How Training Data Differentiates Falcon, the LLM from the UAE
The name "Falcon" for the UAE’s large language model (LLM) symbolizes the national bird's qualities of courage and perseverance, reflecting the vision of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in A...
30 Touko 202423min
Out with C and C++, In with Memory Safety
Crash-level bugs continue to pose a significant challenge due to the lack of memory safety in programming languages, an issue persisting since the punch card era. This enduring problem, described as "...
22 Touko 202436min
How Open Source and Time Series Data Fit Together
In the push to integrate data into development, time series databases have gained significant importance. These databases capture time-stamped data from servers and sensors, enabling the collection an...
16 Touko 202421min
Postgres is Now a Vector Database, Too
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced PG Vector, an open-source tool that integrates generative AI and vector capabilities into PostgreSQL databases. Sirish Chandrasekaran, General Manager of Amazo...
9 Touko 202417min
Valkey: A Redis Fork with a Future
Valkey, a Redis fork supported by the Linux Foundation, challenges Redis' new license. In this episode, Madelyn Olson, a lead contributor to the Valkey project and former Redis core contributor, along...
2 Touko 202417min
Kubernetes Gets Back to Scaling with Virtual Clusters
A virtual cluster, described by Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele at Kubecon+ CloudNativeCon Paris, is a Kubernetes control plane running inside a container within another Kubernetes cluster. In this New St...
25 Huhti 202423min
How Giant Swarm Is Helping to Support the Future of Flux
When Weaveworks, known for pioneering "GitOps," shut down, concerns arose about the future of Flux, a critical open-source project. However, Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm's VP of Product, reassured Alex W...
22 Huhti 202428min
AI, LLMs and Security: How to Deal with the New Threats
The use of large language models (LLMs) has become widespread, but there are significant security risks associated with them. LLMs with millions or billions of parameters are complex and challenging t...
11 Huhti 202437min
