Software developers who have been caught up in the recent surge of tech layoffs can expect to find plenty of job opportunities—they just might have to look beyond tech. Career experts say hiring remains steady in transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and other sectors. All are looking for developers with the skills to create innovative products and services.“We are seeing all industries … [Read more...]
When finops costs you more in the end
It’s always healthy to take a critical view of any new technology or approach, and cloud finops (financial operations) is no different. As we’re learning about what finops does well, we’re also learning about what needs to be worked on.While some people will find a great deal of value from finops, mostly by doing things in more optimized ways, others will make common mistakes and cause finops to … [Read more...]
Microsoft more than triples Bing Search API prices to recoup investments
Microsoft is all set to more than triple the prices of its Bing Search APIs across all markets in what can be seen as an effort to recoup its investments into the search engine.“The new pricing model reflects more accurately the technology investments Bing continues to make to improve Search, including newer experiences such as Bing Visual Search and Bing Entity Search,” a Microsoft … [Read more...]
Oracle’s new Java subscription model to cost a lot more: Gartner
Oracle’s new Java subscription licensing model could cost existing and new customers a lot more, according to a research paper from market research firm Gartner.On January 23, Oracle replaced its former Java SE and Java SE Desktop subscription with a new Java SE Universal subscription that changes the licensing model to a per employee metric from licenses that were based on named user plus and … [Read more...]
Should you leave Twitter for the fediverse?
Give unto Elon what is Elon’s and give unto us what is ours. Social media may never have been a great idea. It is like the capitalist answer to Maoist self-criticism. You confess all of your vanity in one place and hope that the people who own the site will use it for good.On the whole, the influence of social media on society, especially on socialization, seems to have been negative, and people … [Read more...]
AI still requires human expertise
From GitHub Copilot to ChatGPT-infused Bing search, AI increasingly permeates our everyday lives. While directionally good (machines do more work so people can focus our time elsewhere), you need a fair amount of expertise in a given field to trust the results AI offers. Ben Kehoe, former cloud robotics research scientist for iRobot, argues that people still have to take ultimate … [Read more...]
Google Cloud Flex Agreements woo users during a slowdown in demand
As macroeconomic uncertainty continues to slow enterprise spending on public cloud services, Google Cloud is offering a new type of contract, dubbed Flex Agreements, to incentivize enterprises to move workloads to its data centers.As the name suggests, Flex Agreements offers enterprises the option to migrate their workloads to Google’s data centers with no up-front commitments, along with access … [Read more...]
Microsoft offers Visual Studio IDE extension for .NET upgrades
Microsoft is previewing a Visual Studio IDE extension to upgrade older .NET-based applications to the latest versions of the .NET software development platform.Downloadable from the Visual Studio Marketplace and called .NET Upgrade Assistant, the extension works with .NET Framework or .NET Core web and desktop apps to move apps to .NET 6, introduced in November 2021, or .NET 7, from November 2022. … [Read more...]
The cost and sustainability of generative AI
AI is resource intensive for any platform, including public clouds. Most AI technology requires numerous inference calculations that add up to higher processor, network, and storage requirements—and higher power bills, infrastructure costs, and carbon footprints.The rise of generative AI systems, such as ChatGPT, has brought this issue to the forefront again. Given the popularity of this … [Read more...]
Real-time Ubuntu Linux now available
Canonical has released its real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux platform, intended to offer end-to-end security and reliability for time-bound workloads.Unveiled February 14 and positioned for use in applications in telecom, aerospace, defense, and the public sector, Version 22.04 provides deterministic responses to real-time events and looks to minimize response time guarantees within a specified … [Read more...]
Orchestration and choreography in .NET microservices
As more businesses adopt microservice architectures for their applications, more developers have had to grapple with the concepts of orchestration and choreography. Although these terms are sometimes used interchangeably, there are key differences between these two architectural patterns.Orchestration is a centralized approach to making all control decisions about interactions between services. … [Read more...]
Project Valhalla: A look inside Java’s epic refactor
In Java, everything is an object—except primitives like int. Turns out that small caveat has had big implications for the language, which have compounded over the years. This seemingly minor design decision causes problems in key areas like collections and generics. It also limits certain performance optimizations. Project Valhalla, the Java language refactor, aims to correct these … [Read more...]
GitHub Copilot update includes security vulnerability filtering
GitHub Copilot, the controversial tool that provides AI-assisted coding to developers, has been enhanced with algorithms to improve the quality and security of its coding suggestions.Enhancements unveiled February 14 include an update to the underlying OpenAI Codex AI model to support large-scale improvements to code quality suggestions. The time required to deliver suggestions has also been … [Read more...]
Cybersecurity startup Oligo debuts with new application security tech
Israel-based startup Oligo Security is exiting stealth mode with the public launch of its namesake software, offering a new wrinkle in library-based application security monitoring, observability, and remediation. Utilizing a technology called extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF), it is able to provide agentless code security coverage.Given the prevalence of open source code in modern software — … [Read more...]
Protocols, APIs, and conventions
The fediverse is wired together by protocols like ActivityPub and WebFinger which, as yet, I know very little about. That’s because the Steampipe plugin, which supports the dashboards I’ve been building and describing in this series, doesn’t require me to understand or use those protocols.It does, however, require me to understand and use the Mastodon API. Mostly I use that API by way of the Go … [Read more...]
Cobol in .NET with Otterkit
As much as enterprise IT evolves, we’re left running old hardware and software for many reasons. Perhaps there’s a regulatory requirement to keep data for as long as possible; perhaps there’s a dependency on code that remains reliable and supported even after decades. Whatever the reason, we may need to work with that system and that data as part of a newer platform.One platform that’s not going … [Read more...]
Docker, Maven lead the way in packages
When it comes to the most prominent software package technologies, Docker containers, Apache Maven Java project management, and NPM JavaScript packages led the way in a recent study examining deployments of the JFrog Artifactory repository manager.The JFrog Software Artifact State of the Union report, announced February 6, features JFrog’s examination of technologies being used to create … [Read more...]
EnterpriseDB adds Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL
Relational database provider EnterpriseDB on Tuesday said that it was adding Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) to its databases, which are based on open-source PostgreSQL. TDE, which is used by both Oracle and Microsoft, is a method of encrypting database files in order to ensure security of data while at rest and in motion. It helps ensure that data on the hard drive as well as files … [Read more...]
Whatever happened to Ruby?
If you've been around the world of web development long enough, you've seen many languages and frameworks rise and fall. The shooting star that is Ruby and its web application framework, Ruby on Rails, burned brighter than most. In 2008, just three years after Rails was introduced, this very publication posed the question of whether the framework might be the successor to Java, noting that it … [Read more...]
How Aerospike Document Database supports real-time applications
Digital transformation continues to be a top initiative for enterprises. As they embark on this journey, it is essential they leverage data strategically to succeed. Data has become a critical asset for any business—helping to increase revenue, improve customer experiences, retain customers, enable innovation, launch new products and services, and expand markets.To capitalize on the data, … [Read more...]
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