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Hasura Visualizes Data API Integration into a ‘Supergraph’
Data integration provider Hasura has added a visual component to its data API platform, offering developers a handy visualization of the complex topologies that may be wrangling in their integration...
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Golang 1.22 Redefines the For Loop for Easier Concurrency
The Golang community is all abuzz over a few recent changes the programming language’s most basic control flow statements, the for loop. In the most recent version, Go programming language, v1.22,...
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OpenTofu Project Denies HashiCorp’s Allegations of Code Theft
Seven months after forking its code from the HashiCorp Terraform IT deployment software, the Linux Foundation-backed OpenTofu has gotten legal pushback from HashiCorp. On April 3, HashiCorp issued a...
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Linux Foundation Overture Maps the Globe with Open Data
SEATTLE — A Linux Foundation project to map the world with open data has launched a beta of its service this week, bringing enterprises and startups an open source alternative to commercial services...
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Guider Daemon Automates Linux Performance Monitoring
SEATTLE–By the time he finished his presentation on the Guider Linux performance monitoring daemon, Peace Lee got three (3!) separate rounds of applause from the audience. The Linux greybeards in...
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Amazon Bedrock Expands Palette of Large Language Models
More options are always a good thing, and with this in mind Amazon Web Services have expanded the capabilities of its Amazon Bedrock generative AI framework. The AWS service can now ingest customized...
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IBM Purchases HashiCorp for Multicloud IT Automation
Enterprise software and services giant IBM is buying IT infrastructure provider HashiCorp for $6.4 billion, or $35 per HashiCorp share in cash, the two companies announced Wednesday. Boards from both...
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GQL: A New ISO Standard for Querying Graph Databases
Graph databases are now officially a first-class entity in the world of computer science. The International Standard for Organization (ISO) has published an international standard for querying graphs,...
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Apache Flink Gets Some Observability With Datorios
Datarios logo If something goes awry in a data streaming system, the corrections must be made as quickly as possible. After all, the data will just keeping flowing until the issue is fixed. To this...
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5 Lessons From LinkedIn’s First Foray Into GenAI Development
Every IT company today must be trying to incorporate generative AI into their own apps, hopefully in such a way that it will bring value to the user, and loyalty to the vendor. Social networking...
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OpenTofu Amiable to a Terraform Reconciliation
For OpenTofu co-maintainer, Sebastian Stadil the news of IBM acquiring HashiCorp was not exactly a surprise. Like the rest of us, he had heard the rumors of an acquisition for a few days beforehand....
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Kubernetes 1.30 Gets Better at Naming Things
Passport, please! Following public word of a container leakage last January, the release of Kubernetes 1.30 offers a few more security checkpoints, tightening up the permissions and access controls....
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Red Hat Rethinks the Linux Distro for the Container Age
DENVER — Just as you use containers to quickly launch applications, Red Hat wants to make it just as easy to boot up entire Linux-based operating systems. The company has made its flagship Linux...
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Red Hat Podman ‘Lab’ Gets Developers Started on GenAI
Podman, Red Hat‘s desktop tool for managing container pods, has been given extended duty, that of providing developers a workspace to build generative AI-based applications. Unlike many tools for...
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PyCon US: Simon Willison on Hacking LLMs for Fun and Profit
Simon Willison shared his thoughts about large language models at PyCon US. PITTSBURGH — Simon Willison, co-creator of the widely-used Python Django framework, has focused his creative energies on...
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DuckDB: In-Process Python Analytics for Not-Quite-Big Data
PITTSBURGH — You don’t always need a cluster to analyze even a very large data set. There is a lot you can pack into a single server running the open source DuckDB in-process analytical database...
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Snowflake Polaris Aims for Multiquery Engine Interoperability
SAN FRANCISCO — Apache Spark, Dremio, Python, Trino, and other big data analysis tools will all soon to be able to more easily read and write to Apache Iceberg tables, using the Iceberg REST API,...
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Snowflake, Databricks and the Fight for Apache Iceberg Tables
SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, Snowflake announced it had adopted Apache Iceberg tables as a native format. Now customers can put their Snowflake data lakes into Iceberg, and even create external tables...
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PlatformCon: How Spotify Manages Infrastructure with GitOps
For Spotify, speeding up feature development and deployment all comes down to templates and pipelines. The release cycle is almost completely automated. “The only people left in the process are...
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Why Python Is So Slow (And What Is Being Done About It)
PITTSBURGH —”In Python, you pay at the runtime,” goes an old Python aphorism. The Python programming language has garnered a rep for being rather pokey, a good starter language, but without the speed...
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