It’s Monday morning, and after a long weekend of system trouble the cloud operations team is discussing what happened. It seems that several systems that were associated with a very...
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The imminent demise of Abobe’s Flash Player, once the standard for displaying rich media in a browser, has inspired a project dubbed Ruffle, to preserve the legacy of Flash. Ruffle...
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Ruby on Rails 6.0, the latest version of the veteran web application framework, has improvements for composing rich text content and JavaScript integration. Version 6.0 of the 15-year-old framework includes...
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Quick! Name a log analysis service. If the first word that popped out of your mouth was “Splunk,” you’re far from alone. But Splunk’s success has spurred many others to...
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The two biggest barriers to the use of machine learning (both classical machine learning and deep learning) are skills and computing resources. You can solve the second problem by throwing...
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The Rust language’s unique approach results in better code with fewer compromises than C, C++, Go, and the other languages you probably use. It also gets updated regularly, often every...
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When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed...
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When Microsoft launched its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) back in 2018, it was very clear why: It wanted to provide tools for developers building modern cloud applications. Microsoft needed...
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I’ve been in some knock-down, drag-out battles over both the configuration and the use of technology. On one side, you have somebody with a very different opinion as to what...
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With its acquisition of Java support services company jClarity, Microsoft is making a play to optimize Java workloads on its Azure cloud platform. Microsoft calls jClarity the leading contributor to...
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