Practical Technology

There are many ways to build and secure containers, but Slim.ai has its own unique take. Slim.ai CEO John Amaral describes the company’s approach as “slimming.” This minimizes your production code footprint by removing unnecessary code. It also…Read More

Opinion When OpenAI released ChatGPT 3.5 in late November 2022, no one expected much from the new release. It was just a “research preview,” explained Sandhini Agarwal, an AI Policy researcher at OpenAI. “We didn’t want to oversell it as a big…Read More

Twitter is retiring its blue checkmarks for “authentic, notable, and active” accounts, such as those for government figures, entertainers, athletes, activists, content creators, or journalists. Owner and CEO Elon Musk had claimed earlier that…Read More

Bill Gates looked at the AI tidal wave and declared it the “most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface.” That one, you may recall, became Microsoft Windows. Now, everyone is dealing with the generative AI revolution. How…Read More

Thirteen years ago, developers at the NASA Ames Research Center and Rackspace, independently came up with the idea for an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Today, we call that cloud OpenStack. Now, after releasing Austin to Zed,…Read More

Today, billions of containers on clouds run the applications we use every day. And, while container technology dates back to 2000 with FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones, Docker, the open-source platform designed to simplify the creation, deployment,…Read More