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According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023 , 79% of about 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers surveyed said their organizations are implementing private clouds. Additionally, IDC forecasts that global spending on private, dedicated cloud services, including hosted private clouds, will hit $20.4 billion in 2024 and will at least double by 2027. In addition, global spending on enterprise private cloud infrastructure, including hardware, software, and support services, will be…

The next version of the Ruby programming language , Ruby 3.4.0, has been released in preview, bringing changes for string literals and class updates. Unveiled May 16 , the Ruby 3.4.0 preview is downloadable from ruby-lang.org . With this update, string literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment now behave as if they were frozen. If mutated, a deprecation warning is emitted. The change marks a first step toward making frozen string literals the default in Ruby. Frozen or immutable…

IBM is expanding Qiskit, its quantum computing software, into a comprehensive software stack that includes middleware, serverless building blocks, and generative AI coding assistance. The company says the platform for building, optimizing, and executing programs on IBM quantum systems will also deliver better performance. Announced May 15 , the intiative builds on the Qiskit SDK 1.x , combining a stable software development kit and a portfolio of services for running complex quantum circuits on…

Java's equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java programs. Using equals() and hashcode() in Java In this article, you'll learn: Why override equals() and hashcode() in Java? How to compare Java objects with equals() How to identify Java objects with hashcode() How to use equals() and hashcode() with collections You'll also get: Guidelines for using equals() …

Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to improve the Azure APIs . That project delivered a set of automatically generated API definitions and SDKs, making it easier to link your applications to the cloud and to manage Azure services using code. Behind the scenes was a new language Microsoft developed called CADL , the Concise API Design Language. Building on concepts from both TypeScript and Bicep , CADL allowed you to define and describe APIs in a way that made it easy to us…

In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data. After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled relational database products later in the 1970s. The rest, as they say, is history. SQL is now 50 years old. SQL was designed and then adopted around databases, an…

When we set out to rebuild the engine at the heart of our managed Apache Kafka service, we knew we needed to address several unique requirements that characterize successful cloud-native platforms. These systems must be multi-tenant from the ground up, scale easily to serve thousands of customers, and be managed largely by data-driven software rather than human operators. They should also provide strong isolation and security across customers with unpredictable workloads, in an environment in w…

Google has updated both its Flutter multiplatform application development framework and the accompanying Dart language. In making these updates, the company stressed the addition of the WebAssembly bytecode instruction format as a compilation target for web apps built with Flutter and Dart. The announcement follows recent reports of Google laying off staff from the Dart and Flutter teams . To read this article in full, please click here

Most people assume that analytical databases, or OLAPs , are big, powerful beasts—and they are correct. Systems like Snowflake , Redshift, or Postgres involve a lot of setup and maintenance, even in their cloud-hosted incarnations. But what if all you want is "just enough" analytics for a dataset on your desktop? In that case, DuckDB is worth exploring. Columnar data analytics on your laptop DuckDB is a tiny but powerful analytics database engine—a single, self-contained executable, which can r…

Without variables, programming languages are next to useless. Fortunately, JavaScript's variable system is incredibly powerful and versatile. This article shows you how to use JavaScript variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and other data types. Once you've stored this information, you can use it anywhere in your program. All about JavaScript variables Here's what you'll learn in this article: What is a user-defined variable in JavaScript? Data types in JavaScript variables How to…

Google has expanded on its Gemma family of AI models , introducing the PaliGemma vision-language model (VLM) and announcing Gemma 2 , the next generation of Gemma models based on a new architecture. The company also released the LLM Comparator in open source, an addition to its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit . To read this article in full, please click here

Angular 18, the next planned release of Google’s TypeScript -based web app development framework, is due to arrive on May 22, with features such as deferrable views and declarative control flow moving out of developer preview to a stable stage. Deferrable views , which are also known as @defer blocks, can be used in component templates to defer the loading of select dependencies within the template, thus reducing the initial bundle size of the application. Declarative control flow is a new buil…

The innovation hub of RSAC 2024, the RSAC Early Stage Expo was specifically designed to showcase emerging players in the information security industry. Among the 50 exhibitors crammed into the second floor booth space, seven VC-backed up-and-comers in application security and devsecops caught our eye. AppSentinels AppSentinels touts itself as a comprehensive API security platform, covering the entire application life cycle. The product conducts thorough analyses of the application’s activities …

Oracle in its Spring 2024 roadmap for Java SE (Standard Edition) reconfirmed it will extend support for Java 11 through January 2032, and will support Java 8 and Java 11 on the Solaris operating system until at least December 2030 and January 2032 respectively. The Java SE Spring 2024 roadmap update, published May 13 , also notes the company’s continued commercial support of JavaFX and its planned sunsetting of the Advanced Management Console (AMC) after October 2024. AMC users should be migrat…

As most IT people know, GPUs are in high demand and are critical for running and training generative AI models. The alternative cloud sector, also known as microclouds, is experiencing a significant surge. Businesses such as CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, Voltage Park, and Together AI are at the forefront of this movement. CoreWeave, which started as a cryptocurrency mining venture, has become a major provider of GPU infrastructure. This shift illustrates a broader trend in which companies are increas…