One of the parts of getting older that really sucks is I seem to attend more funerals than weddings. It’s a sad fact of file, and this was one of the reasons Andy Warren and I created SQL Memorial, to keep those we’ve known close to our hearts.In a few internal posts, and a few external ones, I keep seeing this picture:It’s one I took in 2016 with a selfie stick I’d gotten just before my trip to Redgate. There are a lot of familiar faces in here, but this was the content team at that time with myself, Grant,…
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Please note: this position is only open to people who live between UTC-5 (ex., EST) and UTC+2 (ex., EEST) It’s nice to meet you! Hello there! We’re Geocodio, a data-as-a-service company that makes it delightfully boring and straightforward for anyone to get geocoordinates, standardized addresses, and enrich their location data. Our customers tell us “it just works” and our NPS score of 88 tells us they’re pretty happy with it. We’re an intentionally small company competing with giants and we pride ourselves on punching far above our weight. Our customers range from students working with geographic data for the first…
That study claiming “95% of AI POCs fail” has been making the rounds. It’s clickbait nonsense, and frankly, it’s not helping anyone. The real number? Nobody knows, because nobody’s tracking it properly. But here’s what I do know after years of watching teams build AI systems: the study masks a much more important problem. Teams are confused about how to design POCs that survive beyond the demo stage. There is no playbook. Most AI POCs die because they were designed to die. They’re built as disposable demos, optimized for executive presentations rather than production reality. They burn through cloud credits,…
Linux Mint 22.2 (“Zara”) is the latest point release in the Linux Mint 22 series, which is a Long Term Support release (LTS), which means it will get updates (security, bug-fix) until 2029. It’s not a completely new base, but it continues to build on Ubuntu’s 24.04 LTS and keeps many of the 22.x features, but introduces numerous refinements, new apps, visual polish, and improved hardware support. If you’re using Linux Mint 22 or 22.1, “Zara” makes for a worthwhile upgrade, especially for hardware compatibility, security, and daily usability. What is Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Here are the main changes…
The maintainers of the open source OpenTelemetry project for collecting telemetry data are working toward adding support for artificial intelligence (AI) agents.Morgan McLean, a co-founder of the OpenTelemetry project and a director of product management at Splunk, a unit of Cisco, said semantic extensions to OpenTelemetry will make it possible for observability platforms to also collect and analyze telemetry data generated by AI agents alongside other applications.The overall goal is to eliminate the need to deploy a separate platform to observe AI agents, he added.In general, adoption of OpenTelemetry has continued to accelerate as it has become simpler to deploy…
At swampUP 2025 in Napa Valley, Alan Shimel sat down with three industry leaders whose companies sit at the heart of today’s AI-driven DevOps transformation: Rahul Tripathi, general vice president and GM of ITSM at ServiceNow; Justin Boitano, vice president of enterprise AI at NVIDIA; and Shlomi Ben Haim, co-founder and CEO of JFrog.Tripathi, only months into his role at ServiceNow, stressed the importance of grounding product strategy in lived practitioner experience. Having led DevOps teams himself, he emphasized that ITSM remains the “bread and butter” of ServiceNow, but AI integration is reshaping expectations for productivity and security across IT…
At swampUP 2025, JFrog’s Yonatan Arbel reflects on his journey inside the company and how developer DNA continues to shape JFrog’s culture. Arbel, who has spent nearly a decade with JFrog, began as a software engineer before moving into leadership and eventually into a developer relations role. But as he emphasized, “once a developer, always a developer.” He still codes daily, keeping a hands-on perspective that influences how JFrog builds and communicates its platforms.That commitment to staying close to the keyboard led Arbel to create JFrog’s first experimental MCP (Model Context Protocol) server as an open source project. Uploaded to…
Oasis Security this week warned application developers of a security flaw in the Cursor artificial intelligence (AI) code editor developed by Anysphere, Inc. that potentially could be used to allow a maliciously crafted code repository to execute code as soon as it’s opened using Cursor.Erez Schwartz, threat research engineer at Oasis Security, said that unlike other coding tools based on the open source Visual Studio (VS) Code tool originally developed by Microsoft, the Cursor AI tool disables a Workspace Trust feature by default.Application developers as a result might inadvertently auto-execute commands to open folders in a repository that might have…
I’m giving two online sessions soon on virtual events that are free to attend. The first one is at Retro Data (20th of September), a new virtual conference focusing on established technology, instead of preview features. My session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform at 10AM UTC+2.The other session is a brand new one – Indexing for Dummies – and it will be given at the Cloud Data Driven user group (organizers of the Future Data Driven Summit) at the 25th of September (6PM UTC+2). The very same session will also be given at dataMinds Connect…
Every year, JFrog’s swampUP conference gives us a look at what’s next in DevOps, software delivery, and increasingly, AI. This year’s event in Napa did not disappoint. If you’ve followed JFrog over the years, you know they have never been shy about leading the conversation on how software is built, secured, and shipped. At swampUP 2025, they reminded everyone once again: JFrog is not just keeping up with the industry—it’s defining it.In the DevOps world, it’s easy to get swept up in hype. AI, compliance, automation—everyone claims to be innovating. But JFrog’s announcements this week are more than marketing spin.…