Why LLM applications need better memory management
You delete a dependency. ChatGPT acknowledges it. Five responses later, it hallucinates that same deprecated library into your code. You correct it again—it nods, apologizes—and does it once more. This isn’t just an annoying bug. It’s a sympto...
JetBrains open-sources Mellum LLM
JetBrains has open-sourced its Mellum large language model (LLM), which was purpose-built for code completion, with the aim to grow Mellum into a family of models specialized for different coding tasks. The Mellum base model was open-sourced and made ...
How MCP could add value to MongoDB databases
MongoDB has added Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) to all its databases, including Atlas, to help developers accelerate software development and manage database administrative tasks. MCP, which has seen a rise in popularity since its release...
Bringing DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps together
There are many moving parts in software development, particularly as tech and the role of engineers quickly evolve. Against this backdrop, there is transformative potential for “EveryOps” in 2025. But what exactly is EveryOps? We coined the term t...
Knowing when to use AI coding assistants
Just because you can use generative AI in software development doesn’t mean you should. AI coding assistants powered by large language models (LLMs) are a productivity dream in some cases but a debugging nightmare in others. So, where is that line? ...
AWS changes the pricing of CloudWatch logs in Lambda
AWS has changed the pricing of CloudWatch logs inside its serverless compute service Lambda to introduce tiered pricing that can lower costs for high-volume enterprise users. “On May 1st, 2025, AWS announced changes to Lambda logging, which can redu...
Amazon launches Nova Premier, its ‘most capable’ AI model yet
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched Nova Premier, its most advanced AI model to date, via Amazon Bedrock. Designed for enterprise use, the model targets complex, multi-step workflows and supports model distillation, enabling smaller models to inher...
Experiments in JavaScript: What’s new in reactive design
Experimentation is the name of the game in front-end JavaScript development, and reactive frameworks like Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte are the nexus for innovation in modern web UIs. Keeping an eye on that landscape helps keep your perspective fre...
Public cloud providers get into the chip market
The world of public cloud computing is at an inflection point. Cloud providers face significant challenges amid a global surge in demand for GPUs, driven by artificial intelligence and other data-intensive workloads. There is no easy path, given the s...
JetBrains AI Assistant panned in JetBrains Marketplace
Despite having been downloaded nearly 23 million times, the JetBrains AI Assistant has received bad reviews on the company’s JetBrains Marketplace website, prompting JetBrains to remove some of the reviews. Unveiled in December 2023, the JetBrains A...
Redis bets big on an open source return
Today, Redis makes a dramatic return to its open source roots, offering Redis 8 under the AGPLv3 license. The shift follows a similar move by Elastic in August 2024 and completes the company’s somewhat circuitous licensing path. In both cases, I sus...
How to use the IServiceProvider interface in ASP.NET Core
One of the most essential dependency injection (DI) components in ASP.NET Core is the IServiceProvider interface, which specifies a way to access service objects or instances of types from ASP.NET Core’s built-in DI container. To build modular and m...
Using the Model Context Protocol in Azure and beyond
One of the biggest issues with large language models (LLMs) is working with your own data. They may have been trained on terabytes of text from across the internet, but that only provides them with a way to predict and generate text based on your prom...
Oracle releases FIPS-validated crypto module for Java
Oracle has announced Oracle Jipher, which makes cryptographic services available for Java developers using the standard Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) framework. Announced April 29, Jipher is a Java cryptographic service provider that packages a...
Gemma explained: What’s new in Gemma 3
Gemma 3's new features include vision-language capabilities and architectural changes for improved memory efficiency and longer context handling compared to previous Gemma models.
