Results of an O'Reilly survey of data and AI professionals indicates a marked gender pay gap. It also reveals that certification, in particular cloud certification, is associated with both higher salaries and salary increases.

Google has announced a new managed application delivery service for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Google Cloud Deploy is described as a managed, opinionated continuous delivery service that makes continuous delivery to GKE easier, faster, and more reliable.

Top honors in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 went to Team Alquist from the Czech Technical University while Stanford University's Chirpy Cardinal and PROTO from the University of Buffalo won the second and third prizes respectively.

Every day I Programmer has new material written by programmers, for programmers. This week Harry Fairhead discusses the new, post-sysfx, way for the Raspberry Pi to use its GPIO lines and Ian Elliot provides a quick approach to getting started with PHP.

The venerable Unicode standard gets an update. We report the news and go behind the scenes with a brief look at the standard's philosophy and practical use.

Apache has released Kafka 3.0 with new features, breaking API changes, and improvements to KRaft—Apache Kafka’s built-in consensus mechanism that will replace Apache ZooKeeper.

Finding and retaining open source talent is an overwhelming priority for hiring managers and increasingly they are looking for those with certification. 

DataStax has extended its Astra DB cloud database to be available in multiple regions and multiple clouds. Astra DB is built on Apache Cassandra and now supports multi-region deployments on any of three major cloud providers - AWS, Azure, and Google.

This survey comes from the Eclipse Foundation and provides technical insights into enterprise Java that give answers to questions like which Java based framework is on the rise, whether Java is used for Cloud native development and much more.

Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4 has been released with more support for personal and team productivity, along with support for 'modern development' according to the Visual Studio team.

Java Development Kit 17 and Java 17 are now generally available. JDK 17 was announced by the Open JDK group and Oracle released the new version under a commercial license for those using the Oracle JDK release as part of an Oracle product or service, or for those who want to be able to get commercial support.

Deno, the JavaScript and TypeScript runtime from the creator of Node.js, has been updated with improvements to the Web Crypto API, stabilization of the native server side WebSocket API, and new file locking APIs. 

Here we have a very practical resource for sorting, searching and filtering Java JEPs. But before we get to the details, what exactly is a JEP and why should we care?

JetBrains is opening up its new IDE for data scientists so anyone can try it out. Until now its only been available for invites to a private early access program. 

Two new, upgraded, Astro Pi's are soon to be sent to the International Space Station, ready to perform experiments coded by school students as part of the challenge set by the European Space Agency and Raspberry Pi Foundation.

This week saw the publication of the Deep C# Sharp: Dive into Modern C#, the latest title in the I Programmer Library. All are books written by members of our team and between them cover programming in JavaScript, C, Python and Kotlin, Computer Science, IoT and spreadsheeting - topics we cover on this site.

Sir Clive Sinclair was the inventor who, as far as the UK was concerned, made home computing affordable, paving the way for today's thriving computer games industry.

The first set of stable Android Jetpack Wear OS libraries are now available, covering wear, wear-input, wear-ongoing, wear-phone-interactions, and wear-remote-interactions. Android Jetpack is a suite of libraries for use in app development designed to reduce boilerplate code.