Planet Ingres

August 31, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - PostgreSQL Conferences In 2025

 Two great PostgreSQL conferences, PGConf.dev and Posette, took place during May and June this year. We take a look at the key talks of each of them.

https://cutt.ly/jrZXrQEA

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at August 31, 2025 04:57 PM

Nikos Vaggalis - Oracle Database Adds MCP Tooling Support

 Oracle adds MCP support to two of its flagship tools, SQLcl and SQL Developer for VS Code, in an attempt to simplify user interaction with the database.

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at August 31, 2025 08:08 AM

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August 21, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - AWS Open Sources Strands SDK

 Strands is a new Python SDK from Amazon that aims to shorten the time required for developing agentic AI applications.

If MCP wasn't enough, now there's Agents everywhere!
Agentic AI promises to go beyond simple MCP cases and
enable task completions with complex coordinated workflows.
As such, SDKs have started to appear to help build such agents.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18265-aws-open-sources-strands-agents-.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at August 21, 2025 05:21 PM

August 19, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - Java Agent Development Kit Goes GA

 This is the general availability of the Java's interface to Google's

Agent Development Kit, the toolkit for building smart AI agents.

Google Agent Development Kit or ADK for short, is a flexible and modular framework for developing and deploying AI agents that promises an easier and more streamlined workflow for developers. While it integrates seamlessly with Google's products and especially Gemini, it's model and deployment agnostic thus it can be integrated to other agentic frameworks as well.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18258-java-agent-development-kit-goes-ga.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at August 19, 2025 08:17 PM

August 15, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - With MCP Docs Servers You'll Never Run Out Of Fresh Documentation

 MCP has changed the way you interact with your tools overnight. Now it targets your documentation. Wouldn't be great to have the latest and updated code samples and documentation of your favorite framework and libraries ready at your fingertips? Plus, be able to talk to it in natural language?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18248-with-mcp-docs-servers-youll-never-run-out-of-fresh-documentation-.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at August 15, 2025 03:46 PM

August 11, 2025

Nikos Vaggalis - EU Commission Reactivates Bug Bounties

 After a period of inactivity, the EC Open Source Programme Office (EC OSPO) has awarded a contract for organizing bug bounties on open source software.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/18239-eu-commission-reactivates-bug-bounties-.html

by Nikos Vaggalis (noreply@blogger.com) at August 11, 2025 05:27 PM