Docker Hub has become an essential resource for developers worldwide, serving 11 billion monthly image downloads and hosting over 14 million container images. As agentic AI proliferates, we’re seeing a significant shift in how developers work. More and more developers are leveraging MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to power their AI agents and automated workflows. These agentic systems can connect to real data and provide intelligent recommendations, but they need access to comprehensive, structured information to be truly effective. Recognizing this shift, we’re adapting to meet developers where they are. Today, we’re excited to introduce the Docker Hub MCP Server,…
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This month we have a great T-SQL Tuesday, hosted by John Sterrett. He has been a great help in multiple communities over the years, and he has quite an inspirational invitation when you read his story. I am honored to call John a friend and enjoy the times we get to sit and chat.If you aren’t a part of T-SQL Tuesday, start a blog at WordPress or Medium, or even on LinkedIn. Write a post, leave a link on John’s invitatin, and become a bigger part of our community. If you want to host a T-SQL Tuesday let me know.Working…
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience.Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers.Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
OCR stands for optical character recognition, and software of this type is designed to convert images, pictures, or scanned documents into editable and searchable text. Using it, you don’t need to manually type up documents as they are automatically transformed into machine-readable text format, which comes in handy in some situations and allows you to save time and effort. If you are looking for an easy-to-use but powerful OCR tool, there are both open-source and commercial options available for Linux users, ranging from Python libraries to professional SDKs. In this article, you will find the best open-source programs that you…
Apple’s quiet release of DiffuCode-7B-cpGRPO on Hugging Face represents more than just another coding model; it signals a fundamental shift in how AI systems approach code generation. Unlike traditional language models that write code sequentially from left to right, Apple’s model can generate and refine multiple code sections simultaneously, offering a glimpse into the future of AI-assisted development.Breaking the Sequential Generation ParadigmTraditional autoregressive language models process code generation like reading a book: They predict the first token, then use that context to predict the second token, continuing in a strictly linear fashion. This approach works well for natural language but…
Nobody wants a spineless application development process. What do I mean by this? The spine is the backbone that supports and provides nerve channels for the human body. Without it, we would be floppy, weaker, and would struggle to understand how our extremities were behaving. A slightly tortured analogy, but consider the application lifecycle of the average software project. The traditional challenge has been, how do we give it a spine? How can we provide a backbone to support developers at every stage and a nerve channel to pass information back and forth, thereby cementing architectural constructs and automating or…
Image by Pexels from PixabayLogging is a necessity in the database world, well, the entire tech world. You need to know what is happening in and around your databases. It’s easy to setup in Azure SQL DB. This post will guide you through setting up and querying diagnostic settings to access your database logs easily.Setting up a diagnostic settingIt’s a good idea to have a dedicated log analytics workspace, rather than using the default one. You can use this to create one before setting up your diagnostic setting, or you can use an existing one. It’s quite easy to set…
Coder today extended its cloud-based environment for developing software to now include support for artificial intelligence (AI) agents that can be automatically assigned their own workspaces.Company CEO Rob Whiteley said this capability makes it possible to apply the same governance policies to any type of AI agent that the Coder cloud development environment (CDE) platform already enables DevOps teams to enforce.Additionally, Coder has also revamped its registry to make it simpler for DevOps teams to discover and share components, including AI agents.The Coder CDE via a unified interface (UI) will enable DevOps teams to more easily orchestrate tasks that have…
GitHub has introduced a new Agents page for its Copilot coding agent, now available in public preview, marking a significant step forward in automated development workflows. This feature addresses a persistent challenge in software development: Managing technical debt, bug fixes and feature implementation while maintaining focus on high-priority tasks.The Evolution of AI-Assisted DevelopmentThe traditional development workflow often involves context-switching between different types of work, from addressing technical debt to implementing new features. This constant switching can disrupt productivity and create bottlenecks in development cycles. GitHub’s Copilot coding agent aims to solve this problem by handling routine development tasks in the…
(2025-July-06) Very often, real-time, high-speed streams of events come from IoT devices, social media logs, website user interactions, and financial transactions. So, working with streaming datasets can place you in a different category of data engineering professionals, where you tend to understand the difference between Lambda and Kappa architectures, Kafka is more than a book writer to you, and topics are not only found in human conversations. In my post last week (https://datanrg.blogspot.com/2025/06/salesforce-cdc-data-integration.html), I talked about Salesforce Change Data Capture (CDC) event data streaming, where the initial event destination was file storage in Azure. But what if we anticipate a higher…