The New Stack Podcast

Kubernetes co-founder Brendan Burns: AI-generated code will become as invisible as assembly

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Technical Fellow, Brendan Burns discusses how AI is reshaping Kubernet...

AI can write your infrastructure code. There's a reason most teams won't let it.

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode ofThe New Stack Agents, Marcin Wyszynski, co-founder of Spacelift and OpenTofu, explains how AI is transforming infrastructure as code...

OutSystems CEO on how enterprises can successfully adopt vibe coding

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Woodson Martin, CEO ofOutSystems, argues that successful enterprise AI deployments rarely rely on standalone agents. Instead, production systems combi...

Inception Labs says its diffusion LLM is 10x faster than Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On a recent episode of the The New Stack Agents, Inception Labs CEO Stefano Ermon introduced Mercury 2, a large language model built on diffusion rath...

NanoClaw's answer to OpenClaw is minimal code, maximum isolation

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

OnThe New Stack Agents, Gavriel Cohen discusses why he built NanoClaw, a minimalist alternative to OpenClaw, after discovering security and architectu...

The developer as conductor: Leading an orchestra of AI agents with the feature flag baton

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A few weeks after Dynatrace acquired DevCycle, Michael Beemer and Andrew Norris discussed on The New Stack Makers podcast how feature flagging is beco...

The reason AI agents shouldn’t touch your source code — and what they should do instead

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dynatrace is at a pivotal point, expanding beyond traditional observability into a platform designed for autonomous operations and security powered by...

You can’t fire a bot: The blunt truth about AI slop and your job

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Matan-Paul Shetrit, Director of Product Management at Writer, argues that people must take responsibility for how they use AI. If someone produces poo...

GitLab CEO on why AI isn't helping enterprise ship code faster

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI coding assistants are boosting developer productivity, but most enterprises aren’t shipping software any faster. GitLab CEO Bill Staples says the...

The enterprise is not ready for "the rise of the developer"

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sean O’Dell of Dynatrace argues that enterprises are unprepared for a major shift brought on by AI: the rise of the developer. Speaking at Dynatrace...

Meet Gravitino, a geo-distributed, federated metadata lake

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the era of agentic AI, attention has largely focused on data itself, while metadata has remained a neglected concern. Junping (JP) Du, founder and ...

CTO Chris Aniszczyk on the CNCF push for AI interoperability

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Aniszczyk, co-founder and CTO of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), argues that AI agents resemble microservices at a surface level, ...

Solving the Problems that Accompany API Sprawl with AI

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

API sprawl creates hidden security risks and missed revenue opportunities when organizations lose visibility into the APIs they build. According to IB...

CloudBees CEO: Why Migration Is a Mirage Costing You Millions

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

A CloudBees survey reveals that enterprise migration projects often fail to deliver promised modernization benefits. In 2024, 57% of enterprises spent...

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

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

IBM’s recent acquisitions of Red Hat, HashiCorp, and its planned purchase of Confluent reflect a deliberate strategy to build the infrastructure req...

From Group Science Project to Enterprise Service: Rethinking OpenTelemetry

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ari Zilka, founder of MyDecisive.ai and former Hortonworks CPO, argues that most observability vendors now offer essentially identical, reactive dashb...

Why You Can't Build AI Without Progressive Delivery

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke’s claim that AI-based development requires progressive delivery frames a conversation between analyst James Governor...

How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most enterprises today run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single platform, creating significant operational challenges. Ac...

Do All Your AI Workloads Actually Require Expensive GPUs?

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

GPUs dominate today’s AI landscape, but Google argues they are not necessary for every workload. As AI adoption has grown, customers have increasing...

Breaking Data Team Silos Is the Key to Getting AI to Production

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprises are racing to deploy AI services, but the teams responsible for running them in production are seeing familiar problems reemerge—most no...

Why AI Parallelization Will Be One of the Biggest Challenges of 2026

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder, argues that the biggest winners in today’s AI boom resemble the “picks and shovels” sellers of the California Gold R...

How Nutanix Is Taming Operational Complexity

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Many enterprises now run workloads across multiple IT infrastructures rather than a single environment. According to Nutanix, about 60% of organizatio...

Kubernetes GPU Management Just Got a Major Upgrade

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Nvidia Distinguished Engineer Kevin Klues noted that low-level systems work is invisible when done well and highly visible when it fails — a dynamic...

The Rise of the Cognitive Architect

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At KubeCon North America 2025, GitLab’s Emilio Salvador outlined how developers are shifting from individual coders to leaders of hybrid human–AI ...

Why the CNCF's New Executive Director is Obsessed With Inference

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Bryce, the new CNCF executive director, argues that inference—not model training—will define the next decade of computing. Speaking at Ku...

Kubernetes Gets an AI Conformance Program — and VMware Is Already On Board

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has introduced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program to bring consistency to an increasingly fragmente...

How etcd Solved Its Knowledge Drain with Deterministic Testing

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The etcd project — a distributed key-value store older than Kubernetes — recently faced significant challenges due to maintainer turnover and the ...

Helm 4: What’s New in the Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager?

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Helm — originally a hackathon project called Kate’s Place — turned 10 in 2025, marking the milestone with the release of Helm 4, its first major...

All About Cedar, an Open Source Solution for Fine-Tuning Kubernetes Authorization

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kubernetes has relied on role-based access control (RBAC) since 2017, but its simplicity limits what developers can express, said Micah Hausler, princ...

Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

JupyterLite, a fully browser-based distribution of JupyterLab, is enabling new levels of global scalability in technical education. Developed by Sylva...

2026 Will Be the Year of Agentic Workloads in Production on Amazon EKS

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AWS’s approach to Elastic Kubernetes Service has evolved significantly since its 2018 launch. According to Mike Stefanik, Senior Manager of Product ...

From Cloud Native to AI Native: Where Are We Going?

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 in Atlanta, the panel of experts - Kate Goldenring of Fermyon Technologies, Idit Levine of Solo.io, Shaun O'Meara of ...

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels' Predictions for 2026

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AWS re:Invent has long featured CTO Werner Vogels’ closing keynote, but this year he signaled it may be his last, emphasizing it’s time for “you...

How Can We Solve Observability's Data Capture and Spending Problem?

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

DevOps practitioners — whether developers, operators, SREs or business stakeholders — increasingly rely on telemetry to guide decisions, yet face ...

How Kubernetes Became the New Linux

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Major banks once built their own Linux kernels because no distributions existed, but today commercial distros — and Kubernetes — are universal. At...

Keeping GPUs Ticking Like Clockwork

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Clockwork began with a narrow goal—keeping clocks synchronized across servers—but soon realized that its precise latency measurements could reveal...

Jupyter Deploy: the New Middle Ground between Laptops and Enterprise

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At JupyterCon 2025, Jupyter Deploy was introduced as an open source command-line tool designed to make cloud-based Jupyter deployments quick and acc...

From Physics to the Future: Brian Granger on Project Jupyter in the Age of AI

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an interview at JupyterCon, Brian Granger — co-creator of Project Jupyter and senior principal technologist at AWS — reflected on Jupyter’s e...

Jupyter AI v3: Could It Generate an ‘Ecosystem of AI Personas’?

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jupyter AI v3 marks a major step forward in integrating intelligent coding assistance directly into JupyterLab. Discussed by AWS engineers David Qiu a...

Stop Writing Code, Start Writing Docs

31 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The New Stack Podcast, hosts Alex Williams and Frederic Lardinois spoke with Keith Ballinger, Vice President and General Manager of...

Why PyTorch Won

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the PyTorch Conference 2025 in San Francisco, Luca Antiga — CTO of Lightning AI and head of the PyTorch Foundation’s Technical Advisory Council...

Harness CEO Jyoti Bansal on Why AI Coding Doesn't Help You Ship Faster

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Harness co-founder Jyoti Bansal highlights a growing issue in software development: while AI tools help generate more code, they often create bottlene...

How Agentgateway Solves Agentic AI’s Connectivity Challenges

03 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The agentic AI space faces challenges around secure, governed connectivity between agents, tools, large language models, and microservices. To address...

Sentry Founder: AI Patch Generation Is 'Awful' Right Now

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

David Cramer, founder and chief product officer of Sentry, remains skeptical about generative AI's current ability to replace human engineers, particu...

Why Linear Built an API For Agents

19 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cursor, the AI code editor, recently integrated with Linear, a project management tool, enabling developers to assign tasks directly to Cursor's backg...

ServiceNow Says Windsurf Gave Its Engineers a 10% Productivity Boost

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The New Stack Agents, ServiceNow CTO and co-founder Pat Casey discusses why the company runs 90% of its workloads—including AI in...

How the EU’s Cyber Act Burdens Lone Open Source Developers

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The European Union’s upcoming Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes into effect in  October 2026, with the remainder of the requirements going into effec...

How Warp Went From Terminal To Agentic Development Environment

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’sThe New Stack Agents, Zach Lloyd, founder and CEO of Warp, discussed the launch of Warp Code, the latest evolution of the Warp termina...

The Linux Foundation In The Age Of AI

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent episode of The New Stack Agents from the Open Source Summit in Amsterdam, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, discusse...

Is Your Data Strategy Ready for the Agentic AI Era?

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise AI is still in its infancy, with less than 1% of enterprise data currently used to fuel AI, according to Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore. Whi...

MCP Security Risks Multiply With Each New Agent Connection

22 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the standard for connecting AI agents to tools and data, but its security has lagged behind. In Th...

Why Your ‘Data Exhaust’ Is Your Most Valuable Asset

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rahul Auradkar, executive VP and GM at Salesforce, grew up in India with a deep passion for cricket, where his love for the game sparked an early inte...

The Top AI Tool for Devs Isn’t GitHub Copilot, New Report Finds

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s episode ofThe New Stack Agents, Scott Carey, editor-in-chief of LeadDev, discussed their first AI Impact Report, which explores how e...

Confronting AI’s Next Big Challenge: Inference Compute

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

While AI training garners most of the spotlight — and investment — the demands ofAI inferenceare shaping up to be an even bigger challenge. In thi...

Databricks VP: Don’t Try to Speed AI Evolution through Brute Force

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the latest episode ofThe New Stack Agents, Naveen Rao, VP of AI at Databricks and a former neuroscientist, reflects on the evolution of AI, neural ...

How Fal.ai Went From Inference Optimization to Hosting Image and Video Models

25 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fal.ai, once focused on machine learning infrastructure, has evolved into a major player in generative media. In this episode of The New Stack Agents,...

Why AI Agents Need a New Kind of Browser

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional headless browsers weren’t built for AI agents, often breaking when web elements shift even slightly. Paul Klein IV, founder of Browserba...

How AWS is Working to Help Developers with AI Reality

11 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a recent episode of The New Stack Agents livestream, Antje Barth, AWS Developer Advocate for Generative AI, discussed the growing developer interes...

How Shortwave Wants To Reinvent Email With AI

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The New Stack Agents, Andrew Lee, co-founder of Shortwave and Firebase, discusses the evolution of his Gmail-centric email client i...

Cracking the Complexity: Teleport CEO Pushes Identity-First Security

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this on-the-road episode of The New Stack Makers, Editor in Chief Heather Joslyn speaks with Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and co-founder of Teleport, from the...

No SSH? What is Talos, this Linux Distro for Kubernetes?

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Container-based Linux distributions are gaining traction, especially for edge deployments that demand lightweight and secure operating systems. Talos ...

Aptori Is Building an Agentic AI Security Engineer

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents hold the promise of continuously testing, scanning, and fixing code for security vulnerabilities, but we're still progressing toward that vi...

The AI Code Generation Problem Nobody's Talking About

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode ofThe New Stack Makers, Nitric CEO Steve Demchuk discusses how the frustration of building frontend apps within rigid FinTech environm...

The New Bottleneck: AI That Codes Faster Than Humans Can Review

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

CodeRabbit, led by founder Harjot Gill, is tackling one of software development's biggest bottlenecks: the human code review process. While AI coding ...

Google Cloud Next Wrap-Up

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At the close of this year’s Google Cloud Next, The New Stack’s Alex Williams, AI editor Frederic Lardinois, and analyst Janakiram MSV discussed th...

Agentic AI and A2A in 2025: From Prompts to Processes

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Agentic AI represents the next phase beyond generative AI, promising systems that not only generate content but also take autonomous actions within bu...

Your AI Coding Buddy Is Always Available at 2 a.m.

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aja Hammerly, director of developer relations at Google, sees AI as the always-available coding partner developers have long wished for—especially i...

Google AI Infrastructure PM On New TPUs, Liquid Cooling and More

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Google Cloud Next '25, the company introduced Ironwood, its most advanced custom Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) to date. With 9,216 chips per pod del...

Google Cloud Therapist on Bringing AI to Cloud Native Infrastructure

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Google Cloud Next, Bobby Allen, Group Product Manager for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), emphasized GKE’s foundational role in supporting AI pla...

VMware's Kubernetes Evolution: Quashing Complexity

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Without this, developers waste time managing infrastructure instead of focusing on code. VMware addresses this with VCF, a pre-integrated Kubernetes s...

Prequel: Software Errors Be Gone

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prequel is launching a new developer-focused service aimed at democratizing software error detection—an area typically dominated by large cloud prov...

Arm’s Open Source Leader on Meeting the AI Challenge

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

At Arm, open source is the default approach, with proprietary software requiring justification, says Andrew Wafaa, fellow and senior director of softw...

Why Kubernetes Cost Optimization Keeps Failing

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s uncertain economy, businesses are tightening costs, including for Kubernetes (K8s) operations, which are notoriously difficult to optimiz...

How Heroku Is ‘Re-Platforming’ Its Platform

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Heroku has been undergoing a major transformation, re-platforming its entire Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering over the past year and a half. This...

Container Security and AI: A Talk with Chainguard's Founder

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, recorded at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe, Alex Williams speaks with Ville Aikas, Chainguard founder and e...

Kelsey Hightower, AWS's Eswar Bala on Open Source's Evolution

17 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a candid episode of The New Stack Makers, Kubernetes pioneer Kelsey Hightower and AWS’s Eswar Bala explored the evolving relationship between en...

The Kro Project: Giving Kubernetes Users What They Want

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In a rare show of collaboration, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have joined forces on Kro — the Kubernetes Resource Orchestrator — an open source, ...

OpenSearch: What’s Next for the Search and Analytics Suite?

10 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenSearch has evolved significantly since its 2021 launch, recently reaching a major milestone with its move to the Linux Foundation. This shift from...

Kong’s AI Gateway Aims to Make Building with AI Easier

03 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI applications are evolving beyond chatbots into more complex and transformative solutions, according to Marco Palladino, CTO and co-founder of Kong....

What’s the Future of Platform Engineering?

27 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Platform engineering was meant to ease the burdens of Devs and Ops by reducing cognitive load and repetitive tasks. However, building internal develop...

AI Agents are Dumb Robots, Calling LLMs

20 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents are set to transform software development, but software itself isn’t going anywhere—despite the dramatic predictions. On this episode of...

Goodbye SaaS, Hello AI Agents

13 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The transition from SaaS to Services as Software with AI agents is underway, necessitating new orchestration methods similar to Kubernetes for contain...

How Generative AI Is Reshaping the SDLC

06 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amazon Q Developer is streamlining the software development lifecycle by integrating AI-powered tools into AWS. In an interview at AWS in Seattle, Sri...

OAuth Works for AI Agents but Scaling is Another Question

27 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Maya Kaczorowski noticed that AI identity and AI agent identity concerns were emerging from outside the security industry, rather than from CISOs and ...

LLMs and AI Agents Evolving Like Programming Languages

20 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The rise of the World Wide Web enabled developers to build tools and platforms on top of it. Similarly, the advent of large language models (LLMs) all...

Writing Code About Your Infrastructure? That's a Losing Race

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Jacob, CEO of System Initiative, discusses a shift in infrastructure automation—moving from writing code to building models that enable rapid s...

OpenTelemetry: What’s New with the 2nd Biggest CNCF Project?

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan McLean, co-founder of OpenTelemetry and senior director of product management at Splunk, has long tackled the challenges of observability in la...

What’s Driving the Rising Cost of Observability?

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Observability is expensive because traditional tools weren’t designed for the complexity and scale of modern cloud-native systems, explains Christin...

How Oracle Is Meeting the Infrastructure Needs of AI

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Generative AI is a data-driven story with significant infrastructure and operational implications, particularly around the rising demand for GPUs, whi...

Arm: See a Demo About Migrating a x86-Based App to ARM64

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The hardware industry is surging, driven by AI's demanding workloads, with Arm—a 35-year-old pioneer in processor IP—playing a pivotal role. In an...

Heroku Moved Twelve-Factor Apps to Open Source. What’s Next?

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Heroku has open-sourced its Twelve-Factor App methodology, initially created in 2011 to help developers build portable, resilient cloud applications. ...

How Falco Brought Real-Time Observability to Infrastructure

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Falco, an open-source runtime observability and security tool, was created by Sysdig founder Loris Degioanni to collect real-time system events direct...

How cert-manager Got to 500 Million Downloads a Month

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jetstack’s cert-manager, a leading open-source project in Kubernetes certificate management, began as a job interview challenge. Co-founder Matt Bar...

Why Are So Many Developers Out of Work in 2024?

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The tech industry faces a paradox: despite high demand for skills, many developers and engineers are unemployed. At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North Ame...

MapLibre: How a Fork Became a Thriving Open Source Project

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When open source projects shift to proprietary licensing, forks and new communities often emerge. Such was the case with MapLibre, born from Mapbox’...

OpenSearch: How the Project Went from Fork to Foundation

26 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At All Things Open in October, Anandhi Bumstead, AWS’s director of software engineering, highlighted OpenSearch's journey and the advantages of the ...

Is Apache Spark Too Costly? An Amazon Engineer Tells His Story

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is Apache Spark too costly? Amazon Principal Engineer Patrick Ames tackled this question during an interview with The New Stack Makers, sharing insigh...

Codiac: Kubernetes Doesn't Need To Be That Complex

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this New Stack Makers, Codiac aims to simplify app deployment on Kubernetes by offering a unified interface that minimizes complexity. Traditionall...

Valkey: What’s New and What’s Next?

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Valkey, an open-source fork of Redis launched in March, introduced its multithreaded Version 8.0 in September, now available through AWS ElastiCache. ...

Why Beginning Developers Love Python

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Deb Nicholson, executive director of the Python Software Foundation, attributes Python’s popularity to its minimal syntactical complexity, which app...