Cost-conscious repatriation strategies
In recent years, the cloud computing landscape has undergone a seismic shift. After fully embracing the potential of public cloud services, many companies are reevaluating their strategies and shifting workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. Th...
Create searchable Bluesky bookmarks with R
The Bluesky social network is seeping into the mainstream, thanks in part to people unhappy with changes at X (formerly Twitter). “It’s not some untouched paradise, but it’s got a spark of something refreshing,” Jan Beger, global head of AI Ad...
FAQ: Getting started with Bluesky
What is Bluesky? Bluesky is a “microblogging” social media network similar to X (formerly Twitter), where people can publish posts with a maximum of 300 characters, as well as follow others, create lists, like posts, and so on. “Similar to Twitt...
Enterprise-grade caching with Azure Managed Redis
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kub...
Go 1.24 brings full support for generic type aliases
Go 1.24, a planned update to Google‘s popular open-source programming language, has reached the release candidate stage. Expected to arrive in February 2025, the release brings full support for generic type aliases, along with the ability to track e...
Getting started with Azure Managed Redis
Microsoft has made a lot of big bets in its preferred cloud-native infrastructure. You only need to look at .NET Aspire and Radius to see how the company thinks you should be designing and building code: a growing cloud-native stack that builds on Kub...
GitHub launches free tier of Copilot AI coding assistant
GitHub has launched GitHub Copilot Free, providing access to a free tier of the AI-based pair programmer via Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor. Announced December 18, Copilot Free gives developers access to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat mes...
OpenAI rolls out upgrade to reasoning model, new dev tools
The release Tuesday by OpenAI of OpenA1 o1, its reasoning model, in API, along with three new sets of tools for developers, is a “smart move that keeps [it] in the corporate/enterprise conversation, as so many customers are shifting their focus towa...
Tabnine code assistant now flags unlicensed code
Looking to minimize IP liability for generative AI output, Tabnine’s AI coding assistant now checks code for licensing restrictions. The Code Provenance and Attribution capability added to the tool enables enterprise developers to use large language...
4 key concepts for Rust beginners
Few languages are as highly esteemed by developers as Rust, which promises robust memory safety without compromising speed. Rust also has a steep learning curve, though, and some of its programming concepts can feel like a barrier to knowing it well. ...
You have a license to code
One of the coolest things about software development is that you don’t need anyone’s permission to do it. If you need an application for your business or personal use, there isn’t a single thing stopping you from learning to code and writing it...
Build a server-side web app with .NET, C#, and HTMX
There are many stacks on the server side and one of the most longstanding and capable ones is the .NET platform using C#. .NET is broadly comparable to the Java platform, and over the years, the two have been competitors and mutual influencers. Each...
Top 5 use cases for small language models
Since ChatGPT arrived in late 2022, large language models (LLMs) have continued to raise the bar for what generative AI systems can accomplish. For example, GPT-3.5, which powered ChatGPT, had an accuracy of 85.5% on common sense reasoning data sets, ...
Smarter devops: How to avoid deployment horrors
Many devops organizations implement advanced CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and other automations to increase deployment frequency. In the State of DevOps Report 2023, 18% of respondents were classified as elite performers for being able to deploy on-...
Does AWS have a complexity problem?
At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services addressed a critical concern for enterprises using modern cloud technology: managing the growing complexity of cloud environments at scale. Enterprises are confronted by the challenges of evolving systems, ma...
JavaScript is still number one – JetBrains report
JavaScript is the most-used programming language, according to JetBrains’ State of Developer Ecosystem Report 2024. But the languages with the most promising growth prospects are TypeScript, Rust, and Python, the report says. This year’s report fo...
