How to destroy a company quickly

Too many executives are cutting software engineering teams because they bought into the fantasy that AI can now build and maintain enterprise applications with only a few people around to supervise the machine. That idea isn’t bold. It isn’t visionary. It’s reckless, and more executives will suffer the consequences of their mistakes beyond just a…

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Designing self-healing microservices with recovery-aware redrive frameworks

Cloud-native microservices are built for resilience, but true fault tolerance requires more than automatic retries. In complex distributed systems, a single failure can cascade across multiple services, databases, caches or third-party APIs, causing widespread disruptions. Traditional retry mechanisms, if applied blindly, can exacerbate failures and create what is known as a retry storm, an exponential…

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The best new features in MariaDB

MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL, but with time it’s charted its own path. Over the last few major revisions, the open source RDBMS has added unique functions, greater compatibility with MySQL, and a suite of behaviors designed to make it a migration target for Oracle SQL users….

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OpenScholar Shows Why Grounded AI Matters for Scientific Research

Researchers from the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) and the University of Washington have developed a new open-source AI model named OpenScholar that they claim can synthesize scientific literature and verifiable citations at a level comparable to a human expert. With millions of scientific papers published every year, it’s challenging to keep up with the…

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