Announcements
- Public Preview of the Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Rust!
- Azure DevOps Basic usage included with GitHub Enterprise - Azure DevOps Blog - Azure DevOps basic user now receives GitHub Enterprise Cloud access, this is a pretty interesting move
- Announcing the Public Preview of AI Shell - PowerShell Team - Powershell team made a module wrapper around AI LLVM bots, seems this is a continuation of their experiment on terminal chat: Terminal Chat | Microsoft Learn
- Introducing GPT-4.5 | OpenAI - Higher “IQ”, less hallucinations, deeper responses and weirdly a bit of empathy
- Catch issues before you commit to Git - Visual Studio Blog - Copilot Visual Studio can now do a code review before you commit and makes suggestions, something I’m keen to trial
- Dapr v1.15 is now available | Dapr Blog
- Astro 5.4 | Astro released
Security
- Symbiotic Security updates its IDE extension to give developers better insights into insecure code as it is written - SD Times - Symbiotic Security creates an IDE extension to analyse security risks in real time whilst you’re coding, kind of like the sonar cloud analyzer
- New open source tools to detect, defend against malicious code - SD Times - using
- Kubescape Achieves CNCF Incubation Status - The New Stack - Kubespace is an open source k8s security platform which uses OPA under the hood, as we already do in PB. It leverages eBPF-based event monitoring on Kubernetes nodes to detect security threats at in real time by monitoring files activities, network operations, and system calls with anomaly detection. This is pretty cool, something I know datadog does this similarly and is a very powerful for real time security alert detection without affecting application performance.
Architecture
- AWS Developers: Building Reliable Distributed Systems with Temporal: Error Handling & Workflow Management - Temporal a node package for for event handling, similar to Azure Durable Function App but the UI is great
- 8 Most Important Tips for Designing Fault-Tolerant System - Another great diagram from bytebyte, using circuit breaker pattern for the back off throttling for handling peak traffic resonates with me more, definitely something I want to incorporate more into our designs