Lawrence Hecht

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Lawrence Hecht

Claude, Supermaven and Cursor users are much more likely to say they had a positive experience than users of other AI-based developer tools. Users of Google Gemini, JetBrains AI and Meta’s Llama are much less likely to report having a positive experience with those technologies. These are just some of the many findings we uncovered in “The 2025 State of Web Dev AI” report.

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Lawrence Hecht

ML and LLM Adoption Challenged Most Often by Observability Image by Olivie Strauss via Unsplash+. Observability and monitoring is the most cited challenge when moving ML models into production. The Institute for Ethical AI & Machine Learning conducted a survey on the state of production ML in the fourth quarter of 2024.

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Lawrence Hecht

“The State of the Cloud Report” has been published for 13 straight years. I’ve read so many of these reports that I’ve seen private cloud usage surge several times amid the broader trend toward multicloud adoption. The latest edition by Flexera provides new data about sustainability initiatives and repatriation, as well as updates on the state of public cloud usage and cloud optimization.

Jan 27, 2025 | 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.