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Tuesday February 18, 2025. 10:00 AM
An obituary for serverless computing might read something like this: In loving memory of serverless computing, born from the fervent hopes of developers and cloud architects alike. Its life began with the promise of effortless scalability and reduced operational burdens,...
A week rarely goes by without a major data security breach. Recent news includes a breach impacting an energy company’s 8 million customers, another compromising the information on 450,000 current and former students, and one more exposing 240,000 credit union members....
Monday February 17, 2025. 11:46 AM
Large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Bard, and Llama have caught the public’s imagination and garnered a wide variety of reactions. They are also expected to grow dramatically in the coming years. According to Dimension Market Research, The Global LLM market is...
The software landscape is shifting from passive business processes to dynamic, AI-driven workflows. AI agents—systems that interact with APIs, make decisions, and execute complex tasks—are at the forefront of this transformation. While large language models (LLMs) laid...
Large language models (LLMs) keep getting faster and more capable. That doesn’t mean they’re correct. This is arguably the biggest shortcoming of generative AI: It can be incredibly fast while simultaneously being incredibly wrong. This may not be an issue in areas like...
It turns out androids do dream, and their dreams are often strange. In the early days of generative AI, we got human hands with eight fingers and recipes for making pizza sauce from glue. Now, developers working with AI-assisted coding tools are also finding AI...
Saturday February 15, 2025. 02:27 AM
AI coding assistants still need to mature, but they are already helpful according to several attendees of a recent Silicon Valley event for software developers. Software developers who attended the DeveloperWeek conference in Santa Clara, CA, on February 12 were mostly...
Friday February 14, 2025. 10:00 AM
Fictional global retailer StyleHaven embarked on its cloud migration journey, eager to modernize its systems and improve its customers’ experience. StyleHaven opted to “lift and shift,” assuming its existing infrastructure would transfer to the cloud with few issues....
In this edition of our biweekly Python newsletter: The next version of Python brings an all-new variety of speed boost. Python packages may soon pack better labeling for their ingredients. Cython 3.1 tees up new features for converting Python to C. And Python’s abstract...
In this edition of our biweekly Python newsletter: The next version of Python brings an all-new variety of speed boost. Python packages may soon pack better labeling for their ingredients. Cython 3.1 tees up new features for converting Python to C. And Python’s abstract...
Thursday February 13, 2025. 11:46 PM
JetBrains’ Ktor 3.1.0, an update to the Kotlin-based framework for asynchronous server-side and client-side applications, is now available, featuring a command-line tool for simpler creation of projects. The update also brings new features to server-sent events (SSE),...
Python 3.14, due out later this year, is set to receive a new type of interpreter that can boost performance by up to 30% with no changes to existing code. The CPython 3.14 change log describes the feature as “a new type of interpreter based on tail calls.” This...
Database administration has always been something of a well kept secret. Even within the wider domain of information technology, database administration is one of those areas of expertise that often goes overlooked by aspiring STEM students and tech-savvy job seekers....
Thread synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently. The Mutex and Semaphore classes in.NET represent two of the most important related concepts. Let’s understand what both of these do and when we should use them. Before ...
Announced at the May 2024 launch of Arm-powered Copilot+ PCs, the Windows Copilot Runtime is at the heart of Microsoft’s push to bring AI inferencing out from Azure and on to the edge and our laptops. Since then it’s been released in drip-feed form with new features...
Wednesday February 12, 2025. 03:05 PM
Snowflake on Wednesday announced the public preview of Cortex Agents, a set of APIs built on top of the Snowflake Intelligence platform, a low-code offering that was first launched in November at Build, the company’s annual developer conference. Asked at a press and...
The Rust programming language shares many concepts with other languages intended for systems programming. For instance, Rust distinguishes between memory allocated from the stack and memory allocated from the heap. It also ensures that variables declared within a scope are...
Python is one of the most popular programming language today, in part due to its large ecosystem of tools for data science and AI applications. But Python is also a popular choice for developing web apps, particularly using the Django web framework. I’ve written a few...
I’ve been developing software for many years now. Decades. I’ve learned a lot along the way, and I dare to think that I’ve collected some wisdom about software development worth sharing with others. At some point, you think “Yeah, I’ve got a grip on this...
Microsoft Threat Intelligence in December observed a “threat actor” using a publicly available ASP.NET machine key to inject malicious code and fetch the Godzilla post-exploitation framework, a “backdoor” web shell used by intruders to execute commands and manipulate ...
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