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New Year, New Editor, New Stack

"You can’t throw people at this problem."

— Sanil Nambiar of IBM, on the "tribal knowledge" that veteran ops engineers have and how that isn't so easily transferred to new hires. Watch the full interview.  

How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity

Skills gaps and architectural mismatches make running workloads on multiple infrastructures hard. Here's how Nutanix tackles these problems.

Introducing the Ring Appstore and Ring Developer Portal

Build easily, launch fast, and connect with millions in the new Ring Appstore. Early partners like Lumeo, Visionify, and Spacture AI are already building in the Ring Developer Portal. Request early access to join them.

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New Year, New Editor, New Stack

This week, we explore the concepts of ditching, merging, running, and building.

But before we get to those verbs and their critical importance, allow this brief introduction: I’m Nick Lucchesi, new editor-in-chief at The New Stack. You can read more about my background in this brief piece published earlier this week.

While it’s a new year and I’m a new editor, the mission of The New Stack remains the same: Provide context, report news, and offer key insights about the latest in at-scale technology.

— Nick Lucchesi, editor-in-chief, TNS

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Why AI Workloads Are Fueling a Move Back to Postgres

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5 Incident Management Lessons To Carry Into 2026

In 2025, the difference between the teams ready to handle incidents and those that weren't quickly became obvious. Here are five lessons that stood out.

Upcoming Webinar: Cloud Cost Optimization Isn’t Broken. The Approach Is.
January 15

Cloud spend compounds quietly. Shift left by building cost control and governance into engineering workflows from day one. In this webinar, Harness experts will dive into how to keep Kubernetes aligned, eliminate drift, and enforce best practices by default.

Avoiding the Argo Ceiling: Scaling GitOps Without Maxing Out
January 20

When Argo scales, visibility breaks. Hitting the Argo Ceiling means tab fatigue, glue code, and lost engineering time. Join Harness and TNS on January 20 to learn how enterprises fix GitOps sprawl without replacing their tools.

5 MFT Trends for Secure Data Exchange in 2026
January 29

Join our guests from Fortra for an in-depth look at the top five managed file transfer trends transforming how organizations move data in 2026 and beyond. Save your spot today for a lively conversation on how modern MFT solutions are built for your enterprise.

How To Architect a CI/CD Pipeline That Really Scales
February 3

Join us live as we welcome Harness’s Eric Minick and Stephen Cihak for a spirited discussion on why copying CI/CD templates creates technical debt and leads to operational paralysis. You’ll learn why the future of DevOps scaling isn’t about copying YAML; it’s about inheriting it.

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