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Wednesday January 15, 2025. 02:00 AM
A book published in 1981, called Nailing Jelly to a Tree, describes software as “nebulous and difficult to get a firm grip on.” That was true in 1981, and it is no less true four decades later. Software, whether it is an application you bought or one that you built...
The 2025 strategy document for Google’s Angular web development framework calls for enhancing the developer experience with capabilities such as zoneless change detection and signal-based forms, and making developer adoption of new features easier with schematics. A blog...
Tuesday January 14, 2025. 10:00 AM
For years, I’ve cautioned organizations about the hidden downsides of cloud computing. Ironically, I’m “Dave the cloud guy” who warns enterprises about the cloud. The benefits of the cloud’s agility, scalability, and innovation can quickly become a financial...
How does the journey to a knowledge graph start with unstructured data—such as text, images, and other media? The evolution of web search engines offers an instructive example, showing how knowledge can be extracted from unstructured sources and refined over time into a...
Monday January 13, 2025. 10:01 PM
The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published IT sector-specific goals (IT SSGs) to protect against cyber threats, including 11 software development process goals and seven product design goals. Published January 7, the Information Technology...
If you’re exhausted by the constantly changing AI landscape, you’re not alone. In a thoughtful post, Microsoft Research brainiac Victor Dibia captures the “particular kind of fatigue that comes from trying to match the unprecedented pace of AI advancement.” However,...
Over the past decades, open source software (OSS) has transformed from being merely a cheaper option into the superior choice for enterprise infrastructure. Now it often provides higher quality, stronger security, better privacy, unparalleled extensibility, and access to...
If you’re exhausted by the constantly changing AI landscape, you’re not alone. In a thoughtful post, Microsoft Research brainiac Victor Dibia captures the “particular kind of fatigue that comes from trying to match the unprecedented pace of AI advancement.” However,...
Devops continues to expand in development environments everywhere from small startups to the largest global enterprises. The worldwide devops market, including products and services, was expected to increase from $10.56 billion in 2023 to $12.8 billion in 2024, according to...
Friday January 10, 2025. 10:59 PM
JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land’s efforts to get Oracle to yield the trademark for JavaScript have hit a snag, with Oracle refusing to voluntarily withdraw the trademark, Deno Land said. A Deno Land post on X on January 7 provided an update about Deno Land’s...
An emerging trend in cloud computing is using ephemeral environments for development and testing. Ephemeral environments are temporary, isolated spaces created for specific projects. They allow developers to swiftly spin up an environment, conduct testing, and then dismantle ...
Welcome to a new year of programming and the brand new monthly list of JavaScript stories just for developers! Among the highlights so far: Svelte and SvelteKit have seen a slew of incremental improvements, Astro.js 5.0 just hit, and the Next.js team is working on a...
Large language model (LLM) provider Cohere has unveiled its new agentic AI offering — North — a low-code platform that will allow enterprises to build and deploy agents across different business functions. The offering will compete with Microsoft’s autonomous agents,...
Rust 1.84 has been released, bringing strict provenance APIs that can be used in lieu of integer-pointer casts, making the code both easier for developers to reason about and easier for the compiler to analyze, the Rust team said. Announced January 9, Rust 1.84 can be...
Thursday January 9, 2025. 10:55 PM
Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares. The infamous WannaCry, Slammer, and Heartbleed exploits, and the more...
Memory errors such as out-of-bounds reads and writes and use-after-free bugs have plagued applications for decades, causing problems ranging from minor execution glitches to global security nightmares. The infamous WannaCry, Slammer, and Heartbleed exploits, and the more...
The C# programming language has provided support for thread synchronization using the lock keyword since its earliest versions. By using a lock statement, you ensure that only one thread can execute the body of the statement at a time. Any other thread is blocked until the...
If you’re building cloud-native applications with microservices, they need to be small. You don’t want code that comes with enough dependencies and required libraries to turn something that should be able to scale in milliseconds into megabytes of code. Small services...
Wednesday January 8, 2025. 11:42 PM
The Eclipse Foundation has released GlassFish 7.0.21, an update of the enterprise Java application server that focuses on fixing a few tenacious bugs. The release also brings improved connection pool lookup messages and improved error messages on deploying apps larger than...
The new version of Oracle’s Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version. Exadata is Oracle’s hardware and software platform ...
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