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Sovereignty, locality, and “alternative cloud” strategies are often treated as simple settings in hyperscaler consoles. Pick a region, check a compliance box, and move on. IT consultancy Coinerella posted about replacing a typical US-centric startup baseline with a “Made in the EU” stack . They treat sovereignty as an architectural posture and an operating model that can save money. It still invo…

In user-facing distributed systems, latency is often a stronger signal of failure than errors. When responses exceed user expectations, the distinction between “slow” and “down” becomes largely irrelevant, even if every service is technically healthy. I’ve seen this pattern across multiple systems. One incident, in particular, forced me to confront how much production behavior is shaped by defaul…

Google’s planned Android developer verification program, requiring Android apps to be registered by verified developers, is getting pushback, with opponents urging developers not to sign up for the program and to make their opposition known. An open letter opposing the verification program was posted February 24 at Keep Android Open , a consortium that is fighting the Google verification program.…

Lightrun has announced Lightrun AI SRE, an AI-powered site reliability engineering (SRE) assistant designed to detect software production errors and performance degradations. Introduced February 25, the Lightrun AI SRE correlates the service-level issues it finds with proven root causes to propose solutions. Drawing on on live, in-line runtime context, the AI SRE allows AI agents and engineering …

We know that mobile development in 2025 was different. It shifted from a “front-end” concern to a massive, distributed headache in which the most vulnerable component could be any unmanaged, hostile endpoint. In fact, 43% of organizational breaches originate at the mobile edge. The problem lies with the outdated web-centric security models that app developers rely on. With mobile platforms operat…

Available as a part of .NET 10 , which was released last November, C# 14 brings a plethora of new features and enhancements that make it easier to write efficient, high performant code. Just as we walked through the new features and enhancements in C# 13 and C# 12 , in this article we’ll take a close look at some of the best new features in C# 14. To work with the code examples provided in this a…

Once upon a time, we had mainframes with simple, nonprogrammable consoles. All the power was centralized. Then, Gates and Jobs put a personal computer on every desk. The power was distributed. Then, the internet came along, and the browser became the most popular application in the world. The power moved back onto the server, the cloud became king. Now, that pendulum is swinging back. This articl…

Once envisioned as a bridge between Java and JavaScript , the Detroit project never got off the ground. Now, there are efforts at reviving it, adding a Python engine to the mix. Intended to enable using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications, the Detroit project fizzled out after losing its sponsoring group around 2018. But according to a new proposal dated February 25, there s…

Inception has introduced Mercury 2, calling it the world’s fastest reasoning LLM. Intended for production AI, the large language model leverages parallel refinement rather than sequential decoding. Mercury 2 was announced February 24 , with access requests available on Inception’s website . Developers can also try Mercury 2 using the Inception chat . Inception says Mercury 2 is intended to solve …

Microsoft says it has uncovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments. The campaign employs carefully crafted lures to blend into routine workflows, such as cloning repositories, opening projects, and running builds, thereby allowing the malicious code to execute undetected. Telemetry col…

MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork , following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, but with time it’s charted its own path. Over the last few major revisions, the open source RDBMS has added unique functions, greater compatibility with MySQL, and a suite of behaviors designed to make it a migration target for Oracle SQL users. Here’s a quick look at some of the best and most powerful new feature…

It’s tough out here for a dev/tech writer. Back in the before days (that is, about two months ago), you could always find a variety of topics to write about. “Seven ways to improve your database design,” say. Or “Five things I never do in code.” There were a ton of things that developers were concerned about when it came to writing code. The study of clean code and how to write it was a constant …

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached its second release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set having been frozen in December. The following 10 features are officially targeted to JDK 26: a fourth preview of primitive types in patterns, instanceof , and switch , ahead-of-time object caching , an…

Google has added an agent step to its Opal tool for building AI-powered mini-apps. Powered by the Gemini 3 Flash model, the new agent in Opal enables autonomous workflows that plan, reason, and execute on the user’s behalf, Google said. Introduced February 24 and available to all Opal users, the agent step upgrades Opal workflows from static model calls to agentic intelligence, according to Googl…