The New Stack Podcast
Episodes
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2023: Hello Amsterdam
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hoi Europe and beyond!Once again it is time for cloud native enthusiasts and professionals to converge and discuss cloud native computing in all its e...
The End of Programming is Nigh
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
s the end of programming nigh?If you ask Matt Welsh, he'd say yes. As Richard McManus wrote on The New Stack, Welsh is a former professor of computer...
How 2 Founders Sold Their Startup to Aqua Security in a Year
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Speed is a recurring theme in this episode of The Tech Founder Odyssey. Also, timing.Eilon Elhadad and Eylam Milner, who met while serving in the Isra...
Why Your APIs Aren’t Safe — and What to Do About It
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Given the vulnerability of so many systems, it’s not surprising that cyberattacks on applications and APIs increased 82% in 2022 compared to the pre...
Unix Creator Ken Thompson to Keynote Scale Conference
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) runs Thursday through Sunday at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Ca., featuring ke...
How Solvo’s Co-Founder Got the ‘Guts’ to Be an Entrepreneur
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When she was a student in her native Israel, Shira Shamban was a self-proclaimed “geek.” But, unusually for a tech company founder and CEO, not a...
Ambient Mesh: No Sidecar Required
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
At Cloud Native Security Con, we sat down with Solo.io's Marino Wijay and Jim Barton, who discussed how service mesh technologies have matured, especi...
2023 Hotness: Cloud IDEs, Web Assembly, and SBOMs
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a breakdown of what we cover: Cloud IDEs will mature as GitHub's Codespaces platform gains acceptance through its integration into the GitHub ...
Generative AI: Don't Fire Your Copywriters Just Yet
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone in the community was surprised by ChatGPT last year, which a web service responded to any and all user questions with a surprising fluidity. ...
Feature Flags are not Just for Devs
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The story goes something like this: There's this marketing manager who is trying to time a launch. She asks the developer team when the service will ...
Port: Platform Engineering Needs a Holistic Approach
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By now, almost everyone agreed platform engineering is probably a good idea, in which an organizations builds an internal development platform to empo...
Platform Engineering Benefits Developers, and Companies Too
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we delve more deeply into the emerging practice of platform engineering. The guests for this s...
What’s Platform Engineering? And How Does It Support DevOps?
11 Jan 2023
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 ...
What LaunchDarkly Learned from 'Eating Its Own Dog Food'
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feature flags — the on/off toggles, written in conditional statements, that allow organizations greater control over the user experience once code h...
Hazelcast and the Benefits of Real Time Data
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest podcast from The New Stack, we interview Manish Devgan, chief product officer for Hazelcast, which offers a real time stream processing...
Hachyderm.io, from Side Project to 38,000+ Users and Counting
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Back in April, Kris Nóva, now principal engineer at GitHub, started creating a server on Mastodon as a side project in her basement lab. Then in lat...
Automation for Cloud Optimization
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During the pandemic, many organizations sped up their move to the cloud — without fully understanding the costs, both human and financial, they wou...
Redis Looks Beyond Cache Toward Everything Data
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Redis, best known as a data cache or real-time data platform, is evolving into much more, Tim Hall, chief of product at the company told The New Stack...
Couchbase’s Managed Database Services: Computing at the Edge
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s say you’re a passenger on a cruise ship. Floating in the middle of the ocean, far from reliable Wi-Fi, you wear a device that lets you into ...
Open Source Underpins A Home Furnishings Provider’s Global Ambitions
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wayfair describes itself as the “the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.” It provides an onl...
ML Can Prevent Getting Burned For Kubernetes Provisioning
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the rush to create, provision and manage Kubernetes, often left out is proper resource provisioning. According to StormForge, a company paying, for...
What’s the Future of Feature Management?
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Feature management isn’t a new idea but lately it’s a trend that’s picked up speed. Analysts like Forrester and Gartner have cited adoption of t...
Chronosphere Nudges Observability Standards Toward Maturity
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DETROIT — Rob Skillington’s grandfather was a civil engineer, working in an industry that, in over a century, developed processes and know-how th...
How Boeing Uses Cloud Native
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this latest podcast from The New Stack, we spoke with Ricardo Torres, who is the chief engineer of open source and cloud native for aerospace giant...
Case Study: How Dell Technologies Is Building a DevRel Team
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DETROIT — Developer relations, or DevRel to its friends, is not only a coveted career path but also essential to helping developers learn and adopt ...
Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services manages the largest number of Kubernetes clusters in the world, according to the company. In this podcast recording,...
Case Study: How SeatGeek Adopted HashiCorp’s Nomad
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LOS ANGELES — Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, may have a big footprint in the cloud native world, but some organizations are doi...
OpenTelemetry Properly Explained and Demoed
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
OpenTelemetry project offers vendor-neutral integration points that help organizations obtain the raw materials — the "telemetry" — that fuel mode...
The Latest Milestones on WebAssembly's Road to Maturity
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DETROIT — Even in the midst of hand-wringing at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America about how the global economy will make it tough for startups ...
Zero Trust Security and the HashiCorp Cloud Platform
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Organizations are now, almost by default, now becoming multi-cloud operations. No cloud service offers the full breadth of what an enterprise may need...
How Do We Protect the Software Supply Chain?
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DETROIT — Modern software projects’ emphasis on agility and building community has caused a lot of security best practices, developed in the early...
Ukraine Has a Bright Future
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine has a bright future. It will soon be time to rebuild. But rebuilding requires more than the resources needed to construct a hydroelectric plan...
Redis is not just a Cache
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Redis is not just a cache. It is used in the broader cloud native ecosystem, fits into many service-oriented architectures, and simplifies the deploym...
Case Study: How BOK Financial Managed Its Cloud Migration
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LOS ANGELES — When you’re deploying a business-critical application to the cloud, it’s nice to not need the “war room” you’ve assembled to...
Devs and Ops: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DETROIT — Are we still shifting left? Is it realistic to expect developers to take on the burdens of security and infrastructure provisioning, as we...
Latest Enhancements to HashiCorp Terraform and Terraform Cloud
26 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What is Terraform?Terraform is HashiCorp’s flagship software. The open source tool provides a way to define IT resources — such as monitoring soft...
How ScyllaDB Helped an AdTech Company Focus on Core Business
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
GumGum is a company whose platform serves up online ads related to the context in which potential customers are already shopping or searching. (For in...
Terraform's Best Practices and Pitfalls
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wix is a cloud-based development site for making HTML 5 websites and mobile sites with drag and drop tools. It is suited for the beginning user or the...
How Can Open Source Help Fight Climate Change?
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DUBLIN — The mission of Linux Foundation Energy — a collaborative, international effort by power companies to help move the world away from foss...
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022 Rolls into Detroit
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of the year again, when cloud native enthusiasts and professionals assemble to discuss all things Kubernetes. KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 20...
Armon Dadgar on HashiCorp's Practitioner Approach
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Armon Dadgar and Mitchell Hashimoto are long-time open source practitioners. It's that practitioner focus they established as core to their approach w...
Making Europe’s ‘Romantic’ Open Source World More Practical
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
DUBLIN — Europe's open source contributors, according to The Linux Foundation's first-ever survey of them released in September, are driven more by ...
After GitHub, Brian Douglas Builds a ‘Saucy’ Startup
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Douglas was “the Beyoncé of GitHub.” He jokingly crowned himself with that title during his years at that company, where he advocated for o...
The AWS Open Source Strategy
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon Web Services would not be what it is today without open source. "I think it starts with sustainability," said David Nalley, head of open sourc...
Paul Vixie: Story of an Internet Hero
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paul Vixie grew up in San Francisco. He dropped out of high school in 1980. He worked on the first Internet gateways at DEC and, from there, started t...
Deno's Ryan Dahl is an Asynchronous Guy
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Dahl is the co-founder and creator of Deno, a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust ...
How Can Open Source Sustain Itself Without Creating Burnout?
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The whole world uses open source, but as we’ve learned from the Log4j debacle, “free” software isn’t really free. Organizations and their cust...
Charity Majors: Taking an Outsider's Approach to a Startup
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 2000s, Charity Majors was a homeschooled kid who’d gotten a scholarship to study classical piano performance at the University of Idaho...
How Idit Levine’s Athletic Past Fueled Solo.io‘s Startup
16 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Idit Levine’s tech journey originated in an unexpected place: a basketball court. As a seventh grader in Israel, playing in hoops tournaments defi...
From DB2 to Real-Time with Aerospike Founder Srini Srinivasan
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aerospike Founder Srini Srinivasan had just finished his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin when he joined IBM and worked under Don Haderle, the cre...
The Stone Ages of Open Source Security
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ask a developer about how they got into programming, and you learn so much about them. In this week's episode of The New Stack Makers, Chainguard fou...
Curating for the SRE Through Lessons Learned at Google News
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1990s, many kids got into programming video games. Tina Huang enjoyed developing her GeoCities site but not making games. Huang loved aut...
A Technical Founder's Story: Jake Warner on Cycle.io
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the first in our series on The New Stack Makers about technical founders, those engineers who have moved from engineering jobs to running a...
Rethinking Web Application Firewalls
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) first emerged in the late 1990s as Web server attacks became more common. Today, in the context of cloud native techno...
Passage: A Passwordless Service with Biometrics
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Passage adds device native biometric authorization to web sites to allow passwordless security on devices with or without Touch ID. In this episode o...
What Does Kubernetes Cost You?
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack’s On the Road show at Open Source Summit in Austin, Webb Brown, CEO and co-founder of KubeCost, talked with The New...
Open Technology, Financial Sustainability and the Importance of Community
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack’s On the Road show at Open Source Summit in Austin, Amanda Brock, CEO and founder of OpenUK, talked with The New St...
What Can the Tech Community Do to Protect Its Trans Members?
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AUSTIN, TEX. — In one of the most compelling keynote addresses at The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America, held here in June, Aeva...
What’s Next in WebAssembly?
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AUSTIN, TEX. —What’s the future of WebAssembly — Wasm, to its friends — the binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine that a...
What Makes Wasm Different
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
VALENCIA, Spain — WebAssembly (Wasm) is among the more hot topics under the CNCF project umbrella. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podca...
The Social Model of Open Source
06 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack’s On the Road show at Open Source Summit in Austin, Julia Ferraioli, open source technical leader at Cisco’s open...
What’s the State of Open Source Security? Don’t Ask.
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AUSTIN, TEX. — How safe is the open source software that virtually every organization uses? You might not want to know, according to the results of ...
A Boom in Open Source Jobs Is Here. But Who Will Fill Them?
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AUSTIN, TEX. —Forty-one percent of organizations in a new survey said they expect to increase hiring for open source roles this year. But the study,...
Economic Uncertainty and the Open Source Ecosystem
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The New Stack’s On the Road show at Open Source Summit in Austin, Matt Yonkovit, Head of Open Source at Percona, shared his thoug...
Inside a $150 Million Plan for Open Source Software Security
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
AUSTIN, TEX. —Everyone uses open source software — and it’s become increasingly apparent that not nearly enough attention has been paid to the s...
Counting on Developers to Lead Vodafone’s Transformation Journey
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
British telecommunications provider, Vodafone, which owns and operates networks in over 20 countries and is on a journey to become a tech company fo...
Pulumi Pursues Polyglotism to Expand Impact of DevOps
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
VALENCIA – The goal of DevOps was to break down silos between software development and operations. The side effect has become the blurring of lines ...
Unlocking the Developer
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Proper tooling is perhaps the primary key to unlocking developer productivity. With the right tools and frameworks, developers can be productive in mi...
MongoDB 6.0 Offers Client-Side End-to-End Encryption
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Developers aren't cryptographers. We can only do so much security training, and frankly, they shouldn't have to make hard choices about this encrypti...
Simplifying Cloud Native Application Development with Ballerina
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For the past six years, WSO2 has been developing Ballerina, an open-source programming language that streamlines the writing of new services and APIs....
The Future of Open Source Contributions from KubeCon Europe
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
VALENCIA – Open source code is part of at least 70% of enterprise stacks. Yet, a lot of open source contributors are still unpaid volunteers. Even m...
Simplifying Kubernetes through Automation
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
VALENCIA, SPAIN —Managing the cloud virtual machines (VMs) your containers run on. Running data-intensive workloads. Scaling services in response to...
One of Europe’s Largest Telcos’ Cloud Native Journey
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Telecoms are not necessarily associated with adopting new-generation technologies. However, Deutsche Telekom has made considerable investments cloud i...
OpenTelemetry Gets Better Metrics
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
OpenTelemetry is defined by its creators as a collection of APIs used to instrument, generate, collect and export telemetry data for observability. Th...
Living with Kubernetes After the 'Honeymoon' Ends
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly seven years after Google released Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, into an unsuspecting world, 5.6 million developers worldw...
Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Community
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic has significantly accelerated the adoption of Kubernetes and cloud native environments as a way to accommodate the surge in remote worker...
Go Language Fuels Cloud Native Development
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Go was created at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multi-core networked machines and large codebases. Since then, eng...
Svelte and the Future of Front-end Development
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
First released in 2016, the Svelte Web framework has steadily gained popularity as an alternative approach to building Web applications, one that prid...
Is Java Ready for Cloud Native Computing?
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
First released in 1995, Java’s programming language has been a leading developer platform that has become a workhorse for hundreds of enterprise app...
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2022 Europe, in Valencia: Bring a Mask
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, the country of Spain dropped its mandate for residents and visitors to wear masks, to ward off further infections of the Coronavirus. So, f...
Microsoft Accelerates the Journey to Low-Code
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Low-code and no-code is becoming increasingly popular in software development, particularly in enterprises that are looking to expand the number of pe...
Meet Cadence: The Open-Source Orchestration Workflow Engine
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Developers are often faced with complexity when building and operating long-running processes that involve multiple service calls and require continuo...
Removing the Complexity to Securely Access the Infrastructure
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the tech stack grows, the list of technologies that must be configured in cloud computing environments has grown exponentially and increased the co...
Rethinking Trust in Cloud Security
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From cloud security providers to open source, trust has become a staple from which an organization's security is built. But with the rise of cloud-nat...
The Work-War Balance of Open Source Developers in Ukraine
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Many Ukrainians continue working. A very good opportunity is to continue working with them, to buy Ukrainian software products, to engage with people...
Securing the Modern Enterprise with Trust: A Look at the Upcoming Code to Cloud Summit
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From cloud security providers to open source, trust has become the foundation from which an organization's security is built. But with the rise of clo...
Optimizing Resource Management Using Machine Learning to Scale Kubernetes
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes is great at large-scale systems, but its complexity and transparency has caused higher cloud costs, delays in deployment and developer frus...
Java Adapts to Cloud Native Computing
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While Java continues to be the most widely used programming language in the enterprise, how is it faring the emerging cloud native ecosystem? Quite we...
Mitigating Risks in Cloud Native Applications
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two decades ago, security was an afterthought; it was often ‘bolted on’ to existing applications that left businesses with a reactive approach to ...
Engineering the Reliability of Chaotic Cloud Native Environments
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud-native applications provide an advantage in terms of their scalability and velocity. Yet, despite their resiliency, the complexity of these syst...
TypeScript and the Power of a Statically-Typed Language
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
If there is a secret to the success of TypeScript, it is in the type checking, ensuring that the data flowing through the program is of the correct ki...
When to Use Kubernetes, and When to Use Cloud Foundry
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
While Kubernetes brings a great deal of flexibility to application management, the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software offers the best...
Makings of a Web3 Stack: Agoric, IPFS, Cosmos Network
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Want an easy way to get started in Web3? Download a desktop copy of IPFS (Interplanetary File System) and install it on your computer, advises Dietr...
Managing Cloud Security Risk Posture Through a Full Stack Approach
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native technologies offer organizations the benefits of portability, flexibility and increased developer productivi...
Deploying Scalable Machine Learning Models for Long-Term Sustainability
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As machine learning models proliferate and become sophisticated, deploying them to the cloud becomes increasingly expensive. This challenge of optimiz...
Laying The Groundwork: How to Position an Open-Source Project
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most attractive characteristic of open-source projects is the potential to tap into the total addressable market of collaborators. But when lookin...
How to Hire (and Keep) Software Devs for Complex Systems
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no doubt that the cognitive load developers are facing is seemingly endlessly increasing. Microservices and open source have aggravated the ...
Why AI-Controlled Robots Need to Be Smarter for IT
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have seen a surge in adoption and advances for IT applications, especially for database managem...
Why CI/CD Continues to Evolve
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) has seen some radical changes during the past few years, especially for continuous delivery. While not so ...
A Paradigm Shift in App Delivery
09 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Improving the cadences for application delivery and updates and maintaining their availability over Internet infrastructure remain quintessential chal...