Rust 1.81 is now available, with the newest version of the memory-safe language, featuring a stabilization of the Error trait in the Rust core library. Rust 1.81 was released September 5. Developers with a previous version of Rust installed via rustup can upgrade using the rustup update stable command. Developers can install rustup from the rust-lang.org….
The C language has dropped to fourth place in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity, its lowest position in the monthly index ever. The index was begun in 2001. In the Tiobe Programming Community Index for September 2024, published September 7, the C language finished behind first-ranked Python, followed by C++ in second place and…
The Apache Cassandra Community has announced the general availability of Apache Cassandra 5.0, offering better data efficiency, integration of GenAI functionality, and improved performance. Apache Cassandra is a distributed, open-source NoSQL database built to manage large volumes of data across multiple servers without a single point of failure. Known for its high availability and fault…
Data fabrics have gained importance over the last year as more organizations seek to leverage their data and intellectual property in generative AI solutions. Data fabrics help address the challenges of centralizing data across business units and data sets housed in public clouds, data centers, and SaaS solutions. As a result, more AIs, machine learning…
Generative AI has filled the world with code. Unfortunately, enough of it is bad code that you’re still going to need experienced developers who can fix the errors introduced by genAI. But what about junior developers? What’s their role in a world awash in machine-generated code that, at least in theory, renders less experienced developers…
Haystack is an open-source framework for building applications based on large language models (LLMs) including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications, intelligent search systems for large document collections, and much more. Haystack is currently implemented exclusively in Python. Haystack is also the foundation for deepset Cloud. deepset is the primary sponsor of Haystack, and several deepset employees…
The headless data architecture is the formalization of a data access layer at the center of your organization. Encompassing both streams and tables, it provides consistent data access for both operational and analytical use cases. Streams provide low-latency capabilities to enable timely reactions to events, while tables provide higher-latency but extremely batch-efficient querying capabilities. You…
Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable analytics and data science news for the week of September 6, 2024. Keeping tabs on all the most relevant analytics and data science news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines…
Customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce’s AI research team has come out with a new large language model and two new open source products that will help developers and enterprises to not only build agents but automate actions taken by them. The new large language model (LLM), dubbed XGen-Sales, is itself based on a…
Data hyperaggregation collects, integrates, and processes large volumes of data from multiple sources. This method can pull data from cloud platforms and on-premises systems to create a unified and comprehensive data set. The goal is to enhance data visibility, thus improving decision-making, analytics, and operational efficiency. As organizations push the boundaries of digital transformation, understanding…
