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

Bringing DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps together

It’s time to bridge the technical gaps and cultural divides between DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps teams and provide a more unified approach to building trusted software. Call it EveryOps.

By Yoav Landman

May 5, 2025 8 mins

Build Automation DevSecOps Devops

Knowing when to use AI coding assistants

AI coding assistants shine for boilerplate code, simple functions, documentation, debugging, and other routine tasks. Don’t push them too far.

By Bill Doerrfeld

May 5, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Download the ‘AI-Savvy IT Leadership Strategies’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: AI is requiring a reset for CIOs and other IT leaders in how they lead both their technical and business strategies and execution approaches. Here, we explore some of the implications of artificial intelligence on IT leadership.

By CIO staff

May 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Buyer’s Guides

Cloud security conundrum: Buy vs. build vs. both

The security of your cloud environments isn’t just about the technology you choose or your model for implementing it. It’s about making informed, business-aligned decisions that reduce real risk.

By Tyler Farrar

Apr 30, 2025 1 min

Cloud Security

Catching up with Angular 19

Angular 19 is a moveable feast of optimizations, refactors, and improvements for reactive programming in JavaScript.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 30, 2025 7 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

Conquering the costs and complexity of cloud, Kubernetes, and AI

Platform engineering teams face mounting challenges across their expanding technological landscape. Automation and self-service are the way forward.

By Haseeb Budhani

Apr 28, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Management Devops Kubernetes and Containers

14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings

Cloud costs add up quickly but so can cloud savings. Here are 14 clever ways to cut costs while still making the most of just about any cloud configuration.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 28, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Management Cloud Storage Devops

MarkItDown: Microsoft’s open-source tool for Markdown conversion

MarkItDown offers a simple and powerful way to convert documents and media files into Markdown for fine-tuning LLMs or building retrieval-augmented generation systems.

By Janakiram MSV

Apr 24, 2025 5 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

CNAPP buyer’s guide: Top cloud-native app protection platforms compared

Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) aim to provide a complete cloud security solution, but some are more complete than others.

By David Strom

Apr 23, 2025 1 min

Application Security Cloud Security

Comparing Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte: What you need to know

These four reactive frameworks are all popular options for building dynamic, scalable web apps in JavaScript. Here's help choosing the right one for you.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 23, 2025 12 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

4 big changes WebAssembly developers need to know about

Four upcoming features promise to expand WebAssembly’s power and scope, but developers and language designers will have to do their part.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 23, 2025 5 mins

JavaScript Kotlin Rust

Why enterprise investment in AI agents hasn’t yielded results

Most organizations lack the foundational infrastructure needed to deploy AI agents effectively, with fragmented knowledge access and security concerns the biggest barriers.

By Alistair Russell

Apr 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Leadership

Understanding application modernization

Application modernization isn’t a one-time project but an ongoing commitment to innovation. Here’s how to get started.

By Kanchana Wickremasinghe

Apr 21, 2025 7 mins

Cloud-Native Devops IT Strategy

Data mesh vs. data fabric vs. data virtualization: There’s a difference

Understanding the differences between data mesh, data fabric, and data virtualization can help organizations turn scattered data into a strategic advantage.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Apr 21, 2025 6 mins

Data Management

Enter the parallel universe of Java’s Vector API

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations.

By Simon Ritter

Apr 17, 2025 6 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

6 languages you can deploy to WebAssembly right now

Rust, Go, JavaScript, C/C++, and JavaScript can all run on Wasm. Here's what you need to know.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 16, 2025 6 mins

C++ Golang JavaScript

How pet projects fuel innovation and careers in tech

Pet projects are an excellent way for developers to learn new skills and technologies and to test fresh concepts and approaches. Companies can benefit too.

By Anastasia Kazakova

Apr 14, 2025 12 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

7 reasons low-code and no-code tools fail to deliver

As more organizations adopt low-code and no-code platforms and tools, tech leaders must understand the risks and benefits involved.

By Bob Violino

Apr 14, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools No Code and Low Code Technology Industry

What is data fabric? How it offers a unified view of your data

Data fabric is an architecture that connects siloed heterogenous data across an organization, enabling unified access and management.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Apr 11, 2025 1 min

Data Management

DSPy: An open-source framework for LLM-powered applications

DSPy shifts the paradigm for interacting with models from prompt hacking to high-level programming, making LLM applications far easier to maintain and optimize.

By Janakiram MSV

Apr 10, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

What is Kubernetes? Scalable cloud-native applications

Kubernetes automates container-based application deployment, management, scaling, and more. Here's everything you need to know about K8s.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 9, 2025 17 mins

Cloud Computing Kubernetes and Containers Software Development

10 Java-based tools and frameworks for generative AI

There’s no reason Python developers should have all the fun. Here are 10 popular Java-based tools for integrating artificial intelligence into your Java applications and workflows.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 7, 2025 9 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Java

Language models in generative AI – does size matter?

Large language models and small language models will play different roles in ensuring that we deliver valuable generative AI applications at cost-effective levels.

By Dom Couldwell

Apr 7, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

3 key features in Kong AI Gateway 3.10

Automated RAG, PII sanitization, and LLM orchestration in Kong AI Gateway 3.10 help teams simplify, scale, and secure their AI development workflows.

By Marco Palladino

Apr 2, 2025 6 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Understand Python’s new lock file format

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 1, 2025 5 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Download the ‘Strategizing Data Analytics for AI’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: We explore the intersection of AI and analytics. Data analytics only gets more complex. And its growing use for artificial intelligence applications brings a new set of considerations and strategies for IT and business leaders.

By InfoWorld and CIO.com staff

Apr 1, 2025 1 min

Analytics Enterprise Buyer’s Guides Generative AI

How AI is transforming IDEs into intelligent development assistants

By automating routine tasks and reducing friction, AI-powered IDEs allow developers to spend more time developing. Here’s what they add to the traditional IDE feature set.

By Chris Woodruff

Mar 31, 2025 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

14 alternative managed Kubernetes platforms

You have a wide variety of options beyond AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for offloading Kubernetes management. These are the best.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Mar 31, 2025 15 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

How RamaLama helps make AI model testing safer

RamaLama makes it a snap to spin up AI models locally in containers and streamlines the path from experimentation to production.

By Scott McCarty

Mar 27, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

What you need to know about Go, Rust, and Zig

Go, Rust, and Zig are three of the most popular new programming languages of the past decade. Here’s what you need to know about their best uses, features, and where they’re headed.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 26, 2025 6 mins

Golang Programming Languages Rust

GenAI tools for R: New tools to make R programming easier

From IDE plugins to external chatbots and running LLMs locally, these new and emerging tools are bringing the generative AI revolution to R.

By Sharon Machlis

Mar 25, 2025 11 mins

Development Tools Generative AI R Language

Learning AI governance lessons from SaaS and Web2

The governance journeys of SaaS and Web2 tell us that today’s ad hoc AI governance will give way to a continuous and automated approach.

By Greg Whalen

Mar 24, 2025 6 mins

Data Governance Data and Information Security DevSecOps

Prompt engineering courses and certifications tech companies want

Prompt engineering is a newer field, which makes courses and certifications a valuable way to demonstrate experience.

By Bob Violino

Mar 24, 2025 9 mins

Certifications Generative AI Machine Learning

Cloud trends 2025: Repatriation and sustainability make their marks

Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report reveals a rise in workloads returning to data centers even as generative AI use and public cloud adoption accelerate.

By Brian Adler

Mar 19, 2025 13 mins

Cloud Computing

What is KubeVirt? How does it migrate VMware workloads to Kubernetes?

Fallout from Broadcom's VMware acquisition is boosting interest in KubeVirt, an open-source project that enables users to deploy and manage VM workloads directly inside of Kubernetes deployments.

By Sean Michael Kerner

Mar 17, 2025 1 min

Cloud Computing Kubernetes and Containers

Combining AI and no-code for business app development

How Creatio’s AI-native, no-code platform puts the development of custom, AI-powered apps and workflows into the hands of business users.

By Burley Kawasaki

Mar 17, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI No Code and Low Code

Why AI-generated code isn’t good enough (and how it will get better)

Did we normalize AI-generated code too soon? Here’s where it falls short and how it’s improving.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Mar 17, 2025 14 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained

Llama has evolved beyond a simple language model into a multi-modal AI framework with safety features, code generation, and multi-lingual support.

By Martin Heller

Mar 14, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Open Source

How DeepSeek innovated large language models

A glimpse at how DeepSeek achieved its V3 and R1 breakthroughs, and how organizations can take advantage of model innovations when they emerge so quickly.

By Florian Douetteau

Mar 13, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

3 of the best LLM integration tools for R

Do you need to add LLM capabilities to your R scripts and applications? Here are three tools you'll want to know.

By Sharon Machlis

Mar 11, 2025 17 mins

Development Tools Generative AI R Language

Building generative AI? Get ready for generative UI

Building generative user interfaces into your applications can be an effective way to deliver better user experiences. It means orchestrating fully interactive responses.

By Dom Couldwell

Mar 10, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

10 things developers love about JavaScript – and 10 things they don’t

Over three decades of development, JavaScript has grown faster, sleeker, more capable, and much more complex. That’s good and bad.

By Peter Wayner

Mar 10, 2025 11 mins

JavaScript Libraries and Frameworks Web Development

Portkey: An open-source AI gateway for easy LLM orchestration

Portkey AI Gateway allows application developers to easily integrate generative AI models, seamlessly switch among models, and add features like conditional routing without changing application code.

By Janakiram MSV

Mar 6, 2025 7 mins

APIs Development Tools Generative AI

The best Java and JVM language frameworks

The Java ecosystem supports a host of outstanding back-end frameworks, including many written for modern languages like Scala and Kotlin. Here's how seven top frameworks for Java and JVM languages compare.

By Matthew Tyson

Mar 5, 2025 9 mins

Java Libraries and Frameworks Software Development

The most relevant new features in JDK 24

Java 24 contains 24 new features – more than any Java release since 2018. These six will matter the most to Java developers and Java shops in the near term.

By Simon Ritter

Mar 3, 2025 6 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

How eBPF is changing container networking

Networking, observability, and security for Kubernetes and container networks involve substantial processing overhead. eBPF promises more efficiency, visibility, and control.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Mar 3, 2025 13 mins

Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers Security Monitoring Software

Download the ‘Managing AI Risk’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: We explore the risks to both IT and the business from the use of AI. The goal of your risk management efforts should be to gain the most value from AI as a result.

By CIO.com and CSOonline.com staff

Mar 2, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Buyer’s Guides Risk Management

What is retrieval-augmented generation? More accurate and reliable LLMs

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models.

By Martin Heller

Feb 27, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Get started with async in Python

Learn how to use asynchronous programming in Python 3.13 and higher. Get more done in less time, without waiting.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Feb 26, 2025 12 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

10 machine learning mistakes and how to avoid them

Machine learning is a multibillion-dollar business with seemingly endless potential, but it poses some risks. Here's how to avoid the most common machine learning mistakes.

By Bob Violino

Feb 24, 2025 10 mins

Careers Machine Learning Software Development