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Mar 19, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Meredith Shubel |Adrian Cockcroft |Agam Shah
KubeCon 2024 features new technologies and services from the open source and cloud native communities. This year, one company you’ll hear a lot from is OVHcloud, a French cloud provider that’s been innovating on data center design and management since 1999.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Loraine Lawson |Janakiram MSV |Charles Humble
Slint, a Rust-based GUI toolkit, supports developing apps on Android with its Thursday release of Slint version 1.5.The GUI toolkit allows JavaScript, C++ or Rust developers to create native user interfaces for embedded and desktop applications. For embedded developers, who prefer using an Android BSP instead of an embedded Linux distribution, the Slint on Android port allows the development and deployment of Slint applications on embedded Android.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Darryl Taft |Francisco J. Quintana |Heather Joslyn
Fly.io is behind what may be one of the hottest underground developer movements happening today, as the company has quietly attracted more than a quarter-million developers organically and is now establishing key partnerships to reach even more devs. Fly.io is a platform for developers to easily launch and manage applications globally. Kurt Mackey, CEO and founder of Fly.io, said.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Charles Humble |Darryl Taft |Janakiram MSV
The Linux page cache, also called disk cache, is a general-purpose type of cache. Although it can be tuned to better serve database kind of workloads, it’s fundamentally inefficient for database implementations. The page cache lacks the context over key database-specific needs that’s needed for optimal performance and control.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Joab Jackson |Celeste Malia |Agam Shah
Joab Jackson is a senior editor for The New Stack, covering cloud native computing and system operations. He has reported on IT infrastructure and development for over 25 years, including stints at IDG and Government Computer News. Before that, he worked for a U.S. Defense Department contractor to explain the benefits of commercializing "Star Wars" missile defense system technology.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Darryl Taft |Janakiram MSV |Charles Humble
Slack has launched a new free developer web portal to provide access to tools for building Slack apps, the ability to create sandboxes for testing beta apps and features, and a showcase of best practices and features. Rukmini Reddy, Slack’s SVP of Engineering, who leads the company’s first-party developer experience, said Slack’s goal with the new portal is to meet developers where they are.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Steven Vaughan-Nichols |Janakiram MSV |Charles Humble
Managing data lakehouses isn’t easy, so LinkedIn created and now has released as open source, OpenHouse, a control plane and interface for supervising a wide variety of data lakehouses. It all starts with data lakes. These are cheap, open storage systems for any data type — CSV, JSON, tabular data, text, images, audio, video, JSON, CSV, etc.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Joab Jackson |Celeste Malia |Agam Shah
For those heading to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe later this month in Paris (March 19-22), be sure to stop by the Crossplane booth (Kiosk PP1-B in the afternoons of March 20-22), to learn about the latest release of the cloud native control plane, Crossplane 15. Visitors unable to make the kiosk can also stop by the Upbound booth, during the entire show floor hours at G14 and at the Platform Engineering Day on March 19 at table four.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Charles Humble |Celeste Malia |Agam Shah
This is part one of a two-part series on how software engineers can share their knowledge by writing blog posts and other content for a technical audience. You can find part two here. Many of us engineers suffer from a common affliction: fear of writing. It often starts at school where we are told we don’t have a “gift for words.” This is nonsense. Writing is a craft, and the principles of it can be learned. There are several reasons why you might want to.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Tomasz Grabiec |Charles Humble |Celeste Malia |Agam Shah
This is part two of a two-part series on how software engineers can share their knowledge by writing blog posts and other content for a technical audience. You can find part one here. If you’re writing for the internet, the only thing most people will read before deciding whether to click and read your article is the headline.
