Go 1.18: The Programming Language’s Biggest Release Yet

Google Cloud has introduced Go 1.18, a new update to the Go programming language that is the most significant release of the language to date – with features that enhance security and developer productivity, and improve performance of Go. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Diary of a First-Time On-Call Engineer

Volunteering for on-call rotation can help the individual and the company. While taking on a new opportunity is exciting, it also comes with nerves. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

What Advice Would Women in Tech Give Their Past Selves?

Two nonprofits dedicated to championing women in tech ask their audience to offer tips to their younger selves. The answers: Don't worry, blaze trails, and don't fear asking questions. #techcareers #womenintech #WomensHistoryMonth #IWouldSay | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Will 2022 Be a Golden Age for Full-Stack JavaScript?

JavaScript has come a long way since its meager beginnings. It now has a position at all levels of the stack, so is it entering a golden age? | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Stack for EV Charging Infrastructure

The Linux Foiundation's EVerest focuses on developing an open source software stack for EV charging infrastructure, so that charging stations can be deployed more easily on a massive scale. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Podcast Explores Mental Health Challenges of Working in Tech

Jeff Meyerson, host of Software Engineering Daily, and Kelsey Hightower, of Google Cloud Platform, shared candid talk on how stress affects people working in IT. #mentalhealth #developers #stress | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Where Does Open Source Fit into Russia’s War with Ukraine?

Open source gateway Scarf has limited access to open source packages for Russian government and military entities, via its gateway. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Kubernetes CRDs: What They Are and Why They Are Useful

The ability to extend the Kubernetes API with custom resource definitions allows you to instruct Kubernetes to manage more than just containers. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Local Environment-as-Code: Is It Possible Yet?

Developers increasingly will be able to reliably configure their environments to suit their needs without spending a week typing commands and editing files. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Using Machine Learning to Actively Secure Cloud Native Apps

It's not enough to simply ward off threats. Tigera's Calico Cloud now uses machine learning to actively find and mitigate vulnerabilities. #security #machinelearning #malware #ransomware | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

The Path to Getting the Full Data Stack on Kubernetes

A lot of great work has been done on persistence in databases and streaming with Kubernetes, while analytics poses the next frontier. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Edgeless Systems Brings Confidential Computing to Kubernetes

Edgeless Systems is bringing a new idea to cloud native computing security: Confidential computing with Constellation, its Kubernetes confidential orchestration platform. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Is Serverless Just a Stopover for Event-Driven Architecture?

Serverless may be a more limited sub-pattern case of a much bigger trend in event-driven architecture. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

In Light of Ukraine: How to Brace Yourself Against Cyberwar

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, our technology, business, and lives are also going to be collateral or direct damage in the ongoing cyberwar. Here's how to brace yourself for the threat. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Nasty Linux Kernel Stack Overflow Flaw Found and Patched

An Appgate senior exploit developer found a nasty linux kernel stack overflow flaw that the company patched. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

JFrog Finds RCE Issue in Apache Cassandra

JFrog’s Security Research team has found a remote code execution (RCE) issue in Apache Cassandra, the popular open source NoSQL database. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Microsoft Brings eBPF to Windows

Although built for Linux, eBPF is finding a second home in Microsoft Windows for networking, observability and security. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Block Protocol seeking adoption from Gutenberg Project (WordPress block editor)

For developers and engineers building and managing new stacks around the world that are built on open source technologies and distributed infrastructures. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Microsoft'S Programming Language Czar Anders Hejlsberg: The Interview

Microsoft's Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg talks with The New Stack about a wide range of topics in a new Q&A. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Security Trouble in Argo Continuous Delivery Program

Cloud native security company Apiiro’s Security Research team uncovered a nasty software supply chain zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2022-24348, in Argo CD, a popular open-source GitOps Continuous Delivery (CD) platform. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Amazon Prime Video’s Engineering Teams Build Resilience

At Chaos Carnival, speakers from the streaming giant revealed how they are using machine learning to help avoid incidents when traffic spikes. #machinelearning #incidentresponse #chaosengineering | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Could Unix Happen Today? Brian Kernighan Looks Back and Forward

Unix pioneer Brian Kernighan discusses the early days of Unix. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Internet Computer: Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Clouds

The Internet Computer is something between a blockchain and a decentralized cloud provider. Ambitiously, it's taking on all of Web 2.0. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Platform Engineering Challenge: Security vs. Dev Experience

As companies grow, one of the challenges is the precarious balancing act between security and usability, or developer experience (DX). | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

StarlingX 6.0, the Edge-Computing Cloud Stack Arrives

The OpenInfra Foundation's open source, edge-computing cloud stack StarlingX's latest version, StarlingX 6.0 is out and ready to run. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

De-Risk a Technology Startup

Here are the problems Cloud Foundry open source technologies had to solve with Kubernetes and the lessons we learned. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

EvilModel: Malware That Hides Undetected Inside Deep Learning Models

Researchers have discovered that it was possible to infect a deep learning model with malware, and have it fool anti-malware detectors, all without significantly affecting the model's performance. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Is NPM a Hotbed of Malware?

WhiteSource, a leading open source security provider, says npm, one of the most widely used JavaScript package managers, is a playground for malicious actors. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

TriggerMesh, Case Study in Open Sourcing Enterprise Software

After many discussions, TriggerMesh decided to go all-in on open source and a business model that complements its open source strategy. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Covid-19 Exposed Data Literacy Readiness

In the era of “flash” news cycles and endless social media content, data is inevitable. It is incumbent upon individuals and organizations to become data literate as quickly as possible. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Building Scalable Apps Using Platform-as-a-Service

To help developers avoid the pitfalls of scaling, we’ll briefly dive into why it’s important, the different methods, and why PaaS is the right tool for the job.  | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

How TypeScript Won over Developers and JavaScript Frameworks

Many of the early adopters of TypeScript were JavaScript framework developers, in particular the teams behind Angular and Dojo. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

TLA+: The Best Debugger/ Optimizer You’ve Never Heard Of

In 2012, when launched DynamoDB as a commercial service, it arrived with an extra assurance for reliability. The replication and fault tolerance mechanisms for the distributed database system went the usual gauntlet of design and code reviews, extensive testing and was examined i … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Is Open Source Free If We Aren’t Allowed to Break It?

The author of two popular open source libraries intentionally corrupted them, causing a debate in the programming community. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Find Annoying Secrets in Your AWS Java and Python Programs

Amazon CodeGuru is an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) developer tool. Its core job is to improve code quality and identify a program's most expensive lines of code. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

From YAML Engineer to YAML Herder

If you are looking to improve your cloud native OpX, give Monokle a try. It will make you a happier YAML engineer. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Vercel and Svelte: A Perfect Match for Web Developers

Rich Harris, creator of the popular Svelte front end compiler for building fast web applications, joined Vercel to work fulltime on the project.. Harris and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch speak to the project's continued independence despite its move under Vercel. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Amazon's AWS Werner Vogel’s 6 Rules for Good API Design

AWS Chief Technology Officer Werner Vogels' 6 rules for good API design | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Amazon CloudWatch Gets Feature Flags, User-Based Monitoring

At AWS re:Invent, AWS revealed a number of new features for its CloudWatch application monitoring platform, including feature flags, A/B testing and real user monitoring. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

The Growing Complexity of Kubernetes – and What’s Being Done to Fix It

In a KubeCon + CloudNativeCon presentation this week, IBM Cloud’s Doug Davis asked: what happened to the promise of cloud computing? In a word: complexity. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Install and Configure MinIO as a Model Registry on RKE2

This tutorial is the latest part of a series where we build an end-to-end stack to perform machine learning inference at the edge, built on the SUSE Rancher RK2 Kubernetes distribution. It builds on the our earlier instruction, which focused on deploying the NVIDIA GPU operator. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Bill Gates Predicts the Future in a Rediscovered Microsoft Video from 1994

A corporate Microsoft video resurfaced from 1994 shows how radically the world has changed in the past three decades. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Migrating

Only 30 percent of digital transformations are successful. Here's how to make yours successful. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Google Introduces ClusterFuzzLite Security Tool for CI/CD

Google has released ClusterFuzzLite, which enables users to run continuous fuzzing on their Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

How to Negotiate the Tech Salary You Deserve

Most tech workers either think they're underpaid, or don't know if they are, according to recent data. Here's how to get paid what you're worth. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Bringing Kubernetes to Object Storage with MinIO

How to install Minio.IO object storage on a Kubernetes cluster. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Microsoft Goes Deep on Java with JCP Membership

Microsoft expanded its commitment to Java by joining the Java Community Process, the governing body that oversees the maintenance and future of the Java platform. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Operation GTFO: an evacuation mission using open source software

Quickly and safely aggregate geolocation data for location density analysis using a hexagonal grid system. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago