Lawrence Hecht

writing code to perform computationally intensive tasks in-browser

August 19, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Web Developers Aren’t Pushing More Business Logic to the Client

Computationally intensive tasks are usually not done in-browser.

Flutter adoption doubled in 2021 and Now Rivals React Native

August 12, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Google’s Flutter Rivals Facebook’s React Native in Dev Use

Twice as many professional developers extensively used Google’s open source cross-platform user interface toolkit Flutter in the last year.

Confidence that API inventory is complete

August 5, 2021February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Shadow, Zombie and Misconfigured APIs Are a Security Issue

Only 11% of people surveyed for Salt Security’s State of API Security Q3 2021 are greatly concerned about the security risks of shadow or unknown APIs.

Tools and Methods Used to Prevent Cloud Misconfiguration

July 29, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Cloud Engineers Try Policy-as-Code to Cure Misconfiguration Woes

Cloud engineers are looking to policy-as-code to prevent cloud misconfigurations, according to “The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report,” which surveyed 300 US cloud engineering and security professionals.

>80% of tech workers expect their employer to pay for their education

July 22, 2021February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Tech Employers Get Good News from Survey of Industry Workforce

88% of tech industry workers feel appreciated by their employer, according to a 750-person online survey conducted a few weeks ago for Protocol.

UK software engineers burned out from work

July 15, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

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Demand for software developers’ time has not softened recently.

Desired language for future WebAssembly use

June 24, 2021February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

WebAssembly Developers Lust for Rust and AssemblyScript (But Not Go)

WebAssembly (WASM) has captured everybody’s attention because it allows developers to write code in their high level language of choice and is platform agnostic. The recently released The State of WebAssembly 2021 shows that Rust is far and away that choice.

where do you typically deploy and host your projects?

June 17, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

CDN Providers Rival Hyperscale Clouds for Developers Deploying Jamstack

Compared to serverless studies in 2018 and 2020, platforms aimed at web developers have actually gotten traction. This makes us believe that the surveyed developers are not just early adopters, but instead are willing to work with a whole new set of service providers.