Lawrence Hecht

2 months ago | lxer.com | Jack Wallen |Joab Jackson |Lawrence Hecht |Loraine Lawson

Linux: Zentyal Is the Small Business Server You May Need Within the realm of Linux, there are certain distributions geared specifically for business server usage. The most popular options include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux and CentOS Stream. But those aren’t the only options available. There are distributions that might not have the same name recognition, but that doesn’t make them any less viable.

Jan 25, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Lawrence Hecht

“Holy shit it’s actually done — we just tagged Tailwind CSS v4.0,” Tailwind CSS creator Adam Wathan wrote Tuesday. It’s an understandable reaction, when you consider that this release is a ground-up rewrite of the framework. The Tailwind team took “everything we’ve learned about the architecture over the years and optimizing it to be as fast as possible,” Wathan wrote. First, there’s the new Rust-powered performance engine — called Oxide at one point — that was incorporated into this release.

Jan 18, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Lawrence Hecht

Rolldown, a JavaScript bundler written in Rust created by void(0) — the company also responsible for Vite — is now available in beta. The new bundler provides Rollup-compatible APIs and plugin interface but is more similar to esbuild in scope, the Rolldown team said in introducing the bundler. The goal is to replace esbuild and Rollup, which are currently used in Vite as dependencies, with one unified build tool for Vite.

Jan 10, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Heather Joslyn |Lawrence Hecht

With so much emphasis on generating value from developers these days, you would think that tracking developer productivity would be a high priority for organizations. Not necessarily, according to data published in JetBrains’ “State of the Developer Ecosystem Report.”Only 28% of people who participated in the survey and have manager roles said their organizations measure both developer productivity and developer experience.

Jan 8, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Jeffrey Burt |Venkat M. Ramakrishnan |Eric Newcomer |Lawrence Hecht

In some ways, the experience at a high-end restaurant is not unlike that of an enterprise that’s embracing generative AI. When a diner is served their food, they see a delicious meal presented nicely and ready to eat, giving little if any thought to the chaos on the other side of the kitchen door that resulted in their dinner.