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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

Users review top message queues

Software engineers and IT architects reveal what they like and don’t like about IBM MQ and Pivotal RabbitMQ

By IT Central Sta

Jun 8, 2018 7 mins

Software Development

Meet the modern software tester: Bug hunters profiled

Young men predominate as bug hunters, many of whom are gamers, work in IT or security, and have studied computer science.

By Dan Swinhoe

Jun 7, 2018 7 mins

App Testing Application Security Software Development

Learn Swift: 15 beginner-friendly resources for iOS app development

If you have an iPhone or iPad app idea but no idea where to begin, start with these great resources

By Paul Solt

May 30, 2018 11 mins

Mobile Development Software Development Technology Industry

Azure cloud migration guide: The tools to move your datacenter

Microsoft provides a bevy of tools to make migration from on-premises systems to Azure straightforward

By Andy Patrizio

May 24, 2018 5 mins

IaaS Microsoft Azure PaaS

6 must-have web frameworks for the Google Go language

Discover the most popular, powerful, and versatile frameworks for building sites and REST APIs in Go

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 23, 2018 4 mins

Development Tools Golang Web Development

6 must-have web frameworks for the Google Go language

Discover the most popular, powerful, and versatile frameworks for building sites and REST APIs in Go

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 23, 2018 4 mins

Golang Open Source Web Development

Azure cloud services guide: The right tools for the job

Here are the most common uses for the cloud and which Microsoft Azure components you need for them

By Andy Patrizio

May 17, 2018 8 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

What is GraphQL? Better APIs by design

Learn how Facebook’s open standard for querying data can provide a better way to build APIs than REST and Swagger

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 16, 2018 8 mins

APIs Open Source Web Development

Python developers profiled: What you use, what you do

A survey of 9,500 developers shows what Python programmers use and what they work on. See how typical you are as a Python developer

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 4, 2018 4 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Python

Python developers profiled: What you use, what you do

A survey of 9,500 developers shows what Python programmers use and what they work on. See how typical you are as a Python developer

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 4, 2018 4 mins

Development Tools Python Software Development

Why you should use Python for machine learning

Learn why Python has become the go-to programming language for machine learning and deep learning applications

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 2, 2018 6 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Python

The 5 best programming languages for AI development

Which programming language should you pick for your machine learning or deep learning project? These are your best options

By Ian Pointer

Apr 30, 2018 7 mins

Careers Java Software Development

What is serverless computing: Infrastructure freedom for devs

Strip away your infrastructure headaches with our clear-eyed guide to serverless computing and the public cloud and on-premises options fueling its possibilities

By Todd Hoff

Apr 27, 2018 17 mins

Careers Cloud Computing Serverless Computing

14 excellent reasons to use F#

F# makes it easy to write concise code to solve complex problems on all the major desktop and mobile platforms, primarily using functional programming

By Martin Heller

Apr 23, 2018 11 mins

Development Tools Small and Medium Business Software Development

Where next for GitHub?

Its tenth birthday sees GitHub at the top of the pile. What about the next ten years?

By Dan Swinhoe

Apr 20, 2018 9 mins

Open Source Software Development

Beyond Java: Programming languages on the JVM

By running on the JVM, these languages run anywhere Java runs, work seamlessly with Java, and open up possibilities Java doesn’t

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 18, 2018 4 mins

Java Software Development

Beyond Java: Programming languages on the JVM

By running on the JVM, these languages run anywhere Java runs, work seamlessly with Java, and open up possibilities Java doesn’t

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 18, 2018 4 mins

Java Ruby Scala

3 enterprise GitHub projects from Microsoft

These open source projects can make your life easier

By Dan Swinhoe

Apr 13, 2018 2 mins

Open Source Software Development

4 enterprise GitHub projects from Google

These open source projects can make your life easier

By Dan Swinhoe

Apr 12, 2018 2 mins

Open Source Software Development

Users review API management tools

Developers weigh in on the pros and cons of API managers from Apigee, CA, IBM, Microsoft, Mulesoft, OpenLegacy, Oracle, and Tibco

By IT Central Sta

Apr 12, 2018 7 mins

APIs Cloud Computing Devops

15 Java frameworks that give developers a boost

Java development frameworks can help developers get an application up and running faster, offering code reuse and eliminating the task of building boilerplate code

By Paul Krill

Apr 12, 2018 10 mins

Development Tools Java Web Development

Commercial open source is more than old stuff for free

Alfresco CTO John Newton on balancing the commercial and community aspects of being an open source company

By Dan Swinhoe

Mar 30, 2018 11 mins

Open Source Software Development

How to choose the right data-integration tools

For data integration, pipelining, and wrangling data: Here are the seven types of tools you should build your data tool set from.

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 29, 2018 12 mins

Analytics Data Integration Data Management

3 enterprise GitHub projects from Facebook

These open source projects can make your life easier

By Dan Swinhoe

Mar 27, 2018 2 mins

Open Source

Why Spectre demands more elegantly coded software

Write it well, write it efficiently, write it as though the underlying hardware isn’t going to get any faster. Because it isn’t

By Alex Cruickshank

Mar 26, 2018 5 mins

Security Software Development

Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way

By Peter Wayner

Mar 26, 2018 20 mins

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Serverless Computing

What is a graph database? A better way to store connected data

Learn why graph databases excel at exploring highly connected data, and how to leverage them in your organization

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 21, 2018 8 mins

Analytics Data Management Databases

Learn about IDG

IDG is the No. 1 tech media company in the world. Learn more here

By Galen Gruman

Mar 17, 2018

Technology Industry

How to excel in agile software development

You need to augment the agile process with a set of disciplines and technologies to get the full value of the agile methodology

By Isaac Sacolick

Mar 15, 2018 10 mins

Agile Development Software Development

What’s new in LLVM 6

LLVM 6 introduces Spectre exploit mitigations, improves Windows and Intel CPU support, and embraces WebAssembly as a compilation target

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 9, 2018 3 mins

Development Tools Open Source Software Development

How to choose the right NoSQL database

NoSQL databases vary in architecture and function, so you need to pick the type that is best for the desired task

By Bob Violino

Mar 9, 2018 8 mins

Analytics Databases

Users review test data management tools

Developers and IT pros report the pros and cons of CA Test Data Manager, Informatica Test Data Management, and IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management

By IT Central Sta

Feb 23, 2018 5 mins

App Testing Software Development

Google Cloud Platform services guide: The right tools for the job

Here are the most common uses for the cloud and which Google Cloud Platform (GCP) components you need for them

By Andy Patrizio

Feb 15, 2018 7 mins

Cloud Computing Technology Industry

Get started with TensorFlow

Begin harnessing the power of Google’s open source machine learning library with InfoWorld's hands-on tutorial

By Martin Heller

Feb 12, 2018 18 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Machine Learning

Users review service virtualization tools

Developers and IT pros weigh in on service virtualization offerings from CA, IBM, Micro Focus, Parasoft, and SmartBear Software

By IT Central Sta

Feb 9, 2018 7 mins

App Testing Software Development

20 years of open source: Its world-changing history in brief

Today, open source powers servers, computers, devices, and all manner of software. But two decades ago, it was a fringe, radical idea that seemed destined to remain academic

By Simon Phipps

Feb 2, 2018 3 mins

Open Source

InfoWorld’s 2018 Technology of the Year Award winners

InfoWorld editors and reviewers pick the year’s best software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning tools

By InfoWorld Staff

Jan 31, 2018 25 mins

Analytics Cloud Computing Machine Learning

Technology of the Year 2018: The best hardware, software, and cloud services

InfoWorld’s 2018 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the best tools for software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and machine learning

By Martin Heller

Jan 31, 2018 4 mins

Analytics Devops Machine Learning

What is deep reinforcement learning: The next step in AI and deep learning

Reinforcement learning is well-suited for autonomous decision-making where supervised learning or unsupervised learning techniques alone can’t do the job

By James Kobielus

Jan 25, 2018 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Software Development

NoSQL standouts: The best document databases

Which document-oriented database is right for your app? Follow this guide to the most developer-friendly NoSQL databases

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jan 24, 2018 19 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Software Development

AWS cloud services guide: The right tools for the job

Here are the most common uses for the cloud and which Amazon Web Services components you need for them

By Andy Patrizio

Jan 16, 2018 10 mins

Amazon Web Services IaaS Web Development

AWS cloud services guide: The right tools for the job

Find out the most common reasons for migrating to Amazon Web Services, and which AWS components you'll need to succeed

By Andy Patrizio

Jan 16, 2018 10 mins

Amazon Web Services Analytics Careers

What is agile methodology? Modern software development explained

Enterprises need software competency to deliver good digital experiences. Agile development is how enterprises get there

By Isaac Sacolick

Jan 1, 2018 12 mins

Agile Development Careers Software Development

2017: The year in programming languages

Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, TypeScript, and C++ all saw big changes in their capabilities

By Paul Krill

Dec 28, 2017 4 mins

Java JavaScript Software Development

2017: The year in programming languages

Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, TypeScript, and C++ all saw big changes in their capabilities

By Paul Krill

Dec 28, 2017 4 mins

Java Open Source Software Development

Weird science: The 9 strangest tech stories of 2017

The last 12 months have brought significant developments in what retro-future technologies

By Glenn McDonald

Dec 27, 2017 7 mins

Careers Java Software Development

How to excel in agile software development

Disciplines and technologies to make the most of agile methodology

By Isaac Sacolick

Dec 18, 2017 10 mins

Agile Development Careers Open Source

What AI can really do for your business (and what it can’t)

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are no silver bullets. A CIO explains what every business should know before investing in AI

By Isaac Sacolick

Dec 14, 2017 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Machine Learning