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Review: Visual Studio Code shines for Java
With the Extension Pack for Java, VS Code makes a highly capable Java IDE and formidable competitor to Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA.
Review: Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money
The Kafka-compatible distributed event streaming platform excels in latency and performance and offers a glimpse into the future of streaming with inline WebAssembly transforms and more.
Review: YugabyteDB does PostgreSQL proud
YugabyteDB 2.13 is a highly scalable, distributed version of PostgreSQL that combines compelling ideas from Google Cloud Spanner and Amazon Aurora—and serves as a Cassandra-compatible database too.
Review: Databricks Lakehouse Platform
Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines cost-effective data storage with machine learning and data analytics, and it's available on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Could it be an affordable alternative for your data warehouse needs?
Review: The 10 best JavaScript editors
Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, Brackets, and Atom rise to the top, but several others are also worth considering.
Review: The 6 best JavaScript IDEs
WebStorm, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Code, NetBeans, Komodo, and Eclipse pull out the stops for JavaScript, Node.js, and friends.
15 tools that make Kubernetes easier
Take advantage of these Kubernetes companions to improve monitoring, command-line ops, multi-cluster management, and more.
13 tools that make Kubernetes better
Take advantage of these Kubernetes companions to simplify app definitions, migrate clusters, ease cloud deployments, and more.
How to evaluate software asset management tools
IT asset management or ITAM solutions provide comprehensive management of hardware and software assets, both on-prem and in the cloud.
Review: Creatio 8.0 Atlas shoulders no-code CRM
Creatio 8.0 Atlas is a competent no-code development environment, with good CRM capabilities for sales, marketing, and service, and good BPM capabilities.
How to choose a streaming data platform
Many of the best platforms for managing, storing, and analyzing streaming data are Apache open source projects, along with commercial and cloud implementations of those projects.
Airtable review: Flexible low-code/no-code in the cloud
Airtable is a powerful combination of relational database capabilities, a variety of development environments for different skill levels, and hundreds of templates and add-ins for common use cases.
How to choose a cloud data warehouse
Modern data warehouses can query structured data and semi-structured data simultaneously, and even combine historical data and streaming live data for analysis.
Review: Document parsing in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud
Amazon Textract, Azure Form Recognizer, and Google Document AI can parse your unstructured documents and produce structured information for all kinds of digital transformation use cases.
Google Cloud AppSheet review: No-code with extras
Google’s easy no-code app builder lets you add functionality with spreadsheet formulas and expressions, and even apply machine learning models.
Power Apps review: Sweeter than Honeycode
Much more than a no-code builder, Power Apps lets you add functionality with Excel-like formulas, easily connects to external data sources, and integrates with Power Automate for flow editing and Power BI for data analysis.
Amazon Honeycode review: No-code has its limits
Amazon’s no-code app builder makes quick work of creating simple apps and integrations. Creating useful ones will require help from a programmer, a DBA, or IT.
How to choose a cloud IoT platform
Your cloud IoT platform must monitor IoT endpoints and event streams, analyze data at the edge and in the cloud, and enable application development and deployment.
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