Catching up with Angular 19
Angular 19 continues its ongoing project of simplifying and improving developer experience while boosting performance. The development team’s well-publicized attention to these goals has paid off in the general perception of Angular as a project on ...
Four essential ingredients of software development
Somewhere between marching to a screaming Marine Corps drill instructor, watching Naval Aviators smash into a steel deck, and living in constant fear of getting chewed out for an “Irish pennant,” I learned some valuable lessons about writing good ...
Apiiro launches AI-powered risk analysis map for software
Agentic application security provider Apiiro has unveiled Software Graph Visualization, an AI-powered interactive map that enables real-time visualization of software architectures across all components, vulnerabilities, data exposure, and material ch...
5 ways generative AI boosts cloud and IT operations
Anyone who thinks engineers, administrators, and analysts in IT operations have an easy job hasn’t spent enough time in their shoes. Automation, observability, and machine learning help IT operations deploy and manage many more large-scale and missi...
Why hasn’t cheaper hardware lowered cloud prices?
Public cloud providers have established themselves as the primary lifeline for modern enterprise IT, delivering unprecedented scalability, operational efficiency, and innovation. Despite all the advancements they’ve ushered in, businesses are notici...
Microsoft previews SignalR client for iOS
Microsoft has introduced a Swift client for its SignalR library for ASP.NET, allowing iOS developers to add real-time web functionality to their applications. SignalR Swift is a client library for connecting to SignalR servers from Swift applications...
AWS updates Amazon Bedrock’s Data Automation capability
AWS has updated the Data Automation capability inside its generative AI service Amazon Bedrock to further support the automation of generating insights from unstructured data and bring down the development time required for building applications under...
14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings
When the cost of cloud computing is listed in cents or even fractions of a cent, it’s hard to remember that even small numbers can add up to big bills. Yet they do, and every month it seems CFOs come close to dying of multiple heart attacks when the...
OpenSearch in 2025: Much more than an Elasticsearch fork
Open source has never been more popular. It’s also never been more contentious. With hundreds of billions of dollars available to the companies that best turn open source into easy-to-use cloud services, vendors have fiercely competed for enterprise...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #278
Hashtag Jakarta EE #278 Welcome to issue number two hundred and seventy-eight of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Last week, I was in Bangalore speaking at GIDS. Read all about it in my write-up from the event. I now have a couple of weeks at home before my confer...
GIDS 2025
GIDS 2025 This was my sixth time speaking at GIDS! My first time was in 2016, so I have only missed out on a few editions during the last 10 years. It is a great conference, with a very engaged audience, so I am happy to be a regular speaker there. The...
Baidu hits the turbo button to get back into AI race
An industry analyst Friday offered a lukewarm response to a series of announcements from Chinese tech giant Baidu around upgrades to its multimodal foundation model, ERNIE 4.5, and reasoning model, ERNIE X1, first released last month. During his keyno...
Thesys introduces generative UI API for building AI apps
AI software builder Thesys has introduced C1 by Thesys, which the company describes as a generative UI API that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate user interfaces on the fly. Unveiled April 18, C1 by Thesys is available for general use. C1 ...
