Mary Branscombe

1 week ago | thestack.technology | Mary Branscombe

Built at Netflix, used at Apple, LinkedIn, Meta and Tencent, supported by data processing engines like Spark and Flink and adopted by an increasingly long list of database and data platform vendors from Databricks to Microsoft to Snowflake; the open source Apache Iceberg is a common table format designed for extremely large analytic data sets that lets you mix and match.

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Mary Branscombe

For the last four years, the major browser vendors, web standards creators and other contributors to browser engines have joined together to improve the interoperability of the web, coordinating improvements to inconsistent browser implementations so it’s easier to make websites and apps that work the same way in every browser and on different devices.

2 months ago | thestack.technology | Mary Branscombe |Ed Targett

Broadcom warned today that a trio of VMware zero days are being exploited in the wild – and can be used to “escape” from a virtual machine (VM) to the underlying hypervisor itself, with root privileges. Yes, that’s a “yikes.” That's potentially a hacker going from compromising a meagre single VM to your entire VMware private cloud.

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Mary Branscombe

Whether you were building a web site or an application, hosting choices used to be about bandwidth, latency, security and availability (as well as cost), with content delivery networks (CDNs) handling static assets and application delivery networks relying on load balancing for scale. All those things still matter, but there are also many more choices to take into account — from the backend implications of frontend decisions, to where your development environment lives.

2 months ago | lemondeinformatique.fr | Mary Branscombe

L'IA générative ne se résume plus à des chatbots à qui l'on pose des questions. Elle est en passe de devenir un outil à même de réaliser des opérations - l'IA agentique étant l'expression un peu maladroite pour désigner cette approche. Et il devient de plus en plus évident que la GenAI est la plus utile et la plus appréciée des employés lorsqu'elle est personnalisée.