Platform engineering has been gaining quite a lot of traction lately — and for good reason. The benefits to development teams are many, and it could be argued that platform engineering is a natural evolution of DevOps, so it’s not a huge cultural change to adapt to. According to Jonathan Harding, Senior Product Manager of … continue reading
Open source software is prevalent in almost any codebase today, and it’s assuredly only going to grow larger. According to a 2024 analysis by the Harvard Business School, the supply side value of open source software is $4.15 billion, while the demand-side value is $8.8 trillion. With numbers like those, it’s easier to see how … continue reading
Anthropic has a number of updates to share about its AI models, including an updated version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the release of Claude 3.5 Haiku, and a public beta for a capability that enables users to instruct Claude to use computers as a human would. The new version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet features improvements … continue reading
Google Cloud is revealing the results of its 10th annual DORA report, which was designed to create industry benchmarks to give engineering teams a sense of how they are performing in relation to their peers. DORA includes four key metrics for measuring delivery performance: lead time for changes, deployment frequency, change fail rate, and failed … continue reading
IBM has announced the third-generation of its open source Granite LLM family, which features a number of different models ideal for various use cases. “Reflecting our focus on the balance between powerful and practical, the new IBM Granite 3.0 models deliver state-of-the-art performance relative to model size while maximizing safety, speed and cost-efficiency for enterprise … continue reading
Microsoft is continuing to improve generative AI across Windows with new updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The company has announced that the ability for users to create their own autonomous agents in Copilot Studio is moving from private to public preview next month. Agents can be triggered by specific events and act on their own, … continue reading
Gemini users will now be able to more easily select the model that fits their requirements by using Google AI Studio’s new Compare Mode. “As a developer, you understand the critical tradeoffs involved in model selection, such as cost, latency, token limits, and response quality. Compare Mode simplifies this process by allowing you to evaluate … continue reading
Apple is adding new requirements for developers releasing apps through its App Store in the EU because of new rules imposed by the Digital Services Act (DSA), a new regulation for online platforms and marketplaces designed to make those spaces safer and more transparent. As of October 17, developers will need to submit their “trader” … continue reading
Endor Labs is trying to help companies select more secure open source models with the release of Endor Scores for AI Models. The new scoring system evaluates AI models on Hugging Face using 50 metrics related to security, popularity, quality, and activity. The company had previously developed a scoring system for open source packages in … continue reading
More and more, development teams are adopting an API-first approach to software development, in which APIs are the building blocks of software and everything else is built around them. This is in contrast to code-first, where the full application — including the API, UI, and other components — is planned out together at the same … continue reading
The Eclipse Foundation recently conducted a report on open source in the Global South, the region of the world which the United Nations defines as “the developing and emerging industrial economies across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania.” To learn about the findings of the report and what they mean, we spoke with … continue reading
Microsoft is making it easier to use passkeys on Windows 11 by introducing a way for third-party passkey providers to integrate with Windows’ passkey system, improving the user experience for creating and using passkeys, and adding the ability to sync passkeys across multiple Windows 11 devices. Passkeys are a safer alternative to passwords where users … continue reading
