Features

How fuzzy APIs are remaking the web

With the advent of AI-mediated APIs, the era of manually hard-coding every integration between every microservice may be coming to a close.

By Matthew Tyson

Jun 23, 202611 mins

APIsDevelopment ApproachesWeb Development

A wake-up call for identity security in devops

The GitHub OAuth attack exposed a security blind spot in the ever-growing web of permissions spanning developers, service accounts, and third-party OAuth apps. Here’s how to address it.

By Taylor Parsons

Aug 26, 2025 7 mins

Access Control Application Security Data and Information Security

What alternative clouds are good for

Cost-effective alternatives are filling gaps left by the hyperscalers in supporting AI workloads, edge computing, private clouds, and more.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 25, 2025 10 mins

Cloud Computing

PyApp: An easy way to package Python apps as executables

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the easiest Python packager yet.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 20, 2025 7 mins

Programming Languages Python Rust

The successes and challenges of AI agents

Autonomous systems are quietly changing the way we work. Bigger benefits will come when businesses redesign their workflows with agents at the center.

By Aravind Chandramouli

Aug 19, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

Why software developers burn out, and how to fix it

Developer burnout is a real and widespread problem, and AI technologies seem to be making it worse. Here’s what you need to know about developer burnout and how to fix it.

By Bob Violino

Aug 18, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Technology Industry

Devops, SRE, and platform engineering: What’s the difference?

Devops, SRE, and platform engineering roles are crucial for modern software development, but they have distinct goals. Understand how each one contributes to speed, stability, and developer experience.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Aug 12, 2025 7 mins

Devops

The advantages of stack-based internal developer platforms

A stack-based approach to IDPs emphasizes reusability, autonomy, and visibility, creating a standardized but flexible system where teams can define and deploy their own devops stack.

By Olivier de Turckheim

Aug 11, 2025 6 mins

DevSecOps Development Tools Devops

Multi-agent AI workflows: The next evolution of AI coding

Instead of working with a single coding agent, developers will soon realize gains by guiding a team of them.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 11, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Why benchmarks are key to AI progress

Researchers are racing to develop more challenging, interpretable, and fair assessments of AI models that reflect real-world use cases. The stakes are high.

By Abigail Wall

Aug 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsegmentation for developers

Microsegmentation used to mean separating network zones. Today, it means separating workload behaviors. It’s a new discipline that requires new tools.

By Jeremy Colvin

Aug 4, 2025 5 mins

Application Security Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder

Vibe coding may be the software development zeitgeist du jour, but vibing with AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here are nine ways overly optimistic vibe coders can fail.

By Peter Wayner

Aug 4, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

Spotlight report: How AI is reshaping IT

IT organizations have already been challenged to find the resources and skills to support major shifts like cloud, automation, and a dramatically altered risk landscape. The emergence of AI as the next big game changer adds an additional level of str

By InfoWorld.com staff

Aug 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Why MCP matters – and how to secure it

Model Context Protocol makes it far easier to integrate LLMs and your APIs. Let’s walk through how MCP clients and servers communicate, securely.

By Sagara Gunathunga

Jul 31, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

First look: Guided code generation with Kiro

AWS’s Claude-powered IDE generates spec-driven code and tests, but keep an eye on the results.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 30, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI

What is Model Context Protocol? How MCP bridges AI and external services

With an open, plug-and-play architecture, MCP is the key to enabling AI agents to interact seamlessly with external tools and real-world data.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jul 29, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence

12 AI coding agents at the cutting edge

AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects.

By Martin Heller

Jul 28, 2025 15 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

How agentic AI will change database management

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time.

By Bennie Grant

Jul 28, 2025 7 mins

Database Administration Databases Generative AI

Mem0: An open-source memory layer for LLM applications and AI agents

Combining an innovative hybrid data store and intelligent retrieval, Mem0 provides a robust foundation for building personalized AI experiences that improve over time.

By Janakiram MSV

Jul 24, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

Amp your Python superpowers with ‘uv run’

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here’s the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 23, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Programming Languages Python

Rethinking and realigning IT for the AI era

CIOs from a range of industries discuss how AI’s emergence as a transformative force is leading them to adapt and reimagine how IT operates to better harness the technology’s potential to revolutionize their business.

By Esther Shein

Jul 22, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

A pragmatic approach to enterprise AI

Consider these six ways to approach AI to help your organization unlock efficiencies while preventing major setbacks and significant cost overruns.

By Jason Hardy

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Strategy

9 AI development skills tech companies want

Developers seeking jobs in AI-driven organizations want to know what tech leaders and hiring managers are looking for. Here’s our list.

By Bob Violino

Jul 21, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

How CodeRabbit brings AI to code reviews

CodeRabbit combines code graph analysis and the power of large language models to identify issues in pull requests and suggest improvements, or even generate those improvements in a new branch.

By Travis Van

Jul 21, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

4 tips for getting started with free-threaded Python

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 16, 2025 7 mins

Concurrency Programming Languages Python

ECMAScript 2025: The best new features in JavaScript

The latest JavaScript specification standardizes a well-balanced and thoughtful set of features, including the built-in global Iterator, new Set methods, improvements to regular expressions, and more.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 16, 2025 11 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

Can System Initiative fix devops?

System Initiative proposes a radical overhaul of infrastructure automation to address infrastructure-as-code chaos and longstanding devops toil.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Jul 14, 2025 11 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Why zero CVEs makes zero sense

Chasing the goal of zero CVEs may tick off some compliance check boxes, but it will not fully address the evolving and holistic threats to enterprise security.

By Scott McCarty

Jul 14, 2025 9 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Devops

InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 nominations now open

InfoWorld awards recognize the best products in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and AI/ML. Final submission deadline has been extended to Friday August 22.

By Doug Dineley

Jul 8, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

How Deutsche Telekom designed AI agents for scale

An introduction to the open-source LMOS platform and its Kotlin-based Arc framework for building, deploying, and managing cloud-native, multi-agent AI systems.

By Arun Joseph

Jul 8, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

OutSystems Mentor: An AI-powered digital assistant for the entire SDLC

Combining low-code, generative AI, and AI-driven guidance, Mentor provides intelligent, context-aware support from application creation through monitoring and governance.

By Luis Blando

Jul 7, 2025 7 mins

Development Tools Generative AI No Code and Low Code

AiSuite: An open-source AI gateway for unified LLM access

Python project from Andrew Ng provides a streamlined approach to working with multiple LLM providers, addressing a significant pain point in the AI development workflow.

By Janakiram MSV

Jul 3, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

How to use editable installs for Python packages

Have you ever wished you could edit Python packages installed locally without reinstalling them? Editable installs are the way.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 2, 2025 4 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Download the ‘AI-ready data centers’ spotlight report

In this issue: There are lots of great reasons for running AI applications in your own data centers – provided they’re up to the task. AI puts new demands on virtually every aspect of data centers from servers and networks to power grids and more. Le

By InfoWorld staff

Jul 1, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Enterprise Buyer’s Guides Private Cloud

Three steps to boost Amazon S3 data security

Technical steps your organization can take to protect itself from the Codefinger ransomware attack and other modern exploits.

By Pranava Adduri

Jun 30, 2025 7 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Security Data and Information Security

Rewriting infrastructure as code for the AI data center

om experimental hacks to enterprise rollouts, generative AI is becoming a standard part of IaC workflows—bringing speed, structure, and new risks.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jun 30, 2025 12 mins

Engineer

Pyrefly and Ty: Two new Rust-powered Python type-checking tools compared

Pyrefly from Meta and Ty from Astral offer type-checking for Python codebases at the speed of Rust.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins

Development Tools Python Rust

LLMs aren’t enough for real-world, real-time projects

Large language models can generate useful insights, but without a true reasoning layer, like a knowledge graph and graph-based retrieval, they’re flying blind.

By Dominik Tomicevic

Jun 24, 2025 7 mins

Analytics Databases Generative AI

How to succeed (or fail) with AI-driven development

Developers and tech leaders share their risks, rewards, and best practices for integrating AI into the software development lifecycle.

By Bob Violino

Jun 23, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

Devops debt: The hidden tax on innovation

Dead code, security false positives, and idle cloud capacity are the leading drags on devops in Java environments. Here’s how to address them.

By Simon Ritter

Jun 23, 2025 7 mins

Devops Engineer Java

Firecrawl: Easy web data extraction for AI applications

Firecrawl redefines web data acquisition for the AI era, offering developers an enterprise-grade tool kit that abstracts away web scraping complexities.

By Janakiram MSV

Jun 19, 2025 5 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP

Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent protocol, and Agent Communication Protocol take slightly different approaches to AI agent communications. Let’s unpack them.

By Adi Polak

Jun 17, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs

Containers give developers flexibility, speed, and simpler deployment. Virtual machines offer superior workload isolation and security. We can have both.

By Alex Zenla

Jun 16, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

Understanding how data fabric enhances data security and governance

Learn how data fabric addresses fragmentation, compliance, and Shadow IT to deliver robust, centralized data protection and governance.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jun 16, 2025 10 mins

Analytics Data and Information Security IT Governance

Mastering AI risk: An end-to-end strategy for the modern enterprise

Organizations gain a strategic advantage with a life-cycle approach to AI cyber risk that acknowledges the rapid evolution of AI technologies, threats, and regulations. Here’s how.

By John Verry

Jun 10, 2025 8 mins

Data Governance Data and Information Security Generative AI

Building a multi-zone and multi-region SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance in Azure

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

By Dave Bermingham

Jun 9, 2025 20 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Microsoft Azure

9 APIs you’ll love for AI integrations and automated workflows

Generative AI means computers just keep getting smarter, and now the APIs are starting to catch up.

By Peter Wayner

Jun 9, 2025 5 mins

APIs Generative AI Machine Learning

Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: Cloud computing is highly established, and IT’s view has shifted from understanding the concept to making the best use of it to solve both technology and business challenges. The time is ripe to step back and revisit your thinking abou

By InfoWorld and CIO.com staff

Jun 2, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Enterprise Buyer’s Guides IT Strategy

7 ways to improve your AI coding results

Leading software developers suggest a combination of new skills and tactics to improve the effectiveness of working with AI.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Jun 2, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Demystifying serverless in the modern data and AI landscape

It’s time to clarify misperceptions and examine what serverless really looks like, especially in a world increasingly shaped by AI and the need for rapid innovation and scaling.

By Artin Avanes

Jun 2, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Serverless Computing