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Friday August 23, 2024. 11:00 AM
The cloud computing boom brought innovation and showed us the need for strategic planning to avoid costly mistakes such as “shadow IT” (IT activities or purchases made without the knowledge of the IT department), which led to unexpected expenses and security issues. With ...
With Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 due to arrive September 17, work already has begun on JDK 24, with the first feature, restricting the use of JNI (Java Native Interface), targeted for the release. A multitude of other features, including many already in preview in JDK 23,...
Thursday August 22, 2024. 10:03 PM
When Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman told his developers in June that they may no longer be in the coding business in as little as two years, it was a heads up to change-resistant coders that they had better embrace the new AI-centric reality. But it also forced serious ...
In the bustling metropolis of Digital Innovation City, a fictional mid-sized tech company named InnovateCorp grapples with an ever-expanding, cloud-based infrastructure. Like many others, this organization made the leap to the cloud with the promise of scalability, agility,...
Containers are a key component of the modern application platform, providing isolation between applications and, at the same time, turning userland into a portable runtime environment. Containers give us a place to both package and run all the necessary dependencies for our...
Microsoft has rolled out improvements for C++ development in the latest version of the Visual Studio IDE, including enhancements for the standard library and significantly faster breakpoint performance. The release, Visual Studio 2022 v17.11, was unveiled August 13. The...
Exception handling has been used in programming languages for decades to handle run-time errors in applications. However, throwing exceptions is costly in terms of performance, so we should avoid them in our code. This article discusses a few strategies we can use to avoid...
Wednesday August 21, 2024. 10:44 PM
More than 97% of respondents to GitHub’s AI in software development 2024 survey said they had used AI coding tools at work, but only 38% of US-based developers said their organizations actively encouraged adoption. The survey report was released on August 20. Of the four...
Microsoft has released a new, updated set of its Phi small language models on Hugging Face, which it claims outperforms similar offerings from rival model providers, including Meta and Google. In an update to the Phi 3 platform released in April, the cloud services provider...
It can sometimes be overwhelming keeping up with everything happening in the world of JavaScript, but I think JavaScript developers mostly know we are lucky. We get to work in a space where smart people are constantly generating new ideas. We are surrounded by peers who are...
The most powerful and flexible data science tool is a programming language. Sometimes the only way to properly solve a data science problem is to roll your own solution, even if it’s only a few lines of code. But programming languages can also take time to master, and the...
One of the most exciting developments in API security is the growing consensus that API discovery and risk assessment are necessary first steps to improve API security. However, several factors make the API attack surface difficult for an organization to discover and measure ...
During the opening of.NET Conf Focus on AI on August 20, Microsoft’s Scott Hanselman described AI and.NET as a “match made in heaven.” Hanselman, who is vice president of the developer community, cited the GitHub Copilot AI-based pair programming tool as one example of ...
Facebook parent Meta’s AI research team is working on developing what it calls a Self-Taught Evaluator for large language models (LLMs) that could help enterprises reduce their time and human resource requirements while developing custom LLMs. Earlier this month, the...
Tuesday August 20, 2024. 10:30 PM
In the early 20th century, the Wright brothers’ first flight barely left the ground, lasting just 12 seconds. But within a few decades, airplanes revolutionized global travel and connected the world in ways previously unimaginable. Today, a similar pattern is unfolding...
Polymorphism refers to the ability of some entities to occur in different forms. It is popularly represented by the butterfly, which morphs from larva to pupa to imago. Polymorphism also exists in programming languages, as a modeling technique that allows you to create a...
From the editors of our sister publication Network World, this enterprise buyer’s guide helps network IT staff understand what requirements artificial intelligence (AI) brings to your computing infrastructure and how to choose the right solution.
Microsoft has released a seventh preview of its forthcoming.NET 9 software development platform, with enhancements to C# for API authors. The.NET runtime, SDK, and other areas also are improved. Accessible from dotnet.microsoft.com,.NET 9 Preview 7 was unveiled August...
Monday August 19, 2024. 11:00 AM
It’s no secret that organizations are deploying more and more cloud services as they look for ways to increase business agility and scalability while reducing costs. But in an interesting twist, increased cloud adoption can lead to runaway spending. As a result,...
Straight out of the webscale playbook, platform engineering was considered a futuristic discipline until just a few years ago. Would platform engineering really trickle down to mainstream enterprise teams? Did companies really want to operate their infrastructure like the...
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