Laying the groundwork for cost-conscious coding
Every cloud-consuming company is concerned about runaway cloud costs. To address those concerns, the big three cloud service providers have introduced cloud pricing calculators. We’ve also seen the rise of finops. That’s a good start. But cloud calculators and finops are infrastructure-focused, not application-focused. To avoid unnecessary cloud costs, you need to optimize the code […]
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Help for generative AI is on the way
As the momentous first year of ChatGPT comes to a close, it’s clear that generative AI (genAI) and large language models (LLMs) are exciting technologies. But are they ready for prime-time enterprise use? There are well-understood challenges with ChatGPT, where its responses have poor accuracy. Despite being based on sophisticated computer models of human knowledge […]
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Steampipe unbundled: From cloud APIs to your database
We’ve seen how Steampipe can unify access to APIs, drive metasearch, enforce KPIs as code, and detect configuration drift. The enabling plugins were, until recently, tightly bound to the Steampipe binary and to the instance of Postgres that Steampipe launches and controls. That led members of Steampipe’s open-source community to ask, “Can we use the […]
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Get started with Flask 3.0
One reason Python is a prime choice for web development is the breadth of web frameworks available in the language. Among the most popular and useful is Flask, which lets you start simple (“one drop at a time”) but grows with your application to add just about all the functionality you need. In this article, […]
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Swift package plugin generates code from OpenAPI docs
Apple has released the stable 1.0 version of the Swift OpenAPI Generator 1.0, for generating Swift client and server code from an OpenAPI document, Swift developers announced on January 31. Swift OpenAPI Generator generates the code needed to make API calls or implement API servers. The code is generated automatically at build time, so it is […]
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How to assemble a generative AI dream team
The question of the day is no longer “What’s the best cloud?” It’s now “How do we build a team of people to build a net-new generative AI system?” Budgets have dropped. The board of directors wants one of these nifty generative AI systems that everyone is talking about to fundamentally change how the business […]
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Java proposal would streamline record creation
In an effort to streamline code, Java would be enhanced with derived record creation, via a proposal that would provide a means to create record instances from existing records through a block of transformation code. The OpenJDK proposal authored by Oracle technical staff, titled “Derived Record Creation,” would streamlinescode by deriving a new record from […]
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Most cloud-based genAI performance stinks
I’ve been asked if generative AI systems are always slow. Of course, I reply, “Slow, as compared to what?” The response I always get is funny. “Slower than we thought it would be.” And the circle continues. Performance is often an afterthought with generative AI development and deployment. Most deploying generative AI systems on the […]
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Deno adds API for date and time operations
Deno 1.40, the latest version of the JavaScript runtime positioned as a rival to Node.js, has been launched with a Temporal API for advanced date and time operations. The update was announced January 25. Deno can be accessed from deno.com. The Temporal API is intended to address shortcomings of the existing Date object in JavaScript. […]
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Google Project IDX adds Android emulators, iOS simulator
Project IDX, Google’s experimental, AI-powered, cloud-based developer platform, has added Android and iOS simulators and templates for Go, Python, Node.js, and other languages and development frameworks, the company announced on January 25. An experimental initiative in limited preview, Project IDX is intended to bring an entire full-stack, multi-platform application development to the cloud. The latest […]
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