EnterpriseDB brings Postgres offerings to Google Kubernetes Engine
EnterpriseDB is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud. An edition of the Postgres database has recently been made available on the Google Kubernetes Engine.
The cloud service Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has received assistance from EnterpriseDB's Postgres database (EDB). The database i... Read more
HashiCorp also installs a paywall: does open-source get a new meaning?
HashiCorp plans to make much of the company's open-source software only available for business customers. Once again, a player in the open source community is moving away from "real" open source.
HashiCorp offers some products that are very popular among cloud developers. The company is particu... Read more
Flutter 3.13 released: APIs for foldables, better iOS performance
There are new updates to Flutter, the UI SDK for multi-platform apps and Dart, the underlying programming language. Google is mostly bringing improvements to Flutter with these updates, from APIs for foldables to graphical improvements.
Flutter 3.13 is the only stable release coming out this qua... Read more
Open-source software company SUSE privatises again
SUSE would like to remove itself from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. To make the move, the company offers sixteen euros per share.
After two years as a publicly traded company, SUSE announces that it will in all likelihood go private again. The open-source software company is currently listed on... Read more
“Boring is good, boring is stable” is credo of Go programming language
With the launch of Go 1.21, Google engineer Russ Cox says there will never be a Go 2 that "breaks Go 1 programs." In doing so, he reiterates a promise made for Go 1.0 in 2012.
"Boring is good. Boring is stable. Boring means you can focus on your work, not on what's different about Go," Cox asser... Read more
Visual Studio 17.8 already available in Preview form
Microsoft has already released a preview of version 17.8. The timing is remarkable since Visual Studio 17.7 has only just become available. Again, this version has several new features.
Microsoft didn't waste any time and released the first preview for successor v17.8 just after the general rele... Read more
SUSE partners with Oracle and Rocky Linux for freely available EL source code
SUSE partnered with Oracle and CIQ, the party behind Rocky Linux, to encourage developers to create a RHEL-compatible distribution. The partnership supports this by offering the Linux source code for free and open.
SUSE, Oracle and CIQ together form OpenELA, an abbreviation for Open Enterprise ... Read more
Google tests develop environment with AI help: another GitHub Copilot story?
Google announces Project IDX, an online place for the development of full-stack web and multi-platform apps. A key element of the environment is the integrated AI assistant, which gets increasingly implemented on other development platforms as well.
Project IDX is a new test project from Google... Read more
StableCode LLM is teacher for beginner developers
Stability AI, the party behind image generator Stable Diffusion, is coming out with StableCode. This large language model gets its first public release today, allowing programmers to deploy a new assistant.
ChatGPT is known to be able to produce programming code, although half the time this is n... Read more
Visual Studio Code update brings back support for Unity
The latest 1.81 update to Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VSC) development tool brings back support for Unity's game engine. In addition, they add a number of other new features.
In version 1.81, Unity support - or actually, an extension - for VSC has been re-added. This means that in addition t... Read more