April E. Cho

Apr 30, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Torsten Volk |Linpeng Tang |Jeffrey Burt |April E. Cho

WebAssembly (WASM) makes it dead simple to develop, build, run, and operate the exact same code on any piece of hardware you can find under your desk, in your data center, in your AWS account, or on the control unit of a 30-ton harvester in a corn field. While I had talked with Fermyon’s CEO Matt Butcher about this vision back at KubeCon 2022 in Detroit, today there are actual production-ready use cases that bring tangible value.

Apr 29, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Alex Williams |Jeffrey Burt |April E. Cho |Liam Crilly

Today is The New Stack’s 10-year anniversary. In June, Judy Williams — my spouse and business partner — retires. Her retirement fulfills a promise we made to ourselves as a way to set goals for the business. Our deal in 2014: make The New Stack a 10-year project. And now comes the deal’s fulfillment. Judy’s ready to enjoy what comes after our 10-year run. No more weekends at the computer, managing the books and the rest. It’s time for her to enjoy all the things she loves.

Apr 29, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins |Jeffrey Burt |April E. Cho |Liam Crilly

EDITOR’S NOTE: The author is also a regular contributor of nonsponsored articles to The New Stack. There’s no doubt that Pfizer and its vaccine have played a starring role in our collective, global pandemic story. Behind the scenes, the pharmaceutical company was already in the process of growing from 100 to 3,000 tech workers, relying on a lot of software outsourcing, across about 200 countries, and supporting about 88,000 employees.

Apr 26, 2024 | thenewstack.io | April E. Cho |Dan Kraemer |Agam Shah |Janakiram MSV

In 2024, the question many teams face isn’t whether to adopt AI productivity tools but rather how to adopt them. In particular, AI is transforming the way that developers search for and share knowledge at a rapid pace. We are connecting with more and more engineering and IT teams that are looking to use AI to efficiently query all their company data without needing to navigate through vast codebases, documentation, commit logs and developer forums.

Apr 20, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Jeffrey Burt |April E. Cho |Liam Crilly

Vercel is working with the React team to prepare for the upcoming React 19 release and plans to address those changes in a major version in the future. In the meantime, on April 11, Vercel released Next.js 14.2, with enhancements to the release candidate Turbopack for Development. Vercel has been working on improving local development performance with Turbopack and notes that Turbopack Release Candidate is now available for local development with 99.8% of integration tests passing.