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Senior Editor and Reporter at The New Stack

IT ops reporting @thenewstack: Kubernetes, containers, SRE, Linux, IaC, VMs, databases etc // see also @DiscCheap for the lively arts...

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  • 3 days ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

    More applications will be built in the next three years than in the previous 30, estimated Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami, in a keynote at his company’s annual .NEXT user conference in Washington, D.C. last week. And this is why the enterprise will need Kubernetes. While K8s may seem like a complicated piece of software to manage,  the average organization will need it to manage its own increasingly complex infrastructure.

  • 1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

    The folks at StackLok have developed a command line utility, called ToolHive, to securely manage the Multiple Context Protocol (MCP) servers you may be running in-house, by using Kubernetes and containers. These days, everyone is building MCPs, which allow large language model (LLM)-based applications to access data and services from applications. Setting up multiple MCP servers, however, can lead to the usual headaches that always come with managing multiple copies of software.

  • 2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

    Wednesday’s release of the latest version of the Kubernetes open source resource orchestration platform brings some long-awaited features for AI workloads, security and overall enterprise use. “It’s a pretty big release,” said Nina Polshakova, the engineer who was the release lead for version 1.33. This edition consists of 64 enhancements, significantly more than the 44 of the previous release.

  • 3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

    When it comes to matters of the soul, the Catholic Church has been one of its closest observers of human nature for centuries now. So, as the field of artificial intelligence grapples with the possibilities of emulating human intelligence, perhaps the Vatican would be in a good position to provide some insight into the current challenges of emulating human intelligence in digital form.

  • 3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson

    Just in time for spring (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere), the Valkey open source key-value datastore now supports a new data type, Bloom filters. The newly released valkey-bloom module can work on Valkey version 8 and later. (The most recent version of the data store, v8.1, was released last month.)A type of probabilistic search, Bloom filters offer a very efficient way of determining whether or not a given value is a member of a data set.

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9 May 25

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Joab Jackson @Joab_Jackson
8 May 25

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Joab Jackson
Joab Jackson @Joab_Jackson
3 May 25

RT @thenewstack: .@GoogleCloud is gearing up for massive AI workloads, and is using Kubernetes as the platform to make it happen. @Joab_Ja…