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.

This podcast is sponsored by InfluxData. In this week’s The New Stack Makers podcast interview in advance of AWS re:Invent, The New Stack Founder and Publisher Alex Williams caught up with InfluxData Vice President of Product Tim Hall to discuss why time-series databases are gaining in popularity with developers and how they differ from other databases.

Oracle continues to grow its global cloud presence. At KubeCon, the company announced its global expansion along with Kafka streaming, an API gateway, and data logging capabilities.

Service meshes, Istio and the underling architectures — fine topics to discuss over a short stack with The New Stack. At Kubecon + Cloud NativeCon in San Diego, We explore the scaling of application architectures and how business objectives fit with approaches, team development and workflows that come with service mesh technologies.