The rise of specialized private clouds
I have always been suspicious of the “private cloud.” I get why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) included the term in the description of cloud computing almost 17 years ago, however, it was quickly taken as a way to bundle...
Hashtag Jakarta EE #254
Hashtag Jakarta EE #254 Welcome to issue number two hundred and fifty-four of Hashtag Jakarta EE! I am in the middle of a trip across Europe that started at DevCon in in Bucharest, Rumania and continued to SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy. Right now, I am on ...
SFSCON 2024
SFSCON 2024 This was the 24th edition of the South Tyrol Free Software Conference (SFSCON) in Bolzano. I is a free event that attracts visitors mostly from Northern Italy, Austria and Switzerland. This year, there were about 1000 registered attendees....
Serverless computing’s second act
Serverless computing has had a tumultuous journey characterized by early excitement, skepticism, and challenges that some—including yours truly—believed might spell its end. However, this technology is now experiencing somewhat of a resurgence, or...
Java app security would get a boost through quantum resistance
Java application security would be enhanced through a couple of proposals to resist quantum computing attacks, one plan involving digital signatures and the other key encapsulation. The two proposals reside in the OpenJDK JEP (JDK Enhancement Proposal...
IBM: APIs getting AI boost
IBM sees a confluence of artificial intelligence and APIs, with AI powering APIs in a way that improves the productivity of API teams. AI is augmenting skills that API teams may just be starting to learn, said Rashmi Kaushik, director of product manag...
AI accelerating API development, IBM says
IBM sees a confluence of generative artificial intelligence and APIs, with AI powering APIs in a way that improves the productivity of API teams. AI is augmenting skills that API teams may just be starting to learn, said Rashmi Kaushik, director of pr...
GitHub Copilot learns new tricks
The role of GitHub as part of Microsoft’s developer division is much more than providing Microsoft and its customers with a mix of cloud-hosted and on-premises source code version control. First GitHub branched out into offering a CI/CD platform wit...
DevCon 2024
DevCon 2024 I have been to Bucharest several times speaking at various conferences. Devcon was a new experience, even if it is organized by the same team as some of the other ones I have spoken at. It is a two day conference with multiple tracks, or st...
.NET vector data abstractions library now available in preview
Microsoft has introduced its Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData.Abstractions library, now in preview. The library provides abstractions to help integrate vector stores into .NET applications and libraries. The vector data abstractions library, introduced...
Dataframes explained: The modern in-memory data science format
Most people are familiar with data in the form of a spreadsheet, with labeled columns of different data types such as name, address, age, and so on. Databases work the same way, with each table laid out according to a strict schema. Dataframes are str...
