How to work with FusionCache in ASP.NET Core
Caching has long been one of the most successful and proven strategies for enhancing application performance and scalability. There are several caching mechanisms in .NET Core including in-memory caching (IMemoryCache API), distributed caching (IDistr...
Swift 6 arrives with improved concurrency, data-race safety
Swift 6, the latest version of the general-purpose language developed by Apple, is now available. The language update features concurrency improvements, including extended safety guarantees for data races. Linux and Windows support and a new testing l...
Intro to Deno Fresh: A fresh take on full-stack JavaScript
After Brendan Eich’s conception of the language itself, the second most momentous event in JavaScript history (so far) was Ryan Dahl’s humble suggestion that JavaScript could run as an event loop on the server. This notion eventually became Node.j...
How Cloud Custodian conquered cloud resource management
Kapil Thangavelu says he probably would have been a history professor if he hadn’t discovered Python in college. His early-days exposure to Zope and Plone — a Python web application server and content management system, respectively — put him ...
Can Java rival Python in AI development?
Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI fi...
C++ Alliance takes aim at C++ memory safety
Concerns about C++ memory safety soon could be in the past. The C++ Alliance, a charity whose mission is to make the C++ language accessible and useful, is working to add memory safety features to C++, through its Safe C++ Extensions proposal. The all...
JDK 23: The new features in Java 23
Java Development Kit (JDK) 23, the latest update of standard Java, is now generally available. Major features and changes range from previews of module import declarations, stream gatherers, structured concurrency, scoped values, and a class-file API ...
Overcoming AI hallucinations with RAG and knowledge graphs
Generative AI depends on data to build responses to user queries. Training large language models (LLMs) uses huge volumes of data—for example, OpenAI’s GPT-3 used the CommonCrawl data set, which stood at 570 gigabytes and 400 billion tokens. But t...
9 hacks for a better nightly build
In the beginning, there was no need to build anything. We manipulated the toggle switches on the front panel of a mainframe, and the code either ran or it didn’t. Creating software was very straightforward. Maybe not easy, but certainly uncomplicate...
When your cloud strategy is ‘it depends’
This past week I spent time with some IT executives at a Fortune 500 company. Despite years of big spending on AWS, the company made a commitment years ago to switch to Microsoft Azure. Today they’re still on AWS… and Azure… and private data cen...
3 common misconceptions around biometrics and authentication
Scared of flying but don’t think twice about a lengthy road trip? Consider this: NOVA reports that your odds of a fatal car crash are 1 in 5000, but the chance of perishing in a plane is just 1 in 11 million. Despite air travel being 2,200 times saf...
Oracle CloudWorld 2024: Conference news and insights
Oracle CloudWorld is one of the tech industry’s signature events. The event, known as Oracle OpenWorld until 2020, is a significant gathering for IT professionals, developers, and business leaders looking to explore the latest advancements in cloud ...
AWS hands OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation
Amazon Web Services is transferring its OpenSearch open-source project to the Linux Foundation, which has launched the OpenSearch Software Foundation to support the project and its search and analytics software. The announcement was made September 16....
Decoding OpenAI’s o1 family of large language models
OpenAI said its project Strawberry has graduated to a new family of large language models (LLMs) that the company has christened OpenAI o1. The new family of models, which also includes an o1-mini version for cost efficiency, according to the company,...
Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries’
This (half-)month in Python and elsewhere: Python’s “dead batteries” are about to be removed—and soon. Here’s how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow for image processing, and find out how Python’s built-in enum module make...
New AI reporting regulations
The U.S. Commerce Department announced on Monday that it is proposing detailed reporting requirements for advanced developers of artificial intelligence and cloud computing providers. In an era when artificial intelligence and cloud computing are driv...
Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries’
This (half-)month in Python and elsewhere: Python’s “dead batteries” are about to be removed—and soon. Here’s how to live without them. Also, get started with Pillow for image processing, and find out how Python’s built-in enum module make...
What’s in the cards for MariaDB?
K1 Investment Management, the new owner of MariaDB, sent a strong hint about what its future plans for the company may entail with the appointment of Rohit de Souza as the organization’s new CEO. While he now has the challenge of overseeing product ...
