Ktor 3.0, the latest version of the Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous client- and server-side applications, is now available. Ktor 3.0 switches to the kotlinx.io library for handling data sources. The release also highlights support for server-sent events (SSE). The JetBrains Ktor 3.0 technology, announced October 10, can be accessed from start.ktor.io. The biggest change…
Developers and software engineers face mounting pressure to balance rapid innovation with safety and security, says software provider BlackBerry Limited. The company released the results of its survey of 1,000 embedded software developers and engineers worldwide on October 8. The survey found growing tensions between meeting tight project deadlines and maintaining functional safety, according to…
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of October 11, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines…
Sustainability was once a highly touted advantage in public cloud computing. Enterprises and cloud providers flaunted their green initiatives, promoting data centers powered by renewable energy that would reduce carbon footprints. This topic has quietly slipped off the radar in recent months. The culprit? The insatiable demand for artificial intelligence capabilities that is pushing the…
The latest installment in our Q&A series with women leaders in data features Rosaria Silipo, head of data science evangelism at KNIME. (Read our previous Q&A here.) Rosaria Silipo, Ph.D., has worked in data analytics and data science for the past 30-plus years. Currently the head of data science evangelism at KNIME (as well as a longtime DATAVERSITY…
Companies that are data-driven demonstrate improved business performance. McKinsey says that data and analytics can provide EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) increases of up to 25% [1]. According to MIT, digitally mature firms are 26% more profitable than their peers [2]. Forrester research found that organizations using data are three times more…
College athletic recruiting is the Wild West these days. From NIL money and the (wide) opening of the transfer portal, to conference realignment and now the end of the national letters of intent program, the process of matching millions of amateur athletes with 2,800 college sports programs has turned into a free-for-all. But that chaos…
TypeScript 5.7, the latest planned release of Microsoft’s JavaScript variant with syntax for types, is now available as a beta release. With the update, the language’s type system is now able to report errors when variables have never been initialized. Introduced October 9, the TypeScript 5.7 beta can be accessed through NPM using the command…
Lightdash, a business intelligence (BI) platform and open-source alternative to Google’s Locker, announced it has raised $11 million in an early-stage funding round to integrate artificial intelligence into BI solutions. The new funding will be used to accelerate product development and build additional technical features and functionality to make it easier to adopt self-service AI-powered…
Generics are used in Java to allow types or methods to operate on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety. Generics address the problem of ClassCastExceptions being thrown at runtime as a result of code that is not type safe. In this Java 101: Learn Java article, I introduce you to generics and…
