The OpenJDK’s plans for Java in 2025
Java enhancement plans for 2025 range from improving performance in the foreign function and memory (FFM) API, to working on ahead-of-time (AOT) code compilation, to finalizing the structured concurrency API, according to a recently published presenta...
Google BigQuery gets metadata service with Iceberg support
Google Cloud is adding a new metadata service that is compatible with Apache Iceberg to its managed data analytics service BigQuery in order to help enterprises cut down complexities around metadata management. Named BigQuery metastore, the fully mana...
How to use resource-based authorization in ASP.NET Core
When implementing authorization in ASP.NET Core, we can adopt a declarative or an imperative approach. In a declarative authorization, you would typically use the [Authorize] attribute to restrict access to the resource. However, there are certain use...
Stratoshark analyzes cloud applications at a syscall level
Securing cloud applications is both easy and hard. Easy because hyperscale providers such as Microsoft Azure are focused on ensuring that tenant compute environments are locked down and isolated from each other. Hard because those same provider polici...
Stargate Project launched for AI infrastructure
In a venture unveiled by Pres. Donald Trump on January 21, companies including SoftBank, Oracle, OpenAI, and MGX are funding a new AI company, called the Stargate Project, to invest $500 billion to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United Stat...
Stargate Project launched for OpenAI AI infrastructure
In a venture unveiled by Pres. Donald Trump on January 21, companies including SoftBank, Oracle, OpenAI, and MGX are funding a new AI company, called the Stargate Project, to invest $500 billion to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United Stat...
3 Python web frameworks for beautiful front ends
Python has long had a presence as a language for server-side frameworks, with support for most every project size or use case. But it’s historically been confined to the back end—there’s no real culture of writing Python for creating front-end, ...
How to deal with a Big Pile of Mud
Last week I talked about where those big, unwieldy code bases come from. They don’t appear out of nowhere, and no one ever plans to create one. Defining a problem is great, but what is one to do? How will you deal with the Big Pile of Mud that you ...
Software bill-of-materials docs eyed for Python packages
Software bill-of-materials (SBOM) documents would be used in Python packages as a means to improve their “measurability” and to address the problem of “phantom dependencies” in Python packages, under a Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) now bei...
The bitter lesson for generative AI adoption
The rapid development and improvement in generative AI technology pose a challenge for training and fine-tuning as a sustainable path for adoption. If organizations constantly need to fine-tune new models for specific tasks, they might be in a costly ...
The AI security tsunami
AI isn‘t just changing cloud computing, it’s completely reshaping how we think about security in the cloud—on both sides. Attackers use AI to cause breaches, and enterprises use AI to defend against such attacks. Let me break this down into what...
From devops to CTO: 5 things to start doing now
I was promoted to CTO in my late twenties, and while it is common to see young CTOs leading startups these days, it was unusual in the ’90s. I was far less experienced back then, and still developing my business acumen. While I was a strong software...
5 new features in EDB Postgres AI
More than half of enterprises (56%) run mission-critical workloads in hybrid environments, according to a 2024 EDB survey of enterprise executives. From data warehouses and data lakes to HTAP, OLTP, and AI development, hybrid models have become a stra...
Are 10% of your software engineers lazy?
Nearly 10% of all software engineers are “ghosts” who “do virtually nothing” but collect $300K salaries. This, according to research from Stanford University. The paper takes particular aim at engineers who work remotely, declaring that 14% of...
Node.js set to stabilize type stripping
Node.js, the popular JavaScript runtime, is moving to stabilize type stripping, a feature that allows developers to execute TypeScript files without source maps or additional configuration, speeding up the development process. The Node.js runtime was ...
Secure AI? Dream on, says AI red team
The group responsible for red teaming of over 100 generative AI products at Microsoft has concluded that the work of building safe and secure AI systems will never be complete. In a paper published this week, the authors, including Microsoft Azure CTO...
Python eats the world
In this week’s Python Report: Everyone’s favorite snake-named language is getting closer to being everyone’s favorite language, period. We also have a guide to unpacking the power of Python’s abstract base classes, and a tutorial for developer...
