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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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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