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Meet Bruce, Our Observability & Wasm Expert!

"Rust may be perfect, but when you use C+ and Rust together, it could be problematic."

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During PyTorch Conference 2025 in San Francisco, TNS's Frederic Lardinois sat down with Luca Antiga, the head of the Technical Advisory Council for the PyTorch Foundation and the CTO of end-to-end AI platform Lightning AI, to discuss the state of PyTorch. Tune in to learn more!

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Meet B. Cameron Gain, The New Stack’s Go-To Guy for Observability and More

The New Stackers are packing their bags for next week’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America — I’m coming to Atlanta by way of San Diego, where I’ve been attending JupyterCon.

One of the folks who will be with us on site is longtime TNS author B. Cameron Gain. Here’s an introduction to Bruce, as we call him, our resident expert in all things WebAssembly and observability.

By his own admission, Bruce is “interested in too many things” – which is another way of calling him a polymath. A West Virginia native now ensconced on the West Coast of France, he got interested in tech as a teenager, learning BASIC and hacking video games’ code. He began writing about technology in the early 1990s, for the late, lamented Popular Science and Omni magazines. He developed serious passions for surfing and sailing.

“I wanted to be a lawyer for a while, and then went to New York Law School and realized I didn't want to be a lawyer,” Bruce told me. “But it was cool. I loved law school.”

Eventually, he settled into a speciality of writing about IT and Linux for pubs like Wired and PCWorld — and, since 2019, for The New Stack, covering observability, WebAssembly and more.

On the side, Bruce co-founded an analyst firm, ReveCom, three years ago, with a focus on benchmark reports and software testing. The startup is “doing our own benchmark testing, and we're using open source for that, where we're making more apples-to-apples comparisons,” rather than the biased evaluations companies sometimes produce for their own products.

Bruce has long been one of our go-to guys for conference coverage. We’ll see you in Atlanta soon. 

— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, TNS

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