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• Heather Joslyn

Human Cognition Can’t Keep Up With Modern Networks. What’s Next?

. According to IBM’s Sanil Nambiar, AI depends on consistent hybrid cloud runtimes (Red Hat), programmable and automated infrastructure (HashiCorp), and real-time, trustworthy data (Confluent).

IBM, the venerable tech company, has been on an acquisition binge in the last few years, buying and , and

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• Felipe Cardeneti Mendes

Lessons Learned From Real-World NoSQL Database Migrations

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In “Battle-Tested Tips for a Better NoSQL Migration,” I shared my top strategies for planning, executing and de-risking a NoSQL

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• Shouri Thallam

From Guesswork to Guardrails: Kubernetes Container Rightsizing

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In a Kubernetes cluster, CPU and memory requests are both a cost dial and a reliability dial. They’re how you

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• Burley Kawasaki

Operations Shift: Assistants to Autonomous Multiagent Systems

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AI assistants have become table stakes across modern enterprise operations. Drafting emails, summarizing interactions and surfacing next-best actions are no

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• Kaylin Trychon

Forget Predictions: Tech Leaders’ Actual 2026 Resolutions

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People have strong feelings about New Year’s resolutions. I know people who spend their entire December reflecting and then in

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• Camille Crowell-Lee

Is Your AI Assistant Creating a Recursive Security Loop?

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A recent survey by JetBrains of more than 23,000 developers found that nearly half (49%) now use AI regularly for

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• Frederic Lardinois

Fewer Wires, More Qubits: D-Wave Tackles Quantum Computing’s Cable Problem

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave today announced an industry breakthrough in its approach to building and controlling its upcoming gate model

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• Raj Shukla

What It Takes To Scale AI Agents in Production

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With the release of “reasoning” models capable of multistep, test-time compute, the intelligence required to solve complex problems is accessible

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• Janakiram MSV

From Pets to Cattle: The New Mindset for Managing VMs

This is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of “Running Virtual Machines on Kubernetes: A Practical Roadmap for Enterprise Migrations,” a

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• Abigail Wall

Serverless Cloud Architecture Is Failing Modern AI Agents

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For nearly a decade, cloud architecture has been shaped by a simple rule: Keep everything stateless. AWS Lambda and other

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• Alexander T. Williams

The Hidden Engineering Cost of ‘AI Everywhere’ Product Roadmaps

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AI has quietly shifted from a differentiator to a default expectation. Product roadmaps now arrive with “AI-powered” stamped on nearly

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• Joab Jackson

Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly

Did Kubernetes break up cloud party? As the co-founder and CTO of cloud native hardware company Oxide Computing Company, Bryan

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• Joab Jackson

Red Hat Customizes RHEL for Nvidia’s Vera Rubin AI Platform

Building on continual partnership work with the chip company, has pledged to offer “Day 0” support for Nvidia’s newly-announced Vera

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• Jelani Harper

Data in 2026: Interchangeable Models, Clouds, and Specialization

Current attempts to centralize the increasingly fragmented data ecosystem — which is distributed across vendors, infrastructure, architectures, and tooling —

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• Vicki Walker

Why Cloud Optimization Is an Engineering Problem

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You know the drill: Each month your organization’s cloud bill comes in, higher than the month before, despite all your

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• B. Cameron Gain

WASI 1.0: You Won’t Know When WebAssembly Is Everywhere in 2026

WebAssembly made huge strides with the release of Wasm 3.0 and the component model. However, the last lap in the

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• Kurtis Kemple

The Next Era of AI: From Single User to Team Collaboration

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Most interactions today follow a familiar pattern: You open a chat interface, describe your problem and wait for a response.

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• Darryl K. Taft

Nick Lucchesi Takes Helm at The New Stack

Happy first Monday of 2026 to The New Stack (TNS) readers! It is with great pleasure that I introduce you

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• Chris Willis

Why Your Dashboards Are Obsolete in the Age of AI

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Walk into an Amazon distribution center right now and you can feel the future humming. Thousands of robots glide across

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• Julie Banfield

Why So Many AI Pilots Fail and How To Beat the Odds

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In mid-2025, a widely publicized report claimed that almost all AI pilots fail. While there’s been some debate around the

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• Heather Joslyn

Tech Hiring in 2026: The Rise of the Specialist

I once worked with a boss who would refer to hiring job candidates as “getting married.” Are we ready to

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• Joab Jackson

Kepler: OpenAI’s Internal Agent Platform for Synthesizing Data

For OpenAI employees, asking a question even as seemingly simple as how many ChatGPT Pro users it has in one

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• Arash Nourian

Why APIs Are the Missing Link for Truly Autonomous AI Agents

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Recent breakthroughs in AI have caught the eyes of executives who are eager to realize new efficiencies through automation. Though

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• Jack Wallen

OpenMediaVault, a Linux-Based Solution for Building a NAS

Network Attached Storage (NAS) options are everywhere, and you can pay a pretty penny for a solution. Attached to a

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• David Cassel

Linus Torvalds Gets Candid About Windows, Workflows, and AI

Linux creator Linus Torvalds made a different kind of appearance recently, on a YouTube show hosted by Canadian tech enthusiast

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• Bill Doerrfeld

Is Agentic Metadata the Next Infrastructure Layer?

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AI agent development is booming. Ninety percent of enterprises are actively adopting AI agents, according to , and Gartner predicts

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• Rob Pankow

Why AI Workloads Are Fueling a Move Back to Postgres

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I have spent the last couple of years watching the database landscape move through waves of excitement and disappointment. Vectors,

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• Jennifer Riggins

Advice for People (Still) Entering the Tech Industry in 2026

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In the face of AI-driven constant change, what advice would you give to those entering the tech industry next year?

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• Jennifer Riggins

In 2026, AI Is Merging With Platform Engineering. Are You Ready?

An open box with a star atop it is encircledd with various lines coming out from it to symbols representing growth and trends to watch.

If there’s something we realized in 2025, it’s that AI is an amplifier of human-led software development teams — not

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• Roman Eloshvili

How To Build a Developer Career When the First Rung Is Gone

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As AI tools become increasingly integrated in many industries across all levels, there has been a quiet but undeniable shift.

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