Context Engineering Will Decide Enterprise AI Success, Says Cognizant CIO Neal Ramasamy

Artificial intelligence dominated discussions at Davos this year, but inside enterprises the conversation has shifted from excitement to execution. Organizations are moving quickly to deploy agents and automation. However, many are discovering that technology alone does not guarantee operational value.  Against that backdrop, Neal Ramasamy, Chief Information Officer at Cognizant, shared his perspective with BigDATAwire…

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The 200ms latency: A developer’s guide to real-time personalization

For engineers building high-concurrency applications in e-commerce, fintech or media, the “200ms limit” is a hard ceiling. It is the psychological threshold where interaction feels instantaneous. If a personalized homepage, search result or “Up Next” queue takes longer than 200 milliseconds to load, user abandonment spikes. There is a famous study from Amazon showing that…

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Community push intensifies to free MySQL from Oracle’s control amid stagnation fears

Pressure is building on Oracle to loosen its grip on MySQL, with a group of database veterans, developers, and long-time contributors urging the company to transition the open source database to an independent foundation model. The call, articulated in an open letter, reflects mounting concern about MySQL’s development velocity, roadmap transparency, and role in an…

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How to choose the best LLM using R and vitals

Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models—or even free ones you can run locally—that might work well enough for some of your tasks? Answering questions like these isn’t always easy. Model capabilities seem to change every month. And, unlike conventional computer code, LLMs don’t always…

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WinterTC: Write once, run anywhere (for real this time)

The WinterCG community group was recently promoted to a technical committee, signaling a growing maturity for the standard that aims to solidify JavaScript runtimes. Now is good time to catch up with this key feature of modern JavaScript and the web development landscape. The WinterTC manifesto To understand what WinterTC is about, we can begin…

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Enterprise use of open source AI coding is changing the ROI calculation

Coders are understandably complaining about AI coding problems, with the technology often delivering what’s become known as “AI slop,” but their concerns are signaling a more strategic issue about how enterprises calculate coding ROI. The issues, according to IT analysts and consultants, go far beyond vastly faster production of code accompanied by the kinds of…

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