By Paul Krill With newly introduced Deno 1.43, the developers of the JavaScript/TypeScript runtime have enhanced its language server, speeding up auto-completion performance and improving memory consumption. Introduced May 1, Deno 1.43 can be accessed via running the deno upgrade command in a terminal. Deno Land developers have reworked many aspects of the Deno language server, commonly referred to as Deno LSP, which provides auto-completion in the editor and other capabilities. With Deno 1.43, auto-completion now takes less than one second in larger projects when it used to take six to eight ...
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By Paul Krill Oracle has announced Oracle Code Assist, an AI-powered coding assistant that will provide developers with context-specific suggestions that can be tailored to an organization’s best practices and codebases. Oracle did not provide an availability date for Oracle Code Assist, but said that developers at Oracle have been using the tool to build Oracle products and services. Oracle Code Assist can be used to write, upgrade, and refactor code written in most modern programming languages, the company said. Powered by large language models (LLMs) running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (...
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By Anirban Ghoshal Microsoft is reportedly working on a new large language model (LLM) to take on Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s GPT-4. Codenamed MAI-1, the new LLM is currently in the development phase and is being led by Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, The Information reported citing two sources. Suleyman joined Microsoft in March along with Karen Simonyan, the other co-founder of Inflection AI, in order to lead the company’s copilot effort, according to a blog post authored by Microsoft Chief Executive Satya Nadella. Microsoft had also paid $650 million to I...
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By Asa Whillock The generative AI party is still raging. This zeitgeist has rocked the business world daily in a million ways, and the ground is still shifting. Now, four months into 2024, we’re starting to see businesses, particularly those with rarified pragmatic brands, starting to demand evidence of value, of the path to the true ROI derived from AI. As pragmatic voices for value rise, how do thoughtful business leaders respond? Alteryx studied exactly this question. What are the concrete pathways to AI value? We surveyed leading CIOs and board members and found a brightly lit approach to ...
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By Nick Hodges Much of the angst about social media revolves around how they deal with your personal data. They sell your attention to advertisers. They sell your online activity, tendencies, and interests to people who want to sell you products. Personally, this doesn’t bother me, because I prefer ads for things I am interested in over ads for things I will never buy, but your mileage may vary. I get it. I reserve my outrage for something that you may have have given little thought. What really gets me is that we do all the work, but they make all the money. It is said of social media that if...
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By David Linthicum The recent discourse around the security of cloud computing in the banking sector, highlighted by Nicholas Fearn’s piece in the Financial Times, paints a somewhat grim picture of the cybersecurity landscape when it comes to banks moving to cloud computing. Not to pick on just this article, but I’ve seen this as a trend in the past few years, as the value of cloud computing has been called into question more and more. This is a change from just a few years ago when it was verboten to criticize “the cloud.” What happened between then and now? Enterprises saw the weaknesses of ...
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By Paul Krill Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language popularity is being attributed to the growing importance of numerical or mathematical computing. Fortran returned to the top 10 in the index for April 2024 and retains the 10th place in the index for May 2024. The rating for Fortran did slip a bit, from 1.47% last month to 1.24% this month. But before April, Fortran’s last appearance in the Tiobe top 10 was April 2002. Paul Jansen, CEO of Tiobe, a provider of tools for measuring software quality, attributed Fortran’s recent rise to the language’s advantages for n...
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By Matt Asay No one thinks software development is easy, but who would have thought it could be hard in so many different ways? Evans Data estimates there are 26.9 million software developers globally. Recently more than 100 of those developers weighed in on Ali Spittel’s question, “What’s the most difficult part of your job as a developer?” I expected the answers to mostly coalesce around a few key themes, but the responses were highly varied. It’s worth digging into them to see how your company can improve life for your developers. Scope creepSometimes we love our developers too much. We rel...
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By Prince Mahajan 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 which engineers can continue to innovate rapidly. We presented our Kafka engine rede...
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By Isaac Sacolick About a decade ago, I was a CIO evaluating a technology solution and I shared our primary requirements with a prospective vendor’s rep. He demoed at least three products from the company’s portfolio. Each tool had its own user experience, development approach, and learning requirements, but all three were needed to solve our business requirements. As CIO, I recognized that different parts of my team would either need to collaborate using these different tools, or I would have to hire more advanced developers capable of mastering them all. I decided not to invest in this techn...
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