Taking .NET Aspire for a spin
.NET Aspire is an interesting piece of the .NET ecosystem, providing a framework for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications. Still relatively new, Aspire takes an opinionated approach to distributed systems development while also p...
Simplify your Agent "vibe building" flow with ADK and Gemini CLI
The updated Agent Development Kit (ADK) simplifies and accelerates the process of building AI agents by providing the CLI with a deep, cost-effective understanding of the ADK framework, allowing developers to quickly ideate, generate, test, and improve...
Perforce unveils agentic AI test tool for web and mobile apps
Seeking to ease web and mobile app testing by leveraging AI, Perforce Software has unveiled Perfecto AI, an agentic AI testing tool that removes the need for test scripts, frameworks, or maintenance and streamlines testing workflows, according to the ...
4 tips for getting started with free-threaded Python
Until recently, Python threads ran without true parallelism, as threads yielded to each other for CPU-bound operations. The introduction of free-threaded or ‘no-GIL’ builds in Python 3.13 was one of the biggest architectural changes to the CPython...
ECMAScript 2025: The best new features in JavaScript
This year’s update to the JavaScript specification covers a lot of ground. The headline addition is the new built-in Iterator object and its functional operators. Other updates include new Set methods, a direct JSON module import, improvements to re...
Database design tips for developers
It is a universal truth that everything in software eventually rots. Things slowly get worse. What starts out as cool and clean becomes “what the hell were they thinking” before you know it. But that doesn’t mean we sit back and let it happen...
Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf
AI builders are starving for agentic integrated development environments (IDEs), which help developers code more efficiently and thus, ideally, speed up production. And nowhere has this been more apparent than in the tug-of-war over Windsurf. In the l...
Akka releases platform for agentic AI
Akka, provider of a popular framework for building reactive, distributed applications on the JVM, has introduced the Akka Agentic Platform, an integrated suite of offerings for building, operating, and evaluating agentic AI systems. Announced July 14,...
JavaScript, MacOS lead usage in worldwide developer survey
JavaScript was the most-used language and MacOS the most-used desktop OS in a recent survey of nearly 9,000 developers worldwide that asked about technology usage as well as about demographics, income, and workplace. The findings of The State of Devs ...
How agentic AI will transform mobile apps and field operations
Many first-generation mobile applications were direct adaptations of their web equivalents. Poor user experiences, slow performance, and low adoption forced organizations to rethink their business objectives and implementation strategies. As developme...
Does public cloud AI cost too much?
In today’s rapidly changing digital landscape, artificial intelligence remains the most transformative technology on the horizon. As organizations seek to integrate AI into mission-critical operations, the question of where to run these workloads is...
Gemini Embedding now generally available in the Gemini API
The Gemini Embedding text model is now generally available in the Gemini API and Vertex AI. This versatile model has consistently ranked #1 on the MTEB Multilingual leaderboard since its experimental launch in March, supports over 100 languages, has a ...
