These days, Java 9 developers have their hands full with Jigsaw but that doesn’t mean the community is sitting around doing nothing until September. They took Java 9 for a spin and discovered that not all Java 8 code reacts well to Java 9.

Databases might not seem that interesting, but that’s all about to change. Today, we’re taking a good look at a new database on the scene, PumpkinDB. Although this new event sourcing database engine is just getting started, we’re fascinated by what we can see so far.

There’s no magic wand to make a company become better at DevOps. Leadership from management is necessary. In this article, Anton Weiss goes over the history of DevOps, what makes a good leader, and how managers can lead their teams towards a better and brighter DevOps future.

In this article, Justin Theiss, Senior Backend Java Developer at Neofonie Mobile explains how microservices can — if used correctly — offer a wide range of flexibility in deciding how to best utilize a project’s resources.

Douglas Adams got it all wrong, it seems. The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is not 42 — it’s blockchain, some will argue. Can the technology behind Bitcoin transform the world or should we take it with a grain of salt? We invited seven blockchain influencers to weigh in on its value and look beyond the hype.

Frameworks are the cutting-edge option in tech right now. But how are they taking over from traditional programming languages? In this article, Rick Delgado explains why we’ll all be using frameworks for computing in the future.

A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Macaron may sound like a delicious French dessert but this idea couldn’t be further from the truth. Macaron is a highly productive and modular web framework in Go which takes basic ideology from Martini and extends in advance. Plus, the logo is a dragon called Maca (there’s an explanation for that!).

The results of the Kotlin future features survey are here. Respondents were asked to nominate three most expected features, as well as one feature that they would like to be banned (optional). Let’s see what Kotlin users want to keep or ditch.

Two decades after its release, Java is still developers’ darling. In this post, you will get to know the real reasons that have kept Java secure and away from retirement.

It’s decided! There’s only one way to end the tabs v spaces war and that’s by adding money to the equation. Stack Overflow has just released the raw data of its annual Developer Survey and it seems that the fate of the war between the two camps has been decided: developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs.

The Go releases go like clockwork — every six months, there’s a new release and 1.9 is almost here. Although most of the changes are in the implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries, there is also one change to the language, adding support for type aliases.

Our programming pub quiz series is back. This week, we’re testing your knowledge about JavaScript. Do you know everything there is to know about this old favorite?

In this article, Sven Efftinge shows us how to implement a Language Server for an arbitrary domain-specific language (DSL) using Eclipse Xtext and then run it in an IDE.

The folks over at Hazelcast are at it again. Open source in-memory data grid Hazelcast has just announced the 0.4 update for Hazelcast Jet, an application-embeddable, distributed processing engine for big data stream and batch.