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My career in pharmaceutical analytics, clinical research and commercial operations has been shaped by the tension between innovation and compliance. Regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, GxP, GDPR and 21 CFR Part 11 are not optional; they are the guardrails that protect sensitive health data, ensure scientific integrity and maintain public trust in healthcare systems. Yet, I repeatedly observed th…

Kubernetes is the default platform for cloud-native applications, but managing Kubernetes at scale isn’t trivial. New tools like Headlamp aim to reduce the overhead that comes with managing and deploying Kubernetes applications, but it is still easy to make mistakes and cause significant downtime. A recent survey from Komodor of enterprise Kubernetes usage showed that 79% of incidents in running …

Artificial intelligence, which has generated fears of harms and dangers ranging from job losses to human extinction, drew multiple protests at The AI Conference in San Francisco on September 17. The AI Conference was established to “embrace the potent capability of AI to revolutionize every facet of human existence,” according to the conference website. One group, called Stop AI, distributed flye…

MongoDB has extended vector search and other capabilities to its self-managed database offerings — Enterprise Server and Community edition — to help developers build generative AI and agentic applications. The same capabilities were added to its managed database offering — Atlas — in June 2023 with the same intent. Both the Enterprise Server and Community Edition require users to manage their own…

Over the last few years, Rust has evolved from a curiosity brewed up in a Mozilla employee’s lab to a strong contender for the next generation of system-native applications and bare-metal solutions. Those advances come from Rust providing its own toolchain and component management system—along with certain popular features and quirks . This article is for developers new to Rust or considering it …

When I was a young engineer, there was a gruff old programmer named Larry who often imparted his wisdom to us young’uns. A man in his forties, he had that gritty, seen-it-all manner that bespoke years of hard-fought battles in the coding trenches. His was a heart of gold covered in a cloak of cynicism; imagine Philip Seymour Hoffman as a Perl programmer. Over his fourteenth cup of coffee, Larry w…

The conversation around enterprise AI infrastructure has shifted dramatically in the past 18 months. While public cloud providers continue to dominate headlines with their latest GPU offerings and managed AI services, a quiet revolution is taking place in enterprise data centers: the rapid rise of Kubernetes -based private clouds as the foundation for secure, scalable AI deployments. This isn’t a…

When I was just starting out writing code, the market for developer tools was small. It mainly consisted of compilers, debuggers, and IDEs. The advent of visual development brought about the sale of component sets, but ultimately, the market wasn’t all that big and the marketing was straightforward. But today? Today is a different story. The arrival of the Internet and SaaS has caused the develop…

Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio 2026 IDE through the company’s new Insiders channel, which replaces the old Preview channel for early access to upcoming features. The new IDE offers deeper integration of the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including a profiler agent that analyzes performance and suggests fixes. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, announced September 9 ,…

The three biggest hyperscalers in the US are AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The biggest hyperscaler in China (and the sixth in the world) is Alibaba Cloud. Alibaba’s large language model and multimodal model family, Tongyi Qianwen, or Qwen, competes with models from the US hyperscalers as well as models from OpenAI and Anthropic, but Qwen is free. One of the few drawbacks of Qwen models …

Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a new Long-Term Support (LTS) release of standard Java, is now generally available. The release brings 18 features, five of which Oracle touts as assisting with AI development. JDK 25 comes on the heels of JDK 24 , a six-month-support release that arrived March 18. As a Long-Term support release, JDK 25 will get at least eight years of Premier commercial support fro…

MongoDB has launched a new AI-driven application modernization platform called AMP, designed to help enterprises transform legacy applications into modern, scalable services that support AI and automation. Legacy applications often accumulate technical debt , such as outdated code, architecture, and dependencies, which are costly to maintain and hinder integration of AI or agentic systems, accord…

Microsoft is adding two new features to its cloud-based Fabric to help agentic applications make more accurate decisions while navigating complex workflows and help developers integrate AI-driven insights directly into an enterprise’s data operations. The two new features — Graph and Maps — are being integrated into Fabric’s Real-Time Intelligence workload. Fabric , released in May 2023, brings t…

With JDK 25 , Java reaches another Long-Term Support (LTS) milestone — and for enterprises, that makes this release unavoidable. Oracle’s licensing terms for JDK 21 will soon expire, creating a ticking clock for organizations that want to stay on a free distribution. But beyond the calendar, JDK 25 delivers real technical incentives to upgrade. Out of 18 new features, just three stand out as ente…

For years, cloud computing was synonymous with transformative innovation and, perhaps more importantly, robust security. Cloud providers proudly marketed their platforms as safer and more resilient than anything enterprise IT could match. They held themselves as stewards of trust and protection, armed with unified defenses and economies of scale to counter ever-evolving cyberthreats. But an unset…