Micro front ends on the Microsoft web platform
Breaking up monolithic code into clusters of services and microservices has been a good thing. It has allowed us to refactor our code and find the bottlenecks and blockers. In some cases, that’s led us back to new, streamlined monoliths, in other ca...
Microsoft touts AI Dev Gallery for Windows
Microsoft is championing its AI Dev Gallery, now available as an open source app intended to help Windows developers integrate AI capabilities within their own projects and apps. Initially announced as a project in December 2024, AI Dev Gallery was hi...
Puppet devsecops updated to deal with security maladies
Perforce has updated its Puppet Enterprise Advanced platform for devsecops to offer more advanced remediation options with the goal of reducing risk in an era of AI-powered security threats. Announced on April 22, the 2025.2 release of the platform fo...
4 big changes WebAssembly developers need to know about
WebAssembly gives developers a whole new way to deliver applications to the web and beyond. Instead of writing solely in JavaScript, developers can write in various other languages, compile that to WebAssembly’s bytecode format, and run it in a sand...
Cubicles are a software development anti-pattern
I have yet to meet a software developer who said, “I just love working in a cube farm.” I’ve never run across a developer who would turn down an offer to work in their own office. And I’ve never met a software developer who said, “You know...
Vibe code or retire
I hope this title ticked you off a bit. Get mad. Pound the table. Shake your head and then listen. You need to learn to vibe code, or your career as a software developer will end. Vibe coding is a cute term for using the latest generation of code gene...
Why enterprise investment in AI agents hasn’t yielded results
Enterprises have rushed to capitalize on the transformative potential of AI agents, but a stark reality is emerging. Our recent survey of more than 1,000 enterprise technology leaders revealed that more than half of organizations (68%) have budgeted o...
Breaking the cloud monopoly
The dominance of hyperscalers AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure has shaped the cloud landscape for more than a decade. Enterprises flocked to these platforms to simplify IT operations, lower costs, and drive innovation. For a while, it worked. Th...
Microsoft updates AI chat template for cloud app dev
Microsoft is now offering a second preview of its .NET AI Chat Web App template. This update is intended to make it easier to build cloud-native, AI-powered chat applications via support for the .NET Aspire cloud-ready stack for building distributed a...
Understanding application modernization
In today’s digital-first economy, businesses face relentless pressure to innovate. Legacy applications, often built on outdated architectures like monolithic systems or on-premises infrastructure, struggle to meet modern demands for agility, scalabi...
What GitHub can tell us about the future of open source
In its earliest days, open source tended to imitate and commoditize high-priced proprietary software (Linux for Unix, JBoss for BEA WebLogic, etc.). Today open source commands the role of innovator, not imitator. From cloud infrastructure and devops a...
Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model
Google has introduced an early preview of its Gemini 2.5 Flash hybrid reasoning model. An early version of the model is available through the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, according to an April 17 Google blog post. Gemini 2.5 Flash bu...
Learning how to measure genAI’s impact
Top picks for generative AI readers on InfoWorld AI will require more software developers, not fewerData show AI assistants make it significantly faster and easier to develop software, spurring companies to tackle more software projects—and (surpris...
How U.S. tariffs could impact cloud computing
The cloud computing industry has long been the backbone of digital transformation. In 2022 alone, this sector surpassed $480 billion in global valuation, and its growth trajectory remains strong. However, like any other industry that relies on physica...
JetBrains IDEs now include AI tools by subscription
JetBrains AI tools, including the improved AI Assistant tool and coding agent dubbed Junie, are now available with a single subscription and with a free tier for JetBrains IDEs. Including AI tools under a single subscription makes it easier to access ...
Onehouse opens up the lakehouse with Open Engines
Data lake vendor Onehouse on Thursday released Open Engines, a new capability on its platform which it says provides the ability to deploy open source engines on top of open data. Available in private preview, it initially supports Apache Flink for st...
