Gerald Venzl

2 months ago | lxer.com | Greg Allen |Kimberley Mok |Joab Jackson |Gerald Venzl

12 Critical Open Source Projects Losing Security Support in 2025 contributed,sponsor-okta,sponsored-topic, Nothing lasts forever, and this especially true in open source software. Even the most popular versions of open source technologies will one day reach their end-of-life (EOL).

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Gerald Venzl

Vector databases, an important component within AI-driven architectures, have gained a lot of popularity with the advent of mainstream AI and large language models (LLMs). In the most basic terms, vector databases are databases that allow the storage and retrieval of vectors. Vectors are the key component of LLMs that abstract and reason about the data the model has been trained on. Vector databases, however, being databases, can do more than just store and retrieve vectors.

Apr 3, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Gerald Venzl |Loraine Lawson |Joab Jackson |Kimberley Mok

SQL is generally seen as one of the best high-level programming languages for analyzing and manipulating data due to its easy-to-learn syntax. It’s a declarative language, so users declare what results they want, rather than how to get the results, like imperative languages such as C, Java and Python. It’s also easy to read, because its syntax is similar to the English language. In the first part of this series, I broke down the syntax used for SQL queries.

Mar 27, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Gerald Venzl |Jeffrey Burt |April E. Cho |Liam Crilly

SQL is a declarative, English-like domain language for querying, analyzing and manipulating data. SQL originated from relational databases but has since been widely adopted elsewhere. SQL is considered a declarative language, meaning users declare what results they want and not how to get to these results (the latter is the approach of imperative programming languages, such as C, Java and Python).

Nov 9, 2023 | thenewstack.io | Gerald Venzl |Saif Gunja |Loraine Lawson |Jason Monden

GitHub Actions is a platform that automates the build, test and deployment pipeline of your GitHub projects. Since its introduction, GitHub Actions has been steadily gaining popularity among developers. Not only do GitHub Actions help automate the test and integration cycles, but it can also drastically shorten them, accelerating developer feedback as part of the process.