Chris Carter

Nov 6, 2024 | instaclustr.com | Chris Carter |Ben Bromhead |Ben Slater |Paul Brebner

Valkey® – the next-generation in-memory database solution that steps in as the leading successor to Redis – is now available on the NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform. Born earlier this year after Redis™ transitioned to a closed source model, the Valkey project addresses the need for a robust, open source alternative that upholds the ethos of transparency and community collaboration.

Jul 12, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Chris Carter |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams

Vector databases allow you to enhance your LLM models with data from your internal data stores. Prompting the LLM with local, factual knowledge can allow you to get responses tailored to what your organization already knows about the situation. This reduces “AI hallucination” and improves relevance. You can even ask the LLM to add references to the original data it used in its answer so you can check yourself.

Jul 5, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Bruce Gain |Jeffrey Burt |Chris Carter

Is Semantic Versioning still the best way to mark the new releases of software packages? The Rust community may be finding some challenges around this industrywide approach. In a survey of 1,000 most popular Rust utilities, packaged as Rust crates, a group of developers found that 17.2% of the packages had at least one SemVer violation — about 1 in 6 of all Rust packages surveyed.

Jul 5, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain |BC Gain |Jeffrey Burt |Chris Carter

The acceptance of Elastic’s continuous profiling agent by the OpenTelemetry profiling community is arguably a formality, but it will set the stage to realize what is possible for the profiling agent. Thanks to the signaling capabilities it offers, the agent could set the stage for a so-called fourth pillar of observability alongside traces, logs and metrics.

Jul 4, 2024 | thenewstack.io | John Wall |Bruce Gain |Jeffrey Burt |Chris Carter

The frantic pace of digitization in the industrial Internet of Things (IoT) creates steep learning curves for embedded software engineers. Building, integrating, and updating industrial software applications without compromising safety, security and performance can feel like working under pressure on constantly shifting sands.