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Compose Editing Evolved: Schema-Driven and Context-Aware Every day, thousands of developers are creating and editing Compose files. At Docker, we are regularly adding more features to Docker Compose such as the new provider services capability that lets you run AI models as part of your multi-container applications with Docker Model Runner. We know that providing a first-class editing experience for Compose…

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Boost Your Azure Fabric Pipelines: Don’t Overlook This Crucial Spark SettingAre your Azure Fabric pipelines with multiple notebooks running slower than you’d like? Are you paying for more Spark compute time than you should be? The culprit might be a simple setting that’s easy to miss. In this blog post, we’ll dive into the “For pipeline running multiple notebooks” setting in Azure Fabric and explain why enabling it can significantly improve your pipeline’s performance and reduce your costs.The Challenge: Multiple Notebooks, Multiple Spark SessionsImagine a common scenario: a data pipeline that needs to get data from multiple sources, process it,…

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Leadership & Team Management•Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineering leads and their direct reports, creating an environment of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning•Cultivate an engineering culture focused on innovation, speed, and quality—balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery•Own the technical rhythm of the team: rituals, code quality, reviews, standups, and release cadence•Encourage experimentation and exploration of emerging technologies, including AI tooling, to improve developer velocity and product performance•Establish and maintain engineering best practices, code quality standards, and architectural consistency across teams•Partner with the VP of Digital Product & Development to ensure seamless execution of the product roadmap and sprint…

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The data lakehouse has revolutionized how organizations store and manage massive datasets. Still, a critical gap has emerged: How do you serve that data directly to customer-facing applications without building complex, bloated architectures? StarTree’s new Apache Iceberg integration aims to solve this challenge by collapsing the traditional query and serving layers into a single, high-performance solution.The Architecture Bloat ProblemToday’s data lakehouse implementations excel at internal analytics; feeding executive dashboards and supporting data scientist workflows. However, when organizations want to create customer-facing data products, they typically resort to a complex, multistep process: Extracting data from the lakehouse, transforming it into insights,…

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A system administrator’s routine tasks include configuring, maintaining, troubleshooting, and managing servers and networks within data centers. There are numerous tools and utilities in Linux that are designed for administrative purposes. In this article, we will review some of the most used command-line tools and utilities for network management in Linux, under different categories. We will explain some common usage examples, which will make network management much easier in Linux. This list is equally useful to full-time Linux network engineers. Network Configuration, Troubleshooting, and Debugging Tools 1. ifconfig Command ifconfig is a command-line interface tool for network interface configuration and…

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Veracode today revealed an alliance through which it will integrate its application security posture management (ASPM) platform with the cloud native application protection platform from Wiz.Derek Maki, head of product at Veracode, said the connectors provided will make it simpler to correlate risks discovered in source code using Veracode Risk Manager (VRM) with the threats discovered in production environments using the Wiz cybersecurity platform, including known vulnerabilities and misconfiguration findings.Any security threat discovered by Wiz will also be fed directly into VRM to enhance its risk scoring model in a way that should enable DevSecOps teams to better prioritize their…

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Harness today extended the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities it provides in its DevOps platform to make it possible to use plain language to create pipelines that adhere to corporate standards.In addition, Harness AI will analyze pipeline logs, correlate errors, pinpoint root causes and then in a few minutes recommend fixes that if approved will automatically be applied.It can also be used to enable DevOps teams to use natural language to create policies that can be deployed as code using the Rego programming language developed for building and deploying Open Policy Agent (OPA) software within a DevSecOps workflow.Harness AI makes use…

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Every day, thousands of developers are creating and editing Compose files. At Docker, we are regularly adding more features to Docker Compose such as the new provider services capability that lets you run AI models as part of your multi-container applications with Docker Model Runner. We know that providing a first-class editing experience for Compose files is key to empowering our users to ship amazing products that will delight their customers. We are pleased to announce today some new additions to the Docker Language Server that will make authoring Compose files easier than ever before. Schema-Driven Features To help you…

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In today’s enterprise landscape, agility and reliability go hand-in-hand. As organizations modernize legacy infrastructure and scale operations across borders, the challenge is no longer just about moving fast – it’s about moving smart. That’s where the combination of Redgate’s powerful database DevOps tools and Microsoft Azure’s cloud-native ecosystem shines brightest.At the intersection of robust tooling and scalable infrastructure, building a framework that supports high-volume conversions, minimizes risk, and empowers continuous delivery across database environments; the addition of Redgate’s Flyway has strengthened the ability to manage schema changes through versioned, migration-centric workflows.Let’s unpack what this looks like behind the scenes.Core Architecture:…

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