ISSUE 503
BASH, Sigment, and AI Trends for 2026

"What if BASH is all you need?"

— Andrew Qu, chief of software at Vercel, in a new paper that also asks, what if “the best agent architecture is almost no architecture at all”? Read more about it here.  

Human Cognition Can’t Keep Up With Modern Networks. What’s Next?

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explored how agentic AI can help networking operations teams manage complexity, build trust and prevent major outages. Tune in to catch the episode!

On-Demand: Why Cloud Cost Optimization Isn’t Broken

Missed the webinar? We got you covered. Watch the replay to see how shifting cost optimization left embeds governance, security, and efficiency into your designs without slowing developers down.

Week in Review: In this Economy??!

Creating something simple is underrated. So often, new tools and frameworks are lauded, at least in part, for their versatility; their complexity. But Yaniv Soussana, who recently spoke with The New Stack’s Loraine Lawson, had something different in mind. “I wanted to create something simple for developers,” he tells The New Stack.

The story of a new framework Soussana built, called Sigment, is just one story in this week’s roundup of essential reads from The New Stack.

Before we get into it, a reminder that you can keep up with us on LinkedIn for daily updates and find us on YouTube, where we post video versions of our podcast episodes.

And speaking of podcast episodes, we’re putting out a renewed call for podcast guests. If you’d like to appear on a TNS podcast and reach a wide range of developers, engineers, and technologists, don’t hesitate to get in touch via our Podcast Guest Form.

— Nick Lucchesi, editor-in-chief, TNS

A New JavaScript Framework? In this Economy?
After 20 years in software, full-stack developer Yaniv Soussana was tired of complexity in React-based JavaScript frameworks. So the creator of the app conversion tool, Wappaa, did what developers tend to do: he built a new framework called Sigment. “I wanted to create something simple for developers,” he tells The New Stack.

Bryan Cantrill: How Kubernetes Broke the AWS Cloud Monopoly
Did Kubernetes break up the Amazon Web Services cloud party? As the co-founder and CTO of cloud native hardware company Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill isn’t one to shy away from speaking his mind.

OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes
Database support provider Percona is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Traditional Code Review Is Dead. What Comes Next?
AI is making line-by-line code review obsolete. The new quality gate isn't reading syntax; it's verifying outcomes in live preview environments.

The One Mistake That Weakens Every AI-Generated App

Discover how composable architecture turns fast AI code into maintainable, production-ready software.

Map Your API Landscape To Prevent Agentic AI Disaster

AI success hinges on designing your API landscape based on business capabilities, not resources, says API expert Kin Lane.

Upcoming Webinar: Avoiding the Argo Ceiling
January 20 | Virtual

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.

Dynatrace Perform
January 26-29 | Las Vegas, NV at The Venetian Resort

Join Dynatrace at The Venetian in Las Vegas as we celebrate the innovators powering growth and human achievement in the age of AI. The New Stack will be there to focus on the Dynatrace vision for developers and how we can empower and build an intelligent, transformative future.

5 MFT Trends for Secure Data Exchange in 2026
January 29 | Virtual

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 | Virtual

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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