3 data engineering trends riding Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg
Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg are among the most popular technologies in the data ecosystem. While Kafka enables you to move data around in real time, Flink allows you to process data according to your needs and Iceberg helps you a...
GitHub Copilot: Everything you need to know
In 2014, Microsoft Research released an experimental Bing Code Search add-on for Visual Studio and the web. It was a code snippet search tool for C# with a natural language interface, using an index of code from Stack Overflow, MSDN, Dotnetperls, and ...
Speed is the killer app
Why do enterprises so often choose to run applications in the cloud even when it may not be the cheapest option? Why do they turn to open source even if it’s not the most feature-complete choice? And why is generative AI so frothy hot even though, a...
Large Folio Patches For EXT4 Show Some Nice Performance Gains
Huawei engineer Zhang Yi posted a set of nine patches today for enabling large folio support for regular files with the EXT4 file-system. These patches enable large folios for EXT4 on regular files except when using FSVERITY, FSCRYPT, or the journaled ...
New AMD Zen 5 Perf Events Going Into Linux 6.13
Sent out last night for the ongoing Linux 6.13 merge window were all of the perf tool changes for the wonderful "perf" subsystem for performance profiling and the like. In addition to adding the HWMON PMU to "perf stat", leader sampling for inherited t...
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W Launches For $7
Complementing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 that launched this summer, the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W was announced today for $7 as the wireless-enabled variant of this small microcontroller board...
App Store Award finalists announced
Every year, the App Store Awards celebrate exceptional apps and games that improve people's lives while showcasing the highest levels of technical innovation, user experience, design, and positive cultural impact. This year, the App Store Editorial tea...
