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• Derek Ashmore

When AI Starts Seeing and Hearing, IT Must Start Rethinking

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In 2026, enterprises will find themselves navigating a seismic shift in AI. Gone are the days when text-only models ruled

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• Sudhakar Reddy Narra

Why Load Tests Lie: Harsh Truth About AI Agent Performance

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Picture this: Your team just ran load tests with 10,000 concurrent users hammering your shiny new AI-powered customer service platform.

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• Hazel Weakly

Taking Your Observability Strategy to the Next Level

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Observability strategy is a tricky concept. Everyone wants to talk about it, but nobody can agree on how they’re talking

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• Joab Jackson

CNCF Retires the Ingress Nginx Controller for Kubernetes

Running the Ingress Nginx controller for your Kubernetes clusters? You have until March to migrate to the Gateway API, or

The post CNCF Retires the Ingress Nginx Controller for Kubernetes appeared first on The New Stack.

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• Janakiram MSV

Tutorial: Implement a Nginx Gateway Fabric as an Alternative to Ingress

The Kubernetes ecosystem is undergoing a fundamental shift in how it manages external traffic. On Nov. 12, 2025, Kubernetes announced

The post Tutorial: Implement a Nginx Gateway Fabric as an Alternative to Ingress appeared first on The New Stack.

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• Darryl K. Taft

GitHub and Microsoft Use AI To Fix Security Debt Crisis

Microsoft and its subsidiary GitHub have launched a native integration between Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security that

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• Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft’s Azure HorizonDB Takes on Aurora, AlloyDB

Microsoft announced its Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL in preview at the company’s Ignite conference this week. With this new offering,

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• Richard MacManus

Google’s Web AI Playbook: The Paved Road vs. the Open Field

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At this month’s Web AI summit, the primary focus was client-side AI in the browser — but we also heard

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• Frederic Lardinois

Ai2’s Olmo 3 Pushes the Envelope for Open Source LLM Performance

The Allen Institute of AI (Ai2) today launched Olmo 3, the latest in its family of state-of-the-art, open source large

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• Cynthia Dunlop

Adam Jacob on Why Scaling Is ‘The Funnest Game’

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“There’s no funner game than the at-scale technology game. But if you play it, some people will hate you for

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• Vicki Walker

Building a Cloud-to-Edge Architecture Across 40K Global Locations

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Edge at any kind of distributed scale requires new management approaches that account for edge idiosyncrasies, like poor connectivity, limited

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• B. Cameron Gain

How Can We Solve Observability’s Data Capture and Spending Problem?

In a conversation at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, IBM’s Jacob Yackenovich emphasized the importance of collecting high-granularity, full-capture data to avoid missing critical performance signals across hybrid application stacks that blend legacy and cloud-native components.

The so-called “DevOps practitioner” can be a developer, an operations team member, a site reliability engineer or a business stakeholder.

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• Massimiliano Bianchessi

Composable Platforms: Why You Need One

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The current IT landscape is plagued by stagnation, stemming from both technical and business challenges, making organizations extremely risk-averse. This

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

3-Hour Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out AI Chatbots, Shopify

On Nov. 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a major outage lasting several hours that disrupted access to numerous popular websites and

The post 3-Hour Cloudflare Outage Knocks Out AI Chatbots, Shopify appeared first on The New Stack.

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• Animesh Koratana

5 Engineering Skills to Prioritize in the AI-Driven Era

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The field of software engineering is at a major turning point, the most pivotal point of change since the invention

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• Alexander T. Williams

The React Component Pyramid Scheme: An Over-Engineering Crisis

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At some point, we stopped writing React components and started worshiping them. The mantra of “reusability” turned from a best

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Hummingbird: Red Hat’s Answer to Alpine, Ubuntu Chiseled, Wolfi

Linux powerhouse  has unveiled Project Hummingbird, a new initiative designed to accelerate cloud native development by delivering micro-sized container images

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• Joel Carusone

Why Rushing AI Adoption Leads to Low-Quality ‘Workslop’

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New AI solutions continue to emerge, and models are steadily improving. Yet, despite the rapid pace of AI innovation, the

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• Arjun Iyer

It’s Time To Kill Staging: The Case for Testing in Production

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Staging has always been a necessary evil. New approaches to isolation and on-demand sandboxes have finally made it just plain

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• Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI Says Its New Codex-Max Model Is Better, Faster and Cheaper

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OpenAI today launched GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a new variant of its GPT-5.1-Codex foundation model that was specifically trained to excel at coding

The post OpenAI Says Its New Codex-Max Model Is Better, Faster and Cheaper appeared first on The New Stack.

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• Michelle Gienow

A 3-Question Framework for Making Ethical Tech Decisions

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, software designer and bioethics fellow Meag Doherty reflects on the ethical tensions that surfaced while launching the NIH All of Us Researcher Workbench.

What happens when 15,000 researchers using Jupyter Notebooks for genomic research hit a wall between open science principles and federal

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• Joab Jackson

How Amazon Prepares for Black Friday

ATLANTA — When running a web-scale operation, reacting to increased demand means you are already behind the curve, advised a

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• Pete Johnson

There’s No SKU for AI: A 3-Box Framework to Avoid AI Failures

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The numbers are sobering. A highly publicized report from MIT shows that 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are

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• Mandi Walls

Why Launch-Time Reliability Is Especially Critical 

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Ensuring the reliability of a new product or feature at launch is crucial. Wherever it sits in an organization’s offering,

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• Loraine Lawson

6 Pillars for a Best in Class API Strategy

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An AI Gateway won’t solve all of a developer’s API problems, Jason Ehmke told audiences at the Kong API Summit

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• Darryl K. Taft

AWS Kiro Brings Automated Reasoning to Agentic Development

Now generally available, Kiro is an agentic IDE that enables organizations to move beyond “vibe coding” to structured development that

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• Frederic Lardinois

Google Launches Gemini 3 Pro

today launched Gemini 3 Pro, the latest iteration of its family of foundation models, with other Gemini 3 variants to

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• Tinega Onchari

A Guide To Stress-Testing Your ML Data Pipelines

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This is the second of two articles. Read also:  Why You Should Break Your ML Pipelines on Purpose In Part

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

RHEL 10.1 Soft Reboot Slashes Downtime for Updates

ATLANTA — Red Hat officially released Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.1 at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America. This is the first

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• Michelle Gienow

How Kubernetes Became the New Linux

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, AWS’s Jesse Butler noted that Kubernetes has reached the same maturity Linux once did: organizations no longer build bespoke control planes but rely on shared standards. That shift influences how AWS contributes to open source, emphasizing community-wide solutions rather than AWS-specific products

Once upon a time, major banks built their own Linux kernels because there were no distros yet. They were pioneers

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