Microservices architecture moves complexity out of internal application design and into the external network connected service architecture. Cloud providers offer a variety of approaches for managing this complexity. This article...
Public cloud adoption was on the rise well before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020. The coronavirus proved to be a powerful driver of rapid digital transformation, across industries,...
The latest version of the Deno JavaScript/TypeScript runtime features native HTTP/2 web server capabilities. Deno 1.9 was introduced April 13. For this release, the developers enlisted hyper, a fast HTTP...
Hope springs eternal in the database business. While we’re still hearing about data warehouses (fast analysis databases, typically featuring in-memory columnar storage) and tools that improve the ETL step (extract,...
A couple of weeks ago an anonymous Twitter account told the story of an almost-forgotten Microsoft April Fool’s prank, the 1996 seeding of empty boxes of a “Microsoft Coffee” Java...
Gradle 7.0, the latest release of the popular software build tool leveraged in Android development and elsewhere, offers faster incremental builds as well as support for Java 16. With the...