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 source programs office, spoke with The New Stack about some alternative ways to define what is and is not ‘open source.’ When someone says, well, that’s ‘technically’ open source, it’s usually to be snarky about a project that meets the legal criteria to be open source, but doesn’t follow the spirit of open source. Ferraioli doesn’t think that the ‘c...
Jul 06, 2022•12 min•Ep. 1333
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 survey released by The Linux Foundation and Snyk, a cloud native cybersecurity company, at the foundation’s annual Open Source Summit North America , held here in June. Forty-one percent of the more than 500 organizations surveyed don’t have high confidence in the security of the open source software they use, according to the research. Only half o...
Jul 05, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1332
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, released in June by the Linux Foundation and online learning platform edX during the foundation’s Open Source Summit North America , also found that 93% of employers surveyed said they struggle to find the talent to fill those roles. At the Austin summit, The New Stack’s Makers podcast sat down with Hilary Carter , vice president for research at th...
Jul 01, 2022•13 min•Ep. 1331
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 thoughts on how economic uncertainty could affect the open source ecosystem. Open source, of course, is free. So what role does the economic play in whether or not open source software is contributed to, downloaded and used in production? “Generally, open source is considered a bit recession proof,” Yonkovit said. But that doesn’t mean that things won’t...
Jun 30, 2022•14 min•Ep. 1329
AUSTIN, TEX. —Everyone uses open source software — and it’s become increasingly apparent that not nearly enough attention has been paid to the security of that software . In a survey released by The Linux Foundation and Synk at the foundation’s Open Source Summit in Austin, Tex., this month, 41% of organizations said they aren’t confident in the security of the open source software they use. At the Austin event, The New Stack’s Makers podcast sat down with Brian Behlendorf, general manager of Op...
Jun 28, 2022•13 min•Ep. 1330
British telecommunications provider, Vodafone, which owns and operates networks in over 20 countries and is on a journey to become a tech company focused around digital services, has plans to hire thousands of software engineers and developers that can help put the company on the cloud-native track and utilize their network through API’s. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast at MongoDB World 2022 in New York City, Lloyd Woodroffe , Global Product Manager at Vodafone, shares how the co...
Jun 21, 2022•13 min•Ep. 1328
VALENCIA – The goal of DevOps was to break down silos between software development and operations. The side effect has become the blurring of lines between dev and ops. For better or for worse. Because the role of software developer is just continuously expanding causing cognitive overload and burnout. This is why the developer tooling market has exploded to automate and assist developers right when and where they need to build, in whatever language they already know. In this episode of The New ...
Jun 21, 2022•17 min•Ep. 1327
Proper tooling is perhaps the primary key to unlocking developer productivity. With the right tools and frameworks, developers can be productive in minutes versus having to toil over boilerplate code. And as data-hungry use cases such as AI and machine learning emerge, data tooling is becoming paramount. This was evident at the recent MongoDB World conference in New York City where TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams recorded this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast featuring Peggy Rayzi...
Jun 16, 2022•22 min•Ep. 1326
"Developers aren't cryptographers. We can only do so much security training, and frankly, they shouldn't have to make hard choices about this encryption mode or that encryption mode. It should just, like, work," said Kenneth White , a security principal at MongoDB, explaining the need for MongoDB's new Queryable Encryption feature. In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we discuss [sponsor_inline_mention slug="mongodb" ]MongoDB[/sponsor_inline_mention]'s new end-to-end client-si...
Jun 16, 2022•17 min•Ep. 1325
For the past six years, WSO2 has been developing Ballerina, an open-source programming language that streamlines the writing of new services and APIs. It aims to simplify the process of being able to use, combine, and create network services and get highly distributed applications to work together toward a determined outcome. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast Eric Newcomer , Chief Technology Officer of WSO2 discusses how the company created a new programming language from the groun...
Jun 07, 2022•32 min•Ep. 1324
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 more than tech as a whole, the future of open source relies on the community. Unless you're among the top tier funded open source projects, your sustainability replies on building a community – whether you want to or not – and cultivating project leadership to help recruit new maintainers – whether you want to hand over the reins or not. That's where ...
Jun 01, 2022•19 min•Ep. 1323
VALENCIA, SPAIN —Managing the cloud virtual machines (VMs) your containers run on. Running data-intensive workloads . Scaling services in response to spikes in traffic — but doing so in a way that doesn’t jack up your organization’s cloud spend. Kubernetes (K8s) seems so easy at the beginning, but it brings challenges that rachet up complexity as you go. The cloud native ecosystem is filling up with tools aimed at making these challenges easier on developers, data scientists and Ops engineers. I...
Jun 01, 2022•15 min•Ep. 1321
Telecoms are not necessarily associated with adopting new-generation technologies. However, Deutsche Telekom has made considerable investments cloud in native environments, by creating and supporting Kubernetes clusters to supports its operations infrastructure. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast , recorded on the floor of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 , DevOps engineers Christopher Dziomba and Samy Nitsche of Deutsche Telekom discuss how one of Europe’s largest telecom provi...
Jun 01, 2022•17 min•Ep. 1322
OpenTelemetry is defined by its creators as a collection of APIs used to instrument, generate, collect and export telemetry data for observability. This data is in the form of metrics, logs and traces and has emerged as a popular CNCF project. For this interview, we're delving deeper into OpenTelemetry and its metrics support which has just become generally available. The specifications provided for the metrics protocol are designed to connect metrics to other signals and to provide a path to Op...
May 25, 2022•20 min•Ep. 1320
Nearly seven years after Google released Kubernetes , the open source container orchestrator, into an unsuspecting world, 5.6 million developers worldwide use it . But that number, from the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) annual survey, masks a lot of frustration. Kubernetes (K8s) can make life easier for the organization that adopts it — after it makes it a lot harder. And as it scales, it can create an unending cadence of triumph and challenge. In other words: It’s complicated....
May 25, 2022•50 min•Ep. 1318
The pandemic has significantly accelerated the adoption of Kubernetes and cloud native environments as a way to accommodate the surge in remote workers and other infrastructure constraints. Following the beginning of the pandemic, however, organizations are retaining their investments for those organizations with cloud native infrastructure already in place. They have realized that cloud native is well worth maintaining their investments. Meanwhile, Kubernetes adoption continues to remain on an ...
May 25, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1319
Go was created at Google in 2007 to improve programming productivity in an era of multi-core networked machines and large codebases. Since then, engineering teams across Google, as well as across the industry, have adopted Go to build products and services at massive scale, including the Cloud Native Computing Foundation which has over 75% of the projects written in the language. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Steve Francia, Head of Product: Go Language, Google and alumni of Mo...
May 17, 2022•31 min•Ep. 1317
First released in 2016, the Svelte Web framework has steadily gained popularity as an alternative approach to building Web applications, one that prides itself on being more intuitive (and less verbose) than the current framework du jour, Facebook's React . You can say that it reaches back to the era before the web app — when desktop and server applications were compiled — to make the web app easier to develop and more enjoyable to user. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we...
May 10, 2022•28 min•Ep. 1316
First released in 1995, Java’s programming language has been a leading developer platform that has become a workhorse for hundreds of enterprise applications. With each new technology evolution, Java has successfully adapted to change. But even while a recent Java ecosystem study found that more than 70% of Java applications in production environments are running inside a container, there continues to be hurdles the language must overcome to adapt to the cloud-native world. In this episode of Th...
May 03, 2022•36 min•Ep. 1315
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, for this year's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference, to be held May 16 - 20th of May in Valencia, Spain , the Cloud Native Computing Foundation dropped its own original mandate that attendees wear masks, a rule that had been in place for its other recent conferences. This turned out to be the wrong decision, CNCF admitted a week later . A lot...
Apr 26, 2022•29 min•Ep. 1314
Low-code and no-code is becoming increasingly popular in software development, particularly in enterprises that are looking to expand the number of people who can create applications for digital transformation efforts. While in 2020, less than 25% of new apps were developed using no code/low code, Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% will utilize this means. Microsoft is one vendor who has been paving the way in this shift by reducing the burden on those in the lines of business and developers in ...
Apr 19, 2022•36 min•Ep. 1313
Developers are often faced with complexity when building and operating long-running processes that involve multiple service calls and require continuous coordination. To solve this challenge, Uber built and introduced Cadence, the open-source solution for workflow orchestration in 2016 that enables developers to directly express complex, long-running business logic as simple code. Since its debut, it continues to find increased traction with developers operating large-scale, microservices-based ...
Apr 12, 2022•28 min•Ep. 1312
As the tech stack grows, the list of technologies that must be configured in cloud computing environments has grown exponentially and increased the complexity in the IT infrastructure. While every layer of the stack comes with its own implementation of encrypted connectivity, client authentication, authorization and audit, the challenge for developers and DevOps teams to properly set up secure access to hardware, software throughout the organization will continue to grow, making IT environments ...
Apr 05, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1311
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-native technologies, the new ways of building applications are challenging the traditional approaches to security. The changing cloud-native landscape is requiring broader security coverage across the technology stack and more contextual awareness of the environment. So how should DevOps and InfoSec teams across commercial businesses and governments r...
Mar 29, 2022•55 min•Ep. 1310
"Many Ukrainians continue working. A very good opportunity is to continue working with them, to buy Ukrainian software products, to engage with people who are working [via] UpWork . Help Ukrainians by giving them the ability to work, to do some paid work," whether still in the country or as refugees abroad. If you take something from this conversation, Anastasiia Voitova 's words may be the ones that should stick. After all, Ukraine has a renowned IT workforce, with IT outsourcing among its most...
Mar 23, 2022•37 min•Ep. 1309
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 cloud-native technologies such as containers and infrastructure as code (IaC), it has ushered in new ways to build applications and requirements that are challenging the traditional approaches to security. The changing nature of the cloud-native landscape is requiring broader security coverage across the technology stack and more contextual awareness ...
Mar 15, 2022•29 min•Ep. 1308
Kubernetes is great at large-scale systems, but its complexity and transparency has caused higher cloud costs, delays in deployment and developer frustration. As Kubernetes has taken off and workloads continue to move to a containerized environment, optimizing resources is becoming increasingly important. In fact, the recent 2021 Cloud Native Survey revealed that Kubernetes has already crossed the chasm to mainstream with 96 percent of organizations using or evaluating the technology. In this ep...
Mar 08, 2022•28 min•Ep. 1307
While Java continues to be the most widely used programming language in the enterprise, how is it faring the emerging cloud native ecosystem? Quite well, observed a panel of Oracle engineers who work the language. In fact, they estimate that they there are more than 50 million Java virtual machines running concurrently in the cloud at present. In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we discussed the current state of Java with Georges Saab , who is Oracle's vice president of softw...
Mar 01, 2022•29 min•Ep. 1306
Two decades ago, security was an afterthought; it was often ‘bolted on’ to existing applications that left businesses with a reactive approach to threat visibility and enforcement. But with the proliferation of cloud native applications and businesses employing a work from anywhere model, the traditional approach to security is being reimagined to play an integral role from development through operations. From identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and adapting to risk across the applications, or...
Feb 22, 2022•28 min•Ep. 1305
Cloud-native applications provide an advantage in terms of their scalability and velocity. Yet, despite their resiliency, the complexity of these systems has grown as the number of application components continue to increase. Understanding how these components fit together has stretched beyond what can be easily digested, further challenging the ability for organizations to prepare for technical issues that may arise from the system complexities. Last month, ChaosNative hosted its second annual ...
Feb 15, 2022•53 min•Ep. 1304
