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Cloud is a good fit for modern applications, but most enterprise workloads aren’t exactly modern. Security problems and unmet expectations are sending companies packing. Don’t look now, but 25% of organizations surveyed in the United Kingdom have already moved half or more of their cloud-based workloads back to on-premises infrastructures. This is according to a recent study by Citrix, a Cloud Sof

If you’re a software developer today—or a cloud engineer, or a data scientist, or anyone who works with code—then open source software is like the air that you breathe. But open source wasn’t always so ubiquitous. Twenty or thirty years ago, when “free software” was just getting started, open source projects were unusual, and the people who created them were generally academics, researchers, or ec

InfoWorld’s 2021 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s best open source software for software development, devops, data analytics, and machine learning. Money may not grow on trees, but it does grow in GitHub repos. Open source projects produce the most valuable and sophisticated software on the planet, free for the taking, dramatically lowering the costs of information technology for all companies.

A new project to change the CPython runtime to boost multithreaded performance has drawn the attention of Python’s core development team. One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to scale well in multithreaded environments, is the target of a new proposal among the core developers of the popular programming language. Developer Sam Gross has proposed a major change to the Global Inte

The Rustacean Principles are more than feel-good ideas. They are a key part of why developers keep giving Rust the crown. Despite its name, the Rust programming language has never looked so shiny and new. Way back in 2016, Stack Overflow’s annual survey of developers crowned Rust the “most loved” programming language. They voted their love again in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. Presumably, whe

The game changing container company is a shell of its former self. What happened to one of the hottest enterprise technology businesses of the cloud era? Docker didn’t invent containers—the method of packaging up computer code into compact units that could be easily ported from laptop to server to server—but it did take them mainstream by creating a common set of open source tooling and reusable i

The non-profit defender of software freedom has raised questions about the fairness, legitimacy, and legality of GitHub’s AI-driven coding assistant. GitHub Copilot, a Visual Studio Code extension that uses artificial intelligence to help developers write code, has drawn the ire of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which is calling for white papers that address legal and philosophical questions

The decline of Heroku Even Heroku’s founders recognize that the revolutionary web development platform has run out of steam. How did Heroku lose its magic, and could a new, modern Heroku revive the PaaS? Heroku has long been held up as the gold-standard platform as a service (PaaS) for software developers to easily deploy their code without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure, whil

The deep learning framework PyTorch has infiltrated the enterprise thanks to its relative ease of use. Three companies tell us why they chose PyTorch over Google’s renowned TensorFlow framework. A subcategory of machine learning, deep learning uses multi-layered neural networks to automate historically difficult machine tasks—such as image recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and machin

‘Kubernetes Rust kubelets’ allow you to run WebAssembly workloads on Kubernetes alongside containers Microsoft’s Deis Labs recently announced an intriguing direction for Kubernetes, one that offers a new, sandboxed environment for our code. Building on the increasingly popular WebAssembly, Krustlet is a tool for delivering Kubernetes-managed workloads to WebAssembly runtimes, with a v0.1.0 release

Amazon Neptune review: A scalable graph database for OLTP Amazon’s graph database service offers ACID properties, immediate consistency, and auto-scaling storage for billions of relationships Graph databases, such as Neo4j, Apache Spark GraphX, DataStax Enterprise Graph, IBM Graph, JanusGraph, TigerGraph, AnzoGraph, the graph portion of Azure Cosmos DB, and the subject of this review, Amazon Neptu

Sorry, Linux. Kubernetes is now the OS that matters Linux is just plumbing. The real OS—the real value—is with Kubernetes The operating system no longer really matters. And for developers and the cloud, that means that Linux no longer really matters. You can see proof of that in what has not happened. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has not gotten a $34 billion buyout offer from IBM, even th

Kubeflow brings Kubernetes to machine learning workloads New Kubernetes project works with the TensorFlow library to ease machine learning deployments Now in beta, the open source Kubeflow project aims to help deploy a machine learning stack on the Kubernetes container orchestration system. The Kubeflow machine learning toolkit project is intended to help deploy machine learning workloads across m

Kubernetes has added many layers of support for building stateful applications and managing them at scale. It’s only a start The widespread misconception that Kubernetes was not ready for stateful applications such as MySQL and MongoDB has had a surprisingly long half-life. This misconception has been driven by a combination of the initial focus on stateless applications within the community and t

Java's handling of arrays and a few other language elements may surprise you While learning Java, you’ll occasionally encounter a language behavior that leaves you puzzled. For example, what does expression new int[10] instanceof Object returning true signify about arrays? In this post, I’ll examine some of Java’s language oddities. Arrays are objects A long time ago, while writing about message f

Why Microsoft’s Cosmos DB may displace AWS’s cloud databases Cosmos DB’s all-in-one-approach seems to be what developers really want, rather than an array of specific tools like AWS DynamoDB, Redshift, and Aurora You might have gone into an alcohol-induced hibernation over the holidays, but cloud databases did not. More specifically, the cumbersomely named Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB did not, rocket

Love Python? JavaScript, not so much? Here are seven tools that turn Python to JavaScript for use in web applications. Python or JavaScript? While we’re still arguing over which has the upper hand or the brighter future, little doubt exists as to which owns the web’s front end. Until WebAssembly advances to the point where we can transparently compile other languages to use in the browser, it’s Ja

Get functional! 5 open source frameworks for serverless computing Want to light up your own function-as-a-service platform? Here are 5 open source offerings to lead the way Sometimes all you need is a single function. That’s the idea behind serverless computing, where individual functions spin up on demand, perform a minimal piece of work (serve as an API endpoint, return static content, and so on

The Rust-like open source language tackles application development where asynchrony leads to “heisenbugs” and other event complexities Microsoft is positioning its P language as a solution for asynchrony in a world where this capability is becoming increasingly vital for the cloud, artificial intelligence, and embedded systems. Geared to asynchronous event-driven programming, the open source P uni

Multicore Python: A tough, worthy, and reachable goal Python has been held back by its inability to natively use multiple CPU cores. Now Pythonistas are aiming to find a solution For all of Python's great and convenient features, one goal remains out of reach: Python apps running on the CPython reference interpreter and using multiple CPU cores in parallel. This has long been one of Python's bigge

Google App Engine adds C#, Node.js, and Ruby options Google has also moved the Cloud Functions serverless environment to beta release Google is enhancing developer options on two fronts, adding language options to its App Engine PaaS cloud and moving its event-driven computing platform, Cloud Functions, to public beta. It announced the moves at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco. Ap

These libraries help speed up your data pipelines, use AWS Lambda to shred through computation-heavy jobs, and work with TensorFlow models minus TensorFlow Machine learning is exciting, but the work is complex and difficult. It typically involves a lot of manual lifting—assembling workflows and pipelines, setting up data sources, and shunting back and forth between on-prem and cloud-deployed resou

Time is running out for NTP Everyone benefits from Network Time Protocol, but the project struggles to pay its sole maintainer or fund its various initiatives There are two types of open source projects: those with corporate sponsorship and those that fall under the “labor of love” category. Actually, there’s a third variety: projects that get some support but have to keep looking ahead for the ne