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I got an email from a friend this week in response to my column about coding domains that no developer understands . He wrote: Bro, if you don’t understand Kubernetes, it just means your claim to have evolved from coder to developer is sketchy at best. He’s known me a long time, and I’m guessing he was referring back to a long-lost review I wrote about a terrific book called Coder to Developer by…

Django is a one-size-fits-all Python web framework that was inspired by Ruby on Rails and uses many of the same metaphors to make web development fast and easy. Fully loaded and flexible, Django has become one of Python’s most widely used web frameworks. Now in version 6.0, Django includes virtually everything you need to build a web application of any size, and its popularity makes it easy to fi…

Spring’s most popular offering, Spring Boot is a modern, lightweight extension of the original Spring Framework . Spring Boot offers the same power and range as the original Spring, but it’s streamlined with popular conventions and packages. Both agile and comprehensive, Spring Boot gives you the best of both worlds. Dependency injection in Spring Boot Like the Spring Framework, Spring Boot is es…

Microsoft is officially deprecating the IntelliCode AI-assisted code completion extensions for the Visual Studio Code editor , and is recommending that C# developers use the GitHub Copilot Chat conversational AI assistant instead. A Microsoft post on GitHub lists the following VS Code extensions as being deprecated: IntelliCode , IntelliCode Completions , IntelliCode for C# Dev Kit, and IntelliCo…

Eying its competition with Oracle in the Java space, Azul has acquired Payara , a provider of enterprise solutions for Jakarta EE Java-based applications and microservices for cloud-native and hybrid cloud deployments. Announced December 10, the deal enables Java platform provider Azul to offer faster, more efficient, more secure, and more cost-effective deployments in the Java application stack,…

AI agents combine language and reasoning models with the ability to take action through automations and APIs . Agent-to-agent protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enable integrations, making each agent discoverable and capable of orchestrating more complex operations. Many organizations will first experiment with AI agents embedded in their SaaS applications. AI agents in HR can assist…

Last week at AWS re:Invent, amid many product announcements and cloud messages, AWS introduced AWS AI Factories. The press release emphasizes accelerating artificial intelligence development with Trainium, Nvidia GPUs, and reliable, secure infrastructure, all delivered with the ease, security, and sophistication you’ve come to expect from Amazon’s cloud. If you’re an enterprise leader with a budg…

AI agents must be able to cooperate, coordinate, and execute across large contexts and long time periods, and this, says Nvidia, demands a new type of infrastructure, one that is open. The company says it has the answer with its new Nemotron 3 family of open models . Developers and engineers can use the new models to create domain-specific AI agents or applications without having to build a found…

InfoWorld celebrates the year’s best products From AI-powered coding assistants to real-time analytics engines, the software stack is undergoing its biggest shakeup in decades. Generative AI (genAI) and agentic AI tools are redefining how code is written, tested, and deployed — even as experts debate the true productivity gains they facilitate. Data management is converging around unified lakehou…

It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the signal from the noise in the world of artificial intelligence. Every day brings a new benchmark, a new “state-of-the-art” model, or a new claim that yesterday’s architecture is obsolete. For developers tasked with building their first AI application, particularly within a larger enterprise, the sheer volume of announcements creates a paralysis…

Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, introduces multi-agent orchestration, a new feature that allows developers to use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together to speed up software development tasks. Released December 10 and also referred to as the November 2025 release, Visual Studio Code 1.107 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac, and Lin…

OpenAI has released GPT-5.2, claiming significant gains in the AI model’s ability to complete real-world business tasks to an “expert level” compared to GPT-5.1, released in November. The new model, available in Instant, Thinking, and Pro performance tiers, offers major improvements across a range of benchmarks, the company said . Using OpenAI’s GDPval benchmark , which compares the model’s abili…

Cython has been the most viable option for converting Python code to C, but PythoC could change that —with distinct compile-time advantages. We also have a first look at Databot , a new LLM add-on for the Positron IDE; a chance to learn the finer points of debug logging in Python and Java; and a report on Django developers’ use of AI coding tools , which appears to be on the rise. All that and mo…

Rust 1.92, the latest version of the Rust programming language , emphasizes deny-by-default never type lints for compilation. The update was unveiled by the Rust release team on December 11 . Developers can upgrade to version 1.92 by running $ rustup update stable . The release team noted that, with this release, the language and compiler teams continued to work on stabilizing the never type , wh…

Nearly a decade ago, a major financial services firm faced an AWS account manager during an aggressive cloud migration. AWS advised to keep it simple, run everything on AWS, and avoid other clouds. This seemed wise, as AWS promised ease of use, top-tier services, and little interoperability trouble. Over the years, that decision proved costly. While trying to adapt to new markets, evolving compli…