Features

Angular Signals explained: How pull-based reactivity changes how we model state

Signals are not primarily an event system, and they are not designed to replace RxJS. They represent a different way of modeling application behavior – one that changes how we structure applications and reason about them.

By Sonu Kapoor

Jun 4, 202611 mins

AngularDevelopment ApproachesWeb Development

Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing

Docling uses state-of-the-art models for layout analysis and table structure recognition to transform unstructured documents into formats readily consumable by modern AI systems.

By Janakiram MSV

May 29, 2025 6 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.

By Matthew Tyson

May 28, 2025 9 mins

Engineer Generative AI Technology Industry

Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants

Getting retrieval-augmented generation right requires a deep understanding of embedding models, similarity metrics, chunking, and retrieval techniques. Here’s a brief guide.

By Shaurya Pednekar

May 27, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Multicloud developer lessons from the trenches

Experts offer advice on strategically approaching multicloud development, from balancing features from disparate clouds to mastering observability and automation.

By Josh Fruhlinger

May 26, 2025 12 mins

Careers Engineer Multicloud

Network bloat: AI-driven data movements cause cloud overspend

A significant percentage of enterprise cloud network spending is wasted, due to preventable mistakes and manual processes, and the recent spike in AI deployments is adding to the problem.

By Maria Korolov

May 26, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Computing

InfluxDB’s new model for time series workloads

The embedded Python Processing Engine in InfluxDB 3 allows developers to write Python code that analyzes and acts on time series data in real time.

By Pete Barnett

May 26, 2025 6 mins

Databases Software Development

Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio

Building a database-backed web application with Gemini in Firebase is far from perfect, but it’s better than coding without AI.

By Matthew Tyson

May 21, 2025 14 mins

Development Tools JavaScript TypeScript

What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 21, 2025 8 mins

HTML Software Development Web Development

The best Java certifications for software developers

Yes, Java certification is still worth it, but it pays to know which ones will help you stand out. Here’s what you need to know about Java course certificates and hiring in 2025.

By Bob Violino

May 19, 2025 10 mins

Certifications Devops Java

LiteLLM: An open-source gateway for unified LLM access

LiteLLM allows developers to integrate a diverse range of LLM models as if they were calling OpenAI’s API, with support for fallbacks, budgets, rate limits, and real-time monitoring of API calls.

By Janakiram MSV

May 15, 2025 6 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Open Source

4 key capabilities of Kong’s Event Gateway for real-time event streams

Event-driven architecture needs the same governance and control as APIs. Kong’s new Event Gateway brings familiar Kong API management, plugins, and policies to Apache Kafka.

By Marco Palladino

May 13, 2025 5 mins

APIs Application Security Libraries and Frameworks

Agentic mesh: The future of enterprise agent ecosystems

An agentic mesh is a way to turn fragmented agents into a connected, reliable, enterprise-grade ecosystem. It lets agents find each other, and safely and securely collaborate, interact, and even transact.

By Sean Falconer and Eric Broda

May 13, 2025 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

What software developers need to know about cybersecurity

Security should be a core competency of every developer. Follow these 10 steps to bring security into every phase of the software development life cycle.

By Jose Lazu

May 12, 2025 8 mins

Application Security DevSecOps Devops

How to build (real) cloud-native applications

Simply running an application on a remote server doesn’t make it cloud-native. It’s about specific design principles for scalability and resilience.

By Sean Michael Kerner

May 12, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

7 application security startups at RSAC 2025

From AI-driven security design reviews to workflow analysis, dependency graphing, and runtime detection and response, these startups bake security into every stage of the application life cycle.

By Victor Garza

May 9, 2025 7 mins

APIs App Testing DevSecOps

8 ways to do more with modern JavaScript

From syntax and features every JavaScript developer needs to higher-level concepts you shouldn’t miss, here are eight ways to make the most of JavaScript.

By Matthew Tyson

May 7, 2025 14 mins

Careers JavaScript Programming Languages

AI data centers drive engineers rush to master new skills

The explosive growth of AI infrastructure is forcing data center engineers to rapidly master new technical skills as facilities struggle to find staff.

By Maria Korolov

May 5, 2025 1 min

IT Skills and Training

Bringing DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps together

It’s time to bridge the technical gaps and cultural divides between DevOps, DevSecOps, and MLOps teams and provide a more unified approach to building trusted software. Call it EveryOps.

By Yoav Landman

May 5, 2025 8 mins

Build Automation DevSecOps Devops

Knowing when to use AI coding assistants

AI coding assistants shine for boilerplate code, simple functions, documentation, debugging, and other routine tasks. Don’t push them too far.

By Bill Doerrfeld

May 5, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Download the ‘AI-Savvy IT Leadership Strategies’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: AI is requiring a reset for CIOs and other IT leaders in how they lead both their technical and business strategies and execution approaches. Here, we explore some of the implications of artificial intelligence on IT leadership.

By CIO staff

May 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Buyer’s Guides

Cloud security conundrum: Buy vs. build vs. both

The security of your cloud environments isn’t just about the technology you choose or your model for implementing it. It’s about making informed, business-aligned decisions that reduce real risk.

By Tyler Farrar

Apr 30, 2025 1 min

Cloud Security

Catching up with Angular 19

Angular 19 is a moveable feast of optimizations, refactors, and improvements for reactive programming in JavaScript.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 30, 2025 7 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

Conquering the costs and complexity of cloud, Kubernetes, and AI

Platform engineering teams face mounting challenges across their expanding technological landscape. Automation and self-service are the way forward.

By Haseeb Budhani

Apr 28, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Management Devops Kubernetes and Containers

14 tiny tricks for big cloud savings

Cloud costs add up quickly but so can cloud savings. Here are 14 clever ways to cut costs while still making the most of just about any cloud configuration.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 28, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Management Cloud Storage Devops

MarkItDown: Microsoft’s open-source tool for Markdown conversion

MarkItDown offers a simple and powerful way to convert documents and media files into Markdown for fine-tuning LLMs or building retrieval-augmented generation systems.

By Janakiram MSV

Apr 24, 2025 5 mins

Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks Open Source

CNAPP buyer’s guide: Top cloud-native app protection platforms compared

Cloud-native application protection platforms (CNAPPs) aim to provide a complete cloud security solution, but some are more complete than others.

By David Strom

Apr 23, 2025 1 min

Application Security Cloud Security

Comparing Angular, React, Vue, and Svelte: What you need to know

These four reactive frameworks are all popular options for building dynamic, scalable web apps in JavaScript. Here’s help choosing the right one for you.

By Matthew Tyson

Apr 23, 2025 12 mins

JavaScript TypeScript Web Development

4 big changes WebAssembly developers need to know about

Four upcoming features promise to expand WebAssembly’s power and scope, but developers and language designers will have to do their part.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 23, 2025 5 mins

JavaScript Kotlin Rust

Why enterprise investment in AI agents hasn’t yielded results

Most organizations lack the foundational infrastructure needed to deploy AI agents effectively, with fragmented knowledge access and security concerns the biggest barriers.

By Alistair Russell

Apr 22, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI IT Leadership

Understanding application modernization

Application modernization isn’t a one-time project but an ongoing commitment to innovation. Here’s how to get started.

By Kanchana Wickremasinghe

Apr 21, 2025 7 mins

Cloud-Native Devops IT Strategy

Data mesh vs. data fabric vs. data virtualization: There’s a difference

Understanding the differences between data mesh, data fabric, and data virtualization can help organizations turn scattered data into a strategic advantage.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Apr 21, 2025 6 mins

Data Management

Enter the parallel universe of Java’s Vector API

The Vector API gives Java developers everything they need to tap into CPU-level performance gains for numerically intensive operations.

By Simon Ritter

Apr 17, 2025 6 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

6 languages you can deploy to WebAssembly right now

Rust, Go, JavaScript, C/C++, and JavaScript can all run on Wasm. Here’s what you need to know.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 16, 2025 6 mins

C++ Golang JavaScript

How pet projects fuel innovation and careers in tech

Pet projects are an excellent way for developers to learn new skills and technologies and to test fresh concepts and approaches. Companies can benefit too.

By Anastasia Kazakova

Apr 14, 2025 12 mins

Careers Engineer Software Development

7 reasons low-code and no-code tools fail to deliver

As more organizations adopt low-code and no-code platforms and tools, tech leaders must understand the risks and benefits involved.

By Bob Violino

Apr 14, 2025 8 mins

Development Tools No Code and Low Code Technology Industry

What is data fabric? How it offers a unified view of your data

Data fabric is an architecture that connects siloed heterogenous data across an organization, enabling unified access and management.

By Josh Fruhlinger

Apr 11, 2025 1 min

Data Management

DSPy: An open-source framework for LLM-powered applications

DSPy shifts the paradigm for interacting with models from prompt hacking to high-level programming, making LLM applications far easier to maintain and optimize.

By Janakiram MSV

Apr 10, 2025 8 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

What is Kubernetes? Scalable cloud-native applications

Kubernetes automates container-based application deployment, management, scaling, and more. Here’s everything you need to know about K8s.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 9, 2025 17 mins

Cloud Computing Kubernetes and Containers Software Development

10 Java-based tools and frameworks for generative AI

There’s no reason Python developers should have all the fun. Here are 10 popular Java-based tools for integrating artificial intelligence into your Java applications and workflows.

By Peter Wayner

Apr 7, 2025 9 mins

Development Tools Generative AI Java

Language models in generative AI – does size matter?

Large language models and small language models will play different roles in ensuring that we deliver valuable generative AI applications at cost-effective levels.

By Dom Couldwell

Apr 7, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

3 key features in Kong AI Gateway 3.10

Automated RAG, PII sanitization, and LLM orchestration in Kong AI Gateway 3.10 help teams simplify, scale, and secure their AI development workflows.

By Marco Palladino

Apr 2, 2025 6 mins

APIs Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Understand Python’s new lock file format

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Apr 1, 2025 5 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Download the ‘Strategizing Data Analytics for AI’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: We explore the intersection of AI and analytics. Data analytics only gets more complex. And its growing use for artificial intelligence applications brings a new set of considerations and strategies for IT and business leaders.

By InfoWorld and CIO.com staff

Apr 1, 2025 1 min

Analytics Enterprise Buyer’s Guides Generative AI

How AI is transforming IDEs into intelligent development assistants

By automating routine tasks and reducing friction, AI-powered IDEs allow developers to spend more time developing. Here’s what they add to the traditional IDE feature set.

By Chris Woodruff

Mar 31, 2025 12 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

14 alternative managed Kubernetes platforms

You have a wide variety of options beyond AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for offloading Kubernetes management. These are the best.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Mar 31, 2025 15 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud-Native Kubernetes and Containers

How RamaLama helps make AI model testing safer

RamaLama makes it a snap to spin up AI models locally in containers and streamlines the path from experimentation to production.

By Scott McCarty

Mar 27, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Libraries and Frameworks

What you need to know about Go, Rust, and Zig

Go, Rust, and Zig are three of the most popular new programming languages of the past decade. Here’s what you need to know about their best uses, features, and where they’re headed.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Mar 26, 2025 6 mins

Golang Programming Languages Rust