Crowdstrike Update Delivers Chaos to Airports, Hospitals
IN THIS ISSUE: Crowdstrike Update Blue-screens Windows; Proposal to Disable JNI; Android 15 Beta 3 Stable; Goo.gl URLs to 404 Next Month; App Builder Can Now React; Building an Effective AI Chatbot
Crowdstrike Crashes Windows, Impacting Millions
The takeaway from Friday's disastrous Crowdstrike software update for developers everywhere should be "Test the f--- out of your software before mass deployment." Because if an update blue-screens customer devices, they might not be customers post-recovery.
Proposal to Disable JNI by Default
Developers using the Java Native Interface had better beware. A JDK enhancement proposal updated last week calls not to do away with the interface, but to disable it by default, citing interoperability concerns with the Foreign Function & Memory API.
Android 15 Beta 3 Reaches Stability
With the release of Android 15 set for mid-August, the development community has declared that Beta 3 has reached Platform Stability, finalizing internal and external APIs and app-facing behaviors. There's much more in the Now in Android video.
What might be good news for TinyURL.com is bad news for goo.gl users. Google last week announced that on Aug. 23 it will show "end-of-service" warnings to visitors of shortened URLs. On Aug. 25, those visitors will see 404. To be fair, the writing has been on the wall since 2019.
App Builder Can Now React with Code
Dev tools maker Infragistics has added support for React to App Builder, its "low-code" development environment for creating web apps.
TUTORIAL: Building an Effective Chatbot
It's hard to imagine a development team that hasn't felt pressure to start building AI-based solutions. Here's a deep dive into strategies for developing a conversational AI query system that includes the three major factors for delivering effective results.
Edward Correia
