More hardware won’t fix bad engineering

As an industry, we’ve gotten good at buying our way out of bad decisions. Need more throughput? Add instances. Tail latencies get spiky? Add a cache in front of the cache. Kelly Sommers nails the root cause: Pattern-driven architectures can be organizationally tidy...

Down and out with Cerebras Code

When a vendor offered 2000 tokens per second (TPS) of Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct (aka Qwen3 Coder) for $50 (Cerebras Code Pro) or $200 (Cerebras Code Max), I, like many, was spellbound. However, the offer was sold out almost instantaneously. When the next window...

AI developer certifications tech companies want

Cloud computing and cybersecurity are among the featured players on the contemporary software development stage, but artificial intelligence (AI) is the star. AI continues to gain momentum as a force for business growth and opportunity, and tech and business leaders...

Kotlin 2.2.20 boosts WebAssembly support

Kotlin 2.2.20 has been released, with the latest version of the concise, multiplatform, “pragmatic” programming language bringing its WebAssembly-compilation component, Kotlin/Wasm, into beta. JetBrains announced Kotlin 2.2.20 release on September 10. The release...