Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update
The new version of Oracle’s Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version. Exadata is Oracle’s hardwa...
Building generative AI applications is too hard, developers say
When everyone touts the benefits of generative artificial intelligence, telling the world how much easier it will make all of our lives, many developers who actually have to build those miracle apps are of a different opinion, according to a new surve...
Why the C programming language still rules
The C programming language has been alive and kicking since 1972, and it still reigns as one of the essential building blocks of our software-studded world. But what about the dozens of newer languages that have emerged over the last few decades? Some...
Intro to Ktor: The HTTP server for Kotlin
Kotlin is a modern general-purpose language that brings together object-oriented and functional programming power in a sleek syntax. Ktor is the official HTTP server for Kotlin, leveraging Kotlin’s expressiveness for building endpoints and other ser...
Gleam 1.7 brings faster record updates
Gleam 1.7 has arrived with faster record updates and a dynamic coder for a custom type. Overall, the latest version of Gleam touts performance and package publishing improvements. This latest update to Gleam was announced January 5 and is accessible ...
Almost nothing remains of Software AG
Software AG (now legally known as Software GmbH) has sold its Alfabet and Cumulocity divisions, following on from the recent sales of webMethods, StreamSets and TrendMiner. Its remaining divisions, the mainframe business around Adabas & Natural (A&N) ...
Building a better smart home
The public beta launch of Home APIs for Android allows developers to create better smart home experiences. This launch emphasizes investments in Matter to improve device connectivity and interoperability, and increase smart home accessibility.
Build the future of home with Google Home APIs
The Google Home APIs are now in public developer beta for Android, allowing developers to build innovative smart home experiences for over 600M devices using Google's hubs, Matter infrastructure, and automation engine.
5 ways data teams must lead in AI-driven organizations
Generative AI has inspired a surge of interest in using data to improve the accuracy of business decisions. Business managers, data analysts, and citizen data scientists can now use prompts instead of SQL queries to ask questions, interact with large ...
Agentic AI: The top challenges and how to overcome them
As generative AI continues to surge in popularity, we are already seeing it evolve into the next generation of machine-learning-driven technology: agentic AI. With agentic AI, we are not just prompting models and receiving an answer in a simple one-st...
Cloud providers are running out of ‘next big things’
Recent research from Gartner and IDC paints a sobering picture: Cloud providers are experiencing diminishing returns on their innovation investments. Cloud spending continues to grow, but industry analysts note that the pace of revolutionary new servi...
Python wins Tiobe language of the year honors
To the surprise of probably no one, Python has won the Tiobe programming language of the year award for 2024, given to the language with the highest increase in ratings in Tiobe’s index of language popularity during the year. In a post accompanying ...
3 forecasts about time-series forecasting
Over the last year, we’ve seen an explosion in innovation in time-series forecasting. Along with new statistical models, transformer-based approaches have allowed for the creation of zero-shot foundation models from well-known organizations such as ...
Someone needs to make AI easy
2024 was a year filled with AI possibilities; 2025 needs to turn those possibilities into realities. For that, we need the cloud companies to stop churning out “primitives” such as large language models (LLMs) and instead give developers solutions...
Write Python like it’s 2025
It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy,...
The cloud architecture renaissance of 2025
The perfect storm is coming that will force enterprises to rethink their cloud strategy. Cloud architecture will take center stage during 2025. This isn’t just another hype cycle. First, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: generative AI....
Ruby completes switch to Prism parser
Ruby 3.4.0, and Ruby 3.4.1, updates to the longstanding dynamic, open source programming language, have arrived, with Prism now the default parser. Ruby 3.4.0 was released December 25, Christmas Day, along with an update, Ruby 3.4.1, which merely ch...
Go teams struggle with coding standards – survey
Although developer sentiment toward the Go language remains very positive, teams face a challenge when it comes to maintaining consistent coding standards across Go code bases, according to Go developer survey results for the second half of 2024. Go d...
