The New Stack Podcast
Episodes
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...
Most DevOps Plans Fail, but Things Are Getting Better
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is much discussion about boosting application release cadences, but the fact is that most organizations have not figured out how to deploy appli...
What It Takes to Go from CNCF Sandbox to Incubation
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The number of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects has exploded since Kubernetes came onboard, setting the stage for hundreds of tools an...
Why Cloud Native Is About Community
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud native is really only as good as the support and input the community provides. It is in this spirit that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (...
How Pokemon Go Creator Builds on Kubernetes for Developers
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Kubernetes played a key role in maintaining Pokemon Go, Niantic’s wildly popular augmented-reality development. Kubernetes, and the efficiencies i...
Google’s Long-Time Open Source Director Speaks of the Future
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s open source program certainly has come a long way since 2003. That was when the search engine giant could still arguably be called a startu...
Open Source and the Cloud Native Data Center
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The number of open source components inside services and applications continues to increase exponentially, and this adoption is creating a lot of ch...
Siloscape: Windows Container Malware That Breaks Kubernetes
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In March, Daniel Prizmant, senior security researcher for Palo Alto Networks, uncovered the malware targeting Windows containers, calling the exploit ...
What the Future of Cloud Native is About to Bring
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Since its creation almost six years ago and 120 projects later, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has played a key role in the ongoing adop...
How Kubernetes Stateful Data Management Can Work
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How Kubernetes environments might be able to offer hooks for storage, databases and other sources of persistent data still is a question in the minds ...
Chainguard, a 'Zero Trust' Supply Chain Security Company
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Five former Googlers recently started Chainguard, a newly minted supply chain security company focusing on Zero Trust principles. Their mission is to ...
How GitOps Benefits from Security-as-Code
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Security-as-code is the practice of “building security into DevOps tools and workflows by mapping out how changes to code and infrastructure are mad...
What It Takes to Become a Senior Engineer
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It takes more than just years of experience to become a senior software engineer — among the prerequisites are having a good marketing sense, interv...
Business Innovation Across Multiclouds
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Software deployments increasingly involve highly distributed and decentralized application development processes for deployments across any combinatio...
Mist.io and the Challenge of Multicloud Management
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, multicloud just happens. Some organizations might have, for example, applications running on Amazon Web Services in one department, while a...
Policy and Infrastructure as Code Go Together Like Syrup and Pancakes
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many organizations need better and tighter infrastructure policy for their distributed systems. This need has been underscored by an increasing number...
The Advantages and Challenges of Going ‘Edge Native’
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the internet fills every nook and cranny of our lives, it runs into greater complexity for developers, operations engineers, and the organizations ...
Databases and Kubernetes: Adopting a Distributed Mindset
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Cloud native systems are, by definition, distributed —but to run databases securely and effectively on them, what’s needed is not only purpose-fit...
What to Expect at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s that time of the year again, when we gather to discuss all matters related to Kubernetes and the other assorted tooling necessary to make cloud...
Fiberplane's Collaborative Notebooks for Incident Management
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Database giant Oracle added a container native CI/CD platform to its cloud portfolio when it purchased Wercker in 2017. Since the acquisition, Wercker...
Puppet's New Mission: Automating Cloud Native Infrastructure
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An organization that has any ambitions or hopes to scale application deployments across cloud native environments is not going to get very far without...
Why Cloud Native Open Source is Critical for Twitter and Spotify
01 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At last count, social media giant Twitter enjoys around 353 million active users, and streaming music service Spotify has 356 million active listeners...
Meet the DevSecOps Skillset Challenge For Cloud Deployments
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is much discussion about technology and tool gaps when organizations make the shift to cloud environments. However, a major — and often less-d...
What User Empathy Means at Google Today
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's said we can all stand to make improvements when it comes to empathy. In software engineering, empathy is required to create something that the en...
Low-code, No-code Can Work for Cloud Native
19 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The definition of “low-code, no-code” remains a subject of debate. For some, it is the ability for a so-called “citizen developer” who lacks t...
CloudBees Preps for DevOps World and a New Phase of Growth
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As continuous integration and delivery provider CloudBees prepares for its annual DevOps World conferences, the company also is gearing up for a new p...
What It Requires to Secure APIs for Microservices
12 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Both APIs and microservices play a key role in cloud native environments. Microservices serve as the cornerstone of distributed and shared computing r...
Ransomware Is More Real Than You Think
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
You have a teddy bear you want to love and protect. A big brother or sister takes the teddy bear and threatens to hold it for ransom until you pay up....
Cloud Native Deployments Bring New Complexities to the Developer
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Many organizations are finding that shifting to cloud native environments has become easier than it was in the past. However, the complexities and ens...
Kelsey Hightower, Mark Shuttleworth: Kubernetes Relies on Linux
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Canonical's wildly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution continues to quietly play a role in the continued widespread adoption of Kubernetes. And that qui...
Infoblox: How DDI Can Help Solve Network Security and Management Ills
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Network connections can be likened to attending an amusement park, where Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), serves as the ticket to enter the...
Continuous Delivery and Release Automation (CDRA) Picks Up Where CI/CD Ends
15 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to at-scale software development, is continuous delivery and release automation (CDRA) the next step in the evolution of continuous inte...
When Is Decentralized Storage the Right Choice?
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The amount of data created has doubled every year, presenting a host of challenges for organizations: security and privacy issues for starters, but al...