Kay Ewbank

Newcastle upon Tyne

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Facilitating Professional Scrum Teams (Pearson)

5 days ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Author: Patricia Kong, Glaudia Califano and David SpinksPublisher: PearsonPages: 320ISBN: 978-0138196141Print: 0138196141Kindle: B0CLKZC5JMAudience: Scrum managersRating: 5Reviewer: Kay Ewbank Scrum teams aren't always havens of peace and light, powering forward to produce sparkling results. Sometimes the team members don't really understand the elements of Scrum, and end up overrunning their allocated time, not contributing and participating.
CouchDB Adds Support For Truly Parallel Reads

5 days ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Written by Kay Ewbank CouchDB 3.5 has been released with new support for truly parallel reads independent from writes. The new version also adds a conflict finder plugin to the scanner module. Apache CouchDB is an open source NoSQL document database that stores data in a schema-free JSON format. CouchDB uses its own replication protocol to keep JSON documents synchronized.
Microsoft Launches Human Centered AI Tool

5 days ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Written by Kay Ewbank Microsoft Research has published details of a research prototype that provides a different type of interaction between humans and AI tools. Magentic-UI keeps the human in the loop and more in control. Magentic-UI is powered by a multi-agent system that can browse and perform actions on the web, generate and execute code, and generate and analyze files. What makes it different is the interaction between the tool and the user.
Amazon Releases Distributed Aurora Database

5 days ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Amazon has announced the release of Aurora DSQL, a fast serverless distributed SQL database that Amazon says has virtually unlimited scale, the highest availability, and zero infrastructure management. Aurora DSQL was announced last year at Amazon re:Invent..
GitLab 18 Extends Duo AI Feature

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

GitLab 18 has been released with extensions to the Duo AI-based assistant. The news was followed by reports that Duo had a security vulnerability that provided a route for attackers. The problem has now been fixed. GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git, specializes in providing a centralized, integrated platform for web developers with extensive features. Duo, which is powered by Anthropic's Claude model, is a tool that helps developers write, review, and analyze code.
Microsoft Announces Edit

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Written by Kay Ewbank Microsoft has announced Edit, a new open source command-line text editor in Windows. The editor will be available in preview in the Windows Insider Program "in the coming months" before shipping as part of Windows 11. If you're experiencing deja vu, you're not wrong, there is a command line text editor in 32-bit Windows in the form of the the MS-DOS editor.
Apache Ozone 2 Adds HSync Support

1 week ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Written by Kay Ewbank Apache Ozone 2 has been released with support for HSync and lease recovery, and symmetric keys for delegation tokens among the improvements. Apache Ozone is a highly scalable, distributed storage system for analytics, big data and cloud native applications. Ozone supports S3 compatible object APIs as well as a Hadoop Compatible File System implementation.
.NET Aspire 9.3 Adds New Lifecycle Events

2 weeks ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

.NET Aspire 9.3 has been released with improvements including the addition of GitHub Copilot to the .NET Aspire dashboard, along with a new context menu in the Resource Graph view; and new lifecycle events. NET Aspire is a stack for building cloud-native applications. It is included as part of .NET 9, and is made up of a collection of NuGet packages that Microsoft has designed for specific cloud-native uses.
Plainsight Introduces OpenFilter AI Tool

2 weeks ago | i-programmer.info | Kay Ewbank

Plainsight has launched OpenFilter, an open source project for developing, deploying, and scaling production-grade computer vision applications. The launch took place at the Embedded Vision Summit, the conference for innovators incorporating computer vision and AI in products, taking place in Santa Clara, California. Plainsight is best known for its automated infrastructure for data-centric AI pipelines.
Pulumi Announces Internal Developer Platform

1 month 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.