The New New Stack
Over the next few weeks, you will be seeing a lot more content on The New Stack, and the content will be more fun and more informative to read than ever before! In many ways, we will be morphing into an entirely new news site altogether.
For one, we have a new News Editor, Darryl Taft. You probably have read Darryl Taft’s work. Over the past few decades, he has covered enterprise software for some of the largest IT trade publications such as e Week, Ziff-Davis, Tech Target and others. Traditionally, The New Stack, with our modest budget, has not been a "news first" organization: If Microsoft or Google released some software of interest to our audience, we would report on the basics and maybe follow up with some analysis sometime later. But thanks to our many sponsors, and under Darryl’s guidance, we are going to start bringing you that news a lot more quickly, and in a lot more depth. Look out InfoWorld and DevOps.com, we are about to give you a run for your money! We’ve got Darryl on deck.
We also have a new Features Editor, Heather Joslyn. A “Feature” is newspaper-speak for an extended, in-depth article, one that could run 1,500 words or more. Our many writers are all very enthusiastic and have lots of great information to share. And one of the jobs of a proper Features Editor is to edit this material so it flows as smoothly as possible for you, the reader, and include all the angles that you may be curious about. Also, Heather has worked as a senior editor for the esteemed Journal of Philanthropy, and we want to leverage this expertise to broaden our range and include more articles about management at scale, and the importance of diversity on the health of the modern organization. Technology will always be part of our DNA, but we also want to understand more about the people behind the technology.
The way we see it, computer science and the IT industry are different from pretty much every other field in one important way: Exponential scalability. A trade journal in, say, accounting or mechanical engineering may report on new tools or new processes to get the job done more efficiently. But at the end of the day, the accountant’s or mechanical engineer’s job is largely the same. Only in IT do the performance gains come at such a dramatic scale that technical managers routinely have to completely rethink how their systems operate. It’s a wild ride, and we will be here for you, with the explanation and analysis.
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