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Moving forward on AI, GitLab is offering a public beta of GitLab Duo Agent Platform, a devsecops orchestration platform intended to unlock asynchronous collaboration between developers and AI agents. Announced July 17 , GitLab Duo Agent Platform establishes an intelligent orchestration layer to promote seamless collaboration between developers and specialized AI agents, GitLab said. The platform …

When I started in this industry, there was a bad but common practice. Each new project started with a database schema. The DBAs or whoever was in charge of Oracle would have a long discussion and many meetings, and then you, the developer, would be “blessed” with a schema. The schema was usually a bit wrong and inefficient, and didn’t match what you were doing, so you wrote inefficient queries to…

Oracle has come out with a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to help enterprises build agentic applications that can autonomously query, retrieve, and reason over enterprise data stored in Oracle Databases and generate more context-aware outputs. The new Oracle MCP server has been integrated into Oracle’s core developer tools, making the Oracle Database immediately available on any platform…

After attending a recent analyst and influencer event hosted by one of the major hyperscalers, I found myself reflecting not just on the future of the big cloud providers but also on the evolution of the entire cloud computing market. The event’s forward-looking presentations highlighted innovation among hyperscalers but also underscored a shifting landscape where new players and alternative clou…

The buzz around agentic AI is getting louder, and this month’s picks showcase the breadth of what is possible—or in some cases, not yet possible. Spin up an AI agent of your own with Google’s new Agent Development Kit, take notes on how Deutsche Telekom scaled its agent platforms for enterprise deployment, and see for yourself what happens when you let agents “vibe” their way through a nontrivial…

Java Development Kit (JDK) 25, a planned long-term support (LTS) release of standard Java, has reached the second rampdown or bug-fixing phase, as of July 17. This latest version of Java has 18 features. 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 five years of Premier support from Oracle. JDK 25…

AWS has launched a preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore , a set of enterprise-grade services developers can use to securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model. Announced July 16 , AgentCore services can be hosted on AWS’s Amazon Bedrock managed service or elsewhere. With this initiative, AWS says it is seeking to spare AI agent developers and engineers months spent…

Software supply chain management provider JFrog has become the latest vendor to release a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for its platform so developers can securely link Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents to tools and data sources. “Until recently, connecting AI agents to diverse enterprise systems created development bottlenecks, with each integration requiring custom code and ongoi…

In the fast-evolving landscape of enterprise data management, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into data pipelines has become a game-changer. In “ Designing a metadata-driven ETL framework with Azure ADF: An architectural perspective ,” I laid the groundwork for a scalable, metadata-driven ETL framework using Azure Data Factory (ADF). This approach streamlined data workflows by lev…

AWS has previewed Kiro, a new agentic AI-driven integrated development environment (IDE) that the hyperscaler claims is better suited for structured, large-scale software development workflows, favored mostly by enterprise engineering teams seeking automation, traceability, and production-grade code quality. Unlike traditional AI coding assistants that rely on ad-hoc prompts, Kiro introduces a sp…

One of the handiest tasks large language models can do for us is answer questions about a specific collection of information. This is often done using a technique called RAG, or retrieval augmented generation . Instead of relying on what the model knows from its training data, a RAG application searches for the most relevant parts of a document collection, then uses only those text chunks as cont…

.NET Aspire is an interesting piece of the .NET ecosystem , providing a framework for building, testing, and deploying cloud-native applications. Still relatively new, Aspire takes an opinionated approach to distributed systems development while also providing easy-to-use connectors that let you quickly add key services to your applications. .NET Aspire supports local development, helping you com…

A newly arrived sixth preview of Microsoft’s planned .NET 10 application development platform touts improved JIT code generation for struct arguments, one-shot tool execution, and other enhancements in the .NET libraries, runtime, and SDK, as well as the ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and .NET MAUI frameworks. .NET 10 Preview 6 was announced July 15 . The production release is expected in November. Develo…

Qdrant has launched Qdrant Cloud Inference, a managed service that allows developers to generate, store, and index text and image embeddings in the Qdrant Cloud. The service, which uses integrated models within a managed vector search engine, is designed to simplify building applications with multimodal search, retrieval-augmented generation , and hybrid search, according to the company. Announce…

Seeking to ease web and mobile app testing by leveraging AI, Perforce Software has unveiled Perfecto AI , an agentic AI testing tool that removes the need for test scripts, frameworks, or maintenance and streamlines testing workflows, according to the company. Announced July 15 as part of the Perforce Continuous Testing Platform, the AI-powered testing tool enables teams to generate execution-rea…