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 efficiency and complexity . The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2023 is being held later this month in Amsterdam, April 18 - 21, at the Rai Convention Centre. In this latest edition of The New Stack podcast , we spoke with two of the event's co-chairs who helped define this year's themes for the show, which is expected to...
Apr 05, 2023•25 min•Ep. 1393
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 science at Harvard who spoke at a virtual meetup of the Chicago Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), explaining his thesis that ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot represent the beginning of the end of programming. Welsh joined us on The New Stack Makers to discuss his perspectives about the end of programming and answer questions about the future o...
Mar 29, 2023•32 min•Ep. 1392
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 Israeli military, discovered that source code leak was a hazardous side effect of businesses’ need to move fast and break things in order to stay competitive. “Every new business challenge leads to a new technological solution,” said Elhadad in this episode of The New Stack's podcast series. “The business challenge was to deliver product faster to the...
Mar 22, 2023•23 min•Ep. 1391
Given the vulnerability of so many systems, it’s not surprising that cyberattacks on applications and APIs increased 82% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to a report released this year by Imperva’s global threat researchers. What might rattle even the most experienced technologists is the sheer scale of those attacks. Digging into the data, Imperva, an application and data security company, found that the largest layer seven, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack it mitigat...
Mar 21, 2023•25 min•Ep. 1390
The 20th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) runs Thursday through Sunday at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, Ca., featuring keynotes from notables such as Ken Thompson , the creator of Unix, said Ilan Rabinovich , one of the co-founders and conference chair for the conference on this week's edition of The New Stack Makers. "Honestly, most of the speakers we've had, you know, we got at SCALE in the early days, we just, we, we emailed them and said: 'Would you come to speak a...
Mar 08, 2023•20 min•Ep. 1389
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 computer geek. Shamban was a science nerd, with her sights set on becoming a doctor. But first, she had to do her state-mandated military service. And that’s where her path diverged. In the military, she was not only immersed in computers but spent years working in intelligence; she stayed in the service for more than a decade, eventually rising to bec...
Mar 01, 2023•28 min•Ep. 1388
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, especially now with the removal of sidecars in Ambient Mesh that it developed with Google. Ambient Mesh is "a new proxy architecture that, according to the Solo.io site, "moves the proxy to the node level for mTLS and identity. It also allows a policy-enforcement policy to manage Layer 7 security filters and policies. A sidecar is a mini-proxy, a mini-f...
Feb 22, 2023•14 min•Ep. 1387
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 service. Other factors include new startups in the space, such as GitPod , which offers a secure, cloud-based IDE, and Uptycs , which uses telemetry data to lock-down developer environments. "So I think you'll, you're just gonna see more people exposed to it, and they're gonna be like, 'holy crap, this makes my life a lot easier '." FinOps reflects ...
Feb 16, 2023•19 min•Ep. 1386
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 . ChatGPT is a variant of the powerful GPT-3 large language model created by OpenAI, a company owned by Microsoft. It is still a demo though it is pretty clear that this type of generative AI will be rapidly commercialized. Indeed Microsoft is embedding the generative AI in its Bing Search service , and Google is building a rival offering . So what...
Feb 09, 2023•23 min•Ep. 1385
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 be ready. The dev team says maybe a few months. Let's say three months from now in April. The marketing manager begins prepping for the release. The dev team releases the services the following week. It's not an uncommon occurrence. Edith Harbaugh is the co-founder and CEO of LaunchDarkly , a company she launched in 2014 with John Kodumal to solve t...
Feb 02, 2023•27 min•Ep. 1384
By now, almost everyone agreed platform engineering is probably a good idea , in which an organizations builds an internal development platform to empower coders and speed application releases. So, for this latest edition of The New Stack podcast , we spoke with one of the pioneers in this space, Zohar Einy , CEO of Port, to see how platform engineering would work in your organization. TNS Editor Joab Jackson hosted this conversation. Port offers what it claims is the world's first low code plat...
Jan 25, 2023•21 min•Ep. 1383
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 show are Aeris Stewart , community manager at platform orchestration provider Humanitec and Michael Galloway , an engineering leader for infrastructure software provider HashiCorp. TNS Features Editor Heather Joslyn hosted this conversation. Although the term has been around for several years , platform engineering caught the industry's attention in...
Jan 18, 2023•25 min•Ep. 1382
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 path that enables self service for developers and reduces cognitive load,” said Kaspar Von Grünberg, founder and CEO of Humanitec, in this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. This is structure is important for individual contributors, Grünberg said, as well as backend engineers: “if you look at the operation teams, it reduces their burden to do ...
Jan 11, 2023•23 min•Ep. 1381
Feature flags — the on/off toggles, written in conditional statements, that allow organizations greater control over the user experience once code has been deployed — are proliferating and growing more complex, and demand robust feature management, said Karishma Irani, head of product at LaunchDarkly, in this episode of The New Stack Makers. In a November survey by LaunchDarkly, which queried more than 1,000 DevOps professionals, 69% of participants said that feature flags are “must-have, missio...
Jan 04, 2023•29 min•Ep. 1380
In this latest podcast from The New Stack, we interview Manish Devgan , chief product officer for Hazelcast, which offers a real time stream processing engine. This interview was recorded at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon , held last October in Detroit. "'Real time' means different things to different people, but it's really a business term," Devgan explained. In the business world, time is money, and the more quickly you can make a decision, using the right data, the more quickly one can take action. A...
Dec 28, 2022•15 min•Ep. 1379
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 late October, Elon Musk bought Twitter for an eye-watering $44 billion, and began cutting thousands of jobs at the social media giant and making changes that alienated longtime users. And over the next few weeks, usage of Nóva’s hobby site, Hachyderm.io, exploded. “The server started very small,” she said on this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast....
Dec 22, 2022•27 min•Ep. 1378
During the pandemic, many organizations sped up their move to the cloud — without fully understanding the costs, both human and financial, they would pay for the convenience and scalability of a digital transformation. “They really didn’t have a baseline,” said Mekka Williams, principal engineer, at Spot by NetApp, in this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. “And so the those first cloud bills , I'm sure were shocking, because you don't get a cloud bill, when you run on your on-premises env...
Dec 20, 2022•23 min•Ep. 1377
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 in a recent TNS Makers podcast. Redis is an in-memory database or memory-first database, which means the data lands there and people are using us for both caching and persistence. However, these days, the company has a number of flexible data models, but one of the brand promises of Redis is developers can store the data as they're working with...
Dec 14, 2022•41 min•Ep. 1376
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 your room, that discreetly tracks your move from the bar to the dinner table to the pool and delivers your drink order wherever you are. You can buy sunscreen or toothpaste or souvenirs in the ship’s stores without touching anything. If you’re a Carnival Cruise Lines passenger, this is reality right now, in part because of the company’s partnership wit...
Dec 07, 2022•26 min•Ep. 1375
Wayfair describes itself as the “the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.” It provides an online platform to acquire home furniture, outdoor decor and other furnishings. It also supports its suppliers so they can use the platform to sell their home goods, explained Natali Vlatko, global lead, open source program office (OSPO) and senior software engineering manager, for Wayfair as the featured guest in Detroit during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon N...
Dec 01, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1374
In the rush to create, provision and manage Kubernetes, often left out is proper resource provisioning. According to StormForge, a company paying, for example, a million dollars a month on cloud computing resources is likely wasting $6 million a year of resources on the cloud on Kubernetes that are left unused. The reasons for this are manifold and can vary. They include how DevOps teams can tend to estimate too conservatively or aggressively or overspend on resource provisioning. In this podcas...
Nov 30, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1373
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 the practice as being, respectively, “hot” and “the dominant approach to experimentation in software engineering.” A study released in November found that 60% of 1,000 software and IT professionals surveyed started using feature flags only in the past year , according to the report sponsored by LaunchDarkly, the feature management platform and conducted b...
Nov 29, 2022•27 min•Ep. 1372
DETROIT — Rob Skillington’s grandfather was a civil engineer, working in an industry that, in over a century, developed processes and know-how that enabled the creation of buildings, bridges and road. “A lot of those processes matured to a point where they could reliably build these things,” said Skillington, co-founder and chief technology officer at Chronosphere, an observability platform. “And I think about observability as that same maturity of engineering practice. When it comes to building...
Nov 23, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1371
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 Boeing. Torres also joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in May to serve as a board member. In this interview, recorded at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon last month, Torres speaks about Boeing's use of open source software, as well as its adoption of cloud native technologies. While we may think of Boeing as an airplane manufacturer, it would be m...
Nov 23, 2022•12 min•Ep. 1370
DETROIT — Developer relations, or DevRel to its friends, is not only a coveted career path but also essential to helping developers learn and adopt new technologies. That guidance is a matter of survival for many organizations. The cloud native era demands new skills and new ways of thinking about developers and engineers’ day-to-day jobs. At Dell Technologies, it meant responding to the challenges faced by its existing customer base, which is “very Ops centric — server admins, system admins,” a...
Nov 22, 2022•14 min•Ep. 1369
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services manages the largest number of Kubernetes clusters in the world, according to the company. In this podcast recording, AWS Senior Engineer Jay Pipes discusses AWS' use of Kubernetes, as well as the company's contribution to the Kubernetes code base. The interview was recorded at KubeCon North America last month. The Difference Between Kubernetes and AWS Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform. AWS is one of the largest providers of cloud servic...
Nov 17, 2022•31 min•Ep. 1368
LOS ANGELES — Kubernetes, the open source container orchestrator, may have a big footprint in the cloud native world, but some organizations are doing just fine without it. Take, for example, SeatGeek, which runs a mobile application that serves as a primary and secondary market for event tickets. For cloud infrastructure, the 12-year-old company’s workloads — which include non-containerized applications — have largely run on Amazon Web Services. A few years ago, it turned to HashiCorp’s Nomad, ...
Nov 16, 2022•13 min•Ep. 1367
OpenTelemetry project offers vendor-neutral integration points that help organizations obtain the raw materials — the "telemetry" — that fuel modern observability tools, and with minimal effort at integration time. But what does OpenTelemetry mean for those who use their favorite observability tools but don’t exactly understand how it can help them? How might OpenTelemetry be relevant to the folks who are new to Kuberentes (the majority of KubeCon attendees during the past years) and those who a...
Nov 15, 2022•18 min•Ep. 1366
DETROIT — Even in the midst of hand-wringing at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America about how the global economy will make it tough for startups to gain support in the near future, the news about a couple of young WebAssembly-centric companies was bright. Cosmonic announced that it had raised $8.5 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures. And Fermyon Technologies unveiled both funding and product news: a $20 million A Series led by Insight Partners (which also owns The New Stack) and th...
Nov 10, 2022•16 min•Ep. 1365
Organizations are now, almost by default, now becoming multi-cloud operations. No cloud service offers the full breadth of what an enterprise may need, and enterprises themselves find themselves using more than one service, often inadvertently. HashiCorp is one company preparing enterprises for the challenges with managing more than a single cloud, through the use of a coherent set of software tools. To learn more, we spoke with Megan Laflamme , HashiCorp director of product marketing, at the Ha...
Nov 09, 2022•14 min•Ep. 1364
