The New Stack Podcast

In his keynote last week at ChefConf, CTO Adam Jacob used The Roots, a well-known hip-hop band, to demonstrate how the promise of an experience remains the same, but the development may actually change.

For example, a fan knows they will see The Roots when they go see the band. That never changes. The fan will always get to see The Roots perform. But how The Roots does its acts may change from show to show. The band has to practice to make sure the delivery is just right so their act meets and exceeds the expectations of its fans.

There are similarities to the way Chef thinks about its own technology development and the way the company thinks about best serving the market. That's where Chef CEO Barry Crist comes in and explains Chef's core focus in a world where outcomes matter most.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WZx2WHH7HcA

In his keynote last week at ChefConf, CTO Adam Jacob used The Roots, a well-known hip-hop band, to demonstrate how the promise of an experience remains the same, but the development may actually change.

For example, a fan knows they will see The Roots when they go see the band. That never changes. The fan will always get to see The Roots perform. But how The Roots does its acts may change from show to show. The band has to practice to make sure the delivery is just right so their act meets and exceeds the expectations of its fans.

There are similarities to the way Chef thinks about its own technology development and the way the company thinks about best serving the market. That's where Chef CEO Barry Crist comes in and explains Chef's core focus in a world where outcomes matter most.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WZx2WHH7HcA

The inspiration and lead-by-example approach to encourage women to never give up in their engineering careers — it seems so critically needed in a technology market now so mired by sexism and harassment.

Women, minorities and people who identify as transgender have in themselves to look to for leadership and support. That's the message we heard from Margaret Mayer, vice president of engineering at Capital One, and Ashley McNamara, principal technologist at Pivotal, from OSCON in Austin.

A highlight of the conversation came when Mayer and McNamara discussed mentoring and women who may be shy or don't want to speak up, in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s_aAZ2birOM

The inspiration and lead-by-example approach to encourage women to never give up in their engineering careers — it seems so critically needed in a technology market now so mired by sexism and harassment.

Women, minorities and people who identify as transgender have in themselves to look to for leadership and support. That's the message we heard from Margaret Mayer, vice president of engineering at Capital One, and Ashley McNamara, principal technologist at Pivotal, from OSCON in Austin.

A highlight of the conversation came when Mayer and McNamara discussed mentoring and women who may be shy or don't want to speak up, in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/s_aAZ2birOM

The Botness Enterprise conference in Austin, Texas is an event that's all about chatbots. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, I’m speaking with Rick Nucci, co-founder of a company called Guru. You might remember Rick’s name from another company he started a few years back — Boomi, which offered one of the very first cloud integration tools—Boomi was later acquired by Dell. Guru actually came out of the frustrations Rick felt at Boomi—namely how to convey vital knowledge across an organization in a way that does not require a lot of sleuthing on the part of the employee. So, in today's podcast, let’s find out how chatbots can make knowledge management easier.

The Botness Enterprise conference in Austin, Texas is an event that's all about chatbots. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, I’m speaking with Rick Nucci, co-founder of a company called Guru. You might remember Rick’s name from another company he started a few years back — Boomi, which offered one of the very first cloud integration tools—Boomi was later acquired by Dell. Guru actually came out of the frustrations Rick felt at Boomi—namely how to convey vital knowledge across an organization in a way that does not require a lot of sleuthing on the part of the employee. So, in today's podcast, let’s find out how chatbots can make knowledge management easier.

At OSCON last week in Austin, Texas, Capital One open source community outreach manager Jared Smith and Jono Bacon — a well-known consultant in the open source community — discussed their observations about the tricky logistics of a financial institution shifting towards more “permissive” open source culture, in a wide-ranging discussion with The New Stack’s Alex Williams.

First, said Smith, you need that top-down support — the perception that openness and permissiveness is being embraced at the highest levels. Senior management fully supports Capital One’s work over the past two years to make open source core to the company’s technology strategy, and its business development.

But what about the institution’s middle managers? Listen to more what Smith and Bacon had to say on working with middle management and other topics, in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

At OSCON last week in Austin, Texas, Capital One open source community outreach manager Jared Smith and Jono Bacon — a well-known consultant in the open source community — discussed their observations about the tricky logistics of a financial institution shifting towards more “permissive” open source culture, in a wide-ranging discussion with The New Stack’s Alex Williams.

First, said Smith, you need that top-down support — the perception that openness and permissiveness is being embraced at the highest levels. Senior management fully supports Capital One’s work over the past two years to make open source core to the company’s technology strategy, and its business development.

But what about the institution’s middle managers? Listen to more what Smith and Bacon had to say on working with middle management and other topics, in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

Establishing best practices for emerging technologies is a task that many will argue is impossible. But it’s still important for you to identify how teams are consistently solving problems, even when the technology changes around them. With Kubernetes, there are many best practices whose emergence may provide keys for assessing Kubernetes’ future.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers, we spoke with Justin Mound, CTO, and Eric Hole, site reliability engineer, at ReactiveOps. We asked them about the best practices that they perceive as emerging around Kubernetes, based on their interaction with customers that are adopting and utilizing the platform. While many of these best practices are firming up within the Kubernetes community, there are still a number of pain points, such as storage persistence and secrets management. We talked about how ReactiveOps is solving some of these problems with customers, and which problems they expect to be resolved as tooling in the Kubernetes ecosystem evolves.

Establishing best practices for emerging technologies is a task that many will argue is impossible. But it’s still important for you to identify how teams are consistently solving problems, even when the technology changes around them. With Kubernetes, there are many best practices whose emergence may provide keys for assessing Kubernetes’ future.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers, we spoke with Justin Mound, CTO, and Eric Hole, site reliability engineer, at ReactiveOps. We asked them about the best practices that they perceive as emerging around Kubernetes, based on their interaction with customers that are adopting and utilizing the platform. While many of these best practices are firming up within the Kubernetes community, there are still a number of pain points, such as storage persistence and secrets management. We talked about how ReactiveOps is solving some of these problems with customers, and which problems they expect to be resolved as tooling in the Kubernetes ecosystem evolves.