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

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

SQLite will migrate from GNU Autotools to Autosetup, team warns of ‘some build-level breakage’

Serverless Tim Anderson -
The SQLite team is migrating the next release to use Autosetup instead of GNU Autotools and warns that although little will change for most...

Survey: Ruby on Rails devs happy to go their own way, now prefer Stimulus.js over React

Development Tim Anderson -
A community survey of Ruby on Rails developers shows stimulus.js, a lightweight JavaScript framework from Rails company 37signals, is now the top choice, displacing...

AWS introduces macOS for CodeBuild service, blames Apple licensing requirement for high price

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
AWS has added features to its CodeBuild service, most notably macOS instances for building applications for iOS and Mac, as well as improved integration...

Microsoft backtracks: eventing framework removed from .NET 9.0 following complaints

Development Tim Anderson -
Microsoft no longer plans to include a new eventing framework in .NET 9.0 - expected late this year - following complaints that it could...

Cloudflare updates Workers platform with Python support, event notifications, and improved local development

Development Tim Anderson -
Cloudflare has updated its serverless Workers platform with new features including Python support, event notifications from R2 storage, and improved local development support integrated...

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

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

Amazon discontinues Aurora scale-to-zero database in favor of always-billed replacement

Databases Tim Anderson -
Amazon Web Services will discontinue the Aurora Serverless version 1 database manager. Customers will need to migrate to Aurora Serverless 2, which, unlike its...

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

Containers Tim Anderson -
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,...

Apple’s Objective-C ‘appears to be reaching its end of life’ – or so says JetBrains survey

Development Tim Anderson -
JetBrains has released its annual State of Developer Ecosystem report, including the claim that Apple’s Objective-C language “appears to be reaching its end of...

WebAssembly increasingly used for plug-ins and serverless, but needs better tools

Development Tim Anderson -
A new WebAssembly survey sponsored by software development company Scott Logic shows growing usage as a runtime for plug-ins and serverless, alongside web development,...

Fermyon previews new spin on Serverless AI via Wasm

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Fermyon, specialists in WebAssembly (Wasm) microservices, has introduced a new serverless AI platform, in association with Kubernetes hosting service Civo. The service uses Large Language...

Deno denial of service attack resolved, with promise to address dependency impact

Databases Tim Anderson -
Deno suffered a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack earlier this week, impacting its module registry as well as its website, and is promising...

Cloudflare adds AI services as CTO says “a developer platform without AI” is little use

AI/ML Tim Anderson -
Cloudflare has introduced new services at its Developer Week now under way, including Constellation, which enables running inference tasks using pre-trained models in Cloudflare...

Reduce costs by 90% by moving from microservices to monolith: Amazon internal case study raises eyebrows

CI/CD Tim Anderson -
An Amazon case study from the Prime Video team has caused some surprise and amusement in the developer community, thanks to its frank assessment...

Wasm-based Spin 1.0 released to address ‘limitations of serverless’

Development Tim Anderson -
Fermyon has released Spin 1.0, the first stable version of its open source tool for compiling applications to WebAssembly for serverless deployment. Developers can...

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