Today on Product Saturday: MongoDB focuses on performance and resilience, Microsoft tackles event handling with a new open-source project, and the quote of the week.
Today: why agents are the new vehicle for enterprise AI ambitions, OpenAI secures the bag, and the latest moves in enterprise tech.
No one really agrees on a strict definition of "agent," but recent breakthroughs in large-language models have allowed companies to build enhanced versions of chatbots that can respond to natural-language queries with a plan of action.
After Cockroach Labs announced earlier this month that CockroachDB would switch to a proprietary model, Oxide Computer Company decided to take a unique approach to preserving its investments in Cockroach's open-source software.
There are lots of companies interested in generative AI apps with money but limited skills. They'll need helpful platform tools to get up and running, and competition in this category could set the tone for the enterprise AI era.
"This might be the best executed supply chain attack we've seen described in the open, and it's a nightmare scenario." There's no real plan to prevent the next one.
It's getting hard to understand why any company should consider using open-source software released under a traditional license by a venture-backed startup.
The premise behind the Agile Manifesto is that developers, the users they serve, and business stakeholders all benefit by working together. But too often, organizations are faking true change by plastering a new label on older software development practices.
Enterprise tech vendors promised customers that they will indemnify them from legal claims made against the output produced by generative AI tools. However, none of those companies want to talk about how it will actually work.
GitHub plays a central role in modern software development. Plan to embed generative AI tech into a fundamental part of that experience has some developers concerned about a lack of focus.
AWS evolved into one of the biggest businesses enterprise tech has ever seen by taking the Home Depot approach; it offers everything companies need to build digital experiences around their businesses, but it's up to you to find it and put it together. However, the market has shifted.
If we assume that every company has become a software company, that means software developers have become some of the most valuable (and expensive) employees on the payroll. How do companies know they're getting the most out of their investment in those employees?
For more than 20 years, Atlassian's Jira has been the primary issue-tracking tool used to manage software development projects. But Notion is increasingly gaining converts among software developers as an asynchronous project-management tool.
The open-source software movement unleashed a torrent of innovation and economic activity by creating free, reusable building blocks for the internet infrastructure that runs the world's economy. More than two decades later, the maintenance bill for those projects is coming due.
One of the most interesting cloud computing technologies to emerge since the container could be ready for prime time later this year, as long as its community-oriented approach holds together and delivers the key pieces of the puzzle needed to unlock enterprise support.
