Microsoft .NET MAUI framework arrives

Microsoft has formally introduced its .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) framework, providing .NET developers a cross-platform stack for building user interfaces.The .NET MAUI framework targets Windows, iOS, Android, and MacOS, allowing developers to create UIs in C# and XAML for all platforms from single…

CockroachDB’s 22.1 update aims to help prototype faster, scale on demand

Cockroach Labs, a company founded by ex-Googlers, has released the next update of its open source, fault-tolerant distributed SQL database, CockroachDB, in a bid to help enterprise engineering teams prototype faster, automate more operations, and maintain peak performance during massive transaction spikes across geographies…

New inquiry looks at the state of UK chips

With Arm, the UK’s biggest chip firm, listing on Nasdaq rather than a dual listing with the LSE (London Stock Exchange), Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee has started an inquiry looking…

Review: Redpanda gives Kafka a run for its money

Apache Kafka is an open-source Java/Scala distributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications. As I have explained, one downside of Kafka is that setting up large Kafka clusters can be tricky. Another downside is that Kafka uses…