InfoWorld First Look
Expert articles on cloud, software development, and AI
April 09, 2025
Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center
Application Design Center combines Gemini Cloud Assist chat with a visual, canvas-style approach to designing and deploying cloud-native and generative AI applications.
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Google adds natural language query capabilities to AlloyDB
At its Cloud Next conference, Google is showing off a new AI engine for AlloyDB that enables developers to embed natural language questions in SQL queries.
What misleading Meta Llama 4 benchmark scores show enterprise leaders about evaluating AI performance claims
AI benchmarking is critical to determine performance, but results can be irrelevant to enterprise workflows; enterprise buyers should consider benchmarks, but also perform company-specific evaluations.
10 Java-based tools and frameworks for generative AI
Thereâs no reason Python developers should have all the fun. Here are 10 popular Java-based tools for integrating artificial intelligence into your Java applications and workflows.
Four paradoxes of software development
Software development is full of paradoxes that are challenging to deal with. Our job is to ship despite them.
How to create a simple WebAssembly module with Go
WebAssembly gives you a way to run code across platforms, including in a web browser, at near-native speeds, and by way of a broad range of languages. Google's Go language compiles directly to WebAssembly with minimal changes to one's code. In this video we show how a simple WASM module can be created in Go, and how to use Go's standard library to interact with JavaScript objects (for instance, to read form data or change DOM elements).
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity â Tiobe index
Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby have dropped from their top 20 positions in the language popularity index and seem to be in decline, according to Tiobe.
