, in my roles from leading engineering teams at Amazon to working on large-sca…

Minimus, a provider of hardened container images and secure container images designed to reduce CVE risk, today announced the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly created role, Nardi will lead the company’s next phase of operations, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, strategic operations, and future corporate development. As the market landscape evolves …

Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of the Microsoft’s extrensible code editor , previews a companion app called Visual Studio Code Agents, optimized for agent-native development. Additionally, the agent experience in the editor is improved for running terminal commands in the background, according to Microsoft. Introduced April 8 , Visual Studio Code 1.115 can be downloaded from the Vis…

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core 2.3, a version of the company’s open source web development framework for .NET and C# , will reach end of life support on April 7, 2027. Following that date, Microsoft will no longer provide bug fixes, technical support, or security patches for ASP.NET Core 2.3, the company announced on April 7 , exactly a year before the cessation date. ASP.NET Core 2.3 packages—the late…

Too many executives are cutting software engineering teams because they bought into the fantasy that AI can now build and maintain enterprise applications with only a few people around to supervise the machine. That idea isn’t bold. It isn’t visionary. It’s reckless, and more executives will suffer the consequences of their mistakes beyond just a bad quarter. Yes, AI can write code. That much is …

Amazon Web Services is making its S3 object storage service easier for AI agents to access with the introduction of a native file system interface. The new interface, S3 Files, will eliminate a longstanding tradeoff between the low cost of S3 and the interactivity of a traditional file system or of Amazon’s Elastic File System (EFS). “The file system presents S3 objects as files and directories, …

Chinese AI company Z.ai has launched GLM-5.1, an open-source coding model it says is built for agentic software engineering. The release comes as AI vendors move beyond autocomplete-style coding tools toward systems that can handle software tasks over longer periods with less human input. Z.ai said GLM-5.1 can sustain performance over hundreds of iterations, an ability it argues sets it apart fro…

Microsoft has quietly introduced the Agent Governance Toolkit, an open source project designed to monitor and control AI agents during execution as enterprises try, and move them into production workflows. The toolkit, which is a response to the Open Worldwide Application Security Project’s (OWASP) emerging focus on AI and LLM security risks, adds a runtime security layer that enforces policies t…

Only very rarely does Python add a new standard data type. Python 3.15, when it’s released later this year, will come with one—an immutable dictionary, frozendict . Dictionaries in Python correspond to hashmaps in Java. They are a way to associate keys with values. The Python dict , as it’s called, is tremendously powerful and versatile. In fact, the dict structure is used by the CPython interpre…

I don’t need to tell you that agentic coding is changing the world of software development. Things are happening so quickly that it’s hard to keep up. Internet years seem like eons compared to agentic coding years. It seemed like just a few short weeks ago that everyone very suddenly stopped writing code and let Claude Code do all the work because, well, it was a few short weeks ago that it happe…

GitHub has introduced an experimental Rubber Duck mode in the GitHub Copilot CLI . The latest addition to the AI-powered coding tool uses a second model from a different AI family to provide a second opinion before enacting the agent’s plan. The new feature was announced April 6 . Introduced in experimental mode, Rubber Duck leverages a second model from a different AI family to act as an indepen…

Terraform promised us a better world. Define your infrastructure in code, version it, review it, and deploy it with confidence. For small teams running a handful of services, that promise holds up beautifully. Then your organization grows. Teams multiply. Modules branch and fork. State files balloon. And suddenly, that clean declarative vision starts looking a lot like a sprawling monolith that n…