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


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Postgres Is Eating Relational

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Was Moving to Cloud a Mistake?

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Why developers hold the key to cloud security

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Beyond SQL: 8 new languages for data querying

SQL has dominated data querying for decades. Newer query languages offer more elegance, simplicity, and flexibility for modern use cases. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

RStudio changes name to Posit, to include Python and VS Code

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

RStudio Unveils Shiny for Python

After 10 years as an R framework, the Shiny web framework is now available for Python in an alpha release. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Visualizing the Hacker News API with HCL and SQL

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

GitHub Copilot users feel more productive

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Supercloud?Metacloud? The next frontier in cloud computing

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Open source job security through recessions

Stay close to free software, either through companies that support open source projects or by contributing directly to project communities. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Yugabyte adds Voyager migration service to its 2.15 database update

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Why Mercedes-Benz runs on 900 Kubernetes clusters

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

How AI is changing IoT

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

PyScript: Run Python in your web browser

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Software engineering estimates are garbage

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Where software development is headed in 2022

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

How MongoDB's NoSQL database is encroaching on relational database turf

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

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@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Review: Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Does your deployed infrastructure match what you defined?

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Overcoming AI’s Limitations

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft's J/Direct called death of Java (1997)

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

Oracle Java popularity sliding, New Relic reports

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


@infoworld.com | 1 year ago

The Case Against Monorepos

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Postgres Everywhere

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Unfettered developer freedom may be over

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

ECMAScript 2022 endorses class fields, top-level await

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

What happened to performance engineering in the cloud?

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Elastic Compute for the Data Tier

Serverless databases offer highly scalable, cloud-based data storage and retrieval without requiring you to provision CPU or storage ahead of time. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Why mobile apps are a step backward

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Use the cloud to strengthen your supply chain

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Vercel, Netlify, and the new era of serverless PaaS

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Node.js trademarks move to OpenJS Foundation

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

How to manage software developers without micromanaging

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

SQL can unify access to APIs

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


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

The cloud is too big for one winner

The cloud providers that create the biggest ecosystems and partner networks will be the ones at the top. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

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@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Kubernetes adoption up, serverless down, developer survey says

‘State of Cloud Native Development’ report finds the number of developers using Kubernetes increased 67% in 12 months. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Ruby on Rails 7 rejiggers JavaScript support

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


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Does Snowflake mean the end of open source? (2020)

The cloud-based enterprise data platform may mark the end of a decades-long run in the dominance of open source infrastructure | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

CentOS changes the cloud Linux game

As Red Hat sunsets CentOS 8 at the end of 2021, users are considering their options. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Miško Hevery explains fast Qwik JavaScript

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


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Docker Did Change the World

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


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft’s Pyjion compiler for Python reaches 1.0

A Microsoft project to JIT-compile Python for speed, now under new developers, has reached a milestone. | Continue reading


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Svelte Creator Rich Harris: Web development should be more fun

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


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Reasons Python will rule the enterprise

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


@infoworld.com | 2 years ago

Highest paying developer roles in 2021

Some developer jobs command higher salaries than others. Aiming high? See what you can expect to earn in these software developer roles. | Continue reading


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