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For engineers building high-concurrency applications in e-commerce, fintech or media, the “200ms limit” is a hard ceiling. It is the psychological threshold where interaction feels instantaneous. If a personalized homepage, search result or “Up Next” queue takes longer than 200 milliseconds to load, user abandonment spikes. There is a famous study from Amazon showing that every 100ms of latency c…

Pressure is building on Oracle to loosen its grip on MySQL, with a group of database veterans, developers, and long-time contributors urging the company to transition the open source database to an independent foundation model. The call, articulated in an open letter , reflects mounting concern about MySQL’s development velocity , roadmap transparency, and role in an increasingly AI-driven data e…

Nearly a year ago, I wrote an article titled “ How to pick the right SAST tool .” It was a look at the pros and cons of two different generations of static application security testing (SAST): Traditional SAST (first generation): Deep scans for the best coverage, but creates massive friction due to long run times. Rules-based SAST (second generation): Prioritized developer experience via faster, …

Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models —or even free ones you can run locally —that might work well enough for some of your tasks? Answering questions like these isn’t always easy. Model capabilities seem to change every month. And, unlike conventional computer code, LLMs don’t always give the same answer twice. Running an…

The WinterCG community group was recently promoted to a technical committee, signaling a growing maturity for the standard that aims to solidify JavaScript runtimes. Now is good time to catch up with this key feature of modern JavaScript and the web development landscape. The WinterTC manifesto To understand what WinterTC is about, we can begin with the committee’s own manifesto: The ultimate goa…

Coders are understandably complaining about AI coding problems, with the technology often delivering what’s become known as “AI slop,” but their concerns are signaling a more strategic issue about how enterprises calculate coding ROI. The issues, according to IT analysts and consultants, go far beyond vastly faster production of code accompanied by the kinds of errors generated by AI agents that …

The Eclipse Foundation has released the final version of GlassFish 8, an update of its enterprise Java application server. The new release serves as a compatible implementation of the Jakarta EE 11 Java platform and accommodates Jakarta Data repositories for simplifying data access, according to GlassFish development participant OmniFish. Virtual threads support for scalable concurrency also is f…

GitHub is readying a new feature to automate some of the most expensive work in DevOps: the invisible housekeeping no one wants to own. Developers would rather be building features than debugging flaky continuous integration (CI) pipelines, triaging low-quality issues, updating outdated documentation, or closing persistent gaps in test coverage. In order to help developers and enterprises manage …

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, and local network reconnaissance. Application security company OX Security published the findings this week, saying it had begun notifying vendors in June 2025 but received no response from three of…

Mistral AI has acquired Paris-based cloud startup Koyeb, marking the model-maker’s first acquisition and entry into the enterprise infrastructure market. This suggests a strategic shift for the French company, which has built its reputation on frontier models but is now investing heavily in compute capabilities and expanded deployment options. The acquisition folds Koyeb’s serverless deployment p…

Docker is a software platform for building applications based on containers —small and lightweight execution environments that make shared use of the operating system kernel but otherwise run in isolation from one another. While containers have been used in Linux and Unix systems for some time, Docker, an open source project launched in 2013, helped popularize the technology by making it easier t…

Remember the good old days when we had “ Internet time ”? It was back in the late 1990s, when the dot-coms moved so fast that building businesses and fortunes would take only months instead of years. Seems so quaint now. I think we are now living in AI time. It seems like today, things that used to take months are now taking weeks—or even days. Shoot, you might even say hours. My head is spinning…

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 4.6, an update to the company’s hybrid reasoning model that brings improvements in coding consistency and instruction following, Anthropic said. Introduced February 17 , Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model’s skills across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, design, and knowledge work, according to Anthropic. the model als…

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) participants including Google and Microsoft have launched the WebMCP API, a JavaScript interface that allows web applications to provide client-side “tools” to AI agents. The API would enable agents to interact directly with web pages and participate in collaborative workflows with human users within the same web interface. WebMCP is available for early preview at …

Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5, a new multimodal AI model that the company says is intended to serve as a foundation for digital agents capable of advanced reasoning and tool use across applications. The release reflects the ongoing shift from standalone chatbot deployments toward AI systems that can execute multi-step workflows and operate with minimal human prompting. In a blog post, Alibaba high…