JLama: The First Pure Java Model Inference Engine Implemented With Vector API and Project Panama
The decision by Andrej Karpathy to open-source the 700-lines llama.c inference interface demystified how developers can interact with LLMs. The public repository took off with thousands of stars, forks and ports to other languages. JLama is the first p...
Ines Montani at QCon London: Economies of Scale Can’t Monopolise the AI Revolution
During her presentation at QCon London Ines Montani, co-founder and CEO of explosion.ai (the maker of spaCy), stated that economies of scale are not enough to create monopolies in the AI space and that open-source techniques and models will allow every...
Rachael Greaves at QCon London: Ethical AI Can Decrease the Impact of Data Breaches
At QCon London, Rachael Greaves, chief executive officer at Castle Systems, presented both the obligations and benefits of data minimisation as a mechanism to decrease the impact of data breaches. AI autoclassification and automatic decision-making too...
Fix Your SDLC Before Adopting Gen AI in Your Organisation: Bannon’s Call to Action at QCon London
During her keynote at QCon London, Tracy Bannon, architect and researcher at MITRE, argued that AI will be able to enhance the software development lifecycle, though currently it’s at the “code completion” rather than “code generation” phase. Throughou...
KubeCon EU Highlights: CloudEvents & Falco Graduate, Beta Tetragon , Linkerd Meshes Legacy Systems
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon and CNCF EU conference, the count of CNCF graduated projects has reached twenty-six, as Cloud Events and Falco joined the “boring, but safe project list”. Linkerd added mesh extended capabilities for legacy systems:...
KubeCon EU: Backstage, Crossplane and Others Preparing for CNCF Graduation
More projects from the CNCF incubated level are preparing to graduate for an ever-widening cloud native ecosystem. The Backstage community has worked on a more robust architecture, and Crossplane aimed to improve its developer DX. KubeFlow and Volcano,...
AI, Orchestration, Native Network and Even K8sGPT: KubeCon EU Highlights New CNCF Sandbox Projects
As highlighted at the recent KubeCon EU 2024 conference, several new projects joined the CNCF sandbox in December across a range of categories: kube-burner in CI/CD, Kuasar in the container runtime, K8sgpt in the observability, KRKN in chaos engineerin...
JHipster 8 Upgrades to Spring Boot 3, Hibernate 6.2, Node 18 LTS, Vue 3 and Angular 16
JHipster - the web and microservices applications generator - released its 8th version on November 2nd. Starting with this version Hashicorp Consul will be the default service discovery mechanism, devcontainer will be available and each application tha...