Author: Adrian Bridgwater

Adrian Bridgwater is a technology journalist with three decades of press experience. Primarily he works as a news analysis writer dedicated to a software application development ‘beat’; but, in a fluid media world, he is also an analyst, technology evangelist and content consultant. As the previously narrow discipline of programming now extends across a wider transept of the enterprise IT landscape, his own editorial purview has also broadened. He has spent much of the last 10 years also focusing on open source, data analytics and intelligence, cloud computing, mobile devices and data management.
The AI shift from prompt engineering to flow engineering

The AI shift from prompt engineering to flow engineering

The IT industry is busy working out how to develop, program with and exploit Artificial Intelligence (AI) in our enterprise applications. Key among the techniques being used to create, coalesce and connect AI is prompt engineering i.e. the process of designing detailed input formats (characters, wo... Read more

date2 days ago
Red Hat pegs out wider rack of cloud-native tools 

Red Hat pegs out wider rack of cloud-native tools 

Red Hat had much to say at the recent KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024 conference, held in Paris this March. The company did its best to explain that it’s no longer just a software company, no longer just a container company, an application platform company, an edge company and, increasingly, not ev... Read more

date3 days ago
InfluxData & AWS clock in for time-series developer analytics 

InfluxData & AWS clock in for time-series developer analytics 

Data is speeding up. This reality means that our systems and applications are now moving towards an increasing amount of real-time data processing, many using data streaming solutions and time-series database offerings. News in this space this month sees time-series platform company InfluxDB, annou... Read more

date14 days ago
Solo doubles up on Gloo Network for Cilium 

Solo doubles up on Gloo Network for Cilium 

Solo has announced the availability of Gloo Network for Cilium, an enterprise-grade network management solution powered by eBPF designed to accelerate Cilium adoption.  Known for its cloud-native API gateway, management services and service mesh, Solo’s interest in Cilium stems from the techn... Read more

date15 days ago
Is there a place for ‘private’ APIs?

Is there a place for ‘private’ APIs?

In the race to interconnect our enterprise IT systems, the use of Application Programming Interface (API) technologies forms an essential means of applying glueing bonds between services, between applications and sometimes between apps, data services and entire operating systems. Essentially consid... Read more

date22 days ago
How mobile AI works

How mobile AI works

We need to keep talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) on mobile devices and this conversation will continue throughout this year and beyond. Despite the fact that Mobile World Congress 2024 is behind us now, this is not a debate that stops once the crowds leave Barcelona. Perhaps now is a good... Read more

date25 days ago
Honeycomb CEO: Defining observability for modern cloud systems

Honeycomb CEO: Defining observability for modern cloud systems

Christine Yen is CEO and co-founder of data store and query engine company Honeycomb. She has strong opinions on system observability in the age of cloud computing, distributed services and virtualisation. Keen to get us all thinking about shift left (i.e. bring into play early) techniques in appli... Read more

date1 month ago
CrowdStrike: Navigating the sprawl of endemic automation

CrowdStrike: Navigating the sprawl of endemic automation

Cyber security and application security endpoint posture management company CrowdStrike has explained its mission to combat the so-called ‘software sprawl’ that exists today. The company suggests that the modern use of component-based cloud architectures, the interconnection of multiple Applica... Read more

date1 month ago
In AI development, never lose your RAG

In AI development, never lose your RAG

AI is smart, but it can be smarter in a cleaner and more controlled way via the use of RAG. Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has quickly become something of a super vitamin shot for generative AI models that seek to gain some additional data connection to external (often outwardly ratified and ... Read more

date2 months ago
Dynatrace widens lens on data observability 

Dynatrace widens lens on data observability 

Dynatrace is a unified observability and security platform company with AI-powered capabilities for data analytics and automation. The company says it has now pledged to match the cadence of modern business information channels. As a branded product and service, Dynatrace Data Observability is desi... Read more

date2 months ago
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