The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles proves that mainframes and DevOps can coexist, servicing millions of users while adopting agile development processes. Modernizing Adabas and Natural programming language allows the DMV to integrate with back-end services and automate testing. Despite cultur.. read more  

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Ever since the author started using Nix for development, the project relied on external services like databases and message brokers, leading to the use of Docker. However, to simplify the setup and reduce system resource consumption, the author decided to replace Docker with Nix in the project. A ne.. read more  

A GitHub engineer shared how GitHub Copilot helped in automating tasks like finding project dependencies and creating regular expressions. Using Copilot saved significant time on these tasks, making development more efficient. Other team members also shared how Copilot improved their workflows, from.. read more  

Boost software development productivity by 50x, as highlighted at AWS re:Invent expo. GenAI features focus on improving developers' productivity by reducing toil and costs. CodeWhisperer tool aims to enhance developer engagement and code quality, impacting team health and wellbeing metrics... read more  

The author moved away from using Vagrant due to performance issues, opting to explore alternatives like Nix/devenv. While containers were considered, they were not ideal for development due to usability issues. WSL was tested as a potential solution but faced challenges with managing services... read more  

Gartner highlights platform engineering as a strategic technology trend for the coming year, aiming to improve developer experience and productivity. The approach involves application, platform, and infrastructure layers for modern application delivery. The platform layer emphasizes offering "X as a.. read more  

Foundation DNS is Cloudflare's latest offering for enterprise customers, featuring advanced nameservers, unique DNSSEC keys, and GraphQL-based analytics. This new release aims to enhance reliability, security, flexibility, and analytics for authoritative DNS services. Customers can seamlessly transi.. read more  

Amazon EC2 G6 instances, powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, are now generally available. These instances provide up to 2x higher performance for deep learning inference and graphics workloads. G6 instances feature up to 8 GPUs, third-generation AMD EPYC processors, and up to 7.52 TB of local NVM.. read more  

AWS is renaming AWS CodeStar Connections to AWS CodeConnections in APIs, CLI, SDK, and documentation. Existing connections will continue to work, but changes to IAM policies are needed to use the new resource names. AWS CodeConnections integrates with Git-based source providers like GitHub, GitLab, .. read more