Python has promises -  it's just that they are called "futures" - and they are the best way to get results back to your main program. Find out how to use a future in this extract from Programmer's P

ython: Async .

Utilizing software composition analysis can revolutionize your approach to software development enabling you to understand the components of your software, identify vulnerabilities, maintain code quality and ensure license compliance. Here's what you need to know to choose the right SCA tool and integrate it into your development lifecycle.

The Eclipse Foundation has released the results of its 2023 Cloud Developer Survey, revealing an increased enterprise reliance on open source technologies to accelerate the adoption of cloud native solutions.

Security is hard, very hard, in fact so hard that I really don't think a device can be secure if you have physical access to it. To prove the point news that Bitlocker can be bypassed if you have a cheap logic analyzer has just emerged.

The final preview release of .NET 8 has been released, and from now on the .NET team will shift to release candidates. The developers say that almost all new features for the release are in their final shape, and that System.Text.Json and codegen have the biggest changes in this build.

You can now do this thanks to Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK which integrates Large Language Models (LLMs)
with conventional programming languages like C# and Python. The Java binding has recently been released too.

Flutter 3.13 has been released with improvements to Impeller, Flutter's new graphics renderer. The new version also has new Engine APIs for foldable devices.

"LangChain: Chat with Your Data" is a brand new free and short course by Harrison Chase, CEO of LangChain himself, to learn how to use LLMs to converse with your own data. With around an hour of content, it is hosted on Andrew Ng's Deeplearning AI platform.

Bjarne Stroustrup is the creator of C++, author of many books and is currently a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. In two short "DevBytes" from Honeypot.io he tells how he became a computer scientist by mistake and provides  advice on having a balanced life and making the most of opportunities based on his experience.

Epic Games has announced a new program for third-party developers on its store. Called Epic First Run, its main attraction of that dev retain a 100% revenue share during the first six months in return for temporary exclusivity.

The courses are "Practical Python Programming" and "Advanced Python Mastery". Both are free, self-paced and available under a Creative Commons license.

Chainguard has announced a new AI Chainguard Images bundle aimed at developers of AI applications. Chainguard is a specialist in software supply chain security, and existing Chainguard images are container base images designed for minimalism and security.

simdjson-java is the Java version of simdjson, the JSON parser that uses SIMD instructions. How fast can it go?

Author: Rosemary Wang
Publisher: Manning
Date: August 2022
Pages: 400
ISBN: 978-1617298295
Print: 1617298298
Kindle: B0B7SQQ8KQ
Audience: General
Rating: 3
Reviewer: Ian Elliot

All hardware should be software.

Subtitled "Harness the Power of Streams and Lambda Expressions", this book guides the reader from the familiar imperative style through the practical aspects of functional programming, using plenty of examples. Venkat Subramaniam shows how to apply the techniques to turn highly complex imperative code into elegant and easy-to-understand functional-style code.

This book introduces you to why everyone’s talking about ChatGPT. Pam Baker explains how ChatGPT works and how it can help you at work, in school, and beyond. The book shows how to write prompts, and how to evaluate and use ChatGPT results, and demystifies the artificial intelligence tool that can answer questions, write essays, and generate just about any kind of text it’s asked for.

Subtitled "Combating Malware, Data Exfiltration, and more", this book reveals how attackers exploit DNS and how cybersecurity professionals can proactively use DNS to turn the tables and mitigate those threats. Joshua M Kuo and Ross Gibson show how knowing how to use the protective capabilities of DNS can give you an unprecedented head start in stopping today’s advanced cyberthreats.