Hands on: AWS simplifies coding and debugging Lambda applications with Visual Studio Code

AWS has introduced a new "Application Builder" within its toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the idea being to simplify getting started...

Gitpod discontinues “journey of experiments, failures and dead-ends” with Kubernetes

Gitpod, which provides containerised development environments, has migrated its service away from Kubernetes in favour of a new home-grown platform called Flex, citing issues...

AWS brings Finch container development to Linux, but it’s not so easy to get started

AWS has made Finch on Linux – a project to simplify container development on multiple platforms – generally available, though we found the installation...

Docker ups subscription prices by up to 80%, bundles more services to compensate

Docker will hike subscription prices by up to 80 percent from November 15 2024, as well as introducing storage charges for its Docker Hub repository,...

Why Kubernetes? Too many issues with the supposedly simpler AWS Elastic Container Service, says Figma

Figma software engineering manager Ian VonSeggern, has described the rationale and outcome of its migration from AWS ECS (Elastic Container service) to AWS Kubernetes...

20 years since open source release, here comes Ruby on Rails 7.2 with JIT compiler and more

The Ruby on Rails team has released version 7.2, with new features including YJIT (Yet Another Just-in-Time compiler) enabled by default and auto generation...

Microsoft previews Azure Logic apps hybrid deployment and ‘long-awaited’ C# inline actions

Microsoft has enhanced its low-code workflow service, Logic Apps, with C# inline actions and the ability to deploy workloads on-premises or on other clouds,...

FrankenPHP and Caddy: Double performance, claims Caddy creator but only some apps benefit

FrankenPHP, a PHP App server written in Go and built on the Caddy web server, has the potential to double performance and halve the...

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 (Container Network Interface) networking, improved Docker...

Fermyon promises over 5000 WebAssembly applications on one Kubernetes node via new platform

Fermyon has introduced SpinKube, for developing and deploying WebAssembly applications to Kubernetes, and Fermyon Platform for Kubernetes, including a specialized runtime which enables high...

From Docker to Dagger: Solomon Hykes on modernisation of the DevOps pipeline

Solomon Hykes, who started the original Docker project in 2010 and co-founded the Docker company in 2011, has spent the past five years trying...

Kubecost 2.0 released as reports show persistent Kubernetes over-provisioning

Kubecost 2.0 has landed to help organizations analyze and control Kubernetes costs, a month month after a CNCF survey found that overprovisioning is a...

Docker introduces Build Cloud for accelerated local development

Docker has introduced Build Cloud, a remote build service that runs in the background to speed up local development. “Build times are getting longer as...

Virtual Kubernetes lands on the Fly.io platform but there are compromises

Fly.io, a platform for running containers on virtual machines, has introduced Fly Kubernetes, which lets developers use Kubernetes tools while still deploying to Fly.io,...

Docker buys AtomicJar to integrate container-based test automation

Docker has bought AtomicJar along with its Testcontainer projects, giving Docker a better test story but raising concerns about future licensing costs and support...

Interview: Not much on Kubernetes at AWS re:Invent? More than it seemed, VP tells us

Kubernetes is hot in the enterprise, yet received little attention in the keynotes at the AWS re:Invent conference last week where the focus was...