Demystifying serverless in the modern data and AI landscape
Serverless computing has proliferated across cloud platforms, yet its core principles are widely misunderstood and misused. Much of the industry treats serverless as being synonymous with infrastructure abstraction or automation, but this is a limited...
Private cloud still matters—but it doesn’t matter most
For all the hype about “cloud-first” strategies, the enterprise data center is far from extinct. In fact, roughly half of enterprise workloads still run outside the public cloud, residing in on-premises data centers or private clouds. Industry sur...
CheerpJ WebAssembly JVM previews Java 17 support
Leaning Technologies has released CheerpJ 4.1, an update of its WebAssembly-based JVM for the browser that previews support for Java 17 and improves support for mobile devices. Introduced May 28, CheerpJ 4.1 follows last month’s CheerpJ 4.0 release,...
Angular v20 arrives with eyes on generative AI development
Angular v20 is now available. The new version of Google’s web framework stabilizes APIs and features such as incremental hydration, promotes Zoneless (which removes ZoneJS as a dependency) to developer preview, improves debugging, and improves suppo...
F-strings with superpowers: What’s new in Python 3.14 beta
Are you ready for Python Pi? The 3.14 beta is out now, and we’ve got the rundown on what’s so great about it, including the new template strings feature, or “f-strings with superpowers.” You can also learn how to deploy Python (and other langu...
A wake-up call for real cloud ROI
Enterprise adoption of public cloud platforms has been skyrocketing. More than half of all enterprise workloads are now running in public clouds, with spending projected to rise by nearly a third this year alone. Many organizations are allocating more...
Using Microsoft Fabric to create digital twins
Digital twins are an important part of modern control systems. They let you create a model of a physical system that serves as a tool for simulation and prediction. It models the inputs and outputs of a system, using real-time data to keep it at the s...
AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow
It would be easy to say that artificial intelligence killed off Stack Overflow, but it would be truer to say that AI delivered the final blow. What really happened is a parable of human community and experiments in self-governance gone bizarrely wrong...
How to hire software developers
Salaries are usually a business’s top expense, and a bad hire can cause all kinds of problems, financially and culturally. In some places, getting rid of someone who just isn’t working out can be a challenge. Add in laws, rules, and regulations s...
