Intro to Ktor: The HTTP server for Kotlin

Kotlin is a modern general-purpose language that brings together object-oriented and functional programming power in a sleek syntax. Ktor is the official HTTP server for Kotlin, leveraging Kotlin’s expressiveness for building endpoints and other server-side...

Gleam 1.7 brings faster record updates

Gleam 1.7 has arrived with faster record updates and a dynamic coder for a custom type. Overall, the latest version of Gleam touts performance and package publishing improvements. This latest update to Gleam was announced January 5 and is accessible from GitHub....

Almost nothing remains of Software AG

Software AG (now legally known as Software GmbH) has sold its Alfabet and Cumulocity divisions, following on from the recent sales of webMethods, StreamSets and TrendMiner. Its remaining divisions, the mainframe business around Adabas & Natural (A&N) and the...

5 ways data teams must lead in AI-driven organizations

Generative AI has inspired a surge of interest in using data to improve the accuracy of business decisions. Business managers, data analysts, and citizen data scientists can now use prompts instead of SQL queries to ask questions, interact with large language models...