Visual Studio gets revamped Extension Manager and HTTP Editor
Microsoft has released a new preview of Visual Studio 17.7. This version includes an improved Extension Manager and HTTP Editor.
In Preview 3, the outdated user interface for discovering and evaluating extensions in Visual Studio has been improved considerably, Microsoft indicates. Where develop... Read more
Microsoft releases more Rust features for Windows kernel
Microsoft has been working on initiatives around the Rust programming language for a while. In late April, for example, it revealed that it was working on a major project to rewrite Windows in this more efficient code. Now it is releasing more features for Windows' Rust kernel in the latest Insider... Read more
Istio receives top status from Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Istio service mesh has achieved the same "mature" status as Kubernetes, Prometheus, Envoy and other cloud-native technologies.
This was announced by its governing body, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The CNCF has awarded the maximum attainable Maturity level to Istio. With this status, I... Read more
Lightning strikes the open-source world: SUSE builds its own RHEL variant
Bad weather in the open-source world. It was already raining criticism on Red Hat's announcement to put RHEL behind a paywall. The storm really seems to be brewing now, and SUSE is announcing to fork RHEL.
SUSE is going into battle with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It is doing so by brewing... Read more
Dell Technologies introduces new consulting services for Microsoft
Dell Technologies is releasing new services to help businesses get more out of their Microsoft solutions. It is not only doing so to benefit those using Azure, for example, but also for more secure hybrid work environments, applications, data and backup & recovery.
The new portfolio builds o... Read more
AWS Migration Service updates make application migration simpler
AWS Migration Service has received three major upgrades. These should simplify and speed up the process of migrating applications to the public cloud environment.
The updates introduce the new Global View feature. This allows administrators to manage their migration projects for multiple account... Read more
DigitalOcean buys AI startup Paperspace for $111 million
DigitalOcean is acquiring cloud infrastructure player Paperspace for $111 million (102 million euros). With this, DigitalOcean aims to provide its public cloud platform with more support for AI workloads.
DigitalOcean provides a public cloud platform for SMBs. With the acquisition of the startup... Read more
Lacework: Cross-pollinating security is DevOps nectar
When the term DevOps was first introduced in 2009, many agree that it led to a major shift in the way we looked at the software development lifecycle. Of course, in many ways, DevOps was just a label for something that had already existed i.e. teams had worked together productively for many de... Read more
Mozilla’s AI Help “lies” to web developers
Last week, Mozilla announced a new AI tool for its own Mozilla Developer Network (MDN). AI Help is intended to "streamline interactions" with the Web developer-focused Web site. Searching through the huge array of documentation should thus become a lot easier. Unfortunately, according to users, AI ... Read more
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.9 strengthens collaboration, observability
GitHub has given GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) a lot of new functionality with version 3.9. The update should enable developers to collaborate better and provide more observability.
In the new version of GHES, GitHub Projects gets more functionality. The tool allows developers to better collab... Read more