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ISSUE 452 | Week in Review: What the ‘Tech-Industrial Complex’ Has to Do With You
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“Now it’s the time for a fully end-to-end, holistic platform that can actually fulfill the promise of infrastructure as Code and allow the cloud teams to deliver faster, focus more on innovation, reduce waste, and basically be in total control.”
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In this On the Road edition of The New Stack Makers, Pranay Bakre, a principal solutions engineer at Arm, talked to Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, about how Arm is meeting the moment and helping developers and their organizations migrate and run their applications on Arm-based technology.
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Dive into the world of retrieval augmented generation (RAG), with a focus on the critical considerations for building RAG applications. Get valuable insights on the challenges, solutions, and best practices in this evolving field of natural language processing.
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Week in Review: What the ‘Tech-Industrial Complex’ Has to Do With You
The New Stack generally doesn’t concern itself with the world of politics; governments usually only come into the conversation when we discuss the need to comply with regulations around security and data. Our readers care about JavaScript, and Linux, and platform engineering, and so on. We generally don’t stray from that path.
But this week, a new phrase entered the lexicon that sheds light on the industry in which our readers work. And it’s worth pausing to reflect.
Those of you outside the U.S. may have heard that we’re about to change leaders. The farewell address by U.S. Presidents is a tradition stretching back to our first leader, George Washington. After that pilot effort, the one that most sticks in Americans’ minds was given by Dwight Eisenhower in January 1961. About to hand the White House keys over to John Kennedy, a young World War II veteran, Eisenhower — Supreme Allied Commander in that conflict — warned Americans about the rising “military-industrial complex.”
Wednesday night, President Joe Biden echoed that warning, bidding farewell to the nation with a caution about the “tech-industrial complex.” Biden expressed concern about the concentration of money, power, and influence among tech billionaires, including over the free flow of information and that information’s accuracy.
The world of yachts, space vehicles and political influence that tech billionaires inhabit is a long way from the workaday world of Scrum meetings, Jira tickets and production sprints you likely inhabit. But you and your colleagues, with every batch of code sent upstream, every pull request, are helping to create the innovations that pay for those pleasure boats, rockets and access to power.
Those innovations can benefit you (i.e., automating tedious toil) or threaten your future (i.e., automating yourself out of a job). (Perhaps a bit of both.) We are already seeing how tech companies seeking to generate more profit are having an impact on the open source software world. The rise of agentic AI, with all its promise and challenge for the work you do, is an area TNS is tracking closely.
What you do matters. The world could not run without you. We at TNS know that, and we will continue to give you the information you need to not only do your job well but to navigate whatever the “tech-industrial complex” has in store for all of us.
— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, TNS
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In other developer news, Node.js will soon support TypeScript by default and Google releases Home APIs for Android developers.
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Steve's dedication to open source principles and his ability to bridge commercial and community interests set a standard for future developers.
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Linux: From supercomputers to smartphones. Explore the open source OS powering innovation. Discover popular distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. Learn why Linux matters.
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Three years ago, Reddit's infrastructure engineers team spent most of its time putting out fires. Here's how developing a platform abstraction streamlined operations and put them back in charge.
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Reduce complexity by standardizing tools, processes, and practices and aligning every team with broader business objectives.
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The next year promises to accelerate the trend toward increased use of automation and AI.
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State of Open Con focuses on Open Technology, including open source software, open hardware, open data, open innovation and open standards and the value that the open community brings to the UK and its digital economy. Alongside a diverse range of topics, the event promises to include a diverse range of speakers and participants. Get the latest on SOOC25!
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s flagship conference gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities for four days to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to unwind, engage, and make valuable connections — reserve your spot today!
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Next is where leading minds come together to share what they’re creating. Join Google Cloud and industry leaders to tap into major new announcements, key perspectives, customer success stories, inspiring demos, and more. Ready to connect with industry luminaries and network with peers from around the world? Get your early bird discount now and join us in Vegas next April — register today!
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