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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Netlify AI analyzes failed deployments
Web development platform provider Netlify has added AI-enabled deploy assist capabilities to its Composable Web Platform. Unveiled March 7, AI-enabled deploy assist analyzes failed deployments and offers suggestions to correct errors. Netlify said the feature is intended to reduce the time developers spend manually reviewing logs and debugging failed builds, ensuring failed builds do not […]
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Google API brings LLMs to Android and iOS devices
Google has released an experimental API that allows large language models to run fully on-device across Android, iOS, and web platforms. Introduced March 7, the MediaPipe LLM Inference API was designed to streamline on-device LLM integration for web developers, and supports web, Android, and iOS platforms. The API provides initial support for four LLMs: Gemma, […]
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Are the different public clouds really that different?
In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature in the object storage system on one provider is better than the object storage feature on another provider, […]
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Leadtools adds Excel API, MAUI support
Apryse, provider of the cross-platform Leadtools toolkit for building document and image processing capabilities into applications, has released Leadtools 23, which introduces a new Excel API and .NET MAUI support. Released March 5, Leadtools 23 features an Excel API that allows developers to build and save Microsoft Excel sheets programmatically, while the Excel Web Editor […]
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