Category: Emerging technologies

  • How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components

    How Microsoft Edge Is Replacing React With Web Components

    When Microsoft’s Edge browser team released WebUI 2.0 in May, a project that aimed to replace React components with native web components, its primary goal was to make Edge faster for end users. The core idea was that adopting a “markup-first architecture” would reduce JavaScript reliance on its product, which would mean less code to…

  • Integration of AI With IoT Brings Agents to Physical World

    The rise of generative AI and LLMs is going to significantly impact the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing. With the evolution of small language models and on-device models, edge computing is beginning to leverage AI. Developers can now combine sensors, edge devices running on-device models, and multimodal AI models running in the cloud…

  • Why NoSQL Deployments Are Failing at Scale

    Why does technology become obsolete? There’s no one answer. Sometimes, it’s surpassed by something strictly better. Other times, the underlying need evolves. Technology that serves the needs of an emerging market might prove insufficient when the market matures. That’s what many businesses are discovering about NoSQL. And it’s why so many NoSQL implementations are struggling…

  • The Pros and Cons of Web Components, Via Lit and Shoelace

    While developers enjoy working with components in framework libraries, web components are gaining more interest because they work with HTML and CSS and reduce the need for JavaScript. But they also offer the ability to write custom components, enabling larger internal software estates to keep more control of the look and feel on their pages….

  • Social Web Foundation Launched — How In Is W3C on Fediverse?

    Today a group of open social networking advocates has launched the Social Web Foundation (SWF), “a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard protocol ActivityPub.” I chatted with one of the three co-founders, Evan Prodromou, about the new organization and what its goals are. The other two founding members…