Working with the Windows App development CLI

In Vernor Vinge’s science fiction novel A Deepness in the Sky, one of the characters works as a software archaeologist, mining thousands of years of code and libraries to find the solutions to development problems. In that fictional far future, every problem has been solved at least once, often in many ways with different interfaces…

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Google Cloud launches GEAR program to broaden AI agent development skills

As enterprises shift from experimenting with AI agents to deploying them in production environments, Google is rolling out a structured skills program aimed at helping developers build, test, and operationalize AI agents using Google Cloud tools, specifically its Agent Development Kit (ADK). Named the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program, the initiative packages hands-on labs,…

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Why cloud outages are becoming normal

The Microsoft Azure outage that dragged out for 10 hours in early February serves as another stark reminder that the cloud, for all its promise, is not immune to failure. At precisely 19:46 UTC on February 2, the Azure cloud platform began experiencing cascading issues stemming from an initial misconfiguration of a policy affecting Microsoft-managed…

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