Programmers on Earth, Humans in Space

This month, WedReduce takes a look at the great programmers --and adventurers of the space age. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

What Made Golang So Popular? The Language’s Creators Look Back

Since the day it was open sourced in 2009, the Go programming language has consistently grown in popularity. Now the five Google software engineers behind its original creation are taking a look back at what fueled that growth. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Codenotary Adds Background Vulnerability Scanning

Codenotary has added free background vulnerability scanning service to its free and open source Community Attestation Service (CAS) code signing and attestation service to further secure open-source supply chains. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

NoSQL, NoMQ: Palo Alto Networks’ New Event Streaming Paradigm

Palo Alto Networks eliminated the MQ layer for a project that correlates events in near real time, using an existing database instead of Kafka. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Can SRE Bring Governance and Compliance into the Future?

Is site reliability engineering or SRE the secret to modernizing governance, risk management, and compliance or GRC teams? | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

NASA Programmer Remembers Debugging Lisp in Deep Space

Debugging software that is running 150 million miles away is something most of us will never have to do, thankfully. But one former NASA programmer, software engineer Ron Garret, shared his experience of diagnosing faulty LISP software on a Deep Space spacecraft mission, in one r … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

James Webb Space Telescope and 344 Single Points of Failure

Earlier this year, the single greatest site reliability engineering (SRE) lesson unfolded itself out in space. Last week we saw the very first, better-than-even-expected images from the James Webb Space Telescope or JWST. After ten years of design and build on a $9 billion budget … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

The State of Application Modernization, 2022

Our survey respondents all have one thing in common: They see container-based cloud-hosted microservices as the future of their application estates. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

The Cloud Native Community Needs to Talk about Testing

Why aren’t we sharing our testing successes, failures and hacks with the community in the way that we do for security or orchestration? | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Kubernetes Manifest Life Cycle

Open source Monokle quickly provides a high-level view of your Kubernetes manifests, their contained resources and relationships. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Forrester: 96% of Businesses Have Had Cloud Security Probs

In a survey of 154 cloud security decision-makers for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Sonrai Security, Forrester Consulting found that 96% of respondents had experienced cloud security problems. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

A Better Way to Provision Kubernetes Resources Using Terraform

Despite Kubernetes' own declarative API, and the obvious benefits of maintaining a cluster's infrastructure and services from the same infrastructure as code repository, Terraform is far from the first choice to provision Kubernetes resources. Kubestack, the open-source Terraform … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Radicle: A Decentralized Alternative to GitHub for Web3

Radicle has taken the familiarity of GitHub and GitLab as centralized repositories for code collaboration, and added decentralization. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Microsoft Discovers Dual Linux Security Problems: Nimbuspwn

Microsoft discovered a pair of systemd networkd-dispatcher security bugs, named Nimbuspwn, that can be chained together to gain root privileges on Linux systems. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Why Atlassian Failed So Hard

Atlassian explains why its web services went down for about 400 customers or from 50,000 to 400,000 users.  | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Sysdig: Prioritizing Risk with Risk Spotlight

Sysdig's new Risk Spotlight vulnerability prioritization feature reduces alert fatigue and effectively prioritize remediation. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

The Shape of Things to Come: GraphQL and the Web of APIs

The API management industry is undergoing another transformation, with GraphQL increasingly popular — perhaps leading to a new web of APIs. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Low-code Back end builder Canonic starts with a graph

Canonic has taken the low-code route to the repetitive tasks of building backends, enabling a wider swath of business users. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Return on CI/CD Is Larger Than the Business Outcome

If a software organization is not yet adopting CI/CD, its leadership and management should realize that they are already behind and at a huge disadvantage. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

First Malware Running on AWS Lambda Discovered

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda, serverless computing's poster child, is over seven years old and only now has experienced the first malware specifically targeting Lambda, Denonia | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

AWS’s Log4Shell Fix Needs Fixing

Palo Alto Networks' security research group Unit 42 discovered several Amazon Web Services (AWS) hot patch fixes came with their own serious security holes. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Ransomware Is on the Way and Backups Are Your Best Defense

A recent Enterprise Strategy Group study found that 79 percent of those surveyed reported their organizations had experienced a ransomware attack within the past year. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Two Sizes Fit Most: PostgreSQL and ClickHouse

PostgreSQL has been an improvement on its predecessors and successors, while ClickHouse enables qualitatively different approaches to analytics. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Nitric, a Cloud Portability Framework for Code

Nitric is an open source framework that enables teams to develop and manage a single code base that can be deployed to any cloud. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

The Atlassian Outage Just Keeps Going and Going and

It's going on a week of Atlassian's Jira Software, Jira Work Management, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Opsgenie Cloud, Statuspage, and Atlassian Access all being out of service for at least some users. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Why Literate Programming Might Help You Write Better Code

Literate programming, created in the early 1980s, explains code using natural language, alongside the source code. Its principles might help make you a better developer. #literateprogramming #developers #programmers | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Redis Puts (Almost) Everything Under a Single Module

Redis Labs has released Redis Stack: a single module intended to help NoSQL developers by regrouping a number of components in one interface.  | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Infrastructure-as-Code: Increase Security, Scale Development

IAC helps reduce development costs, creates efficiency and enables controls for the creation of secure applications and services. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

The Challenge of Scaling WebSockets

Ultimately, delivering real-time capabilities using WebSockets requires additional architectural and engineering complexity, especially when done at scale. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Why We’re Porting Our Database Drivers to Async Rust

This Rust driver started as a humble hackathon project, but that gave us an idea: Why not unify all our drivers to use Rust underneath? | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Securing the Software Supply Chain with SLSA

With attacks skyrocketing, Google and collaborators have developed a framework for ensuring the integrity of software artifacts. Here's how it works. #SLSA #DevSecOps #security | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

'We Interviewed a Coder. Someone Else Showed Up for the Job'

In an era of remote work and video interviews, it's easy for candidates to misrepresent themselves to hiring managers. Until they get caught. #techrecruiting #techjobs #techcareers #remotework | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Chainguard: It’s All About That Base Image

Chainguard, the zero-trust security company, delves into the subject of container image security in its new whitepaper "All About That Base Image." | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

When to Move to the Edge: A Simple Equation to Help Decide

In short, all things being equal, it’s better to run applications at the edge instead of in a centralized cloud or data center environment. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

NSA on How to Harden Kubernetes

The National Security Agency (NSA) has issued guidelines on how to make Kubernetes environments more secure. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Locking Down Kubernetes Containers with Vcluster

Loft Labs' vcluster locks down Kubernetes containers and enables users to spin up lightweight, virtual Kubernetes clusters that run inside the namespaces of an underlying Kubernetes cluster. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

PyTorch Lightning and the Future of Open Source AI

The use of machine learning tools in research, industrial and academic settings has enabled significant leaps in our ability to both ask and answer increasingly complex questions. Those tools, however, are not without their caveats: Managing Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), e … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Mnemonic NFT Data API Opens Publicly to Developers

The company's real-time intelligence platform now exposes data on #Ethereum #NFTs to APIs, creating a data infrastructure layer for developers. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

30% of Apache Log4j Security Holes Remain Unpatched

According to cloud security company Qualys, only 70% of Log4j instances have been patched and 30% of Log4j instances remain vulnerable to exploitation. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Securing Access to Kubernetes Environments with Zero Trust

Platform teams need a central, enterprise-grade level of security and control for clusters and applications across their entire Kubernetes infrastructure. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Arduino fan builds the smallest 'Space Invaders' game

A British developer and hobbyist built "the smallest fully-functional Space Invaders model in the world." The arcade game cabinet stands just 3.1 inches tall. #videogames #SpaceInvaders #developers #programmers | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Margaret Hamilton Recalls Her Life as a Programming Pioneer

The pioneering software engineer who helped send men to the moon recalls her decades of innovation in a newly published video conversation. #NASA #MIT #Apollo11 #programmers #ComputerHistoryMuseum | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Kubernetes at Scale Without GitOps Is a Bad Idea

In this article, we describe the issues and challenges that enterprises face when deploying Kubernetes clusters at scale. We also describe how GitOps processes and tools can allow organizations to gain proper control of these highly distributed environments, while improving secur … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Can Open Source Sustain Itself Without Losing Its Soul?

Open source projects depend on maintainers who largely work for free. Can they get paid without losing the freedom that defines free software communities? #opensource | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Monolithic Development Practices Kill Powerful Kubernetes Benefits (2021)

The granularity that Kubernetes provides (more focused microservices versus larger monolithic applications) allows for faster system evolution. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 2 years ago

Challenges in Modern Kubernetes Testing

We like to think of Testkube turning your cluster into a modern car. Modern cars run diagnostic tests on themselves to show the driver what’s wrong. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

SerenityOS: Building an Operating System from Scratch

Andreas Kling, a Swedish developer, tells the "ReCursive" podcast how an unfinished childhood goal and addiction recovery led him to create a new OS. #programming #developers #OS | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Simple Load Testing with GitHub Actions

In this article, we show how to use GitHub Actions to load-test, benchmark and validate HTTP and gRPC services with service-level objectives (SLOs). When developing a new version of an HTTP or gRPC service, it is desirable to benchmark its performance and to validate that it sati … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago