AI and software
AI Software Development: A Matter of Survival?
A perspective on how AI changes software production and the position of software businesses.
Author and perspectives
Cedric Nanni
Cedric Nanni founded April Software in Luxembourg in 2015. He writes about software, technology, AI, and the ideas behind April Software’s products.
His writing connects practical software development with questions of infrastructure, control, operations, and how organizations adopt new technology.
Selected writing
Articles on software, AI, and infrastructure.
A selection of Cedric’s external writing that provides context for April Software’s engineering and product ideas.
AI architecture
Inside an AI Agent Harness
An examination of the orchestration layer that gives AI agents tools, context, sessions, and controlled ways to act.
Software engineering
norm4j: A SQL-First, High-Performance Alternative to JPA
The design principles behind April Software’s SQL-first Java persistence library.
Cloud infrastructure
Personal Cloud Sites: A Smaller, More Durable Alternative to the Centralized Data Center
An argument for smaller, understandable, repairable, and recoverable cloud infrastructure.
Technology strategy
Public Cloud vs Private Cloud
A comparison of infrastructure models and the circumstances in which ownership, control, cost visibility, and operational proximity matter.
April Software context
Ideas connected to products and practical work.
April Software develops products and services around software, AI, managed applications, and infrastructure. Cedric’s writing provides additional context for the technical and strategic choices behind that work.