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Jul 30, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ben Chambers |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
Knowledge graphs enable the linking of related content in a way that complements vector similarity. In much the same way that hyperlinks allow connecting a website with related information, edges in the graph enable connecting content with other content that’s relevant but not necessarily similar. Often, this provides a more complete context for the generative AI application to reference, leading to more complete answers.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ben Chambers |Ido Neeman |Susan Hall |Bruce Gain
Extracting knowledge graphs using a large language model (LLM) is time-consuming and error-prone. These difficulties arise because the LLM is being asked to extract fine-grained, entity-specific information from the content. Inspired by the benefits of vector search, especially the ability to get good results from ingesting content with relatively little cleaning, let’s explore a coarse-grained knowledge graph — the content knowledge graph — focused on the relationships between content.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
For Spotify, speeding up feature development and deployment all comes down to templates and pipelines. The release cycle is almost completely automated. “The only people left in the process are developers,” said Tim Hansen, senior engineer, working on Backstage, at music-sharing service Spotify, speaking at this week’s PlatformCon 2024 virtual conference.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jeff James |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
Despite being a relative newcomer to the developer tools ecosystem, AI continues to have an increasingly significant impact on how developers are doing their jobs. According to a recent report by Gartner, 75% of enterprise software engineers will be using AI code assistants by 2028, a sizable jump from only 10% of those surveyed in 2023.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Matt Butcher |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
This year Kubernetes celebrates its tenth birthday. As a developer who has been around the community since its early days, I found occasion to reflect on how things started, how Kubernetes marched to maturity, and how it is now displaying potential to expand into the WebAssembly movement. And since I’m a Swiftie, I broke these into eras in honor of my favorite musician. Era 1: When Kubernetes Was SimpleFirst, there was Borg.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
In a move to revolutionize the landscape of safety-critical software, The Rust Foundation has united key vendors — including Arm and Toyota — and experts to form the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium, paving the way for the adoption of the Rust programming language in systems where failure is not an option. Rust is not only one of the fastest-growing languages, it is also sought after for its memory safety, which the new consortium will help to proliferate.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers |Liam Crilly |Zachary Proser
The ‘phenomenal impact’ of working with TNS on ‘thoughtful content’Fermyon’s platform helps developers get their WebAssembly cloud native applications up and running in minutes, potentially speeding up workflows at millions of organizations. The company knew it needed to reach both cloud native developers and platform engineers, as well as technical decision makers, explains Fermyon CEO Matt Butcher.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Susan Hall |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
In the microservices era, the amount of data generated for observability has become overwhelming. Organizations are wrestling with how much to store and how much they can toss in order to keep systems running and still bar the financial wolf from the door. For instance, TNS’ Loraine Lawson wrote about one company’s $65 million Datadog bill.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
SAN FRANCISCO — Last week, Snowflake announced it had adopted Apache Iceberg tables as a native format. Now customers can put their Snowflake data lakes into Iceberg, and even create external tables on a cloud provider of their choice, and have Snowflake manage them. In addition, Snowflake released Polaris, a catalog for Iceberg tables that could be called by any data processing engine that could read the format (Spark, Dremio, Snowflake).
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Andrew J. Brust |Stephen Batifol |Heather Joslyn |Ben Chambers
Many companies have their own API for programmatic access — numerous enterprise SaaS applications, hyper-scaler cloud services, and developer services like GitHub. But all of these APIs work differently, and they require imperative code in languages like Python, Java or C#.
