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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

15 star founders of high-flying open source projects

Meet the driving forces behind some of today’s most important and most innovative open source projects.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Mar 14, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Software Development

What is a serverless database? Elastic compute for the data tier

Serverless databases offer highly scalable, cloud-based data storage and retrieval without requiring you to provision CPU or storage ahead of time.

By Martin Heller

Mar 11, 2022 8 mins

Databases PaaS Serverless Computing

How Trade Ledger switched to microservices for its cloud-based software

The Australian lending software-as-a-service provider shares lessons learned in using a microservices architecture to build its cloud application.

By Samira Sarraf

Mar 10, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Architecture Software Development

In an evolving cloud world, Azure passes AWS

Flexera 2022 State of the Cloud survey finds data warehouses, databases, and containers to be the top cloud draws, with serverless and AI/ML rising fast.

By Brian Adler

Mar 9, 2022 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

How to evaluate software asset management tools

IT asset management or ITAM solutions provide comprehensive management of hardware and software assets, both on-prem and in the cloud.

By David Strom

Mar 9, 2022 10 mins

Application Life Cycle Management Cloud Computing Software Development

Solving complex problems with vector databases

Vector databases unlock the insights buried in complex data including documents, videos, images, audio files, workflows, and system-generated alerts. Here’s how.

By Dave Bergstein

Mar 8, 2022 10 mins

Analytics Databases Software Development

7 reasons to embrace Web3 — and 7 reasons not to

Web3 promises to bring the best ideas from the world of cryptocurrencies to the rest of the web. What’s not to like?

By Peter Wayner

Mar 7, 2022 10 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Web Development

JSONB in PostgreSQL today and tomorrow

PostgreSQL was the first relational DBMS to introduce JSON support, and its JSONB index search capability is unique. More is on the way.

By Oleg Bartunov

Mar 1, 2022 9 mins

Databases SQL Software Development

When your app should be smooth, not sticky

Some applications should grab users and never let them go, but others should move users in and out as quickly as possible. Follow these tips to make those ‘get in, get out’ apps smoother.

By Lee Atchison

Feb 28, 2022 6 mins

Software Development

The rise of WebAssembly

WASM initially promised performance gains and greater portability for web applications, but now is making an impact across a growing number of environments.

By Scott Carey

Feb 28, 2022 12 mins

Software Development Web Development

What is Apache Kafka? Scalable event streaming

Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is one of the most mature platforms for event streaming. Kafka is used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.

By Martin Heller

Feb 25, 2022 7 mins

Analytics Software Development

Understand the RSA encryption algorithm

The RSA algorithm is a feast of genius that combines theoretical math and practical coding into working asymmetric cryptography. Here’s how it works.

By Matthew Tyson

Feb 24, 2022 8 mins

Application Security Security Software Development

How to choose a streaming data platform

Many of the best platforms for managing, storing, and analyzing streaming data are Apache open source projects, along with commercial and cloud implementations of those projects.

By Martin Heller

Feb 23, 2022 12 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Data Management

How to protect your Kubernetes infrastructure from the Argo CD vulnerability

A zero-day vulnerability in Argo CD could be putting sensitive information like passwords and API keys at risk. Are you protected?

By Mohan Atreya

Feb 23, 2022 4 mins

Application Security Build Automation Devops

Building and running microservices at scale: A CTO’s view

How the 12-factor methodology, container-based microservices, and a monorepo approach win with both customers and developers at Priceline.

By Marty Brodbeck

Feb 22, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

A Look at What’s Next in AI, Virtual Collaboration, and Beyond

Explore these breakthroughs, and more, at the GTC developer conference

By InfoWorld, in association with NVIDIA

Feb 21, 2022 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS

An emerging set of vendors is trying to simplify the job of web development, again. Is this the next generation of platform as a service, or something completely different?

By Scott Carey

Feb 21, 2022 13 mins

PaaS Serverless Computing Web Development

What is OLTP? The backbone of ecommerce

Online transaction processing systems are purpose-built to handle large numbers of transactions by large numbers of concurrent users, while guaranteeing the integrity of the data.

By Martin Heller

Feb 18, 2022 5 mins

Databases Software Development

5 useful features you won’t be seeing in Go

Why Go may never get a ternary operator, algebraic types, immutable objects, default argument values, or the error handling features found in other programming languages.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 16, 2022 6 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

Overcoming the IoT interoperability hurdle

As IoT extends into every facet of our lives, the big challenge will be delivering data solutions that are interoperable with legacy, current, and future systems.

By Sam Dillard

Feb 15, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Computing Data Integration IoT Security

12 ways to slash your cloud costs

You can cut your cloud bill by 30 percent, 40 percent, and maybe much more if you know where to look.

By Peter Wayner

Feb 14, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing

How to manage software developers without micromanaging

Talented software developers bristle at the idea of being closely managed. Here are seven ways to align development teams and business objectives without making developers miserable.

By Isaac Sacolick

Feb 14, 2022 7 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

What is OLAP? Analytical databases

Online analytical processing databases speed up the multi-dimensional queries common in business intelligence applications.

By Martin Heller

Feb 11, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence Databases

8 new JavaScript features you might have missed

It’s not easy keeping up with all the new features the ECMAScript spec brings us every year. Let’s catch up with the highlights from ES11.

By Matthew Tyson

Feb 10, 2022 9 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Web Development

Builder CEO: Where JavaScript is headed is super interesting

Builder CEO Steve Sewell discusses the challenges web developers face today and how the latest innovations in the JavaScript community are solving them.

By Matthew Tyson

Feb 9, 2022 14 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

How we should think about cloud lock-in

There’s a difference between technology adoption and vendor lock-in. Technology adoption has gravity, but vendor lock-in has teeth.

By Scott McCarty

Feb 8, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Open Source Technology Industry

The best US cities for remote software developers

As more developers pull up stakes and move out of major hiring hubs like Seattle, San Francisco, and New York, a new set of US cities is emerging as remote-work hot spots.

By Scott Carey

Feb 7, 2022 8 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

What is human-in-the-loop machine learning? Better data, better models

Human-in-the-loop machine learning takes advantage of human feedback to eliminate errors in training data and improve the accuracy of models.

By Martin Heller

Feb 4, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Machine Learning Software Development

3 predictions for AI adoption in 2022

More organizations will tune into the far-reaching benefits of a symbiotic human-AI relationship in the coming year. Here’s how.

By Josh Feast

Feb 3, 2022 5 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Faster Python made easier with Cython’s pure Python mode

Now you can have Cython’s speed boost without its cumbersome syntax, using the pure Python syntax you know and love.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 2, 2022 6 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

How SQL can unify access to APIs

PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers are a great way to expose APIs to SQL. And SQL is a great way to reason over the data.

By Jon Udell

Feb 1, 2022 7 mins

APIs Databases SQL

Roblox’s cloud-native catastrophe: A post mortem

How Roblox chased down and fixed the flaws in its HashiCorp-powered distributed infrastructure that caused a three-day worldwide outage.

By David Strom

Jan 31, 2022 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

What is neural architecture search? AutoML for deep learning

Neural architecture search promises to speed up the process of finding neural network architectures that will yield good models for a given dataset.

By Martin Heller

Jan 28, 2022 6 mins

Analytics Machine Learning Software Development

Slashing time to insight with unified data analytics

How Incorta’s unified data analytics platform closes the gap between strategic and operational decision-making.

By Matthew Halliday

Jan 27, 2022 9 mins

Analytics Business Intelligence

5 key observability trends for 2022

In the coming year, organizations will seek to simplify, optimize, and consolidate observability through a mix of new tools and practices.

By Dotan Horovits

Jan 25, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

So you want to be a Web3 developer

The latest industry buzzword is creating an opening for ambitious developers to contribute to an exciting emerging ecosystem, underpinned by distributed ledgers and cryptocurrency. But there are plenty of caveats on Web3 to contend with first.

By Scott Carey

Jan 24, 2022 14 mins

Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Web Development

What is Google Cloud Anthos? Managed Kubernetes everywhere

Google’s Anthos promises a single, consistent way of managing Kubernetes workloads across on-prem and public cloud environments

By Scott Carey

Jan 21, 2022 5 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

Understand Diffie-Hellman key exchange

The Diffie-Hellman algorithm was a stunning breakthrough in cryptography that showed cryptographic keys could be securely exchanged in plain sight. Here’s how it works.

By Matthew Tyson

Jan 20, 2022 7 mins

Security Software Development

4 models for escalating access permissions during emergencies

Just-in-time permissions for operational staff are a security best practice. But how do you manage them for incidents and outages?

By Lee Atchison

Jan 17, 2022 7 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Get started with generics in Go

Newly introduced in Go 1.18, generics reduce the amount of boilerplate you need in your code, without sacrificing backwards compatibility

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jan 12, 2022 8 mins

Golang Programming Languages Software Development

What is Web3? A new decentralized web, or the latest marketing buzzword

Web3 has emerged as an attempt to bring together blockchain, smart contracts, and decentralized applications, but its true efficacy is proving difficult to pin down.

By Scott Carey

Jan 12, 2022 8 mins

Emerging Technology Software Development Web Development

All roads lead to hyperautomation in 2022

Four predictions for how technology innovation will allow competitive businesses to distinguish themselves in the coming year.

By Manoj Chaudhary

Jan 11, 2022 4 mins

Emerging Technology Software Development Technology Industry

16 irresistible cloud innovations

Behind the pay-as-you-go pricing model, the public cloud is teeming with the latest and greatest development, devops, and AI tools for building better and smarter applications faster.

By Martin Heller

Jan 10, 2022 8 mins

Cloud Computing Emerging Technology Software Development

What is streaming data? Event stream processing explained

Streaming data records are typically small, measured in mere kilobytes, but the stream often goes on and on without ever stopping.

By Martin Heller

Jan 7, 2022 9 mins

Analytics Data Architecture Data Integration

2022: The year of software supply chain security

Strengthening the software supply chain must be priority No. 1 in the new year. Here are three areas to focus on.

By Scott McCarty

Jan 4, 2022 7 mins

Application Security Open Source Security

8 steps to better DNS

DNS configurations are prone to mistakes. To minimize the impact of DNS outages, you need the right processes and tools.

By Lee Atchison

Jan 3, 2022 9 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Technology Industry

Virtual whiteboards prove vital for remote developer teams

Going remote during the pandemic separated software development teams from their beloved whiteboards. Here’s how some teams overcame the challenge.

By Scott Carey

Dec 29, 2021 5 mins

Software Development

How no-code, reusable AI will bridge the AI divide

The ability to reuse pre-built AI solutions and components, and customize them without coding, will finally allow AI solutions to be created without requiring scarce AI talent or costly IT resources.

By Michelle Zhou

Dec 28, 2021 16 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Software Development

What app developers need to do now to fight Log4j exploits

Why you may already be at risk, how to detect and mitigate the Log4j vulnerabilities now, and how to improve your code security in the future.

By David Strom

Dec 27, 2021 8 mins

Application Security Java Security

Get started with Minikube

Learn how to run Kubernetes on the desktop, or as a Docker Desktop replacement, with a stripped-down version of the container orchestration platform for developer use.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 22, 2021 8 mins

Development Tools Software Development