Are AI certifications worth the investment? The AI credential revolution: A guide for IT professionals and business leaders.

As AI skills surge in demand, certifications are multiplying fast.

Paul Frenken explores whether they actually build expertise or fall short in practice. Get the full breakdown: spr.ly/63326B6N5m2

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Terraform promised simplicity, but scale is exposing new complexity. Neel Shah breaks down what’s going wrong.

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Enterprises are rushing into voice AI, but poor UX is killing adoption.
Priyanka Kuvalekar explains why conversational design is now a core engineering concern.
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The bar for enterprise security is rising fast. At the CSO Awards during CSO Conference USA in Nashville on May 11-13, top teams show what execution looks like.
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How Pega Blueprint Uses AI to Turn Workflows Into Running Apps in Minutes Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how enterprise applications are designed, but many organizations still struggle with a familiar problem: translating business requirements into working software. In this episode of DEMO, Pega CTO Don Schuerman introduces Blueprint, a design-time AI capability that aims to close that gap by turning workflow ideas into functional applications in minutes.

AI is collapsing the gap between design and code.
Pega CTO Don Schuerman shows how workflows can become running apps in minutes. Watch now: spr.ly/63323B6pf2P

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Cloud scale is exposing structural flaws faster than teams can react. As Venkata Nedunoori explains, most cloud security failures start with people and process, not tech.

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Marcin Wyszynski argues that trusting “benevolent” open source is how teams get blindsided by maintainers, roadmaps, and forks.
Here’s what developers should reconsider before the next update breaks:
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Bob Violino highlights how AI is reshaping developer skill sets faster than teams can adjust.

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Farhan Kaskar shares the engineering discipline behind an AI platform designed for sustained throughput and reliability.

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Five MCP servers to rule the cloud The hyperscalers were quick to support AI agents and the Model Context Protocol. Use these official MCP servers from the major cloud providers to automate your cloud operations.

The hyperscalers jumped on the #MCP train quickly. So what can you actually do with MCP servers for major clouds?

My latest for @infoworld.bsky.social looks at what's possible using official MCP servers from AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle, and IBM Cloud.

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The data center gold rush is warping reality Is the data center building boom driven by competitive signaling or real demand? If adoption falls short, today’s boom will bring tomorrow’s bust.

"High-tech companies are spending massive amounts of money on data centers because the market rewards them for doing so. Capital expenditures have become a kind of corporate signaling mechanism," writes David Linthicum.
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Tom Wilkie breaks down why open source is becoming the default starting point for real‑world AI engineering.
His take shows how community‑driven models boost speed and experimentation.
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Cloud complexity is piling up, and dev teams are paying the price.
John Doss breaks down why replatforming is the new reality for modern workloads.
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Your cloud stack is generating more complexity than humans can interpret. Sopuluchukwu Ani argues that predictive engineering is the only way forward.

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From transformers to GANs, AI is rewriting data quality. Sunil Kumar Mudusu details how automated repair and trust scoring redefine reliability.

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The Super Bowl isn’t just a broadcast. It is the world’s harshest distributed-systems stress test. Manoj Yerrasani explains why only intentional architecture survives the surge.

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Is code a cow path? There is probably a more direct route from AI models to the software we want than having agents work with code.

What might software development might look like in a post-code world? www.infoworld.com/article/4122...

CPython vs. PyPy: Which Python runtime has the better JIT? How does CPython’s new native-JIT compiler stack up against PyPy? We ran side-by-side benchmarks to find out, and the answers may surprise you.

Could CPython be on track to displace PyPy for better performance? We ran PyPy and the latest JIT-enabled and no-GIL CPython builds side by side on the same benchmarks, with intriguing results.

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Agentic AI breaks the old security model. One compromised agent can collapse the system in minutes.
Akshay Mittal shares the blueprint for a trust layer.

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If “10x engineer” sounds mythical, it’s time to rethink the math. Real leverage comes from elevating everyone around you.
Learn how from Ritvika Nagula.
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16 open source projects transforming AI and machine learning From fine-tuning open source models to building agentic frameworks on top of them, the open source world is ripe with projects that support AI development.

For several decades now, the most innovative software has always emerged from the world of open source software. It’s no different with machine learning and large language models. www.infoworld.com/article/2336...

Edge AI: The future of AI inference is smarter local compute Smaller models, lightweight frameworks, specialized hardware, and other innovations are bringing AI out of the cloud and into clients, servers, and devices on the edge of the network.

Edge AI is gaining new importance as the industry shifts from training to inference. My feature on @infoworld.bsky.social today digs into edge AI, and why tech leaders are betting on it for reduced cost, better privacy, and lower latency.
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Forget sci‑fi fantasies. Hyperautomation is real work, and Raul Leite shows how Ansible becomes the hands that orchestrate, connect and execute the automation CIOs rely on.

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MongoDB releases mongot source code to boost RAG and AI workloads By releasing the code behind its search and vector engine under the SSPL, MongoDB is giving self‑managed users new visibility and control, helping developers build more reliable, production‑grade RAG ...

By making mongot’s source code publicly available, MongoDB is turning what was previously an Atlas-only, opaque service into inspectable components, said Sanjeev Mohan, principal analyst at SanjMo. www.infoworld.com/article/4118...

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When platform capacity hits zero, product teams face slipping launches and blocked revenue. Pratik Gupta shows how away‑teaming breaks the gridlock and unlocks progress without derailing platform priorities.
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Rust slow to compile? Here’s how to speed it up If the big bottleneck in your Rust development workflow is compile time, there are at least five ways you can fix it.

Used smartly, many of the slowest parts of the Rust toolchain can be made quite snappy. Here’s a compendium of common techniques for speeding up Rust compilation. www.infoworld.com/article/4115...

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Distributed monoliths kill agility. Neel Shah shows why composable architecture on AWS is the modern path to resilient and scalable software.

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One AI platform won’t cut it. Tom Popomaronis explains why stack thinking beats one-tool thinking and how to build an AI bench that delivers depth, nuance and resilience.

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Databricks says its Instruction Retrieval offers better AI answers than RAG in the enterprise Databricks says Instructed Retrieval outperforms RAG and could move AI pilots to production faster, but analysts warn it could expose data, governance, and budget gaps that CIOs can’t ignore.

Databricks's new “Instructed Retriever” architecture combines old-fashioned database queries with the similarity search of RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) to offer more relevant responses to users’ prompts. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...

AI-built Rue language pairs Rust memory safety with ease of use Developed using Anthropic’s Claude AI model, the new language is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig.

A former longtime contributor to the development of Rust now is building a Rust-based language of his own, called Rue, which is intended to provide memory safety without garbage collection while being easier to use than Rust and Zig. www.infoworld.com/article/4114...