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DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others.

The third milestone release of Spring Boot 4.0.0 delivers bug fixes, improvements in documentation, dependency upgrades and new features such as: a refactor of the class so that calls to adapter or predicate methods are no longer made by default if the source value is ; and a replacement of the @OptionalParameter annotation on optional actuator endpoint parameters with the annotation provided by JSpecify. More details on this release, including breaking changes, may be found in the release notes and wiki page.

Advanced debug logging is the cornerstone of high-performance applications. Whether working in cloud-native, microservice or monolithic architecture, strong debug logging practices enable developers to resolve problems, maintain system health and support scalable operations. To succeed in today's fast-paced environment, development teams need modern logging strategies, refined best practices and resilient error-handling techniques. Debug logging refers to the internal operation of an application, generating detailed messages that detect variable states and execution branches.

A series of patches has been published on the Git mailing list, taking the first step towards integrating Rust into the core of the project. Patrick Steinhardt states in his proposal that Rust will become a mandatory part of the build infrastructure starting with Git 3.0. The series is presented as a trial balloon, similar to previous experiments surrounding the introduction of C99 functionality.

Microsoft Fabric is an end-to-end, software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for data analytics, built around a data lake called OneLake, integrating components from Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory.

Two questions come up time and again: "when will the book be updated to Cats 2?", and "when will printed versions be available?" We're happy to say the answer to both is: soon! We have started working on updating the book. In fact the current version of the book, which is linked from the web site, is built against Cats 2 (although it does not discuss new concepts like the Parallel type class). This issue tracks our progress on the update.

AWS has announced the integration of LocalStack with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, addressing a long-standing challenge in serverless development where developers needed to juggle multiple tools and complex configurations for local testing of event-driven applications. The integration, available in AWS Toolkit for VS Code version 3.74.0, allows developers to connect directly to LocalStack endpoints from within their IDE. This eliminates the previous requirement for manual endpoint configuration and context switching between different development tools when testing serverless applications that involve multiple AWS services like Amazon SQS, EventBridge, and DynamoDB.

Scala is a powerful language that combines object-oriented and functional programming, making it ideal for building high-performance, data-intensive, and enterprise-grade applications on the JVM. With the release of the FraudLabs Pro Scala SDK, developers can now easily integrate fraud detection into their Scala projects using the FraudLabs Pro API. The SDK simplifies implementation, helping businesses protect their applications against fraud with minimal coding effort.

The latest version of the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) introduces an optimized resource-shrinking approach that unifies code optimization and resource shrinking, achieving up to 50% reduction in app size for apps that share significant resources and code across different form factor, says Google. In the new approach, Android's long-standing optimizer R8, processes code and resource references at the same time, which makes it possible to identify all resources that are only referenced from unused code, and thus remove them along with the unused code.

In addition to expanding the capabilities of raw linear memories, support was added for a new form of storage that is managed by the Wasm runtime automatically. WasmGC is low-level; a compiler targeting Wasm can declare the memory layout of its runtime data structures in terms of struct and array types, plus unboxed tagged integers, whose allocation and lifetime are then handled by Wasm.

When Oracle launched its cloud service, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), in 2016, very few in the tech industry believed the company could become a serious player in the public cloud market. Established giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud had not only dominated the market for years but also had set a high bar for innovation, scale, and performance that seemed insurmountable to newcomers.

Rather than simply failing a build it's now possible for the CI/CD platform to automatically fix issues that previously required massive amounts of toil. For example, CI/CD platforms infused with AI can not only create a list of tasks that need to be completed to enable a build to run successfully, but it can now perform those tasks in the background while still keeping humans in the loop, he said.

It is not often that the CEO of a billion-dollar company openly admits that his company deliberately created obstacles for customers. We did not entirely expect his answer. "We were a bit closed," said Eschenbacher. So Workday deliberately made it difficult to extract data. "We were nervous that they would extract it, put it in a cloud data warehouse, and then bypass us by running an application or AI on top of the data."

MCP acts as a bridge between AI agents and external systems. Think of it as a standardized way for your coding assistant to fetch fresh data, interact with APIs, and integrate with existing workflows. Without MCP, each AI tool would need custom integrations for every service it wants to connect with. The protocol enhances the utility of AI agents by providing them with access to real-time information.

I've been thinking about how web apps nowadays seem to pack many features-from dark mode to animations, rich client-side interactions, offline support and more. All of this is great, but I keep wondering: at what point do these extras hurt performance or the user experience? A few things I'm curious about: Do developers here ever delay implementing a "nice extra" because it slows down load time? What metrics or tools do you use to measure whether a feature is "too expensive" in terms of performance (mobile especially)? Are there features you've removed / scaled back after noticing performance issues? How do you decide which features are "must-have" and which are "nice-to-have" when building something new?

Kubernetes is the default platform for cloud-native applications, but managing Kubernetes at scale isn't trivial. New tools like Headlamp aim to reduce the overhead that comes with managing and deploying Kubernetes applications, but it is still easy to make mistakes and cause significant downtime. A recent survey from Komodor of enterprise Kubernetes usage showed that 79% of incidents in running environments are caused by system changes. On top of that, these outages take close to an hour to detect and resolve.

As a result of a number of features to be delivered in Scala 3.8, chief among them the standard library built with Scala 3, the size of the average Scala 3 release has increased considerably. Based on that fact, we have decided it is no longer suitable to publish them to Maven Central alongside stable releases, and a dedicated hosting space should be used instead.

Code Optimizations is an AI-based service running on Azure Application Insights that uses telemetry gathered by the Application Insights Profiler for .NET to analyse runtime behaviour, find performance bottlenecks down to individual methods, and provide actionable suggestions. Developers can view aggregated data over time (defaulting to a rolling 24‑hour window, with history up to 30 days) for their production and non-production environments.

Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio 2026 IDE through the company's new Insiders channel, which replaces the old Preview channel for early access to upcoming features. The new IDE offers deeper integration of the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including a profiler agent that analyzes performance and suggests fixes. Visual Studio 2026 Insiders, announced September 9, can be downloaded at visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders/.

Godot Engine has been gaining in popularity for game design for good reason, particularly for light 2D mobile games. As we note in our pick of the best game development software, it's free, open-source and relatively easy to use with its GDscript scripting language. And now it's just got a whole bunch better with the release of Godot 4.5. The latest version introduces both big and small changes across the software, making it more powerful and practical for both game design and VFX work.

Observability directly improves system stability and availability. The survey revealed that 75% of businesses report a positive return on their observability investments. Nearly one in five (18%) say they are realizing a 3-10x return on investment. For businesses, the top benefits of observability are: Reduced unplanned downtime (55% of leaders) Improved overall operational efficiency (50%) Reduced security risk (46%) Engineering Efficiency Observability also improves engineering productivity and satisfaction by reducing the time engineers spend on reactive tasks.

Strictly speaking, PHP is... an interpreter with compiler-like qualities. the nature of PHP (or Javascript, for that matter) is more of an... interpreter with multiple passes. Javascript does execute line by line.... but it also knows about functions within the entire scope of the current line's execution, even before encountering the function declaration in the code in its pass. So... it's parsed the file, one might call that compiled it, and then executes it line by line.

Monday is set to launch an AI agent builder tool that can automate a range of work management tasks, the company announced at its Elevate conference on Wednesday. The agents don't just answer questions, they "execute tasks, connect systems, and learn from context," said Daniel Lereya, chief product and technology officer at Monday, in an email conversation with Computerworld. "This frees teams and individuals from repetitive execution, allowing them to focus on creativity, strategy, and human judgment." Monday's agents can take action across different teams and app integrations he said, as well as interact via multiple communication channels, including email, SMS and phone calls,

If you're just getting started with SQL, it can feel overwhelming to know where to begin. The good news? Writing your first queries is simpler than you think. In this beginner SQL tutorial, we'll go through ten of the most common SQL query examples that every new learner should practice. By the end, you'll not only understand how to write SQL queries, you'll also feel confident applying them in real projects.

Every revolution rewrites the rules of innovation. Today, in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, we're still stuck with centralised control. Centralised control keeps decisions, resources, and standards concentrated at the top, leaving teams dependent on permission rather than contribution. In contrast, decentralised innovation frees teams from rigid hierarchies, allowing them to solve problems together. At its best, it aligns people through shared purpose rather than imposed rules. It sounds euphoric, but too often it proves to be wishful thinking.

GNOME is a Linux desktop environment that you either love or hate. I've used GNOME and GNOME-based desktops for years and have always fallen on the side of "love." With each new release, I always find a feature or two (or a bit of extra polish) that makes me smile. The release of GNOME 49 is no different. Although there might not be any game-changing features for this release (I'm guessing the developers are holding out until the big 5-0), there's just enough to make it a worthy upgrade from 48.

You're right. Let me fix the code and properly implement the Chudnovsky algorithm, which is indeed one of the best algorithms for computing pi to many decimal places. I'll also ensure the compilation works correctly. First, let me check what went wrong with the compilation: Shell cd /Users/martinheller/Code/qwen && g++ -lgmp -lmpfr pi_value.cpp -o pi_value