Cloud finally gets some new competition

by | Jun 30, 2025 | Cloud

For more than a decade “cloud” has really meant three names: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Yet 2025 is proving that the market is no longer a closed club. Cloudflare and Oracle, two companies with wildly different histories, are pressing legitimate advantages that...

Rewriting infrastructure as code for the AI data center

by | Jun 30, 2025 | Cloud

Generative AI has officially entered the infrastructure as code (IaC) trenches. What started as a bottom-up phenomenon — developers using ChatGPT and Copilot to avoid Googling Terraform syntax or getting bogged down in endless StackExchange threads — has grown into...

Three steps to boost Amazon S3 data security

by | Jun 30, 2025 | Cloud

The amount of data in modern systems has skyrocketed beyond what traditional security tools can handle. As organizations embrace AI to boost productivity, security teams face mounting pressure to protect sensitive information across sprawling cloud infrastructures and...

Google touts new Python client library for Data Commons

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Cloud

Google has released a Python client library to query the Data Commons platform, which organizes the world’s publicly available statistical data. The library supports custom instances, among other capabilities. Announced June 26, the new Data Commons Python library can...

Dumping mainframes for cloud can be a costly mistake

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Cloud

A certain Fortune 500 financial institution decided to fully embrace the cloud. Executive memos indicated that all their new initiatives would be “cloud-first.” Teams were encouraged to re-architect everything, including mission-critical transaction processing that...

Rust-powered: Two new Python tools to watch

by | Jun 27, 2025 | Cloud

This week in Python brings us a toe-to-toe showdown between two Rust-powered Python type checking tools. We also have a gentle introduction to type hinting, a look at the perils—and promises—ahead for a free-threaded, no-GIL Python, and a shocking exposé (okay, just...