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Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing
5+ hour, 17+ min ago (818+ words) Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks chief scientist and long-time expert on object-oriented programming, views AI as the biggest shift in programming he has seen in his entire career. In an interview on the Pragmatic Engineer podcast, hosted by Gergely Orosz, Fowler admitted…...
How Kafka Simplifies Application Integration and Modernization
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (751+ words) Individual users and data engineers often build custom, batch-oriented data pipelines for specific use cases. Fragmentation, duplication and inconsistencies across these application data silos and pipelines prevent data sharing and reuse. Data locked up in a single application that can't…...
TanStack Adds Framework-Agnostic AI Toolkit
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1071+ words) The TanStack team has added yet another piece to its stack: This time, it's the alpha release of a new framework-agnostic AI toolkit for developers called " guess what? " TanStack AI. "Let's be honest. The current AI landscape has a problem,…...
From ETL to Autonomy: Data Engineering in 2026
1+ week, 2+ day ago (606+ words) Data engineering is being reinvented. The discipline that once centered on building and maintaining pipelines is becoming a more strategic role in which engineers architect systems, validate AI-generated code and play a greater role in business decisions. Two forces are…...
A Frontier Model Built Like a Brain with Python and Rust
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1455+ words) The team from Pathway believes that the transformer architecture developed eight years ago has reached its limits, which no amount of computing can overcome. Nor is there the power available to sustain itself. Further, there's a lack of temporal reasoning…...
Rethinking Data Integrity: Why Domain-Driven Design Is Crucial
2+ week, 2+ day ago (677+ words) Too often, developers are unfairly accused of being careless about data integrity. The logic goes: Without the rigid structure of an SQL database, developers will code impulsively, skipping formal design and viewing it as an obstacle rather than a vital…...
Your AI Is Working With Half a Brain. You Need the Other Half
2+ week, 2+ day ago (459+ words) We have all seen the headlines that enterprise AI is failing at a high rate. MIT has reported that 95% of GenAI pilots fail. OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy recently said that true agentic AI could take another 10 years. The challenge is…...
Apache Wayang Makes Data Processing a Cross-Platform Job
2+ week, 2+ day ago (666+ words) Most data processing frameworks are built on a single execution engine. Not Apache Wayang. Last week, The Apache Software Foundation debuted the Wayang data processing framework as a top-level Apache project. Named after Indonesian puppet theater, Wayang is a data…...
Inception Labs: Making LLMs Faster and More Cost-Efficient
2+ week, 3+ day ago (1134+ words) AI leader Andrej Karpathy said Inception Labs" approach to diffusion has the potential to differ in comparison to all the other large language models that lead the field, such as Claude and ChatGPT. That means something. And when Karpathy encourages…...
A Guide To Building Scalable AI Agents
2+ week, 6+ day ago (770+ words) Things can unravel quickly when the right information doesn't reach the right person at the right time. These moments turn chaotic when systems aren't built to respond in real time. Automating this kind of experience requires more than just alerts…...