Darryl K. Taft
The New Stack
Baltimore, MD, United States
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HBCUs Can Become a Key Source of Software Development Talent
Historically Black colleges and universities stand as a ready resource to provide IT, engineering and developer talent. → Read More
Who’s Afraid of the Queen of DevRel?: Angie Jones of Block
Angie Jones, Vice President of Global Developer Relations, TBD, at Block Inc., represents a new generation of leaders in this industry — at a point in her career where she can both recruit and lead a new generation of developers, and also break new ground with fresh solutions built with new technology. → Read More
C++ on the Move
While the C++ programming language seems to be as popular as ever, efforts to move it forward are ongoing both inside the ISO C++ steering committee as well as other projects. → Read More
Microsoft Makes Azure Load Testing Generally Available
Azure Load Testing is a managed load-testing service that enables developers to generate high-scale load, gain actionable insights, and ensure the resiliency of their applications and services regardless of where they're hosted. → Read More
Google’s Carbon among Other Potential C++ Successors
Google's Carbon language sits among other potential C++ successors or complementary languages, including Nim, the Cpp2/Cppfront language and compiler, and Val, among others. → Read More
Redis Looks Beyond Cache Toward Everything Data
In the latest TNS Makers podcast Redis discusses how the in-memory data store has evolved, how the company manages its commercial offering versus the open source project, and a lot more. → Read More
AWS Serves Up Tools for Data Heads, Cloud Native Security
At its re:Invent conference, AWS advanced its vision for a zero-ETL future and announced other tools for data workers, including DataZone and Security Lake, and also introduced enhanced security to detect vulnerabilities in containers. → Read More
LaunchDarkly: Feature Management Is a Must-Have
LaunchDarkly has commissioned a study that indicated that feature management has emerged as a must-have technology, according to the survey with 69% of respondents saying it is “must-have, mission critical and/or high priority.” → Read More
.NET 7 Simplifies Route from Code to Cloud for Developers
Microsoft has released .NET 7, the latest version of its popular development platform that brings a host of new features and capabilities, including increased performance and simplified containerization. → Read More
ServiceNow Launches UQL for Observable Kubernetes Apps
LightStep from ServiceNow announced the general availability of its Unified Query Language (UQL), which extends visibility across Kubernetes and other cloud native technologies. → Read More
Microsoft Takes Kubernetes to the Edge with AKS lite
At it Ignite conference, Microsoft announced that a public preview of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) on Windows IoT and Windows devices, known as AKS lite, will be available next month. → Read More
Microsoft Bolsters Cloud Security with DevOps, CSPM Coverage
Microsoft has beefed up its code to cloud security offerings with new Microsoft Defender for DevOps and Microsoft Defender Cloud Security Posture Management (Defender CSPM) solutions. → Read More
OpenJDK Provider Azul Systems Weighs in on Java 19
Simon Ritter, deputy CTO of OpenJDK provider Azul Systems, takes a look at key new features in Java 19. → Read More
Oracle Sets Foundation for the Language’s Future in Java 19
With the latest release of Java — Java Development Kit (JDK) 19 — Oracle adds thousands of improvements to enhance developer productivity as well as new features to extend Java's longevity. → Read More
Hazelcast Aims to Democratize Real-Time Data with Serverless
With Hazelcast's Viridian Serverless is a self-service provisioning process where the cluster grows and shrinks automatically based on the workload; it also is the company's secret weapon in its quest to democratize real-time data. → Read More
PyTorch Takes AI/ML Back to Its Research, Open Source Roots
Meta contributes the PyTorch machine learning framework to the Linux Foundation as AI adoption seems to be stuck and sinking, outside of some applications of AI in text and image generation, natural language processing, computer vision and some around pattern detection and predictive analytics. → Read More
VMware Aria Graph Powers New Multicloud Management Strategy
VMware launches a new graph data store known as VMware Aria Graph that serves as the underpinning of the company's new multicloud management portfolio. → Read More
Where Can Heroku Free Tier Users Go?
Although Heroku will be eliminating its free tier of services, there are several alternatives that developers can turn to. → Read More
Veracode’s SBOM API Simplifies Software Security for Devs
Veracode has tweaked its app dev security platform to offer a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) API that makes it easier to provide visibility for developers when using third party components. → Read More
Microsoft Launches Dev Box Preview
Microsoft has released a public preview for developers to test Microsoft Dev Box, the company's managed service that enables developers to create on-demand, high-performance, secure, ready-to-code, project-specific workstations in the cloud. → Read More