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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AI agents and bad productivity metrics

Here’s a little bit of snark from developer John Crickett on X: Software engineers: Context switching kills productivity. Also software engineers: I’m now managing 19 AI agents and doing 1,800 commits a day. Crickett’s quip lands perfectly because it is not actually a joke. It’s a preview of the next management fad, wherein we replace…

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What to Know About Tableau Cloud on Hyperforce

Spencer Czapiewski Noel Carter Senior Product Marketing Manager, Tableau Sumeet Gupta Product Management Director In the rapidly evolving world of cloud computing, Salesforce’s Hyperforce platform has emerged as a groundbreaking platform, redefining scalability, security, and compliance across the globe. To meet customer demand for more robust, secure, and scalable cloud analytics solutions, Tableau Cloud has…

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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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The browser is your database: Local-first comes of age

Once upon a time, we had mainframes with simple, nonprogrammable consoles. All the power was centralized. Then, Gates and Jobs put a personal computer on every desk. The power was distributed. Then, the internet came along, and the browser became the most popular application in the world. The power moved back onto the server, the…

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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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Inception’s Mercury 2 speeds around LLM latency bottleneck

Inception has introduced Mercury 2, calling it the world’s fastest reasoning LLM. Intended for production AI, the large language model leverages parallel refinement rather than sequential decoding. Mercury 2 was announced February 24, with access requests available on Inception’s website. Developers can also try Mercury 2 using the Inception chat. Inception says Mercury 2 is…

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