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Low-Code Platforms and the Rise of the Community Developer: Lots of Solutions, or Lots of Problems?

Low-code platforms are the hottest enterprise software category right now. With the current level of investment, it is hard to imagine a future that doesn’t feature lots of bespoke business apps being built by non-IT staff for use by their teams. Visibility of low code solutions is the key to managing risk.

Doug Hudgeon
on Feb 02, 2021
Cloud

AI No Silver Bullet for Cloud Security, But Here’s How It Can Help

In this article, the author looks at the real role of artificial intelligence in cloud security – the hype, the reality, and how we can resolve the gap between them. He encourages the reader to focus on making cloud security platforms that allow humans to provide truly intelligent threat responses, rather than relying on the machines to do it for us.

Bernard Brode
on Feb 01, 2021
Emerging Technologies

The Brain is Neither a Neural Network Nor a Computer: Book Review of The Biological Mind

Underlying much of artificial intelligence research is the idea that the essence of an individual resides in the brain. This is contrary to neuroscience which has discovered that a brain cannot work independently from the body and its environment. Understanding this enables us see what is reasonable to expect from artificial intelligence, as well as technology designed to improve human life.

Michael Stiefel
on Jan 29, 2021
Java

Enhanced Streams Processing with Kotlin’s Sequence Interface

Data structures are an intrinsic part of every programming language, yet Java’s Stream interface lacks vital operations and its complex approach to extensibility gave rise to alternative libraries such as jOOλ and Guava. This article provides an alternative approach that can be easily integrated in any Java project using Kotlin's Sequence interface.

Diogo Poeira Miguel Gamboa
on Jan 27, 2021
Cloud

Performance Analysis for Arm vs x86 CPUs in the Cloud

In this article, the author uses AWS’s Arm (Graviton2) and x86_64 (Intel) EC2 instances to evaluate computational performance across different software runtimes, including Docker, Node.js, and WebAssembly. Our conclusion is that Arm is more cost effective in the cloud, especially with lightweight runtimes that are close to the underlying operating system.

Michael Yuan
on Jan 25, 2021
Development

The Kollected Kode Vicious Review and Author Q&A

Addison Wesley Professional The Kollected Kode Vicious by George V. Neville-Neil aims to provide thoughtful and pragmatic insight into programming to both experienced and younger software professionals on a variety of different topics related to programming. InfoQ has taken the chance to speak with author Neville-Neil about his book.

Sergio De Simone George V. Neville-Neil
on Jan 21, 2021
Development

Donkey: a Highly-Performant HTTP Stack for Clojure

Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant Clojure HTTP stack aimed to scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and save us computing costs. In this article, we’ll briefly outline the use-case for a library like Donkey and present our benchmarks. Finally, we will discuss Clojure and immutability, and some of our design decisions.

Yaron Elyashiv
on Jan 12, 2021
Web Development

Writing Firebase Apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux Using Electron

Electron-Firebase provides a quickstart framework for building cloud-connected applications on Windows, macOS, and Linux. By integrating Electron and Firebase, just a few configuration settings allow you to include a complete authentication workflow into your app using email/password, phone number, Google, Facebook, or many other identity providers.

David Asher
on Jan 06, 2021
Development

Go Language at 13 Years: Ecosystem, Evolution, and Future in Conversation with Steve Francia

Go was started more than a decade ago in the Engineering department at Google. It was designed with the purpose of providing an easy-to-learn programming language that would allow to develop Google's systems at the next level. In the past decade, the language became more and more stable, currently being used for implementing some of the most popular tools on the web (Kubernetes, Terraform etc.).

Olimpiu Pop Steve Francia
on Dec 30, 2020
Development

InfoQ 2020 Recap, Editor Recommendations, and Best Content of the Year

As 2020 is coming to an end, we created this article listing some of the best posts published this year. This collection was hand-picked by nine InfoQ Editors recommending the greatest posts in their domain. It's a great piece to make sure you don't miss out on some of the InfoQ's best content.

Leandro Guimarães Arthur Casals Charles Humble Daniel Bryant Johan Janssen Manuel Pais Renato Losio Shane Hastie Steef-Jan Wiggers Thomas Betts
on Dec 28, 2020
Architecture & Design

Reviewing the Microservices Architecture: Impacts, Operational Complexity, and Alternatives

Wes Reisz moderated a roundtable with Leif Beaton (NGINX senior solutions architect), Yan Cui (independent AWS and serverless consultant), and Nicky Wrightson (Skyscanner principal engineer), discussing topics around the microservices approach. The panelists shared their experience on it, analyzing the impact of microservices, challenges in dealing with operational complexity, and alternatives.

Wesley Reisz Yan Cui Leif Beaton Nicky Wrightson
on Dec 23, 2020
Culture & Methods

Do You Think Like a Lawyer, a Scientist, or an Engineer?

Law, science, and engineering offer three distinct approaches to logical thinking. Each is important in different circumstances, and in practice, we can use all three. How much understanding and control do you have of a situation? Do you simply need to follow the rules? Are you operating in a world of uncertainty and volatility? Or are you building and defining the rules as you go along?

Andrew Davis
on Dec 22, 2020

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