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Download the ‘New Thinking about Cloud Computing’ Enterprise Spotlight

In this issue: Cloud computing is highly established, and IT’s view has shifted from understanding the concept to making the best use of it to solve both technology and business challenges. The time is ripe to step back and revisit your thinking about the cloud.

By InfoWorld and CIO.com staff

Jun 2, 2025 1 min

Cloud ComputingIT Strategy

7 ways to improve your AI coding results

Leading software developers suggest a combination of new skills and tactics to improve the effectiveness of working with AI.

By Bill Doerrfeld

Jun 2, 2025 9 mins

Artificial IntelligenceDevelopment ToolsGenerative AI

Demystifying serverless in the modern data and AI landscape

It’s time to clarify misperceptions and examine what serverless really looks like, especially in a world increasingly shaped by AI and the need for rapid innovation and scaling.

By Artin Avanes

Jun 2, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AIServerless Computing

Docling: An open-source tool kit for advanced document processing

Docling uses state-of-the-art models for layout analysis and table structure recognition to transform unstructured documents into formats readily consumable by modern AI systems.

By Janakiram MSV

May 29, 2025 6 mins

Development Libraries and FrameworksGenerative AIOpen Source

AI didn’t kill Stack Overflow

How the groundbreaking developer forum moderated itself into oblivion.

By Matthew Tyson

May 28, 2025 9 mins

DeveloperGenerative AITechnology Industry

Lessons from building retrieval systems for AI assistants

Getting retrieval-augmented generation right requires a deep understanding of embedding models, similarity metrics, chunking, and retrieval techniques. Here’s a brief guide.

By Shaurya Pednekar

May 27, 2025 10 mins

Artificial IntelligenceGenerative AISoftware Development

Multicloud developer lessons from the trenches

Experts offer advice on strategically approaching multicloud development, from balancing features from disparate clouds to mastering observability and automation.

By Josh Fruhlinger

May 26, 2025 11 mins

Cloud ComputingDeveloperMulticloud

InfluxDB’s new model for time series workloads

The embedded Python Processing Engine in InfluxDB 3 allows developers to write Python code that analyzes and acts on time series data in real time.

By Pete Barnett

May 26, 2025 6 mins

DatabasesNoSQL DatabasesSoftware Development

What is Markdown? Lightweight text formatting for human beings

With Markdown, writing HTML-formatted documents is as easy as writing plain text. Software developers use it, but so do many others.

By Serdar Yegulalp

May 21, 2025 8 mins

HTMLSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Putting agentic AI to work in Firebase Studio

Building a database-backed web application with Gemini in Firebase is far from perfect, but it’s better than coding without AI.

By Matthew Tyson

May 21, 2025 14 mins

Generative AIIntegrated Development EnvironmentsJavaScript

The best Java certifications for software developers

Yes, Java certification is still worth it, but it pays to know which ones will help you stand out. Here's what you need to know about Java course certificates and hiring in 2025.

By Bob Violino

May 19, 2025 10 mins

CertificationsDeveloperJava

How we replaced Azure Redis with Memcached

Although we had to implement a self-healing cache mechanism directly within our application, switching to Memcached saves us $5,000 per month.

By Sachin Suryawanshi

May 19, 2025 5 mins

Cloud ComputingMicrosoft AzureNoSQL Databases

JDK 25: The new features in Java 25

Long-term support release due in September has been frozen at 18 features, ranging from stable values and structured concurrency to ahead-of-time method profiling and JFR CPU-time profiling on Linux.

Jun 6, 2025 12 mins

Java Programming Languages Software Development

Spring Java creator unveils AI agent framework for the JVM

With the Embabel agent framework, written in Kotlin, Rod Johnson aims not only to catch up with Python agent frameworks, but to leapfrog them.

Jun 6, 2025 3 mins

Generative AI Java Kotlin

JavaScript innovation and the culture of programming

JavaScript tools and frameworks thrive and evolve in an ecosystem that is equal parts competitive and collaborative. This month, we showcase some of the best examples of technology innovation in JavaScript.

Jun 6, 2025 3 mins

Developer JavaScript Node.js

Decentralized mesh cloud: A promising concept

Less latency and high scalability are great, but does your enterprise have the skills to handle the increased complexity?

Jun 6, 2025 6 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Emerging Technology

Adobe adds Product Support Agent for AI-assisted troubleshooting

The new operational troubleshooting agent is part of a planned suite of AI agents powered by the Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator.

Jun 5, 2025 2 mins

Artificial Intelligence Emerging Technology Generative AI

Snowflake: Latest news and insights

Stay up-to-date on how Snowflake and its underlying architecture has changed how cloud developers, data managers and data scientists approach cloud data management and analytics

Jun 5, 2025 3 mins

Cloud Architecture Cloud Computing Cloud Management

Workday’s new dev tools help enterprises connect with external agents

Among the additions are some improvements to Workday’s Developer Copilot, which can now generate application code snippets, data queries, and functional orchestrations.

Jun 5, 2025 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Software Development

How to test your Java applications with JUnit 5

Learn how to write and validate unit tests with JUnit 5. This article shows you how to configure a Maven project for JUnit, write basic and parameterized unit tests, and use JUnit 5’s built-in assertions, annotations, and tags.

Jun 5, 2025 19 mins

App Testing Development Tools Java

Automating devops with Azure SRE Agent

Microsoft delivers another internal AI tool for the rest of us that adds agents to workflows and site reliability engineering.

Jun 5, 2025 8 mins

Devops Generative AI Microsoft Azure

AI is powering enterprise development, GitHub says

Teams will get better at devops with agents, which help developers with tasks ranging from fixing bugs to performing dependency upgrades, according to GitHub.

Jun 4, 2025 2 mins

Development Tools Generative AI GitHub

Snowflake customers must choose between performance and flexibility

Snowflake’s Gen 2 warehouses promise increased performance, while its Adaptive Warehouses will fit to data demands, but enterprises can’t have both at once.

Jun 4, 2025 4 mins

Cloud Computing Data Warehousing

JavaScript promises: 4 gotchas and how to avoid them

Promises, handlers, and chains are foundations of modern JavaScript, but they can be tricky. Here are four common traps to watch out for.

Jun 4, 2025 8 mins

JavaScript Programming Languages Software Development

New to Rust? Don’t make these common mistakes

Learning a new language is challenging, but it doesn’t need to break you. With Rust, knowing what to avoid is just as important as knowing what to do.

Jun 4, 2025 5 mins

Programming Languages Rust Software Development

Naming is easy! A guide for developers

Naming things properly, completely, and clearly is a huge part of writing good code. And if you avoid these traps, it’s easy.

Jun 4, 2025 7 mins

Careers Developer Software Development

Kotlin cozies up to Spring Framework

Kotlin creator JetBrains aims to make the popular JVM language a top choice for server-side development.

Jun 3, 2025 2 mins

Java Kotlin Programming Languages

Snowflake acquires Crunchy Data for enterprise-grade PostgreSQL to counter Databricks’ Neon buy

Analysts say that the chess match between Snowflake and Databricks isn’t about big data analytics anymore, but about becoming the 'AI-native data foundation unifying analytics, operational storage, and machine learning.'

Jun 3, 2025 5 mins

Artificial Intelligence Developer PostgreSQL

Snowflake takes aim at legacy data workloads with SnowConvert AI migration tools

With the free agent-based suite of migration tools, Snowflake says enterprises can move workloads without increasing complexity.

Jun 3, 2025 3 mins

Data Management Data Warehousing

C# 14 introduces file-based apps

New capability in .NET 10 Preview 4 allows developers to run a stand-alone C# file directly, without requiring a project file or project structure.