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• Jack Wallen

MocaccinoOS Is a More User-Friendly Version of Gentoo Linux

Gentoo was that Linux distribution that every user strived to build, so they could wear it as a badge of

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• David Cassel

Technology We Saved and Tech We Lost in 2025

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As fast as the old year passes, it’s been heartening to see people preserving the work of those who came

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• B. Cameron Gain

Can OpenTelemetry Save Observability in 2026?

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Observability is not living up to expectations. As prices continue to rise, the pain is increasingly felt. This year has

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• Jack Wallen

Is Neovim Your Next Favorite Development Tool?

If you’ve ever used Linux, you might have heard of Vim. Don’t run away just yet. Yes, Vim is not

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• Arjun Subedi

SAFE-MCP, a Community-Built Framework for AI Agent Security

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In cybersecurity, going solo rarely works. Historically, frameworks like CVEs, ATT&CK and software bills of materials (SBOMs) have shown that

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• Joab Jackson

How AI Will Help Tomorrow’s IT Operations

The year 2025 started out with a bang, with the AI community collectively deciding to use the MCP format to

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• Denton Chikura

Getting DNS Right: Principles for Effective Monitoring

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This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1: How to Get DNS Right: A Guide to Common Failure

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• Jessica Wachtel

Run Real Python in Browsers With Pyodide and WebAssembly

There are many ways to bring Python to the browser (thanks, WebAssembly). But there’s only one way to bring Python’s

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• Michelle Gienow

From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry

At KubeCon Atlanta 2025, Ari Zilka, founder of MyDecisive.ai and former Hortonworks CPO, argues that most observability vendors now offer essentially identical, reactive dashboards that highlight problems only after systems are already broken.

Ari Zilka says he counted 23 different observability vendors at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon  North America 2025, and talked with every

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• Ari Stowe

Stop Drowning in Alerts: Why Signals Are Your Team’s Lifeline

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Engineering teams have done everything they can to keep up with contemporary IT systems. They’ve added dashboards while also adopting

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• Alexander T. Williams

Why Developers Are Ditching Frameworks for Vanilla JavaScript

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Everyone’s tired, and framework fatigue isn’t just a meme anymore: It’s a collective burnout. Developers who once raced to master

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• Loraine Lawson

2025’s Radical Frontend AI Shift

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When we closed the door on 2024, there was both pearl-clutching and hype over AI — but at that time,

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• Janakiram MSV

A Step-by-Step Guide To Deploying ADK Agents on Cloud Run

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In our recent tour of Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), I walked you through the three approaches to building AI

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• Temitope Oyedele

Your AI Workflow Is Missing a Composable Architecture

“Don’t ask the model to build your whole app. Break your request into smaller parts and generate one function, hook,

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• Shanea Leven

Generative AI Apps Need an Ecosystem, Not Just a Prompt

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Every engineer has a moment early in their career when they realize the truth: You cannot learn everything. Much like

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• Hugo Guerrero

Why Decoupling Control and Data Planes Is the Future of SaaS

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Over the last decade, the industry accepted a simple truth: If you wanted a Software as a Service (SaaS) product,

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• Meredith Shubel

Self-Driving DevOps? How Stakpak Tackles Infrastructure Complexity

Everything in tech is always changing at what feels like a breakneck pace — everything except DevOps infrastructure, that is.

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• Sowjanya Pandruju

Goodbye Plugins: MCP Is Becoming the Universal Interface for AI

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Three months ago, I spent two weeks building a custom plugin to connect our AI assistant to our internal CRM

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• Joab Jackson

Martin Fowler on Preparing for AI’s Nondeterministic Computing

Martin Fowler, Thoughtworks chief scientist and long-time expert on object-oriented programming, views AI as the biggest shift in programming he

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• Jack Wallen

CrunchBang Linux Lives on With GreenBang

CrunchBang was a Debian-based Linux distribution that was minimal and pretty popular among hard-core users. CrunchBang eventually ended, but gave

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• David Cassel

Year in Review: AI’s Cultural Surprises – and Spectacular Failures

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In a world where AI was suddenly everywhere, what will be remembered about 2025? How can we tell future generations

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• Sreenivasa Reddy Hulebeedu Reddy

The 3 a.m. Call That Changed The Way I Design APIs

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At 3:17 a.m. on a Tuesday, my phone buzzed with the alert that would reshape the way I think about

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• David Eastman

5 Key Trends Shaping Agentic Development in 2026

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So far in my review of agentic development over the past year and heading into 2026, I’ve looked at some

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• Loraine Lawson

Trends That Defined JavaScript in 2025

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The year 2025 proved to be a transformative period for the JavaScript ecosystem, marked by a shift toward performance optimization

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• Raghuram Tadipatri

How To Accelerate Growth With AI-Powered Smart APIs

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Enterprise IT teams now are navigating an evolving landscape defined by distributed applications, hybrid clouds, complicated API ecosystems and a

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• Riccardo DiBlasio

Four Data Infrastructure Shifts Defining AI Success in 2026

Over the past year, I’ve met with customers and partners across every major industry, from healthcare and public sector to

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• Jack Wallen

Monitor Your Servers With Free Uptime Kuma Container

If you run a collection of servers, be they a home network lab or those powering your business, you are

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• Stephen Henry

Securing Legacy Android Apps: Modern Encryption Practices

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As software engineers rise up the ranks from junior levels to managerial roles in mobile development, good code practices become

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• Darryl K. Taft

Java Developers Get Multiple Paths To Building AI Agents

Earlier this year, I wrote an article about how Java would soon overtake Python as the programming language of choice

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• David Cassel

Donald Knuth’s 2025 Christmas Lecture: The Knight’s Tours

“It’s that time of the year!” read the email from Stanford Online. As he approaches his 88th birthday, Donald Knuth

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