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ISSUE 484 | Week in Review: Open Source Summit Europe Highlights
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“AI is going to come at us in three phases. The easy is going to get automated, the hard is going to become easy, and the impossible will become possible.”
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In this episode of The New Stack Agents, we talked to Tzvika Shneider, the CEO and co-founder of Pynt. Originally focused on API security, Pynt expanded to securing the end-to-end MCP chain. Tune in to hear our discussion on LLM security, prompt injection attacks and how to balance innovation and development speed with security.
Next week, we will discuss the latest in GenAI with Zach Warp, CEO and Founder at Warp. Hit YouTube's "Notify Me" button to join the conversation!
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What’s the News from Open Source Summit Europe?
It’s been a momentous week, and that’s not even counting the big news about Travis and Taylor.
The latest earnings report by chipmaking titan NVIDIA, released Wednesday, showed its revenue rose 56% in the three-month period ending in July, to $46.74 billion, with no ceiling in sight. The New York Times reported on how the tsunami of investment aimed at AI is propping up the real economy, not just shareholders, with spending on the construction of data centers now outpacing the building of offices.
Elsewhere in tech industry news: The U.S. government has purchased a 10% slice of the venerable chipmaker Intel, at the cost of $8.9 billion. The biggest news may be yet to come. As of this writing, Google is awaiting word from a U.S. Federal District Court about what it must do in the wake of a 2024 antitrust decision — the company may be required to sell off Chrome or other parts of itself, moves that would have global ripple effects.
Meanwhile, The New Stack is back on the road again, with Stackers uncovering the news at Open Source Summit Europe, in Amsterdam, and at VMware Explore, in Las Vegas. Some of the news coming from OSS in particular is the usual: Open source projects joining the Linux Foundation. (Hello, DocumentDB!) But a lot of the news we’re uncovering has to do with — surprise! — AI.
For instance, from VMware Explore, Senior Editor Joab Jackson reported that the private cloud platform VMware Cloud Foundation’s version 9.0, now generally available, is equipped “to make it easy for developers to create and run AI workloads.” Longtime TNS Author B. Cameron Gain dug deeper into the news from Broadcom, focusing on VCF 9.0’s new Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
What does the relentless march of AI innovation mean for the health of open source? More innovation, for one thing. Bruce Gain also reported on the latest version of OpenSearch, which includes, among other things, better support for agentic AI.
AI needs open source to thrive — and so do companies, according to a report released in Amsterdam. Bruce Gain, focusing on a new study from the Linux Foundation and other sponsors, wrote that, “according to the report, the aggregate funding for commercial open source startups totaled $26.4 billion in 2024, and these startups average seven times greater valuations at IPO and 14 times more at mergers and acquisitions, as compared to closed-source peers.”
Another season of tech conferences and tech news has begun. We’ll keep you posted.
— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, The New Stack
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Rust usage for Python extensions surged 22% in one year as developers choose memory safety and C-level performance over traditional approaches.
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Integrating VS Code with a local LLM like Ollama offers a powerful tool you can leverage for whatever coding or coding-adjacent need you have.
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Kubernetes may be the reason you started with platform engineering, but it’s not enough to handle Day 2 ops and managing complexity at scale.
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Running older versions goes beyond being a technical debt problem; it's a financial hemorrhage bleeding out organizations’ cloud bills.
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JRebel Enterprise automatically detects dynamic containers and eliminates manual configuration headaches for Java teams working in Kubernetes environments.
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Learn how to use stateful processing in time series databases to prevent alert storms while ensuring critical issues aren't missed.
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Without a clear LLMOps strategy, organizations risk performance issues, compliance failures and reputational damage.
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Meet Joab, a pragmatic tech veteran and our very first editorial employee from 2014! After realizing that generalist reporting wasn’t the right fit, he dedicated his career to demystifying tech. This month, Joab has been covering stories on Kubernetes, Python, the CNCF, the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, VMware Cloud Foundation, and Stack Overflow + Snowflake.
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RKE1 has officially reached end of life. If you’re still running RKE1 clusters, you already know its lifecycle is coming to a close. This creates significant challenges: migration risks, operational complexity, and growing security concerns. But there is a better way forward. Join us on Sep 4 to learn what RKE1 EOL means for your infrastructure and how to rebuild with a more secure and scalable approach. Save your spot today!
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Platform engineering is known as a foundational strategy for scaling developer productivity, maintaining software quality, and standardizing processes. But are we building platforms that actually solve real problems that developers face? Join us for a fireside chat with Steve Fenton and Matt Allford as they reveal the preliminary findings of Octopus Deploy’s benchmark on platform engineering. Whether you’re leading a platform team, sponsoring internal tooling, or just getting started, this session offers tactical guidance and strategic insights from across the industry. Save your spot today!
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In this webinar, two FinOps specialists, Patrick Brogan and Ben Linares — one with a finance focus, the other with a technical background — from Harness join our host, Chris Pirillo. Together, they’ll break down common challenges and share what it takes to align priorities and drive collaboration across teams. We’ll explore where teams get stuck, what’s working today, and how automation can help manage cloud spending effectively. Register to join us!
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Now in its fourth year, ScaleUp:AI brings together top AI builders, executives and innovators. Powered by Insight Partners and its network of founders, investors and industry leaders, the conference hosts 300 VIPs in NYC and thousands virtually. Join in for thought-provoking discussions on AI innovation, adoption, best practices and the future of intelligent technology. Register today!
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This week's Partner Spotlight shines on our sister site, roadmap.sh, and its brand-new Data Engineer Roadmap. From building data pipelines to working with distributed systems, this step-by-step guide covers all the essentials you'll need to succeed as a data engineer.
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