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AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the SRE measurements and observability pillar of DevOps practice.

Users can fire up a Jupyter notebook, load the models, pull down code from GitHub repositories, power up the runtime, and let GPUs from a number of cloud providers do the heavy lifting to produce the output, all for free.

Elixir was built on Erlang. Erlang was built to provide "consistently low latency" and a few other audacious goals. Note, this is not a hard realtime constraint. It is soft, squishy and yet, important and real. It makes Erlang unusually suitable to systems where latency matters and where a near-realtime experience is necessary.

Leslie Lamport is a computer scientist & mathematician who won ACM’s Turing Award in 2013 for his fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems. He also created LaTeX and TLA+, a high-level language for “writing down the ideas that go into the program before you do any c...

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There is no question in our minds here at The Next Platform that quantum computing, in some fashion, will be part of the workflow for solving some of the peskiest computational problems the world can think of. What we have had out doubts about is if anyone can ever make any money from quantum computing.

Fermyon says AI and WebAssembly are perfect partners, as the company is baking AI models into the WebAssembly runtime.

Platform teams should pave golden paths that optimize processes for Day 2 to Day 50, not just Day 1. Here are some examples.

Can a cloud development environment be self-hosted? Daytona, a new product from the founders of Codeanywhere, aims to do just that.

The world runs on code maintained largely by an army of unpaid hobbyists. It's not sustainable. Who's trying to change that?

Platform engineering involves creating an environment that empowers developers to focus on building applications. Kubernetes can help.

Product demos are crucial in development. They offer insight into team progress and align stakeholder expectations. Yet, we sometimes need more than showcasing the product. Vital to success is asking stakeholders some practical questions.

Stephen Wolfram shares memories of Doug Lenat, early AI pioneer and developer of the CYC system. Their discussions around AI & logic and the potential combined uses of their respective discoveries.

Pointers to build a production-grade Backstage developer portal from scratch.

Understanding WASM, Part 3: You Are Here

The great thing about measuring developer productivity is that you can quickly identify the bad programmers. I want to tell you about the worst programmer I know, and why I fought to keep him in the team.

Have you ever come across the words "obvious" and "obvius" and wondered which one is the correct spelling? Well, the answer is simple - "obvious" is the

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To achieve real-time analytics, it usually takes a monumental effort to implement the query layer. Open source StarRocks can support an approach to data analytics that eliminates the need for traditional data pipelines.

A comic artist took a journalistic dive into the knotty debates around generative AI—and found artists worried about the people even more than the tech.

Charting ESPN’s rise, including how it build leverage over the cable TV providers, and its ongoing decline, caused by the Internet.

We talk to Spotify’s lead engineer for Backstage about the incentives needed to get your developers onboard with platform engineering.

Governance Engineering is just good DevOps that also includes governance folks into the fold.

A look at the trade-offs between cost and value that can come with investing in observability.