The New Stack Podcast

The New Stack Founder and Publisher Alex Williams sat down at the IFX infrastructure conference with one of the companies looking to apply the speed, delivery, and, most importantly, the resilience built into software teams to the infrastructure side. After over a decade at Microsoft followed by more than a year at AWS, Luke Hoban, CTO of Pulumi, was ready to build something that helps developers work with the cloud. The way to bridge the chasm and bring the application development and infrastructure on either side closer together.

The New Stack Context is joined by our very own Jennifer Riggins to discuss this week's topic of Continuous Documentation and its roll in the industry.

The New Stack Editor in Chief Alex Williams sat down with Steven Wong and Dejan Bosanac at KubeCon to talk about just this. Wong is a software engineer on the Cloud-native business unit at VMWare and Bosanac is a senior software engineer at RedHat. Both are also on the Kubernetes working group that looks to address the limitations of Kubernetes on the edge.

Wong started by offering the example of modern luxury car models, which — from entertainment systems to antilock breaks to traction controls to even power windows and doors — may have as many as 37 computers riding around inside them. Each of these connected objects are sources of data that often need configuration and updates.

He looks at Kubernetes orchestration as being uniquely suited to solving this problem — eventually.

Special Guest - Eliot Horowitz MongoDB. In this latest The New Stack Makers podcast recorded live at IFX2019 in Downtown Las Vegas, Horowitz puts the complexities of today’s databases-development challenges into context and describes MongoDB’s evolution to keep up with the paces of change as applications become increasingly more cloud native-centric and stateless.

Brian Dawson, director of product marketing for CloudBees, certainly knows a lot about silos, and especially, how to remove them in support of a healthy DevOps culture and a well-oiled CI/CD pipeline. During the past 30 years of his career, for example, he's seen the adoption of many tools and languages. But unfortunately, new and powerful tools have also traditionally created more barriers to constant and intense collaboration for CI/CD. The problem has certainly been compounded by the explosion in choice of open source tools, especially for cloud native deployments.

Special guests Parasar Kodati and Audrius Stripeikis of Dell EMC speak with us about how the intrinsic battle in modern digital organizations lies between speed and security. As software development velocity seems to endlessly increase, IT organizations are looking at what tools are available to them to provide guardrails and governance —without slowing things down.

Infrastructure-as-code is arising as the solution and the common language between the two sides. As cloud-like consumption is being demanded by developers and automation continues to be the secret to successful DevOps organizations, tooling and specification arises as the welcome solution.

This is what one can say with a reasonably high degree of certainty: organizations are deploying applications in hybrid environments consisting of legacy datacenters and often different cloud services, while the open source business models allowing them to do that are changing. In this context, for database management and use, the choice of NoSQL remains a safe bet for today’s deployments, especially for multi-cloud environments, Alvin Richards, chief product officer, Redis Labs said in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast

In the first segment of this episode, TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark talks with Dave Harrison, senior application development manager at Microsoft, and Raygun co-founder and CEO John-Daniel Trask about how developers can help customers and improve their software development life cycle feedback loops.

Then later in the show, TNS publisher Alex Williams and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson discuss some of the top news and podcasts from the week, including the release of Kubernetes 1.17, continuous documentation for CI/CD, Packet's Tinkerbell bare metal deployment technology, and the importance of data protection in cloud native operations.

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.