Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become a core part of DevOps in 2026, especially as enterprises move deeper into cloud, containerisation, and automated deployment pipelines. With teams managing ...

The Oracle NoSQL SDK for Java provides interfaces, documentation, and examples to help develop Java applications that connect to the Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service, Oracle NoSQL Database or to ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

Large language models (LLMs) by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get ...

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IBM Informix is a database server that focuses on relational database management. Review the basics of IBM Informix and how it stacks up against competitors. Relational database management systems ...