The death of reactive IT: How predictive engineering will redefine cloud performance in 10 years

For more than two decades, IT operations has been dominated by a reactive culture. Engineers monitor dashboards, wait for alerts to fire and respond once systems have already begun to degrade. Even modern observability platforms equipped with distributed tracing, real-time metrics and sophisticated logging pipelines still operate within the same fundamental paradigm: something breaks, then…

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First look: Run LLMs locally with LM Studio

Dedicated desktop applications for agentic AI make it easier for relatively non-technical users to work with large language models. Instead of writing Python programs and wrangling models manually, users open an IDE-like interface and have logged, inspectable interactions with one or more LLMs. Amazon and Google have released such products with a focus on AI-assisted…

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How vibe coding will supercharge IT teams

There’s a palpable tension in IT today. Teams are stretched to their limits with a growing backlog of initiatives, while executives expect IT to lead the charge on transforming an organization into an AI-driven one. And the numbers paint a somber picture. IT teams are drowning in work as digital transformation projects have not slowed…

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Java use in AI development continues to grow – Azul report

Java is becoming more popular for building AI applications, with 62% of respondents in Azul’s just-released 2026 State of Java Survey and Report relying on Java for AI development. Last year’s report had 50% of participants using Java for AI functionality. Released February 10, the report featured findings from a survey of more than 2,000…

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GitHub previews support for Claude and Codex coding agents

GitHub is adding support for the Anthropic Claude and OpenAI Codex coding agents, via its Agent HQ AI platform. The capability is in public preview. Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise users now can run multiple coding agents directly inside GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code, GitHub announced on February 4. GitHub said that Copilot…

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