Microsoft accelerates pace of VS Code development

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer,  the company has been making monthly releases, each with three or four patches and new functionality, but starting from March 9 the changes will come weekly, it announced on...

Twenty years of Amazon S3 and building what’s next

Twenty years ago today, on March 14, 2006, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) quietly launched with a modest one-paragraph announcement on the What’s New page: Amazon S3 is storage for the Internet. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for...

The AI coding hangover

For the past few years, I’ve watched a specific story sell itself in boardrooms: “Software will soon be free.” The pitch is simple: Large language models can write code, which is the bulk of what developers do. Therefore, enterprises can shed developers, point an LLM...