At last count, social media giant Twitter enjoys around 353 million active users, and streaming music service Spotify has 356 million active listeners. In both cases, open source tools and platforms for cloud native environments have served as the cornerstones for their tremendous growth. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Spotify Senior Staff Engineer Dave Zolotusky , and Twitter Developer Experience Lead and Manager for Engineering Effectiveness Jasmine James discussed the...
Sep 01, 2021•31 min•Ep. 1273
There is much discussion about technology and tool gaps when organizations make the shift to cloud environments. However, a major — and often less-discussed — challenge is how to ensure that the DevOps team has the necessary skillsets to see the project through. Making sure that the right in-house talent and DevSecOps culture is in place to make the shift without exposing the organization's data and applications to security risks is especially critical. In this The New Stack Makers podcast hoste...
Aug 31, 2021•28 min•Ep. 1272
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 end user can easily figure out; it's unacceptable to build something you think is great but expect customers to figure it out on their own, just because you think they should. Search engine giant, cloud services leader and Kubernetes creator, Google, realizes this. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, The New Stack Founder and Publ...
Aug 24, 2021•36 min•Ep. 1271
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 the training and skills to develop software — to be able to rely on a platform to deploy code with the same level of competence as that of a professional software engineer. Others describe low-code, no-code as a way to rely on a platform that facilitates software development — while automating many of the tasks in a build — to both simplify the process for ...
Aug 19, 2021•30 min•Ep. 1270
As continuous integration and delivery provider CloudBees prepares for its annual DevOps World conferences, the company also is gearing up for a new phase of growth with a greater focus on security, AI and making DevOps easier. DevOps World will run September 28-30. Last year, the event drew around 30,000 virtual attendees. This year the event is again virtual and is also free. With a tagline of “building the future of software delivery together,” the focus of DevOps World will be to reach out t...
Aug 17, 2021•38 min•Ep. 1269
Both APIs and microservices play a key role in cloud native environments. Microservices serve as the cornerstone of distributed and shared computing resources. At the same time, APIs serve as a very efficient way to streamline many operations and development tasks from DevOps teams. However, both microservices and APIs carry with them their own security risks. All it takes is for one compromised Kubernetes node to allow for an intruder to gain root access through an API to an organization’s enti...
Aug 12, 2021•28 min•Ep. 1268
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. What do you do? The teddy bear analogy is certainly simplistic, but it also reflects the reality of the ransomware attacks that organizations increasingly face. Attackers block access to critical data in exchange for increasingly outlandish ransoms. According to a Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 report , the highest ransom in 2020 was $30 million, up ...
Aug 06, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1267
Many organizations are finding that shifting to cloud native environments has become easier than it was in the past. However, the complexities and ensuing challenges can still surmount once at-scale deployments begin. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by TNS’ Alex Williams , founder and publisher, and Joab Jackson , TNS managing editor, application-deployment standards are the discussion of the day. The featured guests are Bruno Andrade , founder, Shipa , a provider of fram...
Jul 28, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1266
Canonical's wildly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution continues to quietly play a role in the continued widespread adoption of Kubernetes. And that quiet support is as it should be, concluded Kelsey Hightower , Google Cloud Platform principal developer advocate, and Mark Shuttleworth , CEO of Canonical , in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. Alex Williams , founder and publisher of TNS hosted this episode. Taking a step back, Ubuntu , as well as Linux in general, has become much...
Jul 21, 2021•37 min•Ep. 1265
Network connections can be likened to attending an amusement park, where Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), serves as the ticket to enter the park and the domain name system (DNS) is the map around the park. Network management and security provider Infoblox made a name for itself by collapsing those two core pieces into a single platform for enterprises to be able to control where IP addresses are assigned and how they manage network creation and movement. "They control their own DNS so...
Jul 20, 2021•29 min•Ep. 1264
When it comes to at-scale software development, is continuous delivery and release automation (CDRA) the next step in the evolution of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)? Forrester Research thinks so. The analysis firm describes CDRA as a way for organizations to deliver better-quality software faster and more securely, by automating digital pipelines and improving end-to-end management and visibility. In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, Anders Wallgren , CloudBees v...
Jul 15, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1263
The amount of data created has doubled every year, presenting a host of challenges for organizations: security and privacy issues for starters, but also storage costs. What situations call for that data move to decentralized cloud storage rather than on-prem or even a single public cloud storage setup? What are the advantages and challenges of a decentralized cloud storage solution for data, and how can those be navigated? On this episode of Makers , the New Stack podcast, Ben Golub , CEO of Sto...
Jul 14, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1262
Once they have piloted Kubernetes, many organizations then want to scale up their K8s deployments, and run workloads across many clusters. But managing multiple clusters requires a new set of tools, ones that automate many routine and manual tasks. So, for its fifth Tech Radar report , the Cloud Native Computing Foundation surveyed the tools available for multicluster management, based on the input from its end-user community. In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talk with two p...
Jul 13, 2021•29 min•Ep. 1261
Video games continue to explode in popularity , while the number of potential attack vectors increase as well. In this The New Stack Makers podcast host Alex Williams , publisher and founder of TNS and co-host Bharat Bhat , marketing lead, developer relations, for Okta, cover why and how video game platforms and connections should be more secure with guest Okta Senior Developer Advocate Nick Gamb. The gaming industry has often served as a showcase for some of industry’s greatest programming tale...
Jul 08, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1260
The internet's fabled history includes such milestones as the Advanced Research Projects Agency's (ARPA) development of packet switching (ARPANET) , paving the way for today's modern infrastructure, or Tim Berners-Lee’s research that culminated in the explosive adoption of the World Wide Web (WEB) in the 1990s. Today, as microservices, Kubernetes and distributed environments and connections become more prevalent, the use of the Internet is becoming more decentralized as well. In this episode of ...
Jul 07, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1259
Observability is widely misunderstood, but in an age of increased security breaches and more business being conducted online, it’s never been more important. How should organizations be thinking about their resources in multicloud environments? What strategies should they adopt to catch gaps in their security before hackers do? And also, what cultural changes might DevOps teams adopt to strengthen their observability? In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Maya Levine , technical marke...
Jul 06, 2021•27 min•Ep. 1258
Go owes its popularity to a number of factors as Golang advocates often speak of its speed, robustness and versatility, especially compared to C++ and Java and JavaScript. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, hosts TNS’ Alex Williams , founder and publisher, and Darryl Taft , news editor, cover the reasons for decentralized storage provider Storj’s shift to Go with featured guests Storj’s JT Olio , CTO, and Natalie Villasana , software engineer. Storj’s needs for Go to support its development a...
Jun 30, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1257
Cloud native computing is bringing about such a sea change in how applications are developed, deployed and run, that, not surprisingly, it is changing the rules for information security as well. Case in point: serverless computing. In this latest edition of The New Stack makers podcast, we speak with Check Point's Cloud Security Strategist Hillel Solow , who has been at the cutting edge of these changes. Solow co-founded Protego Labs, a pioneer in serverless security . Security vendor Check Poin...
Jun 29, 2021•28 min•Ep. 1256
The number of services cloud providers alone have begun to offer over the past couple of years has exploded, potentially exposing an exponentially larger number of microservices to vulnerabilities that support these services across multiple cloud and on-premises environments. In this The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Jack Wallen , a correspondent for The New Stack, TJ (Tsion) Gonen , head of Cloud Security, Check Point, puts microservices security in context and describes the critical role ...
Jun 23, 2021•32 min•Ep. 1255
The definitions of progressive delivery can vary, while many, if not most, would agree it represents an evolution of CI/CD. In this The New Stack Makers podcast The New Stack’s Alex Williams , publisher and founder, and B. Cameron Gain, correspondent, of The New Stack, cover why progressive delivery will play a large role in the future of DevOps. Nick Rendall , senior product marketing manager, CloudBees, is the featured guest. While progressive delivery is universally accepted as important for ...
Jun 22, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1254
The tech industry is broken. We deify overworking, and think burnout comes with bragging rights . But how do we break this exhausting cycle? In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we talk with LaunchDarkly 's Manager of Developer Marketing Dawn Parzych about how to identify burnout in others and in yourself, how to treat it, and how to build a psychologically safe working environment that allows folks to say no. With a masters in psychology and a DevRel role that certainly straddles people and...
Jun 15, 2021•24 min•Ep. 1253
No longer considered an ephemeral concept as it originally was, data management has become a huge issue and challenge, especially for managing stateless data in Kubernetes environments. Cloud Native Data Management Day at the recently held KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 event in May and the state of data management were the subject of discussion in this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack. The guests were Michael Cade, se...
Jun 10, 2021•34 min•Ep. 1252
Today’s developer seems to be working with more tools than ever. Building a Node.js-based JavaScript application could require over a dozen tools at times to get code out into production. It's easy to get sucked down a rabbit hole and not stay focused. Debugging an application once in production can also be a challenge: You want as much context at your fingertips as needed while maintaining a reasonable signal-to-noise ratio. Dan O’Brien, a software engineer for feature management platform provi...
Jun 08, 2021•28 min•Ep. 1251
No matter how much we prepare, deployments don’t always go as planned. In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams , founder and publisher of The New Stack, Isabelle Miller , software engineer, LaunchDarkly , describes how DevOps teams can build processes to help remove unwanted surprises during release cycles — and why they do not need to be stressful. One of the main things Miller said she has discovered since joining LaunchDarkly at the beginning of 2020 is the im...
Jun 01, 2021•28 min•Ep. 1250
How Adidas manages for scale gives a sense for how a sportswear company is also in part similar to a software house just in terms of measuring how much code they run. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Alex Williams , founder and publisher of The New Stack, speaks with Adidas’ Iñaki Alzorriz , senior director platform engineering, and Rastko Vukasinovic , director solution architecture, on how Adidas scales DevOps and resiliency on Kubernetes. They also discuss how Adidas views man...
May 26, 2021•31 min•Ep. 1249
Debate continues in the industry about what observability is, and more specifically, what it should offer DevOps, especially those working in operations who are often responsible for detecting those “unknown unknowns.” In this The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams , founder and publisher of The New Stack, Bartek Plotka , a principal engineer at Red Hat, a SIG observability tech Lead for Thanos and a Prometheus maintainer; and Richard Hartmann , community director at Grafana, a Pro...
May 25, 2021•37 min•Ep. 1248
At this year’s KubeCon EU 2021, some things were the same — it was still virtual which meant it attracted a huge turnout of a more broadly international audience — and some things were different — like that almost everyone’s bought into Kubernetes and cloud native architecture, it’s now just how they use it. Another KubeCon tradition, The New Stack hosted a live pancake breakfast to reflect on the maturity of Kubernetes particularly around data persistence and storage. Our Publisher Alex William...
May 19, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1247
The adoption of GitOps, improvements to APIs and the increasing reach of virtual machine language WebAssembly (Wasm) are influencing the developer experience, and ultimately, how DevOps teams reach their application-deployment and -management goals. These were among the more talked-about themes at Cloud Native Computing Foundation KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU Putting it all into context, Alex Williams , founder and publisher, and Joab Jackson, managing editor, of The New Stack, are the hosts of t...
May 18, 2021•45 min•Ep. 1246
A major part of improving developer velocity is about getting the most out of an observability platform. While that is a commonly held assumption, this best practice is also a far-reaching goal for many DevOps teams. Hosted by Alex Williams , founder and publisher of The New Stack, this The New Stack Makers — podcast recorded during a virtual pancake breakfast — features a discussion on improving observability for developers. The featured guests were Zain Asgar , general manager, Pixie and New R...
May 17, 2021•33 min•Ep. 1245
As GitOps moves beyond improving how code repositories are managed for continuous integration/continuous integration (CI/CD), the security component of GitOps has become more of a pressing issue as the use of Git, and GitOps, becomes more widely adopted. The open source community should also play a critical role in improving GitOps. Hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, this recording features Om Moolchandani, co-founder and CISO/CTO, for Accurics, Cindy Blake, senior ...
May 12, 2021•28 min•Ep. 1244
