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Dec 23, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
Firewalld: An Easier Way to Manage Linux Firewalls Feature Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay, penguin by M. Harris, Pixabay. VOXPOP Try our new 5 second poll. It's fast. And it's fun! How many hours a day can you code "at your best"? A recent Slack poll suggests dev productivity declines after the first 8 hours. How much peak productivity do you have in a day? “I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing work, Bob“ We'd love to hear what you think.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang |Shashi Gandham
This year has been the breakout year for Large Language Models (LLMs). But developers are still at the early stages of working out how best to leverage their power. When I was told that a potential interview candidate had been caught using ChatGPT while answering web-based questions, I had mixed feelings. It felt a little like when students first had access to hand held calculators. Today, that is no longer considered a problem in math exams — they can be used freely.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Cheney Zhang |Shashi Gandham |Richard MacManus
The big news for JavaScript in 2023 was the broader adoption of Signals by frameworks and, in the React world, React Server Components (RSC). The number of meta frameworks that leverage Signals continue to grow, said Solid creator Ryan Carniato. Angular introduced Signals in May with version 16. Preact and Qwik had already adopted Signals and Vue also has signals-based rendering, Carniato said.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Cheney Zhang |Richard MacManus |Andrew J. Brust |Rahul Pradhan
The recent introduction of the OpenAI Assistants retrieval feature has sparked significant discussions in the AI community. This built-in feature incorporates the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities for question answering, allowing GPT language models to tap into additional knowledge to generate more accurate and relevant answers.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
There is no sign of the React juggernaut slowing down as we near the end of 2023, but there has been a bit of a shakeup in the web frameworks that use React. Other web development trends this year include the rise of Cloud Development Environments (CDEs), generative AI and LLM features being integrated into web frameworks, and WebAssembly continuing to attract Rust and JavaScript developers. In no particular order, here are five significant web development trends from 2023. 1.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | David Cassel |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
There was excitement in the lecture hall. Harvard University’s wildly popular (and open) introductory computer science course CS50 was joined by a guest lecturer in October: the co-founder of AI application-building platform Fixie, Matt Welsh. But here is how he began his lecture. “I’m here to tell you that the field of computer science is doomed.”If “computer science” means transforming ideas into something that a machine can run — well, the weakest link there… is the humans.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
When writing Python programs, you will often make use of a range of items (such as numbers, letters, etc.). For example, you might use the numbers 1 through 10 in a list, and throughout your application, you might need to refer to different sections of that list. In one instance, you might only want to refer to the first two characters. In another section, you might want to reference the range from indexes 2 to 6.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
At some point, in your development or admin career, you’re going to have to host more than one website on a single server, virtual machine, or even container, probably using the Apache HTTP Server. When that happens, you have a few options at your disposal. You could deploy each website as a separate container or you could go the old-school route and use Apache’s virtual host option.
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Dec 16, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
Gemini is Google’s new multimodal AI foundation model. It was released just a week ago, but Google is already offering support for Android developers who want to leverage AI in apps. Gemini Pro is accessible via the Gemini API, the technology giant announced Wednesday. Developers can use the Google AI SDK, a client for Android, to integrate with Gemini Pro.
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Dec 15, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Susan Hall |David Eastman |Janakiram MSV |Cheney Zhang
Orkes, the company commercializing the Conductor open source project created at Netflix, is assuming maintenance of the project after Netflix decided to focus its efforts on Conductor internally. “The community’s innovation roadmap for Conductor is well aligned with the broader needs of the various developers and organizations that constitute this community.
