The New Stack Podcast

Developer tool integration and AI differentiate workflows to achieve that "fluid" state developers strive for in their work. Amazon CodeCatalyst and Amazon CodeWhisperer exemplify how developer workflows are accelerating and helping to create these fluid states. That's a big part of the story we hear from Harry Mower, director AWS DevOps Services, and Doug Seven, director, Software Development, AW...

Just as everyone was heading out to the New Year's holidays last year, CTO Rob Zuber got a surprise of a most unwelcome sort. A customer alerted CircleCI to suspicious GitHub OAuth activity. Although the scope of the attack appeared limited, there was still no telling if other customers of the DevOps-friendly continuous integration and continuous delivery platform were impacted. This notification...

Feature flags, the toggles in software development that allow you to turn certain features on or off for certain customers or audiences, offer release management at scale, according to Karishma Irani, head of product at LaunchDarkly. But they also help unleash innovation, as she told host Heather Joslyn of The New Stack in this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. And that points the way to a...

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...

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 M...

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 epi...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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 ex...

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 embe...

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 Harb...

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 Edit...

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.   Altho...

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...

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 m...

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 t...

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....

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 bi...

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 m...

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 Carniv...

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...

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...

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 yea...