The Slow Climb of Postgres and the Value of Persistence
Those intrepid individuals trying to bring a new innovation into the world, or a new start-up, should keep in mind the power of perseverance. Even if a technology is a hit, the creator must still face...
View ArticleHow LinkedIn, PayPal Each Beat Database Lag with Home-Built Open Source
At QCon New York last month, PayPal and LinkedIn each unveiled new software projects designed to speed and simplify the movement of data. Both were designed internally to better manage the crushing...
View ArticleAWS Debuts an Event Bus, Programmable Infrastructure Support
Keeping a close eye on how customers are using its cloud offerings, Amazon Web Services has debuted two new notable services aimed at automating the deployment of cloud native applications onto the...
View ArticleHow Uber Eats Uses Machine Learning to Estimate Delivery Times
Estimating the perfect times for drivers to pick up food delivery orders for a number of different restaurants can be one of the most difficult of computational problems. Think of it like the Traveling...
View Article4 Reasons Not to Use Programming Loops (and a Few Ways to Avoid Them)
Although they are one of the first constructs that junior programmers learn, loops can pose many potential issues the software development process, and could be avoided in many cases, according to...
View ArticleMicrofrontends: The Benefits of Microservices for Client-Side Development
Good for the goose, good for the gander? Chief architect Luca Mezzalira is on a quest to bring the idea of microservices to frontend development, after seeing the benefits it brought to the...
View ArticleSplunk Moves into Microservices Monitoring with SignalFX Acquisition
Looking to expand into the difficult field of microservices observability, application performance management (APM) software provider Splunk is acquiring SignalFX, for approximately $1.05 billion,...
View ArticleVMware’s Project Pacific Integrates vSphere with Kubernetes
In what VMware calls the biggest change to vSphere in the past decade, the virtualization giant has rearchitected the virtualization platform to include Kubernetes in a venture called Project Pacific....
View ArticleHashiCorp Consul Service on Azure: the First Fully Managed Service Mesh
HashiCorp sponsored this post, written independently by The New Stack. With some behind-the-scenes help from Microsoft, HashiCorp has launched what it calls the first fully managed service mesh,...
View ArticleContext: New Versions of HashiCorp’s TerraForm Cloud for Teams and for...
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and views from the cloud native community. This week we recorded our podcast from HashiConf in Seattle with Hashicorp...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Expands Its Managed Kubernetes Service Anthos with Serverless,...
Google Cloud continues to expand its Anthos Managed Kubernetes service with new features that aim to make cloud native computing easier to use for the enterprise. A service mesh, based on the open...
View ArticleGitLab Commit Brooklyn: DevOps as a Single Application
Like many vendors in the space of software development tools and services, GitLab, which made its name with version control, is looking to automate and consolidate continuous integration/continuous...
View ArticleNew Relic Expands Observability Platform with New Logging, Tracing and Metrics
New Relic sponsored this story. IT systems monitoring service provider New Relic is expanding its flagship New Relic One observability platform to include new capabilities in logging, traces, and...
View ArticleRed Hat Expands Ansible into a Full IT Automation Platform with...
Red Hat is expanding its Ansible enterprise package to handle new demands that are coming from increased use of IT automation, as well as to address the possibilities of how programmable infrastructure...
View ArticleHashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet: In a Cloud Native World, Service Names are the...
HashiCorp sponsored this post. Since Dave McJannet took on the role of then-emerging infrastructure software provider HashiCorp in 2016, both the company, and the industry it serves has changed...
View ArticleNew Relic Eases Log Management into Observability
New Relic sponsored this post. New Relic has expanded its flagship New Relic One platform to include logging capabilities as well, setting the stage for tracing the performance and digging out...
View ArticleEclipse Launches a Working Group to Build Out Cloud Native Tools
Pivoting from its Java roots, the Eclipse Foundation has launched the Eclipse Cloud Development Tools Working Group (ECD WG), a vendor-neutral body focusing on cloud development tools. Broadcom, IBM,...
View ArticleCockroach Labs Launches CockroachCloud, a Fully-Managed Distributed SQL Database
With an eye towards serving internet growth companies with growing global customer bases, the New York-based Cockroach Labs has launched a managed service for its CockroachDB distributed SQL database,...
View ArticleLinux Kernel Security in the Age of Spectre, Meltdown
The security landscape for Linux has been a different world since the hardware-based attacks of Spectre, Meltdown and others have proliferated, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman, speaking at the last...
View ArticleQ&A: With Anthos, Google Introduces Kubernetes to the Enterprise
Among the large cloud vendors, Google is perhaps best known for its deep engineering bench. It is the company that brought the open source Kubernetes container engine to the world after all. But to...
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