Amanda Brock

Jan 7, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Lawrence Hecht |Janakiram MSV |Amanda Brock |Patrick Coughlin

We try to stay on top of the trends that are coming for our readers. But after reviewing last year’s data research, and many 2025 predictions, we still had some unanswered questions. To get a better reading of what’s ahead, The New Stack’s editors identified 14 questions that needed answering. We then identified over 120 industry experts to help us learn about the future of open source, developers’ use of AI, and IT infrastructure.

Jan 6, 2025 | startupnews.fyi | Alex Williams |Amanda Brock

2024 didn’t fail to disappoint in delivering another roller coaster of a year for open source software. Open source isn’t just code today, it’s a philosophy that we have seen put under serious pressure throughout the last couple of years. Navigating that pressure must become our collective, global, community mission in 2025. That’s the only way that we can hope to protect the future of open source. At the State of Open Con, on Feb.

Jan 6, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Amanda Brock

2024 didn’t fail to disappoint in delivering another roller coaster of a year for open source software. Open source isn’t just code today, it’s a philosophy that we have seen put under serious pressure throughout the last couple of years. Navigating that pressure must become our collective, global, community mission in 2025. That’s the only way that we can hope to protect the future of open source. At the State of Open Con, on Feb.

Jan 2, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Amanda Brock

Despite the abundance of warm-fuzzy articles focused on open source’s achievements throughout 2024, a cold wind blows over its future. Few winds are colder than the Siberian, and this Russian blast will have a chilling effect few genuinely comprehend. Writing an end-of-year piece for the New Stack on the morning of Dec. 19, I focused on what I consider to be the most essential thing that will happen to open source in 2024.

Sep 26, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Amanda Brock

Valkey, OpenTofu, and OpenBao are names of open source software project forks hosted by the Linux Foundation. The forks were instigated last year in response to license shifts (from open source to proprietary licensing) by the commercial sponsors of open source software projects; HashiCorp was forked by OpenTofu, OpenBao, and Redis Labs with Valkey. The latter has been splashed across the tech press in the last few weeks.