Author: drweb

SQL

2–3 minutesOne feature that I have been waiting for years! The new announcement around optimize CPU for RDS SQL Server is a game changer because it lets you right-size vCPUs for your workload instead of being locked to the default core count for an instance class, which directly address your biggest SQL Server cost driver: vCPU-based licensing!Optimize CPU lets you configure the number of physical cores (coreCount) and threads per core (threadsPerCore) on supported RDS for SQL Server instance families (starting with 7th-gen M7i/R7i), while keeping memory (Yes, SQL Server loves memory!) and IOPS unchanged. On these newer generations, Hyper-Threading/SMT…

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Great news for Windows developers working with AI models: Docker Model Runner now supports vLLM on Docker Desktop for Windows with WSL2 and NVIDIA GPUs! Until now, vLLM support in Docker Model Runner was limited to Docker Engine on Linux. With this update, Windows developers can take advantage of vLLM’s high-throughput inference capabilities directly through Docker Desktop, leveraging their NVIDIA GPUs for accelerated local AI development. What is Docker Model Runner? For those who haven’t tried it yet, Docker Model Runner is our new “it just works” experience for running generative AI models. Our goal is to make running a…

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SQL

Following on from my last post about Getting Started With KubeVirt & SQL Server, in this post I want to see if I can improve the performance from the initial test I ran.In the previous test, I used SQL Server 2025 RC1…so wanted to change that to RTM (now that’s it’s been released) but I was getting some strange issues running in the StatefulSet. However, SQL Server 2022 seemed to have no issues and as much as I want to investigate what’s going on with 2025 (pretty sure it’s host based, not an issue with SQL 2025)…I want to dive…

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Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with methods for delivering information-stealing malware to the victims’ systems. The malicious extensions come posing as a harmless “premium dark theme” and an AI-powered coding assistant, but both – […]

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Last winter, my city Richmond VA suffered water distribution outages for days after a blizzard. Not because of one big failure, but because backup pumps failed, sensors misread, alerts got buried, and then another pump died during recovery. The whole city ended up under a boil‑water advisory. Sound familiar? Replace “water pumps” with “microservices” and […]

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PHP

News For years, PhpStorm has been the go-to IDE for PHP developers – powerful and deeply integrated with the language. But there was one thing many kept asking for: Laravel support out of the box. It should come with built-in— Amdadul Haq (@amdad121) July 30, 2025 Starting with PhpStorm 2025.3, Laravel support is now built in. From the moment you open your project, everything just works – no plugins, no configuration, no extra steps. Discover the story behind this update from PhpStorm Team Lead Roman Pronskiy, PhpStorm Software Developer Maria Filippova, JetBrains Product Lead Artemy Pestretsov, Laravel Idea plugin creator…

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