The database company Aerospike has announced the latest version of its Kubernetes Operator with new features that improve backup and scalability. The Aerospike Kubernetes Operator (AKO) enables users to simplify management and monitoring of their Aerospike databases. AKO 3.4 incorporates the recently launched Aerospike Backup Service (ABS), which allows for easy management of backup jobs … continue reading
Product-led growth (PLG) has become the golden standard for SaaS companies aiming to scale rapidly and efficiently. In fact, a 2024 survey from ProductLed.com found that 91% of respondents are planning to invest more resources in PLG initiatives this year. As an advocate for this approach personally, I’ve witnessed firsthand the transformative power of putting … continue reading
IBM is releasing a family of AI agents (IBM SWE-Agent 1.0) that are powered by open LLMs and can resolve GitHub issues automatically, freeing up developers to work on other things rather than getting bogged down by their backlog of bugs that need fixing. “For most software developers, every day starts with where the last … continue reading
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT so that its responses include results from the web, bringing the power of the search engine directly into the chat interface. “This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes, and more,” OpenAI wrote in a post. According to OpenAI, ChatGPT … continue reading
Google is announcing that the Gemini API and Google AI Studio now both offer the ability to ground models using Google Search, which will improve the accuracy and reliability of Gemini’s responses. By grounding the responses with Google Search results, responses can have fewer hallucinations, more up-to-date information, and richer information. Grounded responses also include … continue reading
Google has announced that it is open sourcing a new Java-based differential privacy library called PipelineDP4J. Differential privacy, according to Google, is a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) that “allows for analysis of datasets in a privacy-preserving way to help ensure individual information is never revealed.” This enables researchers or analysts to study a dataset without accessing … continue reading
The AI coding assistant provider Tabnine is releasing a private preview for its Code Review Agent, a new AI-based tool that validates software based on the development team’s unique best practices and standards for software development. According to Tabnine, using AI to review code is nothing new, but many of the tools currently available check … continue reading
GitHub is hosting its annual user conference, GitHub Universe, today and tomorrow, and has announced a number of new AI capabilities that will enable developers to build applications more quickly, securely, and efficiently. Many of the updates were across GitHub Copilot. First up, GitHub announced that users now have access to more model choices thanks … continue reading
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) is updating its Developing Secure Software (LFD121) course with new interactive learning labs that provide developers with more hands-on learning opportunities. LFD121 is a free course offered by OpenSSF that takes about 14-18 hours to complete. Any student who passes the final exam gets a certificate that is valid … continue reading
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the complexity of distributed systems and microservices architectures has reached unprecedented levels. As organizations strive to maintain visibility into their increasingly intricate tech stacks, observability has emerged as a critical discipline. At the forefront of this field stands OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework that has gained significant traction in … continue reading
In 2020, Martin Fowler introduced domain-driven design (DDD), advocating for deep domain understanding to enhance software development. Today, as organizations adopt DDD principles, they face new hurdles, particularly in data governance, stewardship, and contractual frameworks. Building practical data domains is a complex undertaking and comes with some challenges, but the rewards in terms of data … continue reading
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) today released its open source AI definition version 1.0 to clarify what constitutes open source AI. This gives the industry a standard by which to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. The definition covers code, model, and data information, with the latter being … continue reading
The explosion in interest in AI, particularly generative AI, has had many positive benefits: increased productivity, easier and faster access to information, and often a better user experience in applications that have embedded AI chatbots. But for all its positives, there is one huge problem that still needs solving: how do we power it all? … continue reading
Google is making it easier for companies to build generative AI responsibly by adding new tools and libraries to its Responsible Generative AI Toolkit. The Toolkit provides tools for responsible application design, safety alignment, model evaluation, and safeguards, all of which work together to improve the ability to responsibly and safely develop generative AI. Google … continue reading
