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From idea to working software: what the full development lifecycle needs to look like

GitHub's research found that developers using Copilot completed tasks 55% faster than those who didn't. Tools like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, powered by large language models such as Claude or GPT, are designed to automate the tedious parts of programming so engineers can focus on harder, more creative problems. With this. new repos spin up every week. The promise is being kept. But where are the products?

The VM Boom For AI Agents | David Crawshaw Co-Founder & CEO, exe.dev

What happens when AI agents stop simply answering questions and start using computers of their own? It could create an entirely new boom in virtual machines. In this episode of Uplink, David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, joins host Michael Reid to explore the infrastructure behind the rapidly emerging world of AI agents. As agents become capable of writing code, running applications, operating tools, maintaining state, and working independently, they need more than access to an AI model. They need computing environments where they can actually get work done.

How Azure Fundamentals Can Strengthen Your Cloud and Digital Technology Skills

Many people encounter AZ-900 (Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals) as a checkbox and never ask what it teaches them beyond Microsoft Azure. The more useful question is whether a fundamentals-level credential can build digital skills that remain relevant after the exam or whether it amounts to little more than a badge.

Top 10 Heroku Alternatives

Heroku is not shutting down. On February 6, 2026, Heroku CPO Nitin T Bhat announced that the platform was moving to a sustaining engineering model: new feature development has stopped, but Heroku remains actively supported and production-ready. There is no announced EOL date or migration deadline, existing apps can keep running, credit-card customers can continue using the service, and existing Enterprise customers can renew. What changed is the roadmap, not immediate availability.

Data residency in 2026: what regulators now expect from your cloud, and how to prove it

Ask a compliance team where their EU customer data lives, and most will point confidently at a dashboard showing a Frankfurt or Dublin region. Ask their legal counsel whether that data is beyond the reach of a foreign government demand, and the confidence usually drops. Those are two different questions. Since 12 September 2025 there has been a dated EU obligation that turns on the second one rather than the first.

Container hardening isn't a substitute for artifact management

Hardened base images are a great secure foundation. They're minimal, security-vetted, and have few dependencies to worry about. But almost nobody ships a bare base image. Teams build on top of it. This video cover whys that "on top of it" layer is where the risk actually lives: Skip the base image hardening and you're building on a shaky foundation. Skip artifact management and you're leaving everything built on top of that foundation ungoverned. A strong posture uses both.

What is Backup and Disaster Recovery? A Complete Guide

Learn what backup and disaster recovery means, how BDR works, and why it matters for reducing downtime and data loss. Backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is what keeps data loss from becoming a business-wide catastrophe. And to protect their business, IT teams need to ask if they can recover the right data, in the right order, fast enough for the business to keep operating. A backup can preserve a copy of a file, database, or workload, but disaster recovery is what brings the wider service back online.

Database Branching Explained: How It Works and When to Use It

Database branching solves a strange mismatch in modern development: code gets its own branch, but the database often doesn’t. Developers can work independently in Git, then end up sharing the same development database, waiting for a fresh copy, or trying not to break each other’s schema changes. The result is a lot of database sprawl.

The 5 Levels of Running Coding Agents

If you're trying to run more than a few AI coding agents at once, the real problem shifts from prompting to managing where they live and what they can reach. This video walks through the five levels of agent management, from the IDE all the way to a fleet running in the cloud with access to your own services.