Someone needs to make AI easy
2024 was a year filled with AI possibilities; 2025 needs to turn those possibilities into realities. For that, we need the cloud companies to stop churning out “primitives” such as large language models (LLMs) and instead give developers solutions...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #262
Hashtag Jakarta EE #262 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! HAPPY NEW YEAR! The first Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025, with more to come. I hope you enjoy these weekly updates of what’s happening in the community in g...
Write Python like it’s 2025
It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy,...
The cloud architecture renaissance of 2025
The perfect storm is coming that will force enterprises to rethink their cloud strategy. Cloud architecture will take center stage during 2025. This isn’t just another hype cycle. First, we need to talk about the elephant in the room: generative AI....
Ruby completes switch to Prism parser
Ruby 3.4.0, and Ruby 3.4.1, updates to the longstanding dynamic, open source programming language, have arrived, with Prism now the default parser. Ruby 3.4.0 was released December 25, Christmas Day, along with an update, Ruby 3.4.1, which merely ch...
Go teams struggle with coding standards – survey
Although developer sentiment toward the Go language remains very positive, teams face a challenge when it comes to maintaining consistent coding standards across Go code bases, according to Go developer survey results for the second half of 2024. Go d...
Fine-tuning Azure OpenAI models in Azure AI Foundry
Large language models (LLMs) like the OpenAI models used by Azure are general-purpose tools for building many different types of generative AI-powered applications, from chatbots to agent-powered workflows. Much of the work needed to get the most out ...
Intro to VSCode.dev: The IDE in your browser
The fully realized browser-based IDE has been a long time coming. Ever since the beginning of the cloud revolution, I’ve thought a powerful and flexible remote IDE was just around the corner. I imagined a development tool that could use any virtual...
4 keys for writing cross-platform apps
These days, most every application has the potential to be a cross-platform application. That’s great for users but often difficult for developers. Targeting more than one platform opens a whole warehouse of Pandora’s boxes: how to handle paths, h...
Conferences and Events 2024
Conferences and Events 2024 It has become my tradition to summarize the conference year in a post on New Year’s Eve. If 2023 was a good conference year, then 2024 was even better! I spoke at or participated in more than 40 events across the World. I ...
10 hot programming trends — and 10 going cold
Tides ebb and flow. Pendulums swing. Ideas come and go, especially in programming, where the technologies and techniques for creating software continuously evolve. Some programming languages, libraries, platforms, and tools become hot and irresistible...
Multitenant data management with TiDB
In a previous article, we explored various approaches to managing data for multitenant applications. We examined the benefits, compromises and limitations of different deployment models, including share-nothing, share-everything, and hybrid. We discus...
The future of open source will be messy
Open Source Initiative (OSI) chief Stefano Maffulli says Meta is “bullying” the industry on the concept of open source. The Economist more colorfully characterizes the dispute as “bare-it-all purists … confronting Meta, the social-media giant ...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #261
Hashtag Jakarta EE #261 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-one of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I hope you’re all enjoying some weeks off work. I certainly am! It’s been a while since I had this much time at home. In fact, I have two months of no...
Critical warning from Microsoft: .NET install domains changing
Users who expected to be able to use the resources of the Azure content delivery network (CDN) from Edgio until November 2025, as previously announced, had a not-so-festive “gift” this week – the CDN is now shutting down on Jan. 15, 2025. In a p...
How to split strings efficiently in C#
Optimizing the performance of your .NET applications requires efficient resource management. Memory allocations and deallocations must be performed optimally in performance-critical applications. One of the best strategies to perform resource manageme...
