MongoDB has announced the release of the latest version of its database platform—MongoDB 8.0. According to the company, this release offers significant performance improvements compared to MongoDB 7.0, such as 36% better read throughput, 56% faster bulk writes, 20% faster concurrent writes during replication, and 200% faster handling of higher volumes of time series data, … continue reading
OpenAI held its annual DevDay conference yesterday, where it announced its Realtime API, as well as features like prompt caching, vision fine-tuning, and model distillation. The Realtime API is designed for building low-latency, multimodal experiences, and it’s now available as a public beta. The company shared a couple of examples of companies that are using … continue reading
Liquid AI, an AI startup spun out from MIT, has announced its first series of generative AI models, which it refers to as Liquid Foundation Models (LFMs). “Our mission is to create best-in-class, intelligent, and efficient systems at every scale – systems designed to process large amounts of sequential multimodal data, to enable advanced reasoning, … continue reading
A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of highlights: Veeam appoints Niraj Tolia as new CTO Tolia is joining the company after being CEO and co-founder of the data management startup, Alcion, which was acquired by Veeam earlier this month. Before co-founding Alcion, he … continue reading
The testing platform BrowserStack has announced the general availability of a new solution designed to help mobile app testers make their apps more inclusive and accessible. App Accessibility Testing finds accessibility issues early on in the mobile app development process so that developers can take a more proactive approach to fixing these issues. It requires … continue reading
The software delivery company Harness is jumping on the AI train with a number of new AI solutions across its DevOps, QA, and Code Generation solutions. Harness AI DevOps Assistant uses AI to optimize workflows and track deployments, and can make recommendations on what improvements to make. It also helps with the creation of pipelines … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation has announced that it formed the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group to help the open source community navigate upcoming global regulations. “Given the impact of software technology on the global economy, it is unsurprising that governments worldwide are enacting new regulations to safeguard privacy, security, and accessibility,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director … continue reading
The observability platform Honeycomb has just launched Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to provide developers with access to more debugging and observability capabilities. “The frontend is critical – it’s where customers spend their time and where revenue is generated. Unfortunately, many frontend observability tools are outdated, offering only aggregated metrics and limited insights,” said Christine Yen, … continue reading
OpenAI is attempting to level up developers and enable them to use AI to solve issues in their communities and drive economic growth. OpenAI Academy is a new program that will provide technical guidance and support from OpenAI experts, distribute $1 million in API credits (with more potentially being added later), hold contests and incubator … continue reading
Anyone testing web applications ought to be aware of a new browser automation protocol called WebDriver BiDi. This new protocol is an evolution of the original WebDriver standard and it incorporates some of the benefits of various other automation tools, most notably, adding bidirectional communication. “It’s a brand new protocol, and it’s taking all the … continue reading
The PostgreSQL database, YugabyteDB, has been updated to a distributed architecture to make it a better option for companies building cloud-native applications. According to Yugabyte, while PostgreSQL has many benefits, it does have limited resilience and scalability, which is not good for applications that need to stay online through outages, scale quickly to keep up … continue reading
Swift 6, now generally available, is a major release of the programming language and expands it to more platforms and domains beyond just Apple operating systems, which is what it was originally designed for. It now offers strict concurrency checking, which helps developers find data races at compile time, which could lead to an app … continue reading
