Snowflake on Thursday said it was making its Data Clean Room application generally available for free in the Snowflake Marketplace. The application, which was built on Snowflake’s Native Application Framework, will allow customers to set up data clean rooms at no additional cost, the company said.Introduced in 2022, Snowflake’s Native Application Framework offers developers the ability to build … [Read more...]
JetBrains IntelliJ IDE to add K2 compiler mode
JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, a release of the integrated development environment (IDE) due on April 4, will feature an optional K2 compiler mode, enabling developers to use K2 for faster and more robust Kotlin code analysis, the company said.With this planned release, the IDE for Kotlin and Java will have two modes. The class mode, enabled by default, will use the standard K1 Kotlin compiler … [Read more...]
JDK 22: An average Java release, sort of
With atomic clock-like regularity, the latest version of Java, JDK 22, was released last week. Although this is not a long-term support (LTS) release, there is nothing to stop you from using it in production, and it contains some interesting new features.Let’s dive in and see what this brings us.New features for the Java platform are defined through JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), and JDK 22 … [Read more...]
Using Microsoft’s Retina to monitor Kubernetes networks
Kubernetes plays an important role at Microsoft. The container management system is a foundational piece of the company’s many clouds, from Microsoft 365 and Xbox, to Azure, to partners like OpenAI that use Microsoft’s Kubernetes to host their own services.As a result, Microsoft has invented many of its own Kubernetes management tools. These include Kaito for deploying AI inferencing workloads and … [Read more...]
Microsoft unveils Copilot for Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along with self-help for database administration.Microsoft announced the preview on March 21. To sign up for the preview, users can request access.Copilot in Azure SQL Database enables the Azure portal query … [Read more...]
Databricks’ open-source DBRX LLM beats Llama 2, Mixtral, and Grok
Data lakehouse provider Databricks has released a family of open-source large language models (LLM), DBRX, that it says outperforms OpenAI’s GPT 3.5 and open-source models such as Mixtral, Claude 3, Llama 2, and Grok-1 on standard benchmarking tests.DBRX can be downloaded for free from GitHub and Hugging Face for research or commercial use.This provides enterprises the opportunity to not only … [Read more...]
How to handle errors in React
Graceful error handling is an essential aspect of well-designed software. It’s also tricky. This article offers an overview of error handling in React applications and how to use React error boundaries to handle render-time errors.React error typesWe can divide React application errors broadly into two types, and error handling into two aspects.The two React error types: JavaScript errors: These … [Read more...]
Steampipe dashboards and benchmarks for your data
In Steampipe unbundled we showed how its plugins, which originally worked only with the foreign data wrapper loaded into Steampipe’s batteries-included Postgres, are now also available as stand-alone distributions that you can load into your own instances of Postgres or SQLite. Now Steampipe itself is unbundled: its dashboard server and benchmark runner have migrated to a new open-source project, … [Read more...]
Intel taps developers in a massive AI push
Intel Corporation has launched two new initiatives as part of its AI PC Acceleration Program to promote collaboration between software and hardware ecosystems, aimed at enhancing AI capabilities across over 100 million Intel-based AI PCs by 2025.The first initiative, the AI PC Developer Program, is tailored specifically for software developers and independent software vendors (ISVs). Its primary … [Read more...]
Oracle’s GraalVM backs Java 22
Oracle has released GraalVM for JDK 22, an update to the Java runtime with ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation that brings support for Java 22 features.Released on the same day as Java 22, which was published March 19, GraalVM for JDK 22 can be downloaded from the project website. Most features of JDK 22 are available for Graal JIT compilation and Native Image AOT compilation. Java 22 features … [Read more...]
Ethics makes a comeback in cloud-based systems
Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company (I’m being purposely vague), the right fit for a specific customer problem that I had just learned about in that conference room?This would have been an easy sale and … [Read more...]
How generative AI can promote inclusive job descriptions
An ever-increasing number of employers are experiencing the many benefits of artificial intelligence throughout their human resources practices—from candidate personalization, conversational experiences, matching and scoring algorithms and AI-generated insights.With the emergence of generative AI, HR tech products are starting to build use cases to optimize communication among recruiters, … [Read more...]
Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI
Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini, Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google … [Read more...]
Google Vertex AI Studio puts the promise in generative AI
Vertex AI Studio is an online environment for building AI apps, featuring Gemini, Google’s own multimodal generative AI model that can work with text, code, audio, images, and video. In addition to Gemini, Vertex AI provides access to more than 40 proprietary models and more than 60 open source models in its Model Garden, for example the proprietary PaLM 2, Imagen, and Codey models from Google … [Read more...]
Redis moves to source-available licenses
Starting with Redis 7.4, all future versions of Redis software will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSAL 2) and the Server Side Public License (SSLPv1), Redis announced. The popular NoSQL database will no longer be distributed under the three-clause Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license.New source-available licenses will allow Redis the company to provide … [Read more...]
Hot code heap proposal would speed Java execution
To reduce application execution time, Java’s segmented code cache would be extended with an optional “hot” code heap to compactly accommodate a part of non-profiled methods, under a draft JDK enhancement proposal now floating in the OpenJDK community. Another success metric of the plan is reducing the fragmentation of highly-optimized code in the code cache.By extending Java’s compiler control … [Read more...]
Puppet’s devops report plumbs the benefits of platform engineering
The key benefits of platform engineering are increased developer productivity, better quality of software, reduced lead time for deployment, and more stable applications, according to Puppet by Perforce’s 2024 State of Devops Report: The Evolution of Platform Engineering.The report is based on a survey of 474 participants who work with a platform engineering team at their organizations. The survey … [Read more...]
BrandPost: How Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) provides visibility into the end user experience
The lights on the dashboards that monitor network and application performance are flashing green, indicating all is well. At the same time, however, frustrated employees are filing trouble tickets over slow internet, customers are dropping out in the middle of online transactions because pages aren’t loading fast enough, and the brand is taking a beating on social media, with one post after … [Read more...]
Ensuring the open source moment continues
Back in the 2000s, we talked about open source a lot—perhaps too much. We fought about whether code freedom (GPL) or developer freedom (Apache/BSD) mattered more. We wondered when the year of the Linux desktop might finally arrive. (TL;DR never. Or maybe it already happened. Or…whatever.) We chastised companies for “open washing” (anticipating the years of cloud- and AI-washing to come). We … [Read more...]
10 cloud development gotchas to watch out for
The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud-based development also presents a host of challenges. Knowing what to watch out for is the first step to protecting your applications and development efforts. Here, are 10 pitfalls to consider before developing, testing, or deploying applications in … [Read more...]
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