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9 reasons Java is still great

Java has endured radical transformations in the technology landscape and many threats to its prominence. What makes this technology so great, and what does the future hold for Java?

By Matthew Tyson

Mar 19, 202610 mins

Development ToolsJavaOpen Source

IT career roadmap: Full-stack developer

So, you want to be a full-stack developer? Here's how one software engineer grew his career, and some of what he learned along the way.

By Bob Violino

Oct 25, 2022 6 mins

Careers Software Development Web Development

Why openness always matters

Proprietary software isn’t evil, but open source is a remarkable force for good. The transparent, community-driven approach to development is driving innovation in every industry today.

By Brent Schroeder

Oct 25, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Software Development

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.11

A faster interpreter, more intelligible errors, more powerful type hints, and a slew of other speedups and tweaks are now ready to try out.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 24, 2022 6 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

12 ggplot extensions for snazzier R graphics

For everything from styling text and customizing color palettes to creating your own geoms, these ggplot2 add-ons deserve a place in your R data visualization toolkit. Plus, a bonus list of packages to explore on your own.

By Sharon Machlis

Oct 24, 2022 17 mins

Analytics Libraries and Frameworks R Language

Most reported CVEs for Docker Hub images are harmless

JFrog used Xray Container Contextual Analysis to scan the 200 most popular community images in Docker Hub, then tallied the results for the 10 most common CVEs. 78% were not exploitable.

By Shachar Menashe, Jonathan Sar-Shalom, and Nitay Meiron

Oct 24, 2022 13 mins

Application Security Development Tools Devops

Intro to Qwik: A superfast JavaScript framework

Qwik’s innovative approach to code splitting and lazy loading offers a new way forward for front-end JavaScript. Here’s a quick tour.

By Matthew Tyson

Oct 19, 2022 8 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Public package repos expose thousands of API security tokens—and they’re active

JFrog’s new Xray Secrets Detection uncovered active access tokens in popular open-source software registries including Docker, npm, and PyPI. Here are our findings and takeaways.

By Andrey Polkovnychenko and Shachar Menashe

Oct 18, 2022 17 mins

Application Security Cloud Security Devops

The best open source software of 2022

InfoWorld’s 2022 Bossie Awards celebrate the most important and innovative application development, devops, data analytics, and machine learning tools of the year.

By Andrew C. Oliver, Ian Pointer, Isaac Sacolick, James Borck, Martin Heller, Matthew Tyson and Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 17, 2022 20 mins

Cloud Computing Machine Learning Open Source

What is Kotlin? The Java alternative explained

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

By Martin Heller

Oct 14, 2022 16 mins

Java JavaScript Technology Industry

12 top-notch libraries for C++ programming

C++ developers look to these libraries for help building Windows apps, mobile apps, machine learning and scientific apps, and more.

By Paul Krill

Oct 14, 2022 7 mins

C++ Programming Languages Software Development

6 Kubernetes distributions leading the container revolution

Kubernetes and containers are changing how applications are built, deployed, and managed. These distros are leading the charge.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 12, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Software Development

How intelligent automation changes CI/CD

A new paradigm for continuous delivery is emerging that enables it to serve as the foundation for improving devops and increasing development productivity.

By Gopal Dommety

Oct 11, 2022 8 mins

Build Automation Devops Software Development

7 reasons to love the Rust language—and 7 reasons not to

Love it or hate it, Rust is taking the world of systems programming by storm. Here's a look at what's great, and not-so-great, about the so-called modern successor to C and C++.

By Peter Wayner

Oct 10, 2022 9 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

IT career roadmap: Vice president of engineering

Are you ready to take your software engineering career to the next level? Here's how one VP of engineering built his career from the ground up.

By Bob Violino

Oct 4, 2022 6 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

Why CIOs should make the leap to Flutter nowmulti-platform app development

Despite the duopoly of the current app marketplace, businesses should not be maintaining two development teams. Flutter and cross-platform apps are the future.

By David DeRemer

Oct 4, 2022 7 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Mobile Development Software Development

What is Node.js? The JavaScript runtime explained

Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications.

By Martin Heller

Oct 1, 2022 13 mins

Development Tools JavaScript Software Development

Why developers hold the key to cloud security

Developer-first security is the future in the cloud. Because the responsibility for cloud security rests with developers and devops teams, not IT security.

By Josh Stella

Sep 29, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Devops

Where JavaScript is headed in 2022

Which JavaScript frameworks, features, and tools do developers favor, and which are on the way out? Let’s look at the latest State of JavaScript survey results.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 29, 2022 8 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Web Development

GitHub for English teachers

Can a coder’s tool help non-coders learn how to write and edit prose? GitHub is a powerful way to record and ‘play back’ edits step-by-step, even when the text isn’t code.

By Jon Udell

Sep 28, 2022 8 mins

Development Tools Software Development Version Control Systems

The ever-widening world of Wasm

Bringing WebAssembly and OCI containers together could enable us to run the same container image on any hardware or operating system we want—wherever it runs best, fastest, or cheapest.

By Scott McCarty

Sep 27, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Web Development

Intro to Nuitka: A better way to compile and distribute Python

You can use Nuitka to compile Python programs to standalone executables, then redistribute them without the Python runtime.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 21, 2022 8 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python Software Development

5 steps to lower Kubernetes costs

Granular visibility can help enterprises keep cloud costs in check. Follow these best practices when using monitoring methods to control Kubernetes-related spending.

By Rob Faraj

Sep 20, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Brendan Eich: Don’t blame cookies and JavaScript

The JavaScript creator, Mozilla co-founder, and now Brave Software CEO loathes the online advertising ‘surveillance system that loots users’ and he’s doing something about it.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 19, 2022 10 mins

JavaScript Technology Industry Web Development

What is CUDA? Parallel programming for GPUs

NVIDIA’s CUDA is a general purpose parallel computing platform and programming model that accelerates deep learning and other compute-intensive apps by taking advantage of the parallel processing power of GPUs.

By Martin Heller

Sep 16, 2022 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Software Development

Python garbage collection and the gc module

How does Python deal with memory management? Learn the ins and outs of Python's garbage collection system and how to avoid its pitfalls.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 14, 2022 10 mins

Devops Python

A vision for making open source more equitable and secure

An immutable package registry on the blockchain offers an opportunity for fairly compensating open source developers based on their contributions.

By Max Howell and Timothy Lewis

Sep 13, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Software Development

Software developer jobs: How to get hired now

Software developers are still in high demand, but the right mix of skills matters more than ever. Here's what tech employers are looking for right now.

By Bob Violino

Sep 12, 2022 8 mins

Careers Software Development Technology Industry

What is JSP? Introduction to Jakarta Server Pages

One of the original Java web technologies, JSP is still widely used with servlets and JSTL. Here's how to use Jakarta Server Pages to build dynamic web pages that connect to the Java back end.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 9, 2022 16 mins

Development Tools Java Web Development

An AI alternative to code search tools

COBOL Colleague uses symbolic machine learning and static analysis to help developers understand and maintain COBOL source code. The same technology could be applied to other programming languages.

By Steve Brothers

Sep 6, 2022 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Software Development

IT career roadmap: Cloud engineer

The global transition from traditional IT to cloud platforms makes cloud engineering an incredibly solid career choice. Here's how one cloud engineer combined education and on-the-job training to get to where he is today.

By Bob Violino

Sep 6, 2022 8 mins

Amazon Web Services Engineer Microsoft Azure

8 Java frameworks for embedded development

Developers writing embedded Java applications have a stack of frameworks and other tools to choose from. Here are the best Java frameworks used for embedded development today.

By Peter Wayner

Sep 5, 2022 8 mins

Development Tools Java Libraries and Frameworks

What is blockchain? Decentralized and irreversible transactions

A blockchain is a distributed system that achieves security through cryptography and consensus, without relying on trust. It’s a breathtaking innovation.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 2, 2022 8 mins

Blockchain Software Development

Intro to blockchain consensus mechanisms

Blockchains are evolving, and consensus mechanisms are at the heart of it. Here's a quick look at the range of decentralized validation and authentication mechanisms in use today.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 1, 2022 8 mins

Security Software Development

Use Cython to accelerate array iteration in NumPy

NumPy is known for being fast, but there's always room for improvement. Here's how to use Cython to iterate over NumPy arrays at the speed of C.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 31, 2022 7 mins

Data Science Libraries and Frameworks Python

The benefits and challenges of event-driven architecture

Event-driven architecture allows developers to create powerful, real-time digital experiences. Ably’s edge messaging platform helps them deliver these experiences at scale.

By James Aley

Aug 30, 2022 7 mins

Software Development

TensorFlow, PyTorch, and JAX: Choosing a deep learning framework

Three widely used frameworks are leading the way in deep learning research and production today. One is celebrated for ease of use, one for features and maturity, and one for immense scalability. Which one should you use?

By Ian Pointer

Aug 29, 2022 9 mins

Analytics Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning

What is JSON? The universal data format

JSON is the leading data interchange format for web applications and more. Here’s what you need to know about JavaScript Object Notation.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 26, 2022 10 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

Intro to Astro: Clever lazy loading for JavaScript

Essentially a build system, Astro takes a promising new approach to front-end JavaScript. And it works with React, Svelte, Vue, and other popular frameworks.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 25, 2022 7 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

Why Apache Iceberg will rule data in the cloud

Apache Iceberg is an open table format that offers scalability, usability, and performance advantages for very large data sets. Here are five reasons Iceberg is optimal for cloud data workloads.

By James Malone

Aug 23, 2022 9 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Databases

IT career roadmap: Data scientist

Reading Freakonomics awakened his passion for data science. Here's how further education and thoughtful career moves led to becoming a data scientist.

By Bob Violino

Aug 23, 2022 7 mins

Careers Data Science Software Development

Devs don’t want to do ops

Developers are straining under the demands of ‘You build it, you run it,’ and operators are feeling more pressure too. Is it time for development and operations to be separated once again?

By Scott Carey

Aug 22, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

What software developers should know about design: An interview with Soleio

Facebook designer turned angel investor Soleio discusses how software design needs a ‘tool-driven revolution’ and what makes design teams and technology startups successful.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 18, 2022 11 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

7 YAML gotchas to avoid—and how to avoid them

YAML is a human-readable configuration file format that is flexible and easy to understand, but fraught with unexpected pitfalls. Here’s how to dodge its most precarious issues.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 17, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

How SaaS transforms software development

Software as a service is not only a better way to deliver software, but a way to build software that better meets your customer’s needs.

By Nick Hodges

Aug 16, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing SaaS Software Development

Why edge computing matters for modern software development

The next stage of cloud computing brings computing power closer to users, paving the way to better user experiences and more intelligent applications.

By Sam Dillard

Aug 16, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

8 open source projects taking collaboration to the next level

Today's workplace is all about collaboration, and as more teams go remote, the need for innovative tools is stronger than ever. Here are eight open source projects that could help take your virtual collaborations from good to great.

By Peter Wayner

Aug 15, 2022 4 mins

Open Source Software Development

Intro to MicroStream: Super-fast serialization in Java

MicroStream is a modern Java object graph persistence layer that achieves high performance through a vastly superior approach to serialization. Let’s take a look.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 11, 2022 7 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

IT career roadmap: Cloud architect

Cloud architect is one of the top paid roles for IT professionals, and for good reason. Find out what it takes to become a cloud architect, including education, on-the-job learning, and cloud certifications.

By Bob Violino

Aug 9, 2022 9 mins

Careers Cloud Architecture Technology Industry

Why devops needs a better approach to cloud networking

A full-stack networking platform with machine learning, autonomous capabilities, and multicloud support allows devops engineers to focus on what matters most—building applications.

By Mehul Patel

Aug 9, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry