Assorted links for Tuesday, Febuary 25:
- Exploring the Inevitable Future of Data-Dependent Applications
Instead of combining technologies like MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and application servers, why not skip system fragmentation and use a single technology platform? Only code makes these systems run, so why not code for just one system?
- Simplify AI Development with Machine Learning Containers
- Attacks on Maven proxy repositories
All tested [repository managers] not only store and serve artifacts, but also perform complex parsing and indexing operations on them. Therefore, a specially crafted artifact can be used to attack the repository manager that processes it. This opens a possibility for XSS, XXE, archive expansion, and path traversal attacks.
- Modernizing legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples
- Open source AI is already finding its way into production
In our survey of 2,000 enterprise respondents on software development teams across the US, Germany, India, and Brazil, nearly everyone said they had experimented with open source AI models at some point.