Richard MacManus
Tech Journalist at The New Stack
Tech journalist at The New Stack | Founder of ReadWriteWeb (2003-12) | Available now: BUBBLE BLOG, my Web 2.0 memoir at https://t.co/6duOxNS9mQ
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3 weeks ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
With Kubernetes and the cloud native community now 10 years old, KubeCon was a chance to both look back and look ahead for Google’s Jago Macleod, engineering director of GKE and Kubernetes at the company. In a fascinating presentation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London this week, Macleod explained Google’s initial motivation for open sourcing Kubernetes, how it evolved over the following decade and — most interestingly — how it plans to accommodate the changes wrought by generative AI.
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1 month ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
This week marks my 5th anniversary of working at The New Stack. When I started, in the final week of March 2020, I had to quickly get used to the “cloud native” world. What was Kubernetes and why did everyone keep talking about it, what did “serverless” mean exactly, what did the acronym CI/CD stand for, what were “micro services”? It wasn’t as if I was a tech neophyte — I’d founded the pioneering tech blog ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and ran it until 2012.
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1 month ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
With virtually every coding tool now infused with AI, developers are increasingly asking themselves: what type of coding tool should be my default now? Do I need one of those new-fangled “agentic IDEs” or is Visual Studio Code good enough? What role does the cloud play in AI tooling? To answer these questions, I’ve surveyed the dev tool landscape and picked out some trends for developers to watch.
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1 month ago |
thenewstack.io | Richard MacManus
Last November Anthropic launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open source standard designed to streamline how AI models interact with APIs. As we explained earlier this month, the vision is to make MCP the universal method for AI agents to trigger external actions. MCP has drawn a lot of interest in its first few months, including from API management companies like Speakeasy. API companies see MCP as a linking mechanism to the rich ecosystem of LLMs and agentic frameworks.
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1 month ago |
cybercultural.com | Richard MacManus
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, was one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web. Beverley Hills Internet in 1995, before being renamed GeoCities. By 1995, people had begun to create their own web pages on the World Wide Web — or “home pages” as they were called back then.
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The latest installment of my new book, "Bubble Blog: From Outsider to Insider in Silicon Valley's Web 2.0 Revolution." It's 2004 and I'm a member of the blogosphere. This is pre-Web 2.0, but with new "social software" sites like Flickr, it's heating up. https://t.co/wS3hKYHtNY