Node.js 17 has been released. The latest version of the popular JavaScript runtime brings more “promisified” APIs and support for OpenSSL 3.0.Downloadable from the Node.js website, Node.js 17 follows a [...]

Google has always delivered cloud computing a bit differently. Filled with propellerhead engineers, Google Cloud sometimes seemed to be building for über geeks like itself. Early customers included Snap and [...]

Presto is an open source, distributed SQL engine for online analytical processing that runs in clusters. Presto can query a wide variety of data sources, from files to databases, and [...]

Red Hat has launched Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2, an update to Red Hat’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform that offers tighter integration with the company’s OpenShift Kubernetes container system.With the new integration, [...]

Based on the feedback here and from social media, this post about being a cloud architectural generalist, not a specialist hit a few nerves. For a long time I’ve said [...]

TypeScript 4.5, a planned upgrade to Microsoft’s strongly typed language based on JavaScript, is set to support ECMAScript modules in Node.js.TypeScript 4.5 became available as a beta release on October [...]

One of Python’s long-standing weaknesses, its inability to scale well in multithreaded environments, is the target of a new proposal among the core developers of the popular programming language.Developer Sam [...]

Dependency injection (also known as DI) is a design pattern in which an object receives the objects it depends on rather than creating them directly. Dependency injection facilitates loose coupling [...]

Visual Studio Code 1.61, introduced October 7, introduces the ability to open side-by-side editors for the same file.The new split editor functionality is enabled by a “Split in Group” command, [...]