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Your cloud stack is generating more complexity than humans can interpret. Sopuluchukwu Ani argues that predictive engineering is the only way forward.
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Your cloud stack is generating more complexity than humans can interpret. Sopuluchukwu Ani argues that predictive engineering is the only way forward.
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February 11, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Start with this article and see why reactive IT cannot survive: spr.ly/63329hunm5
Your cloud stack is generating more complexity than humans can interpret. Sopuluchukwu Ani argues that predictive engineering is the only way forward.
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Your cloud stack is generating more complexity than humans can interpret. Sopuluchukwu Ani argues that predictive engineering is the only way forward.
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From transformers to GANs, AI is rewriting data quality. Sunil Kumar Mudusu details how automated repair and trust scoring redefine reliability.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:14 PM
From transformers to GANs, AI is rewriting data quality. Sunil Kumar Mudusu details how automated repair and trust scoring redefine reliability.
See what is changing: spr.ly/63322hMNQy
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See what is changing: spr.ly/63322hMNQy
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The Super Bowl isn’t just a broadcast. It is the world’s harshest distributed-systems stress test. Manoj Yerrasani explains why only intentional architecture survives the surge.
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February 5, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The Super Bowl isn’t just a broadcast. It is the world’s harshest distributed-systems stress test. Manoj Yerrasani explains why only intentional architecture survives the surge.
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What might software development might look like in a post-code world? www.infoworld.com/article/4122...
Is code a cow path?
There is probably a more direct route from AI models to the software we want than having agents work with code.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:18 PM
What might software development might look like in a post-code world? www.infoworld.com/article/4122...
Could CPython be on track to displace PyPy for better performance? We ran PyPy and the latest JIT-enabled and no-GIL CPython builds side by side on the same benchmarks, with intriguing results.
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CPython vs. PyPy: Which Python runtime has the better JIT?
How does CPython’s new native-JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.
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January 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Could CPython be on track to displace PyPy for better performance? We ran PyPy and the latest JIT-enabled and no-GIL CPython builds side by side on the same benchmarks, with intriguing results.
www.infoworld.com/article/4117...
www.infoworld.com/article/4117...
Agentic AI breaks the old security model. One compromised agent can collapse the system in minutes.
Akshay Mittal shares the blueprint for a trust layer.
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Akshay Mittal shares the blueprint for a trust layer.
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January 27, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Agentic AI breaks the old security model. One compromised agent can collapse the system in minutes.
Akshay Mittal shares the blueprint for a trust layer.
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Akshay Mittal shares the blueprint for a trust layer.
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If “10x engineer” sounds mythical, it’s time to rethink the math. Real leverage comes from elevating everyone around you.
Learn how from Ritvika Nagula.
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Learn how from Ritvika Nagula.
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January 27, 2026 at 6:52 PM
If “10x engineer” sounds mythical, it’s time to rethink the math. Real leverage comes from elevating everyone around you.
Learn how from Ritvika Nagula.
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#FoundryExpert #EngineeringCulture #TechnicalLeadership
Learn how from Ritvika Nagula.
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For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It’s no different with machine learning and large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/2336...
16 open source projects transforming AI and machine learning
From fine-tuning open source models to building agentic frameworks on top of them, the open source world is ripe with projects that support AI development.
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January 26, 2026 at 4:08 PM
For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It’s no different with machine learning and large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/2336...
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Edge AI is gaining new importance as the industry shifts from training to inference. My feature on @infoworld.bsky.social today digs into edge AI, and why tech leaders are betting on it for reduced cost, better privacy, and lower latency.
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Edge AI: The future of AI inference is smarter local compute
Smaller models, lightweight frameworks, specialized hardware, and other innovations are bringing AI out of the cloud and into clients, servers, and devices on the edge of the network.
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January 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Edge AI is gaining new importance as the industry shifts from training to inference. My feature on @infoworld.bsky.social today digs into edge AI, and why tech leaders are betting on it for reduced cost, better privacy, and lower latency.
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Forget sci‑fi fantasies. Hyperautomation is real work, and Raul Leite shows how Ansible becomes the hands that orchestrate, connect and execute the automation CIOs rely on.
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Forget sci‑fi fantasies. Hyperautomation is real work, and Raul Leite shows how Ansible becomes the hands that orchestrate, connect and execute the automation CIOs rely on.
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January 16, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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Forget sci‑fi fantasies. Hyperautomation is real work, and Raul Leite shows how Ansible becomes the hands that orchestrate, connect and execute the automation CIOs rely on.
#FoundryExpert #AutomationStrategy #EnterpriseEngineering
Forget sci‑fi fantasies. Hyperautomation is real work, and Raul Leite shows how Ansible becomes the hands that orchestrate, connect and execute the automation CIOs rely on.
#FoundryExpert #AutomationStrategy #EnterpriseEngineering
By making mongot’s source code publicly available, MongoDB is turning what was previously an Atlas-only, opaque service into inspectable components, said Sanjeev Mohan, principal analyst at SanjMo. www.infoworld.com/article/4118...
MongoDB releases mongot source code to boost RAG and AI workloads
By releasing the code behind its search and vector engine under the SSPL, MongoDB is giving self‑managed users new visibility and control, helping developers build more reliable, production‑grade RAG ...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
By making mongot’s source code publicly available, MongoDB is turning what was previously an Atlas-only, opaque service into inspectable components, said Sanjeev Mohan, principal analyst at SanjMo. www.infoworld.com/article/4118...
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When platform capacity hits zero, product teams face slipping launches and blocked revenue. Pratik Gupta shows how away‑teaming breaks the gridlock and unlocks progress without derailing platform priorities.
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When platform capacity hits zero, product teams face slipping launches and blocked revenue. Pratik Gupta shows how away‑teaming breaks the gridlock and unlocks progress without derailing platform priorities.
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January 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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When platform capacity hits zero, product teams face slipping launches and blocked revenue. Pratik Gupta shows how away‑teaming breaks the gridlock and unlocks progress without derailing platform priorities.
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When platform capacity hits zero, product teams face slipping launches and blocked revenue. Pratik Gupta shows how away‑teaming breaks the gridlock and unlocks progress without derailing platform priorities.
#FoundryExpert #PlatformOps #ProductInnovation
Used smartly, many of the slowest parts of the Rust toolchain can be made quite snappy. Here’s a compendium of common techniques for speeding up Rust compilation. www.infoworld.com/article/4115...
Rust slow to compile? Here’s how to speed it up
If the big bottleneck in your Rust development workflow is compile time, there are at least five ways you can fix it.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Used smartly, many of the slowest parts of the Rust toolchain can be made quite snappy. Here’s a compendium of common techniques for speeding up Rust compilation. www.infoworld.com/article/4115...
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Distributed monoliths kill agility. Neel Shah shows why composable architecture on AWS is the modern path to resilient and scalable software.
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Distributed monoliths kill agility. Neel Shah shows why composable architecture on AWS is the modern path to resilient and scalable software.
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January 13, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Distributed monoliths kill agility. Neel Shah shows why composable architecture on AWS is the modern path to resilient and scalable software.
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Distributed monoliths kill agility. Neel Shah shows why composable architecture on AWS is the modern path to resilient and scalable software.
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One AI platform won’t cut it. Tom Popomaronis explains why stack thinking beats one-tool thinking and how to build an AI bench that delivers depth, nuance and resilience.
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One AI platform won’t cut it. Tom Popomaronis explains why stack thinking beats one-tool thinking and how to build an AI bench that delivers depth, nuance and resilience.
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January 12, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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One AI platform won’t cut it. Tom Popomaronis explains why stack thinking beats one-tool thinking and how to build an AI bench that delivers depth, nuance and resilience.
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One AI platform won’t cut it. Tom Popomaronis explains why stack thinking beats one-tool thinking and how to build an AI bench that delivers depth, nuance and resilience.
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Databricks's new “Instructed Retriever” architecture combines old-fashioned database queries with the similarity search of RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to offer more relevant responses to users’ prompts. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...
Databricks says its Instruction Retrieval offers better AI answers than RAG in the enterprise
Databricks says Instructed Retrieval outperforms RAG and could move AI pilots to production faster, but analysts warn it could expose data, governance, and budget gaps that CIOs can’t ignore.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Databricks's new “Instructed Retriever” architecture combines old-fashioned database queries with the similarity search of RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to offer more relevant responses to users’ prompts. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...
A former longtime contributor to the development of Rust now is building a Rust-based language of his own, called Rue, which is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...
AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use
Developed using Anthropic’s Claude AI model, the new language is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
A former longtime contributor to the development of Rust now is building a Rust-based language of his own, called Rue, which is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...
Human coders may have a temporary reprieve from losing their jobs to AI.
www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
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Forecast: AI won’t replace human devs for at least 5 years
Progress towards full AI-driven coding automation continues, but in steps rather than leaps, giving organizations time to prepare.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Human coders may have a temporary reprieve from losing their jobs to AI.
www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
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Microsoft has acquired AI-based data engineering firm Osmos as part of its effort to reduce data engineering friction inside Fabric, its unified data and analytics offering, as enterprises continue to push analytics and AI projects into production.
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Microsoft acquires Osmos to ease data engineering bottlenecks in Fabric
The acquisition could help enterprises push analytics and AI projects into production faster while acting as the missing autonomy layer that connects Fabric’s recent enhancements into a coherent syste...
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January 7, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Microsoft has acquired AI-based data engineering firm Osmos as part of its effort to reduce data engineering friction inside Fabric, its unified data and analytics offering, as enterprises continue to push analytics and AI projects into production.
www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
The advent of Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs hints at a coming era of agent-driven architecture. In this architecture, the chat interface becomes the front end and creates UI controls on the fly. Welcome to “generative UI.” www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
Generative UI: The AI agent is the front end
In a new model for user interfaces, agents paint the screen with interactive UI components on demand. Let’s take a look.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:42 PM
The advent of Model Context Protocol (MCP) APIs hints at a coming era of agent-driven architecture. In this architecture, the chat interface becomes the front end and creates UI controls on the fly. Welcome to “generative UI.” www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
Ruby 4.0.0 has arrived as the newest release of the interpreted, object-oriented Ruby programming language. The update features a new just-in-time compiler, ZJIT, and an experimental “Ruby Box” capability for in-process separation of classes and modules. www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
Ruby 4.0.0 introduces ZJIT compiler, Ruby Box isolation
Ruby Box is an experimental feature that provides separate spaces in a Ruby process to isolate application code, libraries, and monkey patches.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Ruby 4.0.0 has arrived as the newest release of the interpreted, object-oriented Ruby programming language. The update features a new just-in-time compiler, ZJIT, and an experimental “Ruby Box” capability for in-process separation of classes and modules. www.infoworld.com/article/4113...
How must databases adapt to generative AI, and how should databases be integrated with large language models? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years now as VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4112...
Generative AI and the future of databases
Google Cloud’s lead engineer for databases discusses the challenges of integrating databases and LLMs, the tools needed to overcome these challenges, and how AI-native databases will help bridge the g...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:12 PM
How must databases adapt to generative AI, and how should databases be integrated with large language models? These are questions that Sailesh Krishnamurthy has grappled with for several years now as VP of engineering for databases at Google Cloud. www.infoworld.com/article/4112...
Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript, JavaScript, and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx, to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
Deno adds tool to run NPM and JSR binaries
Latest update to the Node.js rival also brings more granular control over permissions and a faster, experimental type checker.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Deno 2.6, the latest version of the TypeScript, JavaScript, and WebAssembly runtime, adds a tool, called dx, to run binaries from NPM and JSR (JavaScript Registry) packages. www.infoworld.com/article/4111...
The lack of frivolity and handholding is both the command-line’s power and its one major drawback. Now, a new class of AI tools seeks to preserve the power of the CLI while upgrading it with a more human-friendly interface. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
AI power tools: 6 ways to supercharge your terminal
With something for everyone—whether you love the command-line or hate it—AI-powered shells have arrived.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The lack of frivolity and handholding is both the command-line’s power and its one major drawback. Now, a new class of AI tools seeks to preserve the power of the CLI while upgrading it with a more human-friendly interface. www.infoworld.com/article/4105...
A native JIT compiler has been added to Python over its last few releases. At first it didn’t provide any significant speedup. But with Python 3.15 (still in alpha but available for use now), the core Python development team has bolstered the native JIT.
www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
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Get started with Python’s new native JIT
The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental.
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December 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A native JIT compiler has been added to Python over its last few releases. At first it didn’t provide any significant speedup. But with Python 3.15 (still in alpha but available for use now), the core Python development team has bolstered the native JIT.
www.infoworld.com/article/4110...
www.infoworld.com/article/4110...