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...
Azure Container Apps launches Python, JavaScript interpreters
Python code interpreter sessions are generally available for Microsoft’s Azure Container Apps serverless platform for running applications and microservices. The service is also offering custom dynamic sessions, with JavaScript code interpreter ca...
What is Rust? Safe, fast, and easy software development
A programming language can be fast, safe, or easy to write. As developers, we get to choose our priorities but we can only pick two. Programming languages that emphasize convenience and safety tend to be slow (like Python). Languages that emphasize pe...
Kotlin for Java developers: Classes and coroutines
Java is one of the classic object-oriented languages, so classes and objects are of special interest to Java developers. Object-oriented programming gives you considerable power, particularly when it comes to structuring and organizing programs as the...
Azure AI Foundry tools for changes in AI applications
The way we use artificial intelligence is changing. Chatbots aren’t going away. We’ll continue to use them to deliver basic, natural language, self-service applications. But the future belongs to multimodal applications, built on large language mo...
Microsoft unveils imaging APIs for Windows Copilot Runtime
Microsoft’s Windows Copilot Runtime, which allows developers to integrate AI capabilities into Windows, is being fitted with AI-backed APIs for image processing. It will also gain access to Phi 3.5 Silica, a custom-built generative AI model for Copi...
Microsoft extends Entra ID to WSL, WinGet
Microsoft has added new security features to Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and the Windows Package Manager (WinGet), including integration with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Active Directory) for identity-based access control. The goal is to enable...
Microsoft rebrands Azure AI Studio to Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft is packaging its Azure AI Studio and other updates into a new service — Azure AI Foundry in response to enterprises’ need to develop, run, and manage generative AI applications. Launched at the company’s annual Ignite conference, Azure...
A GRC framework for securing generative AI
From automating workflows to unlocking new insights, generative AI models like OpenAI’s GPT-4 are already delivering value in enterprises across every industry. But with this power comes a critical challenge for organizations: How do they secure and...
How to transform your architecture review board
I recall my angst about my first visit to an architecture review board (ARB), where a team of enterprise architects reviewed plans for new systems and application architectures. My presentation was required to follow a template and be reviewed by the ...
Succeeding with observability in the cloud
In its 2024 report, Splunk breaks down observability practices into four stages: foundational visibility, guided insights, proactive response, and unified workflows. Based on that, it classifies companies into four stages of observability maturity: b...
F# 9 adds nullable reference types
F# 9, the latest version of Microsoft’s open source functional language, has been released with support for nullable reference types and empty-bodied computation expressions. Standard library improvements also are featured, including random sampling...
Akka distributed computing platform adds Java SDK
Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, has released Akka 3, an update to the JVM-based distributed computing platform that adds a Java SDK as well as serverless and “bring your own cloud” deployment options. Akka 3 and the company’s name change were...
14 great preprocessors for developers who love to code
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them–even once–the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every...
Designing the APIs that accidentally power businesses
In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design — to the detriment of their developers’ product...
Spin 3.0 supports polyglot development using Wasm components
Fermyon has released Spin 3.0, a major update to its open source developer tool for building serverless WebAssembly applications. The new release introduces polyglot programming to ease development. The update to Fermyon’s Spin framework was introdu...
The dirty little secret of open source contributions
“Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at KubeCon when I suggested that hiring Postgres contributors could be a selling point for customers. His comment surprised me because for years I’ve belie...
Go language evolving for future hardware, AI workloads
The Go programming language having just turned 15 years old on November 10, proponents now are planning to adapt the Go language to large multicore systems, the latest vector and matrix hardware instructions, and the needs of AI workloads. In a blog p...
