Next stop, Java 15! Yes, now that Java 14 is out in the wild, we’ve got our eyes set on the next destination, JDK 15. We will be keeping track of all the Java 15 news throughout its development. It’s a small news roundup today – a release date, another JEP proposed to target and our first confirmed JEP to target Java 15. Let’s take a closer look.
Everywhere you look, the 2020s are going to be an exciting time for developers of all stripes, and the best among them will have their pick of cutting edge projects to work on. See what areas of software development are already changing and will continue to grow.
Time to round up some of the coolest, most interesting, and best open source GitHub repositories that we’ve seen this month. In March 2020, we took a look at a mathematical animation engine, an experimental toolchain from Facebook, and a Kubernetes IDE.
Every month, we take a look back at our top ten most clicked topics. Last month, Java 14 was released, so we interviewed an illustrious round of Java experts to hear their thoughts about the latest release. We also learned about a new JVM language, Concurnas, from its creator, and listed some advantages of using Clojure. And, since developers are in a unique position to help fight the pandemic while working from home, we shared some open source ideas.
We, as software developers, don’t collaborate enough. In this article, we will begin to look at what drives dev team performance, and how our culture has been resistant to adopting a more collaborative approach for historical and competitive reasons.
DevOps is a software development strategy that combines development and operations teams. It typically emphasizes agile methodologies, automation, and continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD). It is designed to produce and release quality software at high speed. In this article, you will learn about various methods of securing your DevOps pipelines.
Women are underrepresented in the tech sector —myth or reality? Three years ago, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we’d like you to meet Gladys Kong, CEO of UberMedia.
With the release of Istio 1.5, the service mesh underwent a remarkable change from a collection of microservices to a single binary, or monolith. We got in touch with some of the Istio team and talked to Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Lin Sun and IBM Distinguished Engineer Daniel Berg about the new update and what the future holds.
The 1.0 version of Eclipse Theia has arrived. Eclipse Theia combines some of the best features of IDEs into one open source extensible platform. To celebrate this milestone, explore some of its stand-out features and see what sets it apart from VS Code.
The DevOps tool GitLab offers paid and free versions, and now 18 additional features will be moved to the open source editions Core/Free. The developer community can contribute to the according issues and speed up the process—so now is the time to take a look and see which of the features you find most important.
Z Garbage Collector has been part of the JDK since Java 11. Since then lots of new features and enhancements have been made to ZGC, resulting in a long time as an experimental feature. However, because no ZGC-specific bugs have been reported in months, JEP 377 proposes to change its status from experimental to production.
When troubleshooting a popular SaaS application running on the Azure cloud, slow-down kept occurring intermittently with no noticeable pattern. This article uncovers the findings after troubleshooting and capturing the thread dump with jstack, so that you too will know what to do with an unresponsive application.
For certain tasks, Jupyter users tend to switch to general-purpose IDEs. Therefore, the Jupyter project has decided to add a new feature that Jupyter users have been missing—a visual debugger in JupyterLab. Let’s take a closer look at the features of the debugging extension’s initial release.
The new beta release for TypeScript mainly focuses on providing stability, bug fixes, and crash-reduction. Thanks to multiple pull requests, TypeScript 3.9 beta reduces its material-ui’s compile time by up to 40%, issues regarding Promises have been fixed, and more.
