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

Mem0: An open-source memory layer for LLM applications and AI agents

Combining an innovative hybrid data store and intelligent retrieval, Mem0 provides a robust foundation for building personalized AI experiences that improve over time.

By Janakiram MSV

Jul 24, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

Amp your Python superpowers with ‘uv run’

The uv utility lets you run Python packages and libraries with one command and no setup. Here's the quick guide to running Python packages without installing them.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 23, 2025 4 mins

Development Tools Programming Languages Python

Rethinking and realigning IT for the AI era

CIOs from a range of industries discuss how AI’s emergence as a transformative force is leading them to adapt and reimagine how IT operates to better harness the technology’s potential to revolutionize their business.

By Esther Shein

Jul 22, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership

A pragmatic approach to enterprise AI

Consider these six ways to approach AI to help your organization unlock efficiencies while preventing major setbacks and significant cost overruns.

By Jason Hardy

Jul 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Strategy

9 AI development skills tech companies want

Developers seeking jobs in AI-driven organizations want to know what tech leaders and hiring managers are looking for. Here’s our list.

By Bob Violino

Jul 21, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

How CodeRabbit brings AI to code reviews

CodeRabbit combines code graph analysis and the power of large language models to identify issues in pull requests and suggest improvements, or even generate those improvements in a new branch.

By Travis Van

Jul 21, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

4 tips for getting started with free-threaded Python

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 16, 2025 7 mins

Concurrency Programming Languages Python

ECMAScript 2025: The best new features in JavaScript

The latest JavaScript specification standardizes a well-balanced and thoughtful set of features, including the built-in global Iterator, new Set methods, improvements to regular expressions, and more.

By Matthew Tyson

Jul 16, 2025 11 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

Can System Initiative fix devops?

System Initiative proposes a radical overhaul of infrastructure automation to address infrastructure-as-code chaos and longstanding devops toil.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Jul 14, 2025 11 mins

Cloud Computing Devops Software Development

Why zero CVEs makes zero sense

Chasing the goal of zero CVEs may tick off some compliance check boxes, but it will not fully address the evolving and holistic threats to enterprise security.

By Scott McCarty

Jul 14, 2025 9 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Devops

InfoWorld Technology of the Year Awards 2025 nominations now open

InfoWorld awards recognize the best products in software development, cloud computing, data analytics, and AI/ML. Final submission deadline has been extended to Friday August 22.

By Doug Dineley

Jul 8, 2025 3 mins

Analytics Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

How Deutsche Telekom designed AI agents for scale

An introduction to the open-source LMOS platform and its Kotlin-based Arc framework for building, deploying, and managing cloud-native, multi-agent AI systems.

By Arun Joseph

Jul 8, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing Generative AI

OutSystems Mentor: An AI-powered digital assistant for the entire SDLC

Combining low-code, generative AI, and AI-driven guidance, Mentor provides intelligent, context-aware support from application creation through monitoring and governance.

By Luis Blando

Jul 7, 2025 7 mins

Development Tools Generative AI No Code and Low Code

AiSuite: An open-source AI gateway for unified LLM access

Python project from Andrew Ng provides a streamlined approach to working with multiple LLM providers, addressing a significant pain point in the AI development workflow.

By Janakiram MSV

Jul 3, 2025 7 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

How to use editable installs for Python packages

Have you ever wished you could edit Python packages installed locally without reinstalling them? Editable installs are the way.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 2, 2025 4 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Download the ‘AI-ready data centers’ spotlight report

In this issue: There are lots of great reasons for running AI applications in your own data centers – provided they’re up to the task. AI puts new demands on virtually every aspect of data centers from servers and networks to power grids

By InfoWorld staff

Jul 1, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Enterprise Buyer’s Guides Private Cloud

Three steps to boost Amazon S3 data security

Technical steps your organization can take to protect itself from the Codefinger ransomware attack and other modern exploits.

By Pranava Adduri

Jun 30, 2025 7 mins

Amazon Web Services Cloud Security Data and Information Security

Rewriting infrastructure as code for the AI data center

om experimental hacks to enterprise rollouts, generative AI is becoming a standard part of IaC workflows—bringing speed, structure, and new risks.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Jun 30, 2025 12 mins

Engineer

Pyrefly and Ty: Two new Rust-powered Python type-checking tools compared

Pyrefly from Meta and Ty from Astral offer type-checking for Python codebases at the speed of Rust.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 25, 2025 5 mins

Development Tools Python Rust

LLMs aren’t enough for real-world, real-time projects

Large language models can generate useful insights, but without a true reasoning layer, like a knowledge graph and graph-based retrieval, they’re flying blind.

By Dominik Tomicevic

Jun 24, 2025 7 mins

Analytics Databases Generative AI

How to succeed (or fail) with AI-driven development

Developers and tech leaders share their risks, rewards, and best practices for integrating AI into the software development lifecycle.

By Bob Violino

Jun 23, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Careers Generative AI

Devops debt: The hidden tax on innovation

Dead code, security false positives, and idle cloud capacity are the leading drags on devops in Java environments. Here’s how to address them.

By Simon Ritter

Jun 23, 2025 7 mins

Devops Engineer Java

Firecrawl: Easy web data extraction for AI applications

Firecrawl redefines web data acquisition for the AI era, offering developers an enterprise-grade tool kit that abstracts away web scraping complexities.

By Janakiram MSV

Jun 19, 2025 5 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

A developer’s guide to AI protocols: MCP, A2A, and ACP

Model Context Protocol, Agent2Agent protocol, and Agent Communication Protocol take slightly different approaches to AI agent communications. Let’s unpack them.

By Adi Polak

Jun 17, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Rethinking the dividing lines between containers and VMs

Containers give developers flexibility, speed, and simpler deployment. Virtual machines offer superior workload isolation and security. We can have both.

By Alex Zenla

Jun 16, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

Understanding how data fabric enhances data security and governance

Learn how data fabric addresses fragmentation, compliance, and Shadow IT to deliver robust, centralized data protection and governance.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Jun 16, 2025 10 mins

Analytics Data and Information Security IT Governance

Mastering AI risk: An end-to-end strategy for the modern enterprise

Organizations gain a strategic advantage with a life-cycle approach to AI cyber risk that acknowledges the rapid evolution of AI technologies, threats, and regulations. Here’s how.

By John Verry

Jun 10, 2025 8 mins

Data Governance Data and Information Security Generative AI

Building a multi-zone and multi-region SQL Server Failover Cluster Instance in Azure

A step-by-step guide to deploying, configuring, and testing a multi-AZ, multi-region SQL Server FCI in the Azure cloud, complete with a PowerShell script that handles the networking configuration.

By Dave Bermingham

Jun 9, 2025 20 mins

Cloud Computing Databases Microsoft Azure

9 APIs you’ll love for AI integrations and automated workflows

Generative AI means computers just keep getting smarter, and now the APIs are starting to catch up.

By Peter Wayner

Jun 9, 2025 5 mins

APIs Generative AI Machine Learning

Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: Cloud computing is highly established, and IT’s view has shifted from understanding the concept to making the best use of it to solve both technology and business challenges. The time is ripe to step back and revisit your thinkin

By InfoWorld and CIO.com staff

Jun 2, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Enterprise Buyer’s Guides IT Strategy

7 ways to improve your AI coding results

Leading software developers suggest a combination of new skills and tactics to improve the effectiveness of working with AI.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Jun 2, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Demystifying serverless in the modern data and AI landscape

It’s time to clarify misperceptions and examine what serverless really looks like, especially in a world increasingly shaped by AI and the need for rapid innovation and scaling.

By Artin Avanes

Jun 2, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Serverless Computing

Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing

Docling uses state-of-the-art models for layout analysis and table structure recognition to transform unstructured documents into formats readily consumable by modern AI systems.

By Janakiram MSV

May 29, 2025 6 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.

By Matthew Tyson

May 28, 2025 9 mins

Engineer Generative AI Technology Industry

Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants

Getting retrieval-augmented generation right requires a deep understanding of embedding models, similarity metrics, chunking, and retrieval techniques. Here’s a brief guide.

By Shaurya Pednekar

May 27, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Multicloud developer lessons from the trenches

Experts offer advice on strategically approaching multicloud development, from balancing features from disparate clouds to mastering observability and automation.

By Josh Fruhlinger

May 26, 2025 12 mins

Careers Engineer Multicloud

Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

A significant percentage of enterprise cloud network spending is wasted, due to preventable mistakes and manual processes, and the recent spike in AI deployments is adding to the problem.

By Maria Korolov

May 26, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

InfluxDB’s new model for time series workloads

The embedded Python Processing Engine in InfluxDB 3 allows developers to write Python code that analyzes and acts on time series data in real time.

By Pete Barnett

May 26, 2025 6 mins

Databases Software Development

Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio

Building a database-backed web application with Gemini in Firebase is far from perfect, but it’s better than coding without AI.

By Matthew Tyson

May 21, 2025 14 mins

Development Tools JavaScript TypeScript

What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 21, 2025 8 mins

HTML Software Development Web Development

The best Java certifications for software developers

Yes, Java certification is still worth it, but it pays to know which ones will help you stand out. Here's what you need to know about Java course certificates and hiring in 2025.

By Bob Violino

May 19, 2025 10 mins

Certifications Devops Java

LiteLLM: An open-source gateway for unified LLM access

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls.

By Janakiram MSV

May 15, 2025 6 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Open Source

4 key capabilities of Kong’s Event Gateway for real-time event streams

Event-driven architecture needs the same governance and control as APIs. Kong’s new Event Gateway brings familiar Kong API management, plugins, and policies to Apache Kafka.

By Marco Palladino

May 13, 2025 5 mins

APIs Application Security Libraries and Frameworks

Agentic mesh: The future of enterprise agent ecosystems

An agentic mesh is a way to turn fragmented agents into a connected, reliable, enterprise-grade ecosystem. It lets agents find each other, and safely and securely collaborate, interact, and even transact.

By Sean Falconer and Eric Broda

May 13, 2025 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

What software developers need to know about cybersecurity

Security should be a core competency of every developer. Follow these 10 steps to bring security into every phase of the software development life cycle.

By Jose Lazu

May 12, 2025 8 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Devops

How to build (real) cloud-native applications

Simply running an application on a remote server doesn’t make it cloud-native. It’s about specific design principles for scalability and resilience.

By Sean Michael Kerner

May 12, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

7 application security startups at RSAC 2025

From AI-driven security design reviews to workflow analysis, dependency graphing, and runtime detection and response, these startups bake security into every stage of the application life cycle.

By Victor Garza

May 9, 2025 7 mins

APIs App Testing DevSecOps

8 ways to do more with modern JavaScript

From syntax and features every JavaScript developer needs to higher-level concepts you shouldn't miss, here are eight ways to make the most of JavaScript.

By Matthew Tyson

May 7, 2025 14 mins

Careers JavaScript Programming Languages

AI data centers drive engineers rush to master new skills

The explosive growth of AI infrastructure is forcing data center engineers to rapidly master new technical skills as facilities struggle to find staff.

By Maria Korolov

May 5, 2025 1 min

IT Skills and Training