Eight innovative tools that are reimagining web applications and how we build them. Welcome to the Great Unbloating.

NET 11 Preview 5 focuses on under-the-hood runtime performance gains, streamlined APIs and language features that reduce boilerplate, plus built‑in security checks and incremental ASP.NET Core and EF ...

We talk to Ryan Cormack of used car marketplace Motorway about how AI-driven development increases the speed and productivity of engineering and the challenges it brings Continue Reading ...

Azure HorizonDB enters public preview at Microsoft Build 2026 alongside Web IQ, a Bing-rebuilt AI grounding API already ...

ZioNet founder Alon Fliess previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session on building true agentic systems in .NET -- covering the cognitive loop, MCP tool integration, multi-agent orchestration ...

SQL Server Express SQL Server Express is the free edition of SQL Server, supporting databases up to 10 GB with the full T-SQL engine and integration with both SSMS and Azure Data Studio. It includes ...

EU's cloud sovereignty push leaves room for US hyperscalers The Cloud and AI Development Act signals a regulatory direction for the EU as it aims to reduce dependency on US cloud providers. But Europe ...

The UK’s competition watchdog has ruled that Google must provide online publishers and news organisations with the ability to opt out of their work being summarised by artificial intelligence, or ...

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