Document databases – understanding your options

At Open Source Summit Europe in August, the Linux Foundation announced that DocumentDB—a MongoDB-compatible document database built on PostgreSQL—had joined the foundation as a new open source project. This new project, first announced by Microsoft in early 2025, is...

Microsoft’s Dev Proxy puts APIs to the test

Much of modern application development depends on APIs. In the past we may have built massive monolithic applications, but modern cloud-native development depends on collections of microservices, linked by APIs that offer everything from remote procedure calls to...

It’s everyone but Meta in a new AI standards group

It appears Meta has opted to go in a whole new direction in response to this week’s formation by The Linux Foundation of a group called the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), designed to help enterprises develop and manage AI agents through a “shared ecosystem of tools,...

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

Python and C share more than it might seem. The reference version of the Python interpreter is written in C, and many of the third-party libraries written for Python wrap C code. It’s also possible to generate C code from Python. Generating C code with Python has...

Is vibe coding the new gateway to technical debt?

If programming were nothing more than taking an idea and turning it into running code, AI-assisted development might fully deliver on its promise. But AI’s ability to transform natural language prompts into runnable software ultimately highlights the importance of...