The AI platform wars will be won on the developer experience
As much as we like to imagine technology repeatedly presents us with something novel, the reality is that tech history usually repeats itself. Whether mobile, cloud, or another technology trend, the platform that wins developers ends up owning the mar...
9 APIs you’ll love for AI integrations and automated workflows
The world is awash in data and all you need to do is ask for it. Of course, you also need to ask in the right way, and in the world of software development, that means using an API. Given the right combination of XML and JSON, there are thousands of A...
Spring Java creator unveils AI agent framework for the JVM
Embabel, an open source framework for authoring AI agentic flows on the JVM, has been launched by Spring Framework founder Rod Johnson. Johnson aims for Embabel to become the natural way to integrate generative AI into Java applications, especially th...
JavaScript innovation and the culture of programming
Something surprising about software is its vibrant and enduring culture. Far from being a sidebar to engineering, how programmers collaborate and learn from each other is often the heart of the story. JavaScript is, of course, one of the best examples...
Decentralized mesh cloud: A promising concept
Cloud computing and cloud infrastructure systems are evolving at an unprecedented rate in response to the growing demands of AI tasks that test the limits of resilience and scalability. The emergence of decentralized mesh hyperscalers is an innovation...
Snowflake: Latest news and insights
Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) has rapidly become a staple for data professionals and has arguably changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists interact with data. Its architecture is designed to decouple storage and compute, allowing organi...
Restricting PAT Creation in Azure DevOps Is Now in Preview
As organizations continue to strengthen their security posture, restricting usage of personal access tokens (PATs) has become a critical area of focus. With the latest public preview of the Restrict personal access token creation policy in Azure DevOps...
How to test your Java applications with JUnit 5
JUnit 5 is the de facto standard for developing unit tests in Java. A robust test suite not only gives you confidence in the behavior of your applications as you develop them, but also gives you confidence that you won’t inadvertently break things w...
Automating devops with Azure SRE Agent
Modern AI tools have been around for some time now, offering a wide variety of different services. Much of what’s been delivered so far has only touched the surface of what’s possible; voice recognition and transcription tools are probably the mos...
AI is powering enterprise development, GitHub says
AI is becoming increasingly important in enterprise software development, particularly with the rise of accompanying agentic models, GitHub’s Martin Woodward, vice president of developer relations, said during his talk at this week’s GitHub Galaxy...
JavaScript promises: 4 gotchas and how to avoid them
I’ve previously covered the basics of JavaScript promises and how to use the async/await keywords to simplify your existing asynchronous code. This article is a more advanced look at JavaScript promises. We’ll explore four common ways promises tri...
New to Rust? Don’t make these common mistakes
When you start learning a programming language, you will inevitably experience some frustration along with the fun. Some of that frustration comes with learning anything new and complicated, and some is unnecessary—self-inflicted, even! When learnin...
Naming is easy! A guide for developers
There is an old joke in programming circles: There are two hard things in programming: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. The first is truly hard, the third is the joke, but the second one? That one baffles me. Naming thing...
Kotlin cozies up to Spring Framework
JetBrains is deepening its collaboration with the Spring platform team, with the goal of making the Kotlin language a top choice for professional server-side work. The JetBrains-Spring partnership, announced May 22, is intended to make Kotlin a more ...
