3 data engineering trends riding Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg
Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg are among the most popular technologies in the data ecosystem. While Kafka enables you to move data around in real time, Flink allows you to process data according to your needs and Iceberg helps you a...
GitHub Copilot: Everything you need to know
In 2014, Microsoft Research released an experimental Bing Code Search add-on for Visual Studio and the web. It was a code snippet search tool for C# with a natural language interface, using an index of code from Stack Overflow, MSDN, Dotnetperls, and ...
Speed is the killer app
Why do enterprises so often choose to run applications in the cloud even when it may not be the cheapest option? Why do they turn to open source even if it’s not the most feature-complete choice? And why is generative AI so frothy hot even though, a...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #256
Hashtag Jakarta EE #256 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-six of Hashtag Jakarta EE! This week I visited Czechia on a min-tour of a couple of Czech Java User Groups. I spoke at Prague JUG on Tuesday and Brno JUG on Wednesday. In the upcomi...
Join us at the Women in AI Summit 2024!
All are invited to Women in AI Summit 2024 to explore the latest in generative AI with sessions for all expertise levels, focusing on Google AI tools, models, solutions, and insight from women leaders in the AI field.
TypeScript 5.7 arrives with improved error reporting
TypeScript 5.7, the latest planned release of Microsoft’s JavaScript variant with syntax for types, is now available in a production release. With version 5.7, the language’s type system is now able to report errors when variables have never been ...
Enterprises and cloud providers consider cloud-native AI agents
According to a recent report from SNS Insider, the global AI agents market was valued at $3.7 billion in 2023. The market is expected to grow to $103.6 billion by 2032, with a compound annual growth rate of 44.9% during the forecast period from 2024...
AWS prepares to command an army of AI agents
According to a recent report from SNS Insider, the global AI agents market was valued at $3.7 billion in 2023. The market is expected to grow to $103.6 billion by 2032, with a compound annual growth rate of 44.9% during the forecast period from 2024...
Red Hat Linux to be official WSL distro
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is set to become an official Linux distribution for Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), a Windows feature that allows users to run Linux environments on Windows without a separate virtual machine. The move ...
Brno JUG 2024
Brno JUG 2024 The second, and last, stop on this mini-Tour of Czech JUGs was Brno and BrnoJUG. I presented Jakarta EE Meets AI here as well. As usual, this presentation triggers questions, comments, and discussions that continued over food and drinks a...
Advanced programming with Java generics
Generics in Java enhance the type safety of your code and make it easier to read. In my last article, I introduced the general concepts of generics and showed examples from the Java Collections Framework. You also learned how to use generics to avoid ...
RHEL AI, JBoss EAP 8 coming to Azure cloud
Red Hat will be making Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 8 available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform. Both arrangements were announced on November 19. Through a collaboration with Micro...
