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  • According to Forrester’s Infrastructure Cloud Survey in 2023, 79% of about 1,300 enterprise cloud decision-makers surveyed said their organizations are implementing private clouds. Additionally, IDC forecasts that global spending on private, dedicated cloud services, including hosted private clouds, will hit $20.4 billion in 2024 and will at least double by 2027.In addition, global spending on […]
  • The next version of the Ruby programming language, Ruby 3.4.0, has been released in preview, bringing changes for string literals and class updates.Unveiled May 16, the Ruby 3.4.0 preview is downloadable from ruby-lang.org. With this update, string literals in files without a frozen_string_literal comment now behave as if they were frozen. If mutated, a deprecation […]
  • IBM is expanding Qiskit, its quantum computing software, into a comprehensive software stack that includes middleware, serverless building blocks, and generative AI coding assistance. The company says the platform for building, optimizing, and executing programs on IBM quantum systems will also deliver better performance.Announced May 15, the intiative builds on the Qiskit SDK 1.x, combining […]
  • When we set out to rebuild the engine at the heart of our managed Apache Kafka service, we knew we needed to address several unique requirements that characterize successful cloud-native platforms. These systems must be multi-tenant from the ground up, scale easily to serve thousands of customers, and be managed largely by data-driven software rather […]
  • In May 1974, Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce published a paper on SEQUEL, a structured query language that could be used to manage and sort data. After a change in title due to another company’s copyright on the word SEQUEL, Structured Query Language (SQL) was taken up by database companies like Oracle alongside their new-fangled […]
  • Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to improve the Azure APIs. That project delivered a set of automatically generated API definitions and SDKs, making it easier to link your applications to the cloud and to manage Azure services using code.Behind the scenes was a new language Microsoft developed called CADL, the […]
  • Java's equals() and hashcode() are two methods that work together to verify if two objects have the same value. You can use them to make object comparisons easy and efficient in your Java programs.Java equals() and hashcode() In this article, you'll learn: Why override equals() and hashcode() in Java? How to compare Java objects with […]