Akamai buys Fermyon for Wasm-based serverless functions – a possible answer to Cloudflare workers
Akamai, a long-established content delivery network (CDN) company, has acquired WebAssembly start-up Fermyon, with the aim of attracting […]
AWS debuts Lambda managed instances on EC2: more control, lower cost for high volume users
At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, the cloud giant has introduced Lambda managed instances, […]
Inside the cloud’s shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch
How Arm is redefining cloud performance — and how developers are already building on it If you thought […]
Apple’s Containerization will matter to developers – but Podman devs complain of unfixed issues
Apple has introduced VM-based Containerization at its WWDC (Worldwide Developer Conference), along with Container – an open-source CLI […]
GitHub adds Arm64 runners to Actions at last, another advance for Arm
GitHub has enabled Arm-based Linux and Windows runners for its Actions service, used to test and deploy code. […]
Google Project IDX remote development environment now in open beta – but without iOS simulator
Google has opened its Project IDX browser-based remote development environment to public beta, as well as adding integration […]
Dapr: not just for Kubernetes or the Microsoft platform, says co-creator Mark Fussell
Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) was created at Microsoft for Kubernetes, but goes beyond both, said co-creator Mark Fussell. […]
Podman 5.0 released with native Mac hypervisor support, new features and breaking changes
RedHat has released Podman 5.0, with rewritten code for Windows and Mac, native Mac hypervisor support, removed CNI […]
Spotlight on GitHub self-hosted runners again as researcher demonstrates attack on PyTorch code
A researcher found that Meta’s popular open source PyTorch framework used self-hosted runners in its GitHub repository, against […]
JavaScript functions stored procedures previewed in MySQL – but developers are wary
Oracle has previewed JavaScript stored procedures in MySQL 8.2, although currently only in the Enterprise edition or the […]