Russell Fairweather

Enterprises building AI agents have long stumbled at the final mile, where promising demos buckle under operational debt, inconsistent environments, and manual governance checks that slow deployment from months to quarters, and Google Cloud’s latest Vertex AI Agent Builder and ADK upgrades attempt

An airline’s mobile app went dark because a single authentication check never executed on a sensitive route, and the chain reaction that followed—service interruptions, refund queues, and a spike in backend traffic—made one truth impossible to ignore: API failures do not whisper, they detonate.

Russell Fairweather sits down with Anand Naidu, our resident development expert who straddles frontend and backend with equal ease. Anand has spent years fixing geofencing systems that drained batteries, missed entries, and spammed users with noisy alerts. He’s pragmatic, blunt about trade-offs,

Mobile roadmaps now demand iOS–Android parity, brand‑level polish, native fidelity, and weekly iterations without ballooning budgets or headcount across an expanding galaxy of devices and user expectations that refuse to wait. That pressure has pushed cross‑platform frameworks from a niche

Anand Naidu has spent years shipping Kotlin across the JVM, Native, JS, and now Wasm, often acting as the connective tissue between platform constraints and developer experience. In this conversation, he unpacks what Kotlin 2.3.0-RC changes in day-to-day engineering: catching dropped results with a

As AI coding leaps from clever autocomplete to end-to-end planning, a fork of VS Code named Kiro asks whether specs should steer the work before a single line is written, promising faster delivery with fewer rewrites for teams drowning in drift. The question is not whether coding assistants are

Central Question And Scope: Can Dev Teams Contain Shai-Hulud 2.0 Across npm And GitHub? An ecosystem that runs on trust and automation just met a worm designed to exploit both, and the upgrade from nuisance to crisis came when Shai-Hulud 2.0 learned to move earlier, faster, and quieter than

The open source community faces an escalating crisis as GlassWorm malware, a stealthy and self-propagating worm, re-emerges to exploit vulnerabilities in developer tools like Visual Studio Code extensions. With thousands of downloads of infected extensions reported on platforms like OpenVSX, and

In the bustling digital landscape of 2025, major cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are at a crossroads, pouring billions into artificial intelligence while their core customers—businesses relying on traditional cloud services—feel increasingly sidelined. A staggering investment of

In an era where digital transformation drives business operations, SAP systems stand as the backbone of countless global organizations, managing everything from financials to supply chains. A staggering 92% of these entities consider SAP data critical to their daily functions, making the security