Hashtag Jakarta EE #265
Hashtag Jakarta EE #265 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here’s some good news! The Jakarta NoSQL project is ready to release version 1.0 of the specification. At the moment, they are putting together the las...
Puppet open source fork OpenVox arrives
The Vox Pupuli collective group has announced the first release of OpenVox, a community-maintained open source implementation of the Puppet configuration management system. Introduced January 21, the OpenVox automation framework is designed to be a dr...
Bun 1.2 squashes Node.js compatibility bugs
Bun 1.2, an update to the all-in-one runtime and toolkit for building, running, and testing full-stack JavaScript and TypeScript applications, has arrived, boasting dramatic improvements in Node.js compatibility. The new version also adds a built-in A...
Ready or not, here it comes: GenAI in 2025
If you’re a software developer right now, it is nearly impossible to avoid chatter about generative AI. You’re probably already using AI tools in your work, whether you like it or not. Some of your normie friends are using ChatGPT as a search engi...
Is cloud-based AI becoming a monopoly?
The landscape of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is rapidly evolving. A recent report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlights concerns about monopolistic practices and has sent ripples through the tech industry. This report, whi...
JetBrains launches AI coding agent
JetBrains has launched an AI coding agent, named Junie, with the ability to quickly solve coding tasks that otherwise could take hours, according to JetBrains. Developers using Junie can delegate routine tasks or collaborate with the tool to partner o...
Palo Alto Networks releases QRNG API framework
Cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has released the Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) Open API framework, enabling users to prepare for quantum security threats. Unveiled January 22, the framework addresses the need for multi-vendor interop...
Unlocking the Potential of Quantum Computing
A free Coursera course on quantum error correction, developed by Google Quantum AI, explains the importance of error correction in quantum computing and provides an overview of quantum errors.
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 ...
