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Jan 10, 2025 | 
thenewstack.io | Brian Wald
As organizations grow, the urgency to deliver software quickly often leads to a patchwork of tools, processes and practices. Different teams may create their own solutions to meet immediate needs, resulting in a fragmented development environment. This lack of cohesion is not just inefficient, it’s risky. Inconsistent tools and processes create bottlenecks, increase the likelihood of errors and make it difficult to enforce security standards uniformly.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
vmblog.com | Brian Wald |David Marshall
By Brian Wald, Head of Global Field CTO org at
GitLabMost development teams have experienced the productivity gains of
adopting DevSecOps methodologies and the corresponding tools and processes. Recent research has found that C-level executives identified faster iteration,
better code quality, improved operational efficiency, and more secure
applications as the top benefits of implementing DevSecOps.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Brian Wald |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
AI’s role in democratizing technology is reshaping the way we operate, and software developers are at the heart of this revolution. While many developers fear how AI may affect their careers, they also wield tremendous power in shaping how the revolution plays out. Their role is evolving from code creation to influencing the use of AI tools.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Mary Branscombe |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
The ECMAScript standard for JavaScript continues to add new language features in a deliberate way. This year there’s a mix of APIs that standardize common patterns that developers have been writing by hand or importing from third-party libraries — including some aimed specifically at library authors — plus improvements in string handling, regular expressions, multithreading and WebAssembly interoperability.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
lxer.com | Joab Jackson |Brian Wald |David Eastman |Ido Neeman
In 2001, then-Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer complained that “Linux is a cancer.” The future Los Angeles Clippers owner was referring to how Linux’s open source license — The General Public License — necessitate all the software it is built on be transformed into open source as well. His fears were overblown, but also prescient in a way he probably didn’t realize. Twenty years on, it is Linux — not Windows — is the most widely used operating system on Microsoft Azure.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
Astro had a big week, announcing its 4.12 release along with a new partnership with Netlify, which now sponsors Astro as its official deployment partner. We’ll be covering the partnership in more depth next week, but the big news in this Astro release is that it includes the first experimental release of Server Islands, which are the framework’s “new solution to integrate high-performance static HTML and dynamic server-generated components together.”Astro introduced islands in 2021.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Brian Wald |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
Enterprises are no longer experimenting with generative AI; they are integrating the technology into their core operations to drive efficiency, innovation and competitive advantage. Whether your company is an AI early adopter or just beginning its journey, your focus must be on integrating AI to deliver tangible results. Success requires a strategic approach that ensures the AI solutions you implement align with business goals and provide qualitative and quantitative benefits.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
Think again if you’ve assumed the Linux Foundation’s Valkey project will just be a clone of the Redis database. The project’s maintainers — liberated from years of Redis’ tight leadership — want to evolve the key-value store to meet the emerging demands of today’s workloads and hardware platforms.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Adrian Cockcroft |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
The leading cloud providers and the mammoth global companies that run them are adopting environmentally sustainable practices, but it is a complicated work in progress. As Amazon, Google and Microsoft continue to grow, they’re all grappling with the challenges of reducing their carbon emissions in the face of increased resource usage of AI, while making the right investments in renewable energy infrastructure around the world.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel
The author has worked for DX as a contractor. Sixty-nine percent of developers lose at least eight hours a week — one working day per week — to largely fixable inefficiencies, according to a new survey. What’s standing in their way? Their own managers. The report on developer experience (DevEx), released Monday by Atlassian and DX, found a yawning gulf between what developers and IT managers think has the most impact on developer productivity and job satisfaction.
