Planet Ingres

 This is thanks to sqlite-vec, a new vector search extension for SQLite written entirely in C and with no dependencies.

Vendors are eager to add vector search to their dbms products.
One prominent example is Postgres with pg_vector which we covered in "Turn PostgreSQL Into A Vector Store" and more recently Mariadb as examined in "MariaDB Introduces Vector Search". This begs the question of what's the rush for adding vetor support?

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17458-sqlite-gets-into-vector-search.html

 Is Bash still relevant in this age of AI? Many wanted the command line bashed (pun intended), deprecated or replaced by something else. If you think it's still worth using, here's a free course by Linux TV that takes you from total novice to advanced Linux CLI user.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/17452-learn-bash-scripting-with-learnlinuxtv.html

 Claude Engineer is a CLI tool that draws on Anthropic's Sonnet 3.5 model to add super power capabilities to your coding workflow.

 The sessions from this year's premier Spring developer community conference, are now available online, for free.

This year's Spring I/O ran in Barcelona on 30-31 May; 2 days packed with 60 talks and 9 workshops, 80 speakers and 1200 attendees. Missed it? No worries as you can now watch on demand anything you have missed, or everything if haven't attended at all! Since there's a lot of material to go through we did a bit of digging to suggest the best to watch first.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17442-spring-io-2024-sessions-now-available-online.html#google_vignette

 Snowflake has added support for the Iceberg table format and subsequently became able to work with data commonly found in data lakes and warehouses.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/17441-snowflake-support-for-apache-iceberg-goes-ga.html

 Gradle has launched a free developers' learning portal. What can you except from it? We look at its range of courses.

Developer Productivity Engineering University, DPE, for short, aims to boost developer productivity by hosting courses that teach how to get the most out of Gradle and Maven build tools, as well as Develocity, Gradle's productivity platform for large-scale development teams.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/150-training-a-education/17434-gradles-developer-productivity-engineering-university.html

 Jamba-Instruct, the instruction-following large language model developed by AI21Labs is now available in Amazon Bedrock. Built for reliable commercial use Jamba-Instruct is a boon for Amazon's customers.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/17432-amazon-bedrock-adds-support-for-jamba-instruct-.html

 The sessions from this year's TPRC (formerly known as YAPC::NA), the premier Perl developer community conference,are now available online, for free.

This year's TPRC ran in Las Vegas on June 24-28. With five days packed with great sessions, the real problem was choosing what to miss. No worries though as you can now watch on demand any you have missed, or all of it if haven't attended at all. Given the plethora of material we did a bit of digging to suggest the best to watch first.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/222-perl/17394-perl-and-raku-conference-2024-sessions-now-available-online.html

 Instill AI are the makers of the Instill Core platform which includes a powerful visual pipeline builder for chaining LLMs together without writing any code.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/17390-create-your-own-llm-pipelines-with-instill-ai-.html#google_vignette

 The sessions of this year's premium Javascript conference, JSNation, are now available online and for free. Since there's a lot of material to go through we did a bit of digging to suggest the best to watch first.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/17361-jsnation-2024-sessions-now-available-online.html