Spencer Czapiewski October 1, 2024 – 4:42pm Anika Martynowych Director, Product Management Earlier in my career, I was an admin for a massive e-commerce leader with an equally massive Tableau deployment. I loved the flexibility and manageability of Tableau Server, but I didn’t love managing updates and troubleshooting performance issues. A migration to Tableau Cloud would…
Java Development Kit (JDK) 23 having arrived September 17, work already has begun on JDK 24, with two features so far proposed for the release: warnings to prepare developers for future restrictions on the use of JNI (Java Native Interface) and a late barrier expansion for the G1 garbage collector. A multitude of other features,…
The conductor of my choir famously tells us singers, “I only want everything all the time.” Well, as a developer, my mantra for code editors and IDEs (integrated development environments) is exactly that: I only want everything all the time. What’s “everything” in this context in 2024? It has to be fast enough not to…
Microclouds can have many names and offer many features. They can be hosted by a regional cloud provider or specialize in a specific use case, such as the rise of GPU cloud providers focusing on the exploding AI space. They could even be clouds that don’t have an international presence and are instead located in…
As AI models become increasingly commoditized, the data required to train and fine-tune them has never been more critical. While procuring high-quality data is expensive and raises privacy concerns, there is a powerful alternative that companies like Google and JPMorgan are exploring: synthetic data. As enterprises move beyond experimenting with general-purpose models to fine-tuning their…
If all code is legacy code, then we are all maintainers. I carry an image in my head of a vast sea of silent, diligent, dedicated coders who silently maintain much of the code that makes the world go round. I carry this image because I am one of those coders. For the better part of the…
JRuby, which dates back to 2001 as a Ruby language implementation for the JVM, is set to arrive at version 10 shortly after the new year. JRuby 10 promises to be fully compatible with Ruby 3.4.0, a planned update to Ruby that brings changes for frozen string literals and class updates. JRuby 10 will also support…
Large Language Models (LLMs) have a serious “package hallucination” problem that could lead to a wave of maliciously-coded packages in the supply chain, researchers have discovered in one of the largest and most in-depth ever studies to investigate the problem. It’s so bad, in fact, that across 30 different tests, the researchers found that 440,445…
Zenlytic, a fast-emerging self-service business intelligence (BI) platform, has announced the successful closure of a $9 million early-stage funding round. Funds from this Series A round will be used to fuel its ambitions of bringing artificial intelligence-powered BI to every office worker. This investment will support the company’s growth by enhancing its platform capabilities and…
Zenlytic, a fast-emerging self-service business intelligence (BI) platform, has announced the successful closure of a $9 million early-stage funding round. Funds from this Series A round will be used to fuel its ambitions of bringing artificial intelligence-powered BI to every office worker. This investment will support the company’s growth by enhancing its platform capabilities and…
