Category: Development Software

March 3, 2021

With its Power Fx language introduced this week, Microsoft is making a play in the low-code development realm.Announced on March 2, the general purpose language is based on the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and spreadsheet-like formulas, sharing Excel syntax and functions. […]

March 3, 2021

Netflix engineering recently published a blog post detailing how Netflix embraced GraphQL microservices for rapid application development. In this post, Dane Avilla, a senior software engineer at Netflix, describes their key learnings in the process and how GraphQL lends itself […]

March 2, 2021

A novel computer algorithm that could create a broadly reactive influenza vaccine for swine flu also offers a path toward a pan-influenza vaccine and possibly a pan-coronavirus vaccine as well, according to a new paper published in Nature Communications. “This […]

March 1, 2021

The recent release of Chrome 88 includes significant updates to the Chrome DevTools, including improved network debugging, experimental CSS Flexbox debugging tools, improved frame details view, new WASM debug capabilities, and general performance improvements. The network tab offers three new […]

February 23, 2021

Steve Ballmer said it best. Developers are critically important, and developers were the unsung heroes of 2020. I suppose that shocks no one, and in a recent survey of executives by the NoSQL database firm Couchbase, 92% of the executives […]

February 22, 2021

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core has become a popular way to build high-performance, modern web applications that can run on Windows, Linux, or MacOS. An important way to ensure high performance and reliability in applications that experience high volumes of requests is […]

February 18, 2021

The term “observability” started to gain serious momentum in software engineering circles around 2018, as a natural evolution of monitoring practices. By bringing together the raw outputs of metrics, events, logs, and traces, software developers could start to gain a […]

February 17, 2021

The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) team announced today that Dapr v1.0 is now available and is considered production-ready. Dapr is an open-source, portable, event-driven runtime that allows developers to build resilient, microservices-based, stateless, and stateful applications that run on the […]

February 16, 2021

Google Cloud has donated $350,000 to the Python Software Foundation, with the goals of aiding CPython development, improving foundational Python tools, and beefing up the security of the Python package ecosystem. Three specific projects will be supported by the donation, […]

February 12, 2021

What is Quarkus?Quarkus is a full-stack, Kubernetes-native Java framework made for Java virtual machines (JVMs) and native compilation. Quarkus optimizes Java specifically for containers and enables it to become an effective platform for serverless, cloud, and Kubernetes environments. Instead of […]