Tim Anderson

AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?

Analysis We look at the state of AI software development – it's not going away, but risks abound

AI Infrastructure Month01 May 2025 | 9

Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook

Interview Engineer who works on ways to prove that code is mathematically correct finds his field is suddenly much less obscure

AI + ML07 Jan 2025 | 84

The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more

re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most

Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 7

AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps

Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you?

Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1

Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS

RE:INVENT The intersection of computer science and physics

Systems05 Dec 2022 | 20

.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS

RE:INVENT Amazon web arm investing in Microsoft's platform to help customers escape Windows

Software01 Dec 2022 | 25

'Russian missiles can't destroy the cloud': Ukraine leader describes emergency migration

Re:Invent Urgent digital transformation in a war-torn country

Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 29

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky promises 'Zero ETL' future in re:Invent keynote

RE:INVENT Move towards applications could bring cloud giant further into competition with its customers

Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 | 16

Ever wondered how the AWS leviathan develops software?

re:Invent It's about small teams, microservices, bias towards serverless, and having the creator of Java on standby

Devops29 Nov 2022 | 13

20 years of .NET: Reflecting on Microsoft's not-Java

Interviews In which it is revealed that Silverlight lives on ... as .NET Core

Software15 Feb 2022 | 103

Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really?

Review Top request from devs? A Linux version

Devops25 Jan 2022 | 89

Azul lays claim to massive efficiency gains with remote compilation for Java

Interview High price and no ARM64 yet. We quiz boss on whether it makes sense

Software15 Dec 2021 | 13

Linux Foundation spends 20% more in 2021, highlights new LFX platform

New tool for security, insights, and fixing "gender and racially insensitive language rampant in code"

Software13 Dec 2021 | 19

We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE

First look Rough edges, but ground-up design makes sense

Software09 Dec 2021 | 5

The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed

Re:invent Our wrap-up: Instant Glacier storage, Kubernetes at AWS, Adobe pops up despite Microsoft partnership, and more

PaaS + IaaS09 Dec 2021 | 3

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Updated Microsoft aware of the issue months ago, but not fixed yet

Storage08 Dec 2021 | 60

Rusty Linux kernel draws closer with new patch adding support for Rust as second language

Experimental – but good enough to start writing 'drivers and other modules'

Software07 Dec 2021 | 17

AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages

Updated 'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' - which now appears almost complete

Off-Prem07 Dec 2021 | 54

AWS DocumentDB not MongoDB-compatible, says MongoDB Inc

Interview MongoDB CTO Mark Porter: 'It is 34 per cent compatible, through our tests'

Databases06 Dec 2021 | 10

Graviton 3: AWS attempts to gain silicon advantage with latest custom hardware

RE:INVENT Key to faster, more predictable cloud

Systems06 Dec 2021 | 2

AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps

Re:invent Plus: Why company foresees growth of Rust, already widely used internally

Applications03 Dec 2021 |

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

RE:INVENT Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data

Off-Prem02 Dec 2021 | 2

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

Re:Invent CEO Adam Selipsky takes the stage in Vegas – and may be on a collision course with customers

PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2021 | 5

Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

Re:Invent The snag: This programming language is safe and efficient, but hard to learn, impacting productivity

Devops30 Nov 2021 | 138

All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed

Security, collaboration, flexible working: Fleet does it all apparently

Software29 Nov 2021 | 12

Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out

Multiple Windows in WinUI 3? Next version. Open source? Maybe one day

Software29 Nov 2021 | 21

AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage

Customer: 'I should send Cloudflare a Christmas card to say thanks'

Off-Prem25 Nov 2021 | 7

Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

But Redmond has bigger questions to answer regarding Azure architecture

PaaS + IaaS24 Nov 2021 | 13

AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks

10 quintillion IP addresses per subnet but expect some pain

Networks24 Nov 2021 | 7

Microsoft restores Remote Assistance to Intune – this time as a premium feature

Customers accuse Redmond of making standard functionality a pricey extra

Software24 Nov 2021 | 6

PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers, vows to pay 'market salaries'

Scripting language's dependency on two contributors sparks worries about its future

Software23 Nov 2021 | 14

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

Updated Welcome to 'The First Rust Governance Crisis'

Software23 Nov 2021 | 150

Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level

OSes23 Nov 2021 | 15

Replaced several times but still live and kicking: Windows Forms updated for .NET 6.0

High DPI continues to be a challenge in ancient desktop framework

Software22 Nov 2021 | 26

Netlify acquires OneGraph: One API to rule them all?

Interview Also: Funding for Jamstack startups, and why Twilio adopted the architecture

Software19 Nov 2021 | 2

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Review Google Assistant? More like Google Insistent

Personal Tech19 Nov 2021 | 12

Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Stop the rock, can't stop the rock, we can't stop the rock

Software17 Nov 2021 | 116

AWS adds Linux app streaming alongside Windows to 'greatly lower' cost

Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price

Off-Prem17 Nov 2021 | 4

Alma and Rocky Linux release 8.5 builds, Rocky catches up with secure boot

CentOS 8.5 also available ... but with only 6 weeks before end of life

OSes16 Nov 2021 | 7

GitHub fixes authorisation vulnerability in the NPM JavaScript package registry

Flaw allowed 'an attacker to publish new versions of any npm package'

Security16 Nov 2021 | 4

There's something to be said for delayed gratification when Windows 11 is this full of bugs

Also: Emergency patch for Windows Server after Patch Tuesday broke single sign-on for some users

Security15 Nov 2021 | 57

We're making F# more normal as a language, says its creator

Loved by users, impenetrable to others, but 6.0 update aims to change that

Devops12 Nov 2021 | 14

Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right?

Containerised Podman and OpenJDK 17 also highlights of minor release

OSes11 Nov 2021 | 19

'Automate or die!' Gartner reckons most biz apps will be developed via low-code by the people who use them

Also: AI is near the 'trough of disillusionment'

Applications10 Nov 2021 | 28

As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode

Updated PC and server slinger 'a case study on how not to collaborate with upstream'

OSes10 Nov 2021 | 60

Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, but why bother when VS Code runs just fine on Apple hardware?

.NET works in mysterious ways

Software09 Nov 2021 | 24

.NET 6 LTS and VS 2022: Major releases spoilt by continuing concern about Microsoft's commitment to open source

Both bring new features and better performance

Software08 Nov 2021 | 8

Linux PC shop System76 is building a new desktop environment in Rust

'There are things we'd like to do that we can't simply achieve through extensions in GNOME'

OSes08 Nov 2021 | 31

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Also: Engineers call for 'a diverse set of browsers across all platforms including iOS'

Software08 Nov 2021 | 60

Angular 13 arrives: Ivy everywhere, View Engine and IE11 support cut

Cruft removed to improve performance

Software04 Nov 2021 | 3

Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI – for those who want cloudy remote desktops hosted on-prem

Ignite We drill into what's available in this public preview

PaaS + IaaS04 Nov 2021 |

Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero

Interview Kubernetes under the covers, with a Microsoft flavour

Devops03 Nov 2021 | 8

Fedora 35 is out: GNOME 41 desktop, polished UI, easier-to-install closed-source apps

Plus: Why the distro isn't in the Microsoft Store for WSL

OSes02 Nov 2021 | 19

What a Mesh: Microsoft puts Office in the Loop, adds mixed reality tech to Teams

Ignite Vid chat app gets 3D virtual meetings while users hope for more reliable connections

Applications02 Nov 2021 | 41

SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres

Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server

Databases02 Nov 2021 | 33

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AI software development: Productivity revolution or fraught with risk?

Can AWS really fix AI hallucination? We talk to head of Automated Reasoning Byron Cook

AI and analytics converge in new generation Amazon SageMaker

AWS introduces S3 Tables, a new bucket type for data analytics

AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications'

AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change'

The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more

Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant

AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps

Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS

.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS

'Russian missiles can't destroy the cloud': Ukraine leader describes emergency migration

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky promises 'Zero ETL' future in re:Invent keynote

Ever wondered how the AWS leviathan develops software?

20 years of .NET: Reflecting on Microsoft's not-Java

Microsoft's do-it-all IDE Visual Studio 2022 came out late last year. How good is it really?

Azul lays claim to massive efficiency gains with remote compilation for Java

Linux Foundation spends 20% more in 2021, highlights new LFX platform

We've only gone and got our hands on an early preview of Fleet, the forthcoming JetBrains IDE

The big AWS event: 120 announcements but nothing has changed

Flash? Nu-uh. Windows 11 users complain of slow NVMe SSD performance

Rusty Linux kernel draws closer with new patch adding support for Rust as second language

AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages

AWS DocumentDB not MongoDB-compatible, says MongoDB Inc

Graviton 3: AWS attempts to gain silicon advantage with latest custom hardware

AWS previews SDKs for Rust, Kotlin, Swift, and Amplify Studio for rapid web apps

All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

AWS unveils Graviton3 Arm chips and more. But the real story is the slide from IaaS to packaged solutions

Can Rust save the planet? Why, and why not

All change at JetBrains: Remote development now, new IDE previewed

Project Union: Microsoft releases Windows App SDK 1.0, developers try to puzzle it out

AWS chops data transfer fees by massive extension of free tier – 2 months after rival previewed R2 Storage

Microsoft extends 'outage mode' for Azure Active Directory to bake more resilience into cloudy services

AWS claims 'monumental step forward' with optional IPv6-only networks

Microsoft restores Remote Assistance to Intune – this time as a premium feature

PHP Foundation formed to fund core developers, vows to pay 'market salaries'

Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say

Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

Replaced several times but still live and kicking: Windows Forms updated for .NET 6.0

Netlify acquires OneGraph: One API to rule them all?

Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Ubuntu desktop team teases 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux

AWS adds Linux app streaming alongside Windows to 'greatly lower' cost

Alma and Rocky Linux release 8.5 builds, Rocky catches up with secure boot

GitHub fixes authorisation vulnerability in the NPM JavaScript package registry

There's something to be said for delayed gratification when Windows 11 is this full of bugs

We're making F# more normal as a language, says its creator

Red Hat 8.5 released with SQL Server and .NET 6 ... this is Linux, right?

'Automate or die!' Gartner reckons most biz apps will be developed via low-code by the people who use them

As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode

Microsoft previews Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, but why bother when VS Code runs just fine on Apple hardware?

.NET 6 LTS and VS 2022: Major releases spoilt by continuing concern about Microsoft's commitment to open source

Linux PC shop System76 is building a new desktop environment in Rust

Awkward. At Chrome summit, developer asks: Why should anyone trust Google?

Angular 13 arrives: Ivy everywhere, View Engine and IE11 support cut

Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI – for those who want cloudy remote desktops hosted on-prem

Microsoft introduces Azure Container Apps with scale to zero

Fedora 35 is out: GNOME 41 desktop, polished UI, easier-to-install closed-source apps

What a Mesh: Microsoft puts Office in the Loop, adds mixed reality tech to Teams

SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres

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