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Aug 10, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Oladimeji Sowole |Janakiram MSV |Brett Wolmerans
This is often a rather divisive topic, but given how malicious threats are on the rise (even for the Linux operating system), there are many who’ve decided maybe it’s time to take notice of the issue. That’s not to say you need to immediately jump on the “I have to install every known antivirus and anti-malware software known to humankind on my Linux servers!” bandwagon. You don’t. And, in many cases, you probably don’t need to install such things in the first place.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Oladimeji Sowole |Janakiram MSV |Brett Wolmerans
Last year, Angular and React were essentially the same framework, said Google’s Angular lead Minko Gechev during his presentation at this year’s dotJS. It’s a radical statement in the JavaScript world, where developers are even encouraged to build their own frameworks. After all, Angular uses classes and templates and React uses functions and JSX, he acknowledged. But underneath, they’re serving the same functionality.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Janakiram MSV |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen
What Is the Python Match Case Statement and Why Use It? Featured image via Unsplash+. When Python 3.10 was released, it included a very important new feature called the match case statement. What this does is give you even more control over the flow of your programs. With match case statements, you control what parts of code are executed if/when conditions (aka cases) are met.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen
In my previous post, we looked at the construction of a small Flutter app. It was dense, but provided a very strong idea of how Flutter apps are constructed:An overall stateless widget that is the app frame and code root. The contents, which feels like building a responsive app with JSON and a CSS framework like Bootstrap. Relatively simple events, listeners and state changes.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Janakiram MSV |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen |David Cassel
Last week, GitHub announced the launch of GitHub Models, a new addition to the existing marketplace, which makes it easy for developers to consume the latest generative AI models. I got early access to GitHub Features and here is my review and analysis of this offering. What Are GitHub Models? GitHub Models are pre-trained generative AI models that can be used for a variety of tasks, such as text generation, embeddings, and chat.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Susan Hall |Janakiram MSV |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen
Distributed Postgres vendor pgEdge continues to tackle the complexities of logical replication with its latest version, known as the “Constellation Release,” which offers enhanced parallel processing, large object support and error handling. The greater throughput, flexibility and control make pgEdge a viable open source alternative for legacy database workloads requiring multimaster capability, according to Phillip Merrick, pgEdge CEO.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen |David Cassel
DevOps specialist CloudBees has enhanced its CI/CD and DevSecOps platform with new AI capabilities by acquiring Launchable, an AI company focusing on optimizing software testing and development processes. Ironically, a key factor in this move is the return to CloudBees of Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Harpreet Singh, former CloudBees employees who worked on Jenkins (previously known as Hudson). The two left CloudBees to launch Launchable in 2019.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Brett Wolmerans
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is quickly becoming a necessary element of generative AI applications. RAG endows pretrained AI models with superpowers of specialization, making them precise and accurate for vertical or task-specific applications. However, RAG also introduces new requirements around traffic, security and performance into your GenAI stack. With RAG comes new complexity and challenges that enterprises need to tackle with more sophisticated AI infrastructure.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen |David Cassel
When Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, gave his original JamStack talk in April 2016, he used a diagram to show how complex the web development world had become. Now, eight years later, he said that complexity is creeping back into the frontend. “We’ve gone a bit through the cycle where, for moments, we’ve reduced complexity a lot,” Biilmann told The New Stack.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jelani Harper |Brett Wolmerans |Mary Chen |David Cassel
Fireproof — the developer of a real-time, open source document database that’s lightweight enough to run almost anywhere, including on mobile and edge devices — launched in February of 2023. Eighteen months later, it’s got a thriving community of open source users and contributors. It recently completed its pre-seed funding, led by Engineering Capital, and is set to unveil the paid version of the platform, Fireproof Cloud, in November.
