Airbnb’s 10 Takeaways from Moving to Microservices
Melanie Cebula, software engineer at Airbnb shares lessons learned At the recent FutureStack 2017 in New York, Melanie Cebula, Software Engineer at Airbnb, talked about the journey her company has been...
View ArticleChasing Grace: A New Documentary Series about Women in Tech
After hearing several women in tech, smart women with bright futures, talk about leaving their jobs, Jennifer Cloer, Founder/Lead Consultant, reTHINKit PR, decided to launch the “Chasing Grace...
View ArticleMove Fast and Break People: ‘Technically Wrong’ Examines Toxic Tech and What...
“There’s nothing wrong with you,” writes Sara Wachter-Boettcher in her new book Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech. Rather, “There is something wrong...
View ArticleDebug Kubernetes-Based Services with Datawire’s Telepresence
The Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine may super easy to get running, but customization has been a bear. There’s virtually no guidance for any customization, which is what all...
View ArticleNo Grumpy Humans and Other Site Reliability Engineering Lessons from Google
“It’s really about communication, humility and trust,” said Google engineer Liz Fong-Jones of the emerging practice of site reliability engineering, at New Relic’s FutureStack New York 2017 last month....
View ArticleBeyond Bitcoin: Oracle, IBM Prepare Blockchains for Industrial Use
There’s been a lot of talk recently about blockchains beyond its original use for supporting Bitcoin. Earlier this year, we covered a session in London where the takeaway from the panel was there are...
View ArticleLightStep Brings Performance Management to Microservices
One of the side effects of moving to a microservices architecture is that organizations can lose the capacity to efficiently troubleshoot their entire application and how the different pieces fit...
View ArticleLinkedIn Engineer’s AI Work Recognized by CloudNOW Innovation Awards
A member of LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions team, Senior Software Engineer Neha Jain is working on a hiring application that leverages the cloud, machine learning, and other cutting-edge tech. Her work...
View ArticleTech Ageism and the Myth of the ‘Digital Native’
A majority of workers over 30 are worried about losing their jobs because of the ageism in tech, according to a recent report from Visier, an employee data analytics company. It pulled HR data from...
View ArticleHeptio Expands Ark Disaster Recovery for Azure Environments
Kubernetes services company Heptio has extended Heptio Ark disaster recovery software for Azure environments. Heptio Ark manages disaster recovery for both Kubernetes cluster resources and persistent...
View ArticleThe Future Beyond Kubernetes 1.9
Kubernetes has had two new releases in the past six months. How do companies keep pace? And what is the role of developer advocates, maintainers and lead developers in serving customers in this open...
View ArticleHow Do Values Affect Software Companies?
In this end-of-the-year discussion about missions, values and goals, Alex Williams, TNS founder, was joined by Ashley Williams, Services and Ops engineer at npm, Inc. who has been active in the...
View ArticleOracle’s Approach to Offering a Microservices-Friendly Cloud Platform
Kubernetes and microservices are still relatively new to Oracle, but last year’s OpenWorld 2017 Oracle user conference showed the company trying to quickly catch up, with a move to cloud-native...
View ArticleSetting Core Values for the IT Industry
In the second installment in our series on values and how they affect workplace culture, we spoke with Sam Ramji, vice president of product management at Google; Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, CEO of Bitnami;...
View ArticleWhy You Should Care About Diversity and Inclusion
Aubrey Blanche, Global Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Atlassian, joins us in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast to talk about the difference between diversity and inclusion and...
View ArticleLinden Lab’s Project Sansar Brings Virtual Reality to Second Life
On this newest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Tara Hernandez, Linden Lab’s senior director of engineering, and Lu Chen, Linden Lab Data Analyst joins host T.C. Currie to talk about Project...
View ArticleCloud vs. Edge: A Venture Capitalist’s View on What’s in Store for 2018
For this episode of The New Stack Makers, we talk with Steve Herrod, a venture capitalist at General Catalyst where he focuses on infrastructure. He recently published an article on LinkedIn called...
View ArticleFastly CTO on Edge Computing, Hiring Engineers, and Moonshots
In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Tyler McMullen, a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Fastly, a leading content delivery networks (CDNs), sat down with us to discuss his...
View ArticleVeritone Offers AI-as-a-Service for Developers
“AI is revolutionizing how we process information,” said Al Brown, senior vice president of engineering at Veritone. Veritone is a 4-four-year-old company providing what I’m calling AI-as-a-Service...
View ArticleIsaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory, Chats about Canaries and Testing Microservices...
Isaac Mosquera, chief technology officer and co-founder at Armory.io sat down to talk about testing microservices in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by San Francisco...
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