The New Stack Podcast

Canonical's wildly popular Ubuntu Linux distribution continues to quietly play a role in the continued widespread adoption of Kubernetes. And that quiet support is as it should be, concluded Kelsey Hightower, Google Cloud Platform principal developer advocate, and Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS hosted this episode.

Taking a step back, Ubuntu, as well as Linux in general, has become much easier to use, expanding beyond what many once considered to be a server operating system and an esoteric alternative to Windows.

“There was this kind of inflection point where Linux has gone from like this command line server-side thing to something that you could actually run on a desktop with a meaningful UI and it felt like we were closing the gap on all the other popular open operating systems,” said Hightower.

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Network connections can be likened to attending an amusement park, where Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), serves as the ticket to enter the park and the domain name system (DNS) is the map around the park. Network management and security provider Infoblox made a name for itself by collapsing those two core pieces into a single platform for enterprises to be able to control where IP addresses are assigned and how they manage network creation and movement.

"They control their own DNS so that they can have better control over their traffic,” explained Anthony James, Infoblox vice president of  product marketing, in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack.

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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.

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The amount of data created has doubled every year, presenting a host of challenges for organizations: security and privacy issues for starters, but also storage costs. What situations call for that data move to decentralized cloud storage rather than on-prem or even a single public cloud storage setup? What are the advantages and challenges of a decentralized cloud storage solution for data, and how can those be navigated?

On this episode of Makers, the New Stack podcast, Ben Golub, CEO of Storj, and Krista Spriggs, software engineering manager at the company, were joined by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, along with Heather Joslyn, TNS’ features editor. Golub and Spriggs talked about how decentralized storage for data makes sense for organizations concerned about cloud costs, security, and  resiliency.

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Once they have piloted Kubernetes, many organizations then want to scale up their K8s deployments, and run workloads across many clusters. But managing multiple clusters requires a new set of tools, ones that automate many routine and manual tasks. So, for its fifth Tech Radar report, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation surveyed the tools available for multicluster management, based on the input from its end-user community.

In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talk with two people who helped assemble the report, Federico Hernandez, principal engineer social media analysis provider Meltwater, and Simone Sciarrati, Meltwater engineering team lead. We chatted about the report's findings and how the multicluster management tool landscape is taking shape. Co-hosting this episode is Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack and the Tech Radar's organizer Cheryl Hung, CNCF vice president of ecosystem.

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Video games continue to explode in popularity, while the number of potential attack vectors increase as well. In this The New Stack Makers podcast host Alex Williams, publisher and founder of TNS and co-host Bharat Bhat, marketing lead, developer relations, for Okta, cover why and how video game platforms and connections should be more secure with guest Okta Senior Developer Advocate Nick Gamb.

The gaming industry has often served as a showcase for some of industry’s greatest programming talents. As a case in point, John Carmack’s C++ code underpinning “Doom” is considered one of historical greats of programming not just for gaming but for software in general. For Gamb, while growing up, playing “Quake” and “Doom” before studying the code for these games served as his entry point into the software industry, as he noted how these games helped to “revolutionize gaming with first-person shooters (FPS).

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The internet's fabled history includes such milestones as the Advanced Research Projects Agency's (ARPA) development of packet switching (ARPANET), paving the way for today's modern infrastructure, or Tim Berners-Lee’s research that culminated in the explosive adoption of the World Wide Web (WEB) in the 1990s.  Today, as microservices, Kubernetes and distributed environments and connections become more prevalent, the use of the Internet is becoming more decentralized as well.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, Storj Labs' Ben Golub, chairman and interim CEO, and Katherine Johnson, head of compliance, discuss how the Internet today centers around decentralization — and more importantly — how decentralization reflects upon the roots of the internet.

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Observability is widely misunderstood, but in an age of increased security breaches and more business being conducted online, it’s never been more important. How should organizations be thinking about their resources in multicloud environments? What strategies should they adopt to catch gaps in their security before hackers do? And also, what cultural changes might DevOps teams adopt to strengthen their observability?

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Maya Levine, technical marketing engineer and cloud native and cyber security evangelist for Check Point, joined co-hosts Alex Williams, The New Stack’s publisher, and Heather Joslyn, TNS’s features editor, for a discussion of what observability means now. 

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Go owes its popularity to a number of factors as Golang advocates often speak of its speed, robustness and versatility, especially compared to C++ and Java and JavaScript. In this The New Stack Makers podcast, hosts TNS’ Alex Williams, founder and publisher, and Darryl Taft, news editor, cover the reasons for decentralized storage provider Storj’s shift to Go with featured guests Storj’s JT Olio, CTO, and Natalie Villasana, software engineer.

Storj’s needs for Go to support its development and operations stems from its unique requirements as the “Airbnb for hard drives,” Olio explained.

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Cloud native computing is bringing about such a sea change in how applications are developed, deployed and run, that, not surprisingly, it is changing the rules for information security as well. Case in point: serverless computing.

In this latest edition of The New Stack makers podcast, we speak with Check Point's Cloud Security Strategist Hillel Solow, who has been at the cutting edge of these changes.  Solow co-founded Protego Labs, a pioneer in serverless security. Security vendor Check Point saw the writing on the security wall early on and gobbled up Protego in 2019. The New Stack Publisher Alex Williams and TNS Editor Joab Jackson hosted this episode.

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