Nvidia launches AgentIQ toolkit to connect disparate AI agents
As enterprises look to adopt agents and agentic AI to boost the efficiency of their applications, Nvidia this week introduced a new open-source software library — AgentIQ toolkit — to help developers connect disparate agents and agent frameworks. ...
Everyone needs a genAI strategy now
Does your company have an AI strategy yet? Our top stories this month point to the perils of not having one—including but not limited to the rising threat of shadow IT. We’re also looking ahead to the future of highly adaptive UIs, the rise of cit...
Bridging the digital skills gap
A recent McKinsey study highlights that 87% of executives now view skill shortages as a critical barrier to their digital transformation efforts. The digital skills gap hinders a company’s ability to fully leverage advanced technologies such as arti...
Microsoft .NET 10 Preview 2 shines on C#, runtime, encryption
Microsoft has unveiled a second preview of its planned .NET 10 developer platform, featuring enhancements related to encryption, the .NET runtime, and the C# language. Published March 18, .NET 10 Preview 2 follows the February 25 debut of Preview 1. P...
Ex-Sun CEO Scott McNealy reflects on Java’s founding
Languages such as Python and Rust get a lot of new attention these days, but Java is still going strong after three decades. With Java’s 30th birthday two months away, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Java founding company Sun Microsystems, and Oracle o...
How to implement idempotent APIs in ASP.NET Core
When designing your APIs, you should make them idempotent to ensure that they are robust, reliable, and fault-tolerant. An operation is idempotent when repeating it will always result in the same outcome. For example, an elevator button is idempotent....
TypeScript gets Go-faster stripes
Last week Microsoft announced a major shift in the architectural direction of its TypeScript language. Until now the TypeScript compiler, tsc, was written in TypeScript itself, compiled to JavaScript, and run on top of Node.js. However, it’s shiftin...
SAP introduces Joule for Developers
SAP has added AI capabilities powered by its AI assistant, Joule, to SAP Build Process Automation and SAP Build apps, extending the existing AI capabilities in SAP Build Code and ABAP Cloud. The announcement at this week’s SAPInsider event in Las Ve...
Astro with HTMX: Server-side rendering made easy
Astro.js is a well-thought-out and capable full-stack JavaScript platform that provides flexible technology choices on both the front and back end. It’s no surprise it currently has 50,000 stars on GitHub. Astro provides a structure to start with wh...
You can build it on a Chromebook
I was a Windows guy from the very beginning. I used Windows 1.02 on my IBM PS/2 Model 25 back in the late 1980s. I was thrilled to build applications for Windows 3.1 using Turbo Pascal for Windows. I remember how fun it was to allocate a whopping 2G...
Oracle reveals five new features coming to Java
With JDK (Java Development Kit) 24 having just reached general availability, Oracle has given a sneak peek at Java features set to arrive in the not-too-distant future, ranging from enhanced primitive boxing to null-restricted value class types. Oracl...
Oracle, Nvidia partner to add AI software into OCI services
Oracle and Nvidia are partnering to make the latter’s AI Enterprise software stack available via Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services. Nvidia’s AI Enterprise stack will be available natively through the OCI Console and will be available anyw...
How to simplify app migration with generative AI tools
According to one report, as much as 70% of software used at Fortune 5000 companies was developed over 20 years ago. While there is a strong business rationale for upgrading legacy applications, such migrations are often risky. The high cost of migrati...
When cloud providers go out of business
It’s not every day we witness a cloud provider abruptly closing its doors. Yet, that’s exactly what happened when NetEase, a Hangzhou, China-based internet and gaming giant, announced it was shutting down its public cloud service. As of April 7, 2...
Baidu’s ERNIE launches ‘signal a global AI race’
The launch this weekend by Baidu of a native open-source multimodal foundation model called ERNIE 4.5 and a reasoning model, ERNIE X1, could lower AI adoption barriers, intensify competition, and reshape pricing strategies across the industry, an anal...
GCC 15 compilers move toward completion
GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15 is moving forward as a planned update to the series, with a new front end for Cobol. The upgrade also is set to bring improvements to C and C++ development. GCC 15 is expected as a production release in late-April or e...
