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Metrics that matter: How to prove the business value of DevEx

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/23/2026 - 08:00
Developer experience (DevEx) is often dismissed as a "soft" cultural metric. But I can prove to you that DevEx is a reliable predictor of whether your developer platform will actually deliver business value.I’ve noticed a recurring pattern where companies invest millions in a state-of-the-art container platform or cloud infrastructure, only to find their delivery speed hasn't budged. This is the "empty cluster problem." It happens because the focus was entirely on the infrastructure and not on the interface between that infrastructure and the people using it.The growth advantageWhen you impr

Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features:

Phoronix - Mon, 02/23/2026 - 06:16
Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...

Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next

Phoronix - Mon, 02/23/2026 - 06:05
There's the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell's contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years...

GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files

Phoronix - Mon, 02/23/2026 - 01:18
Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...

AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims To Be The Successor To Opus

Phoronix - Sun, 02/22/2026 - 22:57
While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...

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