Technology Commentary

How will you know when you’ve achieved true DevOps self-service? When you forget you ever did things any other way and wouldn't ever go back.

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Why did Stadia fail and why hasn't cloud gaming come into its own yet? We examine the technical foundation and ramifications for metaverse.

When the stakes are high, when it has to be a HIT, in all capital letters, we overinvest. The big stars. The lack of creative risk. The inflated budget and the meetings overrun with meddlers. After…

“The number of people who say that Moore’s Law can’t continue doubles every 24 months.” Even if you don’t understand this at first, it’s worth a second to unders…

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Organizations hold latent value—in the form of internal APIs—that they need to tap into in order to compete in an API economy. While security and technical challenges may deter some, businesses need to recognize that inverting their APIs will unlock the value of the enterprise as a platform.

An investigation by The Markup found that AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered lower-income and least-White neighborhoods slow internet service for the same price as speedy connections they offered in other parts of town

Microsoft has come full circle from the company that cared more about Windows than Office; the retirement of the Office name is possible precisely because Microsoft gave up on Windows and went to t…

Linux Foundation Energy hosts 18 open source projects aimed at making the power industry greener. Learn more on The New Stack Makers podcast. #TNSMakers #climatechange #opensource

Posted on Tuesday 18 Oct 2022. 1,157 words, 8 links. By Matt Webb.

Multiple sources have reported that Nutanix is pursuing a sale to private equity or an infrastructure supplier.

Though difficult, it’s better to resist cutting costs: A healthy software engineering team is often the difference between a company thriving and a company failing.

As you might expect, we believe in the strength, resilience, and utility of platforms and we carefully watch as companies emerge and try to commercialize

ARTIFICIAL intelligence was asked to predict the future and was right over 99% of the time, according to new research. Fortunately, the AI didn’t predict a deadly apocalypse or a robot takeov…

Supporting transnational worker organizing should be at the center of the fight for “ethical AI.”

Lonely lecture as a VR avatar is a far cry from last year's "thousands of people" goal.

Everyone in the software industry “knows” that code quality is important, yet we never had any data or numbers to prove it. In this article, we explore the impact by diving into recent research on code quality. With twice the development speed, 15 times fewer bugs, and a significant reduction of uncertainty in completion times, the business advantage of code quality is unmistakably clear.

Wasp is an open-source configuration language for building full-stack web apps that integrates with React & Node.js. We launched first prototype 2 years ago, currently are at 1.9k stars on GitHub and will be releasing Beta in the coming months.

An exploration of a common dependency version issue in monorepo projects, and the method I use to solve the issue in my own projects

Understanding the drivers behind your need to scale and the indicators you’re looking for will help you decide which route is best for your organization.

Albert Putnam(@AlbertPutnam) tuned me into the fact that ProgrammableWeb is shutting down this month, after seventeen years of operation. I have mixed feelings about this, in that I don’t tune into the site much anymore because it is a static API directory and a pay for play blog, lacking the original heart and soul the blog had back in the day. However, I also have deep emotions about this blog being the launch pad for my career as the API Evangelist and Chief Evangelist at Postman. Reading the blog posts by John Musser and Adam DuVander is what got me thinking deeply about APIs, and nudges from these amazing individuals prompted me to keep writing on API Evangelist, and even write a handful of posts on ProgrammableWeb as I was getting started. ProgrammableWeb is one of the iconic cornerstone in my history of APIs narrative, and has played a significant role in the API world we all take for granted now.

In July 2008, when I posted the photo above on this blog, some readers thought Santa Barbara Mission was on fire. It didn’t matter that I explained in that post how I got the shot, or that ne…

Cloudflare’s recent headline-making decision to refuse its services to KiwiFarms—a site notorious for allowing its users to wage harassment campaigns against trans people—is likely to lead to more calls for infrastructure companies to police online speech. Although EFF would shed no tears at the...

It’s one thing to move off centralized online spaces run by corporate giants, and another to settle the decentralized frontiers where we create new communities. As those communities get organ…

Meta’s new hardware is more impressive than expected, and the Microsoft partnership makes a lot of sense. The question is if Meta will capture enough value to outweigh their costs.

A list of programs from the all-too-brief golden era of desktop publishing that “didn’t make it.” The GUI’s killer app didn’t slay forever.