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Wednesday September 4, 2024. 11:00 AM
For years now, PostgreSQL has been one of the best-kept secrets of enterprise software and open source alike—a powerful, robust, expertly maintained relational database. MySQL may be better known, but PostgreSQL offers many features MySQL has only started to provide. In...
Qt Group is moving forward with Qt/.NET, a proposed toolkit for interoperability between C++ and Microsoft’s.NET software development platform. The toolkit includes a Qt-based custom native host for managing assemblies, along with a native-to-managed adapter module...
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a deceptively simple idea started to take hold within the development community: Software, given its immense potential as an engine of change, should be made free and open to everyone. Unsurprisingly, this idea—most commonly...
Tuesday September 3, 2024. 03:00 PM
NoSQL document-oriented database provider Couchbase is adding columnar support to its managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), Capella, on AWS. Here columnar support refers to the columnar database management system, which is typically NoSQL in nature and is implemented for ...
Cloud portability once seemed like a groundbreaking advancement in the digital infrastructure landscape. Initial expectations were high with the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006 and similar services. Providers promised the ability to migrate workloads across different service...
All IT projects go through phases and generative AI is no different in that respect. Initial pilot projects are used to test out how technology or software works, and determine whether you get the results that you want to achieve or what the vendor or developer promised....
Oracle CloudWorld is one of the tech industry’s signature events. The event, known as Oracle OpenWorld until 2020, is a significant gathering for IT professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to explore the latest advancements in cloud computing. Oracle...
Monday September 2, 2024. 11:00 AM
For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their applications and services in clusters of containers instead of in tiers of...
The big news in the open source world last week was Elastic’s return to open source. As the Elastic founder and CTO Shay Banon announced, “We never stopped believing in open source at Elastic” and so Elastic “will be adding AGPL [GNU Affero General Public License]...
The world is a messy place. Buildings rise. Buildings fall. Roads wash out. Homeowners add cottages to properties. One location becomes home to two businesses. Roadside business stands spring up in the morning and disappear at night, but still need deliveries and maybe even...
Friday August 30, 2024. 09:54 PM
.NET Aspire 8.2, a new version of Microsoft’s cloud stack for building distributed applications, has arrived. The latest version features improvements for onboarding and testing. Developers can download the release, announced August 29, from learn.microsoft.com. With this...
One of the things that distinguishes a veteran Java developer is familiarity with reflection and its modern alternatives. Reflection gives you superpowers, but it is cumbersome, error-prone, and a performance bottleneck. Modern Java is working to replace reflection with...
Chaos engineering involves stress-testing systems by simulating real-world adversities, such as cyberattacks and internal failures. By creating controlled chaos, organizations hope to prepare their infrastructure for unforeseen incidents and minimize potential downtime....
What’s happening in the world of Python as summer winds down? Here are some of our favorites: Python is an established mover and shaker in data science, but it’s not the only mover and shaker. Expand your horizons with our rundown of the top three languages for data...
Quest Software has released version 14 of its erwin Data Modeler and erwin Data Intelligence tools, offering what the company describes as advanced data intelligence, data quality, and data modeling capabilities. The tools are intended to help customers ensure the AI...
Thursday August 29, 2024. 11:00 AM
Microsoft’s opening up of.NET allowed the metaphorical thousand flowers to bloom, with its governance under the auspices of the.NET Foundation. The model has encouraged a wide variety of new frameworks and technologies that build on its cross-platform nature and its mix of ...
Nested classes are classes that are declared as members of other classes or scopes. Nesting classes is one way to better organize your code. For example, say you have a non-nested class (also known as a top-level class) that stores objects in a resizable array, followed by...
Microsoft has released version 8.3 of the.NET Community Toolkit, which brings support for .NET 8 and NativeAOT to all libraries as well as performance improvements. The version 8.3 update to the toolkit was announced August 27. The platform-agnostic successor to the Windows ...
Exception handling is the technique of handling runtime errors in your application code. Basically, you have two categories of exceptions: Exceptions that are generated by the application and exceptions that are generated by the runtime. Exceptions should be handled with...
Wednesday August 28, 2024. 11:52 PM
Citing a security concern, Microsoft announced it is removing the BinaryFormatter from the planned.NET 9 open source application platform. Microsoft outlined the risk of using BinaryFormatter in an August 28 blog post, stating: “Any deserializer, binary or text, that...
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