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MariaDB taps GridGain to keep pace with AI-driven data demands
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (506+ words) MariaDB, the company behind the open-source fork of MySQL, is planning to acquire in-memory computing middleware provider GridGain to bolster its platform for high-performance data and artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The database provider is planning to infuse its relational database…...
Neoclouds run AI cheaper and better
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (420+ words) In that context, a neocloud is not a sidecar. It is'one more cloud'that must be'operated, maintained, secured, and governed. It introduces new identity and access patterns, network topologies, logging and monitoring surfaces, key management decisions, and incident response runbooks. You…...
How developers can bring voice AI into telephony applications
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (630+ words) In the era of support apps and chatbots, telephony continues to hold strong as the backbone of'customer communication, and voice AI is entering the call center scene to further streamline customer interaction.' Voice AI agents have a multitude of enterprise…...
Ruby sinking in popularity, buried by Python – Tiobe
7+ hour, 57+ min ago (482+ words) Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since…...
Coding for agents
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (167+ words) Large language models (LLMs) and AI agents aren't important to software engineering because they can write code at superhuman speeds. Without the right guardrails, as I've highlighted, that speed simply translates into mass-produced technical debt. No, agentic coding matters because…...
How generative UI cut our development time from months to weeks
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (935+ words) When we shipped a new feature last quarter, it would have taken three months to build traditionally. It took two weeks. Not because we cut corners or hired contractors, but I fundamentally changed how we create user interfaces. Instead, I…...
19 large language models for safety or danger
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (258+ words) Everyone working on artificial intelligence these days fears the worst-case scenario. The precocious LLM will suddenly glide off the rails and start spouting dangerous thoughts. One minute it's a genius that's going to take all our jobs, and the next…...
MCP C# SDK 1.0 arrives with improved authorization server discovery
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (324+ words) Microsoft's official C# SDK for implementing Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients has reached its 1.0 milestone release. The update brings full support for the 2025-11-25 version of the MCP Specification, highlighted by enhanced authorization server discovery and icon metadata for…...
Why enterprises are still bad at multicloud
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (492+ words) The most common combination is AWS, Microsoft, and Google, with some mix of SaaS and a remaining on-prem footprint that still matters more than people admit. On paper, this sounds like options and resilience. In practice, it often looks like…...
Why local-first matters for JavaScript
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (427+ words) Why local-first matters for JavaScript'InfoWorld The JavaScript innovation train is really picking up momentum lately, driven'as always'by the creativity of the JavaScript developer community. The emerging local-first SQL datastores crystalize ideas about client/server symmetry that have been a long…...