How personalization crashed BBC iPlayer at the height of lockdown, and how it was fixed
Manisha Lopes, principal software engineer at the BBC, spoke to developers at QCon London this week, describing how […]
Wasm-based Spin 1.0 released to address ‘limitations of serverless’
Fermyon has released Spin 1.0, the first stable version of its open source tool for compiling applications to […]
Microsoft’s Leslie Miley, technical advisor to the CTO, warns devs of both bias in AI and its environmental cost
QCon London kicked off this week, opening with a sombre keynote from Leslie Miley, Microsoft technical advisor to […]
Despite OpenJDK, 70% of Java fixes and features come from Oracle, Big Red says
Oracle has released Java 20, and says that since Java 11 in 2018 it has contributed over 70% […]
Microsoft’s Visual Basic: Why it won, and why it had to die
Developer Alan Cooper conceived Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) as a “shell construction kit,” according to a new history […]
Polyglot Notebooks fully released for VS Code, with support for multiple languages – not including Python
Microsoft has declared the Polyglot Notebooks extension to Visual Studio Code ready for business, enabling multiple programming languages […]
AWS previews Mountpoint, a specialized open source Rust client to mount S3 storage into the file system
Interview AWS has introduced Mountpoint, an open source client for Linux that connects to S3 (Simple Storage Service) […]
Tainted PHP code? JetBrains Qodana has a new detection feature
JetBrains has released a taint analysis feature for PHP in preview, via its early access programme. A “taint”, […]