According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023, 79% of about 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers surveyed said their organizations are implementing private clouds. Additionally, IDC forecasts that global spending on private, dedicated cloud services, including hosted private clouds, will hit $20.4 billion in 2024 and will at least double by 2027.In addition, global spending […]

The next version of the Ruby programming language, Ruby 3.4.0, has been released in preview, bringing changes for string literals and class updates.Unveiled May 16, the Ruby 3.4.0 preview is downloadable from ruby-lang.org. With this update, string literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment now behave as if they were frozen. If mutated, a deprecation warning is emitted. The change […]

IBM is expanding Qiskit, its quantum computing software, into a comprehensive software stack that includes middleware, serverless building blocks, and generative AI coding assistance. The company says the platform for building, optimizing, and executing programs on IBM quantum systems will also deliver better performance.Announced May 15, the intiative builds on the Qiskit SDK 1.x, combining a […]

In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data. After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled relational database products later in the 1970s. The […]

Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to improve the Azure APIs. That project delivered a set of automatically generated API definitions and SDKs, making it easier to link your applications to the cloud and to manage Azure services using code.Behind the scenes was a new language Microsoft developed called CADL, the Concise API Design Language. Building on concepts from […]

Java's equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java programs.Java equals() and hashcode() In this article, you'll learn: Why override equals() and hashcode() in Java? How to compare Java objects with equals() How to identify Java objects with hashcode() How to […]

When we set out to rebuild the engine at the heart of our managed Apache Kafka service, we knew we needed to address several unique requirements that characterize successful cloud-native platforms. These systems must be multi-tenant from the ground up, scale easily to serve thousands of customers, and be managed largely by data-driven software rather than human operators. They should also provide […]

Google has updated both its Flutter multiplatform application development framework and the accompanying Dart language. In making these updates, the company stressed the addition of the WebAssembly bytecode instruction format as a compilation target for web apps built with Flutter and Dart. The announcement follows recent reports of Google laying off staff from the Dart and Flutter teams.To read […]

Most people assume that analytical databases, or OLAPs, are big, powerful beasts—and they are correct. Systems like Snowflake, Redshift, or Postgres involve a lot of setup and maintenance, even in their cloud-hosted incarnations. But what if all you want is "just enough" analytics for a dataset on your desktop? In that case, DuckDB is worth exploring.Columnar data analytics on your laptop […]

Without variables, programming languages are next to useless. Fortunately, JavaScript's variable system is incredibly powerful and versatile. This article shows you how to use JavaScript variables to store numbers, text strings, objects, and other data types. Once you've stored this information, you can use it anywhere in your program.All about JavaScript variables Here's what you'll learn in […]