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Sep 1, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Rob Whiteley
What skills do aspiring developers need to acquire? This question has been debated for decades, back to the ’80s and ’90s, when schools focused their curricula on “hard skills” like advanced knowledge of intricate programming languages. As development environments grew more collaborative, employers emphasized hiring versatile developers with soft skills like teamwork and communication and traditional technical chops.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Anita Ihuman |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
The rise of Kubernetes and microservices, while hugely beneficial for operations teams, added another layer of complexity to the development pipeline. Engineering teams working on Kubernetes applications often need help with the interdependence of services, highly fragile local development environments, delays in testing changes in remote environments, and competitive access to staging environments.
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Aug 25, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Martin Bryant |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
If you keep an eye on developments in social media, you can’t have failed to notice the recent extraordinary rise of ActivityPub, a W3C protocol enabling decentralized social networking between federated servers. What was once a somewhat niche protocol and open standard for building interoperable social apps has gained real traction in the wake of Elon Musk’s purchase, and subsequent transformation, of Twitter.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Ajinkya Ghadge |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
Achieving five nines (99.999%) availability is a benchmark of excellence in distributed systems. This uptime guarantees only 5 minutes of downtime annually, ensuring near-constant availability and reliability. Even though it offers greater resilience and up-time, the question around this is: at what cost? The pursuit of consistent uptime comes with significant financial, operational, and human costs.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
Seventy percent of companies deploying GenAI use tools and vector databases to augment base models, according to a recent survey by Databricks. The company queried more than 10,000 global customers using its Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. The company published the results of its survey in its State of Data + AI report this month. LangChain is one of the most widely used data and AI products, but it’s not the only one — in fact, it ranked third in this survey.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
If you’re a developer, you’ve probably heard of Git. If you’re not a developer or are just now starting your journey toward becoming a developer, Git might not be on your radar, but it will be. Eventually, every developer comes in contact with Git. Even some non-developer types make use of Git. In fact, a vast number of people and organizations, from all over the globe, depend on Git.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Eastman |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
While design patterns have helped to document software as an engineering discipline, they don’t really help much as a teaching aid. It is useful to confirm the existence of repeatable patterns after you encounter them, but understanding examples is still the best way to prepare to solve new problems. This post might appear to look at the strategy pattern (or command pattern), but actually it describes hero animals on a mission to find an evil lair.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Heather Joslyn |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
NEW YORK — How do you build an internal developer platform for an organization that can expect massive online traffic surges on a regular basis and whose developers have grown used to lots of autonomy? And how do you sort through the ever-growing pile of options to standardize your organization’s tooling? Those are the questions facing the platform team at The New York Times, the more than 170-year-old bastion of global journalism.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Cassel |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
He’s been doing it for 17 years, then somehow ran afoul of a U.S. federal agency … maybe. The saga of singer-songwriter Jonathan Mann — who has been writing a new song every day since 2007 — might soon detour into a surprising legal drama. Years ago I wrote about the beginnings of Jonathan Mann’s long-running odyssey.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Andrew Sellers |Agam Shah |Brian Godsey |Rob Whiteley
It sounds counterintuitive — using a technology that has trust issues to create more trustworthy data. But smart engineers can put generative AI to work to improve the quality of their data, allowing them to build more accurate and trustworthy AI-powered applications. Generative AI models are remarkable for their ability to answer questions in human-like sentences, but they are prone to hallucination, and they can’t derive insight from internal company data that wasn’t part of their training.
