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Cassandra 4.1 makes the distributed database built for internet companies easier to configure and manage for new users, and delivers new storage, network encryption, and authentication options. ACID transactions are on the way.
Flexera’s annual survey of cloud decision-makers tracks the top priorities and challenges of cloud-using companies, and the latest trends in the public, private, and multicloud market. Here are the highlights of the 2023 report.
The WebAssembly component model lays the groundwork for a language-agnostic component system, one that allows any Wasm application to use components written in any programming language.
New data engine architectures such as Speedb boost metadata performance, reduce latency, accelerate search time, and optimize CPU consumption. Here’s how.
Data engines such as RocksDB are playing an increasingly important role in preventing metadata-access bottlenecks that may impact the performance of large-scale systems. Here’s what you need to know.
One of the primary reasons companies fail to innovate is that they are locked into a specific vendor’s technology. Watch out for these pitfalls.
Document databases offer a wonderfully flexible data model that often leads to scaling and performance issues. Here’s how Aerospike overcomes these challenges.
Edge computing is about distributing data storage and processing. A next-gen, edge-ready database is key to keeping data consistent and in sync across the cloud, edge, and client tiers.
The latest release of the unified database for transactional and analytical processing brings real-time analytics for JSON data, Wasm support, dynamic scaling, and security and UX improvements.
React-based frameworks that render web pages on the server could paradoxically be the future of front-end development. Here’s why.
Data science is already a vital element of a successful business. Before long it will be part of every application, and AI will be embedded in every transaction workflow.
The primary benefit of healthy engineering culture is predictability—the ability to ship high-quality software on time, reliably and repeatedly. It flows from the bottom up.
Internet users want control over their data and visibility into how their data is being used. An evolution of today’s web, already mapped out by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, can provide both.
The compactor handles critical post-ingestion and pre-query workloads in the background on a separate server, enabling low latency for data ingestion and high performance for queries.
Retaining engineering talent will be a top priority in the coming year. And traditional developer productivity management approaches will be kicked to the curb.
Deduplication is an effective alternative to transactions for eventually consistent use cases of a distributed database. Here’s why.
Billions of connected devices need to communicate and move data effectively across networks and cloud platforms. Here’s why MQTT is the standard protocol.
Autoregressive moving average models have a number of advantages including simplicity. Here’s how to use an ARMA model with InfluxDB.
XGBoost is a popular open source machine learning library that can be used to solve all kinds of prediction problems. Here’s how to use XGBoost with InfluxDB.
Business analysts are running into the limits of BI tools and looking for ways to do more advanced analytics. Python is the way forward.
PostgreSQL was built to handle a wide range of use cases, but flexibility also has a flip side. Make sure you’re not making these all-too-common design, configuration, tuning, and other mistakes.
Instead of restricting which open source software can be sold, Microsoft should eliminate ambiguity in its Microsoft Store policy and reaffirm the rights of developers to sell their work.
Thoroughly tested on PostgreSQL 15.1, EDB’s new tools optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and operability. Here are the highlights.
While Kubernetes container management is key to digital transformation, Kubernetes talent is in short supply. Follow these 4 strategies of successful companies to fill the gap.
The storied history of web-scale problems offers lessons for operators of increasingly complex IT environments.
Although a serious engineering challenge, database vectorization delivers orders-of-magnitude performance boosts for a real-time analytics engine such as StarRocks. Here’s how we did it.
Schema design, indexes, queries, configs, I/O... what could go wrong? Follow these 10 essential tips to keep your MySQL servers humming.
Whether on the server or on the edge, Wasm lets you create custom logic that runs much closer to the data than it could before. And you can do it securely, efficiently, and with greater flexibility.
Proprietary software isn’t evil, but open source is a remarkable force for good. The transparent, community-driven approach to development is driving innovation in every industry today.
JFrog used Xray Container Contextual Analysis to scan the 200 most popular community images in Docker Hub, then tallied the results for the 10 most common CVEs. 78% were not exploitable.
JFrog’s new Xray Secrets Detection uncovered active access tokens in popular open-source software registries including Docker, npm, and PyPI. Here are our findings and takeaways.
A new paradigm for continuous delivery is emerging that enables it to serve as the foundation for improving devops and increasing development productivity.
Despite the duopoly of the current app marketplace, businesses should not be maintaining two development teams. Flutter and cross-platform apps are the future.
Developer-first security is the future in the cloud. Because the responsibility for cloud security rests with developers and devops teams, not IT security.
Bringing WebAssembly and OCI containers together could enable us to run the same container image on any hardware or operating system we want—wherever it runs best, fastest, or cheapest.
Granular visibility can help enterprises keep cloud costs in check. Follow these best practices when using monitoring methods to control Kubernetes-related spending.
An immutable package registry on the blockchain offers an opportunity for fairly compensating open source developers based on their contributions.
COBOL Colleague uses symbolic machine learning and static analysis to help developers understand and maintain COBOL source code. The same technology could be applied to other programming languages.
Event-driven architecture allows developers to create powerful, real-time digital experiences. Ably’s edge messaging platform helps them deliver these experiences at scale.
Apache Iceberg is an open table format that offers scalability, usability, and performance advantages for very large data sets. Here are five reasons Iceberg is optimal for cloud data workloads.
The next stage of cloud computing brings computing power closer to users, paving the way to better user experiences and more intelligent applications.
A full-stack networking platform with machine learning, autonomous capabilities, and multicloud support allows devops engineers to focus on what matters most—building applications.
Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works.
Rather than punt database design decisions to a cloud service or third-party provider, understand what you want to achieve and how best to deliver on that goal.
The most dangerous security holes are often the most basic. Start improving your Kubernetes security posture by fixing these simple mistakes.
Security teams need a standard set of processes for locking down roots of trust for software artifacts, and developers need a clear path to balance open source selection against security policies. Open source has answers.
Every day, software developers implicitly trust software packages, container images, dependency maintainers, repository operators, and build systems that we don’t know anything about. It’s the opposite of Zero Trust.
Great API documentation is essential to a good developer experience. But your documentation should be great for non-developers too.
SingleStoreDB unifies transactions and analytics in the same engine to power real-time, data-intensive applications. Here’s what’s new.
Artificial intelligence unlocks the true potential of IoT by enabling networks and devices to learn from past decisions, predict future activity, and continuously improve performance and decision-making capabilities.