Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

GitHub Preview of Copilot Workspaces Advances AI Agenda

GitHub this week made available a formal technical preview of an approach to building software that uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) to complete tasks on behalf of a software engineering team. Rather than simply generating code for developers, GitHub Copilot Workspace is leveraging more advanced reasoning engine capabilities that are being added to large language […]

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Stop the CNAME chain struggle: Simplified management with Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall

Starting today, you can configure your DNS Firewall to automatically trust all domains in a resolution chain (such as aCNAME, DNAME, or Alias chain). Let’s walk through this in nontechnical terms for those unfamiliar with DNS. Why use DNS Firewall? DNS Firewall provides protection for outbound DNS requests from your private network in the cloud […]

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The Problems With Golden Templates That No One Wants to Talk About

Golden templates make it easier to get started with IaC, but they don’t effectively fit users’ needs. Let’s fix that. Source: DevOps.com

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The Purpose of Life

We all have our priorities. Source: DevOps.com

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Snyk Adds Second ASPM Tool to Portfolio

Today, Snyk made available an edition of its application security posture management (ASPM) tool for assessing application risks that provides more context into how code has been written and its role within the application environment. Manoj Nair, chief product officer for Snyk, said Snyk AppRisk Pro leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to provide […]

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Add your Ruby gems to AWS CodeArtifact

Ruby developers can now use AWS CodeArtifact to securely store and retrieve their gems. CodeArtifact integrates with standard developer tools like gem and bundler. Applications often use numerous packages to speed up development by providing reusable code for common tasks like network access, cryptography, or data manipulation. Developers also embed SDKs–such as the AWS SDKs–to […]

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Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 now available in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for improving RAG

The Amazon Titan family of models, available exclusively in Amazon Bedrock, is built on top of 25 years of Amazon expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) advancements. Amazon Titan foundation models (FMs) offer a comprehensive suite of pre-trained image, multimodal, and text models accessible through a fully managed API. Trained on extensive […]

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Spotify to Providex Opinionated Instance of Backstage IDP

Backstage helps large teams document their infrastructure and services. This extends the open source version. Source: DevOps.com

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Amazon Q Business, now generally available, helps boost workforce productivity with generative AI

At AWS re:Invent 2023, we previewed Amazon Q Business, a generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. With Amazon Q Business, you can deploy a secure, private, generative AI assistant that empowers your organization’s users […]

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Amazon Q Developer, now generally available, includes new capabilities to reimagine developer experience

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Amazon Q Developer as a preview last year, it changed my experience of interacting with AWS services and, at the same time, maximizing the potential of AWS services on a daily basis. Trained on 17 years of AWS knowledge and experience, this generative artificial intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant helps […]

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