Several major technology companies have undergone personnel changes over the course of the last month. Here is a roundup of what we consider to be some of the biggest role changes in the month of October: Chris Meserole appointed first director of the Frontier Model Forum Earlier this year, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI formed … continue reading
Elastic, the company behind the distributed search and analytics engine Elasticsearch, recently unveiled Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE). The engine is backed by built-in vector search and transformer models to help bring AI innovation to proprietary enterprise data. ESRE offers organizations assistance with creating secure deployments so they can access the full value of their proprietary … continue reading
It was recently announced that Elastic and Amazon have resolved the trademark infringement lawsuit related to the term Elasticsearch. With this resolution, the only Elasticsearch on AWS and the AWS Marketplace is Elastic Cloud. This comes as a long awaited conclusion to the license battle between the two companies due to the change to the … continue reading
This week, Microsoft released the February 2022 Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework. This release does not contain any security improvements. For the most recent security updates, see here. With this, several reliability and quality improvement have been made, including: CLR: Addresses rare crashes and hangs that can appear in cases where GC occurs … continue reading
Elastic has recently announced new capabilities and updates to the Elastic Stack and Elastic Cloud. The upgrades focus on simplifying data management and onboarding, as well as enabling users to achieve faster data insights. Among the upgrades featured is native Google Cloud data source integration with Google Cloud Dataflow. This provides users with faster data … continue reading
DevOps has been a talking point in the development space for about a decade, but despite its age, some feel it’s still in its early days. One such person with that belief is Steve Kearns, the vice president of product management at Elastic, who joined SD Times podcast “What the Dev?” to explain his reasoning. … continue reading
Microsoft announced the September 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code, which includes a rich Python editing experience in the browser, a revamped testing experience, and a new button for running and debugging files on the editor. The new version also includes an update regarding the Microsoft Python Language Server’s end of … continue reading
In response to Elastic changing its license for Elasticsearch and Kibana products, Amazon has responded with plans to create and maintain an Apache License, Version 2.0 fork of the open-source products. Elastic announced earlier this week that it would be moving from the Apache 2.0 license to a dual license for Elasticsearch and Kibana, which … continue reading
Microsoft announced the release of MakeCode Arcade, a computing education platform designed to make programming easier, engaging and fun to learn. To build the platform platform the company integrated a new high-level programming language with text and graphical input modalities called Static TypeScript (STS). “With Arcade, STS lets developers of all skill levels easily write … continue reading
Elastic Stack version 7.3 is now available. The Elastic Stack is made up of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats and Logstash. The latest release introduces a new data frames feature, anomaly detection, and the general availability of Elastic Maps. Data frames will enable Elasticsearch users to take their data analysis to the next level with machine learning … continue reading
Elastic released the beta of Elastic Enterprise Search to provide organizations with a single, coordinated gateway that calms the chaos of searching through petabytes of data. Users can search through pull requests, issues, tickets, contracts, spreadsheets, documents and virtually any file type in one place without multiple browser windows holding many tabs. The initial beta … continue reading
Elastic has released version 1.0 of its Elastic Common Schema (ECS) specification. Initially announced in February, ECS is an open-source specification that “provides a consistent and customizable way for users to structure their event data in Elasticsearch.” ECS will enable data scientists to seamlessly analyze data from various sources. “ECS is designed to support uniform … continue reading
