An algorithm is just a way of doing something and as such every program embodies an algorithm. This is an extract from my book Trick of the Mind which explores what it is to be a programmer.

By ensuring that applications have access to the resources they need, when they need them, cloud bursting provides a cost-effecting strategy that takes advantage of the hybrid cloud. Learn more about it.

I have been waiting for the day that AI could take over search and now it seems to be here. The real question, however, is whether or not Bing+GPT is actually a search engine? The answer seems to be a very clear No.

JFrog has published its Software Artifact State of the Union report, which reveals the packages and binaries most in use by enterprise developers today to deliver software from design to production. Docker and Maven dominate - but the interest is in the detail.

The flox CLI, released in open beta today, is a multi-platform environment manager built on Nix. It is intended to provide a dependable interface to nixpkgs, a collection of over 80,000 open source packages.

Go has been updated with a preview of profile-guided optimization (PGO) which means the compiler can perform specific optimizations for applications and workloads based on run-time profile information.

Spin is a new open source framework for building and running cloud microservices with WebAssembly which run on the Fermyon Cloud. Fermyon has also released an SDK for .NET.

Apache Doris has been updated with a new version that is more stable, has improved query performance by ten times, and adds a number of new functions. The plans for future developments have also been announced. Doris is an open source real-time analytical database that is massively parallel processing (MPP) based and provides interactive SQL data warehousing for reporting and analysis.

spring-data-sqlite is a library that brings support to Spring Data JDBC for SQLite so that you can use Jdbctemplate to access your SQLite based datasets or use SQLite as a potential drop-in replacement for H2.

A new feature in Broadcast, NVIDIA's AI-powered live streaming app, makes that it looks as though you are maintaining eye contact when you look away, for example to read from your notes.

We already knew that OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, was a phenomenal success. Now we have the numbers to prove it. Meanwhile OpenAI has announced pricing for premium access to the ChatGPT API.

Considered the highest honor in the field of Electrical Engineering, the IEEE Medal of Honor was inaugurated in 1917 and is awarded annually to a single recipient for exceptional contributions or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest. Vinton G. Cerf is this year's laureate.

GitLab, the web-based repository manager for Git, has anounced betas of two development features, Remote Development and Value Streams Dashboard.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is relaunching as a new public-interest non-profit organization. W3C says the move is designed to make it able to respond more rapidly to changes in the web, and to widen where partners are located.

Author: Robert Benefield
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0133847505
Audience: Managers of devops teams
Rating: 3 for developers, 4.5 for managers
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

The problem this book sets out to address is that of how to deliver on-demand services well; giving what the customer needs, developing quickly, and providing a solution that is consistent, cost effective and reliable. That's quite a list. 

This book, subtitled "An Introduction to Using Anaconda, JupyterLab, and Python's Scientific Libraries", provides an introduction to Python and its most popular tools for scientists and engineers for research, simulations, and collaboration. Lee Vaughan introduces tools including Anaconda, Spyder, Jupyter Notebooks, JupyterLab, and numerous Python libraries.

This book offers one guide packed with seven books explaining programming across multiple languages.  Wallace Wang covers all the principles of programming, algorithms, data structures, debugging programs, and unique applications of programming while looking at some of the most popular programming languages used today. 

This is the first book in a three-part series that traces the development of the GPU. In this volume titled "Steps to Invention", Dr. Jon Peddie traces the initial development of the GPU for games, and explores GPU concepts.