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Monday September 23, 2024. 10:30 AM
A vector database is just like any other database in that it stores data. From there, the similarity mostly ends — especially when it comes to artificial intelligence. Most traditional databases are built for transactional workloads, where structured queries and relational ...
Friday September 20, 2024. 10:07 PM
Microsoft is looking to help users of Visual Studio Code editor use the Python language in the data science realm. The company has announced the Python Data Science Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code, a new extensions bundle that features four VS Code extensions for...
In an open letter published September 16, Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and several other leading members of the JavaScript community have accused Oracle of abandoning the JavaScript trademark and urge the company to release the...
When I ran architecture teams, I gave one piece of advice that often surprised people: “We need to think like CFOs and not CIOs.” I voiced this reminder whenever the work veered away from, “What business value are we seeking?” toward, “Who has the best cloud?”...
Deno 2.0, a planned major release of the Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly and rival to Node.js, is now available as a release candidate. The new version brings two big changes to global variables, new features to improve dependency management, changes ...
Thursday September 19, 2024. 09:40 PM
Looking to bring AI and machine learning workloads to Arm-based hardware, Arm is integrating its Arm Kleidi AI acceleration technology with PyTorch and ExecuTorch, the new on-device inference runtime from PyTorch. The arrangement, announced September 16, is intended to...
Yugabyte is adding new features to the latest release of its database, YugabyteDB 2.19, aimed at evolving it from a Postgres-compatible distributed database to a distributed PostgreSQL database. That seems like a fine distinction, but according to Yugabyte it means providing ...
Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a unified framework for building.NET desktop applications hasn’t been smooth. Today’s platform brings modern tools and designs to familiar frameworks, but it’s hard to update older code built on Windows...
The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned about Java’s basic exception handling capabilities. This article introduces...
Caching has long been one of the most successful and proven strategies for enhancing application performance and scalability. There are several caching mechanisms in.NET Core including in-memory caching (IMemoryCache API), distributed caching (IDistributedCache API), and the ...
Wednesday September 18, 2024. 10:42 PM
Swift 6, the latest version of the general-purpose language developed by Apple, is now available. The language update features concurrency improvements, including extended safety guarantees for data races. Linux and Windows support and a new testing library are also...
As competition heats up among cloud service providers, especially on the generative AI front, Oracle is focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations. Shifting gears from his...
After Brendan Eich’s conception of the language itself, the second most momentous event in JavaScript history (so far) was Ryan Dahl’s humble suggestion that JavaScript could run as an event loop on the server. This notion eventually became Node.js, the runtime that...
The Markdown text format makes it easy to create human-readable text that’s also readily translated into HTML. Originally developed for blogging and message boards, it’s since become widely used as a source format for documentation. This article reviews four...
Kapil Thangavelu says he probably would have been a history professor if he hadn’t discovered Python in college. His early-days exposure to Zope and Plone — a Python web application server and content management system, respectively — put him on a career trajectory...
Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI field. Chief Java steward...
Concerns about C++ memory safety soon could be in the past. The C++ Alliance, a charity whose mission is to make the C++ language accessible and useful, is working to add memory safety features to C++, through its Safe C++ Extensions proposal. The alliance intends to submit ...
Tuesday September 17, 2024. 10:30 AM
Generative AI depends on data to build responses to user queries. Training large language models (LLMs) uses huge volumes of data—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 used the CommonCrawl data set, which stood at 570 gigabytes and 400 billion tokens. But these data sets, while...
Monday September 16, 2024. 11:00 AM
This past week I spent time with some IT executives at a Fortune 500 company. Despite years of big spending on AWS, the company made a commitment years ago to switch to Microsoft Azure. Today they’re still on AWS… and Azure… and private data centers. Our conversation...
In the beginning, there was no need to build anything. We manipulated the toggle switches on the front panel of a mainframe, and the code either ran or it didn’t. Creating software was very straightforward. Maybe not easy, but certainly uncomplicated. Today, every line of...
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