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By John K. Waters
You might’ve missed it amid the spectacle of Gemini demos and AI ethics panels, but Google quietly rewired the front end of the web at its annual I/O conference—and it’s worth your attention. Not just because they streamlined carousels or snuck multimodal prompts into Chrome Canary. No, this is Google laying the groundwork for the next decade of web-native AI.
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By John K. Waters
Google Cloud unveils AI-first developer tools, multi-agent systems, and hyperscale infrastructure to accelerate enterprise app development.
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By John K. Waters
A majority of U.S. chief information officers are overshooting their cloud budgets, with 83% spending an average of 30% more than planned, according to a new survey released this week by Java-focused software company Azul. Only 2% of respondents reported coming in under budget.
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Data security firm Rubrik has announced a collaboration with open-source software maker Red Hat to integrate Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization into Rubrik Security Cloud, aiming to streamline data protection for virtualized environments and enhance cyber resilience. The solution is expected to be generally available early next year.
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Microsoft plans to let more of its users spin up autonomous AI agents within Copilot Studio, its AI orchestration platform.
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By John K. Waters
Low-code/no-code AI platform provider Sway AI announces the integration of its namesake offering with Microsoft Azure, giving Azure customers a unique way to build and deploy secure AI and machine learning (ML) applications directly within the Azure ecosystem.
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Security firm CrowdStrike has revealed that a flaw in its testing software led to a faulty update, causing more than 8.5 million Windows systems to crash last week. In a blog post published today, the Austin-based company provided more details on the incident, which resulted in flight cancellations and disruptions to public services, including 911 systems.
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By John K. Waters
Docker, Inc., just publishes its '2024 State of Application Development Report.' This year's edition paints a vivid picture of current trends and challenges derived from the experiences and insights of more than 1,300 developers.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat announces updates to its OpenShift AI hybrid AI and machine learning platform built on Red Hat OpenShift.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat OpenShift is now generally available on Oracle Cloud. This new service is a continuation of the partnership between Red Hat and Oracle, which started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux being certified to run on OCI bare metal and Oracle VMware Cloud Solution workloads.
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Microsoft announces updates of its Java tooling in its Visual Studio Code extension and the Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ, showcasing a host of new features.
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By John K. Waters
Salesforce expands the reach of its Einstein AI tech with a new developer assistant embedded within its ecosystem. Calling it Einstein Copilot all but standardizes nomenclature originated with GitHub's Copilot
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AWS is now requiring self-publishers on its Kindle platform to disclose whether their uploads are AI-generated. This new requirement unveiled as AWS’s "Addition of AI Questions to KDP Publishing Process."
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft recently announced the availability of its Reliable Web App Pattern for Java Tomcat--a potentially powerful move to attract more Java developers to its Azure cloud platform.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle's latest release of its reference implementation of the Java SE platform, Oracle JDK 20, includes seven JEPs comprising thousands of performance, stability, and security improvements.
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By John K. Waters
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is now certified to run on Oracle's cloud services platform as a supported operating system. The move is part of a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on OCI.
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By John K. Waters
AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.
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By John K. Waters
BlackBerry announces that it's extending its use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make its QNX techn available to mission-critical embedded systems developers in the cloud.
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By John K. Waters
Graph database pioneer Neo4j announces the general availability of the latest update of its namesake offering this week: Neo4j 5.
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By John K. Waters
Oracle has joined the Micronaut Foundation, the not-for-profit organization established to advance innovation and adoption of a popular open-source, JVM-based framework for building microservices and serverless applications.
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By John K. Waters
The Fedora Project has announced the beta release of Fedora Linux 37, the latest version of the free and open source Fedora Linux operating system.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft announces the launch of a new website designed to provide Java developers with a new level of support in the form of tools and resources that enable them to code, deploy, and scale their apps more productively.
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Microsoft's Java team has introduced new support in the Java on Azure Tooling package for Azure Kubernetes Service in the IntelliJ toolkit, along with new support of Azure VMs.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft made the preview of its new Dev Box workstation-in-the-cloud service available to the public this week. The new service is designed to llow developers to create "on-demand, high-performance, secure, ready-to-code, project-specific workstations in the cloud," the company said.
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By John K. Waters
Microsoft joins the Eclipse Foundation's Jakarta EE and MicroProfile working groups.