The Linux Foundation has introduced a new policy around the collection and usage of telemetry data, which may have far reaching implications given the number of projects under the Linux Foundation's tutelage to which the policy will apply. | Continue reading
Why AI researchers are havig a difficultly training AI to win at Angry Birds, a game. | Continue reading
A new cryptojacking worm, named Graboid, has been spread into more than 2,000 Docker hosts, according to the Unit 42 researchers from Palo Alto Networks. This is the first time such a piece of malware has spread via containers within the Docker Engine (specifically docker-ce). | Continue reading
A new open source tool from Fairwinds, called Goldilocks, allows users to set the amount of resources use Kubernetes can use. | Continue reading
Rapids.AI offers a SQL engine that runs on GPUs, called BlazingSQL. | Continue reading
Think COBOL is dead? About 95 percent of ATM swipes use COBOL code, Reuters reported in April, and the 58-year-old language even powers 80 percent of in-person transactions. In fact, Reuters calculates that there’s still 220 billion lines of COBOL code currently being used in pro … | Continue reading
A look back at the history of Sun MIcrosystems, with its CEO Scott McNealy. | Continue reading
A new vulnerability has been discovered within the Kubernetes API. This flaw is centered around the parsing of YAML manifests by the Kubernetes API server. During this process the API server is open to potential Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The issue (CVE-2019-11253 — which h … | Continue reading
A proposed memory controller can cut RAM usage in LInux server by up to 40%. | Continue reading
An examination of New Relic's AI cpabaility for application performance monitoring. | Continue reading
How to use the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker Algorithm (RDP Algorithm). | Continue reading
Developers’ biggest concern with open source is risk regarding how well projects will be maintained into the future, according to a TNS survey. | Continue reading
Python's Pallets project gets a much-needed investment from Tidelift. | Continue reading
A summary of the observability movement over the past three years. | Continue reading
Paul Dix, co-founder and CTO of InfluxData, discusses their new serverless time-series database, InfluxDB Cloud 2.0, and how time-series databases have evolved. | Continue reading
Dark is a new programming language for seamlessly deploying code into production. | Continue reading
Videogames may represent the secret culture of geeks, a magical netherworld which gave so many of us our first exposure to computers. Some of that fascination was captured in the beloved 2007 documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," which shows the intense world cha … | Continue reading
In this post, we look at some of the common pitfalls development teams can avoid when shifting to Kubernetes. | Continue reading
Kubernetes is a system for managing and orchestrating containerized applications in a cluster.There are a lot of dynamically moving parts in such an architecture. To help you keep tabs on them, Kubernetes uses the concept of “policy.”In this post, I’ll explain what Kubernetes po … | Continue reading
The Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) is an open source specification that aims to facilitate the bundling, installing, and managing of containerized apps. With this bundle, users can define resources that can then be deployed to a number of runtime environments, such as Doc … | Continue reading
The New Stack's second annual report on open source programs found that expectations for open source program management have begun to crystalize. | Continue reading
Ballerina, which treats cloud native middleware as a programming language, has reached 1.0. Paul Fremantle, WSO2 CTO and co-founder, demonstrated Ballerina at ApacheCon North America in Las Vegas on Tuesday. While Ballerina grew out of WSO2 as a way to address the shortcomings of … | Continue reading
It is not enough to use open source software, you should also contribiute to it as well. | Continue reading
This year’s annual phpDay Italian PHP conference in Verona ended with a surprisingly reflective talk from the original creator of PHP. As the closing speaker, 50-year-old Rasmus Lerdorf looked back over the web backend programming language’s last 25 years, and offered some lesson … | Continue reading
ArangoDB, a German database expanding its business in the United States, has released new capabilities in version 3.5 of its eponymous database management software to make it easier to query and search growing data sets across multiple data models. | Continue reading
Role-based Access Control (RBAC) on Kubernetes on paper seems totally sensible. It’s obvious: of course an organization would want to enforce user and application access policies to a cluster. The Kubernetes official documentation provides a lot of guidance on how the RBAC API ob … | Continue reading
Does Object Oriented Programming really make it easier for programmers to develop? Of is an alternatve like functional programming a better way to go? | Continue reading
GitLab sponsored this podcast. Priyanka Sharma, director of technical evangelism at GitLab, recently surprised many with a recent The New Stack blog post describing how GitLab began its journey to continuous delivery (CD) without first completely shifting its underlying IT infras … | Continue reading
REactions come in from The New Yorker's analysis of Hacker News. | Continue reading
A tutorial for working with objects in Perl 6. | Continue reading
A Q&A with Docker's Michael Crosby about libcontainer. | Continue reading
Luca Mezzalira is on a quest to bring the idea of microservices to front-end development, after seeing the benefit the approach brought to the rapidly-growing sport video streaming site DAZN (pronounced "Da-Zone") where he works as chief architect. | Continue reading
There’s something glamorous about a surgeon being on-call, at least on television dramas such as “Grey’s Anatomy.” After all, the significant others of doctors can certainly be annoyed by it, but they are saving lives, right? But when you’re on call for software development, you … | Continue reading
An explantory intriduction to Kubernetes and cloud native computing. | Continue reading
This article is a post in a series on bringing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) practices to machine learning. Check back to The New Stack for future installments. As a scalable orchestration platform, Kubernetes is proving a good match for machine learning deploymen … | Continue reading
A History of how the Unix Pipe command came together, and influenced programming. | Continue reading
A post on why SD-WAN (software-defined networking in a wide area network) is needed for cloud native computing. | Continue reading
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Open Source Summit China 2019 in Shanghai served as the perfect backdrop to record this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast with PingCap's Kevin Xu, who discussed PingCap's TikV open source distributed transactional key-value database, | Continue reading
The humble response sent by a web server when the requested page isn't found, the HTTP 404 Not Found Error has long served as a base for webmasters to send web browsers homegrown funny messages.For example, go to any non-existent page at IpSwitch.com, you're greeted with an arr … | Continue reading
A tutorial on how to install erk 6 ona Windows 10 machine. | Continue reading
The New Stack and Tidelift have teamed up to get answers to these questions and more in a 10-minute survey about how developers use open source to build applications in the workplace. In exchange for your time, the first 250 respondents will receive a free “Pay the Maintainers” t … | Continue reading
In this article, we introduce a set of principle operations (i.e., core operations) that underline the implementation of the blockchain architecture patterns. | Continue reading
For nearly three decades the animals on the O'Reilly boo covers have become almost a part of geek culture itself. The woman behind this initiative? Edie Freedman, who worked as a creative director for the publishing company. | Continue reading
Fireworks on the 4th of July have been a long-standing American tradition. But could our advances in technology someday lead us onto something even more dazzling, a show put on by nimble drones? | Continue reading
DevOps has been with us for several years now, and is becoming increasingly entrenched within the enterprise. Yet the speed and elevation that the practice offers can be at odds with an organization's security posture, which ensures that systems have no vulnerabilities and meet c … | Continue reading
Developer Emily Shea, at this month’s Perl conference 2019 in Pittsburgh demonstrates how she writes her Perl programs by voice commands. | Continue reading
Those intrepid individuals trying to bring a new innovation into the world, or a new start-up, should keep in mind the power of perseverance. Even if a technology is a hit, the creator must still face any number of hurdles to maintain and grow its success. Attendees at the Postgr … | Continue reading
This Week in Programming summarizes the week in development news. | Continue reading