Intro to Alpine.js: A JavaScript framework for minimalists
I recently backpacked through Big Sur, and after a few days, the inevitable happened: I looked at everything I carried and demanded it justify its presence in my backpack. Making tech choices during the software development process is similar. Every a...
What you need to know about Go, Rust, and Zig
Every language has a life cycle. Sometimes it starts with a relatively narrow use case and escapes its container; sometimes it’s intended as a general-purpose language but finds a powerful niche instead. Over the last decade-plus, three new language...
Vibe coding is groovy
Vibe coding is most definitely having a moment. Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of it—the Wikipedia page for it just went up on March 15 of this year. Vibe coding is a new way of working with AI, where you guide the code through natural lang...
Oracle releases ML-optimized GraalVM for JDK 24
Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 24, an alternative Java Development Kit tuned to just-released JDK 24 that uses ML (machine learning)-based profile inference to boost peak performance by about 7.9% on average on microservices benchmarks, the compa...
Fauna to shut down FaunaDB service in May
Fauna, the provider of the NoSQL database FaunaDB, has said that it will shut down the service by the end of May due to the unavailability of capital required to support the database service and market it. “…after careful consideration, we have ma...
GenAI tools for R: New tools to make R programming easier
My previous article focused on some of the best tools for incorporating LLMs into your R scripts and workflows. We’ll expand on that theme here, offering up a collection of generative AI tools you can use to get help with your R programming or to ru...
Cosmonic uses WebAssembly to manage apps
Leveraging the WebAssembly binary instruction format, Cosmonic has launched wasmCloud-based Cosmonic Control, an enterprise control plane for managing distributed applications. Introduced March 24, this control plane can be used across any cloud, Kube...
Google acquires Wiz: A win for multicloud security
Google’s recent acquisition of Wiz positions the tech giant as a leader ready to tackle today’s multicloud challenges, potentially outperforming competitors such as Microsoft Azure and AWS. The collaboration aims to simplify complex security archi...
JavaOne 2025
JavaOne 2025 JavaOne 2025 returned to the Bay Area as a standalone event. It was held at the Oracle Conference Center at the Oracle Campus in Redwood Shores. While significantly smaller than it used to be, it was an excellent revival of the conference....
Learning AI governance lessons from SaaS and Web2
The experimental phase of generative AI is over. Enterprises now face mounting pressure — from boardrooms to the front lines — to move AI into production to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive innovation. Yet, as AI depl...
OpenTofu becomes the real deal
In open source, forks often struggle to break free from the shadow of their progenitors. But OpenTofu, the community-driven Terraform fork born from HashiCorp’s licensing upheaval, is writing a different story. Since January 2024, OpenTofu has trans...
