Some very interesting research has just been published that throws a lot of light on the crazy belief that undefined behavior is useful, essential even, to certain types of optimization rather than the huge mistake it really is.

Akka has announced new deployment options for its Akka platform, as well as new solutions to tackle the issues with deploying large-scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical applications.

OpenAI has provided a treasure trove of information for spreading knowledge about AI to the general public; understanding what AI is and learning how to leverage it by using tools like ChatGPT.

Azul has announced JVM Inventory, a new feature of Azul Intelligence Cloud aimed at making it easier to migrate away from Oracle Java.

Amazon has improved the CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) to provide a faster more interactive coding experience. Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in its CLI environment to provide help on reading and writing files locally, querying AWS resources write code, or automatically debugging issues.

Google has shared the agenda for its annual developer conference. This year Google will live stream two days of sessions, starting with the Keynote at 10:00 AM PT on May 20th, followed by the Developer Keynote at 1:30 PM PT.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Travelling Saleman Problem (TSP) is impossible to solve for even reasonably small examples using today's computers. Do we need powerful hardware or a quantum computer? 

Take a break and catch up with the latest articles, book reviews and news posted on this site. This week we have an addition to our History section answering the question who were the original programmers. It tells the story of the ENIAC Programmers, six women who pioneered many of the programming concepts we nowadays take for granted.

The Harvard RoboBee can now make better landings thanks to new legs based on those of a crane-fly.  The researchers who developed the robot say it now no longer needs to crash land, and can instead glide down under control.   

For a few years now, front-end developers have been nibbling with AI to help them streamline repetitive tasks and boost productivity. However, AI is now evolving into more than just an assistance tool, and is slowly starting to take on advanced development tasks.

By using the expressiveness of the SQL language, TailPipe makes querying log files as easy as doing "select * from logs;".

All JetBrains AI tools, including the coding agent Junie and its  improved AI Assistant are now available within its IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier.

The latest version of MicroPython has some significant improvements which make it even better as the first choice for a platform-independent language for IoT and embedded computing.

Version 2.18 of the Linkerd service mesh has added features aimed at making the software better at handling problematic situations, along with an experimental build of the proxy for Windows environments. Linkerd can be used to add security, reliability, and observability features to cloud native applications, particularly those that use Kubernetes. 

Despite being tagged as a minor upgrade, NET Aspire 9.2 has additions. Since the last major release, NET Aspire 9 has offered new control over the lifetime of containers on local developer environments. This upgrade has added a preview of publishers, a new way of integration making it easier to package and deploy .NET Aspire apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and Azure.  

Pure Virtual C++ is Micorosft's free, one-day, virtual conference  for the whole C++ community. This year, it is running on April 30th.

JRuby 10 has been released with support for Ruby 3.4 (including 3.2 and 3.3 updates as well). The minimum Java version has also been increased to Java 21, allowing the language to support more modern JVM features. 

The Open Source Project Security Baseline, or OSPS Baseline for short, is a new initiative by OpenSSF in an attempt to bolster the security posture of open source software projects.