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Why would you want to use the Go language? Basically, it’s a concise, simple, safe, and fast compiled language with…

The Flatpak framework for distributing Linux desktop applications is now in prodaction release, after three years of beta status. The…

Microsoft’s Azure platform services have always offered support for microservices. In fact, Azure Service Fabric has been there from the…

Gartner’s latest quarterly report “Emerging Risks Report” surveyed 110 senior executives about risk, audit, finance, and compliance at large global…

Java Developmemnt Kit (JDK) 11 is just around the corner. The first release candidate has arrived, and the final release…

Automation of business processes and workflows is of paramount importance in today’s enterprises. With the increase in demand for cloud…

As I discussed in my review of Google Cloud Bigtable in 2016, Google’s 2006 Bigtable paper inspired several large-scale distributed…

Being the creator of JavaScript has been a blessing and a curse for Brendan Eich. On the one hand, JavaScript…

“It works.” That’s a term used to go right along with “success,” but these days it means that you’ve gotten…

What do Russian trolls, Facebook, and US elections have to do with machine learning? Recommendation engines are at the heart…

Oracle and Intel are developing a Java API to add first-class vector, or SIMD (single instruction, multiple data), support to…

Fog computing is picking up steam as a buzzword in the tech world, often used in comparison to cloud or…

Big data remains a game for the 1 percent. Or the 15 percent, as new O’Reilly survey data suggests. According…

The rise of Kubernetes has significantly simplified the deployment and operation of cloud-native applications. An important part of that experience…

Oracle has developed an open source specification for transmitting tensor data, which the company wants to become a standard for machine…