The New Stack

4 days ago | thenewstack.io | Heather Joslyn |Lawrence Hecht

AI’s impact on the tech job market is less disruptive than developers fear. In fact, so far it seems to be creating rather than destroying jobs, according to a new talent survey from the Linux Foundation. Participants in the foundation’s new report were four times as likely to say that AI is increasing software development jobs as compared to decreasing them.

6 days ago | thenewstack.io | Alex Williams

Are online transaction processing (OLTP) databases stuck in the past? Well, OLTP databases are tightly coupled, said Databricks co-founder Reynold Xin in his keynote earlier this month at the Databricks Data + AI Summit in San Francisco. Such databases are monolithic, combining compute and storage in big machines, which leads to various problems, including over-provisioning, scaling challenges, performance issues and a range of system complexities.

6 days ago | thenewstack.io | David Eastman

In my developer forecast for 2025 last December, I predicted there would be further developments at Darklang, which started as a great way to build backends as REST services (now known as Darklang-classic), then morphed into an “infrastructure from code” platform — a statically-typed functional programming language — and then went quiet.

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Lawrence Hecht |Joab Jackson

Whenever a new technology is conceived, multiple implementations will often surface and vie with one another for dominance. In the arena of GitOps, which is becoming the de facto approach to launching new applications into a cloud native ecosystem, ArgoCD is looking to be the platform of choice.

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Heather Joslyn

First, the bad news: half of all companies represented in a new survey experienced either a layoff or a hiring freeze in the past 12 months. Now, the good: that’s an improvement over the 67% that said the same a year ago, according to the new study by LeadDev. More survey participants said their organization’s IT headcount is increasing (36%) than said it is decreasing (30%). For managers, though, the situation is less promising.