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How to land a software development job in an AI-focused world

AI isn’t eliminating software developers, but it is changing what matters to hiring managers. Here’s our guide to landing a software development job in a rapidly shifting landscape.

By Bob Violino

Mar 23, 20269 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCareersGenerative AI

7 ways the cloud is changing

Computing without servers? Programming without code? Let’s ponder these and other innovations in the constantly evolving cloud.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 5, 2021 8 mins

Databases No Code and Low Code Serverless Computing

What is functional programming? A practical guide

Functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and maintainable software. This article illustrates the concepts behind the functional paradigm with practical examples in JavaScript and Java.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 1, 2021 9 mins

Java JavaScript Software Development

4 key tests for your AI explainability toolkit

Enterprise-grade explainability solutions provide fundamental transparency into how machine learning models make decisions, as well as broader assessments of model quality and fairness. Is yours up to the job?

By Shayak Sen

Apr 1, 2021 7 mins

Machine Learning

8 ways to jump-start your machine learning

From exploratory data analysis to automated machine learning, look to these techniques to get your data science project moving — and to build better models.

By Martin Heller

Mar 31, 2021 9 mins

Machine Learning

5 devops practices to improve application reliability

How to use monitoring and observability to resolve application performance problems before they impact users and the business.

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 29, 2021 7 mins

Devops Software Development

Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis explained

Data rarely comes in usable form. Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis are the difference between a good data science model and garbage in, garbage out.

By Martin Heller

Mar 24, 2021 8 mins

Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

What we just learned about data science — and what’s next

The past 12 months have revealed how valuable data science can be while also exposing its limitations. Expect big advances in the year to come.

By Michael Berthold

Mar 23, 2021 8 mins

Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

Is JavaScript the new Java?

Sorry, Java, but JavaScript's success in the browser, on the server, and in mobile have some believing it’s the real ‘Write once, run anywhere’ programming language.

By Paul Krill

Mar 22, 2021 4 mins

Java JavaScript Software Development

7 common cloud problems and how to fix them

Experts running some of the Internet’s most critical cloud-based services share the problems they have faced, and how they solve or mitigate them.

By Andrew C. Oliver

Mar 22, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing

Containers need standard operating environments too

A standard operating environment can reduce the time it takes to deploy, configure, maintain, support, and manage containerized applications. Let’s get SOEs and containers back together.

By Scott McCarty

Mar 17, 2021 8 mins

Devops Software Development

8 great Python libraries for natural language processing

With so many NLP resources in Python, how to choose? Discover the best Python libraries for analyzing text and how to use them.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 17, 2021 8 mins

Machine Learning Natural Language Processing Python

How to build an internal developer platform, from those who have done it

Twitter, Two Sigma, Yelp, and Zalando explain why they built their own software development platforms and share what lessons they learned along the way.

By Scott Carey

Mar 15, 2021 10 mins

Build Automation Devops PaaS

Rust vs. Go: How to choose

Do you want execution speed or developer speed? Memory safety or easy concurrency? Here’s how to decide between Rust and Go.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 10, 2021 9 mins

Development Tools Golang Programming Languages

Out-of-this-world monitoring with InfluxDB and React

Build a React application to track the orbit of the International Space Station using Telegraf, InfluxDB, ExpressJS, and Giraffe.

By Gene Hynson

Mar 10, 2021 6 mins

Data Visualization Databases JavaScript

6 security risks in software development and how to address them

Experts share how software development teams can ‘shift security left’ and improve governance of open source usage, software deployment, and data management.

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 8, 2021 9 mins

Application Security Devops Software Development

IT career roadmap: Database administrator

As information becomes ever more strategically important for organizations, database administrators continue to play a vital role in the success of enterprises.

By Bob Violino

Mar 8, 2021 9 mins

Careers Databases IT Skills and Training

How to choose a cloud serverless platform

From AWS Lambda and Azure Functions to Knative and OpenFaaS, we have at least a dozen functions-as-a-service platforms to choose from. Here’s how to navigate the options.

By Martin Heller

Mar 3, 2021 15 mins

Cloud Computing Serverless Computing Software Development

How Aerospike achieves fine-grained global replication

Aerospike’s Cross-Datacenter Replication with Expressions makes it easy to route the right data at the right time across global applications to meet compliance mandates and reduce server, cloud, and bandwidth costs.

By Srini Srinivasan

Mar 3, 2021 7 mins

Databases Software Development

6 projects that push Python performance

Python has never been as speedy as C or Java, but several projects are in the works to get the lead out of the language.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 2, 2021 5 mins

Python Software Development

15 ways to leave your cloud provider

From inexplicable outages to cyberattacks to head-scratching Terms of Service ‘violations,’ your seemingly solid perch in the cloud could turn suddenly precarious. Here are 15 ways to prepare for a fast exit.

By Peter Wayner

Mar 1, 2021 10 mins

Cloud Computing

3 kinds of bias in AI models — and how we can address them

A biased AI model must have learned a biased relationship between its inputs and outputs. We can fix that.

By Anupam Datta

Feb 24, 2021 7 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Why Microsoft Azure wins with enterprise customers

In the cloud wars, Microsoft often comes off as second best to Amazon Web Services. But when it comes to established enterprises Azure wins more often than not. Here’s why.

By Scott Carey

Feb 22, 2021 9 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

What is observability? Software monitoring on steroids

Observability is an increasingly vital consideration for software engineers looking to build better, more stable applications. Here is everything you need to know about observability.

By Scott Carey

Feb 18, 2021 6 mins

Devops Software Development

Observability: What IT should know as the technology heats up

As modern software systems become more and more complex, gaining observability into how applications perform and what makes them fail is quickly climbing up the priority list.

By Scott Carey

Feb 18, 2021 10 mins

Devops Software Development

How to make better technology investments

6 steps IT departments can take to identify IT spend and optimize reinvestments in digital transformation initiatives.

By Kevin Miller

Feb 17, 2021 6 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Programming jobs for losers

You’ll need the right attitude and the right hard and soft skills to feel like a winner in your software development career.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Feb 15, 2021 12 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

Angular, React, Vue: JavaScript frameworks compared

Modern data-binding JavaScript frameworks have revolutionized web interface architecture. This article compares three of the best.

By Matthew Tyson

Feb 11, 2021 11 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

Speed up Python functions with memoization and lru_cache

Take advantage of caching and the lru_cache decorator to relieve your Python functions from repetitive heavy lifting.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 10, 2021 5 mins

Python Software Development

How to design AI into your applications

3 conscious experience design principles that will help you integrate ‘living’ AI into your applications and how to implement them.

By Ken Olewiler

Feb 10, 2021 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Software Development

7 best practices for remote development teams

Distributed software development teams are here to stay. Take advantage of these best practices to overcome the challenges of working remotely, keep agile teams agile, and maximize productivity and quality.

By Isaac Sacolick

Feb 8, 2021 8 mins

Devops Software Development

Hidden figures: 7 Black programmers you should know

These African-American software pioneers were part of a largely unheralded history of key software innovators.

By Scott Carey

Feb 8, 2021 5 mins

Careers Diversity and Inclusion Software Development

Got the Python basics down? Read this book next

A great new book from the author of ‘Automate the Boring Stuff with Python’ helps you move past beginning concepts and embrace pro-level Python skills.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 4, 2021 3 mins

Python Software Development

Why Andy Jassy was picked to fill Jeff Bezos’s big shoes at Amazon

The man who built Amazon Web Services into a $40 billion business is taking the big seat at the e-commerce company.

By Scott Carey

Feb 3, 2021 6 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Computing

InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year Award winners

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

By Ian Pointer, Martin Heller, James Borck, Serdar Yegulalp, Andrew C. Oliver, Steven Nuu00f1ez and Isaac Sacolick

Feb 3, 2021 21 mins

Analytics Devops Machine Learning

7 data science predictions for 2021

After a trying 2020, signs point to data science becoming an enterprise-wide capability that impacts every line of business and functional department in the coming year.

By Nick Elprin

Feb 3, 2021 6 mins

Analytics Data Science Machine Learning

6 ways to bring your spiraling cloud costs under control

The pandemic has accelerated cloud usage, creating longer-term challenges for organizations looking to effectively manage their cloud costs.

By Scott Carey

Feb 1, 2021 9 mins

Careers Cloud Computing

Your Linux container and Kubernetes forecast for 2021

Developments in containers and virtualization, container tooling, containers for edge computing, and Kubernetes you should have on your radar in the coming year and beyond.

By Scott McCarty

Jan 27, 2021 7 mins

Software Development

8 reasons Python will rule the enterprise — and 8 reasons it won’t

The rise of Python will lead many enterprise managers to wonder whether it’s time to jump on the hype train. Let’s weigh the pros and cons.

By Peter Wayner

Jan 25, 2021 12 mins

Python Software Development

Using OPA with GitOps to speed cloud-native development

Devops teams are flocking to GitOps strategies to accelerate development time frames and eliminate cloud misconfigurations. They should adopt a similar ‘as-code’ approach to policy.

By Tim Hinrichs

Jan 21, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Security

How to unleash the power of Python sets

Sets in Python organize collections of unique objects. Learn how to take advantage of this powerful feature in your own code.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jan 20, 2021 7 mins

Python Software Development

Software developer jobs outlook for 2021

With technology salaries projected to be broadly flat as the world grapples with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, here is what software developers need to know about the 2021 jobs market.

By Scott Carey

Jan 20, 2021 7 mins

Careers Software Development

IT career roadmap: Cloud architect

A vital part of digital transformation efforts, demand for cloud architects is expected to grow, with forecasters suggesting it could be one of the 10 most in-demand technology jobs for 2020. Here’s a look at what it takes to become a cloud arc

By Bob Violino

Jan 18, 2021 11 mins

Careers Cloud Architecture IT Skills and Training

How to measure developer productivity — and how not to

If you’re using software development productivity metrics to evaluate developer performance, then you’re doing it wrong. For best results, tie them to business outcomes.

By Isaac Sacolick

Jan 18, 2021 6 mins

Agile Development Software Development

The most important new features in CockroachDB

CockroachDB 20.2 brings a Kubernetes operator, spatial data, a new storage engine, SQL enhancements, and much more, extending the range of workloads for which the database can be used.

By Jim Walker

Jan 13, 2021 9 mins

Cloud Computing Databases SQL

Working with Azure Image Builder

Dynamically generate and customize your Azure virtual machines.

By Simon Bisson

Jan 12, 2021 6 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Software Development

The pandemic ushers in the next era of enterprise cloud adoption

COVID-19 has pushed global cloud spend up even further, as companies look to modernize at a faster clip in response to more remote working and digital engagement with clients and customers.

By Scott Carey

Jan 12, 2021 7 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry