Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL
Google is adding new features to its fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) AlloyDB in order to provide enterprises with an alternative to PostgreSQL, which has become the most popular choice when transitioning from legacy database management sys...
Boston Java Users 2025
Boston Java Users 2025 Boston Java Users was the last stop of my mini-tour of US East Coast JUGs. Quite a crowd gathered at Oracle’s premises in Burlington for pizza and tech talks. The event started with a lightning talk about LLMs by Srijha Kalyan....
Do more with Python’s new built-in async programming library
There’s lots to do in this edition of the Python Report: Do more than one thing with Python’s async. Do the math faster in Python with NumPy. Do Python in Visual Studio Code, and do it the right way with our get-started guide. And do use Python’...
The rising threat of shadow AI
Employees in a large financial organization began developing AI tools to automate time-consuming tasks such as weekly report generation. They didn’t think about what could go wrong. Within a few months, unauthorized applications skyrocketed from jus...
Connecticut JUG 2025
Connecticut JUG 2025 The second stop on my US East JUG Tour was Connecticut JUG. Ryan Cuprak has been the JUG-Leader of this group since 2003 and is still going strong. This was their second in-person meeting since the pandemic. The location of the eve...
Key Takeaways from the Cloud Native Java Survey
Key Takeaways from the Cloud Native Java Survey The Jakarta EE Working Group conducted the first-ever Cloud Native Java Survey between July 11, 2024 and August 23, 2024 to gather insights on popular Java SE versions, Jakarta EE, and MicroProfile usag...
DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has unveiled a significant price reduction for developers using its AI models, a move that could intensify competition among both domestic and global rivals. On its website, the Hangzhou-based startup said that from 16:30 UTC ...
Understanding thread synchronization in C#
The C# programming language has provided support for thread synchronization since its earliest versions. Synchronization is used to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource concurrently or invoking the properties or methods of an obje...
What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel?
At the heart of Microsoft’s AI application development strategy is Semantic Kernel, an open source set of tools for managing and orchestrating AI prompts. Since its launch as a way to simplify building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applicatio...
What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel
At the heart of Microsoft’s AI application development strategy is Semantic Kernel, an open source set of tools for managing and orchestrating AI prompts. Since its launch as a way to simplify building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applicatio...
Microsoft’s .NET 10 arrives in first preview
Microsoft has rolled out the first preview of .NET 10, a major new version of the company’s flagship software development platform. Likely to arrive as a production release in November, .NET 10 introduces C# 14 and adds major enhancements to the .NE...
New York Java SIG 2025
New York Java SIG 2025 Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting New York Java SIG as the first stop of my mini-tour of US North East Java User Groups. Around 20 members showed up for my presentation titled Jakarta EE Meets AI. It was my first time pre...
Get started with async in Python
Asynchronous programming, or async, is a feature of many modern languages that allows a program to juggle multiple operations without waiting or getting hung up on any one of them. It’s a smart way to efficiently handle tasks like network or file I/...
Plug-and-play web development with Astro
Astro is a full-stack JavaScript meta-framework that orchestrates reactive view technologies like React and Svelte. While there are numerous meta-frameworks (examples include Next.js and Remix), Astro is unique in uniting the features and components o...
11 rules for writing better code
You can’t develop software and manage software projects for 30 years and not learn a thing or two or twelve about writing good code. Here are a near-dozen nuggets of coding wisdom I picked up along the way. Simpler is better This basic idea almost g...
