Using Microsoft’s Retina to monitor Kubernetes networks
Kubernetes plays an important role at Microsoft. The container management system is a foundational piece of the company’s many clouds, from Microsoft 365 and Xbox, to Azure, to partners like OpenAI that use Microsoft’s Kubernetes to host their own services. As a result, Microsoft has invented many of its own Kubernetes management tools. These include […]
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The dawn of eco-friendly systems development
In December 2023, delegates from almost 200 countries met in Dubai for the UN’s climate-change conference, COP28, to discuss the pressing need to reduce emissions, as reported by IEEE in this article. According to the website sustainability scoring tool Ecograder, and as the authors are quick to point out, the COP28 website produces 3.69 grams of […]
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Steampipe dashboards and benchmarks for your data
In Steampipe unbundled we showed how its plugins, which originally worked only with the foreign data wrapper loaded into Steampipe’s batteries-included Postgres, are now also available as stand-alone distributions that you can load into your own instances of Postgres or SQLite. Now Steampipe itself is unbundled: its dashboard server and benchmark runner have migrated to […]
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JetBrains IntelliJ IDE to add K2 compiler mode
JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA 2024.1, a release of the integrated development environment (IDE) due on April 4, will feature an optional K2 compiler mode, enabling developers to use K2 for faster and more robust Kotlin code analysis, the company said. With this planned release, the IDE for Kotlin and Java will have two modes. The class […]
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Microsoft unveils Copilot for Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has announced a private preview of Copilot in Azure SQL Database, an AI assistant that improves productivity in the Azure portal by offering natural language to SQL conversion, along with self-help for database administration. Microsoft announced the preview on March 21. To sign up for the preview, users can request access. Copilot in Azure […]
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Databricks acquires Lilac AI to boost data quality for LLM training
Data lakehouse provider Databricks said it is acquiring Boston-based Lilac AI to help enterprises explore and use their unstructured data for building generative AI-based applications. “Today, we are thrilled to announce that Lilac is joining Databricks. Lilac is a scalable, user-friendly tool for data scientists to search, cluster, and analyze any kind of text dataset with […]
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JetBrains unveils CI/CD service for smaller teams
JetBrains has launched a public beta version of TeamCity Pipelines, a cloud-based CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) service for small and medium-sized software engineering teams. Unveiled March 18, TeamCity Pipelines is intended to enable small development teams to automate the process of integrating code changes, testing them, and delivering an application. JetBrains said the goal was […]
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Vue team releases VitePress 1.0 static site generator
The developers of the Vue JavaScript framework have launched VitePress 1.0, a static site generator (SSG) for building fast, content-centric websites. Built on top of Vue and the Vite build tool (pronounced “veet”), VitePress takes source content written in Markdown, applies a theme, and generates static HTML pages for deployment. VitePress 1.0, announced March 21, […]
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Feds seek attestation on secure software
The US federal government has released a software attestation form intended to ensure that software producers partnering with the government leverage minimum secure development techniques and tool sets. The form was announced March 11 by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which developed the form with the Office of Management […]
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Building a smarter Azure Kubernetes for developers
With KubeCon Europe taking place this week, Microsoft has delivered a flurry of Azure Kubernetes announcements. In addition to a new framework for running machine learning workloads, new workload scheduling capabilities, new deployment safeguards, and security and scalability improvements, Microsoft has placed a strong emphasis on developer productivity, working to improve the developer experience and […]
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