Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL
“You still get the fundamental Postgres observability (like pg_stat_statements) plus the advanced Google Cloud UI, deeper analytics, and potential machine learning-based tuning suggestions,” Everest’s Ranjan said. AlloyDB appears to have kept its compatibility with PostgreSQL and many of its features (SQL syntax, concurrency, indexing, stored procedures) but adds a new architecture with the aim of […]
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11 rules for writing better code
And you need to be very, very sure before you decide that there can be no more than three of anything in your system. A corollary to this rule is… Don’t hard-code anything This seems obvious, but some developers love to hard-code stuff. Sweet baby Elvis, I even see this kind of thing all the time: […]
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Plug-and-play web development with Astro
Astro’s variable scope When you need front-end interactivity, you can set it up like we’ve done using a Reactive framework or with vanilla JavaScript. Either way, Astro works on the server side. A good way to drive this point home is to look at Astro’s support for variables that can be inserted into the HTML […]
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DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war
Opportunities and risks for enterprises DeepSeek’s aggressive pricing strategy has positioned it as a formidable player in the AI market, but experts caution that enterprises must carefully evaluate the potential risks before adoption. “While integrating DeepSeek’s AI models offers significant advantages in cost and accessibility, enterprises must carefully assess potential risks related to data privacy, […]
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Understanding thread synchronization in C#
lock (sharedObj1) { … lock (sharedObj2) { … } } Note that the order of the locks in the Thread2Work method has been changed to match the order in Thread1Work. First a lock is acquired on sharedObj1, then a lock is acquired on sharedObj2. Here is the revised version of the complete code listing: class […]
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Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report
Developers spend more time on operational and background tasks than they do on coding, according to an IDC analyst report published this month. Application development accounted for 16% of developers’ time in 2024, up from 15% the year before, while the majority of developers’ time was spent on operational and supportive tasks, according to the […]
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Generative AI vs. the software developer
Learn to code – and to prompt My experience with tools like GitHub Copilot is just that. AI isn’t going to create complete and finished applications out of whole cloth, but because I am an experienced developer, I know what to ask it for, and I can tell if what it has given me is correct. […]
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3 reasons to consider a data security posture management platform
DSPM extends data compliance to dark data “DSPM is an independent security layer, agnostic to infrastructure, that protects sensitive data and ensures consistent controls no matter where data travels,” says Yoav Regev, co-founder and CEO of Sentra. “It assesses exposure risks, identifies who has access to company data, classifies how data is used, ensures compliance […]
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Buckle up for faster Python programs
Exploring new features in Cython 3.1The next, still-under-wraps version of Cython offers powerful new features to convert Python to C and make existing C code easier to use. See how they work. The power of Python’s abstract base classesLevel up your use of programming abstractions in Python. Abstract base classes let you create objects that […]
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How to use asyncio: Python’s built-in async library
Now, if you’re thinking of using asyncio.sleep() in a loop to wait constantly for some external condition … don’t. While you can do this, in theory, it’s a clumsy way to handle that situation. Passing an asyncio.Event object to a task is a better approach, allowing you to just wait for the Event object to […]
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