15+ hour, 33+ min ago  (673+ words) This week's features are a good balance between the practical - choosing and deploying a new server, with the welcome outcome of a significant cost reduction - and the theoretical with an explanation of the Bloom Filter. Plus a roundup of news…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (375+ words) Apache Pinot 1. 5 has been released with more improvements across the Multi-stage Query Engine, Upsert, a new Federation / Multi-Cluster Routing framework, Time Series Engine enhancements, and new indexing capabilities among other improvements. Pinot is a real-time distributed OLAP datastore that is…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (454+ words) Agent Development Kit (ADK) is an open-source framework from Google, designed to streamline the creation and deployment of multi-agent AI systems. Last year and in "Java Agent Development Kit Goes GA" we witnessed the first steps of the framework: Google…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (243+ words) Apple has seen a 30 percent growth in new apps added to the app store in 2025, reversing the longer term trend that saw submissions fall by 40 percent between 2016 and 2024." Apple denies that overall review times are getting longer, saying that the…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (1042+ words) Jfokus is a large and well-established Java developer conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden, since 2007. We check this year's highlights. Since 2007 a lot has changed in Java's ecosystem, and so has the conference evolved throughout the years. The 2026 edition of the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (390+ words) What you will hear about C++ 26, the latest standard, depends very much on who you ask. Not even committed C++ programmers are happy about everything that has been added, and less than committed C++ programmers are aghast at the extra…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (205+ words) Programming book reviews, programming tutorials, programming news, C#, Ruby, Python, C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. Subtitled "How to get reliable results with React, Next. js, and Vercel", this…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (182+ words) Published this week, the 2026 Stanford HAI AI Index shows that AI models are achieving breakthrough results in science and complex reasoning. AI's workforce disruption has now moved from prediction to reality, hitting young workers first." While reporting on performance breakthroughs,…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (408+ words) The headline of the TIOBE Index for April 2026 is "Rust's rise shows signs of slowing". In the subsequent analysis the suggestion is that this is due to the language being difficult to learn. As Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE and…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (283+ words) Microsoft has released an open-source Agent Governance Toolkit ahead of the forthcoming regulations." Microsoft's new Agent Governance Toolkit that the company says is an open-source project released under the Microsoft organization and MIT license that is the first toolkit to…...