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A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report . The outage also disrupted Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming file ingestion, an…

What is cloud native? Cloud native defined The term “cloud-native computing” encompasses the modern approach to building and running software applications that exploit the flexibility, scalability, and resilience of cloud computing. The phrase is a catch-all that encompasses not just the specific architecture choices and environments used to build applications for the public cloud, but also the s…

From autonomous agents to vibe coding, 2025 was the year generative AI stopped being theoretical and started doing real work—with a little fun along the way. Our readers gravitated toward features and tutorials that explored how to move AI into production software and reshape developer workflows , and to columnists who forced uncomfortable (and sometimes amusing) questions about the role of human…

A few months ago, I worked with a global manufacturer that considered itself conservative on AI. They focused on stabilizing their ERP migration to the cloud, modernizing a few key customer-facing apps, and tightening security. The CIO’s position on generative AI was clear: “We’ll get there, but not this year. We’re not ready.” On paper, they were officially “not doing AI.” In reality, they were …

AI code generation appears to have a few kinks to work out before it can fully dominate software development, according to a new report by CodeRabbit . When compared to human-generated code, AI code created 1.7 times more problems discovered in pull-request analysis, according to the report. AI coding assistants have become a standard part of the software development workflow, but developers have…

Attackers have upped the ante in their exploits of a recently-disclosed maximum severity vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC), Next.js, and related frameworks. Financially-motivated attackers have found a way to use the flaw, dubbed React2Shell ( CVE-2025-55182 ), to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers through a single malicious HTTP request. This allows them to quickly and eas…

Touted as an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, ty has moved to beta. Developers can install ty with uv tool install ty@latest , or via a Visual Studio Code extension . A stable release is eyed for 2026, according to ty steward Astral. Written in Rust , ty is positioned as an alternative to tools such as Mypy, Pyright, and Pylance . In a December 16 blog post , Astral founder…

Executives increasingly believe AI will reshape their businesses, but many large organizations are still stuck at proofs of concept. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI report shows widespread experimentation, but real business value is being seen by only a small set of “high performers.” 23% of respondents report their organizations are scaling an agentic AI system somewhere in their enterprises, but th…

My recent Java Stream API tutorial introduced Java streams, including how to create your first Java stream and how to build declarative stream pipelines with filtering, mapping, and sorting. I also demonstrated how to combine streams, collectors, and optionals, and I provided examples of functional programming with Java streams. If you are just getting started with Java streams, I recommend start…

As 2025 comes to an end, it seems fitting to look at how Microsoft’s Azure hyperscale cloud is planning to address the second half of the decade. As has become traditional , Azure CTO Mark Russinovich gave his usual look at that future in his presentations at Ignite, this time split into two separate talks on infrastructure and software. The first presentation looked at how the underlying infrast…

Kotlin 2.3.0 is now generally available, with the language update offering capabilities such as an unused return value checker and support for Java 25 . The release has a variety of experimental-stage features including the value checker, Swift interoperability, and a new syntax for explicit backing fields. JetBrains released the language update on December 16. Installation instructions can be fo…

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…