Category: Software & Systems

September 18, 2023

To get the most from generative AI (GenAI) tools like GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT, Datasette founder Simon Willison argues you have to be prepared to accept four conflicting opinions. Namely, that AI is neither our salvation nor our doom, neither […]

September 14, 2023

Microsoft’s shift to open development models is an interesting case study in how to manage open source development at scale. With millions of users and thousands of potential contributors, the company’s project maintainers have problems that most open source projects […]

September 12, 2023

The concept of observability traces back to the 1960s, with Rudolf E. Kalman’s canonical work around decomposing complex systems for human understanding. It was a heady time for new compute systems in aerospace and navigation. The advances in these systems […]

September 8, 2023

EnterpriseDB, the leader in accelerating Postgres in the enterprise, is launching the availability of its Trusted Postgres Architect (TPA) as an open source tool for all PostgreSQL users. Engineered for simple, repeatable, and robust deployment and configuration of high availability […]

September 5, 2023

I still remember the days when writing tests wasn’t a common practice. Untested code used to work in production, until something went wrong. Eventually, the idea that code should be tested to ensure that changes didn’t break anything became widespread. […]

August 30, 2023

Lacework, the data-driven cloud security company, is announcing the expansion of its partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to use the full Lacework platform—designed to offer data-driven protection from code to cloud from a single location—on Google Cloud. The partnership […]

August 29, 2023

The promise of low-code development couldn’t be more seductive. Who doesn’t want to do less work? Who doesn’t want to lean back and let the darn machines pick up the slack? We’ve been telling them what to do for decades, […]

August 28, 2023

Enterprise applications are changing at a more rapid pace than ever. The result is that many enterprises have hybrid-driven, multivendor IT environments. This creates a challenge for the IT organization — how to effectively operate, manage, and support an increasingly […]

August 28, 2023

By now you’ve used a generative AI (GenAI) tool like ChatGPT to build an application, author a grant proposal, or write all those employee reviews you’d been putting off. If you’ve done any of these things or simply played around […]

August 28, 2023

There’s no doubt AI customer service tools have transformed the capabilities of customer service, especially in consumer-focused companies. These days, customers want to find that answer they are looking for quickly with a satisfactory resolution to their issue — not […]

August 25, 2023

Facebook parent company Meta has introduced an AI-based tool for coding, called Code Llama. A large language model (LLM) that can use text prompts to generate code, Code Llama is a code-specialized version of Llama 2. It was built by […]

August 23, 2023

In this first of a three-part blog series on SD-WAN, SSE, and multi-cloud networking (MCN), where we will highlight how these three technology areas are analogous to three different musical instruments that can be played separately. However, when these three […]

August 14, 2023

Artificial intelligence has advanced significantly since its inception in the 1950s. Today, we are seeing the emergence of a new era of AI, generative AI. Businesses are discovering a broad range of capabilities with tools such as OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 […]

August 10, 2023

Computers have become so ubiquitous that nearly every aspect of our lives revolves around their use, yet the machines haven’t lost their ability to amaze us. The latest jaw-dropping technology is the ability of computers to teach themselves new skills […]

August 8, 2023

Artificial intelligence is changing software development in ways large and small. While many companies race to roll out AI-enabled features, the potential for AI goes beyond the feature level. Rather, AI will become the foundation for most—if not all—SaaS solutions. […]

August 3, 2023

Modern enterprises use anywhere from 10 to 100 monitoring and observability tools according to IDC. Tool sprawl and lack of visibility are real, with solutions that do not integrate well in multi-vendor, distributed environments. So are the challenges of collecting, […]

July 31, 2023

With all the articles about all the amazing AI developments, there’s plenty of hand-wringing around the possibility that we, as software developers, could soon be out of a job, replaced by artificial intelligence. They imagine all the business execs and […]

July 21, 2023

Reactive programming is an important facet of modern software development. It’s often described as a paradigm, but what does that mean? A more useful description is that reactive programming is a way of looking at software as the interaction of […]

July 21, 2023

GitHub has made a limited public beta release of GitHub Copilot Chat available to all customers of GitHub Copilot for Business, giving these users a context-aware, conversational programming assistant within their Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code development environments. Previously, […]

July 17, 2023

Congratulations! You put in the work, rallied your engineers, and successfully migrated from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Now what? How do you pull the data you need to make well-informed marketing decisions? With GA4, there’s an abundance […]