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Apache Gravitino 0.9 Released

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham Apache Gravitino v0.9.0-incubating has been released, with optimizations to the fileset catalogs and model catalogs, making it easier for users to manage their unstructured AI data and model data. Apache Gravitino is a high-performance, geo-distributed, and federated metadata lake.
Linkerd 2.18 Adds Protocol Declarations

1 month ago | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Version 2.18 of the Linkerd service mesh has added features aimed at making the software better at handling problematic situations, along with an experimental build of the proxy for Windows environments. Linkerd can be used to add security, reliability, and observability features to cloud native applications, particularly those that use Kubernetes.
Crescendo Adds New Agentic Features

2 months ago | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham Crescendo has added new agentic AI capabilities to its managed augmented AI platform for customer support software. The additions will let users automate more tasks, and there's also a new conversational CX (customer experience) Data Assistant. Crescendo's AI-powered customer support software uses AI to automate repetitive customer support tasks, such as answering common questions and resolving simple issues.
EngFlow CMakeRE Build System Now In Public Beta

2 months ago | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

EngFlow has launched the public beta of CMake RE, a remote execution service for the CMake software build system, along with a new open source project build system. The company has also announced the acquisition of tipi.build. EngFlow is a build acceleration company created by Bazel engineers and funded by Andreessen Horowitz, firstminute capital and Tiger Global. The public beta of CMake RE is a tool for C and C++ developers that provides build acceleration, caching and remote execution.
FerretDB 2 Moves To DocumentDB

Feb 11, 2025 | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham FerretDB has been updated to version 2.0, which the company says offers major improvements in performance, compatibility, support, and flexibility. In practical terms, the main change is a move to use Microsoft's DocumentDB PostgreSQL extension, which is behind a twenty times performance improvement FerretDB is an open-source alternative to MongoDB.
Apple Open Sources Swift Build

Feb 6, 2025 | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham Apple has announced that it is open sourcing Swift Build, an extensible build engine that provides a set of build rules for building Swift projects. Swift is Apple's language that was originally developed as an alternative language to Objective C. Swift's designers aim is to provide a single language including the best ideas from languages such as C# and JavaScript, while being easy to use. It was made open source by Apple in 2015.
DryRun Announces Natural Language Code Policies

Jan 23, 2025 | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

DryRun Security is introducing Natural Language Code Policies to provide AppSec teams with an automated way to build and maintain security policy rules. DryRun Security was co-founded in 2023 by James Wickett and Ken Johnson. Having worked in the AppSec space for years, the founders shared a vision for empowering development teams to build secure software without disrupting their workflows.
Google Home APIs In Android Beta

Jan 13, 2025 | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham Google has made the Android version of its Home APIs available in public developer beta, with the iOS version coming to public developer beta in the coming months. The Home APIs were announced at Google I/O last year, along with a Home runtime that can be used to access over 600M devices, Google's hubs and Matter infrastructure.
Gleam 1.7 Improves Performance

Jan 9, 2025 | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham Gleam 1.7 has been released with faster record updates and more secure package manager credential handling. Gleam is a statistically typed-language the compiles to Erlang or JavaScript. Gleam was first released in 2019 as a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale. It is statically-typed and has its own type-safe implementation of OTP, Erlang's actor framework.
Linkerd Adds Egress And Rate Limiting

Dec 5, 2024 | i-programmer.info | Alex Denham

Written by Alex Denham Linkerd has announced a new version of its service mesh. It adds three major new features: egress traffic visibility and control; per-service rate limiting; and federated services.