Hyperlight Wasm points to the future of serverless
Back when I first wrote about Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal hypervisor, I speculated that it had a possible role as a WebAssembly-based alternative to serverless computing tools like Azure Functions, using Kubernetes as a host. So it wasn’t too ...
Accelerate cloud infrastructure initiatives with Lucid Software
Cloud and development operations (devops) teams are under constant pressure to do more, faster. They have outdated systems to update and manage, new systems to build, and requests from business units who need their support. It’s a velocity problem, ...
How to use guard clauses in C#
We always strive to write source code that is clean, maintainable, and devoid of any errors. However, we may often find that our application’s code is cluttered because we’ve used too many nested constructs or branches to validate our business rul...
Django 5.2 release touts automatic model importing
The latest version of the Python web framework features an automatic model-importing capability in the shell. This release also spells the end of support levels for previous version 5.x releases. Unveiled April 2 by the Django Software Foundation, t...
Informatica readies new Claire Copilot capabilities for IDMC
Enterprise data management vendor Informatica is adding new capabilities to Claire Copilot, the generative AI assistant in its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). IDMC sits on top of enterprise databases, ingesting and cataloguing from various s...
3 key features in Kong AI Gateway 3.10
Kong AI Gateway 3.10 introduces new capabilities designed to help organizations govern their generative AI usage more effectively, reduce hallucinations from large language models (LLMs), and boost developer productivity. We achieve this while keeping...
Making Python faster won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it
Want to make a Python user grind their teeth? Just recite three words: Python is slow. In many of the ways that matter, it’s true. “Pure” Python, without external libraries written in C, is nowhere near as fast at computation or object manipulat...
HTMX and Alpine.js: How to combine two great, lean front ends
HTMX and Alpine are two low-overhead ways to empower your front end. Neither requires a build step, and both let you add Ajax-style API calls and client-side UI updates with minimal fuss. While the two technologies differ in approach, neither gets in ...
Rewriting Social Security will be a train wreck
Government software development is a curious business. When I was a student at the Naval Postgraduate School, I wrote a paper called “There is a Lot of Money to be Made Writing Bad Software for the Federal Government.” The general idea is that t...
Red Hat Developer Hub adds analysis dashboard
Red Hat has updated Red Hat Developer Hub, an enterprise internal developer portal based on Backstage. The new release offers a developer preview of Adoption Insights, an analytical dashboard that details how Developer Hub is being used by development...
Understand Python’s new lock file format
Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 751 gives Python a new file format for specifying dependencies. This file, called a lock file, promises to allow developers to reproduce the installation of their Python projects, with the exact same sets of dependenc...
How to start developing a balanced AI governance strategy
The best defense is a good offense, right? When it comes to AI governance, organizations need both. The reason is that genAI capabilities evolve quickly, hype accelerates investments, and data risks are amplified through AI applications. This article ...
Java plan prepares to restrict final field mutation
A JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) to prepare to make final mean final in Java would issue warnings about uses of deep reflection to mutate final fields. The warnings would prepare Java developers for a future release that ensures integrity by default b...
New Python lock file format will specify dependencies
Python’s builders have accepted a proposal to create a universal lock file format for Python projects that would specify dependencies, enabling installation reproducibility in a Python environment. Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 751, accepted Mar...
Apple’s Swift language gets version manager
Apple has introduced swiftly 1.0, a version manager for the Swift programming language that is intended to ease the process of installing, managing, and updating the user’s Swift tool chain. Swiftly 1.0 was announced March 28. While swiftly has been...
