30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web

Thirty years ago, Netscape engineer Brendan Eich famously created a new client-side scripting language in just ten days. It was initially called Mocha, but by the end of the year it would be renamed JavaScript. In 1995, nobody could’ve predicted that JavaScript would become the world’s most popular programming language. But that’s exactly what happened. … Read more

Why Headless Browsers Are a Key Technology for AI Agents

“Every AI agent needs a web browser,” said Paul Klein IV, CEO of headless browser vendor Browserbase, at this month’s AI Engineer World’s Fair. What is a headless browser? Simply put, it’s a web browser without a graphical user interface. Until very recently, they’ve been used primarily for running automated web app tests and for … Read more

What Developers Should Know About Modern CDNs and the Edge

When the web was first scaling up, content delivery networks (CDNs) became a way of dealing with the ever-increasing load. Akamai is widely considered the pioneer of CDN technology in the late-1990s, but arguably it’s been overtaken now by younger, more agile CDN competitors. At least that’s the view of Artur Bergman, co-founder and chief … Read more