Rust adds support for C-string literals
Rust 1.77, the latest version of the Mozilla Research-founded programming language focused on safety, speed, and concurrency, adds support for C-string literals. C-string literals in Rust expand to a null-byte terminated string in memory of type & ‘static CStr. This makes it easier to write code that will interoperate with foreign language interfaces that require […]
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Complexity bad: An interview with HTMX creator Carson Gross
Carson Gross is the creator of HTMX and Hyperscript, the mind behind The Grug Brained Developer, a professor of software engineering at Montana State University, and co-author of Hypermedia Systems. It was a pleasure to pick Carson’s brain about the impetus behind projects like HTMX and Hyperscript, the failures of REST, why JavaScript is here […]
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AI used extensively for security but not coding, JFrog survey finds
In JFrog’s just-released Software Supply Chain State of the Union 2024 report, the software supply chain platform provider found extensive use of AI and machine learning tools for security. However, only one in three software developers the company surveyed use generative AI to write code. While 90% of survey respondents indicate their organizations currently use […]
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Open source is not insecure
Frank Crane wasn’t talking about open source when he famously said, “You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.” But that’s a great way to summarize today’s gap between how open source is actually being consumed, versus the zero trust patterns that enterprises are trying […]
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How to use uv: A superfast Python package installer
Of all the criticisms leveled at Python, one of the most valid—and unfortunately long-lived—is the chaotic state of its packaging ecosystem. It’s less of a mess than it used to be, as so memorably illustrated by XKCD, but it’s still hardly ideal. Third parties such as poetry and pipenv have filled the gaps by offering […]
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LinkedIn open sources lakehouse tool OpenHouse
LinkedIn has decided to open source its data management tool, OpenHouse, which it says can help data engineers and related data infrastructure teams in an enterprise to reduce their product engineering effort and decrease the time required to deploy products or applications. OpenHouse is compatible with open source data lakehouses and is a control plane […]
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JetBrains unveils Ktor roadmap
JetBrains has unveiled a development roadmap for Ktor, the company’s Kotlin-based framework for building asynchronous client and server applications. Topping the list are OpenTelemetry plugins, gRPC support, simplified dependency injection, and support for managed transactions. JetBrains published the 2024 roadmap for Ktor on March 12. The company said its ongoing plans and goals remain consistent […]
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Why public cloud providers are cutting egress fees
Public cloud providers are often loathed for charging data transfer or “egress fees” for removing data from a specific cloud provider. If you move data out of a cloud provider, there’s a cost; for instance, you move inventory data from an inventory system residing in a public cloud provider to a supply chain system on […]
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GitHub Enterprise Server adds deployment rollout controls
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.12, now generally available, introduces tag patterns for restricting deployment rollouts to GitHub Actions environments. The new release also introduces merge queues, a feature that automates pull request merges. Announced March 6, GitHub Enterprise Server can be downloaded from github.com. With the 3.12 version, developers can restrict deployment rollouts to select tag […]
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Kubernetes is (not) a cost optimization problem
Kubernetes has become the de facto way to schedule and manage services in medium and large enterprises. Coupled with the microservice design pattern, it has proved to be a useful tool for managing everything from websites to data processing pipelines. But the ecosystem at large agrees that Kubernetes has a cost problem. Unfortunately, the predominant […]
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