At AWS' annual re:Invent conference this week, CEO Adam Selipsky and other top executives announced new services and updates to attract burgeoning enterprise interest in generative AI systems and take on rivals including Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and IBM. AWS, the largest cloud service provider in terms of market share, is looking to capitalize on growing interest in generative AI. … [Read more...]

Of all the reasons Python is a hit with developers, one of the biggest is its broad and ever-expanding selection of third-party packages. Convenient toolkits for everything from ingesting and formatting data to high-speed math and machine learning are just an import or pip install away.But what happens when those packages don’t play nice with each other? What do you do when different Python … [Read more...]

PostgreSQL 16, the latest major release of your favorite open source RDBMS, set new standards for database management, data replication, system monitoring, and performance optimization. Like clockwork, EnterpriseDB (EDB), a leading contributor to PostgreSQL code and leading provider of the Postgres database to enterprises, has unveiled its latest portfolio release for Postgres 16.1.The milestone … [Read more...]

Okay, I’m going to geek out for this one. The start of my cloud computing career was not using cloud computing services, it was building them. This meant setting up a service that could do complex things, handle many service requesters, and manage to serve many clients simultaneously. To do all this, I had to design and build a multitenant architecture.Multitenancy is the architectural principle … [Read more...]

Okay, I’m going to geek out for this one. The start of my cloud computing career was not using cloud computing services, it was building them. This meant setting up a service that could do complex things, handle many service requesters, and manage to serve many clients simultaneously. To do all this, I had to design and build a multitenant … [Read more...]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its AWS SDK for Rust generally available, for developing and deploying applications on the AWS cloud using the Rust programming language.Announced November 28, the AWS SDK for Rust simplifies the use of AWS services by providing libraries familiar to Rust developers. Developers can get started with the SDK at the AWS website, with the SDK accessible through … [Read more...]

AWS is planning to update its collaborative data-sharing service, dubbed AWS Clean Rooms, with machine learning capabilities.The new machine learning capabilities will allow enterprises and their partners to apply machine learning to shared or collective datasets to generate predictive insights without having to share raw data with each other, the company said. This is achieved by creating … [Read more...]

When building your .NET applications, you will often need to generate API documentation. To do this, you might use Swagger, a toolkit that makes it simple to provide a graphical representation of your API. You can test the API methods within the Swagger UI once the API documentation is available.If you could use an introduction to Swagger, I provided one in an earlier article. In this article, … [Read more...]

The recent drama at OpenAI highlighted one thing: the enormous bet Microsoft has made on GPT and its derivatives, using them to power its growing family of Copilots. The generative AI capabilities of GPT and similar large language models (LLMs) are key components of these natural language interfaces, providing language understanding and summaries, as well producing user-centric text outputs that … [Read more...]

Deno Land, the developers of the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime, have introduced Deno Cron, a feature the company describes as an easy way to create scheduled jobs.Announced November 29 and available behind the --unstable flag in Deno 1.38, Deno.cron() is a function that takes three parameters: the name of the scheduled job, the schedule, and the handler, the latter being the function executed … [Read more...]

At its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, AWS unveiled several updates to its SageMaker, Bedrock and database services in order to boost its generative AI offerings.Taking to the stage on Wednesday, AWS vice president of data and AI, Swami Sivasubramanian, unveiled updates to existing foundation models inside its generative AI application-building service, Amazon Bedrock.The updated models added … [Read more...]

Keras 3.0, a “full rewrite” of the Keras deep learning API, has arrived, providing a new multi back-end implementation of the API.Unveiled November 27, and accessible from GitHub, Keras 3.0 enables developers to run Keras workflows on top of the Jax, TensorFlow, or PyTorch machine learning frameworks, featuring large-scale model training and deployment capabilities. Keras is deployed as a … [Read more...]

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That's not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for massaging tables of data. But what if you want more control, precision, and power than Excel alone delivers?In that case, the open source Pandas library for Python might be what you are looking for. … [Read more...]

Structured concurrency is a new way to use multithreading in Java. It allows developers to think about work in logical groups while taking advantage of both traditional and virtual threads. Available in preview in Java 21, structured concurrency is a key aspect of Java’s future, so now is a good time to start working with it.Why we need structured concurrencyWriting concurrent software … [Read more...]

Microsoft has released ML.NET 3.0, the latest version of the company’s open-source, cross-platform machine learning framework, which enables the integration of machine learning models into .NET applications.Announced November 27, ML.NET 3.0 can be accessed from dotnet.microsoft.com.ML.NET 3.0 includes new deep learning capabilities in object detection, named entity recognition, and question … [Read more...]

During its dozen-plus years in the wild, Google’s Go programming language has evolved from being a curiosity for alpha geeks to being the battle-tested programming language behind some of the world’s most important cloud-native software projects. Why was Go chosen by the developers of such projects as Docker and Kubernetes? What are Go’s defining characteristics, and how does it differ from … [Read more...]

Continuing to build on its efforts toward zero-ETL for data warehousing services, AWS at its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, announced new Amazon RedShift integrations with Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon RDS for MySQL.Enterprises, typically, use extract, transform, load (ETL) to integrate data from multiple sources into a single consistent data store to be loaded into … [Read more...]

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on Tuesday premiered the star of the cloud giant's ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference: Amazon Q, the company's answer to Microsoft’s GPT-driven Copilot generative AI assistant.   Selipsky’s announcement of Q was reminiscent of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote at Ignite and Build, where he announced several integrations and flavors of Copilot across a wide range … [Read more...]

At its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, AWS on Monday added a new enterprise pricing tier to its cloud-based development tool, dubbed Amazon CodeCatalyst.The enterprise tier is $20 per user per month, and each enterprise tier space gets 1,500 compute minutes, 160 development environment hours, and 64GB of development environment storage per paying user, the cloud services provider said.The other … [Read more...]

At its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, AWS on Monday announced a new program, dubbed Amazon Braket Direct to offer researchers direct, private access to quantum computers.The program is part of AWS’ managed quantum computing service, named Amazon Braket, which was introduced in 2020. Amazon Bracket Direct allows researchers across enterprises to get private access to the full capacity of … [Read more...]