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Docker’s Bad Week

Instead of focusing on the poorly communicated decision to sunset Free Teams, look at the company’s overall direction to focus on what developers want. Docker had a bad week. What’s less clear is whether Docker deserved it. For those who haven’t heard, last week Docker announced that it was sunsetting Free Team subscriptions. Some in the open source world read this as “pay up or lose your data.” In light of the uproar, Docker was quick to apologize: “We did a terrible job announcing the end of Docker Free Teams.” Unsurprisingly, this failed to placate its most vociferous critics: “The open source community…

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AWS Chatbot Now Integrated Into Microsoft Teams

The chatbot’s integration will allow enterprise users to get notifications about events such as security risks and the status of system health from within Teams, and also let them run command line interface commands to run notebooks. Amazon Web Services has integrated its AWS Chatbot into Microsoft Teams to allow enterprise users to interact with AWS cloud resources from within the chat application. AWS Chatbot, which was first showcased in 2019 and made generally available in 2020, is a service that lets enterprise development and IT teams receive notifications about their AWS infrastructure resources from within a productivity or chat application such…

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Ditching Google: The 3 Search Engines That Use AI To Give Results That Are Meaningful

Google search engine is great. But if you’re the type that wants straight answers to every query without going through several blog posts, then you should consider AI-chat search engines. Ever since Chat GPT became a sensation, many companies have increased research and funding to harness AI chatbots. AI search engines have a chat feature, which means you’ll get a straight answer for every search as if you’re chatting with a smart person. Of all the companies with this feature, here are the three you should consider if you want to ditch Google. 1. Microsoft Bing Google has dominated the search engine…

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Monitor Kubernetes Cloud Costs With Open Source Tools

OpenCost is a cloud cost monitoring tool that integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, allowing you to track your cloud spend in real-time so you can optimize your resources accordingly. Kubernetes is a powerful platform for managing dynamic containerized applications in the cloud, but it may be difficult to understand where costs are incurred. Managing the cost efficiency of Kubernetes resources can be a challenge. That’s where OpenCost comes in. OpenCost is a cloud cost monitoring tool that integrates seamlessly with Kubernetes, allowing you to track your cloud spend in real-time so you can optimize your resources accordingly. OpenCost is an open source CNCF Sandbox project and specification for…

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How To Use Bash

Ever been daunted by writing Bash scripts or using the terminal? Many developers prefer to use the graphical user interface (GUI) to navigate their files and applications on their computers. With Bash, developers on macOS and Linux operating systems (OS) can do lots of computer processes right from the terminal without ever having to use their mouse or the keyboard for interaction. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to write simple Bash scripts and how you can 10X your productivity efficiently. What is Bash? Bash, also known as Bourne Again Shell, is an interactive shell or command line interpreter popular…

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Developer Research Deep Dive: Let’s Build Faster Together

We like hearing feedback, and you’re not shy about giving it to us. Excellent! Each day, you reach us through our Twitter account, Innovator’s Program forums, and even when we meet in person at industry events. Your feedback helps us better understand what you need, what’s not working right, and how we can make your cloud experience better. Another way we hear from our customers? Independent research. Third-party research allows us to get a better understanding of how our products stack up against the competition. We just finished some new research that I want to tell you about. What did…

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Visual Studio Code February 2023

February 2023 (version 1.76) Downloads: Windows: User System Arm64 | Mac: Universal Intel silicon | Linux: deb rpm tarball Arm snap Welcome to the February 2023 release of Visual Studio Code. There are many updates in this version that we hope you’ll like, some of the key highlights include: If you’d like to read these release notes online, go to Updates on code.visualstudio.com. Insiders: Want to try new features as soon as possible? You can download the nightly Insiders build and try the latest updates as soon as they are available. Accessibility Terminal command failure audio cue When a command…

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How Geospatial Services Can Help Improve Financial Outcomes, Customer Experiences, And Operational Efficiency

There are few technologies that have become an essential part of everyday life as quickly as geospatial services. The same technology behind the digital maps that transformed the way we shop, commute, and travel, can also have a huge impact on business operations and outcomes. It can influence everything from logistics to location expansion planning to customer service. We partnered with Oxford Economics on third party research to understand the impact of geospatial services. The quantitative and qualitative survey included 1000 executives, covering 14 industry clusters and 12 distinct geospatial service use cases across 8 countries. We’ve heard from our…

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3 Microsoft Azure AI Product Features That Accelerate Language Learning

The Microsoft Azure Cognitive Speech Services platform is a comprehensive collection of technologies and services aimed at accelerating the incorporation of speech into applications and amplifying differentiation to the market as a result. Among the services available are Speech to Text, Text to Speech, custom neural voice (CNV) Conversation Transcription Service, Speaker Recognition, Speech Translation, Speech SDK, and Speech Device Development Kit (DDK). AI for education is an emerging technology that has the potential to revolutionize the way we teach and learn languages. One of the most important aspects of language learning is the ability to pronounce words accurately, and this is…

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Are Your CICD And DevOps Tools Really Helping Developers?

If you are responsible for your team’s CICD and DevOps tools, have you ever asked yourself if the tools you built are really making developers’ lives easier? Or are they there just to reinforce the rules you’ve set? It’s your responsibility to make sure the tools and procedures you’ve implemented are truly helping software developers do their job. After setting your CICD tools, how frequently have you asked the developers for feedback? How many times have you changed/updated those based on feedback from the developers? Or are all your changes to support new requirements, infrastructure, and analysis tools? You might…

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