The fediverse is our chance to reboot the social web and gain control of our information diets. Let’s make it trivial for anyone to turn on a rule like ‘news only on lists, not timelines.’ | Continue reading
It’s hard to compete with easy. PostgreSQL has a lot of great qualities, but being easy to use seals the deal for companies and consultants. | Continue reading
A new study predicts freezes in cloud spending. Poor cloud ROI is largely self-inflicted and can be mitigated with careful planning and realistic expectations. | Continue reading
Developer-first security is the future in the cloud. Because the responsibility for cloud security rests with developers and devops teams, not IT security. | Continue reading
SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. | Continue reading
RStudio is updating its name as it aims to expand use of its commercial products among data science teams using both Python and R. | Continue reading
After 10 years as an R framework, the Shiny web framework is now available for Python in an alpha release. | Continue reading
Use Steampipe and GitHub Actions to create a ‘dashboard as code’ for exploring thousands of Hacker News stories, right up to the current hour. | Continue reading
A GitHub study finds that developers who accept more Copilot suggestions at least feel more productive, while actual programmer productivity is hard to measure. | Continue reading
Supercloud? Metacloud? The race is on to name the emerging layer of abstraction and automation that will remove the complexity of multicloud. | Continue reading
Stay close to free software, either through companies that support open source projects or by contributing directly to project communities. | Continue reading
With the latest update, the company claims it is the first and only distributed SQL database to offer all three PostgreSQL isolation levels. | Continue reading
The German automaker runs a massive fleet of Kubernetes clusters to support a wide range of project teams around the world. ‘For us, managing Kubernetes is not that hard.’ | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence unlocks the true potential of IoT by enabling networks and devices to learn from past decisions, predict future activity, and continuously improve performance and decision-making capabilities. | Continue reading
PyScript lets you run Python scripts right in the browser, side by side with JavaScript, with two-way interaction between your code and the web page. | Continue reading
When estimates are based on the myth of metronomic coding machines tackling deterministic work, they’re a complete waste of time. There’s a better way. | Continue reading
From front-end JavaScript innovations to APIs as a service, today’s major trends in tools, technologies, and the cloud make it an exciting time to be a software developer. | Continue reading
Updates announced at the company’s annual MongoDB World conference this week include new analytics capabilities, a data lake for its Atlas database as a service, and the ability to query encrypted data. | Continue reading
These free and free-tier services and open source utilities will have your APIs up and running in no time, and will keep them running smoothly. | Continue reading
The Kafka-compatible distributed event streaming platform excels in latency and performance and offers a glimpse into the future of streaming with inline WebAssembly transforms and more. | Continue reading
For belt-and-suspenders security and compliance, use SQL to query your Terraform files in the same way you query your AWS, Azure, or GCP services. | Continue reading
Artificial general intelligence will be able to understand or learn any intellectual task that a human can. AGI will have high costs and huge risks, but it’s coming—maybe soon. | Continue reading
San Francisco (6/24/97) -- In what Sun calls a move to lock developers into the Windows platform, Microsoft has announced that future versions of its Java virtual machine will support direct calls to the entire set of Win32 APIs (application programming interface) -- a feature Mi … | Continue reading
Oracle Java has fallen to just 34% of Java distributions in use, with Amazon rising to 22%, according to New Relic’s 2022 State of the Java Ecosystem report. | Continue reading
The drawbacks of monorepos far outweigh the advantages. Here are 3 big reasons polyrepos are usually a better choice. | Continue reading
SQLite is embedded everywhere. Will Postgres follow suit? | Continue reading
Carefully limiting choices (and complexity) lets developers focus on innovation and not worry about security and operations. | Continue reading
Next version of the spec underlying JavaScript moves toward approval, while the new capabilities are already supported by browsers. | Continue reading
Instead of tossing money at performance issues, take a second look at how to manage and optimize cloud computing performance. | Continue reading
Serverless databases offer highly scalable, cloud-based data storage and retrieval without requiring you to provision CPU or storage ahead of time. | Continue reading
The Web has given us the opportunity to share context freely and openly. Mobile apps takes us back to the days of the proprietary client all over again | Continue reading
Stressed supply chains cause revenue and productivity issues and disrupt our own lives. Whose supply chains are still working well, and what technology are they using? | Continue reading
An emerging set of vendors is trying to simplify the job of web development, again. Is this the next generation of platform as a service, or something completely different? | Continue reading
The OpenJS Foundation shepherds dozens of open source JavaScript projects including jQuery, Dojo, Electron, and Webpack. | Continue reading
Talented software developers bristle at the idea of being closely managed. Here are seven ways to align development teams and business objectives without making developers miserable. | Continue reading
PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers are a great way to expose APIs to SQL. And SQL is a great way to reason over the data. | Continue reading
The cloud providers that create the biggest ecosystems and partner networks will be the ones at the top. | Continue reading
You’ll need the right attitude and the right hard and soft skills to feel like a winner in your software development career. | Continue reading
‘State of Cloud Native Development’ report finds the number of developers using Kubernetes increased 67% in 12 months. | Continue reading
Now available in a production release, Rails 7 removes the requirements for Node.js and Webpack, while supporting NPM and ES module imports. | Continue reading
The cloud-based enterprise data platform may mark the end of a decades-long run in the dominance of open source infrastructure | Continue reading
As Red Hat sunsets CentOS 8 at the end of 2021, users are considering their options. | Continue reading
The CTO of Builder.io discusses how Qwik addresses JavaScript reactivity challenges and what the Builder visual site designer has to offer both content creators and developers. | Continue reading
Developers quickly understood the value of containers for building cloud-native applications, and that the Docker command-line tool was better than all of the bells and whistles they got with PaaS. | Continue reading
A Microsoft project to JIT-compile Python for speed, now under new developers, has reached a milestone. | Continue reading
Svelte creator Rich Harris weighs in on MPAs vs. SPAs, apps vs. docs, the need for a transitional app framework, and the right way to build websites. | Continue reading
The rise of Python will lead many enterprise managers to wonder whether it’s time to jump on the hype train. Let’s weigh the pros and cons. | Continue reading
Some developer jobs command higher salaries than others. Aiming high? See what you can expect to earn in these software developer roles. | Continue reading