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...
Strengthening the Future of Open Source: Why Sponsorship Matters
Strengthening the Future of Open Source: Why Sponsorship Matters From enterprise applications to developer tools, open source software powers innovation, accelerates time-to-market, and enables collaboration across industries and geographies. At the Ec...
Why You Should Submit a Talk to the Adoptium Summit 2025
Why You Should Submit a Talk to the Adoptium Summit 2025 We’re looking to hear from both project developers and contributors eager to share their journey and evolution, and from project users who can speak to how they’re applying these tools in rea...
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...
