Breaking down digital silos
To absolutely no one’s surprise, a new Gartner survey of more than 3,100 CIOs and technology executives found that 52% of digital initiatives fail. If anything, the surprise is that the number isn’t higher. Way back in 2014, I was writing about ho...
The rise of specialized private clouds
I have always been suspicious of the “private cloud.” I get why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) included the term in the description of cloud computing almost 17 years ago, however, it was quickly taken as a way to bundle...
Announcing TypeScript 5.7 RC
Today we are announcing the availability of the release candidate of TypeScript 5.7. To get started using the RC, you can get it through npm with the following command: npm install -D typescript@rc Let’s take a look at what’s new in TypeScript 5.7!...
Serverless computing’s second act
Serverless computing has had a tumultuous journey characterized by early excitement, skepticism, and challenges that some—including yours truly—believed might spell its end. However, this technology is now experiencing somewhat of a resurgence, or...
Java app security would get a boost through quantum resistance
Java application security would be enhanced through a couple of proposals to resist quantum computing attacks, one plan involving digital signatures and the other key encapsulation. The two proposals reside in the OpenJDK JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal...
IBM: APIs getting AI boost
IBM sees a confluence of artificial intelligence and APIs, with AI powering APIs in a way that improves the productivity of API teams. AI is augmenting skills that API teams may just be starting to learn, said Rashmi Kaushik, director of product manag...
AI accelerating API development, IBM says
IBM sees a confluence of generative artificial intelligence and APIs, with AI powering APIs in a way that improves the productivity of API teams. AI is augmenting skills that API teams may just be starting to learn, said Rashmi Kaushik, director of pr...
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks
The role of GitHub as part of Microsoft’s developer division is much more than providing Microsoft and its customers with a mix of cloud-hosted and on-premises source code version control. First GitHub branched out into offering a CI/CD platform wit...
.NET vector data abstractions library now available in preview
Microsoft has introduced its Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData.Abstractions library, now in preview. The library provides abstractions to help integrate vector stores into .NET applications and libraries. The vector data abstractions library, introduced...
Dataframes explained: The modern in-memory data science format
Most people are familiar with data in the form of a spreadsheet, with labeled columns of different data types such as name, address, age, and so on. Databases work the same way, with each table laid out according to a strict schema. Dataframes are str...
12 Java Enhancement Proposals changing Java
Java’s internal systems and syntax are constantly evolving, and these changes happen primarily through the Java Community Process (JCP) and Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs). Together, the JCP and JEPs define the path by which new features can be de...
Why scrum is dumb
You would be hard-pressed to find a software manager who didn’t want to be “agile.” But I’m guessing that a vanishingly small percentage of them have actually read the Agile Manifesto. And I’m guessing even fewer have given any real thought...
WSO2 API managers manage AI APIs
WSO2 has upgraded WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (APK), equipping these open-source API management platforms with capabilities for managing generative AI and large language model (LLM) APIs. The updates also expand support for K...
Meta offers Llama AI to US government for national security
Meta will allow US government agencies and contractors in national security roles to use its Llama AI. The move relaxes Meta’s acceptable use policy restricting what others can do with the large language models it develops, and brings Llama ever so ...
Making the business case for generative AI
There has been a lot of speculation about what generative AI can do for businesses. The possibilities are endless — streamlined creative processes, automated business operations, self-service for customers, and more. Indeed the productivity implicat...
Cloud providers make bank with genAI while projects fail
The public cloud market is seeing exploding growth, and it’s easy to understand why. The interest in generative AI has sent enterprises running to their public cloud console to allocate even more resources, including data storage and compute, which ...
Visual Studio Code previews AI-powered code editing
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code is previewing Copilot Edits, a feature powered by GitHub Copilot that suggests changes across multiple files in a workspace based on the developer’s prompts. Copilot Edits and other new Copilot-powered capabilities ...
