Why WebAssembly won’t replace Kubernetes but makes Helm more secure 🔗
My gut reaction has often been to compare WebAssembly to Kubernetes. Flash back to over four years ago: Then, I The post Why WebAssembly won’t replace [...]
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Cursor beats Opus at 10x less, Meta’s agent goes rogue, and the 300-page Trump America AI Act 🔗
I’m Matt Burns, Director of Editorial at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Cursor beats Opus at [...]
AI can write your infrastructure code. There’s a reason most teams won’t let it. 🔗
For this episode of The New Stack Agents, I sat down with Marcin Wyszynski, the technical co-founder of Spacelift and The post AI can write your infra [...]
China is winning the open source AI race — but a US company still controls everything underneath 🔗
Most of the AI spotlight shines on the biggest models from the biggest labs — Claude from Anthropic, GPT from The post China is winning the open sourc [...]
Why the ‘glorified host’ for AI is exactly the Kubernetes we need 🔗
I recently caught a post from Hyperframe Research that asked a question many of us in the cloud-native trenches have The post Why the ‘glorified host’ [...]
OpenAI acquires Astral to bring open source Python developer tools to Codex — but details are still fuzzy 🔗
OpenAI this week announced its acquisition of Astral to bring the startup’s open source Python developer tools into the Codex The post OpenAI acquires [...]
Why flat Kubernetes networks fail at scale 🔗
Rethinking network security hierarchies for cloud-native platforms Kubernetes networking is powerful. Its flexibility lets teams connect hundreds of m [...]
From pillars to platform: How open observability data is changing the industry 🔗
As the observability industry pivots from proprietary systems to open frameworks, the traditional “pillars” of metrics, logs, and traces are The post [...]
Linux kernel scale is swamping an already-flawed CVE system 🔗
Linux kernel developers operate under constraints that very few other open source community maintainers experience. Evolving the capabilities of the T [...]
Backend Development in 2026: What’s Changed, What Matters, and What to Learn Next 🔗
Overview of Backend Development Backend development, often called server-side development, involves building and overseeing applications that run on c [...]
Jellyfish AI development study: The real sting has yet to land 🔗
Developers are adopting and eschewing AI coding tools depending on their trust in the new automation mantra, the level of The post Jellyfish AI develo [...]
Cursor’s Composer 2 beats Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks at a fraction of the price 🔗
Cursor on Thursday released Composer 2, the third generation of its in-house coding model. The model outperforms Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 The post Cursor’ [...]
Sampling: the philosopher’s stone of distributed tracing 🔗
In modern observability, distributed tracing is often considered the most expressive signal. It can be used to capture much of The post Sampling: the [...]
Building a Kubernetes-native pattern for AI infrastructure at scale 🔗
When AI developer and ops teams first adopt large models on Kubernetes, the focus is usually on getting something to The post Building a Kubernetes-na [...]
The AI revolution will be open-sourced 🔗
At CES 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made the case that AI will proliferate when open innovation is activated across The post The AI revolution will b [...]
Java 26 lands without an LTS badge. Here’s why developers should care anyway. 🔗
released Java 26 on Tuesday, the opening day of its JavaOne 2026 conference in Redwood Shores, Calif., continuing the platform’s The post Java 26 land [...]
Chainguard has a fix for the open source packages your AI agents keep grabbing 🔗
As AI coding assistants and autonomous agents dramatically accelerate software development, they’re introducing a security problem that most organizat [...]
Sauce Labs wants to solve an AI-created problem nobody wanted to work on 🔗
AI code-generation tools have compressed software development cycles, but testing hasn’t kept up. Sauce Labs thinks it has found an The post Sauce Lab [...]
Capital One deprecated an AI tool it once championed. Its DevEx chief says that’s the point. 🔗
How could you possibly ensure you are providing the right tools and processes to 14,000 engineers? How do you even The post Capital One deprecated an [...]
Scaling Btrfs to petabytes in production: a 74% cost reduction story 🔗
At Chronosphere, we saved 74% of our storage costs by moving petabytes of time-series data from ext4 to Btrfs, the The post Scaling Btrfs to petabytes [...]
Why your observability bill keeps growing (and it’s not your vendor’s fault) 🔗
Over the past year, I have spoken with dozens of engineering teams about their observability pipelines and analyzed their production The post Why your [...]
Chainguard thinks most DevOps teams are solving container security the hard way 🔗
Chainguard OS is great, but what if you want to customize your own Linux? Now, with the Chainguard OS Package, The post Chainguard thinks most DevOps [...]
OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 mini and nano are built for the subagent era 🔗
On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano, two smaller models designed for tasks that agentic AI systems delegate: codebase searches, The post [...]
WebMCP turns any Chrome web page into an MCP server for AI agents 🔗
About two weeks ago, I posted about websites returning Markdown to make life easier for AI agents. While agents are already quite The post WebMCP turn [...]
GitHub Copilot’s effect on collaboration has stunned researchers 🔗
Generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot are not just speeding up coding; they are quietly rewiring how software developers divide The post GitHub Copi [...]
The security hole that every enterprise AI deployment has (but nobody looks for) 🔗
The anti-automation glitterati may now be preparing for a new swathe of naysaying as agentic AI services are brought to The post The security hole tha [...]