OpenSource For You
June 2025 Issue
Vol. 13 No. 8
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Programming Expertise: What’s in Demand in 2025?
Here’s a breakdown of the most in-demand programming skills and roles expected to drive tech job growth through 2025.
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Programming in the Age of Generative AI Learn how generative AI is changing the face of writing, testing, and even thinking about code.
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Why Python Developers Should Care About Asynchronous Programming Explore what asynchronous programming is, when it should be used, how Python supports it, and measure its performance as compared to synchronous programming. |
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Tips to Help You Unlock the Potential of Python Lists These tips on how to work with Python lists will help you write code that is memory-efficient, clean, concise, and readable.
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Bridging the Digital Divide: Understanding Application Programming Interfaces APIs are fundamental building blocks of the digital world, acting as crucial bridges that enable communication and data exchange between diverse software systems. Let’s delve into their significance in modern software development, including their role in microservices and event-driven architecture (EDA). | |
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Step Up Software Development with Java 24 Java 24, released this March by Oracle, continues the tradition of innovation and excellence that has been the hallmark of Java since its inception. With its advanced features and enhancements, such as the quantum-resistant module, Java 24 will empower developers to create secure, highperformance, and scalable applications.
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JavaScript and Node.js: How Open Source Fuelled the Web’s Evolution JavaScript is the lifeblood of the modern web. Node.js is a runtime environment that allows developers to run JavaScript on the server side. Both are not only relevant today but continue to lead the charge in modern web development. Let’s find out how… | |
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JavaScript and Node.js: How Open Source Fuelled the Web’s Evolution Here’s a review of some of the most significant features and enhancements introduced in Python 3, responsible for making it the programming language that developers love to work with.
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Garbage Collection Strategies: Go vs Java vs Julia Explore how three open source languages—Java, Go, and Julia—take different paths to solve the invisible challenge of garbage collection. Whether you’re working with enterprise apps, cloud-native systems, or scientific models, knowing how each language manages memory can help you make better technical decisions. | |
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Understanding Bag-of-Words and corpora.Dictionary in Python Discover how the Bag-of-Words model can be applied and visualised in a Python project.
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AI-Powered API Testing: Revolutionising Software Quality Assurance AI-powered API testing is reshaping the landscape of software quality assurance. By automating and optimising testing processes, organisations can enhance the reliability and performance of their APIs, ultimately leading to better user experiences. | |
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Macros in Rust vs Lisp: A Comparison of their Metaprogramming Power This comparative study of macros in Lisp and Rust highlights not only their technical differences but also the philosophies that guide their design.
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The Best Open Source AI Projects for Beginners Here’s a list of the top open source AI projects for beginners, along with practical hands-on implementations and real-life applications that can be built using these tools. | |
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The Right Ways to Address Cross-Site Request Forgery Here’s an overview of the key concepts, impact and effective mitigation strategies of cross-site request forgery, also known as CSRF.
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The Importance of Explainable AI in the Era of Agentic Systems Explainable AI (XAI) makes AI systems transparent, explainable, and credible. It ensures users understand why a given model arrived at a specific decision so that it is easier to verify, debug, and trust the system. Let’s look at all that XAI entails followed by a real-world example of how it works. | |
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The Importance of AI Governance and Data Governance in Modern Enterprises As artificial intelligence turns ubiquitous, AI governance and data governance frameworks will be critical in ensuring that AI-based solutions check all the right boxes.
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Optimising IT with Open Source: A Guide to Asset Management Solutions Here’s a comprehensive overview of leading open source IT asset management (ITAM) solutions and their potential to transform how organisations manage their assets. | |
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Monitor the Health of Your System with New Relic Learn how New Relic can be effectively used to monitor Dockerized applications in a production environment. Walk through a step-bystep integration, which explains key monitoring metrics and demonstrates how organisations can leverage New Relic’s alerting, logging, and visualisation capabilities to maintain optimal system performance
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“We have processed fixes for the top 100 open source repositories” Persistent Systems aims to establish a world where every open source vulnerability has a service level agreement (SLA), so that enterprises can secure themselves against malevolent attacks without having to wait for community-driven fixes. OSFY’s Yashasvini Razdan spoke to Nitish Shrivastava, SVP and Head of Products Business at Persistent Systems, about the company’s mission to enhance open source security. | |
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