Unison, a statically typed functional language with type inference, an effect system, and advanced tooling, has reached its 1.0 release status. Announced November 25, Unison 1.0 marks a point where the language, distributed runtime, and developer workflow have stabilized, according to Unison Computing. Billed as “a friendly programming language from the future,” Unison is purported

It’s a foggy morning in Munich. Marie, CIO of a fictional, forward-thinking European healthcare startup, pores over proposals from cloud vendors. Her company is on the verge of launching AI-powered diagnostics but must keep every byte of patient data within EU borders to comply with strict regional privacy laws. On her desk are slick portfolios

A grumpy Scrooge of a developer might complain about the wealth of options in JavaScript, calling it “tech decision overwhelm.” But the truth is, the JavaScript ecosystem works. In an ecosystem that encourages innovation, new tools are regularly introduced and naturally find their niche, and excellence is rewarded. As developers, we get to sit back

You may think of Google Drive mostly as a cloud storage service, but it’s also the foundation for the company’s online productivity apps including Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides, where you can collaborate with colleagues on documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in real time or asynchronously. Everything you create in these apps — collectively

Proton has expanded its privacy-focused productivity software suite to include an end-to-end encrypted spreadsheet app. The Swiss software vendor is perhaps best known for its encrypted email service, but has also begun to add a wider range of cloud-based tools in recent years with a focus on security and privacy. That began with the launch

The other day ComputerSweden reported that the Indian government had demanded that all mobile phones in the country be equipped with the government app Sanchar Saathi within 90 days. After mobile phone manufacturers such as Apple openly announced that they would not comply with the requirement, the Indian government has now decided to back down

Steve Jobs said lots of things, so you’ll usually find a quote from him for almost every occasion. “Great things in business are never done by one person,” he once said. “They’re done by a team of people.” News that Meta has poached Alan Dye, Apple’s vice president of human interface design, inevitably focuses on the credentials

One of the brutal truths about enterprise disaster recovery (DR) strategies is that there is virtually no reliable way to truly test them. Sure, companies can certainly test the mechanics — but until disaster strikes, the recovery plan is activated and 300,000 workers and millions of customers start interacting with it, all bets are off. 

Software management struggles that have pained enterprises for decades cause the same anguish to government agencies, and a bill making its way through the US House of Representatives to strengthen controls around government software management holds lessons for enterprises too. The Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) bill, H.R. 5457, received unanimous

A digital twin is a simulation of an object, system, process, or person. The ability to make and use digital twins is one of the many new opportunities for business that didn’t exist for most businesses before the recent LLM-based AI revolution. I detailed in this space early last year how detailed twins of systems, such as