Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Saturday 17 October 2026
4 stories from 1 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Here are the engineering lessons we learned when live-streaming sports to 32 million people
The New Stack
Live sports involve myriad unknowns, but one thing is certain: the live video feed must play flawlessly, and simultaneously, for all the fans tuning in. If some hear their neighbors cheering or groaning 5 seconds before each score, they…
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AI has lowered the barrier to building. Here’s what that means for engineers.
The New Stack
For most of software’s history, building meant writing code. Not just understanding it, but producing it. The entry point was steep by design: fluency in at least one language, working knowledge of system architecture, enough production…
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His scanner wouldn’t work on Linux — so he let Claude study the Windows driver
The New Stack
Christian Schaller, a Red Hat engineering director and longtime GNOME and Fedora contributor, had a box of old family negatives to digitize and a scanner that wouldn’t talk to Linux. He’d bought the Plustek OpticFilm 8200i because it was…
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AI agents vs. Kubernetes: where each belongs in the control loop
The New Stack
Kubernetes has always relied on agents , just not the kind dominating today’s AI conversations. A controller watches the current state, compares it with a declared desired state, and takes action to close the gap. That resemblance makes AI…