How Oracle became a cloud player

When Oracle launched its cloud service, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), in 2016, very few in the tech industry believed the company could become a serious player in the public cloud market. Established giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and...

Wasm 3.0 adds 64-bit backing, language support

WebAssembly (Wasm) 3.0, the latest version of the binary instruction format enabling web development in multiple languages, was announced complete. The Wasm 3.0 standard features 64-bit address spacing, multiple memories, improved garbage collection, and more language...

How AI changes the data analyst role

AI is not only reshaping the data stack, it’s also redefining the roles within it. And few are evolving more rapidly than the data analyst. As automation and machine learning become increasingly embedded across workflows, the value that data analysts provide is no...

Adding up the hidden costs of generative AI

For decades, developers have dreamed of a higher-level abstraction that would free them from boilerplate code. Generative AI comes closer than ever, with senior engineers already letting it take on more of the work. But the vision of an effortless AI-driven future is...