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“You can use whatever AI tool you want to experiment in any way you want, using whatever data you want,” said no company executive ever. Executive leaders are focused on ensuring AI efforts target business opportunities while avoiding risks. Even ...

We continue to see a significant increase in API development year after year. A 2022 report conducted by 451 Research found that the average organization has 15,564 APIs in use, with a growth rate of 201% over a single year. Cloudflare has reported th...

One sign that we’re still very early in the evolution of AI is how much heavy lifting is still left to the user to figure out. As Community Leadership Core founder Jono Bacon laments, even the very act of “need[ing] to choose between [large langua...

A vector database is just like any other database in that it stores data. From there, the similarity mostly ends — especially when it comes to artificial intelligence. Most traditional databases are built for transactional workloads, where structure...

Microsoft is looking to help users of Visual Studio Code editor use the Python language in the data science realm. The company has announced the Python Data Science Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code, a new extensions bundle that features four VS C...

In an open letter published September 16, Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl, JavaScript creator Brendan Eich, and several other leading members of the JavaScript community have accused Oracle of abandoning the JavaScript trademark and urge the compan...

When I ran architecture teams, I gave one piece of advice that often surprised people: “We need to think like CFOs and not CIOs.” I voiced this reminder whenever the work veered away from, “What business value are we seeking?” toward, “Who h...

Deno 2.0, a planned major release of the Deno runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly and rival to Node.js, is now available as a release candidate. The new version brings two big changes to global variables, new features to improve depend...

Looking to bring AI and machine learning workloads to Arm-based hardware, Arm is integrating its Arm Kleidi AI acceleration technology with PyTorch and ExecuTorch, the new on-device inference runtime from PyTorch. The arrangement, announced September ...

Yugabyte is adding new features to the latest release of its database, YugabyteDB 2.19, aimed at evolving it from a Postgres-compatible distributed database to a distributed PostgreSQL database. That seems like a fine distinction, but according to Yug...

The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned about Java’s basic exception handling capabilities. Th...

Microsoft’s journey to today’s Windows App SDK and Win UI as a unified framework for building .NET desktop applications hasn’t been smooth. Today’s platform brings modern tools and designs to familiar frameworks, but it’s hard to update olde...

The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned about Java’s basic exception handling capabilities. Th...

Caching has long been one of the most successful and proven strategies for enhancing application performance and scalability. There are several caching mechanisms in .NET Core including in-memory caching (IMemoryCache API), distributed caching (IDistr...

Swift 6, the latest version of the general-purpose language developed by Apple, is now available. The language update features concurrency improvements, including extended safety guarantees for data races. Linux and Windows support and a new testing l...

As competition heats up among cloud service providers, especially on the generative AI front, Oracle is focusing its energies on providing IT infrastructure that can help developers and enterprises take advantage of generative AI in their operations. ...

After Brendan Eich’s conception of the language itself, the second most momentous event in JavaScript history (so far) was Ryan Dahl’s humble suggestion that JavaScript could run as an event loop on the server. This notion eventually became Node.j...

The Markdown text format makes it easy to create human-readable text that’s also readily translated into HTML. Originally developed for blogging and message boards, it’s since become widely used as a source format for documentation. This article r...

Kapil Thangavelu says he probably would have been a history professor if he hadn’t discovered Python in college.  His early-days exposure to Zope and Plone — a Python web application server and content management system, respectively — put him ...

Can Java give Python a run for its money in the burgeoning, trendy AI space? While Python still gets top billing when it comes to developing for AI, Java proponents see the nearly 30-year-old Java programming language ready to take charge in the AI fi...