ReversingLabs has added new secret detection capabilities to its software supply chain security (SSCS) tool to help developers prioritize remediation with context-based data on secrets.In a development environment, secrets refer to digital authentication credentials used in software components including login credentials, API tokens, and encryption keys.“We are using our knowledge of exposed … [Read more...]
Eclipse Java downloads skyrocket
Move over, Oracle Java. Downloads of the Eclipse Foundation’s Temurin Java SE binaries have more than doubled year over year, to more than 12 million downloads per month, Eclipse said on March 14.Eclipse delivered more than 12.3 million downloads of its standard Java binaries in February, the foundation reported. This volume of downloads actually has been going on for three or four months, Eclipse … [Read more...]
How eBPF unlocks cloud native innovation
Barbara Liskov—the brilliant Turing Award winner whose career inspired so much modern thinking around distributed computing—was fond of calling out the “power of abstraction” and its role in “finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation.”Liskov has been proven right many times over, and we are now at a juncture where new … [Read more...]
The philosopher: A conversation with Grady Booch
Grady Booch is a unique voice in computing, whose contributions encompass a wide range of interests. He introduced the Booch method, which led to his co-creation of the Unified Modeling Language. He also helped usher in the use of design patterns and agile methods and has written a large corpus of books and articles addressing software engineering and software architecture. Today, he is chief … [Read more...]
Cloud computing is driving a new gig economy in tech
I would be remiss if I told you I came upon this idea myself. My good friend Joe McKendrick recently covered this trend that I’ve also seen happening.The recent tech industry layoffs are driving a wave of what some are calling “solopreneurs” doing gig work or independent contracting. Think DoorDash or Uber Eats, but instead of delivering Thai food, people are delivering key cloud advisory services … [Read more...]
Can AI solve IT’s eternal data problem?
Artificial intelligence and machine learning already deliver plenty of practical value to enterprises, from fraud detection to chatbots to predictive analytics. But the audacious creative writing skills of ChatGPT have raised expectations for AI/ML to new heights. IT leaders can’t help but wonder: Could AI/ML finally be ready to go beyond point solutions and address core enterprise problems?Take … [Read more...]
How to explain machine learning to business execs
If you’re a data scientist or you work with machine learning (ML) models, you have tools to label data, technology environments to train models, and a fundamental understanding of MLops and modelops. If you have ML models running in production, you probably use ML monitoring to identify data drift and other model risks.Data science teams use these essential ML practices and platforms to … [Read more...]
The problem with development speed
Developers are the new kingmakers, the saying goes, and so companies spend a great deal of time trying to enable developers to move faster. And faster. And faster. The problem with this focus on speed is that “development velocity … and launch throughput are entirely the wrong optimization,” argues product management guru Itamar Gilad. It’s not that developer productivity is bad. Far … [Read more...]
How to explain the machine learning lifecycle to business execs
If you’re a data scientist or you work with machine learning (ML) models, you have tools to label data, technology environments to train models, and a fundamental understanding of MLops and modelops. If you have ML models running in production, you probably use ML monitoring to identify data drift and other model risks.Data science teams use these essential ML practices and platforms to … [Read more...]
How to explain the machine learning life cycle to business execs
If you’re a data scientist or you work with machine learning (ML) models, you have tools to label data, technology environments to train models, and a fundamental understanding of MLops and modelops. If you have ML models running in production, you probably use ML monitoring to identify data drift and other model risks.Data science teams use these essential ML practices and platforms to … [Read more...]
What’s new in Rust 1.68
The unique approach of the Rust programming language results in better code with fewer compromises than C, C++, Go, and the other languages you probably use. It also gets updated regularly, often every month.Where to download the latest Rust versionIf you already have a previous version of Rust installed via rustup, you can access the latest version via the following command:$ rustup update … [Read more...]
ChatGPT now chatting via Azure OpenAI Service
Microsoft is making the ChatGPT AI large anguage model available in preview as a component for applications designed for the company’s Azure OpenAI Service, paving the way for developers to integrate the large language model into a host of different enterprise development and end-user applications.Microsoft appears to have had several users working with this integration already, listing ODP … [Read more...]
What is generative AI? The evolution of artificial intelligence
Generative AI is an umbrella term for any kind of automated process that uses algorithms to produce, manipulate, or synthesize data, often in the form of images or human-readable text. It's called generative because the AI creates something that didn't previously exist. That's what makes it different from discriminative AI, which draws distinctions between different kinds of input. To say it … [Read more...]
Why is your multicloud so slow?
It’s a Wednesday, and the accounting team is closing out this month's sales and running end-of-month processing on a multicloud platform deployed four months ago. They run sales order entries on one cloud provider and the accounting application on another. Spanning both clouds is a common security system and API manager, among other services.What took only a few hours last month to process from … [Read more...]
GitHub begins 2FA rollout
Following through on a pledge made last year, GitHub on March 13 will begin phasing in two-factor authentication (2FA) requirements for developers contributing code to the popular code sharing site. All developers will be required to comply by the end of the year.Smaller groups will be required to enroll in 2FA as of next week, with GitHub selecting accounts for enrollment, the company said on … [Read more...]
GitHub 2FA campaign begins
Following through on a pledge made last year, GitHub on March 13 will begin phasing in two-factor authentication (2FA) requirements for developers contributing code to the popular code sharing site. All developers will be required to comply by the end of the year.Smaller groups will be required to enroll in 2FA as of next week, with GitHub selecting accounts for enrollment, the company said on … [Read more...]
Wasm comes to R
Posit (formerly RStudio) today released an early version of an R package that brings WebAssembly (Wasm) to R.Aimed at developers, the WebR package (available at https://docs.r-wasm.org/webr/latest/) "is a version of the open-source R interpreter compiled for WebAssembly, along with a supporting [JavaScript] TypeScript library," Posit's George Stagg wrote in a blog post this morning."Absolute game … [Read more...]
What’s new in Apache Cassandra 4.1
Apache Cassandra 4.1 was a massive effort by the Cassandra community to build on what was released in 4.0, and it is the first of what we intend to be yearly releases. If you are using Cassandra and you want to know what’s new, or if you haven’t looked at Cassandra in a while and you wonder what the community is up to, then here’s what you need to know.First off, let’s address why the Cassandra … [Read more...]
Meet Zig: The modern alternative to C
Programmers are never satisfied. As soon as we've accomplished one near-impossible goal, we start working toward a new one. A case in point is systems-oriented development, where we already have a complement of strong languages to work with: C, C++, Rust, and Go. Now we also have Zig, a newer language that seeks to absorb what's best about these languages and offer comparable performance … [Read more...]
Visualizing Mastodon server moderation
In Mapping the wider fediverse I showed how a new table added to the Mastodon plugin—mastodon_domain_block—enables queries that find which servers are moderating which other servers. For example, here are servers on nerdculture.de’s list of offenders.select server, domain, severity from mastodon_domain_block where server = … [Read more...]
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