A software developer gives thanks
I’m thankful for Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniak and the personal computer It’s hard to say who was…
Kotlin to lose scripting features
JetBrains plans to drop some scripting-related technologies from the Kotlin language, including REPL functionality, an obsolete API for Java scripting,…
Build generative AI pipelines without the infrastructure headache
While creating a basic ChatGPT prototype might take a weekend, developing production-ready generative AI systems that securely handle enterprise data…
Anthropic introduces the Model Context Protocol
Currently, MCP only talks to servers running on a local computer, but Alex Albert, head of Claude relations at Anthropic,…
Are cloud units a good measure of cloud value?
Let’s call out what’s painfully obvious: Cloud environments are inherently chaotic. Enterprises run thousands of workloads across hundreds of services,…
3 data engineering trends riding Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg
Re-envisioning microservices as Flink streaming applications A common way to process data is to pull it out of Kafka using…
USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle’s JavaScript trademark
Calling the trademark ownership an “outdated legal relic,” Dahl said Oracle’s ownership “has caused confusion and unnecessary barriers, including cease-and-desist…
PHP updates DOM API
PHP 8.4.1, an update to the longstanding server-side web scripting language, has been released with features including an updated DOM…
GitHub Copilot: Everything you need to know
Since then, GitHub Copilot has continued to get better. It has become more accurate and more reliable, and has added…
Speed is the killer app
As I’ve noted, “Cloud perfects many of the reasons developers first embraced open source.” With cloud, developers not only get…