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Full Stack Developer Woven is a seed-stage fintech building the data infrastructure that’s been missing from UK financial advice. Our platform helps advisers uncover the savings hidden in their clients’ portfolios — often thousands of pounds per client in fees — as part of our wider mission to save UK investors over £7 billion a year. We give advisers a single, normalised view of their book through Woven Analytics, and we’re already partnered with around 30% of the UK platform market. We’re looking for an experienced, data-focused full stack developer to supercharge our product, integrations and APIs. You won’t just…

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AI is rapidly transforming modern software infrastructure. While AI is often associated with chatbots or generative models, one of its most significant impacts is happening behind the scenes — within DevOps and cloud engineering.As applications scale across distributed cloud environments, traditional DevOps practices are increasingly being enhanced by intelligent systems capable of predicting failures, optimizing resources and automating operational decisions.This shift is giving rise to what many refer to as ‘AI-driven DevOps’ or ‘AIOps’, where ML helps engineering teams manage complex systems more efficiently.The Growing Complexity of Cloud SystemsModern applications rely on microservices, containerization and orchestration technologies to operate at…

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May 12, 2026 Docker AI Governance: Unlock Agent Autonomy, Safely Introducing Docker AI Governance: centralized control over how agents execute, what they can reach on the network, which credentials they can use, and which MCP tools they can call, so every developer in your company can run AI agents safely, wherever they work. Your laptop is the new prod Agents are the biggest productivity unlock… Read now

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Rocky Linux 10 installs as a minimal text-only server by default, and if you need a graphical desktop, you have to add GNOME yourself, and this guide shows you exactly how to do that, with or without internet access. If you chose the Minimal Install option during the Rocky Linux 10 installation, your system includes only the essential packages needed to run without any desktop environment, which means no graphical login screen and no GUI applications. This setup is ideal for servers because it’s lightweight and uses fewer system resources. However, if you’re using your system as a workstation, a…

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Akrites, a new Linux Foundation initiative backed by many of the world’s largest tech and financial firms, is the industry’s latest attempt to get ahead of AI‑accelerated software supply chain risks by hardening critical open source projects before attackers can exploit them.On June 25, the Linux Foundation unveiled Akrites, a coordinated industry program designed to find, fix, and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open-source software exploited by AI-based attackers.It’s not the first such effort. But Akrites may be the most comprehensive. One such initiative is Chainguard’s Athena coalition, which seeks to repair open-source flaws before attackers can exploit them. Another is…

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The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) was officially introduced on December 10th 2024, to protect foundational EU values in the face of rising cyberattack threats. As cyberattacks targeting products with digital elements have grown more frequent and costly, the regulation establishes the first horizontal cybersecurity baseline for all hardware and software products sold in Europe. The urgency is real given that in Omdia’s 2026 software supply chain security report, 77% of organizations reported experiencing a supply chain incident in the last year. The regulation will take full effect on December 11, 2027, but mandatory vulnerability reporting obligations take effect on…

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Have you been thinking about migrating your reporting to Microsoft Fabric or Snowflake but you have no idea what it would actually cost? That’s the scariest thing, and the general thinking is that cloud reporting is expensive. But the good news is that it doesn’t have to be. I’ve built Fabric and Snowflake based solutions for multiple clients and for some of them the recurring monthly cost has been less than £100! That’s the Fabric/Snowflake running cost and the cost of using Azure Data Factory to extract the data from source and load it into Fabric/Snowflake.Obviously, the more data you…

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Most enterprise AI projects don’t fail because of the model. They fail because getting clean, governed access to production data is slow, political, and manual. Every new data connection requires IT involvement. Every new agent adds more surface area to manage. And every developer who goes around IT creates a new problem for someone else to clean up later.CData is trying to fix that with three new releases aimed directly at developers: Connect AI Developer Edition (free), the CData Connect AI Python SDK (open source), and CData CLI.The announcement, set for June 23, reflects a deliberate shift in how CData…

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You’ve just deployed a service, opened a firewall rule, or configured a reverse proxy, and now you want to confirm that a specific port is actually reachable. The problem is that telnet isn’t installed, and installing an extra package just for a quick connectivity test feels unnecessary. The good news is that you don’t need telnet, because most Linux distributions already include tools that can test port connectivity, and some require no additional installation at all. Whether you’re troubleshooting a MySQL connection, checking if Nginx is listening on port 443, or verifying that a firewall change worked as expected, these…

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The newly appointed CEO of CloudBees, Mo Plassnig, says that as the agentic artificial intelligence (AI) era dawns, the time has come to reinvent software engineering in a way that moves beyond human-centric tooling.Plassnig, who earlier this month succeeded Anuj Kapur, joins CloudBees from Immuta, a provider of a data security and governance platform, where he served as chief product officer. However, Plassnig was also one of the founders of Codeship, a provider of a hosted continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that CloudBees acquired in 2018.As the way applications are built and deployed fundamentally changes, DevOps workflows will…

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