What GitHub can tell us about the future of open source
Crucially, these and other cloud infrastructure, containerization, and pipeline automation projects benefit from strong enterprise involvement. Developers from Google, Red Hat, AWS, and VMware contribute code to Kubernetes and related projects, ensuring these tools meet basic enterprise requirements. But it’s more than that. We’re seeing an increasing propensity by competitors to collaborate on common infrastructure […]
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Understanding application modernization
Foster a devops and platform engineering culture Modernization is not just a technological change, it is also a culture shift. It requires collaboration between development, operations, and business teams. Automate build and delivery/deployment pipelines with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or by using platforms such as Choreo and Harness that offer end-to-end capabilities. […]
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What is multiplexing and how does it work?
Multiplexing, or muxing, is a way of sending multiple signals or streams of information over a communications link at the same time in the form of a single, complex signal. The goal is to enhance the channel’s transmission efficiency and speed, even over long distances. When the composite signal reaches its destination, a process called […]
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Data mesh vs. data fabric vs. data virtualization: There’s a difference
What is data mesh? “Data mesh is a decentralized model for data, where domain experts like product engineers or LLM specialists control and manage their own data,” says Ahsan Farooqi, global head of data and analytics, Orion Innovation. While data mesh is tied to certain underlying technologies, it’s really a shift in thinking more than […]
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How pet projects fuel innovation and careers in tech
Call them pet projects, side projects, or hobby projects, projects pursued outside of one’s regular business activity are especially popular among software developers. After all, these projects serve as an excellent way to learn new skills and technologies or to test fresh concepts and approaches. Whether sparked by a spontaneous idea or driven by a […]
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Microsoft .NET Aspire adds resource graph, publishers
Microsoft has released .NET Aspire 9.2, a new version of the company’s cloud-ready stack for building distributed applications that features dashboard enhancements, including a resource graph, and publishers, new tools that help developers write code to package and deploy apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure, and eventually other hosts. Instructions for updating to .NET Aspire […]
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OpenAI GPT-4.1 models promise improved coding and instruction following
“GPT‑4.1 mini is a significant leap in small model performance, even beating GPT‑4o in many benchmarks. It matches or exceeds GPT‑4o in intelligence evals while reducing latency by nearly half and reducing cost by 83%,” the announcement said. “For tasks that demand low latency, GPT‑4.1 nano is our fastest and cheapest model available. It delivers […]
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JRuby 10 brings faster startup times
With support for Java 21, the most recent long-term support version of Java, JRuby moves past Java 8 support and begins integration of Java 21 features. The JRuby team plans to bring 10 years of JVM enhancements to Ruby users. Addressing slow startup times, which has been called the number one complaint from JRuby users, […]
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More and faster: New proposals changing Python from within
Serdar Yegulalp is a senior writer at InfoWorld. A veteran technology journalist, Serdar has been writing about computers, operating systems, databases, programming, and other information technology topics for 30 years. Before joining InfoWorld in 2013, Serdar wrote for Windows Magazine, InformationWeek, Byte, and a slew of other publications. At InfoWorld, Serdar has covered software development, […]
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7 reasons low-code and no-code tools fail to deliver
“For example, when we came up with the idea for [AI tool] Prompt Genie, we went from idea to launch to first paying customer in just four days, using a no-code approach,” Aggarwal says. “But once we got the product to a market fit, we ran into major challenges in scaling.” The low-code, no-code platform […]
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