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VS Code now updates weekly

Agents, browser debugging, and deprecation of Edit Mode are all highlighted in the latest versions of the popular code editor.

By Paul Krill

Mar 24, 20264 mins

Development ToolsIntegrated Development EnvironmentsVisual Studio Code

Amazon joins Kubernetes-focused CNCF industry group

Amazon has joined the consortium that supports Kubernetes and the world of containers in the cloud, though its Kubernetes intentions are unclear

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 9, 2017 2 mins

Amazon Web Services Amazon.com Open Source

Google releases TensorFlow Serving library

The open source library can work with both Google’s own TensorFlow machine learning models and third-party models

By Paul Krill

Aug 9, 2017 2 mins

Development Tools Machine Learning Technology Industry

IBM speeds deep learning by using multiple servers

IBM's Distributed Deep Learning spreads model training across any number of hardware nodes—as long as they’re IBM nodes

By Serdar Yegulalp

Aug 8, 2017 2 mins

Analytics Machine Learning Technology Industry

How Google’s Go language could be improved

Go contributors find common ground on improvements in language server, crypto code, compilation, and garbage collection

By Paul Krill

Aug 8, 2017 3 mins

Golang Open Source Software Development

How Google’s Go language could be improved

Go contributors find common ground on improvements in language server, crypto code, compilation, and garbage collection

By Paul Krill

Aug 8, 2017 2 mins

Golang Open Source Software Development

JetBrains ships alternative to Microsoft’s Visual Studio

Rider can be used on Windows, MacOS, and Linux systems

By Paul Krill

Aug 4, 2017 1 min

Development Tools Software Development

Java and C hit all-time lows in Tiobe language popularity index

Java and C take a sharp tumble, while Ruby-like variant Crystal sees a sharp rise

By Paul Krill

Aug 3, 2017 3 mins

Java Software Development

React ‘Fiber’ core rewrite progresses to beta

Facebook has released the first beta of React 16, though asynchronous rendering is not yet enabled

By Paul Krill

Aug 1, 2017 2 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

New Node.js API will shield modules from JavaScript engine changes

N-API should break the dependency on Google’s V8 engine and help developers avoid recompilation for new versions and engines

By Paul Krill

Aug 1, 2017 3 mins

JavaScript Software Development

New project taps Node.js for microservices API gateway

LunchBadger's Express Gateway is an 'out of the box' API gateway for microservices built on the Express framework for Node.js

By Paul Krill

Jul 28, 2017 2 mins

JavaScript Software Development

Microsoft explores ‘safe’ manual memory management in .Net

Microsoft Research's Project Snowflake integrates manual memory management and garbage collection to offer developers the 'best of both worlds'

By Paul Krill

Jul 28, 2017 3 mins

Software Development

Petition asks Adobe to open-source Flash

Petition on GitHub appears in the wake of Adobe announcing its end-of-life schedule for the Flash Player

By Paul Krill

Jul 27, 2017 1 min

Software Development Web Development

Where are the best software developers? Not Silicon Valley

Technical recruiter HackerRank says the best developers are in Washington and Wyoming, based on the results of its coding skills tests

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins

Java Software Development

Where are the best software developers? Not Silicon Valley

Technical recruiter HackerRank says the best developers are in Washington and Wyoming, based on the results of its coding skills tests

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins

Careers Java Software Development

Azure Container Instances: No Kubernetes required

Microsoft's new container service offers a middle ground between Azure Functions and Azure Container Service, with orchestration optional but available

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Technology Industry

Architect has a better blueprint for AWS Lambda deployments

Project handles configuration and provisioning of Lambda functions and related AWS services with a plain-text manifest file

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins

Cloud Computing JavaScript PaaS

OWL: A ‘better’ PHP for single-server apps

OWL Web Language features a JavaScript-like syntax and compiles to PHP, promising more security and safety

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2017 3 mins

Software Development Web Development

Architect has a better blueprint for AWS Lambda deployments

Project handles configuration and provisioning of Lambda functions and related AWS services with a plain-text manifest file

By Paul Krill

Jul 26, 2017 2 mins

Development Tools Java JavaScript

Red Hat’s Boltron snaps together a modular Linux server

The Fedora Modular Server project experiments with a new way to deliver multiple versions of packages side-by-side, each with their own development life cycles

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 25, 2017 3 mins

Open Source Software Development Technology Industry

Adobe: Flash Player to reach end-of-life in 2020

Adobe's proprietary rich Internet plug-in technology is finally stepping aside for HTML5 and other web standards

By Paul Krill

Jul 25, 2017 3 mins

Software Development Technology Industry Web Development

.Net Core 2.0 to extend coding optimizations to Linux

The next version of Microsoft's open source, cross-platform runtime will make native code run faster on Linux as well as Windows

By Paul Krill

Jul 21, 2017 2 mins

Small and Medium Business Software Development

Microcosm simplifies state management for React apps

Viget Labs tool serves as a central place to track all application data for React, with Preact, Vue, and Glimmer support on the to-do list

By Paul Krill

Jul 20, 2017 2 mins

JavaScript Software Development Web Development

H2O puts machine learning on autopilot

H2O's Driverless AI promises to bring ML analysis to nontechnical users, and to take the drudgery out of model selection for experts

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 20, 2017 3 mins

Data Science Data Visualization Machine Learning

Survey says Python is tops with developers

Packt survey finds Python is the most commonly used tool, while Splunk, Hadoop, and Kafka skills draw the highest pay

By Paul Krill

Jul 20, 2017 2 mins

Java Python Software Development

Survey says Python is tops with developers

Packt survey finds Python is the most commonly used tool, while Splunk, Hadoop, and Kafka skills draw the highest pay

By Paul Krill

Jul 20, 2017 2 mins

Java Python Software Development

OCI container standards arrive at last

The OCI 1.0 spec for container image formats and runtimes will mainly impact the long-term development of enterprise-oriented container products

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 19, 2017 3 mins

Open Source Software Development

Mozilla brings Python-style project documentation to JavaScript

The Sphinx-js plug-in works with Python's Sphinx tool to allow developers to more fully document their JavaScript APIs

By Paul Krill

Jul 18, 2017 2 mins

JavaScript Software Development

Yandex open sources CatBoost machine learning library

The Russian search giant has released its own system for machine learning, with trained results that can be used directly in Apple's Core ML system

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 18, 2017 2 mins

Data Science Machine Learning Open Source

Go language soars to new heights in popularity

For the first time, Go makes the top 10 in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity.

By Paul Krill

Jul 17, 2017 3 mins

Development Tools Golang Software Development

Sorry, Go 2 probably won’t add your ‘missing’ feature

Now is your chance to ask for new Go features, though the Go team's conservative design philosophy will likely keep changes to a minimum

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 14, 2017 3 mins

Development Tools Open Source Software Development

Apache Spark 2.2 gets streaming, R language boosts

The latest additions to Apache's all-in-one in-memory processing framework simplify stream processing and flesh out support for the R language

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 13, 2017 2 mins

Machine Learning Open Source R Language

Apache Spark 2.2 gets streaming, R language boosts

The latest additions to Apache's all-in-one in-memory processing framework simplify stream processing and flesh out support for the R language

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 13, 2017 2 mins

Analytics Open Source R Language

Hotspot brings GUI to Linux Perf data

Hotspot frees the analysis of Linux performance data from static, text-based reports with an interactive, eye-opening GUI

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 6, 2017 2 mins

Devops Open Source Software Development

Luna brings visual development to functional programming

Developers typically start sketching components and dependencies on a whiteboard before coding, so Luna’s creators argue that it doesn’t make sense to then implement that logic only in text

By Paul Krill

Jul 6, 2017 2 mins

Software Development

Luna brings visual development to functional programming

Luna’s creators argue for a more intuitive approach to programming

By Paul Krill

Jul 6, 2017 2 mins

Agile Development Java Software Development

What’s new in Kubernetes 1.7

The container orchestration standard adds local storage, encryption for secrets, and under-the-hood extensibility

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 5, 2017 4 mins

Open Source Software Development

What’s new in Kubernetes 1.7

The container orchestration standard adds local storage, encryption for secrets, and under-the-hood extensibility

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jul 5, 2017 4 mins

Careers Development Tools Open Source

Eclipse gets ready for Java 9 with Oxygen release train

The annual coordinated release covers 83 projects, including Linux Tools, PDT, Sirius, and EGit

By Paul Krill

Jun 29, 2017 2 mins

Development Tools Java Open Source

Eclipse gets ready for Java 9 with Oxygen release train

The annual coordinated release covers 83 projects, including Linux Tools, PDT, Sirius, and EGit

By Paul Krill

Jun 29, 2017 2 mins

Development Tools Java Open Source

The road to Java 9: Modular Java finally gets OK’d

IBM, Eclipse Foundation, Red Hat, and others decide to stand out of the way of the controversial technology’s deployment in Java 9

By Paul Krill

Jun 28, 2017 2 mins

Java Software Development

Nvidia’s new TensorRT speeds machine learning predictions

Serving predictions from a GPU is also more power-efficient and delivers results with lower latency, Nvidia claims

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 27, 2017 2 mins

Data Management Machine Learning Technology Industry

Progressive web apps challenge native mobile apps

Web companies such as Lyft and Twitter have now deployed the technology that seeks to make web apps as good, and network-independent, as native mobile apps

By Paul Krill

Jun 26, 2017 2 mins

Mobile Development Software Development Web Development

The road to Java 9: Only critical bugs getting fixed now

The upgrade is slated for an initial release candidate build today

By Paul Krill

Jun 23, 2017 1 min

Java

The road to Java 9: Only critical bugs getting fixed now

The upgrade is slated for an initial release candidate build today

By Paul Krill

Jun 23, 2017 1 min

Development Tools Java Open Source

Google open-sources TensorFlow training tools

Tensor2Tensor simplifies deep-learning model training so developers can more easily create machine learning workflows

By Serdar Yegulalp

Jun 22, 2017 2 mins

Development Tools Python Technology Industry

Ruby’s decline in popularity may be permanent

Still in the top 10 of RedMonk’s language rankings, Ruby faces tough competition from Go, Rust, Swift, and Kotlin

By Paul Krill

Jun 22, 2017 2 mins

Ruby Software Development

Ruby’s decline in popularity may be permanent

Still in the top 10 of RedMonk’s language rankings, Ruby faces tough competition from Go, Rust, Swift, and Kotlin

By Paul Krill

Jun 22, 2017 2 mins

Java Ruby Software Development

CheerpJ converts Java apps into JavaScript for the web

Applications and Java libraries are converted to web applications, so there is no need for plug-ins or Java installations

By Paul Krill

Jun 21, 2017 2 mins

Java JavaScript Web Development

CheerpJ converts Java apps into JavaScript for the web

Applications and Java libraries are converted to web applications, so there is no need for plug-ins or Java installations

By Paul Krill

Jun 21, 2017 2 mins

Development Tools Java JavaScript

JVM may get upgrade to support today’s multicore processors

A new class type would have the runtime represent the underlying data to be both far more compact and much better suited for processing in bulk operations

By Paul Krill

Jun 20, 2017 2 mins

Java Software Development