For the past year or so, AI coding agents have been tethered to your local machine. You kick off a task, watch the terminal, and babysit every step. It works — but it’s not exactly hands-free. Mistral just changed that. On April 29, the Paris-based AI company announced remote coding agents for its Vibe platform, powered by a new model called Mistral Medium 3.5. The idea is simple: Instead of running coding sessions on your laptop, they now run in the cloud — asynchronously, in parallel, and without you watching over them. What’s Actually New Coding sessions can now work…
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I needed to build an inventory optimization system for a warehouse client last year. The problem was classic: too much working capital tied up in stock, but not enough safety buffer to handle demand spikes. I ended up using a combination of EOQ, safety stock calculations, and time series forecasting to solve it. Python made every step tractable. This article walks through the four techniques I now reach for when building inventory models. By the end, you will have working code for Economic Order Quantity (EOQ), safety stock, ARIMA demand forecasting, and exponential smoothing. TLDR Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) finds…
I needed a fun weekend project that actually taught me something useful about Python. Rock Paper Scissors seemed simple enough, but I quickly realized there are two versions of this game out there – the classic three-move version and the extended Rock-Paper-Scissors-Lizard-Spock from The Big Bang Theory. I decided to build both. This article walks through building both versions in Python from scratch. By the end, you will have a working terminal game that handles player input, generates random computer moves, determines winners, and keeps running until the player quits. The same logic applies to any simple game you want…
You deleted a log file mid-session, a running process is still writing to it, and ls shows nothing, but the data is still there, and you can get it back before the process closes. Linux deletes files the way most people assume is permanent, but what the rm command actually does is remove the directory entry and decrement the file’s link count, and if any process still has that file open, the kernel keeps the underlying inode alive until the last file descriptor pointing to it is closed. That window between rm and process exit is your recovery window, and…
Incredibuild this week developed a sandbox, dubbed Islo, that makes it possible to safely run artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents. Company CEO Shimon Hason said Islo provides an isolated execution environment that enables DevOps teams to limit access to sensitive data, codebases, resources and services. Each AI coding agent is then provided with its own dedicated, isolated environment that operates independently and can be centrally managed by a DevOps team. DevOps teams can deploy Islo independently of the Incredibuild platform or, alternatively, use the Incredibuild software development lifecycle (SDLC) management platform to apply policy controls, manage agent identities, enforce guardrails,…
Now that we know what’s slow, let’s fix it. We’ll optimize the most expensive component in our…
My database was choking under the weight of repeated queries for user sessions. Every time a user logged in, the app hit PostgreSQL with the same fetch request, slowing things down for everyone. I needed an in-memory layer between my app and the disk, something fast that could store session data without the overhead of a full database round-trip. That is when I found Redis. This article covers what Redis is and how to use it from Python. By the end, you will understand data structures in Redis, how to run CRUD operations, use transactions and pipelines, and implement caching…
IREN Ltd, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, today revealed its intent to acquire Mirantis, a provider of open source OpenStack and Kubernetes software that is deployed in both cloud computing and on-premises IT environments. Under terms of the agreement valued at $625 million, Mirantis will operate as an independent subsidiary of IREN, a former provider of bitcoin mining services that now specializes in hosting artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Dominic Wilde, senior vice president of marketing for Mirantis, said that while Mirantis will continue to engage with the more than 1,500 IT organizations it supports directly, the combined entity will…
Welcome to section two! Now that you know the essentials, let’s dig deeper. First up, we need…
I ran into this problem during a data migration when a colleague handed me a CSV full of product codes like “SKU-4829-A” and “ORD-1034-B” — and I needed to pull out just the numbers for validation. Manual extraction was not happening, so I wrote a small Python script to do it automatically. That script is what this article is about. This article covers two ways to extract digits from a Python string — using isdigit() and using regex. By the end, you’ll have a clear picture of when each approach makes sense, with working examples you can copy-paste into your…