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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

Zero-knowledge proof finds new life in the blockchain

ZKP has decades of history in computer science and cryptography. Now, it's evolving to support decentralized authentication for blockchains and web3.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 4, 2022 8 mins

Application Security Software Development

Partitioning for performance in a sharding database system

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works.

By Nga Tran

Aug 2, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Devops

How Cloudflare emerged to take on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

The upstart internet security and edge infrastructure company has reinvented itself to challenge the hyperscale cloud providers. Can it succeed?

By Scott Carey

Aug 1, 2022 10 mins

Application Security SaaS Technology Industry

What cloud native means for your business

Cloud-native architectures and principles are all about achieving the agility you need to stay competitive in an ever-changing marketplace.

By Lee Atchison

Aug 1, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

What is TOML? An easier way to configure Python apps and more

TOML makes writing configuration files simple, straightforward, and more human-readable than many other formats, including JSON.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 29, 2022 5 mins

Programming Languages Python

Visualizing the Hacker News API with HCL and SQL

Use Steampipe and GitHub Actions to create a ‘dashboard as code’ for exploring thousands of Hacker News stories, right up to the current hour.

By Jon Udell

Jul 27, 2022 7 mins

APIs Databases SQL

Why database design choices matter to developers

Rather than punt database design decisions to a cloud service or third-party provider, understand what you want to achieve and how best to deliver on that goal.

By Matt Yonkovit

Jul 26, 2022 7 mins

Databases SQL Software Development

7 biggest Kubernetes security mistakes

The most dangerous security holes are often the most basic. Start improving your Kubernetes security posture by fixing these simple mistakes.

By Ben Hirschberg

Jul 26, 2022 4 mins

Application Security Security Software Development

Manage morale, not metrics, for more effective engineering teams

Management is obsessed with measuring everything, and this obsession is sabotaging the quality solutions that software engineering teams can craft.

By Jeremy Duvall

Jul 25, 2022 9 mins

Agile Development Careers Software Development

What is IaaS? A data center in the cloud packed with services

Need compute, storage, and networking infrastructure without the capital investment? IaaS delivers those resources over the internet on demand, along with the cloud services you need to build, deploy, and maintain almost any application.

By Bob Violino

Jul 22, 2022 15 mins

Cloud Computing IaaS

What is PaaS (platform-as-a-service)? A simpler way to build software applications

An application development and deployment platform, PaaS typically trades flexibility and complexity for convenience and speed of delivery, enabling developers to focus on their core logic rather than perfunctory, infrastructure-specific code.

By Scott Carey

Jul 22, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Computing PaaS Software Development

The best new features in ASP.NET Core 6

Learn the most important new features and enhancements in Microsoft’s cross-platform framework for building modern web applications.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jul 21, 2022 7 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Web Development

IT career roadmap: Director of engineering

A Google Cloud Platform director of engineering reflects on her education and career path, including founding her own startup and timely advice from other women in tech.

By Bob Violino

Jul 19, 2022 9 mins

Careers Google Cloud Platform Technology Industry

How we’ll solve software supply chain security

Security teams need a standard set of processes for locking down roots of trust for software artifacts, and developers need a clear path to balance open source selection against security policies. Open source has answers.

By Dan Lorenc

Jul 19, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Devops Security

Securing data at rest and data in motion

The threats to your company’s data are many and varied, and so are the techniques for keeping that data safe and secure.

By Lee Atchison

Jul 18, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Security

So why did they decide to call it Java?

The technology is legendary, but how and why Sun Microsystems eventually settled on the name 'Java' was always something of a mystery—even to those involved.

By Kieron Murphy

Jul 16, 2022 9 mins

Java Technology Industry

What is Google JAX? NumPy on accelerators

What's the buzz about Google JAX? Find out how JAX combines Autograd and XLA for blazing-fast numerical computing and machine learning research on CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs.

By Martin Heller

Jul 15, 2022 6 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Software Development

ASGI explained: The future of Python web development

Learn how the new asynchronous standard for Python web applications makes apps faster, more flexible, and more future-proof.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 13, 2022 6 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Python Web Development

Software developers have a supply chain security problem

Every day, software developers implicitly trust software packages, container images, dependency maintainers, repository operators, and build systems that we don’t know anything about. It’s the opposite of Zero Trust.

By Dan Lorenc

Jul 12, 2022 6 mins

Application Security Devops Open Source

12 examples of old tech that never dies

From magnetic tape to mainframes, sometimes the old tech really is better. Take a trip back in time with these die-hard technologies still going strong today.

By Peter Wayner

Jul 11, 2022 8 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

What is Visual Studio Code? Microsoft’s extensible code editor

Come for the fast editing. Stay for the debugging, source code management support, and huge ecosystem of extensions.

By Martin Heller

Jul 8, 2022 7 mins

Development Tools Software Development

8 new JavaScript features to start using today

New features in ECMAScript 2022 include top-level await, RegExp match indices, new public and private class fields, and more. Let's get started!

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 7, 2022 8 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages

How Walmart abstracts its hybrid cloud for developers

The retail giant has rolled out a hybrid cloud platform that it hopes will simplify how software developers consume infrastructure and best-of-breed cloud services.

By Scott Carey

Jul 7, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud Software Development

5 tips for writing better API documentation

Great API documentation is essential to a good developer experience. But your documentation should be great for non-developers too.

By Pam Goodrich

Jul 5, 2022 8 mins

APIs Devops Software Development

What is Flutter? Mobile app development for Android, iOS, and more

Flutter lets you build compiled, cross-platform mobile, desktop, and web applications from a single codebase. Here's a quick look at Flutter and its easy-to-use programming language, Dart.

By Martin Heller

Jul 1, 2022 7 mins

Software Development

Choosing your Java IDE

Which Java IDE is best? Compare IntelliJ IDEA , Eclipse, and NetBeans for features, usability, and compatibility with your favorite tools and frameworks.

By Martin Heller

Jun 30, 2022 21 mins

Development Tools Java Open Source

How to deploy with Vercel and MongoDB Atlas without even trying

You can now deploy your web app to Vercel and have it automatically use a MongoDB Atlas cluster as the data store. Here’s how.

By Matthew Tyson

Jun 30, 2022 8 mins

JavaScript PaaS Web Development

The best new features in .NET 6

Microsoft .NET 6 marks a new era of developing performant, modern-day applications for web, cloud, desktop, and mobile devices.

By Joydip Kanjilal

Jun 30, 2022 8 mins

C# Microsoft .NET Software Development

7 key new features in SingleStoreDB

SingleStoreDB unifies transactions and analytics in the same engine to power real-time, data-intensive applications. Here’s what’s new.

By Shireesh Thota

Jun 28, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Databases SQL

8 Java frameworks for a cloud-native world

These lighter-weight Java frameworks combine cloud-native flexibility with Java’s time-tested engineering, so you can write responsive code that’s easy to deploy anywhere.

By Peter Wayner

Jun 27, 2022 10 mins

Cloud Computing Java Libraries and Frameworks

What is NoSQL? Databases for a cloud-scale future

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 24, 2022 10 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

How AI is changing IoT

Artificial intelligence unlocks the true potential of IoT by enabling networks and devices to learn from past decisions, predict future activity, and continuously improve performance and decision-making capabilities.

By Xavier Dupont

Jun 21, 2022 8 mins

Machine Learning Predictive Analytics Technology Industry

Why Mercedes-Benz runs on 900 Kubernetes clusters

The German automaker runs a massive fleet of Kubernetes clusters to support a wide range of project teams around the world. ‘For us, managing Kubernetes is not that hard.’

By Scott Carey

Jun 21, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Are you ready to automate continuous deployment in CI/CD?

Making the leap from continuous delivery to continuous deployment requires the right skills, practices, and tools. Use this five-point checklist to prepare for launch.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jun 20, 2022 7 mins

Build Automation Devops Software Development

How to create a cloud center of excellence

Creating a cloud center of excellence will help you formalize and centralize your company’s cloud strategy. Here’s how to get started.

By Lee Atchison

Jun 20, 2022 6 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Software Development

What is Podman? The container engine replacing Docker

Podman is a rising star in a new container landscape that suddenly has a lot more players. Learn what Podman is and how it compares to Docker for Kubernetes compatibility and more.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jun 17, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Computing Kubernetes and Containers Software Development

Okta’s Matt Raible: How I became a Java hipster

The Okta developer advocate and JHipster evangelist discusses Java and JavaScript development, monoliths and microservices, software scaling vs. people scaling, and making security friendlier for developers.

By Matthew Tyson

Jun 16, 2022 11 mins

Application Security Java JavaScript

Detect cloud native security threats with Tracee

Open source Tracee uses Linux eBPF technology to trace system and applications at runtime, and analyzes collected events to detect suspicious behavioral patterns.

By Itay Shakury

Jun 14, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Security

Software engineering estimates are garbage

When estimates are based on the myth of metronomic coding machines tackling deterministic work, they’re a complete waste of time. There’s a better way.

By Jeremy Duvall

Jun 14, 2022 8 mins

Devops Software Development

Where software development is headed in 2022

From front-end JavaScript innovations to APIs as a service, today’s major trends in tools, technologies, and the cloud make it an exciting time to be a software developer.

By Matthew Tyson

Jun 13, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Web Development

What is Jamstack? The static website revolution upending web development

Learn how Jamstack combines modern development practices with old-school static web pages so developers can build fast websites faster.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jun 10, 2022 10 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

12 free tools for API design, development, and testing

These free and free-tier services and open source utilities will have your APIs up and running in no time, and will keep them running smoothly.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 9, 2022 7 mins

APIs Open Source Web Development

Intro to JHipster: A full-stack framework for Java and JavaScript

A mature framework for generating hybrid Java and JavaScript applications, JHipster supports the development tools you love and provides monitoring and other administrative capabilities out of the box.

By Matthew Tyson

Jun 9, 2022 8 mins

Java JavaScript Web Development

Career roadmap: Head of engineering

Head of engineering is both a visionary role and a highly skilled and experienced technical leader. Here's how one software engineer worked his way from graduate school to the top spot.

By Bob Violino

Jun 8, 2022 9 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

How enterprises can overcome the growing cloud skills shortage

The skills needed to implement and manage cloud services differ substantially from those needed for on-premises applications. This has created a major hurdle for businesses needing to innovate.

By Rahul Pradhan

Jun 7, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops IT Skills and Training

Tired of searching Slack, GitHub, and Google Drive separately? Do it all at once in SQL

When APIs are automatically database tables, it’s easy to combine search results from diverse APIs.

By Jon Udell

Jun 7, 2022 7 mins

APIs Databases SQL

12 programming tricks to cut your cloud bill

Cutting cloud costs is a team effort, and that includes developers. Here are 12 tricks for developing software that is cheaper to run in the cloud.

By Peter Wayner

Jun 6, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Data Management Serverless Computing

Maximize your cloud security with isolation zones

Security zones keep your applications and their data safe from bad actors and can help limit the impact of a security breach.

By Lee Atchison

Jun 6, 2022 6 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Cloud Security

Better Java: JDK Enhancement Proposals explained

How is Java made? Let’s take a look at the process for introducing new features to the platform, and at some of the big JDK enhancement projects on the horizon.

By Matthew Tyson

Jun 2, 2022 7 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

How Vanguard and Morgan Stanley are balancing dev and ops

Two financial services firms are taking a similar approach to transitioning to devops, landing on a shared responsibility model for developer teams, supported by centralized operations and SRE.

By Scott Carey

Jun 1, 2022 7 mins

Careers Devops Technology Industry