In a surprise to no one, OpenAI has begun to monetize ChatGPT, its generative AI chatbot that was released as a free research preview in November 2022. It has announced a new subscription plan that costs $20/month and solves some of the issues people have been having with ChatGPT, such as it seeming to be … continue reading
The observability provider New Relic has announced the launch of a new change tracking solution to provide full visibility of change events throughout an application’s life cycle. According to New Relic, change events are the cause of most degradations in software performance. “With New Relic change tracking, every engineer, regardless of the specialty, can now … continue reading
Microsoft announced the beta for TypeScript 5.0, the next major release of the JavaScript-based programming language. With 5.0, Microsoft is working to make the language smaller, simpler, and faster. For example, the 5.0 beta takes 81% of the time to build VS Code that would take TypeScript 4.9 to do so. These performance improvements were … continue reading
Canonical has officially released its subscription-based and security-minded version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu Pro. This offering was first launched as a beta last October. What distinguishes Ubuntu Pro from the freely available version of Ubuntu is that it offers timely patches, hardening and compliance standards, and includes security support for 23,000 more packages than the main … continue reading
Fans of Windows Terminal now have a new preview release to enjoy. Windows Terminal is a terminal application that offers features like multiple tabs, panes, Unicode support, and custom themes. The Windows Terminal preview is now at version 1.17 and Windows Terminal has been updated to version 1.16. As a reminder, new features in 1.16 … continue reading
GitLab is officially entering the value stream management space with the beta release of its Value Streams Dashboard. The new dashboard provides an overall view of metrics like DORA and flow metrics. By tracking these metrics over a period of time, development teams will be able to locate trends early, drill down into individual metrics, … continue reading
ChatGPT has been the talk of the developer community ever since it was released to the public as a research preview at the end of last year. The tool, developed by OpenAI and trained off its GPT-3.5 model, is an AI-based conversational chatbot that is actually quite impressive in its capabilities. It enables you to … continue reading
OpenAI and Microsoft have announced that they are expanding their current partnership. This comes on the heels of OpenAI’s public release of ChatGPT at the tailend of last year, which has been making waves throughout the industry as people experiment with its capabilities. Microsoft had previously made large investments in OpenAI in 2019 and 2021, … continue reading
Platform engineering teams are on the rise, with 94% of respondents to Puppet by Perforce’s 2023 State of DevOps report saying that platform engineering is helping them realize the benefits of DevOps more than before. According to the company, platform engineering is the practice of “designing and building self-service capabilities to minimize cognitive load for … continue reading
Nearly four-fifths of developers (79%) believe that contributing to open source projects has helped further their careers, but 78% still say that companies should pay them for the time spent on contributions. This is according to a new survey from the CNCF and TAG Contributor Strategy (TAG CS), which is a group within the CNCF … continue reading
API company Jitterbit recently announced the integration of its message queueing service, MQ, into its automation platform, Harmony. According to Jitterbit, MQ provides capabilities for creating, deploying, and managing message queues. This enables things like asynchronous processing, guaranteed message delivery, and more efficient management of system workloads and resources. It provides simpler backend configuration, and … continue reading
Marketing leaders will continue facing uncertain and volatile conditions in 2023, while still being under pressure to drive growth. These include things like changes to third-party tracking in browsers, the economy, marketing budget cuts, and more. The tech industry in particular has been impacted by these volatile conditions in the market and in the workforce. … continue reading
