Frank Emery

Jan 14, 2024 | codeproject.com | David Cassel |Richard Gall |Richard MacManus |Frank Emery

They predicted the future. The top thinkers of 1974 were gathered together in the pages of “Saturday Review,”  for a special issue celebrating that magazine’s 50th anniversary. In a series of essays, each one tried to imagine their world 50 more years into the future, in the far-away year of 2024. Traveling forward in time, I’ve procured my own copy of this illustrious document — buying a yellowing copy from a stranger on eBay. You can tell it’s an old magazine.

Jan 12, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Steven Vaughan-Nichols |Frank Emery |Peter Guagenti |Jon Udell

The great computer scientist Niklaus Wirth has died, but his work will endure forever. I come not to mourn Wirth, a computer science titan who passed away on Jan. 1 at 89, but to praise him. While the public won’t recognize his name, his contributions to the world of programming are unparalleled, leaving an indelible mark that shaped the trajectory of software development. I cannot claim to have really met him, but I attended several lectures by him in the ’80s. He was, in a word, impressive.

Jan 11, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Frank Emery |Richard MacManus |Andrew J. Brust |Rahul Pradhan

Over half of Fortune 500 companies experience a minimum of 1.6 hours of unplanned downtime every week. This creates unhappy customers, piling pressure on stretched teams and giving IT leaders major headaches. To keep up, IT leaders have adopted more complex modern digital strategies. This infrastructure supports critical customer-facing services, yet these IT systems also create risk. As more and more software makes it into production and operational burdens increase, incidents become inevitable.

Jan 5, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Rahul Pradhan |Richard Gall |Richard MacManus |Frank Emery

When I started working in software development, I had a few “red flags” that meant I didn’t want to join a team. Once I knew the team culture was good and the environment felt familiar, my two big questions were:How often do you ship code? How long does that take? Some of the answers I got were truly surprising.

Jan 4, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Yakir Kadkoda |Richard Gall |Richard MacManus |Frank Emery

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