Category: Software Development

  • YugabyteDB 2.19 gets new PostgreSQL-compatibility features

    [ad_1] The new feature brings single-node PostgreSQL execution and classic distributed SQL execution together. While single-node PostgreSQL offers local execution for low latency, but no distributed execution, classic distributed SQL, on the other hand, offers distributed execution for resilience and scale, but with higher latency. “Midsize applications running on single-node database instances can now effortlessly…

  • Over £20B in UK govt IT contracts to expire soon. What next?

    [ad_1] UK government IT contracts worth £23.4 billion are due to end during the current five-year Parliament, according to researchers who warn that poor performing suppliers are hardly ever excluded from bidding again. A report by public spending research company Tussell and the Institute for Government found that a third of these, worth £9 billion,…

  • Exception handling in Java: Advanced features and types

    [ad_1] My example revealed only one cause. Exceptions thrown from non-trivial real-world applications may contain extensive chains of many causes. You can access these causes by employing a loop such as the following: catch (Exception exc) { Throwable t = exc.getCause(); while (t != null) { System.out.println(t); t = t.getCause(); } } Try-with-resources Java applications…

  • Bringing Universal Windows Platform apps to .NET 9

    [ad_1] Bringing UWP to the Windows App SDK Updating UWP applications to the Windows App SDK takes time, especially if you’re relying on third-party libraries and components that haven’t been updated to it or to Win UI 3. Although you can still distribute them through the Microsoft Store, you’re shut out from features like native…

  • LockBit claims it ransomed IRS-authorized eFile.com

    [ad_1] Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). To be clear: eFile.com is not owned or operated by the IRS, nor part of the agency’s e-file program, but it is an IRS-authorized e-file provider. The Register has…

  • Oracle CloudWorld 2024: 10 key takeaways from the big annual event

    [ad_1] At CloudWorld 2024, Oracle unveiled a strategic update, dubbed generative development or GenDev, that provides enterprises with an AI-centric application development infrastructure. In contrast to offerings such as Copilot Studio, Amazon Bedrock, and Vertex AI Studio, GenDev combines technologies in Oracle Database 23ai, including JSON Relational Duality Views, AI Vector Search, and APEX, to facilitate…

  • Text in, docs out: Popular Markdown documentation tools compared

    [ad_1] One truly wonderful aspect of Quartz is how much rich, powerful, reader-facing functionality is baked into the product. Backlinks, breadcrumbs, callouts, and popover previews can all be generated automatically or programmatically from your Markdown. LaTeX and Mermaid diagram support also come packed in, along with powerful user-facing features like type-to-search and single-page app routing…

  • Intro to Deno Fresh: A fresh take on full-stack JavaScript

    [ad_1] islands/Counter.tsx import type { Signal } from “@preact/signals”; import { Button } from “../components/Button.tsx”; interface CounterProps { count: Signal<number>; } export default function Counter(props: CounterProps) { return ( <div class=”flex gap-8 py-6″> <Button onClick={() => props.count.value -= 1}>-1</Button> <p class=”text-3xl tabular-nums”>{props.count}</p> <Button onClick={() => props.count.value += 1}>+1</Button> </div> ); } Fresh knows this file…

  • How Cloud Custodian conquered cloud resource management

    [ad_1] Kapil Thangavelu: Like so many large enterprises eight years ago, they were aggressively moving to the cloud and open source, and the mandate was to accelerate all the developers getting into the cloud environment. Obviously being in financial services, we were dealing with a highly regulated industry — every new cloud service had to…

  • Can Java rival Python in AI development?

    [ad_1] Among the native Java AI frameworks cited by Oracle‘s Smith are Tribuo, LangChain4j, and CoreNLP. Tribuo is a machine learning library written in Java that provides tools for classification, regression, clustering, model development, and other capabilities. LangChain4j is a Java version of the LangChain framework for building applications powered by large language models (LLM);…