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Langflow, Cassandra: IBM’s DataStax Buy
The Greek Goddess Cassandra was known for foretelling the future, and now IBM is planning that its namesake open source database system and its associated tools will help its enterprise customers do...
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PostgreSQL Operator Joins CNCF Sandbox Stage
In its ongoing efforts to build out a full stack of open source cloud native technologies, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has accepted an open source Kubernetes operator for the PostgreSQL...
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FerretDB 2.0: Open Source MongoDB With PostgreSQL Power
A new project from the founders of Percona, FerretDB has set out to offer an open source alternative to the MongoDB NoSQL documented-oriented database system. FerretDB is not a fork, nor a rewrite of...
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Reinforcement Learning Pioneers Honored With ACM Turing Prize
Two researchers’ early theoretical work on reinforcement learning was recognized Wednesday, as the Association for Computing Machinery named researchers Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton as the...
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Model Context Protocol Bridges LLMs to the Apps They Need
“This is very much like microservices, but we are bringing in intelligence,” said Mahesh Murag, Anthropic engineer for applied AI, describing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source born at...
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How Slack Transformed Cron into a Distributed Job Scheduler
For a decade, Slack ran its cron jobs on a single server. But when the server started having issues and chewing up maintenance time, the company’s admins knew a more resilient job scheduler was...
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How Canva Keeps Its Image Metadata Fresh
Before 2020, the word “cottagecore” pretty much didn’t exist. But the Covid pandemic spurred a lot of people looking into making their own homes a lot more comfy, and generally romanticizing a...
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KubeCon EU 2025: Aviatrix’s Enterprise Firewall for Kubernetes
Kubernetes networking admins attending KubeCon+CloudNativeCon EU in London next week will need to visit booth S653. There, cloud networking service provider Aviatrix will be demonstrating its new...
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How To Generate ‘AI’ From a Database: Bruce Momjian
The next time you ask ChatGPT or another Generative AI service a question, take note of the order of the words in the answer you get. The last few words in your query will almost invariably be the...
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KubeCon EU 2025: Komodor’s Fix for Configuration Drift
Kubernetes networking admins attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London next week should stop by Booth N330 to learn how they can prevent Kubernetes configuration drift. The new Komodor...
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Google Extends Gmail Client-Side Encryption to All Users
For the 21st anniversary of the electronic mail service, Google has given Gmail an easy-to-use end-to-end encryption option. The fresh feature is designed to minimize the complexities of installing...
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KubeCon Europe: Kubernetes vNode, From the Makers of vCluster
Kubernetes administrators wandering around the show floor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 this week (in London) should stop by the LoftLabs at Booth S281 to learn about that company’s latest...
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KubeCon Europe: Kgateway Aims To Be the Kubernetes Onramp
Kubernetes network administrators at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU this week in London should drop by the Solo.io booth #S150 to learn about an open source Kubernetes API Gateway implementation, called...
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Apache Ray Finds a Home on the Google Kubernetes Engine
LAS VEGAS — In its ongoing efforts to make Kubernetes the de facto platform for large-scale AI/machine learning (ML) workloads, Google has struck up a partnership with Anyscale to offer a hosted...
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Google Kubernetes Engine Customized for Faster AI Work
LAS VEGAS — Google Cloud is gearing up for massive AI workloads, and is using Kubernetes as the platform to make it happen. This week, during the company’s Google Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas,...
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Q&A: How Google Itself Uses Its Gemini Large Language Model
This year, a great number of announcements came out at Google Next Conference, and perhaps not surprisingly, many were related to new developments around AI. So we were curious: Were all the AI...
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MongoDB Finds AI Can Help With Legacy System Migration
“We’re using LLMs and AI to fully modernize old applications,” said Scott Sanchez, MongoDB‘s product marketing and strategy leader, in an interview at the Google Next conference last week in Las...
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Valkey Bloom Filter Detects Fraud (While Not Breaking the Bank)
Just in time for spring (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere), the Valkey open source key-value datastore now supports a new data type, Bloom filters. The newly released valkey-bloom module can...
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Cloud Service: What Pope Francis Thought About AI
When it comes to matters of the soul, the Catholic Church has been one of its closest observers of human nature for centuries now. So, as the field of artificial intelligence grapples with the...
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Kubernetes v1.33 Advances in AI, Security and the Enterprise
Wednesday’s release of the latest version of the Kubernetes open source resource orchestration platform brings some long-awaited features for AI workloads, security and overall enterprise use. “It’s a...
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