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Inside Google’s Database Infrastructure for the AI Era

Historically, databases were responsible for storing data and returning exact results in response to queries. However, AI is now bending that contract in a new direction.

A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems

A Rust Framework to Simplify Distributed Systems Building software that runs across many machines is notoriously difficult. Developers have to grapple with problems such

SED News: The NVIDIA-Hugging Face Deal, China’s Proxy Economy, the Open Weight Surge

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silic

Moving Beyond RAG with Precomputed Context

Retrieval has become one of the central problems in building useful AI systems. The standard approach to grounding a model in one’s own data has been retrieval augmented

The Death of Online Anonymity

Age verification is reshaping how people access the internet. An ever-growing patchwork of laws can now require government IDs, facial age estimation, or behavioral infer

TypeScript 7 and What Comes Next

TypeScript is a programming language that builds on JavaScript by adding a system of types. Those types let developers describe the shape of their data and catch mistakes

The Gap Between AI Spending and AI Value

It is widely reported that a gap has emerged between enterprise spending on AI and the durable value captured from that spend. Individual employees have enthusiastically

AI and the New Global Security Landscape

The conversation about AI often focuses on software, automation, and the race between attackers and defenders in code. However, some of the most consequential risks lie f

How LLMs Are Reshaping Recommendation Systems

News feeds and recommendation systems have long relied on deep learning architectures that score each candidate item independently. As LLMs have matured, they have opened

Rebuilding the Cloud for AI Agent Code

For two decades, the cloud has been shaped by human developers writing code and managing its deployment. Now a growing share of production code is generated by LLMs with

SED News: The Kimi Moment, Runaway AI, and Tokenmaxxing

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silic

The Terminal as an Agentic Interface

The terminal has been a constant in software development for decades. It has remained largely unchanged while everything around it transformed. However, as AI agents have

AI-Powered Threats to the Software Supply Chain

Open source software underpins virtually every modern application. That ubiquity is a superpower for developers, but it is also an expanding attack surface. Software supp

Docker and Sandboxing AI Agents

The most useful coding agents can mutate their environments by downloading packages, writing files, and connecting to services across the network. However, that freedom a

The Startup Scene in Southeast Asia

Golden Gate Ventures is one of Southeast Asia’s most established early-stage venture firms, having backed companies across the region since 2011. They have invested in co

NanoClaw and the Rise of Personal AI Agents

AI agents have shown remarkable potential to function as persistent digital assistants that are capable of monitoring data, managing communications, and taking action aut

Agentic DevOps at AWS

AI agents have become capable of reasoning across large amounts of data, calling tools, and taking sequences of actions autonomously. These qualities make them well suite

AURA and Open-Source Agents for Production Operations

AI agents have transformed how software gets written, but the operational side of running software in production has not yet experienced a similar revolution. The same te

Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad

Eric Ries is the creator of the Lean Startup method and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, which transformed how a generation of founders and e

SED News: Restricted Models, IDE Wars, and the DeepMind Mafia

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silic