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Feb 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jeffrey Burt |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
Adoption of generative AI tools and large language models (LLMs) since OpenAI introduced its ChatGPT chatbot in late November 2022 has only accelerated, reaching deep into organizations of all shapes, sizes, and sectors, and software developers have not been immune to the siren call.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Parasar Kodati |Leigh Shevchik |Rak Siva |Alex Williams
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) helps DevOps, ITOps and other engineers manage data, applications and infrastructure in dynamic IT environments with increasing scale, complexity and diversity. With a GitOps-driven workflow, engineers can bring much-needed standardization, security and operational consistency across diverse environments. While there are many compelling reasons to embrace IaC, one innovation tips the scales in its favor: generative artificial intelligence (AI).
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Paul Scanlon |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati |Mark Gamble
Before we get going, a disclaimer: I love React but sometimes, I really don’t need it. Many of my recent projects have been built using Astro (which by default ships zero JavaScript to the client — superb for fast, lightweight and performant content websites). But on occasion, I have needed a little bit of client-side JavaScript to enable interactivity. At this point, I’ve found myself struggling to decide between regular Vanilla JavaScript or React.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Darryl Taft |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
Not to be outdone, Google introduced new experimental generative AI features to its Chrome browser to simplify and provide a more efficient browsing experience for users. With the release of Chrome version M121, Google intends to make browsing not only easier but also more personalized using the latest machine learning and AI techniques. Microsoft introduced integration between its Edge browser and AI-powered Bing search engine last year for this same purpose.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
A function is a reusable bit of code that can execute a specific functionality any time it is called within a program. Functions are a great way to make your code more efficient and also to create blocks of code that can be used from one program to another (as long as they fit the purpose of the app in question). Of course, Python has several built-in functions, such as print(), zip(), map(), eval(), float() and many more.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Janakiram MSV |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
Perplexity has been making waves since its appearance at the AWS re:Invent keynote in December 2023. Intrigued by the approach, I signed up for Copilot when it was launched. Out of many AI assistants that I have access to, I found Perplexity’s Copilot to be the most useful and functional. That’s because it offers the best of both worlds: generative AI and conventional search experiences. I soon replaced my default search engine with its search companion.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
NLUX, a new open source Javascript React library, lets developers build their own chatbot user interfaces. It also allows developers to customize the personality of the bot using natural language cues. NLUX can be used with any large language model (LLM) backend service but comes with pre-built adapters to connect with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Hugging Face’s large language models (LLM).
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Chris Preimesberger |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
To many enterprise IT observers, Broadcom — the new owner of what used to be known as VMware for 25 years — believes that its prized $69 billion acquisition’s product line was too complicated, far-flung and perhaps even becoming irrelevant here in the mid-2020s. Why else would Broadcom discontinue 56 (and counting) standalone products that are used in virtually all of the world’s data centers daily?
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Sharon Kisluk |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati |Mark Gamble
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), there’s been a surge in efforts to integrate generative AI into Software as a Service (SaaS) product portfolios. However, this wave of innovation brings an exponential increase in risk as these generative AI products ingest sensitive data such as customer information or other personally identifying information (PII).
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Heather Joslyn |Raghavan Srinivas |Richard MacManus |Parasar Kodati
CHICAGO — Incoming traffic looking to access your network and platform probably uses the network’s ingress. But the ingress carries with it scaling, availability and security issues. For instance, said Mike Stefaniak, senior product manager at NGINX, in this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, once you have several teams working on the same ingress, inside the same Kubernetes cluster, “It’s a lot of hands on the same resource. And that can cause a lot of friction between the teams.
