Theia IDE: Eclipse’s answer to Visual Studio Code
Installing Theia IDE locally is no more complex than any other desktop app, as the Eclipse Foundation delivers installers for all three major platforms (Windows, macOS, and Linux). The installer sets up the necessary bits automatically. Additionally, Docker users can try an experimental Docker image, whether for hosting online or running locally. Another option for […]
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Salesforce previews Einstein-powered service agent
In order to create an Einstein Service Agent customized for an enterprise, its developers need to access the Einstein 1 platform, start creating a new copilot by giving its specific name and purpose, and then expose it to service topics, Nichols explained, adding that once the service topics are mapped and a LLM is selected, […]
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How to master multi-tenant data management
Requirements Scalable and reliable storage: The system must scale horizontally to manage the growing data volume from all applications, ensuring reliability and uninterrupted service delivery according to the agreed SLA. Performance: Each application will need the storage service to maintain high performance, with low latency and high throughput, even as demand fluctuates. SLA management: The […]
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Building next-generation applications with the Windows Application SDK
Download channels show upcoming features The Windows App SDK is available in three different channels; you can choose between the current stable release, a preview release for features that should ship soon, or an experimental channel where new features are trialed. The current supported release is Version 1.5.5, released early in July 2024. The next […]
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Are we thinking too small about generative AI?
Perhaps the most promising area for AI to date has been software development, where it seems to be having a sustained impact. Even here, though, only a subset of experienced developers are seeing significant productivity gains, and the impact is nowhere near covering the $1 trillion in AI investments that Goldman Sachs expects during the […]
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HR professionals trust AI recommendations
When it comes to AI and hiring, 73% of HR professionals surveyed said they trust AI to recommend whom to hire, according to a newly released report from HireVue, provider of a hiring platform that leverages AI. However, the same survey indicated that workers are not sold on the use of AI for hiring. Released […]
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How platform teams lead to better, faster, stronger enterprises
Modernization has become table stakes for organizations, but transitioning to the cloud requires a brand new technology stack. More and more, IT leaders are turning to cloud and Kubernetes technologies to help developers and operations teams deploy, manage and scale applications more easily. However, the growing complexity of modern application development poses significant challenges for […]
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Safety off: Programming in Rust with `unsafe`
extern “C” { fn abs(input: i32) -> i32; } fn main() { unsafe { println!(“Absolute value of -3 according to C: {}”, abs(-3)); } } Any calls made to the functions exposed via the extern “C” block must be wrapped in unsafe, the better to ensure you take proper responsibility for what you send to […]
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AI’s moment of disillusionment
We still haven’t learned This letdown isn’t just an AI thing. We go through this process of inflated expectations and disillusionment with pretty much every shiny new technology. Even something as settled as cloud keeps getting kicked around. My InfoWorld colleague, David Linthicum, recently ripped into cloud computing, arguing that “the anticipated productivity gains and cost […]
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Progressive web app essentials: Service worker background sync
const URL = “https://8014-35-223-70-178.ngrok-free.app/”; // 1 const taskChannel = new BroadcastChannel(‘task-channel’); // 2 taskChannel.onmessage = event => { // 3 persistTask(event.data.data); // 4 registration.sync.register(‘task-sync’); // 5 }; let db = null; // 6 let request = indexedDB.open(“TaskDB”, 1); // 7 request.onupgradeneeded = function(event) { // 8 db = event.target.result; // 9 if (!db.objectStoreNames.contains(“tasks”)) { // […]
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