6 posts tagged with "Infrastructure as Code"

AWS recently released the Data Solutions Framework (DSF), an opinionated open-source framework designed to accelerate the creation of data solutions on AWS. Built using the AWS CDK, the framework exposes abstractions and patterns as building blocks for constructing data solutions and is available in TypeScript (npm) and Python (PyPi).

DSF provides building blocks packaged as standard L3 AWS CDK Constructs to compose data solutions on AWS. These building blocks offer customization capabilities and can be composed with any other CDK Construct, including those available through Construct Hub, a collection of open-source CDK libraries. Lotfi Mouhib, principal solutions architect at AWS, Dženan Softić, senior solutions architect at AWS, and Vincent Gromakowski, principal solutions architect at AWS, write:

Docker, Inc. has announced At DockerCon 2023, with partners Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama, that they launched a new framework aimed at simplifying the process of building applications infused with artificial intelligence (AI) using containers.

The framework, called Docker AI, provides developers with automated guidance and context-specific recommendations to help them define and troubleshoot all aspects of AI application development. Additionally, Docker has partnered with Neo4j, LangChain, and Ollama to create a GenAI Stack, which includes pre-configured Large Language Models (LLMs) and tools to streamline AI/ML integration, making it more accessible to developers.

With these initiatives, Docker aims to make AI application development a team sport, involving data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and traditional developers.

According to the 2023 Thales Data Threat Report, 55% of organizations experiencing a data breach have reported “human error” as the primary cause. This is further compounded by organizations now facing attacks from increasingly sophisticated cyber criminals with a wide range of automated tools.

As organizations move more of their operations to the cloud, they must also become increasingly aware of the security risks and threats that come with it. It’s not enough anymore to simply have a set of policies that human operators must follow. Today more proactive and automated strategies must be implemented. This is where Infrastructure as Code (IaC) can play a pivotal role.

What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?

Infrastructure as Code is a key practice in the world of DevOps that involves managing and provisioning computer data centers through machine-readable definition files or scripts rather than relying on physical hardware configuration or interactive configuration tools. To put it simply, IaC is the process of managing your IT infrastructure — servers, networks and databases — using code, much like software.

AI is impacting almost every industry today, and for good reason - we are seeing fundamentally new experiences being made possible across a wide variety of products, and a set of new AI capabilities that promise even more incredible change in the near future.

Software development is among the earliest and most prominent fields to realize the benefits of AI, evidenced by the rapid adoption of tools like Github Copilot which is now one of the most heavily adopted developer tools of all time. Developers are benefiting from an incredible increase in their productivity with better scale and faster time to market.

In the current digital landscape, businesses face an unprecedented level of cyber threats. The repercussions of successful attacks can be devastating, resulting in data breaches, service disruptions, and irreparable damage to brand reputation. To mitigate these risks and ensure a resilient future, organizations should prioritize a holistic security strategy across all potential attack surfaces. This article explores how Azure network security helps businesses safeguard their assets in the face of escalating cyber threats.

A survey of 350 IT professionals conducted by Firefly, a provider of a platform for managing cloud computing environments, suggests usage of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools is evolving rapidly in the cloud computing era.