DSPy: An open-source framework for LLM-powered applications
The past year has seen explosive growth in generative AI and the tools for integrating generative AI models into applications. Developers are eager to harness large language models (LLMs) to build smarter applications, but doing so effectively remains...
Adding smarts to Azure data lakes with Fabric Data Agents
Enterprise AI needs one thing if it’s to get around the limitations of large language models and deliver the results businesses need from their agents. It doesn’t matter if you’re building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, fine-...
GitHub Advanced Security now offers security campaigns
GitHub has made security campaigns available for GitHub Advanced Security and GitHub Code Security users. Security campaigns help control security debt and manage risk by enabling collaboration between developers and security teams, GitHub said. Annou...
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro, Live API, and Veo 2 in the Gemini API
Updates to the Gemini API, including the production readiness of Veo 2 for video generation, the preview of the Live API for real-time interactions, and the upcoming Gemini 2.5 Flash model, alongside the existing Gemini 2.5 Pro aim to enhance developer...
Google Cloud Next 2025: News and insights
Google Cloud Next ’25, which runs from April 9-11 in Las Vegas) is highlighting the latest advancements and future directions of Google Cloud Platform and cloud computing. This year, artificial intelligence and machine learning, along with announcem...
Announcing the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol is an open standard designed to enable AI agents from different vendors and frameworks to collaborate and exchange information across enterprise platforms aiming to foster a future of seamless AI agent interoperability and en...
Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB
Google is enhancing AlloyDB, its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), to help developers build applications underpinned by generative AI. Announced at Google’s annual Cloud Next conference, the updates could give the PostreSQL-compatible All...
Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center
Google Cloud has introduced Application Design Center, a service that helps platform administrators and developers design, deploy, and manage applications on the Google Cloud Platform. Application Design Center is in public preview. Application Design...
What is Kubernetes? Scalable cloud-native applications
Kubernetes is a popular open source platform for container orchestration—that is, for managing applications built from multiple, largely self-contained runtimes called containers. Containers have become increasingly popular since Docker launched in ...
Four paradoxes of software development
Civil engineers can rightfully claim that no two bridges are exactly alike. However, bridges share many known characteristics, and the materials they are built with have known characteristics. Building bridges involves many known knowns and not as m...
Five things to consider before you deploy an LLM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT, there has been growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs...
Five things to consider before you deploy an LLM
If the screwdriver were invented by the tech industry today, then it would be widely deployed for a variety of tasks, including hammering nails. Since the debut of ChatGPT, there has been growing fervor and backlash against large language models (LLMs...
