Salesforce may be prepping to phase out Heroku

Salesforce has signaled a major strategic shift for its long-standing cloud platform Heroku by ending sales of new Heroku Enterprise contracts and moving the service into a maintenance-focused “sustaining engineering” phase. “Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support…. Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered…

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AI-augmented data quality engineering

Why traditional data quality is no longer enough Modern enterprise data platforms operate at a petabyte scale, ingest fully unstructured sources, and evolve constantly. In such environments, rule-based data quality systems fail to keep pace. They depend on manual constraint definitions that do not generalize to messy, high-dimensional, fast-changing data. This is where AI-augmented data…

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Is AI killing open source?

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often just one or two, doing unpaid work that companies use as essential infrastructure, as recently covered by Brookings research….

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The devops certifications tech companies want

Devops continues to expand in development environments everywhere from small startups to the largest global enterprises. The worldwide devops market, including products and services, increased from $10.56 billion in 2023 to $12.4 billion in 2024, according to The Business Research Company. The firm predicts the market will expand to $37.33 billion by 2029. As increasingly…

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Microsoft bumps .NET Framework 3.5 from Windows installers

Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 development platform, which dates back to November 2007, is no longer included as an optional Windows component. Microsoft has changed its deployment model to standalone installer status for future Windows versions. In a bulletin published February 5, Microsoft said that beginning with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965, .NET Framework 3.5…

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