The battle cry of 2025: Do cloud local!

Microclouds can have many names and offer many features. They can be hosted by a regional cloud provider or specialize in a specific use case, such as the rise of GPU cloud providers focusing on the exploding AI space. They could even be clouds that don’t have an...

Two good Visual Studio Code alternatives

The conductor of my choir famously tells us singers, “I only want everything all the time.” Well, as a developer, my mantra for code editors and IDEs (integrated development environments) is exactly that: I only want everything all the time. What’s “everything” in...

JRuby 10 due to arrive in early-2025

JRuby, which dates back to 2001 as a Ruby language implementation for the JVM, is set to arrive at version 10 shortly after the new year. JRuby 10 promises to be fully compatible with Ruby 3.4.0, a planned update to Ruby that brings changes for frozen string literals...

Crescendo makes AI boring—and profitable

There’s money in AI, but not where you think. Sure, Nvidia and the clouds are cleaning up, but they’re primarily selling to enterprises that are mostly kicking tires, not running mission-critical AI applications. Others, like the Financial Times, suggest that AI...