Features

Articles

The successes and challenges of AI agents

Autonomous systems are quietly changing the way we work. Bigger benefits will come when businesses redesign their workflows with agents at the center.

By Aravind Chandramouli

Aug 19, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceEmerging TechnologyGenerative AI

Why software developers burn out, and how to fix it

Developer burnout is a real and widespread problem, and AI technologies seem to be making it worse. Here’s what you need to know about developer burnout and how to fix it.

By Bob Violino

Aug 18, 2025 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDeveloperTechnology Industry

How does the metrics layer enhance the power of advanced analytics?

Want smarter, faster decisions? A metrics layer keeps everyone on the same page with consistent, reliable numbers.

By Yash Mehta

Aug 18, 2025 8 mins

AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceData Quality

Monitoring microservices: Best practices for robust systems

Keeping microservices healthy means more than tracking data — it’s about turning logs, traces and metrics into insights that fix problems fast.

By Neel Shah

Aug 14, 2025 6 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud SecurityMicroservices

Devops, SRE, and platform engineering: What’s the difference?

Devops, SRE, and platform engineering roles are crucial for modern software development, but they have distinct goals. Understand how each one contributes to speed, stability, and developer experience.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Aug 12, 2025 7 mins

Devops

Multi-agent AI workflows: The next evolution of AI coding

Instead of working with a single coding agent, developers will soon realize gains by guiding a team of them.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 11, 2025 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

The advantages of stack-based internal developer platforms

A stack-based approach to IDPs emphasizes reusability, autonomy, and visibility, creating a standardized but flexible system where teams can define and deploy their own devops stack.

By Olivier de Turckheim

Aug 11, 2025 6 mins

DevSecOpsDevelopment ToolsDevops

Why benchmarks are key to AI progress

Researchers are racing to develop more challenging, interpretable, and fair assessments of AI models that reflect real-world use cases. The stakes are high.

By Abigail Wall

Aug 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AI

Microsegmentation for developers

Microsegmentation used to mean separating network zones. Today, it means separating workload behaviors. It’s a new discipline that requires new tools.

By Jeremy Colvin

Aug 4, 2025 5 mins

Application SecurityContainersKubernetes

9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder

Vibe coding may be the software development zeitgeist du jour, but vibing with AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here are nine ways overly optimistic vibe coders can fail.

By Peter Wayner

Aug 4, 2025 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCareersGenerative AI

Spotlight report: How AI is reshaping IT

IT organizations have already been challenged to find the resources and skills to support major shifts like cloud, automation, and a dramatically altered risk landscape. The emergence of AI as the next big game changer adds an additional level of stress and urgency. It also requires IT leaders to rethink how IT is staffed and organized, how it's funded, and how the IT team works with the business to capture the value and promise of generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, and whatever else comes IT's way.

By InfoWorld.com staff

Aug 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial IntelligenceIT Leadership

Why MCP matters – and how to secure it

Model Context Protocol makes it far easier to integrate LLMs and your APIs. Let’s walk through how MCP clients and servers communicate, securely.

By Sagara Gunathunga

Jul 31, 2025 8 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISoftware Development

.NET 10 Preview 7 adds XAML generator

Latest .NET 10 preview also features improved SQL translation in Entity Framework Core and a WebSocketStream API that simplifies common WebSocket scenarios.

Aug 19, 2025 3 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Retrieval-augmented generation with Nvidia NeMo Retriever

Nvidia’s NeMo Retriever models and RAG pipeline make quick work of ingesting PDFs and generating reports based on them. Chalk one up for the plan-reflect-refine architecture.

Aug 19, 2025 9 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Development Tools Generative AI

IBM can’t afford an unreliable cloud

Frequent IBM Cloud outages reveal systemic weaknesses in its control pane, putting its hybrid cloud strategy and customer trust at risk.

Aug 19, 2025 5 mins

Access Control Hybrid Cloud Identity and Access Management

Go language previews performance-boosting garbage collector

Experimental garbage collector is expected to reduce garbage collection overhead between 10% and 40% in programs that rely heavily on garbage collection.

Aug 18, 2025 4 mins

Google Go Programming Languages Software Development

Google adds VM monitoring to Database Center amid enterprise demand

The latest update brings oversight of self-managed databases, Gemini-powered insights, and expanded historical comparisons.

Aug 18, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Database Virtualization

Why AI fails at business context, and what to do about it

AI systems need humans to guide them with the unique enterprise history, policies, changes, and institutional knowledge before they can produce real business value.

Aug 18, 2025 8 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Generative AI

The truth about Python’s AI-powered popularity surge

Python is a top choice for developing AI tools and applications, but its real superpower is ease of use. This week’s report highlights the ways Python just keeps getting better, with or without AI.

Aug 15, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Programming Languages Python

Can your cloud provider really scale?

The service disruption in the Azure East US region reveals capacity problems that are happening more often. Enterprises need to rethink their strategies, enforce stricter SLAs, and accept that public clouds are still vulnerable.

Aug 15, 2025 5 mins

Critical Infrastructure Hybrid Cloud Technology Industry

Wassette: A bridge between Wasm and MCP

Microsoft’s new open-source tool kit offers a way to assemble lightweight and secure Model Context Protocol servers from WebAssembly components.

Aug 14, 2025 7 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Generative AI Rust

Claude Sonnet 4 upgrade enables full codebase processing in a single request

The upgrade could reshape developer workflows while raising new risks around security, compliance, and IP.

Aug 13, 2025 3 mins

Developer Generative AI

Hands-on with Svelte: Build-time compilation in a reactive framework

Svelte is a developer favorite for delivering enterprise-grade front ends with a focus on performance and innovation. Here’s a tour of this fast and friendly reactive framework.

Aug 13, 2025 11 mins

JavaScript React Typescript

Five ways your code is coupled, for better or worse

Understanding the five kinds of static connascence will help you see more deeply into your code and how it works – and how you could make it better.

Aug 13, 2025 8 mins

Careers Developer Software Development

Rubrik unveils ‘undo button’ for AI agent mistakes

Agent Rewind provides visibility into agent actions and an audit trail that allows enterprises to undo agent mistakes by rewinding changes to applications and data, Rubrik said.

Aug 12, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Generative AI

A developer’s guide to code generation

How can developers get the most from AI code generators? Experts weigh in with tips, recommendations, and warnings.

Aug 12, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

The rise of AI model-as-a-service ecosystems

How bundled model catalogs, tools, and billing are reshaping developer onboarding and revenue sharing for cloud users.

Aug 12, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Managed Cloud Services SaaS

Rust 1.89 underscores arguments to const generics

Latest version of fast and safe programming language supports ‘_’ as an argument to const generic parameters, inferring the value from surrounding context.

Aug 11, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

JDK 25: The new features in Java 25

Long-term support release, now available in a release candidate, brings features ranging from stable values and structured concurrency to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux.

Aug 11, 2025 12 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Who does the unsexy but essential work for open source?

We all depend on open source basics like the Linux kernel, Kubernetes, or security and maintenance software. Let’s take a moment to acknowledge the people—and companies—keeping them in shape.

Aug 11, 2025 7 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes Technology Industry

Should public clouds enforce government policies?

Recent government sanctions are causing public cloud providers to wonder if they must act as unofficial enforcers. Some businesses are responding by moving to private or sovereign clouds.

Aug 8, 2025 6 mins

Hybrid Cloud Private Cloud Technology Industry

Google rolls out AI coding tool for GitHub repos

Gemini CLI GitHub Actions can prioritize incoming issues and review pull requests for quality, style, and correctness, Google said.

Aug 7, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI GitHub

Show me more