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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Pulumi has announced Pulumi IDP, a new internal developer platform built on Pulumi's open source IaC platform. The developers say Pulumi IDP provides the fastest, most secure way for engineering teams to go from idea to cloud in minutes, not months.
Pulumi is an open source infrastructure as code platform that supports the use of general-purpose programming languages for cloud development.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Microsoft has announced a new Graph API usage report in a beta API version in Microsoft Graph.
Microsoft Graph lets organizations map the relationships between people, information and activities within the organization, and can be used to integrate data from Microsoft services into developers own apps. It is designed to be a unified API endpoint for accessing data, intelligence, and insights coming from the Microsoft cloud.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Akka has announced new deployment options for its Akka platform, as well as new solutions to tackle the issues with deploying large-scale agentic AI systems for mission-critical applications.
Akka, formerly known as Lightbend, develops software for building and running distributed applications that are elastic, agile, and guaranteed resilient. Akka is a platform consisting of a set of libraries downloaded 1 billion times.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Azul has announced JVM Inventory, a new feature of Azul Intelligence Cloud aimed at making it easier to migrate away from Oracle Java.
Azul specializes in runtimes for executing Java-based applications.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Amazon has improved the CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI) to provide a faster more interactive coding experience. Amazon Q Developer can now use the information in its CLI environment to provide help on reading and writing files locally, querying AWS resources write code, or automatically debugging issues.
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Author: Charles P. Pfleeger, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Lizzie Coles-KempPublisher: Addison-WesleyPages: 1040ISBN: 978-0137891214Print: 0137891210Kindle: B00S88TJV2Audience: GeneralRating: 4Reviewer: Kay Ewbank
This is an updated version of a classic text on security in computing. It would be a good read for a student starting a course on computer security, but is it as useful for the rest of us?
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Despite it being tagged as a minor upgrade, NET Aspire 9.2 has a number of additions. Since the last major release, NET Aspire 9 has offered new control over the lifetime of containers on local developer environments. This upgrade has added a preview of publishers, a new way of integration making it easier to package and deploy .NET Aspire apps to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, and Azure.
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank JRuby 10 has been released with support for Ruby 3.4 (including 3.2 and 3.3 updates as well). The minimum Java version has also been increased to Java 21, allowing the language to support more modern JVM features.
JRuby is a high performance, stable, fully threaded Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.
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4 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Kafka 4.0 has been released, with major changes. This is the first version to operate entirely in KRaft mode by default. It also adds a new consumer group protocol designed to dramatically improve rebalance performance, and includes early access to Queues for Kafka, enabling Kafka to support traditional queue semantics directly.
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1 month ago | 
i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank
Written by Kay Ewbank Google has added an Agent Development Kit (ADK) to Vertex AI, along with an agent engine and an Agent2Agent protocol that provides agents with a common, open language for collaboration. The announcement was made at Google's annual Google Cloud Next conference, saying it will make it possible to build an AI agent in under 100 lines of Python code.
Vertex AI is a fully-managed, unified AI development platform for building and using generative AI.
