The New Stack Podcast

Rakuten is a Japan-based company with a mission to focus on speed and quality. In today's world that means its software has to be constantly optimized. Its infrastracture needs to be readied for continuous automation, a core theme at ChefConf, the annual conference from Chef. We talked with Ken Cheney, chief marketing officer at Chef, and Graham Weldon of Rakuten about the shift to continuous automation and the requirements it brings.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nSDjdx0kGq4

Rakuten is a Japan-based company with a mission to focus on speed and quality. In today's world that means its software has to be constantly optimized. Its infrastracture needs to be readied for continuous automation, a core theme at ChefConf, the annual conference from Chef. We talked with Ken Cheney, chief marketing officer at Chef, and Graham Weldon of Rakuten about the shift to continuous automation and the requirements it brings.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nSDjdx0kGq4

Serverless architectures are often positioned as the next big thing in cloud computing, but what exactly is serverless, who is utilizing these tools and services, and how is this ecosystem maturing? In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we spoke to Mike Roberts, cofounder of Symphonia.io, about all things serverless.

Symphonia is Mike Roberts and John Chapin, industry veterans that started using serverless tools a little over a year ago. Using those tools sparked their interest in growing their own knowledge and helping others looking to utilize serverless approaches. Both Mike and John have played early roles in educating the serverless community, including Mike authoring the serverless architectures section of Martin Fowler’s website, which has served as an introduction to serverless concepts for many. I asked Mike to help us establish what exactly serverless is, and what kinds of customers he expects to be adopting serverless in the near term. We also cleared up some concepts around serverless, including the myth of “NoOps”.

Serverless architectures are often positioned as the next big thing in cloud computing, but what exactly is serverless, who is utilizing these tools and services, and how is this ecosystem maturing? In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we spoke to Mike Roberts, cofounder of Symphonia.io, about all things serverless.

Symphonia is Mike Roberts and John Chapin, industry veterans that started using serverless tools a little over a year ago. Using those tools sparked their interest in growing their own knowledge and helping others looking to utilize serverless approaches. Both Mike and John have played early roles in educating the serverless community, including Mike authoring the serverless architectures section of Martin Fowler’s website, which has served as an introduction to serverless concepts for many. I asked Mike to help us establish what exactly serverless is, and what kinds of customers he expects to be adopting serverless in the near term. We also cleared up some concepts around serverless, including the myth of “NoOps”.

Kelsey Hightower had thought he had his keynote all set for ChefConf. Then he saw the keynote speakers talk about how Habitat is used with Kubernetes. That was it. He scrapped his talk, spent the night learning Habitat and presented what he learned the next morning. Then he used Google Now to deploy Habitat to Kubernetes. I think ChefConf attendees would agree. Kelsey's talk was totally dope.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tJqCQzoS7rI

Kelsey Hightower had thought he had his keynote all set for ChefConf. Then he saw the keynote speakers talk about how Habitat is used with Kubernetes. That was it. He scrapped his talk, spent the night learning Habitat and presented what he learned the next morning. Then he used Google Now to deploy Habitat to Kubernetes. I think ChefConf attendees would agree. Kelsey's talk was totally dope.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/tJqCQzoS7rI

There still exists a kind of chasm in the broader software community between the people who are building new application containers today, and the people sandwiched in the middle of the phrase “DevSecOps” whose job is to keep the risk managers at bay. At issue is the very definition of security in a distributed, microservices-driven environment. Infosec professionals demand that containers, wherever they are, be secured. Developers say, that’s not the point: Containers are not virtual machines, and are designed to be ephemeral.

To get a clearer picture of how the newest entrants in the container space are addressing the problem of keeping up both security and the appearance of security, we spoke with John Morello, CEO of security platform maker Twistlock, Liz Rice, an engineer at security integration firm Aqua Security, and Amir Sharif, founder of cloud-native security provider Aporeto. We met these folks at the most recent DockerCon event, for this edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube; https://youtu.be/BbqSYKmQocg

There still exists a kind of chasm in the broader software community between the people who are building new application containers today, and the people sandwiched in the middle of the phrase “DevSecOps” whose job is to keep the risk managers at bay. At issue is the very definition of security in a distributed, microservices-driven environment. Infosec professionals demand that containers, wherever they are, be secured. Developers say, that’s not the point: Containers are not virtual machines, and are designed to be ephemeral.

To get a clearer picture of how the newest entrants in the container space are addressing the problem of keeping up both security and the appearance of security, we spoke with John Morello, CEO of security platform maker Twistlock, Liz Rice, an engineer at security integration firm Aqua Security, and Amir Sharif, founder of cloud-native security provider Aporeto. We met these folks at the most recent DockerCon event, for this edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube; https://youtu.be/BbqSYKmQocg

Oracle has joined Kubernetes as it builds out its new, public cloud service.

Oracle has joined Kubernetes as it builds out its new, public cloud service.