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Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it
Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that...
Rewriting Social Security will be a train wreck
Government software development is a curious business. When I was a student at the Naval Postgraduate School, I wrote...
HTMX and Alpine.js: How to combine two great, lean front ends
HTMX and Alpine are two low-overhead ways to empower your front end. Neither requires a build step, and both let you...
[Launched] Generally Available: New Microsoft Dev Box Regional Availability
Microsoft Dev Box is now available in Spain Central. For more information on Dev Box regional availability, see here.
Red Hat Developer Hub adds analysis dashboard
Red Hat has updated Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise internal developer portal based on Backstage. The new release...
[In preview] Public Preview: CNI Overlay for Application Gateway for Containers and AGIC
Load balance workloads with scalability and resilience across AKS services in an Azure CNI Overlay cluster using...
Understand Python’s new lock file format
Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 751 gives Python a new file format for specifying dependencies. This file, called a...
[Launched] Generally Available: Autoscale for vCore-Based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB
Now you can handle peak loads effortlessly without overprovisioning using the new autoscale capability, currently...
Download the Strategizing Data Analytics for AI Enterprise Spotlight
Download the April 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and...
[In preview] Public Preview: Azure Front Door Custom Cipher Suite
Azure Front Door now supports custom cipher suite in public preview. You can use either a predefined policy or a...
[Launched] Public Preview: Azure Monitor Application Insights Auto-Instrumentation for Java and Node Microservices on AKS
Application Insights integration for Java and Node microservices is now available in Public Preview. You can now...
How to start developing a balanced AI governance strategy
The best defense is a good offense, right? When it comes to AI governance, organizations need both. The reason is that...
How to start developing a balanced AI governance strategy
The best defense is a good offense, right? When it comes to AI governance, organizations need both. The reason is that...
Java plan prepares to restrict final field mutation
A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep...
Agentic AI won’t make public cloud providers rich
While major cloud providers, such as AWS, Google, and Microsoft are rushing to position themselves as leaders in AI...
Retirement: Log Analytics Beta API to Be Retired on March 31, 2026
On March 31, 2026, we’ll be retiring the beta API in Azure Monitor Log Analytics. After that date, queries using this...
Retirement: Log Analytics Batch API to Be Retired on March 31, 2028
On March 31, 2028, we’ll be retiring the batch API in Azure Monitor Log Analytics. After that date, queries using this...
[Launched] Generally Available: Azure File Sync support for managed identities
Azure File Sync support for managed identities is now generally available. Managed Identity eliminates the need for...
How AI is transforming IDEs into intelligent development assistants
Ever feel like you’re spending more time squashing bugs than actually building something? You’re not alone—developers...
Apple’s Swift language gets version manager
Apple has introduced swiftly 1.0, a version manager for the Swift programming language that is intended to ease the...