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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

Why SBOM management is no longer optional

In the aftermath of Log4Shell, generating software bills of materials and quickly accessing their information will be critical to addressing the new realities of software supply chain vulnerabilities and attacks.

By Josh Bressers

Dec 21, 2021 5 mins

Application Security Java Libraries and Frameworks

Meeting the challenges of multi-cluster Kubernetes

The difficulties and challenges of running Kubernetes multiply as you scale. Here are four things we’ll need to manage multi-cluster orchestration.

By Emile Vauge

Dec 21, 2021 5 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

5 rules for getting data architecture right

By addressing key considerations early in your data architecture process, you can avoid serious problems in the future.

By Lee Atchison

Dec 20, 2021 6 mins

Data Architecture Databases Software Development

The future of the operational data warehouse

The last five years have seen the rise of the cloud data warehouse. What will the next five years bring?

By George Fraser

Dec 16, 2021 3 mins

Analytics Databases

Best practices for developing governable AI

Focus on these engineering best practices to build high-quality models that can be governed effectively.

By Andrew Clark

Dec 14, 2021 8 mins

Data Governance Data Science Machine Learning

How to detect the Log4j vulnerability in your applications

A bug in the ubiquitous Log4j library can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on any system that uses Log4j to write logs. Does yours?

By Josh Bressers

Dec 10, 2021 5 mins

Application Security Java Libraries and Frameworks

Get started with Git

Learn how to manage a codebase with Git including setting up a repo, using branches and pull requests, and merging changes.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Dec 9, 2021 13 mins

Development Tools Software Development Version Control Systems

Misko Hevery explains blazing fast Qwik JS

The CTO of Builder.io discusses how Qwik addresses JavaScript reactivity challenges and what the Builder visual site designer has to offer both content creators and developers.

By Matthew Tyson

Dec 8, 2021 10 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Integrate security into CI/CD with the Trivy scanner

Open source Trivy plugs into the software build process and scans container images and infrastructure-as-code files for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations.

By Teppei Fukuda

Dec 7, 2021 7 mins

Application Security Open Source Security

Scaling telemetry monitoring with InfluxDB

How a team at Cisco tapped IOS-XR, a multi-processing collector agent, and InfluxDB to create a telemetry monitoring system capable of ingesting 3TB of telemetry data per day.

By Sam Dillard

Nov 30, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Devops

How CI/CD is different for data science

Moving data science into production has quite a few similarities to deploying an application. But there are key differences you shouldn’t overlook.

By Michael Berthold

Nov 23, 2021 8 mins

Analytics Build Automation Data Science

A quick guide to modern cryptography

Understand the crypto concepts behind the modern internet security infrastructure, from digital signatures and transport layer security to blockchains and Bitcoin.

By Matthew Tyson

Nov 18, 2021 8 mins

Application Security Cloud Security Security

Overhauling Apache Kylin for the cloud

Apache Kylin was built to query massive relational tables with sub-second response times. A new, fully distributed query engine in Kylin 4 steps up performance of both cubing and queries.

By Xiaoxiang Yu and Yaqian Zhang

Nov 18, 2021 10 mins

Analytics Databases SQL

The race to secure Kubernetes at run time

A new wave of startups is looking to help developers secure their containerized applications after they go into production. Is this the future of application security?

By Scott Carey

Nov 17, 2021 8 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Devops

Docker really did change the world

Developers quickly understood the value of containers for building cloud-native applications, and that the Docker command-line tool was better than all of the bells and whistles they got with PaaS.

By Scott McCarty

Nov 16, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops PaaS

Why AI investments fail to deliver

The success or failure of AI initiatives has more to do with people than with technology. If you want to put AI into practice in a way that improves business outcomes, you must avoid these 6 mistakes.

By Steve Nunez

Nov 15, 2021 11 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Svelte creator: Web development should be more fun

Svelte creator Rich Harris weighs in on MPAs vs. SPAs, apps vs. docs, the need for a transitional app framework, and the right way to build websites.

By Matthew Tyson

Nov 11, 2021 8 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Understanding SLOs for monitoring applications

Determining the performance metrics that really matter for your application can make life a lot easier for your team and express your standards clearly across the business.

By Tim Yocum

Nov 9, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

The RED method: A new strategy for monitoring microservices

By using the RED metrics—rate, error, and duration—you can get a solid understanding of how your services are performing for end-users.

By Tim Yocum

Nov 4, 2021 5 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Inner source in the enterprise gains momentum

A growing number of forward-thinking enterprises across retail, banking, and the media have embraced an inner source culture. Here’s why.

By Scott Carey

Nov 3, 2021 8 mins

Open Source Software Development

Making the USE method of monitoring useful

When performance issues arise, checking the USE metrics—utilization, saturation, and errors—can help you identify system bottlenecks.

By Tim Yocum

Nov 2, 2021 5 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Complexity is killing software developers

The growing complexity of modern software systems is slowly killing software developers. How can you regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer?

By Scott Carey

Nov 1, 2021 13 mins

Software Development

The high cost of data science toil

Data science toil saps agility and prevents organizations from scaling data science efforts efficiently and sustainably. Here’s how to avoid it.

By Josh Poduska

Oct 28, 2021 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Science Machine Learning

Why traditional IP networking is wrong for the cloud

Legacy networking approaches don’t align with the way that cloud providers create services or access and only introduce more complexity. Move to the cloud, but leave your traditional networking behind.

By Ramesh Prabagaran

Oct 26, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Elastic’s Shay Banon: Why we went beyond our search roots—and stood up to ‘bully’ AWS

The search company has expanded into the APM and security markets and opened a new open source battlefield with the industry’s dominant cloud company, AWS.

By Scott Carey

Oct 25, 2021 12 mins

Amazon Web Services Open Source Technology Industry

Kubernetes object storage best practices

Like Kubernetes itself, the underlying object storage should be distributed, decoupled, declarative, and immutable.

By Ugur Tigli

Oct 19, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Storage Devops

The best open source software of 2021

InfoWorld’s 2021 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s best open source software for software development, devops, data analytics, and machine learning.

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

Oct 18, 2021 16 mins

Devops Machine Learning Open Source

Which cloud database should you use?

An overview of the strengths and weaknesses of today’s cloud database management systems.

By Shevek

Oct 12, 2021 7 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Databases

Lessons learned securing Kubernetes in the cloud

For any company exploring the potential of the cloud and Kubernetes, adopting infrastructure as code, security as code, and automation will be essential.

By Karl-Heinz Prommer

Oct 5, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development

Explainable AI explained

Someday machine learning models may be more ‘glass box‘ than black box. Until then, ‘XAI’ tools and techniques can help us understand how a black box model makes its decisions.

By Martin Heller

Oct 5, 2021 12 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

The 2021 Enterprise Architecture Awards

The 2021 Forrester and InfoWorld EA Awards contest winners focus on agility and enabling innovation.

By Gene Leganza

Sep 29, 2021 25 mins

Analytics Careers Cloud Computing

How to secure cloud infrastructure across the development lifecycle

Empowering cloud teams with automated policy-as-code guardrails helps them move faster and more securely.

By Josh Stella

Sep 28, 2021 8 mins

Application Security Cloud Computing Devops

What is vector search? Better search through AI

Vector similarity search uses machine learning to translate the similarity of text, images, or audio into a vector space, making search faster, more accurate, and more scalable.

By Martin Heller

Sep 28, 2021 5 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Cyber security in the public cloud

A brief guide to the network, infrastructure, data, and application security capabilities AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud provide to prevent cyber attacks and protect your cloud-based resources and workloads.

By Bob Violino

Sep 27, 2021 9 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

Get started with Go testing

Learn how to create and run unit tests in Go with the programming language’s built-in test management tools.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 22, 2021 5 mins

App Testing Golang Libraries and Frameworks

Oracle v. Google: What the verdict means for open source

Much of the software we use today is built on re-implemented APIs, like the Java API in question in Oracle v. Google. An Oracle victory would have stopped open-source innovation in its tracks.

By Hannu Valtonen

Sep 21, 2021 6 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

Will Google Cloud ever win over enterprises?

The No. 3 cloud vendor continues its attempts to attract more enterprise customers and grow market share amid stiff competition from AWS and Azure. Can Google do it? Maybe not.

By Scott Carey

Sep 20, 2021 14 mins

Cloud Computing Google Cloud Platform Technology Industry

Machine learning is moving beyond the hype

Today, companies across every industry are deploying millions of machine learning models across multiple lines of business. Soon every enterprise will take part.

By Bratin Saha

Sep 14, 2021 6 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Machine Learning

30 top SaaS companies for business

These leading SaaS providers offer IT management, business management, marketing, productivity, collaboration, and other applications from the cloud.

By Bob Violino

Sep 13, 2021 20 mins

Cloud Computing SaaS

Why devops teams should eliminate SLAs

SLAs are for lawyers. Service level objectives not only introduce finer-grained reliability metrics, but also put that telemetry data into the context of user happiness.

By Alex Nauda

Sep 9, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

How Docker broke in half

The game changing container company is a shell of its former self. What happened to one of the hottest enterprise technology businesses of the cloud era?

By Scott Carey

Sep 7, 2021 17 mins

Cloud Computing Software Development Technology Industry

Shifting observability left for cloud-native applications

Shipping software has always been about balancing speed and quality control. Many great technology companies built their empires by mastering this skill.

By Leonid Blouvshtein

Aug 31, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

An early look at SvelteKit

SvelteKit is a full-stack, server-side, pre-rendering application framework for Svelte that can output production builds to different environments.

By Matthew Tyson

Aug 26, 2021 7 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

How to nail the Kubernetes certification exams

Whether you are going for your CKAD, CKA, or CKS certification, these tips from recently certified professionals will help you pass the exam the first time.

By Scott Carey

Aug 26, 2021 5 mins

Careers Devops Software Development

What is a data warehouse? The source of business intelligence

Enterprise data warehouses are comprehensive structured data stores designed for analysis. They often serve as the data sources for BI systems and machine learning.

By Martin Heller

Aug 24, 2021 7 mins

Analytics Databases

What is AI bias mitigation, and how can it improve AI fairness?

Algorithmic biases that lead to unfair or arbitrary outcomes take many forms. But we also have many strategies and techniques to combat them.

By Kathy Baxter

Aug 24, 2021 9 mins

Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

4 reasons to get Kubernetes-certified, and 4 reasons not to

What are the most important Kubernetes certifications and are they worth it? Here are four reasons to get certified, and four reasons to think better of it.

By Scott Carey

Aug 23, 2021 9 mins

Careers Devops Software Development

When RPA meets data science

Data science can make robotic process automation more intelligent. Robotic process automation make it easier to deploy data science models in production.

By Michael Berthold

Aug 17, 2021 5 mins

Data Science Machine Learning Software Development

What is low-code development? Faster app creation

A good low-code development platform can help developers build apps faster at lower cost. A no-code platform allows non-programmers to contribute to development.

By Martin Heller

Aug 11, 2021 4 mins

Development Tools No Code and Low Code Software Development