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Discover how large language models and generative AI are revolutionizing DevOps with PromptOps. The company, initially known as CtrlStack, introduces its unique process engine that comprehends human requests, reads knowledge bases, and generates code on the fly to accomplish tasks. Dev Nag, the CEO, explains how PromptOps saves users time and money by automating routine operations in  this podcast episode with The New Stack.Dev Nag is joined by GK Brar, PromptOps' founding engineer, and our host Joab Jackson as they delve into the concept of generative AI and its potential benefits for DevOps. Traditionally, DevOps tasks often involve repetitive troubleshooting and reporting, making automation essential. PromptOps specializes in intent matching, understanding nuanced requests and providing the right solutions.Notably, PromptOps employs generative AI offline to prepare for automating common actions and enhancing the user experience. Unlike others, PromptOps aims beyond simple enhancements. It aspires to transform the entire DevOps landscape by leveraging this groundbreaking technology.Tune in to the podcast to gain deeper insights into this transformative approach that PromptOps brings to DevOps thanks to the power and possibilities of generative AI.Learn more from The New Stack about DevOps and PromptOps:DevOps News, Trends, Analysis and ResourcesHow to Use ChatGPT for IT Security AuditWhat We Learned from Building a Chatbot

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 kicked off a deeper review by CircleCI's security team with GitHub, and they rotated all GitHub OAuth tokens on behalf of their customers. On January 4, the company also made the difficult but necessary decision to alert customers of this “security instance,” asking them to immediately rotate any and all stored secrets and review internal logs for any unauthorized access.In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we discuss with Zuber the attack and how CircleCI responded. We also talk about what other companies should do to avoid the same situation, and what to do should it happen again. 

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 embedding the generative AI in its Bing Search service, and Google is building a rival offering. So what are smaller businesses to do to ensure their messages are heard to these machine learning giants? For this latest podcast from The New Stack, we discussed these issues with Ryan Johnston, chief marketing officer for Writer. Writer has enjoyed an early success in generative AI technologies. The company's service is dedicated to a single mission: making sure its customers' content adheres to the guidelines set in place. This can include features such as ensuring the language in the copy matches the company's own designated terminology, or making sure that a piece of content covers all the required topic points, or even that a press release has quotes that are not out of scope with the project mission itself. In short, the service promises "consistently on-brand content at scale," Johnston said. "It's not taking away my creativity. But it is doing a great job of figuring out how to create content for me at a faster pace, [content] that actually sounds like what I want it to sound like." For our conversation, we first delved into how the company was started, its value proposition ("what is it used for?") and what role that AI plays in the company's offering. We also delve a bit into the technology stack Writer deploys to offer these services, as well as what material the Writer may require from their customers themselves to make the service work. For the second part of our conversation, we turn our attention to how other companies (that are not search giants) can get their message across in the land of large language models, and maybe even find a few new sources of AI-generated value along the way. And, for those public-facing businesses dealing with Google and Bing, we chat about how they should they refine their own search engine optimization (SEO) strategies to be best represented in these large models? One point to consider: While AI can generate a lot of pretty convincing text, you still need a human in the loop to oversee the results, Johnston advised. "We are augmenting content teams copywriters to do what they do best, just even better. So we're scaling the mundane parts of the process that you may not love. We are helping you get a first draft on paper when you've got writer's block," Johnston said. "But at the end of the day, our belief is there needs to be a great writer in the driver's seat. [You] should never just be fully reliant on AI to produce things that you're going to immediately take to market."

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 the more quickly you can make a decision, using the right data, the more quickly one can take action. Although we have many "batch-processing" systems, the data itself rarely comes in batches, Devgan said. "A lot of times I hear from customers that are using a batch system, because those are the things which are available at that time. But data is created in real time sensors, your machines, espionage data, or even customer data — right when customers are transacting with you." What is a Real Time Data Processing Engine? A real time data processing engine can analyze data as it is coming in from the source. This is different from traditional approaches that store the data first, then analyze it later. Bank loans may is example of this approach. With a real time data processing engine in place, a bank can offer a loan to a customer using an automated teller machine (ATM) in real time, Devgan suggested.  "As the data comes in, you can actually take action based on context of the data," he argued. Such a loan app may combine real-time data from the customer alongside historical data stored in a traditional database. Hazelcast can combine historical data with real time data to make workloads like this possible. In this interview, we also debated the merits of Kafka, the benefits of using a managed service rather than running an application in house, Hazelcast's users, and features in the latest release of the Hazelcast platform.        

In this latest podcast from The New Stack, we spoke with Ricardo Torres, who is the chief engineer of open source and cloud native for aerospace giant Boeing. Torres also joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in May to serve as a board member. In this interview, recorded at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon last month, Torres speaks about Boeing's use of open source software, as well as its adoption of cloud native technologies. While we may think of Boeing as an airplane manufacturer, it would be more accurate to think of the company as a large-scale system integrator, one that uses a lot of software. So, like other large-scale companies, Boeing sees a distinct advantage in maintaining good relations with the open source community. "Being able to leverage the best technologists out there in the rest of the world is of great value to us strategically," Torres said. This strategy allows Boeing to "differentiate on what we do as our core business rather than having to reinvent the wheel all the time on all of the technology." Like many other large companies, Boeing has created an open source office to better work with the open source community. Although Boeing is primarily a consumer of open source software, it still wants to work with the community. "We want to make sure that we have a strategy around how we contribute back to the open source community, and then leverage those learnings for inner sourcing," he said. Boeing also manages how it uses open source internally, keeping tight controls on the supply chain of open source software it uses. "As part of the software engineering organization, we partner with our internal IT organization, to look at our internet traffic and assure nobody's going out and downloading directly from an untrusted repository or registry. And then we host instead, we have approved sources internally." It's not surprising that Boeing, which deals with a lot of government agencies, embraces the practice of using software bills of material (SBOMs), which provide a full listing of what components are being used in a software system. In fact, the company has been working to extend the comprehensiveness of SBOMs, according to Torres. " I think one of the interesting things now is the automation," he said of SBOMs. "And so we're always looking to beef up the heuristics because a lot of the tools are relatively naïve, and that they trust that the dependencies that are specified are actually representative of everything that's delivered. And that's not good enough for a company like Boeing. We have to be absolutely certain that what's there is exactly what did we expected to be there."Cloud Native ComputingWhile Boeing builds many systems that reside in private data centers, the company is also increasingly relying on the cloud as well. Earlier this year, Boeing had signed agreements with the three largest cloud service providers (CSPs): Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform. "A lot of our cloud presence is about our development environments. And so, you know, we have cloud-based software factories that are using a number of CNCF and CNCF-adjacent technologies to enable our developers to move fast," Torres said.

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services manages the largest number of Kubernetes clusters in the world, according to the company.  In this podcast recording, AWS Senior Engineer Jay Pipes discusses AWS' use of Kubernetes, as well as the company's contribution to the Kubernetes code base. The interview was recorded at KubeCon North America last month.The Difference Between Kubernetes and AWSKubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform. AWS is one of the largest providers of cloud services. In 2021, the company generated $61.1 billion in revenue, worldwide. AWS provides a commercial Kubernetes service, called the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). It simplifies the Kubernetes experience by adding a control plane and worker nodes. In addition to providing a commercial Kubernetes service, AWS supports the development of Kubernetes, by dedicating engineers to the work on the open source project. "It's a responsibility of all of the engineers in the service team to be aware of what's going on and the upstream community to be contributing to that upstream community, and making it succeed," Pipes said. "If the upstream open source projects upon which we depend are suffering or not doing well, then our service is not going to do well. And by the same token, if we can help that upstream project or project to be successful, that means our service is going to be more successful."What is Kubernetes in AWS?In addition to EKS, AWS has also a number of other tools to help Kubernetes users. One is Karpenter, an open-source, flexible, high-performance Kubernetes cluster autoscaler built with AWS. Karpenter provides more fine-grained scaling capabilities, compared to Kubernetes' built-in Cluster Autoscaler, Pipes said. Instead of using Cluster Autoscaler, Karpenter deploys AWS' own Fleet API, which offers superior scheduling capabilities. Another tool for Kubernetes users is cdk8s, which is an open-source software development framework for defining Kubernetes applications and reusable abstractions using familiar programming languages and rich object-oriented APIs. It is similar to the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), which helps users deploy applications using AWS CloudFormation, but instead of the output being a CloudFormation template, the output is a YAML manifest that can be understood by Kubernetes.AWS and KubernetesIn addition to providing open source development help to Kubernetes, AWS has offered to help defray the considerable expenses of hosting the Kubernetes development and deployment process. Currently, the Kubernetes upstream build process is hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, and artifact registry is hosted in Google's container registry, and totals about 1.5TB worth of storage. Each month, AWS alone was paying $90-$100,000 a month for egress costs, just to have the Kubernetes code on an AWS-hosted infrastructure, Pipes said. AWS has been working on a mirror of the Kubernetes assets that would reside on the company's own cloud servers, thereby eliminating the Google egress costs typically borne by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "By doing that we completely eliminate the egress costs out of Google data centers and into AWS data centers," Pipes said.

Organizations are now, almost by default, now becoming multi-cloud operations. No cloud service offers the full breadth of what an enterprise may need, and enterprises themselves find themselves using more than one service, often inadvertently. HashiCorp is one company preparing enterprises for the challenges with managing more than a single cloud, through the use of a coherent set of software tools. To learn more, we spoke with  Megan Laflamme, HashiCorp director of product marketing, at the HashiConf user conference, for this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. We talked about zero trust computing, the importance identity and the general availability of HashiCorp Boundary single sign-on tool. "In the cloud operating model, the [security] perimeter is no longer static, and you move to a much more dynamic infrastructure environment," she explained.What is the HashiCorp Cloud Platform?The HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) is a fully-managed platform offering HashiCorp software including Consul, Vault, and other services, all connected through HashiCorp Virtual Networks (HVN). Through a web portal or by Terraform, HCP can manage log-ins, access control, and billing across multiple cloud assets. The HashiCorp Cloud Platform now offers the ability to do single sign-on, reducing a lot of the headache of signing into multiple applications and services.What is HashiCorp Boundary?Boundary is the client that enables this “secure remote access” and is now generally available to users of the platform. It is a remote access client that manages fine-grained authorizations through trusted identities. It provides the session connection, establishment, and credential issuance and revocation. "With Boundary, we enable a much more streamlined workflow for permitting access to critical infrastructure where we have integrations with cloud providers or service registries," Laflamme said. The HCP Boundary is a fully managed version of HashiCorp Boundary that is run on the HashiCorp Cloud. With Boundary, the user signs on once, and everything else is handled beneath the floorboards, so to speak. Identities for applications, networks, and people are handled through HashiCorp Vault and HashiCorp Consul. Every action is authorized and documented. Boundary authenticates and authorizes users, by drawing on existing identity providers (IDPs) such as Okta, Azure Active Directory, and GitHub. Consul authenticates and authorizes access between applications and services. This way, networks aren't exposed, and there is no need to issue and distribute credentials. Dynamic credential injection for user sessions is done with HashiCorp Vault, which injects single-use credentials for passwordless authentication to the remote host.What is Zero Trust Security?With zero trust security, users are authenticated at the service level, rather than through a centralized firewall, which becomes increasingly infeasible in multicloud designs. In the industry, there is a shift “from high trust IP based authorization in the more static data centers and infrastructure, to the cloud, to a low trust model where everything is predicated on identity,” Laflamme explained. This approach does require users to sign on to each individual service, in some form, which can be a headache to those (i.e. developers and system engineers) who sign on to a lot of apps in their daily routine.  

What is Terraform?Terraform is HashiCorp's flagship software. The open source tool provides a way to define IT resources — such as monitoring software or cloud services — in human-readable configuration files. These files, which serve as blueprints, can then be used to automatically provision the systems themselves. Kubernetes deployments, for instance, can be streamlined through Terraform. "Terraform basically translates what your configuration was codified in by your configuration, and provisions it to that desired end state," explained Meghan Liese, [sponsor_inline_mention slug="hashicorp" ]HashiCorp[/sponsor_inline_mention] vice president of product and partner marketing in this podcast and video recording, recorded at the company's user conference, HashiConf 2022, held this month in Los Angeles. For this interview, Liese discusses the latest enhancements to Terraform, and Terraform Cloud, a managed service offering that is part of the HashiCorp Cloud Platform. [Embed Podcast]Why Should Developers be Interested in Terraform?Typically, the DevOps teams, or system administrators, use Terraform to provision infrastructure, but there is also growing interest to allow developers to do it themselves, in a self-service fashion, Liese explained. Multicloud skills are in short supply, concluded the 2022 HashiCorp State of Cloud Strategy Survey, so making the provision process easier could help more developers, the company reckons. A Terraform self-service model, which was introduced earlier this year, could “cut down on the training an organization would need to do to get developers up to speed on using the infrastructure-as-code software,” Liese said. In this “no code” setup, developers can pick from a catalog of no-code-ready modules, which can be deployed directly to workspaces. No need to learn the HCL configuration language. And the administrators will no longer have to answer the same “how-do-I-do-this-in-HCL?” queries. The new console interface aims to greatly expand the use of Terraform.  The company has been offering self-service options for a while, by way of an architecture that allows for modules to be reused through the private registry for Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise.What is the Make Code Block and Why is it Important?The recent release of Terraform 1.3 came with the promise to greatly reduce the amount of code HCL jockeys must manage, through the improvement of the make code block. Actually, make has been available since Terraform 1.1, but some kinks were worked out for this latest release. What make does is provide the ability to refactor resources within a Terraform configuration file, moving large code blocks off as separate modules, where they can be discovered through a public or private registry.What is Continuous Validation?With the known state of a system captured on Terraform, it is a short step to check to ensure that the actual running system is identical to the desired state captured in HCL. Many times “drift” can occur, as administrators, or even the apps themselves, make changes to the system. Especially in regulated environments, such as hospitals, it is essential that a system is in a correct state. Earlier this year, HashiCorp added Drift Detection to Terraform Cloud to continuously check infrastructure state to detect changes and provide alerts and offer remediation if that option is chosen. Now, another update, Continuous validation expands these checks to include user assertions, or post-conditions, as well. One post-condition may be something like ensuring that certificates haven't expired. If they do, the software can offer an alert to the admin to update the certs. Another condition might be to check for new container images, which may have been updated as a response to a security patch.    

Low-code and no-code is becoming increasingly popular in software development, particularly in enterprises that are looking to expand the number of people who can create applications for digital transformation efforts. While in 2020, less than 25% of new apps were developed using no code/low code, Gartner predicts that by 2025, 70% will utilize this means. Microsoft is one vendor who has been paving the way in this shift by reducing the burden on those in the lines of business and developers in exchange for speed. But what are the potential and best practices for low code/no code software development? In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Charles Lamanna, Corporate Vice President, Business Apps and Platform at Microsoft discusses what the company is doing in the low-code/no code space with its Power Platform offering, including bringing no code/low-code professionals together to deliver applications. Joab Jackson, Editor-in-Chief of The New Stack and Darryl Taft, News Editor of The New Stack hosted this podcast. 

Developers are often faced with complexity when building and operating long-running processes that involve multiple service calls and require continuous coordination. To solve this challenge, Uber built and introduced Cadence, the open-source solution for workflow orchestration in 2016 that enables developers to directly express complex, long-running business logic as simple code. Since its debut, it continues to find increased traction with developers operating large-scale, microservices-based architectures. More recently, Instaclustr announced support for a hosted version of Cadence.In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Ben Slater, Chief Product Officer at Instaclustr and Emrah Seker, Staff Software Engineer at Uber discuss Cadence, and how it is used by developers to solve various business problems by enabling them to focus on writing code for business logic, without worrying about the complexity of distributed systems.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack hosted this podcast, along with co-host Joab Jackson, Editor-in-Chief of The New Stack.

While Java continues to be the most widely used programming language in the enterprise, how is it faring the emerging cloud native ecosystem? Quite well, observed a panel of Oracle engineers who work the language. In fact, they estimate that they there are more than 50 million Java virtual machines running concurrently in the cloud at present.In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we discussed the current state of Java with Georges Saab, who is Oracle's vice president of software development, for the Java Platform Group; Donald Smith, Oracle senior director of product management; and Sharat Chander, Oracle senior director of product management. TNS editors Darryl Taft and Joab Jackson hosted the conversation.

Cloud-native applications provide an advantage in terms of their scalability and velocity. Yet, despite their resiliency, the complexity of these systems has grown as the number of application components continue to increase. Understanding how these components fit together has stretched beyond what can be easily digested, further challenging the ability for organizations to prepare for technical issues that may arise from the system complexities.Last month, ChaosNative hosted its second annual engineering event, Chaos Carnival where we discussed the principles of chaos engineering and using them to optimize cloud applications in today's complex IT systems.The panelists for this discussion:Karthik Satchitanand, Co-founder and Open-Source Lead, ChaosNativeRamya Ramalinga Moorthy, Industrialization Head - Reliability & Resilience Engineering, LTI – Larsen & Toubro InfotechCharlotte Mach, Engineering Manager, Container SolutionsNora Jones, Founder and CEO, JeliIn this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack served as the moderator, with the help of Joab Jackson, editor-in-chief of The New Stack.

If there is a secret to the success of TypeScript, it is in the type checking, ensuring that the data flowing through the program is of the correct kind of data. Type checking cuts down on errors, sets the stage for better tooling, and allows developers to map their programs at a higher level. And TypeScript itself, a statically-typed superset of JavaScript, ensures that an army of JavaScript programmers can easily enjoy these advanced programming benefits with a minimal learning curve.In this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with a few of TypeScript's designers and maintainers to learn a bit more about the design of the language: Ryan Cavanaugh, a principal software engineering manager for Microsoft; Luke Hoban, chief technology officer for Pulumi, who was one of original creators of TypeScript, and; Daniel Rosenwasser, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft. TNS editors Darryl Taft and Joab Jackson hosted the discussion.

Software deployments increasingly involve highly distributed and decentralized application development processes for deployments across any combination of data centers, public cloud and to the edge. All the while, reliability, security or performance cannot be compromised.In this The New Stack Makers podcast, a panel of technology executives discussed the best ways to speed up business innovation in today's multicloud and multi-infrastructure world. They also discussed how to deliver apps and services faster to improve the customer experience — over a pancake breakfast during VMworld, VMware's annual user's conference.The guests were Dormain Drewitz, senior director of product marketing for VMware Tanzu, Mandy Storbakken, cloud technologist for VMware, Shawn Bass, CTO for VMware's end-user computing business, and Jo Peterson, vice president cloud and security services, Clarify360.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, and Joab Jackson, TNS editor-in-chief, hosted the podcast.

It's that time of the year again, when we gather to discuss all matters related to Kubernetes and the other assorted tooling necessary to make cloud native computing happen.KubeCon+CloudNativeCon will be held in Los Angeles next month, October 11 -15.A key difference at this year's event — the first onsite event from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since the beginning of the pandemic — is that the flagship cloud native conference will offer a much more significant virtual experience for those unable to travel to the venue in L.A..The virtual aspect of this year's KubeCon+CloudNativeCon “is expected to continue indefinitely,” Priyanka Sharma, general manager, CNCF said in this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast. Sharma was joined by conference co-chair Jasmine James, who is the Twitter developer experience lead and manager for engineering effectiveness. They discussed this year's schedule and agenda, how it will all compare to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon of years past and general cloud native trends. TNS Editor-In-Chief, Joab Jackson, hosted this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Database giant Oracle added a container native CI/CD platform to its cloud portfolio when it purchased Wercker in 2017. Since the acquisition, Wercker founder, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, started Fiberplane, for which he is the CEO. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, van Leuffen discusses the different aspects of the development of the Wercker and how that has parlayed into his work at Fiberplane, which offers collaborative notebooks for resolving incidents. Alana Anderson, founder and managing partner, base case capital, offered input from an investment capital firm perspective  as well.Alex Williams, founder and publisher, and Joab Jackson, editor-in-chief, both of The New Stack, hosted the podcast.

Many organizations are finding that shifting to cloud native environments has become easier than it was in the past. However, the complexities and ensuing challenges can still surmount once at-scale deployments begin.In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by TNS' Alex Williams, founder and publisher, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, application-deployment standards are the discussion of the day. The featured guests are Bruno Andrade, founder, Shipa, a provider of frameworks for Kubernetes; and Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO, Upbound, which offers a universal control plane for multi-cluster management. 

When it comes to at-scale software development, is continuous delivery and release automation (CDRA) the next step in the evolution of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)?Forrester Research thinks so. The analysis firm describes CDRA as a way for organizations to deliver better-quality software faster and more securely, by automating digital pipelines and improving end-to-end management and visibility.In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast,  Anders Wallgren, CloudBees vice president of technology strategy, discusses CDRA, supporting tools and the goals and challenges DevOps teams have when delivering software today. CI/CD systems provider CloudBees was named a leading CDRA vendor in the report "The Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery And Release Automation, Q2 2020."The episode was hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and co-hosted by Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor.

The adoption of GitOps, improvements to APIs and the increasing reach of virtual machine language WebAssembly (Wasm) are influencing the developer experience, and ultimately, how DevOps teams reach their application-deployment and -management goals. These were among the more talked-about themes at Cloud Native Computing Foundation KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EUPutting it all into context, Alex Williams, founder and publisher, and Joab Jackson, managing editor, of The New Stack, are the hosts of this The New Stack Makers podcast. The featured guests are Bryan Liles, principal engineer, VMware and Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem, CNCF.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Joab Jackson, managing editor for The New Stack, we speak two of the fabled conference's key organizers about what to expect and what the organizers' goals are: Priyanka Sharma, general manager for CNCF and Stephen Augustus, engineering director and head of open source at Cisco. This is no business-as-usual KubeCon conference, of course. Last year's KubeCon EU was cancelled just a few weeks before the event was scheduled to take place. Then, many question marks remained during the early days of the pandemic about not only the future of conferences but how workers in the IT industry would continue to live and work. As it turns out, this year's event is virtual, of course, and at the very least, there is no shortage of talks and events. All told, for KubeCon, experts from organizations including Adobe, Apple, CERN, Nvidia and OVHcloud will deliver more than 100 sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and breakout sessions. There will also be more than 60 sessions hosted by project maintainers – spanning beginner-level introductions, end-user case studies and technical deep dives.

On the last The New Stack Analysts of the year, the gang got together — remotely, obviously — to reflect on this year. And oh what a year! But for a year in tech, 2020 still had a lot of hits — and some misses. Publisher Alex Williams was joined by Libby Clark, Joab Jackson, Bruce Gain, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, and Jennifer Riggins. We looked back on the year that saw millions die, no one fly, and a lot of jobs in turmoil. It was also a year that, while many things screeched to a halt, much of the tech industry had to keep going more than ever.

On the last The New Stack Analysts of the year, the gang got together — remotely, obviously — to reflect on this year. And oh what a year! But for a year in tech, 2020 still had a lot of hits — and some misses. Publisher Alex Williams was joined by Libby Clark, Joab Jackson, Bruce Gain, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, and Jennifer Riggins. We looked back on the year that saw millions die, no one fly, and a lot of jobs in turmoil. It was also a year that, while many things screeched to a halt, much of the tech industry had to keep going more than ever.

Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast. Identity and access management (IAM) was previously relatively straightforward. Often delegated as a low-level management task to the local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) admin, the process of setting permissions for tiered data access was definitely not one of the more challenging security-related duties. However, in today's highly distributed and relatively complex computing environments, network and associated IAM are exponentially more complex. As application creation and deployment become more distributed, often among multicloud containerized environments, the resulting dependencies, as well as vulnerabilities, continue to proliferate as well, thus widening the scope of potential attack surfaces. How to manage IAM in this context was the main topic of this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendees joined TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams and guests live for the latest “Virtual Pancake & Podcast.” They discussed why IAM has become even more difficult to manage than in the past and offered their perspectives about potential solutions. They also showed how enjoying pancakes — or other variations of breakfast — can make IAM challenges more manageable. The event featured Lin Sun, senior technical staff member and Master Inventor, Istio/IBM; Joab Jackson, managing editor, The New Stack and Nathaniel “Q” Quist, senior threat researcher (Public Cloud Security – Unit 42), Palo Alto Networks. Jackson noted how the evolution of IAM has not been conducive to handling the needs of present-day distributed computing. Previously, it was “not exactly a security thing” nor a “developer problem,” and wasn't even “a security problem, he said. “[IAM] really almost was a network problem: if a certain individual or a certain process wants to access another process or a resource online, then you have to have the permissions in place to meet all the policy requirements about who can ask for these particular resources,” Jackson said. “And this is an entirely new problem with distributed computing on a massive and widespread scale…it's almost a mindset, number one, about who can figure out what to do and then how to go about doing it.”

Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast. Identity and access management (IAM) was previously relatively straightforward. Often delegated as a low-level management task to the local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) admin, the process of setting permissions for tiered data access was definitely not one of the more challenging security-related duties. However, in today's highly distributed and relatively complex computing environments, network and associated IAM are exponentially more complex. As application creation and deployment become more distributed, often among multicloud containerized environments, the resulting dependencies, as well as vulnerabilities, continue to proliferate as well, thus widening the scope of potential attack surfaces. How to manage IAM in this context was the main topic of this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendees joined TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams and guests live for the latest “Virtual Pancake & Podcast.” They discussed why IAM has become even more difficult to manage than in the past and offered their perspectives about potential solutions. They also showed how enjoying pancakes — or other variations of breakfast — can make IAM challenges more manageable. The event featured Lin Sun, senior technical staff member and Master Inventor, Istio/IBM; Joab Jackson, managing editor, The New Stack and Nathaniel “Q” Quist, senior threat researcher (Public Cloud Security – Unit 42), Palo Alto Networks. Jackson noted how the evolution of IAM has not been conducive to handling the needs of present-day distributed computing. Previously, it was “not exactly a security thing” nor a “developer problem,” and wasn't even “a security problem, he said. “[IAM] really almost was a network problem: if a certain individual or a certain process wants to access another process or a resource online, then you have to have the permissions in place to meet all the policy requirements about who can ask for these particular resources,” Jackson said. “And this is an entirely new problem with distributed computing on a massive and widespread scale…it's almost a mindset, number one, about who can figure out what to do and then how to go about doing it.”

For this week's episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we ask Levine about the excitement around WebAssembly, its use in the Envoy proxy, and Solo.io's new proposal for packaging WASM modules in the Open Container Initiative format. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosts this episode, with the help of TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Although WebAssembly was created for bringing advanced programming to the browser, Solo.io's founder/CEO Idit Levine has been a vocal proponent of using the portable fast open source runtime to extend service meshes — citing Solo.io's own work in offering tools and services to support commercial service mesh operations. In fact, WASM, as its also known, could be used to bring extensibility across a wide variety of cloud native projects, she argues.

For this week's episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we ask Levine about the excitement around WebAssembly, its use in the Envoy proxy, and Solo.io's new proposal for packaging WASM modules in the Open Container Initiative format. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosts this episode, with the help of TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Although WebAssembly was created for bringing advanced programming to the browser, Solo.io's founder/CEO Idit Levine has been a vocal proponent of using the portable fast open source runtime to extend service meshes — citing Solo.io's own work in offering tools and services to support commercial service mesh operations. In fact, WASM, as its also known, could be used to bring extensibility across a wide variety of cloud native projects, she argues.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Pratik Wadher, vice president of product development at Intuit, to discuss the company's experience as a Kubernetes end user, as well as its involvement in the Argo Flux project — a single toolchain for continuous deployment and automated workflows using GitOps. We also share our experiences of attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020, held this week “virtually.” The New Stack editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS Publisher Alex Williams, TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Pratik Wadher, vice president of product development at Intuit, to discuss the company's experience as a Kubernetes end user, as well as its involvement in the Argo Flux project — a single toolchain for continuous deployment and automated workflows using GitOps. We also share our experiences of attending KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2020, held this week “virtually.” The New Stack editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS Publisher Alex Williams, TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

The New Stack has just released an updated eBook on Kubernetes, “The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem,” and so this week on The New Stack Context podcast, we've invited TNS analyst Lawrence Hecht to discuss some of the analysis he did for this volume. We covered Kubernetes adoption in the cloud, storage and networking concerns and the changing DevOps culture around cloud native computing. At the end of the podcast, we also discuss what to expect from next week's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe virtual conference. The New Stack Senior Editor Richard MacManus hosted this episode, with the help of Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, and Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack.

The New Stack has just released an updated eBook on Kubernetes, “The State of the Kubernetes Ecosystem,” and so this week on The New Stack Context podcast, we've invited TNS analyst Lawrence Hecht to discuss some of the analysis he did for this volume. We covered Kubernetes adoption in the cloud, storage and networking concerns and the changing DevOps culture around cloud native computing. At the end of the podcast, we also discuss what to expect from next week's KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe virtual conference. The New Stack Senior Editor Richard MacManus hosted this episode, with the help of Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, and Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Denise Gosnell, chief data officer at Datastax, who is a co-author of the O'Reilly book “A Practitioner's Guide to Graph Data.” She also graciously wrote a post for us explaining why graph databases are gaining traction in the enterprise. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Graph database systems differ from the standard relational (SQL) kind in that they are engineered to more easily capture the relations across different entities. “When you're looking at your databases, graph databases allow you to model your data more efficiently by using relationships,” Gosnell said. You could capture that relationship information through a series of database joins of separate tables, but eventually, the complexity of this approach would make it prohibitive. “When you look at the full end-to-end complexity for using it in an application or maintaining your code, or updating edges, graph databases are going to make that a lot easier for the full lifecycle and maintenance of that application,” she said.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Denise Gosnell, chief data officer at Datastax, who is a co-author of the O'Reilly book “A Practitioner's Guide to Graph Data.” She also graciously wrote a post for us explaining why graph databases are gaining traction in the enterprise. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Graph database systems differ from the standard relational (SQL) kind in that they are engineered to more easily capture the relations across different entities. “When you're looking at your databases, graph databases allow you to model your data more efficiently by using relationships,” Gosnell said. You could capture that relationship information through a series of database joins of separate tables, but eventually, the complexity of this approach would make it prohibitive. “When you look at the full end-to-end complexity for using it in an application or maintaining your code, or updating edges, graph databases are going to make that a lot easier for the full lifecycle and maintenance of that application,” she said.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Chris DiBona, director of open source at Google, about Google's launch of the Open Usage Commons, an independent company to help open source projects better manage their trademarks. In a blog post, DiBona notes that trademarks sit at the juncture of the rule-of-law and the philosophy of open source. So for this episode, we wanted to find out more about how they interact and how Google is attempting to improve the management of trademarks in an open source way. We also wanted to address the rumors that this organization was created to manage Google's Istio open source service mesh in lieu of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DiBona's answer: no). TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Chris DiBona, director of open source at Google, about Google's launch of the Open Usage Commons, an independent company to help open source projects better manage their trademarks. In a blog post, DiBona notes that trademarks sit at the juncture of the rule-of-law and the philosophy of open source. So for this episode, we wanted to find out more about how they interact and how Google is attempting to improve the management of trademarks in an open source way. We also wanted to address the rumors that this organization was created to manage Google's Istio open source service mesh in lieu of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (DiBona's answer: no). TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb.io, the observability platform vendor, about the company's pricing changes brought on by COVID-19 and more broadly how observability practices and tools are changing as more companies make the move to the cloud. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Honeycomb this week changed its pricing structure to reflect the cost realities for businesses and the long term effect of COVID-19. The company also recently released the results of a survey that shows half of the developers surveyed aren't using observability currently, but 75% plan to do so in the next two years. And in April the company released an open source collector for OpenTracing that allows teams to import telemetry data from open source projects into any observability platform, including their own but also their competitors. Yen said of the pricing changes: Our old pricing was, you bought a certain amount of storage and gigabytes and paid for a certain amount of data ingest, also in gigabytes, over a period of time. We felt like that was a little bit harder for people to map to their existing workflows, harder for them to predict. So we shifted to an events-per-month ingest model, one axis, one way to scale your usage.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb.io, the observability platform vendor, about the company's pricing changes brought on by COVID-19 and more broadly how observability practices and tools are changing as more companies make the move to the cloud. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Honeycomb this week changed its pricing structure to reflect the cost realities for businesses and the long term effect of COVID-19. The company also recently released the results of a survey that shows half of the developers surveyed aren't using observability currently, but 75% plan to do so in the next two years. And in April the company released an open source collector for OpenTracing that allows teams to import telemetry data from open source projects into any observability platform, including their own but also their competitors. Yen said of the pricing changes: Our old pricing was, you bought a certain amount of storage and gigabytes and paid for a certain amount of data ingest, also in gigabytes, over a period of time. We felt like that was a little bit harder for people to map to their existing workflows, harder for them to predict. So we shifted to an events-per-month ingest model, one axis, one way to scale your usage.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Peter Zaitsev, CEO of the open source database software and services company Percona,. This week, Percona held its own virtual 24 hour virtual conference, Percona Live Online, where open source, databases and cloud native computing were all discussed. So we grilled Zaitsev about how traditional SQL databases operate in a cloud native world, as well as about Percona's newly announced performance and optimization package for MongoDB. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Peter Zaitsev, CEO of the open source database software and services company Percona,. This week, Percona held its own virtual 24 hour virtual conference, Percona Live Online, where open source, databases and cloud native computing were all discussed. So we grilled Zaitsev about how traditional SQL databases operate in a cloud native world, as well as about Percona's newly announced performance and optimization package for MongoDB. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Tina Nolte, vice president of product, for Kubernetes management service Spectro Cloud, about why we shouldn't think of containers/Kubernetes as just another form of virtualization. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Nolte recently wrote a popular post for us on why we shouldn't think of containers and Kubernetes as just another form of virtualization — that it opens up a whole new way to think about application development and deployment. So we wanted to find out more about this concept. “Kubernetes is really about that middle area between infrastructure and application. So the applications themselves are enabled to be differently architected because of that operational PaaS layer if you will,” she explained. “It's not just a lift-and-shift of old apps into new infrastructure.” Focusing too much on the infrastructure side of Kubernetes ultimately misses its true value, an insight Nolte gleaned, in part, from working for a well-regarded OpenStack-based start-up, Nebula, that ultimately shuttered.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Tina Nolte, vice president of product, for Kubernetes management service Spectro Cloud, about why we shouldn't think of containers/Kubernetes as just another form of virtualization. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Nolte recently wrote a popular post for us on why we shouldn't think of containers and Kubernetes as just another form of virtualization — that it opens up a whole new way to think about application development and deployment. So we wanted to find out more about this concept. “Kubernetes is really about that middle area between infrastructure and application. So the applications themselves are enabled to be differently architected because of that operational PaaS layer if you will,” she explained. “It's not just a lift-and-shift of old apps into new infrastructure.” Focusing too much on the infrastructure side of Kubernetes ultimately misses its true value, an insight Nolte gleaned, in part, from working for a well-regarded OpenStack-based start-up, Nebula, that ultimately shuttered.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Deepak Singh, Amazon Web Services' vice president for containers and open source, and Peder Ulander, AWS general manager for open source, about the company's recently released Bottlerocket Linux distribution for the cloud. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams, TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Deepak Singh, Amazon Web Services' vice president for containers and open source, and Peder Ulander, AWS general manager for open source, about the company's recently released Bottlerocket Linux distribution for the cloud. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams, TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Sebastien Goasguen, co-founder and chief product officer, TriggerMesh, about how to build applications from serverless functions that span multiple clouds, using the company's software. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams, TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. We spoke with Goasguen about the role that TriggerMesh plays for GitLab and enterprise customers. Last month, TriggerMesh released the Cloud Native Integration Platform as well as the AWS Event Sources for OpenShift, timing the release with the virtual Red Hat Summit. With the latter offering, TriggerMesh brings Amazon EventBridge-like functionality to the OpenShift ecosystem allowing developers to trigger functions across clouds and legacy data centers. TriggerMesh users can now link events from anywhere to Red Hat OpenShift workloads. “Serverless is not just function-as-a-service. It's not just functions. It's actually an integration problem. We call TriggerMesh a cloud-native integration platform: We compose cloud services together, glue them together thanks to an event-driven architecture,” Goasguen said. Then, later in the podcast, we discuss the top podcasts and news stories from the site, including an interview with agile expert Emily Webber on remote work, how serverless can help embed security into the development process, the idea of offering databases as a serverless service, and the importance of standards in serverless adoption.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Sebastien Goasguen, co-founder and chief product officer, TriggerMesh, about how to build applications from serverless functions that span multiple clouds, using the company's software. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams, TNS senior editor Richard MacManus, and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. We spoke with Goasguen about the role that TriggerMesh plays for GitLab and enterprise customers. Last month, TriggerMesh released the Cloud Native Integration Platform as well as the AWS Event Sources for OpenShift, timing the release with the virtual Red Hat Summit. With the latter offering, TriggerMesh brings Amazon EventBridge-like functionality to the OpenShift ecosystem allowing developers to trigger functions across clouds and legacy data centers. TriggerMesh users can now link events from anywhere to Red Hat OpenShift workloads. “Serverless is not just function-as-a-service. It's not just functions. It's actually an integration problem. We call TriggerMesh a cloud-native integration platform: We compose cloud services together, glue them together thanks to an event-driven architecture,” Goasguen said. Then, later in the podcast, we discuss the top podcasts and news stories from the site, including an interview with agile expert Emily Webber on remote work, how serverless can help embed security into the development process, the idea of offering databases as a serverless service, and the importance of standards in serverless adoption.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Joe Duffy, Founder and CEO of Pulumi, and Sophia Parafina, Pulumi's technical marketing manager. In this convo, we delve into the recent Pulumi 2.0 release, which allows teams to reuse code, apply policies and do integration testing of infrastructure the same way they do for application development, a concept known as “architecture as code.” TNS Editorial and Marketing Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Joe Duffy, Founder and CEO of Pulumi, and Sophia Parafina, Pulumi's technical marketing manager. In this convo, we delve into the recent Pulumi 2.0 release, which allows teams to reuse code, apply policies and do integration testing of infrastructure the same way they do for application development, a concept known as “architecture as code.” TNS Editorial and Marketing Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with The New Stack correspondent Jennifer Riggins about all of the excellent reporting she and others on the TNS team have been doing recently on the effects that COVID-19 is having on the tech industry. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. For this episode, we wanted to look not only discuss the changing patterns in network traffic that the global COVID-19 pandemic has wrought, due to factors such people staying at home and working from home, and the sudden acceleration of e-learning. As Riggins writes in a recent post: For a lot of tech and infrastructure teams, they not only are going through the stress of the collective trauma we're sharing in, but they are struggling to keep up with ever-scaling, extreme strains on their systems. Simply put, no one could have predicted this uptick. One big theme that kept popping up was “resiliency,” not only from an individual psychological perspective, as well from organizational and systems views as well. Here are some of the other posts we discussed: The Network Impact of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: How has the worldwide pandemic stressed our networks? In multiple ways, according to this report from our London correspondent Mary Branscombe. Internet traffic is generally 25% to 30% higher than usual. You can also see the change in where people are connecting from; usage is up in residential areas but visibly down in downtown San Francisco, downtown San Jose and especially the Cupertino and Mountain View neighborhoods where Apple and Google have their campuses. U.S. Unemployment Surge Highlights Dire Need for COBOL Skills: One of the surprise stories coming from the global pandemic has been the dire need for COBOL developers. Who would have seen that one coming? New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is now asking for volunteers with COBOL skills. New Jersey's 40-year-old mainframe benefits system was besieged by a 1,600% increase in usage, as over 371,000 people have filed claims in the past month. Keep Your Endpoints Secure During the COVID-19 Pandemic: We are also seeing more reports of security breaches indirectly due to the spreading virus. In this contributed post from CalSoft's Sagar Nangare, he notes that People are scared and hungry for more information around events like COVID-19. In panic mode, they surf the internet, visit fake pages, and fall prey to phishing scams. Also, endpoints for remote access have increased due to remote working, increasing surface areas for cybercriminals to target. How Kubernetes Prepared 8×8 for a 50x Spike in Videoconferencing Usage: The New Stack spoke to 8×8, a cloud communications and video collaboration provider to learn how the company phased in remote-by-default, and how it is creating systems and team resiliency during a 50-fold increase in traffic over less than a month. One answer? Kubernetes. Chaos, Hugs and Interruptions: Dev Folks Work from Home with Kids: Working at home is nothing new to the cloud native computing community, which has always been about the distributing workloads. But adding children, who all of sudden were home full time as well when the schools closed, adds another stress to already frazzled IT pros. Here are some tips on getting by. SaltStack's CTO on Pandemics, the End of Empires and Software's Future: Here's an interview with Thomas S. Hatch, founder and Chief Technology Officer of SaltStack where he discusses how software engineers' lives have changed (or not), the folly of forcing workers to come to the office when they really do not need to and his observations of network infrastructure saturation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with The New Stack correspondent Jennifer Riggins about all of the excellent reporting she and others on the TNS team have been doing recently on the effects that COVID-19 is having on the tech industry. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. For this episode, we wanted to look not only discuss the changing patterns in network traffic that the global COVID-19 pandemic has wrought, due to factors such people staying at home and working from home, and the sudden acceleration of e-learning. As Riggins writes in a recent post: For a lot of tech and infrastructure teams, they not only are going through the stress of the collective trauma we're sharing in, but they are struggling to keep up with ever-scaling, extreme strains on their systems. Simply put, no one could have predicted this uptick. One big theme that kept popping up was “resiliency,” not only from an individual psychological perspective, as well from organizational and systems views as well. Here are some of the other posts we discussed: The Network Impact of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic: How has the worldwide pandemic stressed our networks? In multiple ways, according to this report from our London correspondent Mary Branscombe. Internet traffic is generally 25% to 30% higher than usual. You can also see the change in where people are connecting from; usage is up in residential areas but visibly down in downtown San Francisco, downtown San Jose and especially the Cupertino and Mountain View neighborhoods where Apple and Google have their campuses. U.S. Unemployment Surge Highlights Dire Need for COBOL Skills: One of the surprise stories coming from the global pandemic has been the dire need for COBOL developers. Who would have seen that one coming? New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is now asking for volunteers with COBOL skills. New Jersey's 40-year-old mainframe benefits system was besieged by a 1,600% increase in usage, as over 371,000 people have filed claims in the past month. Keep Your Endpoints Secure During the COVID-19 Pandemic: We are also seeing more reports of security breaches indirectly due to the spreading virus. In this contributed post from CalSoft's Sagar Nangare, he notes that People are scared and hungry for more information around events like COVID-19. In panic mode, they surf the internet, visit fake pages, and fall prey to phishing scams. Also, endpoints for remote access have increased due to remote working, increasing surface areas for cybercriminals to target. How Kubernetes Prepared 8×8 for a 50x Spike in Videoconferencing Usage: The New Stack spoke to 8×8, a cloud communications and video collaboration provider to learn how the company phased in remote-by-default, and how it is creating systems and team resiliency during a 50-fold increase in traffic over less than a month. One answer? Kubernetes. Chaos, Hugs and Interruptions: Dev Folks Work from Home with Kids: Working at home is nothing new to the cloud native computing community, which has always been about the distributing workloads. But adding children, who all of sudden were home full time as well when the schools closed, adds another stress to already frazzled IT pros. Here are some tips on getting by. SaltStack's CTO on Pandemics, the End of Empires and Software's Future: Here's an interview with Thomas S. Hatch, founder and Chief Technology Officer of SaltStack where he discusses how software engineers' lives have changed (or not), the folly of forcing workers to come to the office when they really do not need to and his observations of network infrastructure saturation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Derek Weeks, vice president at Sonatype, about the results of a new community survey the company just released on DevSecOps that provides some insights on how teams are incorporating automated security tools and how that shift affects company culture and developer happiness. Sonotype's Nexus open source governance platform helps more than 1,000 organizations and 10 million software developers simultaneously accelerate innovation and improve application security. This is the seventh year that Sonatype has done this DevSecOps report, and, according to the company, it's the longest running community survey on this topic. We discuss with Weeks how the practice of DevSecOps changed since the company started doing the survey, and the challenges organizations face in embedding security within their DevOps practices. We also ponder the reasons behind the puzzling finding that those companies with mature DevSecOps actually have more security breaches. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Derek Weeks, vice president at Sonatype, about the results of a new community survey the company just released on DevSecOps that provides some insights on how teams are incorporating automated security tools and how that shift affects company culture and developer happiness. Sonotype's Nexus open source governance platform helps more than 1,000 organizations and 10 million software developers simultaneously accelerate innovation and improve application security. This is the seventh year that Sonatype has done this DevSecOps report, and, according to the company, it's the longest running community survey on this topic. We discuss with Weeks how the practice of DevSecOps changed since the company started doing the survey, and the challenges organizations face in embedding security within their DevOps practices. We also ponder the reasons behind the puzzling finding that those companies with mature DevSecOps actually have more security breaches. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

For more episodes listen here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with a couple of folks from cloud workload protection platform provider Rezilion: CEO Liran Tancman, and Chief Marketing Officer Tal Klein. We discuss how current best practices in security are actually outdated and how they think companies should be approaching security practices in the age of DevOps. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Klein wrote a contributed article for TNS on “Why Vulnerability Management Needs a Patch,” where he argues that current best practices and tools around security patching, such as the CVSS system for rating vulnerabilities, are outdated, particularly for modern DevOps shops. As Klein says in the interview: When you've got vulnerabilities, it's very tough to figure out which ones to fix first, and the fact is that more and more vulnerabilities are discovered every year. So there's, there's a greater amount of things to patch and if you don't know which ones to patch first, you're never going to be able to address the full patching needs of your organization. And that's been a cat and mouse game for a long time. Then later in the show, we discuss some of our top podcasts and stories of the week. Our sister podcast, The New Stack Makers, posted an interview with DevRel trailblazer (and Coder-Twitter celeb) Cassidy Williams, on building software communities. COVID-19 continues to tear through the IT community, and so we look at the shifting network traffic patterns that have come about from the pandemic, as well as the additional babysitting duties that many IT professionals have to now mix into their daily work from home routines. Finally, we discuss The Eclipse Foundation's Theia code editor, which has been billed as “a true open source alternative to Visual Studio Code.”

For more episodes listen here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with a couple of folks from cloud workload protection platform provider Rezilion: CEO Liran Tancman, and Chief Marketing Officer Tal Klein. We discuss how current best practices in security are actually outdated and how they think companies should be approaching security practices in the age of DevOps. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Klein wrote a contributed article for TNS on “Why Vulnerability Management Needs a Patch,” where he argues that current best practices and tools around security patching, such as the CVSS system for rating vulnerabilities, are outdated, particularly for modern DevOps shops. As Klein says in the interview: When you've got vulnerabilities, it's very tough to figure out which ones to fix first, and the fact is that more and more vulnerabilities are discovered every year. So there's, there's a greater amount of things to patch and if you don't know which ones to patch first, you're never going to be able to address the full patching needs of your organization. And that's been a cat and mouse game for a long time. Then later in the show, we discuss some of our top podcasts and stories of the week. Our sister podcast, The New Stack Makers, posted an interview with DevRel trailblazer (and Coder-Twitter celeb) Cassidy Williams, on building software communities. COVID-19 continues to tear through the IT community, and so we look at the shifting network traffic patterns that have come about from the pandemic, as well as the additional babysitting duties that many IT professionals have to now mix into their daily work from home routines. Finally, we discuss The Eclipse Foundation's Theia code editor, which has been billed as “a true open source alternative to Visual Studio Code.”

Listen to ALL of our shows here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Kelsey Hightower, a developer advocate at Google, and Ben Sigelman, CEO and co-founder of observability services provider LightStep, about whether or not teams should favor a monolith over a microservices approach when architecting cloud native applications. Hightower recently tweeted a prediction that “Monolithic applications will be back in style after people discover the drawbacks of distributed monolithic applications.” It was quite a surprise for those who have been advocating the for operational benefits of microservices. Why go back to a monolith? As Hightower explains in the podcast: “There are a lot of people who have never left a monolith. So there's really not anything to go back to. So it's really about the challenges of adopting a microservices architecture. From a design perspective, like very few companies talk about, here's how we designed our monolith.” Sigelman, on the other hand, maintained that microservices are necessary for rapid development, which, in turn, is necessary for sustaining a business. “It's not so much that you should use microservices, it's more like, if you don't innovate faster than your competitors, your company will eventually be erased, like, that's the actual problem. And in order to do that, you need to build a lot of differentiated technology,” he said. Microservices is the most logical approach for maintaining a large software team while still maintaining a competitive velocity of development. Later in the show, we discuss some of the top TNS podcasts and news posts of the week, including an interview with IBM's Lin Sun on the importance of the service mesh, as Sysdig's offer of a distributed, scalable Prometheus, a group of chief technology officers who want to help the U.S. government with the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the hidden vulnerabilities that come with open source security. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Listen to ALL of our shows here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Kelsey Hightower, a developer advocate at Google, and Ben Sigelman, CEO and co-founder of observability services provider LightStep, about whether or not teams should favor a monolith over a microservices approach when architecting cloud native applications. Hightower recently tweeted a prediction that “Monolithic applications will be back in style after people discover the drawbacks of distributed monolithic applications.” It was quite a surprise for those who have been advocating the for operational benefits of microservices. Why go back to a monolith? As Hightower explains in the podcast: “There are a lot of people who have never left a monolith. So there's really not anything to go back to. So it's really about the challenges of adopting a microservices architecture. From a design perspective, like very few companies talk about, here's how we designed our monolith.” Sigelman, on the other hand, maintained that microservices are necessary for rapid development, which, in turn, is necessary for sustaining a business. “It's not so much that you should use microservices, it's more like, if you don't innovate faster than your competitors, your company will eventually be erased, like, that's the actual problem. And in order to do that, you need to build a lot of differentiated technology,” he said. Microservices is the most logical approach for maintaining a large software team while still maintaining a competitive velocity of development. Later in the show, we discuss some of the top TNS podcasts and news posts of the week, including an interview with IBM's Lin Sun on the importance of the service mesh, as Sysdig's offer of a distributed, scalable Prometheus, a group of chief technology officers who want to help the U.S. government with the current COVID-19 pandemic, and the hidden vulnerabilities that come with open source security. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Listen to more from The New Stack here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Liran Tal, a developer advocate at container security platform provider Snyk and a member of the Node.js security working group, about who should own security in the DevOps process — the security team or the development? TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Tal wrote an article for us recently, “‘DevSecOps Insights 2020': Who Really Owns Security in DevOps,”which summarized the results of a survey the company carried out covering security, development and operations. The post included a couple of surprising survey results, namely that only 14% of respondents reported that they test for known vulnerabilities in container images, and 38% of respondents don't integrate automated security scanning into their DevOps pipeline. As Tal writes in the post: When that many respondents agree security is a major concern when trying to deliver software quickly, it means we need to scale up security to enable fast delivery of security fixes. The key to doing that is developers, as they ultimately fix security issues in an application's source code. We also get Tal's views on incorporating security into the a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), the need for development speed, as well as his thoughts on the recent purchase of npm by GitHub. Then, later in the show, we discuss some of the top podcasts and news stories from the site. An episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast provides fodder for discussing service mesh adoption. Also on the agenda: Frustrations mount over Python 3 migrations; Project Calico offers a faster data plane with the help of eBPF; and an excellent side-by-side comparison offered by StackRox's Karen Bruner of the managed Kubernetes offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Listen to more from The New Stack here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week's episode, we spoke with Liran Tal, a developer advocate at container security platform provider Snyk and a member of the Node.js security working group, about who should own security in the DevOps process — the security team or the development? TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Tal wrote an article for us recently, “‘DevSecOps Insights 2020': Who Really Owns Security in DevOps,”which summarized the results of a survey the company carried out covering security, development and operations. The post included a couple of surprising survey results, namely that only 14% of respondents reported that they test for known vulnerabilities in container images, and 38% of respondents don't integrate automated security scanning into their DevOps pipeline. As Tal writes in the post: When that many respondents agree security is a major concern when trying to deliver software quickly, it means we need to scale up security to enable fast delivery of security fixes. The key to doing that is developers, as they ultimately fix security issues in an application's source code. We also get Tal's views on incorporating security into the a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), the need for development speed, as well as his thoughts on the recent purchase of npm by GitHub. Then, later in the show, we discuss some of the top podcasts and news stories from the site. An episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast provides fodder for discussing service mesh adoption. Also on the agenda: Frustrations mount over Python 3 migrations; Project Calico offers a faster data plane with the help of eBPF; and an excellent side-by-side comparison offered by StackRox's Karen Bruner of the managed Kubernetes offerings from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.

Listen to all of The New Stack podcasts here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. This week we spoke with Mohan Raj, IT senior manager of the CloudOne developer experience at NetApp. Over the past two years, he has been building a DevOps platform at NetApp that provides cloud services, automation, and CI/CD release models for the company's application development teams that need to build cloud native applications — using NetApps own tools. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Listen to all of The New Stack podcasts here: https://thenewstack.io/podcasts/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. This week we spoke with Mohan Raj, IT senior manager of the CloudOne developer experience at NetApp. Over the past two years, he has been building a DevOps platform at NetApp that provides cloud services, automation, and CI/CD release models for the company's application development teams that need to build cloud native applications — using NetApps own tools. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

To hear more episodes go to: https://thenewstack.io/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. This week we spoke with Rob Skillington, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chronosphere, a monitoring company that came out of stealth late last year and is built around the open source metrics platform, M3, which Skillington and Chronosphere CEO Martin Mao helped develop at Uber. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

To hear more episodes go to: https://thenewstack.io/ Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. This week we spoke with Rob Skillington, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Chronosphere, a monitoring company that came out of stealth late last year and is built around the open source metrics platform, M3, which Skillington and Chronosphere CEO Martin Mao helped develop at Uber. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, alongside founder and TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. This week, we chat with The New Stack's Linux correspondent Jack Wallen who writes regular tutorial articles for us and covers the latest Linux and security news. We chat about the recent comments from Linux chief maintainer Linus Torvalds about the ZFS file system, as well Red Hat's recent decision to pull the Docker software from its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution, replacing it with its own Podman software. Libby Clark, the editorial and marketing director of The New Stack, hosted this episode, with the help of TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. This week, we chat with The New Stack's Linux correspondent Jack Wallen who writes regular tutorial articles for us and covers the latest Linux and security news. We chat about the recent comments from Linux chief maintainer Linus Torvalds about the ZFS file system, as well Red Hat's recent decision to pull the Docker software from its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution, replacing it with its own Podman software. Libby Clark, the editorial and marketing director of The New Stack, hosted this episode, with the help of TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. In this week's episode, we talk with John Jeremiah, product marketing manager at GitLab, about the GitLab Commit user conference happening on January 14 in San Francisco. Libby Clark, the editorial and marketing director of The New Stack, hosted this episode, with the help of TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. GitLab, a sponsor of The New Stack, made its name with git-based version control but is now looking to automate and consolidate continuous integration and continuous deployment into a single lifecycle. We attended GitLab's last Commit event, held in Brooklyn back in September, which gave us a lot of interesting stories around DevOps practices. So we quiz Jeremiah about some of these emerging trends that no doubt we'll hear more about in San Francisco, including DevSecOps and DataOps.

Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. In this week's episode, we talk with John Jeremiah, product marketing manager at GitLab, about the GitLab Commit user conference happening on January 14 in San Francisco. Libby Clark, the editorial and marketing director of The New Stack, hosted this episode, with the help of TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. GitLab, a sponsor of The New Stack, made its name with git-based version control but is now looking to automate and consolidate continuous integration and continuous deployment into a single lifecycle. We attended GitLab's last Commit event, held in Brooklyn back in September, which gave us a lot of interesting stories around DevOps practices. So we quiz Jeremiah about some of these emerging trends that no doubt we'll hear more about in San Francisco, including DevSecOps and DataOps.

In the first segment of this episode, TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark talks with Dave Harrison, senior application development manager at Microsoft, and Raygun co-founder and CEO John-Daniel Trask about how developers can help customers and improve their software development life cycle feedback loops. Then later in the show, TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson discuss some of the top news and podcasts from the week, including the release of Kubernetes 1.17, continuous documentation for CI/CD, Packet's Tinkerbell bare metal deployment technology, and the importance of data protection in cloud native operations.

In the first segment of this episode, TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark talks with Dave Harrison, senior application development manager at Microsoft, and Raygun co-founder and CEO John-Daniel Trask about how developers can help customers and improve their software development life cycle feedback loops. Then later in the show, TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson discuss some of the top news and podcasts from the week, including the release of Kubernetes 1.17, continuous documentation for CI/CD, Packet's Tinkerbell bare metal deployment technology, and the importance of data protection in cloud native operations.

My how KubeCon (now “KubeCon+CloudNativeCon”) has grown! We remember four years ago, when the conference was held in the second floor of a Seattle hotel, you could take a tour of all the booths within a few minutes. This year, more than 12,000 attendees packed the San Diego Convention Center, dozens of vendor booths span three gigantic rooms. You needed a map just to find one you were looking for. A good number of the companies we met with back in 2016 have grown into full-fledged businesses. And thanks to a sponsorship of Portworx, we were able to dispatch a team of crack reporters to capture many of the product updates that debuted at the show. On this week's episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we discuss some of these stories as well as the event itself. In this episode, we are joined by Alex Williams, founder and editor-and-chief of The New Stack, as well as TNS correspondent Emily Ormier and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark served as host. Among the topics we touched upon included the emerging issue of integrating Kubernetes into the enterprise, the ongoing challenge of securing containers, and whether or not the service mesh is ready for production use. We also share our personal highlights from the event, discussing the conference's free daycare for children (thumbs up!) and Kelsey Hightower's bittersweet farewell keynote.

My how KubeCon (now “KubeCon+CloudNativeCon”) has grown! We remember four years ago, when the conference was held in the second floor of a Seattle hotel, you could take a tour of all the booths within a few minutes. This year, more than 12,000 attendees packed the San Diego Convention Center, dozens of vendor booths span three gigantic rooms. You needed a map just to find one you were looking for. A good number of the companies we met with back in 2016 have grown into full-fledged businesses. And thanks to a sponsorship of Portworx, we were able to dispatch a team of crack reporters to capture many of the product updates that debuted at the show. On this week's episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we discuss some of these stories as well as the event itself. In this episode, we are joined by Alex Williams, founder and editor-and-chief of The New Stack, as well as TNS correspondent Emily Ormier and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark served as host. Among the topics we touched upon included the emerging issue of integrating Kubernetes into the enterprise, the ongoing challenge of securing containers, and whether or not the service mesh is ready for production use. We also share our personal highlights from the event, discussing the conference's free daycare for children (thumbs up!) and Kelsey Hightower's bittersweet farewell keynote.

Welcome to The New Stack Context podcast, where we discuss the week's hottest news around cloud native technology. On this week's episode, we discuss one of our favorite yearly events, All Things Open open source conference, held earlier this month in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our guests for the week are Matthew Broberg, technical editor for Red Hat's OpenSource.com, and Anais Dotis-Georgiou, who is a developer advocate at InfluxData, as well as a speaker at the conference. We discussed the grassroots independence that makes All Things Open so enjoyable, as well as what open source trends we caught at this year's show. Then, later in the show, we discuss some of the top posts and podcasts for the week, including a wide-ranging interview with Pivotal's Cornelia Davis, a tutorial on how to get the most from the ZFS file system on Ubuntu, how Microsoft has been been making it easier for developers to use Kubernetes, as well as the state of Linux kernel open source after the recent wave of CPU-based vulnerabilities. Libby Clark, editorial and marketing director at TNS hosted this podcast, along with Alex Williams, TNS founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor.

Welcome to The New Stack Context podcast, where we discuss the week's hottest news around cloud native technology. On this week's episode, we discuss one of our favorite yearly events, All Things Open open source conference, held earlier this month in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our guests for the week are Matthew Broberg, technical editor for Red Hat's OpenSource.com, and Anais Dotis-Georgiou, who is a developer advocate at InfluxData, as well as a speaker at the conference. We discussed the grassroots independence that makes All Things Open so enjoyable, as well as what open source trends we caught at this year's show. Then, later in the show, we discuss some of the top posts and podcasts for the week, including a wide-ranging interview with Pivotal's Cornelia Davis, a tutorial on how to get the most from the ZFS file system on Ubuntu, how Microsoft has been been making it easier for developers to use Kubernetes, as well as the state of Linux kernel open source after the recent wave of CPU-based vulnerabilities. Libby Clark, editorial and marketing director at TNS hosted this podcast, along with Alex Williams, TNS founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor.

This week, we come live from the the Monitorama conference, held this week in Portland, where we spoke with Liz Fong Jones, developer advocate at observability service provider Honeycomb.io and Quintessence Anx, developer advocate, at troubleshooting firm Logz.io. Then later we discuss some of the other news items and podcasts from the week. With Jones and Anx, we discussed the culture of burnout in the IT industry and how companies can better consider the humans who design and run their systems. We also discussed our takeaways from the conference itself. Then later in the show, show host Libby Clark, editorial and marketing director at The New Stack, discusses the top news from the site with Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor. We discuss the update to Honeycomb.io's observability platform, and Palo Alto Networks intended purchase of container security provider Twistlock and serverless security provider PureSec. Oh, also we discuss Pivotal's new Spring-based OpenJDK distribution, and alarming new research on "deepfake" videos.

This week on The New Stack Context podcast, recorded live from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2019, we're talking all about monitoring and observability. Our guests are Kresten Krab Thorup, chief technology officer for Humio and Colin Fernandes, director of product marketing at Sumo Logic, Sumo Logic is a machine data analytics company that has just announced an additional $110 million round of funding, making it worth over $1 billion. Humio is demonstrating the intake of 100 terabytes of data per day on only 25 nodes while delivering real-time observability of data. Both are on the cutting edge of understanding what intelligence we can gather from the operating conditions of our machines. We spoke with them about the trends they're seeing around data management and logging, both practices are seeing tremendous change, as end-users collect more and more data, while wanting to see analysis in real-time. We also talk about changes in cloud native monitoring and logging, including the recent consolidation of OpenTracing and OpenCensus into a single project, called Open Telemetry. In the second half of the show, we offer our top podcast and stories picks, including the move to free some proprietary Kubernetes extensions with a new project called KubeMove. We also discuss our recent @Scale podcast, which confronts the challenges that the newly-launched CD Foundation has in normalizing the vast set of cloud native tools for continuous delivery. The New Stack editorial and marketing director Libby Clark hosted this episode, with the help of TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson.

On this week's episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we speak with Mark Brewer, CEO of Lightbend, as well as with Lawrence Hecht, research director and columnist at The New Stack, about the current state and future of data streaming technology. The New Stack recently partnered with our sponsor Lightbend to produce a survey on data streaming. Lightbend released the results of that survey last week and the report is titled “Streaming Data And The Future Tech Stack,” and it is all about how developers and software architects are using data streaming in their applications today. For the podcast, Brewer shares his top takeaways from the survey, and Hecht discusses how he analyzed the numbers and what his conclusions were. We also talked a bit about Lightbend's Akka message-driven runtime. We also discussed the top news of the week, including VMware's purchase of Bitnami, Intel's new special-purpose Linux hypervisor for cloud native workloads, and New Relic's platform for the future, New Relic One. Libby Clark, editorial and marketing director at The New Stack, hosted this episode, with the usual support from Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor.

Today we're talking with Joe Duffy, co-founder and CEO of Pulumi, who spoke with us about what's fueling his company's growth and why they'll be at DockerCon next week. Also joining us today are Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor. I'm Libby Clark, editorial director at The New Stack. Pulumi is a sponsor of The New Stack, based in Seattle — not too far from TNS headquarters in Portland! — and we're happy to have Joe on the show today in advance of DockerCon in San Francisco next week. Building on the idea of infrastructure as code, Pulumi is focused on enabling developers and DevOps teams to use popular programming languages and tools to deploy to any public or private infrastructure — and across infrastructures. Co-founders Duffy and Eric Rudder come from Microsoft and Chief Technology Officer Luke Hoban from Amazon. Then in the second half, we'll discuss the top podcast and stories for the week and discuss what we're looking to cover at DockerCon next week. We'll be on site, recording interviews for a new episode of our newly relaunched @Scale podcast and talking to companies on the show floor about the latest in container management tooling and application architecture.

This week, we spoke with Oakland The New Stack correspondent TC Currie who attended LaunchDarkly's Trajectory conference in Oakland this week. Then later in the show our own Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, discussed the news coming out from Google Cloud Next in san Francisco this week. Libby Clark, editorial director at The New Stack, hosted the show. LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that provides feature flagging for CI/CD pipelines. Back in February, Currie interviewed LaunchDarkly's CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh on our Makers podcast as one of this year's winners of the Cloud-Now's "Top Women in Cloud" award. Then in the second half of the show, we talk about the Google Next conference. The show has been generating a lot of energy and coverage from our cloud services correspondent Mary Branscombe. We spoke about Google's Anthos hybrid cloud platform which came out of beta this week, and its new partnership with seven leading open source projects it will begin offering as fully managed services.

It is hard to believe for many, as it is for this writer, that Cloud Foundry has existed for more than a decade after it was founded in 2008. Since its beginning, it certainly has more than established itself as a platform as a service (PaaS) of choice for deploying and scaling open source applications. It  has also certainly played a role in the growing momentum in the adoption of Kubernetes, microservices, cloud native and other new technologies as well as many other open source tools that continue to help transform DevOps practices. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we recorded a panel discussion held during a pancake breakfast at Cloud Foundry Summit North America earlier this month in Philadelphia with Cloud Foundry as the featured topic. Hosted by The New Stack's Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, and co-hosted by Joab Jackson, managing editor, panel invitees discussed Cloud Foundry's evolution over the past few years and the key role it continues to play in the open source community. The panelists included: Abby Kearns, executive director, of the Cloud Foundry Foundation; Cornelia Davis, Vice President of Technology, Pivotal; Daniel Jones, CTO for EngineerBetter; Rick Rioboli, Senior Vice President and CIO, for Comcast; and Stephen O'Grady, an analyst for Redmonk.

In this week's episode of The New Stack Context, we talk about New Relic's growth into AI ops with its recent acquisition of SignifAI. Aaron Johnson, SVP of Product Management at New Relic and Guy Fighel, co-founder and former CTO of SignifAI and now the GM, AIOps & VP of Product Engineering at New Relic both shared their vision behind the acquisition and how machine learning can be used to monitor and troubleshoot complex IT systems. Then later in the show we discuss how to get rid of technology debt. Is the answer to stop using open source libraries and frameworks? Robert Lefkowitz, the recently retired Chief Architect of eyewear provider Warby Parker, is advocating that approach, and we'll delve into that. TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this show, with the help of Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor and Alex Williams, TNS co-founder and editor-in-chief.

We learned a lot about our readers upon completion of our reader's survey at the end of last year. According to those who responded to the SurveyMonkey questionnaire, working mostly in development and/or DevOps or operations, the trends and topics you are especially interested in include artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on Kubernetes or serverless in cloud native environments.  DevOps, as well as security, of course also play a big role as data is processed, managed and stored in new and exciting ways. It was with these topics in mind that  Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, of The New Stack, hosted the podcast, along with Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, hosted the last TNS podcast of 2018. The guests were Dillon Erb, CEO of Paperspace, which offers solutions for ML and AI deployments on the cloud, and Chenxi Wang, managing director of venture capital firm Rain Capital, with an emphasis on next-generation security solutions.

Functions as a Service (FaaS), and especially, serverless are major buzzwords today, but beneath the hype, they offer tremendous resource-savings and scaling opportunities. But as organizations make the shift from monolithic-centric platforms as they rely on FaaS to, for example, scale to cloud native environments,  the concepts and promise of what are on offer can also make it easy to forget what is involved to make the jump on a hands-on and practical level. In other words, great things await your organization as it makes the transition, but getting there will require a lot of work — for what usually is a huge payoff as FaaS and cloud providers assume much of the heavy lifting for server management and other infrastructure-related tasks. During a panel discussion hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, managing editor, of The New Stack;  at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018, a panel of FaaS and serverless experts were on hand to discuss their down-in-the-trenches experiences and ideas about what implementing FaaS and relying on cloud providers is really like. The panel members included: - Ara (Araceli) Pulido, Kubernetes engineering manager, Bitnami; - Chad Arimura, vice president, serverless advocacy, Oracle and former CEO and cofounder of Iron.io; - Christopher Woods, research software engineer, University of Bristol; - Tom Petrocelli, analyst, Amalgam Insights Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UPf8sCKNb4E

The advent of service meshes can be traced back to Linkerd, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Now, as Linkerd's adoption curve continues to accelerate, a number of other options have emerged that allow for the management and scaling of an often vast network of microservices and the applications within them.  Istio, of course, is among the leading alternatives. The state of Istio and services meshes was the main topic during a panel discussion for this podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, managing editing, of The New Stack;  at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018. The attendees, who were also treated to a pancake breakfast during the event, were able to ask questions about service meshes and Istio to the panel of subject matter experts consisting of: - Jason McGee, IBM fellow, vice president, CTO, IBM Cloud Platform; - Ken Owens, vice president, digital native architecture, Mastercard; - Jennifer Lin, director of product management, Google Cloud; - Simon Richard, analyst, Gartner; - Pere Monclus, vice president and CTO network and security BU, VMware. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7iGgwU9DY

This week we're talking with Joel Speed, a cloud infrastructure engineer at Pusher who's been helping build its internal Kubernetes platform. Joel wrote a contributed post for us this week about how to solve Kubernetes configuration woes with a custom controller, so we'll talk to him first about that. Later in the show, we talk with TNS managing editor Joab Jackson and TNS editor-in-chief Alex Williams about what we're expecting from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Seattle next week. The New Stack have two pancake breakfasts and a full schedule of podcasts and livestreams, so visit our web site or follow us on Twitter @thenewstack next week for live updates from KubeCon.

This week The New Stack hits the road again, hitting two conferences in Las Vegas. TNS managing editor Joab Jackson calls in from Amazon Web Services' annual user conference, AWS Re:Invent, which brought a plethora of new services and features. Most notably, the cloud giant introduced two new technologies to further integrate serverless into other cloud-based IT operations, lambda Layers and the Lambda Runtime API. Lambda Layers provides a way to centrally manage code and data so that it can be shared across multiple functions. And the Lambda Runtime API provides a simple interface to use any programming language, or a specific language version, within Lambda. This allows users to bring in other programming languages. Already, partners have developed packages to run code written in Rust, C++, Erlang and even Cobol to run Lambda. And through Layers, companies are offering their monitoring and security services, including Datadog, IOPipe, Epsagon and NodeSource.

IBM is building out its portfolio of cloud services in order to offer cloud native capabilities with higher degrees of security and isolation for the enterprise, combined with the user experience of public cloud such as self-service provisioning, pay-as-you-go pricing and elasticity. So this week on Context we talked with Jason McGee, an IBM Fellow, and VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform about IBM's new enterprise cloud services which include the Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment announced this week. McGee and TNS founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams recorded live from Cloud Foundry Summit in Basel, Switzerland, where TNS hosted a day of podcasting and a pancake breakfast on topics such as BOSH and Kubernetes; integrating data services into Cloud Foundry; the importance of allies in advancing inclusivity; and the work companies and projects in the cloud native space are doing to improve the developer experience. Then later in the show, TNS managing editor Joab Jackson tells us about some of the top stories on the site this week, including a story by TNS correspondent Susan Hall about Pulsar, a data streaming tool and Kafka alternative that just reached top-level status at the Apache Software Foundation.

This week on the TNS Context podcast, we talk with Alex Peay, SaltStack vice president of product, and Gary Richmond, a SaltStack product manager, about automated security compliance scanning and event-based orchestration. Also joining us today is TNS founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Jackson was in Salt Lake City this month covering SaltConf, where Peay and Richmond spoke about event-driven automation and orchestration using SaltStack Enterprise. The company's configuration management and remote execution engine is a stepping stone for automated IT operations, offering a way to automate the checking and remediation of desired configurations. We discuss the promise of automated security remediation with Peay, and venture into event-driven orchestration with Richmond, Then later in the show, we discussed some of the top stories on the site this week, including a story by TNS correspondent Jennifer Riggins on Linus Torvalds' most recent apology and decision to take some time off of Linux kernel development to work on his people skills.

On this episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we're recapping the Serverless Days event we attended in Portland last week and discussing the 2.0 release of the Linkerd service mesh project. Joining us today is TNS managing editor Joab Jackson, TNS founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams. Williams and I attended Serverless Days in Portland this week where The New Stack was a media sponsor, as well as co-hosted the after party with our sponsor Stackery. In this episode, we discuss what we learned about serverless trends from that event, including the latest definition of serverless, what serverless means for DevOps, monitoring and security. Then later in the show, we discuss some of the top stories on the site this week, including Buoyant's release of Linkerd 2.0, the open source service mesh project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation that was just completely rearchitected with a lighter, more nimble codebase.

This week on The New Stack Context podcast we're talking with Emily Freeman, the new CloudOps advocate for Microsoft about PagerDuty Summit in San Francisco this week. Also joining us today is TNS founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. Forbes just declared the incident response company PagerDuty to be “the new cloud unicorn” after the company announced an additional $90 million in funding. This new round gives PagerDuty a billion-dollar-plus valuation and puts it on par with other cloud tools like Slack and GitHub. So, we saw that this was creating quite a bit of energy at PagerDuty Summit in San Francisco this week.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week's hottest news in cloud-native technologies/at-scale application development and look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks. For this Context, we talk with two data scientists from Pivotal, who write this week about the pros and cons of using Apache Spark for running data science workloads at scale. Apache Spark is an in-memory data analytics engine that is wildly popular with data scientists because of its speed, scalability and ease-of-use. Plus, it happens to be an ideal workload to run on Kubernetes, the Pivotal team writes. We spoke with them about the pros and cons of Apache Spark, what data science workloads they've been experimenting with lately at Pivotal, and how application architectures are evolving, in general, to better support data storage and processing at scale. Then, later in the show, we'll go over the highlights from his day at QCon developer conference in New York, including microservices debugging and how the Envoy service mesh is preparing to work with Kafka. TNS editor-in-chief Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson co-hosted this episode of Context.

This week on The New Stack Context, the editorial team recorded live from Copenhagen, Denmark, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon -- the CNCF's premiere event focused on Kubernetes and other cloud-native open source projects including Prometheus, OpenTracing, Fluentd and others. The New Stack managing editor, Joab Jackson, editor-in-chief Alex Williams, and Ihor Dvoretskyi, developer advocate at the CNCF, discuss the latest with the Kubernetes community after the recent release of Kubernetes 1.10. Earlier this week, we hosted a pancake breakfast and podcast discussion on the CNCF's first security project called SPIFFE, which is aiming to build a secure identity framework for cloud-native production environments. And we hosted two days of podcasting and livestreaming from the show floor, sponsored by Red Hat and the CNCF. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_ld1PoOiv0s

For this latest edition of The New Stack Analysts, we took our pancakes and our podcast equipment to Boston, for the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, for a wide ranging discussion on Cloud Foundry, cloud-native computing and Kubernetes. Hosted by TNS founder Alex Williams, with TNS managing editor Joab Jackson, our panel consisted of: Frederic Lardinois, reporter for TechCrunch. Abby Kerns, executive director for Cloud Foundry Foundation. Chen Goldberg, engineering director for Google. Jennifer Kotzen, senior product manager for SUSE. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekBh7_9ZVYA

This week on The New Stack Context we talk with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose about a three-part series of posts he just wrote for The New Stack about the metrics that the company has found are useful for measuring an organization's DevOps performance. The series is full of lots of data and graphics to help explain some standard metrics like mainline branch stability, deploy time and deploy frequency. Rose spoke to us about the report CircleCI put together, how they came up with those metrics, and how they can be useful for DevOps teams. Also, this week, TNS managing editor Joab Jackson discusses Camunda, a company out of Berlin that provides workflow automation for developers building microservices-based applications. In an article this week, he offered details on their enterprise platform and open source project, called Cockpit, which allow developers to coordinate and oversee the complex operations of multiple components, or microservices. TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, along with TNS founder Alex Williams.

Hello, welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we review the week's hottest news in cloud-native technologies and at-scale application development, as well as look ahead to topics we expect will gain more attention in coming weeks. On this week's episode, TNS security correspondent Lucian Constantin joins us to talk about how companies can and should handle security reports. His latest story on this subject is based on a recent survey of 1,700 bug bounty participants on HackerOne. The survey revealed that one in four ethical hackers have had cases where they eventually gave up on reporting vulnerabilities because the affected vendors didn't respond to the issues. And this wasn't because of a lack of trying to contact those organizations. Constantin explained how your company sets up a good vulnerability reporting policy so you'll learn about vulnerabilities from ethical hackers first, before customer data end up for sale on the underground market. Then, later in the episode, managing editor Joab Jackson talked about the O'Reilly Software Architecture conference he attended in New York this week. He heard a lot about event-driven microservices and got a preview of Camunda, a workflow engine for coordinating complex arrangements of microservices. TNS Editorial Director Libby Clark hosted this episode, along with TNS Founder Alex Williams.

As the Kubernetes community has evolved over the last year, some have wondered if the momentum will continue as the container orchestration ecosystem grows. As more enterprises begin to use Kubernetes in production, this has resulted in many speculating as to what the future ideal use case for Kubernetes may look like, particularly with the decisions made over the last year by Docker. On this special Thanksgiving episode of The New Stack Analysts, Cisco Cloud Native Platforms CTO Ken Owens spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams alongside The New Stack editorial team of Joab Jackson, Lawrence Hecht, Ben Ball, and SM Fulton III to discuss how Kubernetes and the container ecosystem as a whole can not only evolve but thrive as customers embrace the many benefits cloud native software development practices offer. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HU-d8B9jdMk Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-thanksgiving-special-evolution-kubernetes-container-ecosystem/

For our Kubecon TNS Analysts Pancakes and Podcasts, held Wednesday, we invited Cisco Chief Technology Officer of the Cloud Platforms and Services Group Ken Owens, consulting analyst and TNS contributor Janakiram MSV, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower, and Bitnami COO and co-founder Erica Brescia, for a discussion on how Kubernetes can progress as a community. TNS founder Alex Williams moderated the panel and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson drummed up questions from the audience. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3CKUi980Q Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-keep-the-dream-alive/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how Chef Habitat may be used in today's enterprise, what businesses can do to ensure they are addressing the right workflow problems, and how tools such as Chef Habitat are making life easier for today's developers. Host Lee Calcote and co-host Joab Jackson spoke with Boyd Hemphill, Director of Infrastructure Services, Casasa, Jere Julian, Extensibility Engineer, Arista Networks, Adam Mikeal, Director of IT at Texas A&M College of Architecture, and Victoria Blessing, Operation Engineer at the Texas A&M College of Architecture to discuss their thoughts on these issues and more during ChefConf 2016. Read more at: http://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-100-chef-habitat-may-become-devops-gamechanger/ Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7b6txTrmP14

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we take a look into the ways that Chef is positioning its latest offerings Habitat and Automate to help DevOps and developers alike automate their workflow from any angle. Aiming to be as infrastructure agnostic as possible, Habitat presents a powerful way for developers to better manage their applications at scale. The New Stack's own Lee Calcote and Joab Jackson spoke with Chef CTO Adam Jacob and Chef CEO Barry Crist to get the latest on the above during last week's ChefConf 2016 event. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdykeF8M7I Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-98-making-automation-sandwich-habitat-chef/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, it's time for another pancake breakfast featuring our very own PancakeBot at Dockercon 2016. The topic of discussion is networking for and in containers with industry professionals offering their thoughts on their thoughts on not only the ways in which networking has evolved with the rise of Docker, but how developers and network managers alike can bridge the gaps technology has yet to close to ensure their applications run at their best. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Joab Jackson served up a short stack alongside Cisco CTO Ken Owens, Docker Software Alliance Engineer Brent Salisbury, Gartner Research Director of Data Center Networking Simon Richard, and consultant and Cisco customer Nicholas Anderson. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/internet-of-happy-things-pancake-breakfast/

At The New Stack's panel Wednesday morning at the OpenStack summit in Austin, over 300 people ate stacks – of pancakes – while listening to a panel chew over the future of workload orchestration. The panel, comprised of Jonathan Donaldson, vice president of Intel's data center group, Madhura Maskasky, head of product management at OpenStack distributor Platform9, Joab Jackson, managing editor of The New Stack, and Brian 'redbeard' Harrington, head of infrastructure at CoreOS, spoke on the importance of interoperability. TNS founder Alex Williams moderated the panel, and TNS reporter Scott M. Fulton III scoured the audience for questions. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DvQneUEvA Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/pancake-breakfast-podcast-openstack-kubernetes-besties-now-really/

The strategic partnership between Cloudsoft and InContinuum that was announced recently at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas provides the context for this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast. The New Stack's Alex Williams and co-host Joab Jackson explored multi-platform environments, cloud automization and control planes, in a cordial conversation with Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder and CEO of Cloudsoft Corporation, and also with Phillip Hyde, CEO and founder at InContinuum Software, and Scott Hartzel, Director of Product Management at Cloudsoft. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qyUS5RaT4Xo Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/cloudsoft-incontinuum-set-controller-fully-fungible-cloud/

Call it another overwhelming indication of the power and potential of open source. DigitalOcean's Social Media Manager Daniel Zaltsman said that Hacktoberfest 2015, the month-long event encouraging people to contribute to GitHub-hosted open source projects, "was way more successful than we expected." "It's kind of crazy to look at the numbers," from this year to compared to last year, Zaltzman said. Although the much of the big data is still wriggling, Zaltsman reeled in a few statistics for The New Stack founder Alex Williams and managing editor Joab Jackson during this edition of The New Stack Analysts. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZeDK5E38c Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-digitalocean-hacktoberfest/