Microsoft Brings MCP to Geospatial Workflows With Planetary Computer Pro Tools for VS Code
Microsoft’s Planetary Computer Pro MCP Tools for VS Code bring 35+ geospatial tools into GitHub Copilot via natural-language prompts.
5 Facts About AI Coding Agents from Comprehensive Benchmarking
AI coding agents are becoming more capable, but evaluating them is harder than it looks. Most benchmarks focus on a single dimension of agent capabilities; for instance, the popular SWE-Bench benchmark only focuses on fixing issues on open source Python repositories. Real-world software engineering involves fixing bugs of course, but it is a lot more […]
Broadcom Strengthens Case for Integrated VCF Platform
Broadcom today revealed it is adding a raft of additional capabilities to the optional portfolio of services it makes available on top of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), including a module that makes it simpler to deploy databases on top of instances of Kubernetes that are integrated with the VMware virtual machine platform.
WSO2 Advances Microservices Gateway
At the Open Source and Software Development Conference (OSCON), WSO2 this week announced it has updated an open source microservices gateway to make it possible to expose multiple microservices through a single application programming interface (API). Additionally, version 3.0 of the WSO2 API Microgateway now includes the ability to automatically discover microservices and transform legacy […]
The Changing Role of APM in a Microservices World
Microservices usage has skyrocketed. Fully 91 percent of organizations are using or have plans to use microservices and 92 percent expect to grow their use of microservices in the coming year. It is no longer if but when: 86 percent of organizations expect microservices to be the default within five years. With the growing use […]
Don’t Let Your DevOps Transformation Be a Parade of Tools
Choosing the right DevOps tools should be a careful, thoughtful process. On May 12, 1848, a store owner named Sam Brannan held a “one-man parade” to announce the start of the San Francisco Gold Rush. “Gold! Gold from the American River!” Brannan shouted up and down the market street in San Francisco. He held his […]
DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship Aimed at Business Success
DevOps and cloud computing are not mutually exclusive, though their relationship has often been uncertain and confusing from a layman’s perspective. While cloud computing relates to technology and services, DevOps is more about processes and process improvement. However, both DevOps and cloud computing are vital in every organization’s journey toward an effective digital transformation. Cloud-centric […]
NGINX Delivers New Products to Manage Microservices
At its annual user conference in Portland, Oregon, in September, NGINX delivered releases focusing on the application platform market and support of delivering microservices architectures: NGINX Plus, an application delivery controller that combines a load balancer, content cache and web server. NGINX Controller, a centralized management and monitoring platform for NGINX Plus, which orchestrates the […]