At AWS re:Invent this December, The New Stack Founder and Publisher Alex Williams sat down with Liran Tancman and Corey Scobie. Scobie is the CTO of 10-year-old open source automation platform Chef. Tancman is the CEO of cybersecurity newcomer Rezilion, which allows cloud environments to self-protect and revert to the previous intended state automatically when an attack occurs. This week Rezilion announced $8 million in seed funding.

Williams spoke with Tancman and Scobie about a new partnership between Rezilion and Chef to extend the automation and reliability of DevOps to include the necessary resiliency of security automation.

Data streaming is needed more than ever. It's a consideration as data becomes as much a requirement to achieve agility and composability with events-based principles to build business state as they come from multiple feeds and sources.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast recorded live at IFX2019 in Downtown Las Vegas,  Zachary Smith, CEO and co-founder of Packet, and Ivo Rook, senior vice president at Sprint, discussed how bare metal fits into the IoT story. The December 4-5 event was Packet’s second annual vendor-neutral infrastructure conference and is organized at the same time as AW Re:Invent.

For the first 12 years of Gwen Shapira’s career, she worked on relational databases, where she learned all about both their power and limitations. In her The New Stack Makers interview, Shapira, a system architect at Confluent, excitedly shares how event-driven architecture literally breaks down those limitations and redefines the boundaries of service responsibilities.

Event-driven architecture is part of the broader industry trend of separating components and streamlining processes so that releases are faster and organized around user activity. It's all about pulling apart applications into components — usually microservices — that you then chain together to better service business needs through the publishing of, listening to, and reacting to those events.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, Dell EMC's Nelson Hsu, director, solutions marketing for data protection, and Alexander Almeida, consultant, product marketing, describe the intersection of data protection and cloud native deployments and DevOps' roll in securing mission-critical workloads. Sponsored by Dell.

In Context Episode #95 The New Stack Crew discusses two conferences this week: Amazon Web Services' RE:Invent 2019 and Packet's IFX conference. TNS Publisher Alex Williams hosted this episode, and we speak with TNS European Correspondent B. Cameron Gain. This episode was sponsored by CloudBees.

This is the classic security problem Gareth Rushgrove, director of product management at Snyk, pointed to during his conversation with The New Stack founder and publisher Alex Williams at KubeCon's Cloud Native Security Day. Snyk is a Software-as-a-Service dedicated to helping organizations flag and fix vulnerabilities in their open source, third-party dependencies.

The New Stack Editor in Chief Alex Williams sat down at last month’s Kubecon to talk about telco’s cloud-native future with Heather Kirksey, VP of community and ecosystems at OPNFV, and Taylor Carpenter, partner and founder of Vulk Coop design and development cooperative. The different collaborative, telecom-focused Linux Foundation and CNCF working groups that Kirksey and Carpenter are a part of have witnessed — and sometimes driven — telco’s move over the last five years from monolithic hardware appliances toward what’s now known as the cloud.

Deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure may be the most challenging aspect of developing and delivering cloud-native applications. We will discuss leveraging a purpose-built appliance that provides a production-ready Kubernetes platform that also supports existing VMware virtualized applications in hybrid (private and public cloud) deployments. This approach provides rapid results to quickly stand up the environment as well as automated Lifecycle Management of the entire stack to enable organizations to securely and non-disruptively stay up-to-date and secure with their Kubernetes and vSphere clusters. We will discuss what is available today from Dell Technologies Cloud with PKS on VCF on VxRail as well as the roadmap forward for next year and beyond with Project Pacific and Tanzu Mission control.

Janakiram MSV is one of the few analysts and writers who is also a certified member of the Kubernetes community. He is able to bring into his writing an analysis that details the issues that an everyday users and developers face. He is also a regular contributor to The New Stack, on Kubernetes and other technologies. 

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded live at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019, Janakiram discusses why developer happiness is such a challenge, the new role of the configurator and the issues that are coming as Kubernetes matures and isolation becomes a larger issue. He also discusses multi-tenancy and challenges to come as users adopt services and face security risks with less defined cluster isolation.