The New Stack

2 days ago | thenewstack.io | Janakiram MSV

MCP servers are excellent candidates for exposing data from traditional databases as context to large language models (LLMs). Since these MCP servers reside on-premises closer to the data sources, we need a mechanism to expose them to remote LLMs and agents. In this tutorial, we will explore how to utilize Ngrok to securely expose MCP servers to hosted LLMs. We will first build an MCP server based on streamable HTTP transport that returns data.

2 days ago | thenewstack.io | Jessica Lynne Wachtel

Everyone knows Python is everywhere in web development. Netflix, Instagram, and Dropbox all rely on it. But Python doesn’t just live in web apps. Python, and its libraries and frameworks, quietly run things in some pretty unexpected places. In this post, I want to show you some of the weirder, cooler, and less obvious spots where Python is doing heavy lifting. From controlling Mars rovers to helping archaeologists dig up the past, Python’s role is way broader than most people realize.

3 days ago | thenewstack.io | Alex Williams

SAN DIEGO — It’s AI boom time: Gartner predicts an estimated $644 billion will be spent on generative AI in 2025. However, few, if anyone, know how to manage the cost of AI, much less understand its value. At FinOps X this week, the FinOps Foundation introduced a certification for AI. The new credential is for practitioners who seek to understand AI spending and the value it offers.

4 days ago | thenewstack.io | Charles Humble

While detailed instrumentation of CPUs has been available for some time, GPUs are still commonly treated as black boxes. Zymtrace, a new profiler designed to provide detailed introspection for both CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as the interactions between them, aims to solve this problem. It comes from zystem, a young startup and member of the NVIDIA Inception program on a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to cost-efficient and sustainable computing.

4 days ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

“Just do it,” is the advice of Sam Altman for enterprise leaders wondering how to get their organizations started down the path of AI. Of course, the OpenAI CEO has always been bullish about getting started on AI. But this is not the advice he would have given to enterprise execs even a year ago, he said, in a “fireside” discussion with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy for the kickoff of this year’s Snowflake Summit, being held this week in San Francisco.