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 ...
Nuxt 3.14
Nuxt 3.14 is out - with a new rspack builder, shared folder, and pe!
The machine learning certifications tech companies want
Machine learning (ML) skills are in high demand, as organizations look to take advantage of potential benefits and use cases such as product enhancement, speech and image recognition, targeted marketing, fraud detection, and natural language processin...
The cloud reaches its equilibrium point
Server huggers and cloud bigots of the world rejoice! You’re both right. Unfortunately, you’re also both wrong. “After 18 years of public cloud, we’ve had a long time to sort out which apps go where,” writes VMware’s Michael Coté, and we ...
Overcoming data inconsistency with a universal semantic layer
According to Gartner, bad data costs organizations $12.9 million a year. As a result, data leaders for decades have been searching for a single source of truth for their business intelligence (BI) and analytics to ensure that everyone bases business d...
Google releases differential privacy software for JVM
Google has released PipelineDP4j, a differential privacy solution that allows developers to execute highly parallelizable computations using Java as the baseline language, while providing guarantees that personal information is kept private and secure...
Overlooked cloud sustainability issues
Cloud sustainability is a funny topic. It’s like dental care; everyone agrees it’s important, but who wants to discuss the particulars? It’s much more fun to talk about the new “shiny keys” of IT: AI and its endless possibilities. Cloud sust...
What is cloud computing? Everything you need to know
Cloud computing continues to be the platform of choice for large applications and a driver of innovation in enterprise technology. Gartner forecasts public cloud spending alone to reach $675 billion in 2024, up 20 percent from 2023. The analyst firm p...
Python is the most popular language on GitHub
October was an extra busy month in the world of Python, as all signs point to its unstoppable ascent. As reported on InfoWorld, Python is not only the language of choice for AI, but recently beat out JavaScript as the most used language on GitHub. Tha...
Is now the right time to invest in implementing agentic AI?
Software vendors’ pitches are evolving, with agentic AI beginning to supplant generative AI in their marketing messages. Rather than just generating code or content for human review agentic AI will, they say, follow instructions, make decisions, a...
Why use aspect-oriented programming
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming style that allows you to more easily manage the cross-cutting concerns in your application, meaning those concerns such as authentication or logging that cut across many parts of the app. In essence, ...
