by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 24, 2025 | Cloud
JetBrains has released Kotlin 2.2.0, the latest version of the company’s general purpose, statically typed language perhaps best known as a rival to Java for JVM and Android development. The update previews context parameters, stabilizes guard conditions, and offers...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 24, 2025 | AWS
You can now use sort and z-order compaction to improve Apache Iceberg query performance in Amazon S3 Tables and general purpose S3 buckets. You typically use Iceberg to manage large-scale analytical datasets in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) with AWS Glue...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 24, 2025 | Cloud
Microsoft Cost Management now supports exporting cost and usage data in the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.2 schema. This update introduces key enhancements that help FinOps teams streamline reporting, unify billing data across...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 24, 2025 | Cloud
Unlike general-purpose large language models (LLMs), more specialized reasoning models break complex problems into steps that they ‘reason’ about, and show their work in a chain of thought (CoT) process. This is meant to improve their decision-making and accuracy and...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jun 24, 2025 | Cloud
The major builders of large language models (LLMs)—OpenAI, DeepSeek, and others—are mistaken when they claim that their latest models, like OpenAI’s o-series or DeepSeek’s R1, can now “reason.” What they’re offering isn’t reasoning. It’s simply an advanced text...
