The New Stack Podcast

Every software engineer should be able to answer these questions: What just happened? What’s happening now? What’s about to happen? Charity Majors, the CEO of debugging platform Honeycomb, believes it’s not just something that the operations team needs to know -- everyone needs that level of observability. Building services that manage data intelligently is everyone's task, and to some extent, everyone's problem.

The New Stack Technical Editor Benjamin Ball spoke with Majors for this latest edition of The New Stack Makers, from ServerlessConf Austin 2017. Majors spoke about dispelling the myth of NoOps, and getting down to simple fact that monitoring, testing, and debugging are not isolated behaviors any more. The next-generation wave of DevOps, as she describes it, is not only reducing response time durations, but reducing the number of overall incidents, and improving the way teams maintain and operate software. But it requires attention to the roles people play, and the interaction between people in those roles.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FWoUrtser0Q

Every software engineer should be able to answer these questions: What just happened? What’s happening now? What’s about to happen? Charity Majors, the CEO of debugging platform Honeycomb, believes it’s not just something that the operations team needs to know -- everyone needs that level of observability. Building services that manage data intelligently is everyone's task, and to some extent, everyone's problem.

The New Stack Technical Editor Benjamin Ball spoke with Majors for this latest edition of The New Stack Makers, from ServerlessConf Austin 2017. Majors spoke about dispelling the myth of NoOps, and getting down to simple fact that monitoring, testing, and debugging are not isolated behaviors any more. The next-generation wave of DevOps, as she describes it, is not only reducing response time durations, but reducing the number of overall incidents, and improving the way teams maintain and operate software. But it requires attention to the roles people play, and the interaction between people in those roles.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FWoUrtser0Q

Where to eat when at a conference? Like everyone else, we face that question when on the road all the time.

So, here are some places for all of you who will be in Austin this year, be it at ChefConf this coming week, HashiConf in September or KubeCon in December.

The guidelines are simple. We look for places that are near the conference locations, which usually means in the city's downtown. Then we pick a few places ourselves and ask conference attendees where they like to go.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bHrn5S6rwbc

Here are the picks for this premiere of TNS Eats in order of appearance in the above video:

Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q

Gus’s World Famous Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken

Green Light Social

Handlebar

Speakeasy

Swift's Attic

Blender's and Bowls (downtown)

Torchy's Tacos (South Congress)

Iron Works

Moonshine Grill

Royal Blue Grocery (3rd and Brazos)

Paco's Tacos

Franklin's Barbecue

Where to eat when at a conference? Like everyone else, we face that question when on the road all the time.

So, here are some places for all of you who will be in Austin this year, be it at ChefConf this coming week, HashiConf in September or KubeCon in December.

The guidelines are simple. We look for places that are near the conference locations, which usually means in the city's downtown. Then we pick a few places ourselves and ask conference attendees where they like to go.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bHrn5S6rwbc

Here are the picks for this premiere of TNS Eats in order of appearance in the above video:

Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q

Gus’s World Famous Hot & Spicy Fried Chicken

Green Light Social

Handlebar

Speakeasy

Swift's Attic

Blender's and Bowls (downtown)

Torchy's Tacos (South Congress)

Iron Works

Moonshine Grill

Royal Blue Grocery (3rd and Brazos)

Paco's Tacos

Franklin's Barbecue

Kelsey Hightower is a technologist with Google and the co-chair of the OSCON conference. This was Hightower’s second OSCON as co-chair but the last one he will lead in Austin. Next year, Hightower will co-chair OSCON in Portland where the conference is returning once again. Portland is where OSCON thrived for many years. And so many are rejoicing that the conference is returning to the city where Kelsey lives and The New Stack calls home As Hightower says: OSCON is Portland.

Hightower calls OSCON to the GitHub of conferences. Like GitHub, OSCON has something for everyone. But for Hightower, what really resonated this year? Find out in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers.

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

Kelsey Hightower is a technologist with Google and the co-chair of the OSCON conference. This was Hightower’s second OSCON as co-chair but the last one he will lead in Austin. Next year, Hightower will co-chair OSCON in Portland where the conference is returning once again. Portland is where OSCON thrived for many years. And so many are rejoicing that the conference is returning to the city where Kelsey lives and The New Stack calls home As Hightower says: OSCON is Portland.

Hightower calls OSCON to the GitHub of conferences. Like GitHub, OSCON has something for everyone. But for Hightower, what really resonated this year? Find out in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers.

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

These days, Node.js is under the hood of everything from the web, the Internet of Things and desktop applications to microservice architectures. Node’s 15 million-plus downloads per month, and more than a billion package downloads per week, render it the world’s biggest open source platform.

On this episode of The New Stack Makers, we get to know Mark Hinkle, recently named the new Executive Director of the Node.js Foundation. Or, as Hinkle described it, “I’ve taken the mask of the Dread Pirate Roberts of the Node.js Foundation — a tongue-in-cheek way of saying I am here to help ensure that Node.js continues to continue to be a healthy, growing ecosystem long after I am long gone."

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/qa-mark-hinkle-new-executive-director-node-js-foundation/

These days, Node.js is under the hood of everything from the web, the Internet of Things and desktop applications to microservice architectures. Node’s 15 million-plus downloads per month, and more than a billion package downloads per week, render it the world’s biggest open source platform.

On this episode of The New Stack Makers, we get to know Mark Hinkle, recently named the new Executive Director of the Node.js Foundation. Or, as Hinkle described it, “I’ve taken the mask of the Dread Pirate Roberts of the Node.js Foundation — a tongue-in-cheek way of saying I am here to help ensure that Node.js continues to continue to be a healthy, growing ecosystem long after I am long gone."

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/qa-mark-hinkle-new-executive-director-node-js-foundation/

By now, even most large organizations have realized the benefits that accrue with using open source software—the collective hive mind that fixes bugs and develops new features at a faster pace than any commercial software company could match. Yet, companies in highly regulated industries, such as the banking industry, face considerable regulatory hurdles in using open source software. In this New Stack Makers interview, Jared Smith, director of Open Source Community Outreach at Capital One, talks about how Capital One worked through these challenges to enjoy the befits of open source.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPg6UhrrBRQ

By now, even most large organizations have realized the benefits that accrue with using open source software—the collective hive mind that fixes bugs and develops new features at a faster pace than any commercial software company could match. Yet, companies in highly regulated industries, such as the banking industry, face considerable regulatory hurdles in using open source software. In this New Stack Makers interview, Jared Smith, director of Open Source Community Outreach at Capital One, talks about how Capital One worked through these challenges to enjoy the befits of open source.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zPg6UhrrBRQ