Agents of chaos

The dream of self-directed AI is becoming real, and companies can’t wait to turn their agents loose on everyday workflows. Standards like the Model Context Protocol are helping agents move from chat to action, while new frameworks promise smoother integrations and...

An EU breakup with US cloud providers

European organizations are increasingly vocal about their desire to reduce their reliance on US-based hyperscalers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. This goal stems from a growing need to achieve digital sovereignty, comply with stricter...

Using Valkey on Azure and in .NET Aspire

Big changes to the license used by the popular open source key/value store Redis prompted a fork, with the launch of Valkey. In the time since that fork in March 2024, the two projects have diverged. The Valkey project is concentrating on performance improvements,...