In a move that could redefine how generative AI can be used by enterprises sans the present ambiguity over its ability to scale and interoperable across business systems, the LF AI Data Foundation has announced the launch of the Open Platform for Enterprise AI OPEA in collaboration with several...

   A change to Java’s G garbage collector would lower the memory and processing overhead and speed the execution of Java’s C optimizing JIT just in time compiler, benefiting cloud deployments, under a proposal in the Java community.The OpenJDK proposal would simplify the implementation of G ’s...

   As the use of ever more powerful AI models continues to grow, ensuring trust and accountability must be at the top of the list of goals, on par with any of AI’s potential benefits. It won’t happen overnight, nor will it result from any single step, such as better code, government regulations, or...

   The ECMAScript specification is like a portrait of the JavaScript language that is repainted every year. As is typical of modern JavaScript, the spec and real world practice move in tandem. The newest version of the spec, ECMAScript , includes seven new JavaScript features and is expected to be...

   A common problem with Python applications is how to share them with other people. Developers frequently use a web interface to solve this issue, presenting the app’s functionality by way of a UI. But that solution works best when the application UI is a natural fit for web components. Data...

   As of the first quarter of , of developers were involved in devops related activities such as performance monitoring, security testing, or CI CD, according to the State of CI CD Report , published by the Continuous Delivery CD Foundation, a part of the Linux Foundation.Released April...

   Open source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model.Qdrant, the open source foundation of both Qdrant Cloud and Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, is a vector similarity search engine and vector database written in...

   In the past two years, I’ve been involved with generative AI projects using large language models LLMs more than traditional systems. I’ve become nostalgic for serverless cloud computing. Their applications range from enhancing conversational AI to providing complex analytical solutions across...

   Modern software applications are underpinned by a large and growing web of APIs, microservices, and cloud services that must be highly available, fault tolerant, and secure. The underlying networking technology must support all of these requirements, of course, but also explosive growth...

   ECMAScript , a planned update to ECMA’s standard for JavaScript, is set to include seven new features ranging from array grouping to Unicode strings. The specification, from ECMA’s Technical Committee , is expected to be approved in June.Among the list of finished features cited for...

   Depending on your politics, trickle down economics never worked all that well in the United States under President Ronald Reagan. In open source software, however, it seems to be doing just fine.I’m not really talking about economic policies, of course, but rather about elite software engineering...

   Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of names: version control, revision control, source control, or source code management are all common descriptors. Regardless of what we call them, these systems have become...

   The Rust language team has published a point release of Rust to fix a critical vulnerability to the standard library that could benefit an attacker when using Windows.Rust . . , published on April, includes a fix for CVE . Before this release, Rust’s standard library did not properly...

   The cloud has tremendous business value That’s the battle cry chanted by cloud providers and their allies at every cloud computing conference.You will never hear me say that the cloud is always the right solution or, for that matter, the wrong solution. In my plus years as a cloud expert,...

   A high quality application must be stable, performant, scalable, and reliable. The reliability of an application depends on many factors, but one of the most important is resiliency, or the ability to withstand failures or faults during run time. In this article, we’ll see how we can bring...

   Microsoft has announced the MSTest SDK. Built on the MSBuild Project SDK system and based on the MSTest runner, the MSTest SDK is designed to give developers a better experience for testing with MSTest, Microsoft’s framework for unit testing.The MSTest SDK, announced April , makes project...

   JetBrains has introduced JetBrains IDE Services, a product suite intended to simplify the management of the company’s IntelliJ based IDEs, remote development environments, and AI powered coding assistant. The suite also includes a collaborative programming solution.Unveiled April, JetBrains IDE...

   In less than a month Microsoft will end support for .NET’s first major cross platform UI tool, Xamarin Forms. Instead of developers having to build separate UIs for Windows, iOS, and Android, Xamarin Forms gave us a set of cross platform UI controls we could use to build one code base that compiled...

   The Apache Software Foundation develops and maintains open source software projects that significantly impact various domains of computing, from web servers and databases to big data and machine learning. As the volume and velocity of time series data continue to grow, thanks to IoT devices, AI,...

   Java Development Kit JDK , the next planned version of standard Java, is off and running, with four features now scheduled for the release. The latest two additions are a vector API, which will be incubated for the eighth time, and a second preview of stream gatherers. Due September , JDK ...

   With the third preview of the planned Visual Studio ., Microsoft has unified the GitHub Copilot experience in the IDE, combining Copilot and Copilot Chat into a single extension.Introduced April, Visual Studio . Preview combines the features of GitHub Copilot and Copilot...

   It wouldn’t have taken a billion parameter large language model LLM to predict that the dominant theme of this year’s Google Cloud Next conference would be generative AI indeed, it will probably be the dominant theme of the year for most enterprise software developers.At the event, Google...

   The Go programming language is viewed by developers who build AI powered applications and services as a strong platform for running those workloads. Nevertheless, Python is viewed by Go developers as the language to use when starting AI powered work, according to a recent survey of Go developers.In...

   In Retrieval augmented generation, step by step, we walked through a very simple RAG example. Our little application augmented a large language model LLM with our own documents, enabling the language model to answer questions about our own content. That example used an embedding model from...

   In the first half of this article, we set up a web development stack and created a simple example application using Bun, HTMX, Elysia, and MongoDB. Here, we’ll continue exploring our new stack while cleaning up and abstracting the example application’s data access layer and adding more complex HTMX...

   Synopsys has introduced Black Duck Supply Chain Edition, a software composition analysis SCA package that helps organizations mitigate upstream risk in software supply chains, including from AI code.Announced April, Black Duck Supply Chain Edition is intended to address a rise in software...

   Google at Google Cloud Next unveiled three open source projects for building and running generative AI models. The company also introduced new large language models to its MaxText project of JAX built LLMs.The new LLM models in MaxText include Gemma, GPT, Llama, and Mistral, which are...

   Teradata is partnering with Anaconda to add packages of popular programming languages Python and R to its multi cloud analytics platform offering, VantageCloud Lake.The partnership will see Teradata integrate the packages from Anaconda’s repository into its self service data analytics offering,...

   Google has added new large language models LLMs and a new agent builder feature to its AI and machine learning platform Vertex AI at its annual Google Cloud Next conference.The LLM include a public preview of the Gemini . Pro model, which has support for million token context.The expanded...

   Google Cloud is adding capabilities driven by its proprietary large language model, Gemini to its database offerings, which include Bigtable, Spanner, Memorystore for Redis, Firestore, CloudSQL for MySQL, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, the company announced at its annual Next conference.The Gemini...