Cohere has unveiled its latest large language model (LLM), Command R+, which is engineered to enhance enterprise workflows and applications. The company said the new model is its most advanced and scalable LLM yet. Building on the foundations of the earlier Command R model, Command R+ boosts performance for various enterprise tasks, including data categorization and workflow automation, the … [Read more...]
Speed up searches using SearchValues in .NET
With the release of .NET 8, Microsoft introduced a plethora of new features and enhancements in the .NET Core and ASP.NET Core frameworks. One such feature is the SearchValues class, which marks a significant step forward in efficiently fetching data from data sets.SearchValues is a new type introduced in .NET 8 designed to improve application performance. By using optimization techniques like … [Read more...]
AI advancements are fueling cloud infrastructure spending
The latest data from the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker paints a compelling picture of growth in cloud infrastructure sales on demand. The fourth quarter of 2023 saw an 18.5% year-over-year increase in spending on compute and storage infrastructure for cloud deployments. It is a significant shift in the technological landscape, where AI is now front and center in the … [Read more...]
Visual Studio Code finalizes test coverage API
Microsoft has unveiled Visual Studio Code 1.88, also known as the March 2024 release of the company’s popular code editor. The update brings capabilities such as a test coverage API, custom editor labels, and locked scrolling.Introduced on April 4, Visual Studio Code 1.88 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, or Mac from the project website.In this release, Microsoft has finalized its Test … [Read more...]
JetBrains IDEs add AI-powered code autocompletion
JetBrains is add full-line code autocompletion to its family of IDEs (integrated development environments), powered by locally run AI models. Full line code complеtion is available for Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, PHP, Go, and Ruby with the 2024.1 versions of the respective IDEs.The April 4 launch provides the company’s IDEs with a seamless, full-line code completion … [Read more...]
DataStax acquires Langflow creator Logspace to aid gen AI app development
Database and related services provider DataStax is acquiring Logspace, creator of the open source package Langflow, for an undisclosed sum, in order to help developers build generative AI applications faster, it said Thursday.Langflow is an open-source, web-based no-code graphical user interface (GUI) that allows developers to visually prototype LangChain flows and iterate them to develop … [Read more...]
How to build a developer-first company
At my company, Descope, we are building a customer authentication and identity management product, meaning the end user and the developer are two sides of the same coin. Providing a great developer experience—by enabling our customers to easily add auth flows and user management to their apps—leads to a great end-user experience as the customer’s customers seamlessly and securely log in.This kind … [Read more...]
Using Neo4J’s graph database for AI in Azure
Once you get past the chatbot hype, it’s clear that generative AI is a useful tool, providing a way of navigating applications and services using natural language. By tying our large language models (LLMs) to specific data sources, we can avoid the risks that come with using nothing but training data.While it is possible to fine-tune an LLM on specific data, that can be expensive and … [Read more...]
Google rolls out a new JPEG coding library
Google has introduced Jpegli, a JPEG library for image encoding. The new library is intended to be faster, more visually pleasing, and more efficient than traditional JPEGs. Proponents of the technology said it has the potential to make the Internet faster and more beautiful.Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub, Jpegli maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced … [Read more...]
GitHub Actions update tightens security
GitHub Actions, an automated CI/CD platform for GitHub, has been enhanced for enterprise customers, with capabilities including stronger security and GPU-enhanced runners for machine learning.GitHub announced updates to its hosted runner fleet for Actions on April 2. To strengthen security, GitHub Actions now offers Azure private networking for GitHub-hosted runners. The feature combines … [Read more...]
OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork
OpenTofu’s founders had a mission. Upset by HashiCorp licensing changes in August 2023 to its popular Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool, OpenTofu set out to be the “open source successor to the MPLv2-licensed Terraform,” further promising that it “will be community-driven, impartial, layered and modular, and backward-compatible.”Hugely promising, but extraordinarily difficult to pull off. So … [Read more...]
Full-stack web development with HTMX and Bun, Part 1: Elysia and MongoDB
Bun and HTMX are two of the most interesting things happening in software right now. Bun is an incredibly fast, all-in-one server-side JavaScript platform, and HTMX is an HTML extension used to create simple, powerful interfaces. In this article, we'll use these two great tools together to develop a full-stack application that uses MongoDB for data storage and Elysia as its HTTP server.The tech … [Read more...]
Rust memory safety explained
Over the past decade, Rust has emerged as a language of choice for people who want to write fast, machine-native software that also has strong guarantees for memory safety.Other languages, like C, may run fast and close to the metal, but they lack the language features to ensure program memory is allocated and disposed of properly. As noted recently by the White House Office of the National Cyber … [Read more...]
Bun 1.1 JavaScript toolkit backs Windows 10
Bun 1.1, the latest version of the Bun toolkit and drop-in Node.js replacement for building, testing, and running JavaScript and TypeScript, now supports Windows 10. The latest version is also more compatible with Node.js.Announced April 1 and described as a “huge update,” Bun 1.1 is said to be faster and more reliable than earlier releases, with many bug fixes. Bun now supports Windows … [Read more...]
What is agile methodology? Modern software development explained
It’s hard to believe that the agile software development methodology officially turned 20 years old last year. What once was an outlying practice for startups collaborating in colocated spaces with stickies and whiteboards is now a sophisticated, scalable, and widely used set of agile software development processes and tools.What is agile software development methodologyThere’s a rich history … [Read more...]
There's more to cloud architecture than GPUs
Talk to anybody about generative AI in the cloud, and the conversation goes quickly to GPUs (graphics processing units). But that could be a false objective. GPUs do not matter as much as people think they do, and in a few years, the conversation will likely shift to what is much more critical to the development and deployment of generative AI systems in the cloud.The current assumption is that … [Read more...]
Avoiding the dangers of AI-generated code
2023 has been a breakout year for developers and generative AI. GitHub Copilot graduated from its technical preview stage in June 2022, and OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022. Just 18 months later, according to a survey by Sourcegraph, 95% of developers report they use generative AI to assist them in writing code. Generative AI can help developers write more code in a shorter space of time, … [Read more...]
Google to merge Angular and Wiz frameworks
Google has announced plans to eventually merge its Angular and Wiz web frameworks. The company says it is already looking for ways that Angular could benefit from Wiz's superior performance, while Wiz could benefit from Angular's focus on developer experience.In a blog post posted by the Angular team on March 30, proponents said that Angular and Wiz were “better together.” The merge will … [Read more...]
Babylon.js web rendering engine gets 3D enhancements
The latest version of the web rendering engine Babylon.js has arrived with performance and rendering enhancements to support 3D capabilities and more.Version 7.0 of the rendering and game engine was announced on March 28. Directions for getting started with Babylon.js can be found on GitHub.Procedural geometry in version 7.0, also called Node Geometry, lets users create complex geometry at runtime … [Read more...]
Redis vs. the trillion-dollar cabals
Recently Redis changed its license, and mountains of misinformation have followed, not to mention a fork driven by trillion-dollar cloud company AWS. Among that misinformation is Steven J. Vaughn-Nicols’ earnest but incorrect declaration that the Redis change “means developers can no longer use Redis’ code.”This is simply not true. For 99.9999999999999% of developers, their … [Read more...]
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