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CNCF-Approved Strimzi Eases Apache Kafka onto K8s Clusters
A project to make Kafka easier to install on Kubernetes systems has been adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) as an incubating project. Strimzi logo...
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Q&A: Cockroach Labs’ Spencer Kimball on Distributing SQL
When the young programming whiz Spencer Kimball joined Google in 2004, the up-and-coming search company — like everyone else in Silicon Valley — sharded its databases to overcome storage limitations...
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Pulumi Templates for GenAI Stacks: Pinecone, LangChain First
To build a Generative AI application, you typically need at least two components to start with, a Large Language Model (LLM) and a vector data store. You probably need some sort of frontend component...
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Buoyant Revises Release Model for the Linkerd Service Mesh
Starting in May, if you want the latest stable version of Linkerd to download and run, you will have to go with Buoyant’s commercial distribution. Buoyant, which created and now stewards the open...
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Q&A: Pulumi’s Joe Duffy on the Renaissance of Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is hot again. Organizations are realizing that their complex system deployments should be repeatable, in that the blueprints they make for such systems should be expressed...
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PyAirbyte: Airbyte’s New Python Library for Moving Data
Data platform provider AirByte has released an open source Python library to help speed the process for Python programmers to connect data sources with other destinations that would use that data....
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Couchbase Adds Vector for Full Hybrid Search Capabilities
The Couchbase line of database systems and database services will soon have vector processing capabilities, giving them the ability to offer not only support for large language models (LLMs) but for...
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Can the Unix Shell Be Improved? Hell Yes! (FOSDEM 24)
Nojhan (full name) is a visual designer and creator of the LiquidPrompt alternative shell, “an adaptive prompt for Bash & Zsh” that promises “a nicely displayed prompt with useful information when...
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KubeCon 24: Crossplane, a Developer-Friendly Control Plane
For those heading to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe later this month in Paris (March 19-22), be sure to stop by the Crossplane booth (Kiosk PP1-B in the afternoons of March 20-22), to learn about the...
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KubeCon 24: GUAC Reveals Where the Vulnerabilities Hide
KubeCon So now your security team has a software bill of materials (SBOM) for its open source applications. What’s next? If you are KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU March 19-22 in Paris, stop by the Kusari...
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Vendoring: Why You Still Have Overlooked Security Holes
It was the CVE-2023-4863 vulnerability that revealed how truly bad the problem of vendoring had become in the Nix repository, recalled Nix Packages maintainer Delroth (Pierre Bourdon) in his February...
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With YAMLScript, YAML Becomes a Proper Programming Language
Does YAML data need to be programmed? Many think so, including one of the creators of YAML itself. Ingy döt Net, has started a project to bringing scripting capabilities to the data serialization...
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Meet DBOS: A Database Alternative to Kubernetes
Turing Award laureate Dr. Mike Stonebraker just keeps on inventing databases. Forty years ago, it was the first relational system, Ingress, and thirty years ago, it was PostgreSQL, More recently, he...
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20 Years in the Making, GnuCOBOL Is Ready for Industry
Get those punch cards back out! After 20 years of development, the open source GnuCOBOL “has reached an industrial maturity and can compete with proprietary offers in all environments,” said OCamlPro...
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KubeCon24: MinIO Object Store Equipped with Enterprise Features
KubeCon/CloudNativeCon For this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU, being held in Paris this week, object storage provider MinIO has launched the MinIO Enterprise Object Store, a commercial product...
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KubeCon24: VictoriaMetrics’ Simpler Alternative to Prometheus
KubeCon/CloudNativeCon KubeCon attendees: Unhappy with the price and/or complexity of your cloud native observability tools? Stop by booth H21 to learn more about VictoriaMetrics. VictoriaMetrics is...
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Linux Foundation Backs ‘Valkey’ Open Source Fork of Redis
We’ve got to stop meeting like this, Linux Foundation. Thursday, the foundation announced that intends to back a fork of the formerly open source Redis in-memory data store, swiftly following the news...
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Chainguard: Outdated Containers Accumulate Vulnerabilities
Logo Just like an abandoned house soon becomes dilapidated with no one around to keep it in good repair, so too do forgotten containers get quickly riddled with security vulnerabilities that attackers...
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NVIDIA H200 GPUs Crush MLPerf’s LLM Inferencing Benchmark
Perhaps to the surprise of few, the next generation of NVIDIA GPUs dominated the latest MLPerf performance benchmarking tests for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. While the takeaway is obvious...
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Linux xz Backdoor Damage Could Be Greater Than Feared
When your home has been broken into, you may not initially comprehend all that has been taken, or the damage that has been done. This is the state of apprehension the Linux community now feels with...
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