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What is the JVM? Introducing the Java virtual machine

The Java virtual machine manages application memory and provides a portable execution environment for Java-based applications. Developers reap the rewards in performance, stability, and predictable runtimes.

By Matthew Tyson

Sep 3, 2025 13 mins

Development ToolsJavaProgramming Languages

Native UI vs. web UI: How to choose

When does it make more sense to develop a native desktop app, or an Electron-powered web UI app? We break it down for you.

By Serdar Yegulalp

Sep 3, 2025 6 mins

Software DevelopmentWeb Development

How to build a production-grade agentic AI platform – lessons from Gravity

Modular orchestration, fail-safe design, hybrid memory management, and LLM integration with domain knowledge are essential to agentic systems that reason, act, and adapt at scale.

By Lucas Thelosen and Drew Gillson

Sep 2, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment Libraries and FrameworksGenerative AI

Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI era

AI is not only changing the world at large, it’s radically changing the professional worlds of all IT workers—from developers and SOC analysts, to helpdesk staff, I&O teams, enterprise architects, and CIOs. What new skills and knowledge will you need to thrive in the age of AI? What new roles are emerging to support your organization’s AI efforts and IT strategy? In this special report, you’ll learn how to capture the opportunities for growth and innovation that AI affords and find success as you take your own career in a new direction.

By InfoWorld Staff

Sep 1, 2025 1 min

Artificial IntelligenceCareersIT Leadership

A guide to the multicloud strategies of AWS, Azure, and GCP

AWS Outposts, Microsoft Azure Arc, and Google Cloud Anthos each offers its own approach to managing hybrid and multicloud environments. Here’s how they compare on cost, security, and management.

By Taryn Plumb

Aug 31, 2025 14 mins

Amazon Web ServicesGoogle Cloud PlatformMicrosoft Azure

Evolving Kubernetes for generative AI inference

A community-driven effort is bringing native support for AI inference to Kubernetes, featuring the vLLM library, an inference gateway extension, inference benchmarks, and more.

By Akshay Ram

Aug 29, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIKubernetes

From Teradata to lakehouse: Lessons from a real-world data platform modernization

Still stuck in legacy warehouses? This pharma leader shows how a Databricks lakehouse can turn compliance hurdles into a growth engine.

By Rama Devi Drakshpalli

Aug 28, 2025 11 mins

Data ArchitectureData ManagementData Warehousing

8 vendors bringing AI to devsecops and application security

From autonomous vulnerability remediation to real-time scrutiny of AI-generated code, AI is impacting security at every stage of the software development process.

By Victor Garza

Aug 28, 2025 14 mins

Application SecurityDevSecOpsGenerative AI

A wake-up call for identity security in devops

The GitHub OAuth attack exposed a security blind spot in the ever-growing web of permissions spanning developers, service accounts, and third-party OAuth apps. Here’s how to address it.

By Taylor Parsons

Aug 26, 2025 7 mins

Application SecurityAuthenticationData and Information Security

Securing AI workloads in Azure: A zero-trust architecture for MLOps

Locking down AI pipelines in Azure? A zero-trust, metadata-driven setup makes it secure, scalable and actually team-friendly.

By Vikram Garg

Aug 25, 2025 6 mins

Data GovernanceData and Information SecurityMicrosoft Azure

What alternative clouds are good for

Cost-effective alternatives are filling gaps left by the hyperscalers in supporting AI workloads, edge computing, private clouds, and more.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Aug 25, 2025 10 mins

Cloud Computing

The shift from AI code generation to true development partnership

AI isn’t just cranking out code anymore. It’s starting to think, solve problems and work like a real teammate in development.

By Jenil Shah

Aug 21, 2025 9 mins

Development ToolsDevopsGenerative AI

Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL

New filtering and observability functionality is similar to that of PostgreSQL, but Google has optimized it for performance.

Feb 28, 2025 3 mins

Databases Google Cloud Platform PostgreSQL

Do more with Python’s new built-in async programming library

Gear up for spring with our favorite how-to's and to-do's for Python developers—starting with the new, built-in async/await syntax and asyncio library.

Feb 28, 2025 2 mins

Concurrency Development Tools Python

The rising threat of shadow AI

The uncontrolled and ungoverned AI apps your employees are using are becoming a real threat to cloud deployments, but banning them won’t work. Here’s what to do.

Feb 28, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Security Data Governance Generative AI

What is retrieval-augmented generation? More accurate and reliable LLMs

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, integrates external data sources to reduce hallucinations and improve the response accuracy of large language models.

Feb 27, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Microsoft’s Phi-4-multimodal AI model handles speech, text, and video

The new small language model can help developers build multimodal AI applications for lightweight computing devices, Microsoft says.

Feb 27, 2025 4 mins

Generative AI

DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war

This could force rivals to cut costs, intensify competition, and reshape enterprise AI adoption strategies.

Feb 27, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

Understanding thread synchronization in C#

Learn the core concepts of thread synchronization used to build multi-threaded .NET applications that enforce thread safety and avoid deadlocks.

Feb 27, 2025 14 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET Software Development

What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel

Microsoft steers its agentic AI development kit toward complex workflows using the Agent Framework and no-code agent development using AutoGen.

Feb 27, 2025 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Microsoft’s .NET 10 arrives in first preview

Next major rev of the .NET platform packs enhancements to the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, MAUI, and more.

Feb 26, 2025 3 mins

C# Development Libraries and Frameworks Microsoft .NET

Get started with async in Python

Learn how to use asynchronous programming in Python 3.13 and higher. Get more done in less time, without waiting.

Feb 26, 2025 12 mins

Python Software Development

Plug-and-play web development with Astro

Seamlessly unite React and Svelte in an optimized web application environment and see for yourself why Astro is a JavaScript meta-framework on the rise.

Feb 26, 2025 8 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks JavaScript Web Development

11 rules for writing better code

Complexity makes misery. Folow these hard-earned and time-tested guidelines to keep your code simple, clear, and easy to maintain.

Feb 26, 2025 8 mins

Careers Developer Software Development

Red Hat OpenShift improves virtualization support

Red Hat’s Kubernetes-based application platform adds VM-friendly networking capabilities, VM live storage migration, and bare-metal support on the Google and Oracle clouds.

Feb 26, 2025 2 mins

Cloud-Native Containers Kubernetes

Cot framework aims to ease Rust web development

‘Batteries-included’ web framework inspired by Django is still in early development and not ready for production use.

Feb 25, 2025 2 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Rust Web Development

IBM acquires DataStax to boost watsonx’s generative AI capabilities

DataStax’s AstraDB will enhance the existing vector capabilities of IBM watsonx.data, while Langflow will add flexible middleware capabilities to watsonx.ai, IBM said.

Feb 25, 2025 3 mins

Databases Generative AI NoSQL Databases

Google rolls out free version of Gemini Code Assist for individuals

The free version offers 180,000 lines of code completion per month, where rivals offer just 2,000 lines free.

Feb 25, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools

Review: Gemini Code Assist is good at coding

Google’s AI coding assistant can help you write, test, debug, and document your code, but currently lacks whole-repo code generation and agents for long-running coding tasks.

Feb 25, 2025 11 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

What the private sector can teach government about cloud computing

All organizations, public and private, must embrace a cloud-smart mindset, platform diversity, and skill modernization to drive smarter IT decisions.

Feb 25, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud Multicloud

Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report

Most of developers’ time is consumed by operational and background tasks such as CI/CD, devsecops, and writing requirements and test cases.

Feb 24, 2025 2 mins

Developer Software Deployment

MongoDB acquires Voyage AI to reduce hallucinations in AI applications

MongoDB wants Voyage AI’s embedding and reranking models to help enterprises with RAG in their AI applications.

Feb 24, 2025 3 mins

Databases Generative AI

Microsoft gives Azure AI users a place to experiment with latest technologies

Azure AI Foundry Labs will enable developers to experiment with new models and explore the latest frameworks, the company said.

Feb 24, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Microsoft Azure

10 machine learning mistakes and how to avoid them

Machine learning is a multibillion-dollar business with seemingly endless potential, but it poses some risks. Here's how to avoid the most common machine learning mistakes.

Feb 24, 2025 10 mins

Careers Machine Learning Software Development

A smarter approach to training AI models

Deep neural networks have hit a wall. An entirely new, backpropagation-free AI stack promises to be orders of magnitude more performant.

Feb 24, 2025 7 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral

When established technologies take up the most space in training data sets, what’s to make LLMs recommend new technologies (even if they’re better)?

Feb 24, 2025 5 mins

Code Editors Development Tools Generative AI

Amazon concedes that Chime SDK makes far more sense than the Chime application itself

While the Chime app has failed, the Chime SDK powers features for enterprises and vendors such as Slack.

Feb 21, 2025 1 min

Development Tools Software Development

GenAI is my copilot? Developers weigh pains and gains

In this month's report: Software developers and technology leaders are embracing generative AI, but not everyone is happy about it.

Feb 21, 2025 3 mins

Developer Development Tools Generative AI

Why enterprises fail at finops

Let’s take a realistic look at the effectiveness of finops. Great potential is often wasted because the finance team isn’t working with the engineers.

Feb 21, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Cloud Management IT Leadership

Deno update brings OpenTelemetry integration

Deno 2.2 highlights include built-in OpenTelemetry for monitoring logs, metrics, and traces and a major upgrade to the Deno linter.

Feb 20, 2025 3 mins

JavaScript Node.js Typescript

Apollo GraphQL ships connectors for REST APIs

Apollo Connectors connect REST APIs directly to an Apollo GraphOS graph, allowing developers to write queries that mix GraphQL and REST services.

Feb 20, 2025 2 mins

APIs Development Tools Software Development

Microsoft’s first step to scalable quantum computing

After many years of work, Microsoft has unveiled its first quantum hardware, the Majorana 1 processor. Let’s grok its topoconductor and tetron-based qubits.

Feb 20, 2025 8 mins

Cloud Computing Microsoft Azure Quantum Computing

Microsoft updates VS Code C# Dev Kit extension

Improvements include experimental Hot Reload and boosted error management, debugging, and testing on Razor/Blazor web pages.

Feb 19, 2025 2 mins

C# Software Development Visual Studio Code

Oracle extends support for on-prem Oracle Database 19c

Extended support for Oracle Database 19c will last until 2032, with caveats. Still no news of an on-prem edition of Oracle Database 23ai.

Feb 19, 2025 5 mins

Databases Oracle Database Relational Databases

Intro to Elixir: A fresh take on functional programming

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise.

Feb 19, 2025 10 mins

Concurrency Programming Languages Software Development

Generative AI vs. the software developer

AI isn’t going to replace you. But a developer who knows how to leverage AI in the development process just might.

Feb 19, 2025 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

AI is driving an unprecedented transformation in data centers, with global data center CapEx spending projected to more than double from $430 billion in 2024 to $1.1 trillion by 2029.

Feb 18, 2025 1 min

Artificial Intelligence

Mistral turns focus toward regional LLMs with Saba release

Saba can support use cases in Arabic and many Indian-origin languages, particularly South Indian-origin languages, such as Tamil.

Feb 18, 2025 5 mins

Generative AI Software Development

Key strategies for MLops success in 2025

To unlock the full potential of AI and machine learning, understand the keys to model selection, optimization, monitoring, scaling, and metrics for success.

Feb 18, 2025 8 mins

DevSecOps Devops Generative AI

3 reasons to consider a data security posture management platform

Data must be protected no matter where it's stored or how it's being used. Here's how DSPM platforms prevent data breaches—whether the data is stored, in transit, or used by AI.

Feb 18, 2025 8 mins

Data Architecture Data and Information Security Software Development

Serverless was never a cure-all

Enterprises are finally discovering that serverless computing is not a universal remedy. A mix of serverless and traditional architectures is almost always a better approach.

Feb 18, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Architecture Hybrid Cloud Serverless Computing

Large language models: The foundations of generative AI

Large language models evolved alongside deep-learning neural networks and are critical to generative AI. Here's a first look, including the top LLMs and what they're used for today.

Feb 17, 2025 20 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Machine Learning

3 key features of Postman’s AI Agent Builder

AI Agent Builder simplifies the creation of AI agents and agentic workflows for API development and testing. Here’s how it works.

Feb 17, 2025 7 mins

APIs Development Tools Generative AI

How to keep AI hallucinations out of your code

The effectiveness of AI coding assistants depends largely on the human in the driver’s seat. Here are eight ways to keep AI hallucinations from infecting your code.

Feb 17, 2025 10 mins

Artificial Intelligence Bugs Generative AI

What if generative AI can’t get it right?

GenAI is getting faster but not more accurate. If the technology can’t provide correct answers, we should limit it to use cases where plausibility is enough.

Feb 17, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

AI coding assistants limited but helpful, developers say

DeveloperWeek conference attendees said AI coding tools need to mature, but they already find them useful and believe they will get better in the future.

Feb 14, 2025 3 mins

Artificial Intelligence Development Tools Generative AI

Buckle up for faster Python programs

Grok the faster interpreter in Python 3.14, learn what’s new in Python packages and PyPI, explore the new Python-to-C features in Cython 3.1, and seize the power of Python’s abstract base classes.

Feb 14, 2025 2 mins

Programming Languages Python Software Development

Avoiding the cloud migration graveyard

Don’t let your cloud journey die. Discover how to overcome common challenges to accomplish genuine digital transformation.

Feb 14, 2025 5 mins

Cloud Computing Devops

JetBrains’ Ktor adds CLI for simpler project creation

Kotlin-based web framework introduces a new command-line tool to create projects and enhances server-sent events with serialization, reconnection, and heartbeat features.

Feb 13, 2025 3 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Kotlin Programming Languages

How to use mutexes and semaphores in C#

Take advantage of the Mutex class to synchronize threads in different processes and the Semaphore class to limit the number of threads that can access a shared resource.

Feb 13, 2025 7 mins

Software Development

Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime

Microsoft has finally delivered an experimental release of the Windows App SDK with artificial intelligence APIs. I took it for a spin.

Feb 13, 2025 8 mins

Development Libraries and Frameworks Development Tools Generative AI

Go 1.24 arrives with generic type aliases, boosted WebAssembly support

The newest version of the open source language also features performance improvements.

Feb 12, 2025 3 mins

Google Go Programming Languages Software Development

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What is the JVM? Introducing the Java virtual machine

Native UI vs. web UI: How to choose

How to build a production-grade agentic AI platform – lessons from Gravity

Spotlight report: IT careers in the AI era

A guide to the multicloud strategies of AWS, Azure, and GCP

Evolving Kubernetes for generative AI inference

From Teradata to lakehouse: Lessons from a real-world data platform modernization

8 vendors bringing AI to devsecops and application security

A wake-up call for identity security in devops

Securing AI workloads in Azure: A zero-trust architecture for MLOps

What alternative clouds are good for

The shift from AI code generation to true development partnership

Google’s AlloyDB is looking more and more like PostgreSQL

Do more with Python’s new built-in async programming library

The rising threat of shadow AI

What is retrieval-augmented generation? More accurate and reliable LLMs

Microsoft’s Phi-4-multimodal AI model handles speech, text, and video

DeepSeek offers steep discounts, escalating AI price war

Understanding thread synchronization in C#

What’s next for Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel

Microsoft’s .NET 10 arrives in first preview

Get started with async in Python

Plug-and-play web development with Astro

11 rules for writing better code

Red Hat OpenShift improves virtualization support

Cot framework aims to ease Rust web development

IBM acquires DataStax to boost watsonx’s generative AI capabilities

Google rolls out free version of Gemini Code Assist for individuals

Review: Gemini Code Assist is good at coding

What the private sector can teach government about cloud computing

Developers spend most of their time not coding – IDC report

MongoDB acquires Voyage AI to reduce hallucinations in AI applications

Microsoft gives Azure AI users a place to experiment with latest technologies

10 machine learning mistakes and how to avoid them

A smarter approach to training AI models

AI coding assistants are on a downward spiral

Amazon concedes that Chime SDK makes far more sense than the Chime application itself

GenAI is my copilot? Developers weigh pains and gains

Why enterprises fail at finops

Deno update brings OpenTelemetry integration

Apollo GraphQL ships connectors for REST APIs

Microsoft’s first step to scalable quantum computing

Microsoft updates VS Code C# Dev Kit extension

Oracle extends support for on-prem Oracle Database 19c

Intro to Elixir: A fresh take on functional programming

Generative AI vs. the software developer

Data center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure

Mistral turns focus toward regional LLMs with Saba release

Key strategies for MLops success in 2025

3 reasons to consider a data security posture management platform

Serverless was never a cure-all

Large language models: The foundations of generative AI

3 key features of Postman’s AI Agent Builder

How to keep AI hallucinations out of your code

What if generative AI can’t get it right?

AI coding assistants limited but helpful, developers say

Buckle up for faster Python programs

Avoiding the cloud migration graveyard

JetBrains’ Ktor adds CLI for simpler project creation

How to use mutexes and semaphores in C#

Diving into the Windows Copilot Runtime

Go 1.24 arrives with generic type aliases, boosted WebAssembly support

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Databricks adds Data Science Agent to automate analytics tasks

Rust Innovation Lab launched, sponsors first project

PostgreSQL 18 to boost OLTP performance, but misses AI readiness

Getting encryption wrong (and getting it right, too)

How to build a native desktop app vs. a web UI app

PyApp: Build click-to-run Python apps with Rust