The Great Unbundling: JAMstack and the Future of the Web

The JAMstack is a philosophy, methodology, and set of tools for building web applications that are faster, more secure, and more scalable than applications built with traditional monolithic web architectures. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Industrialize Machine Learning to Minimize Technical Debt

MLOps is not something you need in the future as you scale – you need it today. Build for speed and agility now, while minimizing the technical debt that will otherwise slow your organization down to a crawl later. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Open Source Communities Need More Safe Spaces and Codes of Conducts

Only 3% of the active open source community is women. A University of Tennessee researcher found that harassment drives female contributors away. She offers ideas for creating more inclusive environments. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

How to Correctly Frame and Calculate Latency SLOs

Log linear histograms are the most efficient way to accurately compute latency Service Level Objectives (SLOs). | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Guido van Rossum’s Ambitious Plans for Improving Python Performance

Soon after joining Microsoft, Guido van Rossum has returned to his roots, hoping to find ways of making Python run faster. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

JFrog ‘Crypto-Signs’ Binaries for Zero-Trust Software Lifecycle Management

JFrog's Crypto-signing is the first commercial use of a blockchain technology by a commercial DevOps build, or CI/CD platform. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

CI vs. CD Explained by Emoji

In this pizza analogy, with continuous integration, developers are chefs in a centralized kitchen, constantly experimenting with new ingredients. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Data Persistence and Storage over Pancakes at KubeCon EU 2021

Dell Technologies experts share pancakes and reflect on the maturity of Kubernetes particularly around data persistence and storage. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Upbound Universal Crossplane Wants to Replace Infrastructure as Code

Upbound, the company that created Crossplane, has created what it says is the first enterprise distribution of Crossplane called Upbound Universal Crossplane (UXP). | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Filebase’s S3-Compatible API Aims to Ease Decentralized Storage

Storj is a decentralized cloud object storage company, offering software for accessing storage more easily through an AWS Simple Storage Severice-like API | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

GitOps-Friendly Spec for Service Level Objectives

Organizations looking to tighten up their ops with some site reliability engineering (SRE) should take a look at the recently-released OpenSLO specification, a GitOps-friendly template for establishing Service Level Objectives (SLO) to specify and even enforce the range of reliab … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Mitre ATT&CK Frameworks Get a Handle on Kubernetes Security Defense

MITRE ATT&CKs are globally accessible knowledge bases of adversary tactics and techniques based on observing real-world attacks. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Linus Torvalds on Why Open Source Solves the Biggest Problems

A wide ranging interview with Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds, from Tag1 co-founder Jeremy Andrews. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Rust by the Numbers: The Rust Programming Language in 2021

A look at Rust, an up-and-coming, memory-safe, systems programming language. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Sysdig Offers a Real-Time Security Look into AWS’ Fargate Serverless Containers

Amazon Web Services’ Fargate is a very popular serverless compute engine for containers. In part that’s because it hides the complexities of how Kubernetes works with both Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). That means Fargate enabl … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Netdata Cloud Can Now Monitor Kubernetes Clusters for Free in Real-Time

Kubernetes Netdata Cloud users can now easily access the platform’s built-in Helm chart to monitor and troubleshoot unlimited numbers of Kubernetes clusters for free in real-time. This data is displayed via the Netdata Cloud web interface. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

The Next Step After DevOps and GitOps Is Cloud Engineering, Pulumi Says

If we going to treat infrastructure as code, shouldn’t infrastructure engineers have access to the same tools that make software engineers productive and even the same languages? That’s the theory behind Pulumi, which has just released version 3 of its open source platform. What … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

San Francisco All-Female Hacker House Aims to Support Women Builders

The inaugural hacker house experience will begin on June 1 when 14 women move into their low-rent quarters in San Francisco's Nob Hill district for two months. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Have Containers Will Travel: Why GitOps Is Essential for Multicloud

GitOps makes multicloud and hybrid cloud feasible when deployment topologies get more complicated. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Software developer tracks down code for beloved 41-year old game

In the late 1970s,when two students graduated from New York's Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute they left behind the interactive text adventure "Castlequest," which remained installed on the school's computer system. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Security Insights into Infrastructure-as-Code

Organizations taking advantage of automated security testing for their IaC definitions are finding and fixing misconfigurations faster. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Governance, Risk and Compliance with Kubernetes

Have you ever woken up at night thinking that you don’t do “enough security”? We interviewed a risk officer to bring some clarity. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

7 Tips for Cutting Down Your AWS Kubernetes Bill

If looking at your AWS Kubernetes bill makes you squirm, here are 7 AWS tips that work whether or not you run your clusters on EKS. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

7 Tips for Cutting Down Your AWS Kubernetes Bill

If looking at your AWS Kubernetes bill makes you squirm, here are 7 AWS tips that work whether or not you run your clusters on EKS. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Project Management for the Next 50M Developers

How will we manage software projects as the number of people working on them swells, and those people all come from such diverse educational and experience backgrounds? | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Okta’s Platform to Outsource Identity Management for Busy Developers

Okta is one trusted platform to secure every identity, from customers to your workforce. More than 10,000 organizations trust Okta’s software and APIs to sign in, authorize, and manage users. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Beyond Block and File: COSI Enables Object Storage in Kubernetes

COSI provides a common layer of abstraction for provisioning and managing the lifecycle of object storage buckets in Kubernetes. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

University of Minnesota Researchers Tried to Poison the Linux Kernel

Researchers from the University of Minnesota submitted intentional faulty code to the Linux kernel in the name of research — and almost got away with it.  | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Compute and Storage Should Be Decoupled for Log Management at Scale

With large-scale deployments, organizations end up using lots of compute, storage and human resources just to manage their indexes, in addition to data itself. When companies are handling terabytes of data every day, the database-backed log management system becomes untenable. Wh … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Developers Are Buzzing on Fuzzing

Find vulnerabilities in your code with fuzzing, a security testing technique generating a lot of attention today. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Not Your Usual Supply Chain Hack: The Codecov Bash Uploader Blunder

Codecov, a tool for uploading environmental data into continuous integration environs, has been compromised. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Project Management for the Next 50M Developers

How will we manage software projects as the number of people working on them swells, and those people all come from such diverse educational and experience backgrounds? | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 3 years ago

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitenancy in Kubernetes

Multitenancy creates an operational monolith. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

AI Trounces Philosophers in Answering Philosophical Questions

Surprisingly, machines held their ground against their human counterparts, with respondents preferring the AI-generated replies over human-generated answers for about half of the queries. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Souped-Up Gopher: Project Gemini’s Plan to Revolutionize Internet Browsing

One project's plan to rethink Internet browsing | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Spreadsheets vs. Low-Code

According to the low code vendor Retool's "The State of Internal Tools in 2021," 40% of people building internal applications use spreadsheets to do so – putting the approach behind custom-built solutions (63%) and ahead of low / no code platforms (33%), business intelligence / v … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Apache Daffodil Tackles Problems of Universal Data Interchange

Daffodil, one of the latest projects to achieve Apache Software Foundation's top-level status, isn’t some flowery new programming language, but an implementation of the Data Format Description Language to convert between fixed-format data and XML/JSON. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Why Disaster Happens at the Edges: An Introduction to Queue Theory

What We Talk about When We Talk about Performance. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Rust (Likely) Headed for Linux Kernel’s Development Branch

This Week in Programming covers all the latest development news for the cloud native computing community. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Stop Talking About Multicloud/Hybrid Cloud and Start Talking About Integration

Multicloud simply means that users are using multiple cloud platforms — it shouldn’t matter where infrastructure runs.  | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

ClickHouse has rapidly rivaled other open source databases in active

Clickhouse is column-oriented and allows for analytics reports to be generated using SQL queries in real-time. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together

For most companies and users, Go is the right default option. Its performance is strong, Go is easy to adopt, and Go’s highly modular nature makes it particularly good for situations where requirements are changing or evolving.As your product matures, and requirements stabilize, … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

An On-Demand Feature Environment Can Drive Efficiency

An on-demand feature environment is one in which ad-hoc features can be tested without any dependencies.  | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Rust vs. Go: Why They’re Better Together

For most companies and users, Go is the right default option. Its performance is strong, Go is easy to adopt, and Go’s highly modular nature makes it particularly good for situations where requirements are changing or evolving.As your product matures, and requirements stabilize, … | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Kubernetes Is Not Just About Containers – It’s About the API

Kubernetes is all about the API and its ability to receive events and to have controllers that listen to those events. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Today’s Site Reliability Engineers Are More Healers Than Fire Fighters

The type of role that best describes the emerging SRE was one of a number of assumptions examined during this lively discussion. The talk described common misperceptions about what SREs really do and how they can best support the organization. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Web Components Are Used at GitHub and Salesforce

Web components aren’t as well documented as React components, but GitHub and Salesforce have both implemented this emerging standard. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago

Shameless Developers: How to Manage Imposter Syndrome Within Your Team

Imposter syndrome: Let’s take a look at some strategies for identifying feelings of shame within your dev team, and mitigating those issues before they start to impact your teams’ performance. | Continue reading


@thenewstack.io | 4 years ago