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Jul 5, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Michelle Gienow |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams
AI foundation models have become like supermodels: In this post-ChatGPT world, names like LLaMA, Gemini and Claude now carry the same buzz and instant recognition for tech pundits that human celebrities once commanded. However, as AI rises in global importance, so does our need to know about the technology that produces the results we get from typing into those prompt boxes.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Eastman |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
One of the first posts I published here was about Sinatra, because I was fairly sure most people were unfamiliar with this “mini” version of Ruby on Rails. Maybe I also assumed that Rails was a framework that web developers were slowly tiring of. Ruby was considered slow, and Python was getting more exposure in data applications. Rails also had a reputation for being difficult to scale. When Node.js was new, people were intrigued by working with JavaScript libraries directly.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
For those not quite at the level of running a complete build system, the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is still alive and an important part of the business technology landscape. You might think that going full-on cloud is the best bet, but what about those files and folders that house more sensitive data? Do you really want those being uploaded and downloaded to and from a third-party service that you don’t have control over? The answer should be no.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
ECMAScript Specs Approved, and How Google Sheets Used WasmGCOn Wednesday, the Ecma General Assembly approved the ECMAScript 2024 language specification, making the recommendations officially a part of the standard. The new standards include a new way to create Promises that devs want to resolve, according to Axel Rauschmayer, a computer scientist who specializes in JavaScript, TypeScript and web development.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
Canonical is expanding Long Term Support (LTS) beyond its flagship Ubuntu Linux distribution, promising to provide 12-year security support for any Docker-packaged open source software. These “distroless” containers would be ideal for Kubernetes environments, where they can be packed together in a pod for maximum computational efficiency. Canonical will certify the LTS containers to run on its own MicroK8s and Charmed Kubernetes platforms, naturally.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
WebAssembly’s original promise was that many languages could be compiled to it and then run in the browser or other environments. The problem, however, is that existing languages such as Java, Go and even Rust generate a huge amount of WebAssembly code when compiled, even when they’re just printing “Hello World,” said IDEA scientist and language developer Hongbo Zhang. “The advantage of WebAssembly is not delivered,” he said.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Alex Williams |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
SEATTLE — The Linux xz utils backdoor exploit exposes flaws in the open source ecosystem and how it works. That’s one takeaway from this On the Road interview on The New Stack Makers with John Kjell, director of open source at TestifySec. The interview, hosted by tech evangelist Chris Pirillo, was recorded at Open Source Summit North America. A maintainer for the Linux xz utils compromised the project by adding malicious code to a new release.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joe Fay |San He |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel
PARIS — The cofounder of PyTorch told open source AI developers last week that the project had considered closer integration between the AI framework and languages including Rust and JavaScript but ultimately decided against it. Soumith Chintala was speaking during a fireside chat at the Linux Foundation’s AI dev conference here, during which he outlined the ethos behind the framework. “PyTorch is like your typical hacker, who will take any shortcut to get good performance for users.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Paul Scanlon |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
With React’s evolving ecosystem, particularly with Next.js shifting toward a “server-first” approach, applications using CSS-in-JS solutions like Emotion and styled-components are facing significant challenges. These CSS-in-JS libraries are inherently incompatible with the new React paradigm. While one could argue these libraries could be updated to align with the new server-first direction, it’s important to remember that they’re maintained by unpaid open source contributors.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Emile Vauge |Michelle Gienow |David Cassel |Vidya Shankaran
Imagine this: you are working in a company named DonutGPT as Head of Platform Engineering, and you sell millions of donuts online every year with AI-generated recipes. You need to make your critical services available to hundreds of resellers through secured APIs. Since nobody on earth wants to see his donut order fail, your management is putting on the pressure to ensure a highly available service.
