Almost nothing remains of Software AG
Software AG (now legally known as Software GmbH) has sold its Alfabet and Cumulocity divisions, following on from the recent sales of webMethods, StreamSets and TrendMiner. Its remaining divisions, the mainframe business around Adabas & Natural (A&N) ...
Building a better smart home
The public beta launch of Home APIs for Android allows developers to create better smart home experiences. This launch emphasizes investments in Matter to improve device connectivity and interoperability, and increase smart home accessibility.
Build the future of home with Google Home APIs
The Google Home APIs are now in public developer beta for Android, allowing developers to build innovative smart home experiences for over 600M devices using Google's hubs, Matter infrastructure, and automation engine.
5 ways data teams must lead in AI-driven organizations
Generative AI has inspired a surge of interest in using data to improve the accuracy of business decisions. Business managers, data analysts, and citizen data scientists can now use prompts instead of SQL queries to ask questions, interact with large ...
Agentic AI: The top challenges and how to overcome them
As generative AI continues to surge in popularity, we are already seeing it evolve into the next generation of machine-learning-driven technology: agentic AI. With agentic AI, we are not just prompting models and receiving an answer in a simple one-st...
Cloud providers are running out of ‘next big things’
Recent research from Gartner and IDC paints a sobering picture: Cloud providers are experiencing diminishing returns on their innovation investments. Cloud spending continues to grow, but industry analysts note that the pace of revolutionary new servi...
Python wins Tiobe language of the year honors
To the surprise of probably no one, Python has won the Tiobe programming language of the year award for 2024, given to the language with the highest increase in ratings in Tiobe’s index of language popularity during the year. In a post accompanying ...
3 forecasts about time-series forecasting
Over the last year, we’ve seen an explosion in innovation in time-series forecasting. Along with new statistical models, transformer-based approaches have allowed for the creation of zero-shot foundation models from well-known organizations such as ...
Someone needs to make AI easy
2024 was a year filled with AI possibilities; 2025 needs to turn those possibilities into realities. For that, we need the cloud companies to stop churning out “primitives” such as large language models (LLMs) and instead give developers solutions...
Write Python like it’s 2025
It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy,...
The cloud architecture renaissance of 2025
The perfect storm is coming that will force enterprises to rethink their cloud strategy. Cloud architecture will take center stage during 2025. This isn’t just another hype cycle. First, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: generative AI....
Ruby completes switch to Prism parser
Ruby 3.4.0, and Ruby 3.4.1, updates to the longstanding dynamic, open source programming language, have arrived, with Prism now the default parser. Ruby 3.4.0 was released December 25, Christmas Day, along with an update, Ruby 3.4.1, which merely ch...
Go teams struggle with coding standards – survey
Although developer sentiment toward the Go language remains very positive, teams face a challenge when it comes to maintaining consistent coding standards across Go code bases, according to Go developer survey results for the second half of 2024. Go d...
Fine-tuning Azure OpenAI models in Azure AI Foundry
Large language models (LLMs) like the OpenAI models used by Azure are general-purpose tools for building many different types of generative AI-powered applications, from chatbots to agent-powered workflows. Much of the work needed to get the most out ...
Intro to VSCode.dev: The IDE in your browser
The fully realized browser-based IDE has been a long time coming. Ever since the beginning of the cloud revolution, I’ve thought a powerful and flexible remote IDE was just around the corner. I imagined a development tool that could use any virtual...
4 keys for writing cross-platform apps
These days, most every application has the potential to be a cross-platform application. That’s great for users but often difficult for developers. Targeting more than one platform opens a whole warehouse of Pandora’s boxes: how to handle paths, h...
