The AI Trust Gap: Why AI Performance Requires Control

For the past few years, the corporate world has been locked in an AI race. Every company is trying to move faster, invest more and keep up with the pace set by Big Tech. But speed isn’t the only challenge. We’ve reached a point where capital investment is outpacing organizational confidence. A new survey from Collibra,…

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A GitHub tinkerer teaches Claude to talk less, and that may matter more than it seems

In a quiet corner of GitHub better known for weekend experiments than paradigm shifts, Drona Reddy, a data analyst at Amazon US, has published a single markdown file that promises to cut Claude’s output token usage by more than half, not by changing code, but by reshaping the model’s behavior. The file, called Claude.md and…

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A GitHub tinkerer teaches Claude to talk less, and that may matter more than it seems

In a quiet corner of GitHub better known for weekend experiments than paradigm shifts, Drona Reddy, a data analyst at Amazon US, has published a single markdown file that promises to cut Claude’s output token usage by more than half, not by changing code, but by reshaping the model’s behavior. The file, called Claude.md and…

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How Apache Kafka flexed to support queues

Since its initial release in 2011, Apache Kafka has cemented itself as the de facto platform for event streaming. Kafka enthusiast Tim Berglund often refers to it as the “universal data substrate.” This is made possible in large part by the Kafka ecosystem that enables connectivity between Kafka and external systems (Kafka Connect) and a…

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What front-end engineers need to know about AWS

Front-end engineers usually think performance problems live in the browser. When a page feels slow, we inspect bundle size and rendering. When something breaks, we open the network tab. If users complain, we optimize components or tweak state management. For a long time, I approached production issues the same way, assuming the root cause had…

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Enterprises demand cloud value

The release of the Flexera 2026 State of the Cloud Report provides vital insights into how enterprises are navigating the constantly changing landscape of cloud computing and increasingly AI-driven workloads. The findings show that the enterprise cloud discussion has changed significantly in recent years. What started as a focus on cost-cutting and simple lift-and-shift migration…

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Azure’s new AI modernization tools

Microsoft has given Azure many hats: a serverless platform for distributed applications, a host for security and identity services, a place for big data, and an alternative to running your own data centers and infrastructure. It’s this last one that’s often forgotten since much of the thinking about cloud platforms focuses on new tools and…

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