The New Stack Podcast
Episodes
Platform Engineering Rules, now with AI
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Platform engineering will be a key focus at KubeCon this year, with a special emphasis on AI platforms. Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Lin...
Data Observability: MultiCloud, GenAI Make Challenges Harder
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rohit Choudhary, co-founder and CEO of Acceldata, placed an early bet on data observability, which has proven prescient. In a New Stack Makers podcast...
Rust’s Expanding Horizons: Memory Safe and Lightning Fast
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rust has maintained its place among the top 15 programming languages and has been the most admired language for nine consecutive years. In a New Stack...
Are We Thinking About Supply Chain Security All Wrong?
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a New Stack Makers episode, Ashley Williams, founder and CEO of axo, highlights how the software world depends on open-source code, which is largel...
What a CTO Learned at Nvidia About Managing Engineers
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this New Stack Makers podcast, Xun Wang, CTO of Bloomreach, brings insights from his time at Nvidia, particularly lessons from its founder, Jensen ...
How to Find Success with Code Reviews
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Code reviews can be highly beneficial but tricky to execute well due to the human factors involved, says Adrienne Braganza Tacke, author of *Looks Goo...
How Apache Iceberg and Flink Can Ease Developer Pain
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the New Stack Makers episode, Adi Polak, Director, Advocacy and Developer Experience Engineering at Confluent discusses the operational and analyti...
How Heroku Is Positioned to Help Ops Engineers in the GenAI Era
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bob Wise, CEO of Heroku, discussed the impact of generative AI (GenAI) coding tools on software development in a recent episode of The New Stack Maker...
OpenJS Foundation’s Leader Details the Threats to Open Source
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the XZ Utils backdoor vulnerability was uncovered in March, the OpenJS Foundation saw a surge in inquiries from potential open source JavaScript...
What’s the Future for Software Developers?
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paige Bailey, who began coding at age 9 in rural Texas, now leads the GenAI developer experience at Google. In a conversation with Chris Pirillo on Th...
Want to Create Software Sustainably? Anne Currie’s Got Ideas
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Anne Currie, a leading expert in sustainable tech and part of the Green Software Foundation, discusses practical steps for building resilient, sustain...
VMware’s Golden Path
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In an era marked by complexity, the golden path is essential for software architects, asserts James Watters, senior director of R&D at VMware Tanzu, B...
Setting Microservices Up for Success: Real-World Advice
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Maintaining and ensuring the success of a microservice-based system can be challenging. Sarah Wells, a seasoned tech consultant with over 20 years of ...
How OpenTofu Happened — and What’s Next?
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In August 2023, the open source community rallied to create OpenTofu, an alternative to Terraform, after HashiCorp, now owned by IBM, adopted a restri...
The Fediverse: What It Is, Why It’s Promising, What’s Next
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early days, the internet was a decentralized space created by enthusiasts. However, it has since transformed into a centralized, commerce-drive...
Why Framework’s ‘Right to Repair’ Ethos Is Gaining Fans
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent episode of The New Stack Makers, recorded at the Open Source Summit North America, Matt Hartley, Linux support lead at Framework, discusse...
What’s the Future of Distributed Ledgers?
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain technology continues to drive innovation despite declining hype, with Distributed Ledgers (DLTs) offering secure, decentralized digital ass...
Linux xz and the Great Flaws in Open Source
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Linux xz utils backdoor exploit, discussed in an interview at the Open Source Summit 2024 on The New Stack Makers with John Kjell, director of ope...
How Amazon Bedrock Helps Build GenAI Apps in Python
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Suman Debnath, principal developer advocate for machine learning at Amazon Web Services, emphasized the advantages of using Python in machine learning...
How to Start Building in Python with Amazon Q Developer
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Peck, a senior developer advocate for generative AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS), shares his experiences working with Python in a recent episod...
Who’s Keeping the Python Ecosystem Safe?
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Fiedler, a PyPI safety and security engineer at the Python Software Foundation, prefers the title “code gardener,” reflecting his role in mai...
How Training Data Differentiates Falcon, the LLM from the UAE
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The name "Falcon" for the UAE’s large language model (LLM) symbolizes the national bird's qualities of courage and perseverance, reflecting the visi...
Out with C and C++, In with Memory Safety
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Crash-level bugs continue to pose a significant challenge due to the lack of memory safety in programming languages, an issue persisting since the pun...
How Open Source and Time Series Data Fit Together
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the push to integrate data into development, time series databases have gained significant importance. These databases capture time-stamped data fr...
Postgres is Now a Vector Database, Too
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced PG Vector, an open-source tool that integrates generative AI and vector capabilities into PostgreSQL database...
Valkey: A Redis Fork with a Future
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Valkey, a Redis fork supported by the Linux Foundation, challenges Redis' new license. In this episode, Madelyn Olson, a lead contributor to the Valke...
Kubernetes Gets Back to Scaling with Virtual Clusters
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A virtual cluster, described by Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele at Kubecon+ CloudNativeCon Paris, is a Kubernetes control plane running inside a container...
How Giant Swarm Is Helping to Support the Future of Flux
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Weaveworks, known for pioneering "GitOps," shut down, concerns arose about the future of Flux, a critical open-source project. However, Puja Abba...
AI, LLMs and Security: How to Deal with the New Threats
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The use of large language models (LLMs) has become widespread, but there are significant security risks associated with them. LLMs with millions or bi...
How Kubernetes Faces a New Reality with the AI Engineer
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Kubernetes community primarily focuses on improving the development and operations experience for applications and infrastructure, emphasizing Dev...
LLM Observability: The Breakdown
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
LLM observability focuses on maximizing the utility of larger language models (LLMs) by monitoring key metrics and signals. Alex Williams, Founder and...
Why Software Developers Should Be Thinking About the Climate
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a conversation on The New Stack Makers, co-hosted by Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, and Charles Humble, an industry expert who served as...
Nvidia’s Superchips for AI: ‘Radical,’ but a Work in Progress
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, and Adrian Cockcroft, Partner and Analyst at OrionX.net, discusse...
Is GitHub Copilot Dependable? These Demos Aren’t Promising
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by TNS founder and publisher, Alex Williams and Joan Westenberg, founder and writer of Joan’s Index, discuss...
The New Monitoring for Services That Feed from LLMs
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by Adrian Cockroft, analyst at OrionX.net and TNS founder and publisher, Alex Williams discusses the import...
How Platform Engineering Supports SRE
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this New Stack Makers podcast, Martin Parker, a solutions architect for UST, spoke with TNS editor-in-chief, Heather Joslyn and discussed the signi...
Internal Developer Platforms: Helping Teams Limit Scope
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this New Stack Makers podcast, Ben Wilcock, a senior technical marketing architect for Tanzu, spoke with TNS editor-in-chief, Heather Joslyn and d...
How the Kubernetes Gateway API Beats Network Ingress
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this New Stack Makers podcast, Mike Stefaniak, senior product manager at NGINX and Kate Osborn, a software engineer at NGINX discusses challenges a...
What You Can Do with Vector Search
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TNS publisher Alex Williams spoke with Ben Kramer, co-founder and CTO of Monterey.ai Cole Hoffer, Senior Software Engineer at Monterey.ai to discuss ...
How Ethical Hacking Tricks Can Protect Your APIs and Apps
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
TNS host Heather Joslyn sits down with Ron Masas to discuss trade-offs when it comes to creating fast, secure applications and APIs. He notes a common...
2023 Top Episodes - What’s Platform Engineering?
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Platform engineering “is the art of designing and binding all of the different tech and tools that you have inside of an organization into a golden ...
2023 Top Episodes - The End of Programming is Nigh
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is the end of programming nigh? That's the big question posed in this episode recorded earlier in 2023. It was very popular among listeners, and with ...
The New Age of Virtualization
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kubevirt, a relatively new capability within Kubernetes, signifies a shift in the virtualization landscape, allowing operations teams to run KVM virtu...
Kubernetes Goes Mainstream? With Calico, Yes
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Kubernetes landscape is evolving, shifting from the domain of visionaries and early adopters to a more mainstream audience. Tigera, represented by...
Hello, GitOps -- Boeing's Open Source Push
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Boeing, with around 6,000 engineers, is emphasizing open source engagement by focusing on three main themes, according to Damani Corbin, who heads Boe...
How AWS Supports Open Source Work in the Kubernetes Universe
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) revealed plans to mirror Kubernetes assets hosted on Google Cloud, addressin...
2024 Forecast: What Can Developers Expect in the New Year?
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the past year, developers have faced both promise and uncertainty, particularly in the realm of generative AI. Heath Newburn, global field CTO for ...
How to Know If You’re Building the Right Internal Tools
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Rob Skillington, co-founder and CTO of Chronosphere, discusses the challenges engineers face in building tool...
Hey Programming Language Developer -- Get Over Yourself
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jean Yang, founder of API observability company Akita Software, emphasizes that programming languages should be shaped by software development needs a...
Docker CTO Explains How Docker Can Support AI Efforts
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Docker CTO Justin Cormack reveals that Docker has been a go-to tool for data scientists in AI and machine learning for years, primarily in specialized...
What Does Open Mean in AI?
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director of the Open Source Initiative, discusses the need for a new definition as AI differs significant...
Debugging Containers in Kubernetes
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
DockerCon showcased a commitment to enhancing the developer experience, with a particular focus on addressing the challenge of debugging containers in...
Integrating a Data Warehouse and a Data Lake
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TNS host Alex Williams is joined by Florian Valeye, a data engineer at Back Market, to shed light on the evolving landscape of data engineering, parti...
WebAssembly's Status in Computing
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Liam Crilly, Senior Director of Product Management at NGINX, discussed the potential of WebAssembly (Wasm) during this recording at the Open Source Su...
PostgreSQL Takes a New Turn
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Katz, a principal product manager at Amazon Web Services, discusses the evolution of PostgreSQL in an episode of The New Stack Makers. He not...
The Limits of Shift-Left: What’s Next for Developer Security
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The practice of "shift left," which involves moving security concerns to the code level and increasing developers' responsibility for security, is fac...
How AI and Automation Can Improve Operational Resiliency
03 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Operational resiliency, as explained by Dormain Drewitz of PagerDuty, involves the ability to bounce back and recover from setbacks, not only technica...
Will GenAI Take Developer Jobs? Docker CEO Weighs In
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Scott Johnston, CEO of Docker, highlights the evolving role of developers, emphasizing their increasing importance in architectural d...
Powertools for AWS Lambda Grows with Help of Volunteers
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of The New Stack Makers was recorded on the road at the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe in Bilbao, Spain. A pair of techno...
What Will Be Hot at KubeCon in Chicago?
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
KubeCon 2023 is set to feature three hot topics, according to Taylor Dolezal from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Firstly, GenAI and Large Lang...
How Will AI Enhance Platform Engineering and DevEx?
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Digital.ai, an AI-powered DevSecOps platform, serves large enterprises such as financial institutions, insurance companies, and gaming firms. The prim...
Why the Cloud Makes Forecasts Difficult and How FinOps Helps
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Moving workloads to the cloud presents cost prediction challenges. Traditional setups with on-premises hardware offer predictability, but cloud costs ...
How to Be a Better Ally in Open Source Communities
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her keynote address at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe, Fatima Sarah Khalid emphasized that being an ally is more than just superf...
Open Source Development Threatened in Europe
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent conversation at the Open Source Summit in Bilbao, Spain, Gabriel Colombo, the General Manager of the Linux Foundation Europe and the Execu...
How to Get Your Organization Started with FinOps
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Uma Daniel, a product manager at UST, discusses the current complexities in the global economy, marke...
What’s Next in Building Better Generative AI Applications?
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3 in late 2022, various industries have been actively exploring its applications. Madhukar Kumar, CMO of SingleS...
Cloud Native Observability: Fighting Rising Costs, Incidents
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Observability in multi-cloud environments is becoming increasingly complex, as highlighted by Martin Mao, CEO and co-founder of Chronosphere. This cha...
At Run Time: Driving Outcomes with a Platform Engineering Team
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Platform engineering is gaining prominence due to the need for faster application deployment, which directly impacts business velocity. Valentina Alar...
How One Open Source Project Derived from Another’s Limits
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ByConity is an open source project that emerged from ByteDance's use of Clickhouse, an open-source database system, to address their growing data volu...
The Golden Path to Platform Engineering
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Along with discussing the emergence and ascension of platform engineering in this episode, we also discuss the role that Humanitec plays in helping or...
Don't Listen to a Vendor About AI, Do the DevOps Redo
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, technologist and author John Willis emphasized caution when considering AI solutions from vendors. He advised...
How Apache Flink Delivers for Deliveroo
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Deliveroo, a prominent food delivery company, relies on Apache Flink, a distributed processing engine, to enhance its three-sided marketplace, connect...
A Microservices Outcome: Testing Boomed
15 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past five to ten years, the testing of microservices has seen significant growth. This surge in testing can be attributed to the increasing a...
Kinesis, Kafka and Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink
12 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apache Flink is an open-source framework and distributed processing engine designed for data analytics. It excels at handling tasks such as data joins...
What You Can Expect from a Developer Conference These Days
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Modern developer conferences like the upcoming Infobip Shift Conference in Croatia are centered around themes. At this particular event for developers...
Apache Flink for Real Time Data Analysis
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into Apache Flink, a versatile platform for executing both batch and real-time streaming data analysis tasks. This session marks t...
The First Thing to Tell an LLM
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an interview with The New Stack, renowned technologist Adrian Cockcroft discussed the process of fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) through p...
So You Want to Learn DevOps
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
TechWorld with Nana is one of the most popular resources for people looking to get into or progress a DevOps career. Nana Janashia, the creator of Tec...
Open Source AI and The Llama 2 Kerfuffle
18 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Explore the complex intersection of AI and open source with insights from experts in this illuminating discussion. Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, reveal...
PromptOps: How Generative AI Can Help DevOps
11 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Discover how large language models and generative AI are revolutionizing DevOps with PromptOps. The company, initially known as CtrlStack, introduces ...
Where Does WebAssembly Fit in the Cloud Native World?
03 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Matt Butcher, CEO of Fermyon Technologies, discusses the potential impact of the component model on WebAssembly (Wasm) and its integr...
The Cloud Is Under Attack. How Do You Secure It?
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Building and deploying applications in the cloud offers significant advantages, primarily driven by the scalability it provides. Developers appreciate...
Platform Engineering Not Working Out? You're Doing It Wrong.
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Purnima Padmanabhan, a senior vice president at VMware, discusses three common mistakes organizations make wh...
What Developers Need to Know About Business Logic Attacks
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Peter Klimek, director of technology in the Office of the CTO at Imperva, discusses the vulnerability of busi...
Why Developers Need Vector Search
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, the focus is on the challenges of handling unstructured data in today's data-rich world and the poten...
How Byteboard’s CEO Decided to Fix the Broken Tech Interview
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sargun Kaur, co-founder of Byteboard, aims to revolutionize the tech interview process, which she believes is flawed and ineffective. In an interview ...
A Lifelong ‘Maker’ Tackles a Developer Onboarding Problem
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shanea Leven, co-founder and CEO of CodeSee, shared her journey as a tech founder in an episode of the Tech Founder Odyssey podcast series. Despite co...
5 Steps to Deploy Efficient Cloud Native Foundation AI Models
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In deploying cloud-native sustainable foundation AI models, there are five key steps outlined by Huamin Chen, an R&D professional at Red Hat's Office ...
A Good SBOM is Hard to Find
22 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of a software bill of materials (SBOM) aims to provide consumers with information about the components inside a software, enabling better ...
The Developer's Career Path: Discover's Approach
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Angel Diaz, Vice President of Technology, Capabilities, and Innovation at Discover Financial Services, spoke with TNS Host Alex Williams at the Open S...
The Risks of Decomposing Software Components
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation (OSSF) is addressing the challenge of timely software component updates to prevent security vul...
How Apache Airflow Better Manages ML Pipelines
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apache Airflow is an open-source platform for building machine learning pipelines. It allows users to author, schedule, and monitor workflows, making ...
Generative AI: What's Ahead for Enterprises?
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode featuring Nima Negahban, CEO of Kinetica, the potential impact of generative AI tools like ChatGPT on businesses and organizations is ...
Don't Force Containers and Disrupt Workflows
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack Makers from KubeCon EU 2023, Rob Barnes, a senior developer advocate at HashiCorp, discusses how their networking ser...
AI Talk at KubeCon
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What did software engineers at KubeCon say about how AI is coming up in their work? That's a question we posed Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem for t...
A Boring Kubernetes Release
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes release 1.27 is boring, says Xander Grzywinski, a senior product manager at Microsoft.It's a stable release, Grzywinski said on this episod...
How Teleport’s Leader Transitioned from Engineer to CEO
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The mystery and miracle of flight sparked Ev Kontsevoy’s interest in engineering as a child growing up in the Soviet Union.“When I was a kid, when...
Developer Tool Integrations with AI -- The AWS Approach
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Developer tool integration and AI differentiate workflows to achieve that "fluid" state developers strive for in their work.Amazon CodeCatalyst and Am...
CircleCI CTO on How to Quickly Recover From a Malicious Hack
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just as everyone was heading out to the New Year's holidays last year, CTO Rob Zuber got a surprise of a most unwelcome sort. A customer alerted Circl...
What Are the Next Steps for Feature Flags?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feature flags, the toggles in software development that allow you to turn certain features on or off for certain customers or audiences, offer release...