I have spent the last couple of years watching the database landscape move through waves of excitement and disappointment. Vectors,

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In the face of AI-driven constant change, what advice would you give to those entering the tech industry next year?

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If there’s something we realized in 2025, it’s that AI is an amplifier of human-led software development teams — not

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As AI tools become increasingly integrated in many industries across all levels, there has been a quiet but undeniable shift.

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Gentoo was that Linux distribution that every user strived to build, so they could wear it as a badge of

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As fast as the old year passes, it’s been heartening to see people preserving the work of those who came

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Observability is not living up to expectations. As prices continue to rise, the pain is increasingly felt. This year has

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If you’ve ever used Linux, you might have heard of Vim. Don’t run away just yet. Yes, Vim is not

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In cybersecurity, going solo rarely works. Historically, frameworks like CVEs, ATT&CK and software bills of materials (SBOMs) have shown that

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The year 2025 started out with a bang, with the AI community collectively deciding to use the MCP format to

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This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1: How to Get DNS Right: A Guide to Common Failure

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There are many ways to bring Python to the browser (thanks, WebAssembly). But there’s only one way to bring Python’s

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Ari Zilka says he counted 23 different observability vendors at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon  North America 2025, and talked with every

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Engineering teams have done everything they can to keep up with contemporary IT systems. They’ve added dashboards while also adopting

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Everyone’s tired, and framework fatigue isn’t just a meme anymore: It’s a collective burnout. Developers who once raced to master

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When we closed the door on 2024, there was both pearl-clutching and hype over AI — but at that time,

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In our recent tour of Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), I walked you through the three approaches to building AI

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“Don’t ask the model to build your whole app. Break your request into smaller parts and generate one function, hook,

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Every engineer has a moment early in their career when they realize the truth: You cannot learn everything. Much like

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Over the last decade, the industry accepted a simple truth: If you wanted a Software as a Service (SaaS) product,

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Everything in tech is always changing at what feels like a breakneck pace — everything except DevOps infrastructure, that is.

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Three months ago, I spent two weeks building a custom plugin to connect our AI assistant to our internal CRM

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Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks chief scientist and long-time expert on object-oriented programming, views AI as the biggest shift in programming he

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CrunchBang was a Debian-based Linux distribution that was minimal and pretty popular among hard-core users. CrunchBang eventually ended, but gave

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In a world where AI was suddenly everywhere, what will be remembered about 2025? How can we tell future generations

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At 3:17 a.m. on a Tuesday, my phone buzzed with the alert that would reshape the way I think about

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So far in my review of agentic development over the past year and heading into 2026, I’ve looked at some

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The year 2025 proved to be a transformative period for the JavaScript ecosystem, marked by a shift toward performance optimization

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Enterprise IT teams now are navigating an evolving landscape defined by distributed applications, hybrid clouds, complicated API ecosystems and a

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Over the past year, I’ve met with customers and partners across every major industry, from healthcare and public sector to

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