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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

You’re thinking about technical debt all wrong

Most organizations think of their technical debt as a burden to be managed. Others are finding more success by making it an important part of the day-to-day job of a developer.

By Scott Carey

May 30, 2022 12 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

What is WebAssembly? The next-generation web platform explained

WebAssembly is a binary instruction format and virtual machine that brings near-native performance to web browser applications, and allows developers to build high-speed web apps in the language of their choice.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 27, 2022 7 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

Reactive JavaScript: The evolution of front-end architecture

Improving the client-side web experience means overcoming the challenges of ‘hydration,’ a fascinating engineering problem being tackled in many different ways. Let’s dive in.

By Matthew Tyson

May 26, 2022 9 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

How API gateways complement ESBs

Customer-obsessed organizations should introduce API gateways alongside enterprise service buses to optimize service connectivity. Here’s how.

By Marco Palladino

May 24, 2022 10 mins

APIs Cloud Computing Technology Industry

9 fine libraries for profiling Python code

From simple timers and benchmarking modules to sophisticated stats-based frameworks, look to these tools for insight into the performance of your Python program.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 23, 2022 10 mins

Development Tools Python Software Development

The quantum menace: Quantum computing and cryptography

No one knows when, but crypto-menacing quantum machines are coming. Here's how researchers use quantum mechanics to crack large integers in asymmetric cryptography.

By Matthew Tyson

May 19, 2022 7 mins

Quantum Computing Security Web Development

Career roadmap: Data engineer

A combination of education, on-the-job training, and a certificate in data science paved the way from health sciences to data engineering.

By Bob Violino

May 18, 2022 8 mins

Careers Data Management Machine Learning

Only DevSecOps can save the metaverse

The vast metaverse will also be vast in terms of code, accelerating the demand for supply chain security, automated scanning and testing, and continuous updates.

By Shachar Menashe

May 17, 2022 5 mins

Application Security Cloud Security Devops

What is JDBC? Introduction to Java Database Connectivity

Get an overview of JDBC's architecture, then learn how to connect to a database and handle SQL queries and responses with PreparedStatements, transactions, connection pooling, and more.

By Matthew Tyson

May 13, 2022 13 mins

APIs Databases Java

Intro to Micronaut: A cloud-native Java framework

Micronaut offers ahead-of-time compilation, reactive NIO, and cloud-native support for microservices and serverless development. Could it be your next Java framework?

By Matthew Tyson

May 12, 2022 8 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

9 questions you should ask about your cloud security

Businesses often lack critical insights into the security of their cloud environment. Here are nine questions business leaders need to ask—and cloud security teams need to answer.

By Josh Stella

May 12, 2022 10 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Cloud Security

Do your AWS deployments match your Terraform definitions? Use SQL to find out.

For belt-and-suspenders security and compliance, use SQL to query your Terraform files in the same way you query your AWS, Azure, or GCP services.

By Jon Udell

May 11, 2022 4 mins

Databases Devops SQL

The 9 most important new features in YugabyteDB

YugabyteDB 2.13 brings materialized views, local reads for performance, region-local backups, and much more, extending the geo-distribution capabilities of the database.

By Karthik Ranganathan

May 10, 2022 8 mins

Databases SQL Software Development

11 new programming languages to make a coder’s heart sing

From a friendlier way to write WebAssembly to a visual language for machine learning, these 11 programming tools could redefine the way you write software.

By Peter Wayner

May 9, 2022 10 mins

Programming Languages Software Development

Does low code make applications overly complex?

By making use of standardized coding techniques and code reuse, low code in fact tends to reduce the complexity of applications. Here’s why.

By Lee Atchison

May 9, 2022 5 mins

No Code and Low Code Software Development

What is PyTorch? Python machine learning on GPUs

PyTorch 1.10 is production ready, with a rich ecosystem of tools and libraries for deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and more. Here's how to get started with PyTorch.

By Martin Heller

May 6, 2022 6 mins

Libraries and Frameworks Machine Learning Python

MongoDB CTO: What today’s developers need to succeed

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter discusses relational snobbery, the triumph of JSON, the importance of trust, how companies mismanage developers, and how the third tier needs to evolve.

By Matthew Tyson

May 5, 2022 16 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

Making AI accountable: Blockchain, governance, and auditability

Recording the model development process on the blockchain can make that process more structured, transparent, and repeatable, resulting in less bias and more accountability.

By Scott Zoldi

May 5, 2022 9 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

4 useful features you won’t be seeing in Python

Here's why some popular features found in other languages—including static typing, multiline lambdas, and native JIT compilation—are a no-go for Python, at least for now.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 4, 2022 5 mins

Programming Languages Python

Overcoming AI’s limitations

Artificial general intelligence will be able to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can. AGI will have high costs and huge risks, but it’s coming—maybe soon.

By Charles Simon

May 3, 2022 7 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Developer experience doesn’t have to stop at the front end

Back-end developers need simpler provisioning and management of infrastructure to truly enable simple, repeatable environment builds. Help is on the way.

By Scott Carey

May 2, 2022 11 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

What is a data lake? Massively scalable storage for big data analytics

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses.

By Martin Heller

Apr 29, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Storage Data Architecture Data Science

8 great new JavaScript language features in ES12

ECMAScript 2021 highlights include replaceAll(), promise.any(), AggregateError, and new logical assignment operators, for starters. Let’s dive in.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 28, 2022 7 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

Career roadmap: Machine learning scientist

Data scientists and machine learning scientists have similar roles, but a machine learning scientist specializes in researching and implementing complex algorithms.

By Bob Violino

Apr 27, 2022 9 mins

Careers Data Science Machine Learning

Think of search as the application platform, not just a feature

Today we’re seeing a major evolution in how search anticipates what users want before they know they are looking for it. Developers should be tuning in.

By Marcus Eagan

Apr 26, 2022 7 mins

Analytics Software Development

9 home office essentials for developers who WFH

Working from home is here to stay, so why not build the hackatorium of your dreams?

By Peter Wayner

Apr 25, 2022 8 mins

Careers Software Development

The new Elastic CEO puts cloud front and center

As the new CEO of the enterprise search company, Ashutosh Kulkarni is reorganizing the company to focus on selling cloud software and expand into the lucrative observability and security domains.

By Scott Carey

Apr 22, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Security

5 tools to rule your software development life cycle

Modern software development is fast, iterative, and complex. Modern teams need at least these five tools to manage all of the moving parts.

By Nick Hodges

Apr 20, 2022 6 mins

Build Automation Development Tools Version Control Systems

7 ways to avoid a cloud misconfiguration attack

Cloud security is all about configuration. Here’s how to make sure the configurations of your cloud resources are correct and secure, and how to keep them that way.

By Josh Stella

Apr 19, 2022 13 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Cloud Security

9 low-rent cloud providers to challenge AWS, Azure, and GCP

Major cloud providers do it all, and usually for a sizable price. If the high cost of cloud computing has you down, one of these smaller cloud services could be a way out.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 18, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage

How blockchain is evolving

Ethereum and other ‘compute blockchains’ promise to create a whole new, programmable layer of interaction and data processing on the internet.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 14, 2022 8 mins

Software Development

6 ways to package Python apps for re-use

Do you have a Python application you want to give to the world, or at least your teammates? Here are six ways to package Python applications for distribution.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 13, 2022 8 mins

Python Software Development

DataStax CEO: Every use case doesn’t need a new database

The CEO of the enterprise NoSQL database company believes the database market is too fragmented, and he has a plan to fix it.

By Scott Carey

Apr 12, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

Scaling throughput and performance in a sharding database system

Understand the two dimensions of scaling for database query and ingest workloads, and how sharding can make scaling elastic—or not.

By Nga Tran

Apr 12, 2022 11 mins

Analytics Data Management Databases

InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards promotional information

Guidelines for InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award winners

By InfoWorld Staff

Apr 11, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Machine Learning

InfoWorld’s 2022 Technology of the Year Award winners

InfoWorld celebrates the year’s best products in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning.

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

Apr 11, 2022 17 mins

Analytics Devops Machine Learning

A brief history of the agile methodology

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth of the Agile Manifesto.

By Isaac Sacolick

Apr 8, 2022 8 mins

Agile Development Software Development

Software testing: Automating installations and functional tests

Automated software testing plays an important role in ensuring quality at every stage of software development. This article discusses how to get started using Python’s Robot Framework.

By Timo Füg

Apr 7, 2022 5 mins

App Testing Software Development

Postgres everywhere

SQLite is embedded everywhere. Will Postgres follow suit?

By Jon Udell

Apr 5, 2022 9 mins

Analytics Databases SQL

Career roadmap: Machine learning engineer

As organizations worldwide adopt machine learning across virtually every industry, the demand for machine learning engineers is on the rise.

By Bob Violino

Apr 4, 2022 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Machine Learning

What is Git? Version control for collaborative programming

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Apr 1, 2022 12 mins

Agile Development Development Tools Version Control Systems

Artificial intelligence really isn’t all that intelligent

Narrow AI applications such as Google Search and Amazon Alexa are great at solving specific problems, but only as long as you stick to the script.

By Charles Simon

Mar 29, 2022 7 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases.

By Peter Wayner

Mar 28, 2022 9 mins

Databases Development Tools SQL

Managing the complexity of cloud strategies

When choosing between multicloud, polycloud, and sky computing, you must first understand the costs and benefits of your choices.

By Lee Atchison

Mar 28, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Hybrid Cloud

Orchestrating data for machine learning pipelines

Machine learning workloads require large datasets, while machine learning workflows require high data throughput. We can optimize the data pipeline to achieve both.

By Bin Fan

Mar 22, 2022 11 mins

Analytics Machine Learning Software Development

Vercel CEO: Deployment should be instantaneous

Vercel CEO and founder Guillermo Rauch discusses his company’s push to bring streamlined workflows, continuous deployment, optimized frameworks, and infinite scale to every developer.

By Matthew Tyson

Mar 17, 2022 11 mins

Cloud Computing JavaScript Web Development

15 tools that make Kubernetes easier

Take advantage of these Kubernetes companions to improve monitoring, command-line ops, multi-cluster management, and more.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 16, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

13 tools that make Kubernetes better

Take advantage of these Kubernetes companions to simplify app definitions, migrate clusters, ease cloud deployments, and more.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 16, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

5 tips for choosing the right database

Choosing the wrong database for data-intensive applications opens a door to scaling challenges and unnecessary complexity. Making the right choice is simpler.

By Jordan Tigani

Mar 15, 2022 6 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Databases