Planet Ingres

 Companies like PlanetScale and Oracle are providing curated libraries of Skills that allow AI coding assistants, such as Claude Code or Cursor, to interact directly with databases.

Skills, Skills, Skills...the latest buzzword in this era of AI induced coding practices. This time they come for the Database to enable agents to perform complex tasks like automated schema optimization, security audits and CSV data ingestion with higher precision and lower token consumption.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18846-agentic-skills-for-the-database-.html

 This article explains concurrency in Python including topics like multithreading, multiprocessing, race conditions, and synchronization mechanisms such as locks. We’ll then take a deep dive into switching off GIL to enable real multithreading in Python, highlighting the differences, the benefits and the gotchas with clear code examples.

https://blog.geekuni.com/2026/04/python-concurrency.html

 Learn about Microsoft Fabric and its applications of ML through a project analyzing Titanic's passenger data.

This tutorial is an end-to-end demonstration of Microsoft Fabric that guides learners from descriptive and diagnostic analytics to predictive analytics using the popular Kaggle Titanic dataset. The goal of the tutorial is to train a binary classification machine learning model capable of predicting whether an individual would have survived or perished on the Titanic, based on personal details like their age, gender, and ticket class.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18831-microsoft-fabric-machine-learning-tutorial-the-course.html

 It's a full curriculum that lives solely on its Github repository. And it's really full; it spans from installation basics to advanced production workflows which also include Agent Skills for automating team standards, specialized agents for targeted expertise, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for connecting the AI to external data sources like GitHub repositories and live documentation.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/18824-github-copilot-cli-for-beginners-the-course-.html

 Microsoft has launched the Azure Skills Plugin, a comprehensive toolkit designed to transform AI coding assistants into active cloud deployment agents.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18819-the-azure-skills-plugin-makes-deployment-and-management-a-breeze.html

 A collaboration with LangChain establishes MongoDB Atlas as a unified backend for managing vector searches, persistent agent memory, and automated observability.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18813-the-future-of-agentic-ai-mongodb-with-langchain.html

 Jfokus is a large and well-established Java developer conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2007. We check this year's highlights.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18809-jfokus-2026-the-highlights.html

 Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an open-source framework from Google, designed to streamline the creation and deployment of multi-agent AI systems.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18806-google-agent-development-kit-for-java-10-released-published.html

 The release of JDK 26 marks a significant milestone in the Java ecosystem, introducing ten JDK Enhancement Proposals that prioritize performance, security, and modernization. Key technical updates include the introduction of HTTP/3 support, significant throughput improvements for the G1 Garbage Collector, and the final removal of the long-deprecated Applet API.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18791-java-26-released-with-focus-on-ai-workloads.html

 Gold Lapel is a self-optimizing PostgreSQL proxy designed to automatically tune, improve query performance and replace external services without requiring any changes to your application's code.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18783-auto-tune-postgresql-with-gold-lapel-.html