Get started with Python type hints
Python is best thought of as a dynamic but strongly typed language. Types aren’t associated with the names of things, but with the things themselves. This makes Python flexible and convenient for developers because you don’t have to rigorously def...
Better together: Developing web apps with Astro and Alpine
Astro is a stable server-side platform for launching web applications. Alpine is the go-to minimalist front-end JavaScript framework. Put them together, and you have a lean, versatile stack. This article walks through developing a web application that...
OpenAI’s o3 price plunge changes everything for vibe coders
On June 10, OpenAI slashed the list price of its flagship reasoning model, o3, by roughly 80% from $10 per million input tokens and $40 per million output tokens to $2 and $8, respectively. API resellers reacted immediately: Cursor now counts one o3 r...
Gemini 2.5: Updates to our family of thinking models
Google is releasing updates to its Gemini 2.5 model family, including the generally available and stable Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash, and the new Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite "thinking models" in preview, offering enhanced performance and accuracy, with Flash-Li...
Design a better customer experience with agentic AI
Whereas large language models (LLMs) attracted consumers well before enterprise users, SaaS platforms are driving the use of embedded AI agents to improve employee experience and productivity. AI agents are changing the future of work by helping HR le...
A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP
Unlike traditional AI models that respond to single prompts (like ChatGPT’s basic Q&A mode), AI agents can plan, reason, and execute multi-step tasks by interacting with tools, data sources, APIs, or even other agents. Sounds abstract? That’s bec...
Navigating the rising costs of AI inferencing
In 2025, the worldwide expenditure on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service (IaaS and PaaS) reached $90.9 billion, a 21% rise from the previous year, according to Canalys. From I’m seeing, this surge is primarily driven by companies ...
Java 25 to change Windows file operation behaviors
As part of a quality outreach, some changes are coming in the planned Java 25 release with regard to file operations on Windows. The File.delete command will no longer delete read-only files on Windows, and file operations on a path with a trailing sp...
Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs
The technology industry loves to redraw boundary lines with new abstractions, then proclaim that prior approaches are obsolete. It happens in every major arena: application architectures (monoliths vs. microservices), programming languages (JVM langu...
Top 6 multicloud management solutions
Multicloud is increasingly common in today’s enterprises. The use of multiple public clouds, even spreading applications across clouds, can help with compliance, boost availability, reduce risk, or avoid vendor lock-in. Companies also adopt multiple...
The key to Oracle’s AI future
Oracle’s stock is finally catching up with its talk about cloud, fueled by surging infrastructure and AI demand. In its recent Q4 2025 earnings statement, the 46-year-old database giant surprised Wall Street with an 11% jump in revenue (to $15.9 bil...
Visual Studio Code bolsters MCP support
Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 version of Microsoft’s popular code editor, expands support for the Model Context Protocol, a technology that standardizes how applications provide context to large language models. VS Code 1.101 was relea...
New Python projects to watch and try
Get a first look at the new Python Installation Manager for Windows, or try your hand at developing AI agents with Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python, or check out template strings in Python 3.14. Would you rather debate virtual threads in Py...
Nifty new Python projects to watch and try
Get a first look at the new Python Installation Manager for Windows, or try your hand at developing AI agents with Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python, or check out template strings in Python 3.14. Would you rather debate virtual threads in Py...
