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 kind of data. Type checking cuts down on errors, sets the stage for better tooling, and allows developers to map their programs at a higher level. And TypeScript itself, a statically-typed superset of JavaScript, ensures that an army of JavaScript programmers can easily enjoy these advanced programming benefits with a minimal learning curve. In this ...
Feb 08, 2022•30 min•Ep. 1303
While Kubernetes brings a great deal of flexibility to application management, the Cloud Foundry platform-as-a-service (PaaS) software offers the best level of standardization, observed Julian Fischer , CEO, of cloud native services provider anynines. We chatted with Fischer for this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, to learn about the company's experience in managing large-scale deployments of both Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry. "A lot of the conversation today is about Kubernetes....
Feb 01, 2022•24 min•Ep. 1302
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 Dietrich Ayala , IPFS Ecosystem Growth Engineer, Protocol Labs , in our most recent edition of The New Stack Makers podcast . We've been hearing a lot of hype about the Web3 and its promise of decentralization — how it will bring the power of the web back to the people, through the use of a blockchain. So what's up with that? How do you build a Web3 stack...
Jan 25, 2022•33 min•Ep. 1301
Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native technologies offer organizations the benefits of portability, flexibility and increased developer productivity but the security risks associated with adopting them continue to be a top concern for companies. In the recent State of Kubernetes Security report , 94% of respondents experienced at least one security incident in their Kubernetes environment in the last 12 months. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Avi Shua , CEO and Co-Founder of ...
Jan 19, 2022•9 min•Ep. 1300
As machine learning models proliferate and become sophisticated, deploying them to the cloud becomes increasingly expensive. This challenge of optimizing the model also impacts the scale and requires the flexibility to move the models to different hardware like Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) or Central Processing Units (CPUs) to gain more advantage. The ability to accelerate the deployment of machine learning models to the cloud or edge at scale is shifting the way organizations build next-gene...
Jan 11, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1299
The most attractive characteristic of open-source projects is the potential to tap into the total addressable market of collaborators. But when looking for users to your project and building a community around it requires the project to stand out from the millions of others, how do you build a plan to monetize it? In this podcast, Emily Omier, a positioning consultant who works with startups to stake out the right position in the cloud native / Kubernetes ecosystem, discusses how to grow your pr...
Jan 04, 2022•31 min•Ep. 1298
There’s no doubt that the cognitive load developers are facing is seemingly endlessly increasing. Microservices and open source have aggravated the situation, where it’s nearly impossible for one developer to get up to speed with any codebase. This makes onboarding extra challenging, and contributes to about two-thirds of tech workers experiencing burnout . CodeSee looks to help developers get up to speed faster by visualizing a codebase in just a few clicks. Shanea Leven , CEO and founder of Co...
Dec 28, 2021•29 min•Ep. 1297
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have seen a surge in adoption and advances for IT applications, especially for database management, CI/CD support and other functionalities. Robotics, meanwhile, is largely relegated to factory-floor automation. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Pieter Abbeel , co-founder, president, chief scientist at covariant.ai , a supplier of “universal AI” for robotics, discusses why and how the potential of robotics can evolve beyond just serving ...
Dec 21, 2021•21 min•Ep. 1296
Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) has seen some radical changes during the past few years, especially for continuous delivery. While not so long ago, application development and delivery was exclusively for monolithic stacks but delivering software for microservices and container environments is a very different animal. In this The New Stack Maker podcast, recorded at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon in October, guest Rob Zuber, chief technology officer at CircleCI , discusses the evolution of C...
Dec 14, 2021•11 min•Ep. 1295
Improving the cadences for application delivery and updates and maintaining their availability over Internet infrastructure remain quintessential challenges for organizations delivering distributed digital experiences. Today, especially palpable among DevOps teams are the challenges associated with optimizing application delivery and security infrastructure in today’s increasingly cloud-centric world. In this The New Stack Maker podcast, Pankaj Gupta , senior director, product marketing, Citrix,...
Dec 09, 2021•30 min•Ep. 1294
There is much discussion about boosting application release cadences, but the fact is that most organizations have not figured out how to deploy applications more quickly. According to data from analyst firm Gartner, 90% of DevOps initiatives will fail to fully meet expectations through 2023. In this breakfast episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, streamed live during LaunchDarkly ’s annual Trajectory user’s conference, we discussed today’s DevOps struggles and challenges. Potential solutions...
Nov 30, 2021•46 min•Ep. 1293
The number of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects has exploded since Kubernetes came onboard, setting the stage for hundreds of tools and platforms that have achieved the various CNCF project maturity milestones of Sandbox, Incubated or Graduated. With the profound influence the adoption of the projects have had on cloud native notwithstanding, it can be easy to sometimes overlook the monumental effort involved in every project by their contributors. In this The New Stack Makers po...
Nov 23, 2021•13 min•Ep. 1292
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 (CNCF) continues to invest heavily in the community to support new and existing projects, including Kubernetes, Prometheus and Envoy that are among the cornerstones of cloud native today. During this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, held live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon last month, CNCF Marketing Manager Bill Mulligan and CNCF Develop...
Nov 16, 2021•17 min•Ep. 1291
Kubernetes played a key role in maintaining Pokemon Go, Niantic’s wildly popular augmented-reality development. Kubernetes, and the efficiencies it offers DevOps teams, continue to play a role at Niantic, as the company builds on the game’s architecture to third-party developers. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Ria Bhatia , senior product manager of Niantic , discusses why the Pokemon Go platform remains relevant and why Kubernetes will remain an integral part of the plat...
Nov 09, 2021•13 min•Ep. 1290
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 startup, Android had not yet been acquired and open source projects Kubernetes, Go and Chromium were years away in the making. It was also then that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked their favorite recruiter to go and find an “open source person,” recounted Chris DiBona , the company’s director for open source. Already an open source pion...
Nov 08, 2021•42 min•Ep. 1289
The number of open source components inside services and applications continues to increase exponentially, and this adoption is creating a lot of change in how software is created, deployed and managed. in 2016, applications on average had 86 open source software components. Today, the average number of components is 528, according to “The 2021 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) report.” In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we discuss the implications of the explos...
Nov 04, 2021•40 min•Ep. 1288
In March, Daniel Prizmant , senior security researcher for Palo Alto Networks , uncovered the malware targeting Windows containers, calling the exploit “Siloscape.” In a blog post , he wrote the emergence of such an attack was not “not surprising given the massive surge in cloud adoption over the past few years.” In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, Prizmant, as the guest, described what makes Siloscape a threat for Kubernetes clusters — both for Linux and Windows containers. The New...
Nov 03, 2021•29 min•Ep. 1287
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 adoption of Kubernetes and associated tools and platforms for organizations making the shift to cloud native environments. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Chris Aniszczyk , CTO, CNCF, discusses with The New Stack’s publisher and founder, Alex Williams , what’s hot in cloud native land and offers a glimpse of what is emerging....
Nov 02, 2021•21 min•Ep. 1286
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 of many potential users. To that end, a new consortium called the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) was formed to help organizations find the best ways of working with stateful data on Kubernetes. In this latest episode of The New Stack Maker podcast, two members of the group discuss the challenges associated with running stateful workloads on Ku...
Oct 28, 2021•31 min•Ep. 1285
Five former Googlers recently started Chainguard , a newly minted supply chain security company focusing on Zero Trust principles. Their mission is to help support DevOps teams with their monumental struggles of securing application code across the development, deployment and management cycle. “Supply chain security by default is our mission and making it really easy for developers to do the right thing,” Kim Lewandowski , founder and product, for Chainguard, said during a The New Stack Makers p...
Oct 27, 2021•15 min•Ep. 1284
Security-as-code is the practice of “building security into DevOps tools and workflows by mapping out how changes to code and infrastructure are made and finding places to add security checks, tests, and gates without introducing unnecessary costs or delays,” according to tech publisher O’Reilly. In this latest “pancakes and podcast” special episode —recorded during a pancake breakfast during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in October — we discuss how security-as-code can benefit emerging GitOps practi...
Oct 26, 2021•34 min•Ep. 1283
It takes more than just years of experience to become a senior software engineer — among the prerequisites are having a good marketing sense, interviewing skills and other personal qualities required to become one. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, guests Swizec Teller , a senior software engineer, Tia — a healthcare company— and author, and Shawn Wang , head of developer experience for microservices orchestration platform provider Temporal.io , describe the mindset and other attributes requ...
Oct 21, 2021•34 min•Ep. 1282
Software deployments increasingly involve highly distributed and decentralized application development processes for deployments across any combination of data centers, public cloud and to the edge. All the while, reliability, security or performance cannot be compromised. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, a panel of technology executives discussed the best ways to speed up business innovation in today’s multicloud and multi-infrastructure world. They also discussed how to deliver apps and s...
Oct 20, 2021•59 min•Ep. 1281
Sometimes, multicloud just happens. Some organizations might have, for example, applications running on Amazon Web Services in one department, while at the same time, while another may come to rely on Google Cloud or other cloud provider services. How do you make them work under one unified architecture? The difficulties of multicloud management is the main topic of this latest episode of the New Stack Makers podcast, where we interview the CEO and co-founder of mulitcloud management platform pr...
Oct 12, 2021•25 min•Ep. 1280
Many organizations need better and tighter infrastructure policy for their distributed systems. This need has been underscored by an increasing number of misconfigurations, especially in distributed microservices and Kubernetes environments. How policy as code extends infrastructure as code was discussed in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, another one of our “pancakes and podcast” special episodes. The guests were Deepak Giridharagopal , chief technology officer of Puppet ; T...
Oct 07, 2021•44 min•Ep. 1279
As the internet fills every nook and cranny of our lives, it runs into greater complexity for developers, operations engineers, and the organizations that employ them. How do you reduce latency? How do you comply with the regulations of each region or country where you have a virtual presence? How do you keep data near where it’s actually used? For a growing number of organizations, the answer is to use the edge . In this episode of Makers, the New Stack podcast, Ron Lev , general manager of Cox...
Oct 06, 2021•29 min•Ep. 1278
Cloud native systems are, by definition, distributed —but to run databases securely and effectively on them, what’s needed is not only purpose-fit technology, but a change of mindset, according to this podcast episode’s guests. In this episode of Makers, the New Stack podcast, Jim Walker, principal product evangelist and Michelle Gienow , senior technical content manager, of Cockroach Labs (and a former New Stack reporter ), discussed how distributed systems create new challenges for databases, ...
Oct 04, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1277
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 native computing happen. KubeCon+CloudNativeCon will be held in Los Angeles next month, October 11 -15. A key difference at this year’s event — the first onsite event from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since the beginning of the pandemic — is that the flagship cloud native conference will offer a much more significant virtual experience for ...
Sep 27, 2021•26 min•Ep. 1276
Database giant Oracle added a container native CI/CD platform to its cloud portfolio when it purchased Wercker in 2017 . Since the acquisition, Wercker founder, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, started Fiberplane , for which he is the CEO. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, van Leuffen discusses the different aspects of the development of the Wercker and how that has parlayed into his work at Fiberplane, which offers collaborative notebooks for resolving incidents. Alana Anderso...
Sep 21, 2021•32 min•Ep. 1275
An organization that has any ambitions or hopes to scale application deployments across cloud native environments is not going to get very far without automation. From CI/CD support, increasing application deployment speed — often across different environments — and maintaining compliance and security, operations teams manually managing these processes is just not humanly possible after a certain point. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Abby Kearns , Chief Technology Office...
Sep 15, 2021•33 min•Ep. 1274
