Features

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

The best Java microframeworks to learn now

The Java ecosystem brings you unmatched speed and stability. Here’s our review of seven top-shelf Java microframeworks built for modern, lightweight application development.

By Matthew Tyson

Oct 15, 2025 14 mins

Cloud-Native Java Serverless Computing

Know your ops: Why all ops lead back to devops

Confused by devops, secops, gitops, cloudops, and beyond? Here’s how to make sense of the ‘ops’ ecosystem.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Oct 13, 2025 7 mins

Devops

What is JPA? Introduction to Java persistence

An overview of the Java persistence standard and its relationship to Hibernate and JDBC. Learn how to use JPA as an ORM layer with EclipseLink and Spring in both relational and NoSQL databases.

By Matthew Tyson

Oct 8, 2025 19 mins

APIs Java Libraries and Frameworks

PyCrucible: An easy way to redistribute your Python apps

Package your Python applications for redistribution with one click, no compiling, and almost no additional software.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 8, 2025 5 mins

Devops Python

The best new features and fixes in Python 3.14

Official support for free-threaded Python, an experimental JIT, a smarter installation manager for Windows, and more have arrived in Python 3.14, which is now generally available.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Oct 7, 2025 13 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

13 clever APIs for capturing every kind of data

There are fascinating and useful treasure troves of data out there, and APIs let you get at them. Here’s a look at the wide world of APIs for finding and manipulating data in your applications.

By Peter Wayner

Oct 6, 2025 6 mins

APIs Data Architecture Web Development

How self-learning AI agents will reshape operational workflows

AI agents trained on their own experiences have the potential to revolutionize operations. Practical applications are already emerging.

By Joao Freitas

Oct 6, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning

What is an internal developer platform? IDP explained

Organizations that have successfully established a devops culture for speedy, stable software releases often rely on an internal developer platform to deploy code. But what is an ‘IDP’ and how do you get one?

By Josh Fruhlinger and Scott Carey

Oct 3, 2025 8 mins

Build Automation Devops PaaS

Why observability needs Apache Iceberg

Your telemetry data and business data don’t have to lead separate lives. Iceberg unlocks the value of logs, metrics, and traces by making them durable, queryable, and shareable at enterprise scale.

By Jacob Leverich

Oct 2, 2025 6 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Data Architecture

Spotlight report: Securing the cloud

This Special Report explores cloud security’s unique challenges, the extent of the threats facing organizations today, and how the rapid adoption of AI is amplifying the problem. You’ll learn where to look for hidden risks and essential s

By InfoWorld Staff

Oct 1, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Cloud Security Enterprise Buyer’s Guides

Model Context Protocol (MCP) certification: When will it arrive and what will it mean?

MCP certification is a hot topic in AI hiring. Here’s what courses are available now, when official certification might arrive, and why it may not solve every problem.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Sep 30, 2025 9 mins

Certifications Development Tools Engineer

‘Blame the intern’ is not an agentic AI security strategy

Eventually the industry will develop predictable patterns, trusted standards, and robust governance for autonomous agents. How do we secure agentic AI in the meantime?

By Jed Salazar

Sep 30, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data and Information Security Generative AI

A brief history of AI

Artificial intelligence has taken many forms over the years and is still evolving. Will machines soon surpass human knowledge and understanding?

By Martin Heller

Sep 29, 2025 29 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

What is infrastructure as code? Automating your infrastructure builds

Treating computing infrastructure as code is the smart and modern way to provision software in the cloud. Here’s what it is and why it’s better.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Sep 26, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management Devops

The best new features in Postgres 18

Asynchronous I/O, OAuth authentication, expanded SQL standards support, and new extension capabilities give developers faster performance, stronger security, and greater flexibility.

By Tom Kincaid

Sep 25, 2025 6 mins

Analytics Data Management Databases

The productivity paradox of AI-assisted coding

AI is increasing both the number of pull requests and the volume of code within them, creating bottlenecks in code review, integration, and testing. Here’s how to address them.

By Edgar Kussberg

Sep 23, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Do vector-native databases beat add-ons for AI applications?

Even though traditional databases now support vector types, vector-native databases have the edge for AI development. Here’s how to choose.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Sep 22, 2025 10 mins

Analytics Databases Generative AI

How AI changes the data analyst role

Rather than spending their time executing manual queries, data analysts will increasingly operate like AI engineers—reviewing, refining, and validating AI-generated outputs.

By Carl Perry

Sep 19, 2025 6 mins

Analytics Careers

Designing AI-ready architectures in compliance-heavy environments

AI in healthcare and other industries won’t fly unless compliance is baked in from day one — not bolted on after.

By Rama Devi Drakshpalli

Sep 18, 2025 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Governance Data and Information Security

The rise of AI-ready private clouds

Why Kubernetes is powering the next wave of enterprise infrastructure.

By Mark Cusack

Sep 17, 2025 11 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers Machine Learning

The three game-changing features of JDK 25

Out of 18 new features, three improvements sharpen Java’s edge for cloud-native, containerized, and cost-sensitive deployments.

By Simon Ritter

Sep 16, 2025 6 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

AI developer certifications tech companies want

Getting certified in one or more leading AI development platforms won’t necessarily land you the job, but it could help you get noticed.

By Bob Violino

Sep 15, 2025 10 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

When it comes to AI, bigger isn’t always better

Understand the merits of large language models vs. small language models, and why knowledge graphs are the missing piece in the equation.

By Dominik Tomicevic

Sep 12, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

9 vital concepts of modern JavaScript

JavaScript is a sprawling and ever-changing behemoth, and may be the single-most connective piece of web technology. From AI to functional programming, from the client to the server, here are nine vital concepts in modern JavaScript.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 10, 2025 10 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages TypeScript

Beyond AI protocols: Preparing for MCP and A2A in production

Familiar patterns—and familiar lessons—are emerging as enterprises get serious about agentic AI and Model Context Protocol and Agent2Agent implementations.

By Andrew Sellers

Sep 9, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

13 reasons SQL has got to go

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't.

By Peter Wayner

Sep 8, 2025 12 mins

Data Management Databases SQL

What is the JVM? Introducing the Java virtual machine

The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable runtimes.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 3, 2025 13 mins

Development Tools Java Programming Languages

Native UI vs. web UI: How to choose

When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 3, 2025 6 mins

Software Development Web Development

How to build a production-grade agentic AI platform – lessons from Gravity

Modular orchestration, fail-safe design, hybrid memory management, and LLM integration with domain knowledge are essential to agentic systems that reason, act, and adapt at scale.

By Lucas Thelosen and Drew Gillson

Sep 2, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI era

AI is not only changing the world at large, it’s radically changing the professional worlds of all IT workers—from developers and SOC analysts, to helpdesk staff, I&O teams, enterprise architects, and CIOs. What new skills and knowled

By InfoWorld Staff

Sep 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Careers Enterprise Buyer’s Guides

A guide to the multicloud strategies of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

AWS Outposts, Microsoft Azure Arc, and Google Cloud Anthos each offers its own approach to managing hybrid and multicloud environments. Here’s how they compare on cost, security, and management.

By Taryn Plumb

Aug 31, 2025 14 mins

Amazon Web Services Google Cloud Platform Microsoft Azure

Evolving Kubernetes for generative AI inference

A community-driven effort is bringing native support for AI inference to Kubernetes, featuring the vLLM library, an inference gateway extension, inference benchmarks, and more.

By Akshay Ram

Aug 29, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Kubernetes and Containers

8 vendors bringing AI to devsecops and application security

From autonomous vulnerability remediation to real-time scrutiny of AI-generated code, AI is impacting security at every stage of the software development process.

By Victor Garza

Aug 28, 2025 14 mins

Application Security Data and Information Security DevSecOps

A wake-up call for identity security in devops

The GitHub OAuth attack exposed a security blind spot in the ever-growing web of permissions spanning developers, service accounts, and third-party OAuth apps. Here’s how to address it.

By Taylor Parsons

Aug 26, 2025 7 mins

Access Control Application Security Data and Information Security

What alternative clouds are good for

Cost-effective alternatives are filling gaps left by the hyperscalers in supporting AI workloads, edge computing, private clouds, and more.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 25, 2025 10 mins

Cloud Computing

PyApp: An easy way to package Python apps as executables

Written in Rust, the PyApp utility wraps up Python programs into self-contained click-to-run executables. It might be the easiest Python packager yet.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 20, 2025 7 mins

Programming Languages Python Rust

The successes and challenges of AI agents

Autonomous systems are quietly changing the way we work. Bigger benefits will come when businesses redesign their workflows with agents at the center.

By Aravind Chandramouli

Aug 19, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

Why software developers burn out, and how to fix it

Developer burnout is a real and widespread problem, and AI technologies seem to be making it worse. Here’s what you need to know about developer burnout and how to fix it.

By Bob Violino

Aug 18, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Engineer Technology Industry

Devops, SRE, and platform engineering: What’s the difference?

Devops, SRE, and platform engineering roles are crucial for modern software development, but they have distinct goals. Understand how each one contributes to speed, stability, and developer experience.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Aug 12, 2025 7 mins

Devops

The advantages of stack-based internal developer platforms

A stack-based approach to IDPs emphasizes reusability, autonomy, and visibility, creating a standardized but flexible system where teams can define and deploy their own devops stack.

By Olivier de Turckheim

Aug 11, 2025 6 mins

DevSecOps Development Tools Devops

Multi-agent AI workflows: The next evolution of AI coding

Instead of working with a single coding agent, developers will soon realize gains by guiding a team of them.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 11, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Why benchmarks are key to AI progress

Researchers are racing to develop more challenging, interpretable, and fair assessments of AI models that reflect real-world use cases. The stakes are high.

By Abigail Wall

Aug 5, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Microsegmentation for developers

Microsegmentation used to mean separating network zones. Today, it means separating workload behaviors. It’s a new discipline that requires new tools.

By Jeremy Colvin

Aug 4, 2025 5 mins

Application Security Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder

Vibe coding may be the software development zeitgeist du jour, but vibing with AI isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Here are nine ways overly optimistic vibe coders can fail.

By Peter Wayner

Aug 4, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

Spotlight report: How AI is reshaping IT

IT organizations have already been challenged to find the resources and skills to support major shifts like cloud, automation, and a dramatically altered risk landscape. The emergence of AI as the next big game changer adds an additional level of str

By InfoWorld.com staff

Aug 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

Why MCP matters – and how to secure it

Model Context Protocol makes it far easier to integrate LLMs and your APIs. Let’s walk through how MCP clients and servers communicate, securely.

By Sagara Gunathunga

Jul 31, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

First look: Guided code generation with Kiro

AWS’s Claude-powered IDE generates spec-driven code and tests, but keep an eye on the results.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 30, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools Generative AI

What is Model Context Protocol? How MCP bridges AI and external services

With an open, plug-and-play architecture, MCP is the key to enabling AI agents to interact seamlessly with external tools and real-world data.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jul 29, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence

12 AI coding agents at the cutting edge

AI-powered coding agents are now real and usable, if not without their foibles. Here’s a brief look at the top prospects.

By Martin Heller

Jul 28, 2025 15 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

How agentic AI will change database management

Databases will soon be capable of monitoring their own health, identifying bottlenecks, adjusting configurations, and even rerouting traffic in real time.

By Bennie Grant

Jul 28, 2025 7 mins

Database Administration Databases Generative AI