Software testing used to be relatively straightforward. You wrote business logic, defined expected outputs, and verified them with unit, integration…

TL;DR: Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, antitrust bodies around the world are struggling to find their footing, and an incurious tech press is letting it pass with nary a nod. Browsers are app stores too, but that perspective is almost entirely absent from ...

Cactos cut database costs 55% by migrating from Amazon RDS to Tiger Cloud. See how the battery storage company made the move.

This is the second post in the Ranking Engineer Agent blog series exploring the autonomous AI capabilities accelerating Meta’s Ads Ranking innovation. The previous post introduced Ranking Engineer Agent’s ML exploration capability, which autonomously designs, executes, and analyzes ranking model exp...

The software supply chain is under sustained attack. Not from a single threat actor or a single incident, but from an ecosystem-wide campaign that has been escalating for months and shows no signs of slowing down. This week, axios, the HTTP client library downloaded 83 million times per week and pre...

AI agents like Databricks Genie are only as good as the data they can access. But...

C# 15 introduces union types — declare a closed set of case types with implicit conversions and exhaustive pattern matching. Try unions in preview today and see the broader exhaustiveness roadmap. The post Explore union types in C# 15 appeared first on .NET Blog.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) gives AI agents a standard way to call external tools, but things get more complicated when those tools need to know who the user is. In this post, I’ll show how to build an MCP server with the Python FastMCP package that authenticates users with Microsoft Entra ID w...

Docker Hub is quickly becoming the home for AI models, serving millions of developers and bringing together a curated lineup that spans lightweight edge models to high-performance LLMs, all packaged as OCI artifacts. Today, we’re excited to welcome Gemma 4, the latest generation of lightweight, stat...

Open models are driving a new wave of on-device AI, extending innovation beyond the cloud to everyday devices. As these models advance, their value increasingly depends on access to local, real-time context that can turn meaningful insights into action.  Designed for this shift, Google’s latest addi...

Laravel has released the open source Cloud CLI, a Laravel Zero-powered command line tool for deploying and managing Laravel Cloud applications, environments, databases, domains, and more. The post Manage Laravel Cloud from the Terminal with the New Cloud CLI appeared first on Laravel News. Join the ...

How obsessing over craft, code quality, and the details nobody notices shaped a decade of creative frontend work.

Adoption and trust are moving in diametrically opposed directions, and that gap has real implications for organizations deciding how to spend money on software.

The explosion of AI-bot traffic, representing over 10 billion requests per week, has opened up new challenges and opportunities for cache design. We look at some of the ways AI bot traffic differs from humans, how this impacts CDN cache, and some early ideas for how Cloudflare is designing systems t...

The industry is moving quickly. The hard part is not losing your footing.

Tempting but misleading. The post Why doesn’t the system let you declare your own messages to have the same semantics as <CODE>WM_<WBR>COPY­DATA</CODE>? appeared first on The Old New Thing.

No joke — GFN Thursday is skipping the tricks and heading straight into the games. April kicks off with ten new titles, bringing fresh adventures to GeForce NOW, including the launch of Capcom’s highly anticipated PRAGMATA. A dozen new games are available to stream this week, including Arknights: En...

Docker Desktop is one of the most widely used developer tools in the world, yet for millions of enterprise developers, running it simply hasn’t been an option. The environments they rely on, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platforms and managed desktops, often lack the resources or capa...

As we see LLMs churn out scads of code, folks have increasingly turned to Cognitive Debt as a metaphor for capturing how a team can lose understanding of what a system does. Margaret-Anne Storey thinks a good way of thinking about these problems is to consider three layers of system health: Technica...

Martin Fowler explores why AI coding sessions degrade over time and how externalizing decisions into structured documents keeps context reliable across sessions. Read more

If you’re anything like me, you’ve been thinking a lot about how AI is reshaping the way we work as developers. Tools like Claude Code have become part of my daily workflow, and they’ve changed how I approach feature development in a big way. But here’s the thing I keep coming back to: the quality [...

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of Python’s Counter: The Pythonic Way to Count Objects. By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to create Counter objects, update counts, find most common elements, and use counters as multisets with arithmetic operations. This quiz covers practi...

Une équipe experte, un produit critique… et pourtant, un delivery hors de contrôle. Trop de retours, trop d'attente, pas assez de valeur. Ce retour d'expérience montre comment le Lean a permis à une équipe de reprendre la maîtrise de son flux… en transformant sa manière de voir et de traiter ses pro...

By turning compaction into a layered, adaptive pipeline and strengthening our monitoring and controls, we made Magic Pocket more resilient to workload changes.

As AI changes how executives interact with data, analytics is moving out of the dashboard...

Last month Birgitta Böckeler wrote some initial thoughts about the recently developed notion of Harness Engineering. She's been researching and thinking more about this in the weeks since and has now written a thoughtful mental model for understanding harness engineering that we think will help peop...

Defining the North StarEvery advertising campaign shares the same core objectives: to reach the right audience...