The New Stack Podcast

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...

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...