Python is already a top-five programming language in terms of number of users around the world. It is also second only to JavaScript as the most sought-after language hiring managers are looking for in their developing teams. Powerful and flexible, Python is often...

Back in 2015 when Google finally lifted the lid on exactly how it managed to coordinate its massive global server resources with such efficiency and coherence, it unleashed a computing revolution on the world. It turned out that Google was one of the first digital...

Three quarters of connected device manufacturers say they are struggling to find enough developers to keep up with demand, which is putting enormous strain on their existing teams. That’s the finding of a new report from Forrester Consulting, commissioned by...

When Gartner flags up a new trend in technology as “the next big thing”, the world usually takes notice. When the market analyst picked out intent-based networking as ‘one to watch’ back in 2017, it was a concept that only a select group of specialists working in...

In modern terms, the humble software application is a many-faced entity that comes in multiple guises, shapes and sizes. From small, simple pieces of code that run directly on a single machine to complex cloud-based services designed so millions of instances can be...

You’d be forgiven for assuming that cloud computing was well on the way to killing off ‘bare metal’ IT deployments. After all, the hype around enterprise infrastructure in recent years has all been about AWS and the other public cloud IaaS giants, about cloud-native...

The Robert Half Salary Guide is one of the biggest annual surveys of remuneration and in-work benefits in the UK. This year’s report is of particular interest because the big question on everyone’s lips is, of course, what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on pay...

Software development is a polyglot industry. If you go by the most often reported figure widely credited to Wikipedia, there are at least 700 functional programming languages out there. Even then, Wikipedia’s criteria excludes ‘dialects’ of BASIC, mark-up languages...

Containers are an increasingly popular feature of enterprise IT architecture because they bring a number of benefits to the table, mostly in terms of application development and deployment. Because of the way they abstract specific functions of an application from...

Code playing a leading role in networking is of course nothing new. Protocols, implemented in a huge variety of programming languages, have been the backbone of the evolution of computer-to-computer communication for decades. The network that changed the world as we...

Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a study carried out by data centre equipment supplier Vertiv found that less than a third of data centre operators (29%) felt they were able to meet current demands. Just 11% felt they were in a position to respond to...

Definitions of the Internet of Things (IoT) often focus on connectivity and the fact that it involves adding isolated electronic devices to large-scale networks - hence the ‘internet’ in the name. But whether we’re talking about ‘smart’ heating systems or kitchen...