The Best of The New Stack
10+ most popular The New Stack articles, as voted by our community.
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The New Stack on Devops
Primer: How Kubernetes Came to Be, What It Is, and Why You Should Care
An explantory intriduction to Kubernetes and cloud native computing.
The New Stack on Insurtech
COBOL Is Everywhere. Who Will Maintain It?
Think COBOL is dead? About 95 percent of ATM swipes use COBOL code, Reuters reported in April, and the 58-year-old language even powers 80 percent of in-person transactions. In fact, Reuters…
The New Stack on Programming
All About E: The Language that Infiltrated JavaScript
JavaScript owes part of its development to a retired open source language with a small community, called E.
The New Stack on Robotics
Forrester’s Surprising Discovery About Robotic Process Automation
What is holding up the adoption of Robotic Process Automation?
The New Stack on Rustlang
Using Rustlang's Async Tokio Runtime for CPU-Bound Tasks
Despite the term async and its association with asynchronous network I/O, this blog post argues that the Tokio runtime at the heart of the Rust async ecosystem is also a good choice for CPU-heavy jobs such as those found in analytics engines. What Is Tokio? Rust has built-in support for an asynchronous (async) programming model,…
The New Stack on Software Engineering
How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb
Dealing with the unknown, limited cognitive bandwidth, coordination patterns, psychological safety and feeding information back into the organization.
How to Close the DevOps Skills Gap
Redgate Software’s 2020 State of Database DevOps Report found that companies are not only skipping code reviews, but there’s a new skills gap emerging in software development that needs to be…
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Puzzlescript: A Dev's Guide to an HTML5 Puzzle Game Engine
How to approach Puzzlescript, both a script and a platform that specialises in game rules for Sokoban style tile games, as a developer.
JavaScript Hydration Is a Workaround, Not a Solution
Put simply, hydration is overhead because it duplicates work. Resumability focuses on transferring all of the information (the WHERE and WHAT) from the server to the client.
HTML Markup Tips for Developing Accessible Websites
Improving HTML markup can make websites more accessible for assisted technology and help developers with automated testing.
JavaScript: Build Objects and Eliminate Looping with Reduce()
JavaScript reduce() is great when it comes to chaining higher order functions and abstracting away the looping process.
Learn React: Build a Working File Tree and Manage State
A React tutorial that shows you how to build a working file tree and and components.
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