GitHub Acquires npm, Buying Microsoft a Presence in the Node/JavaScript...
Code repository service GitHub is in the process of acquiring the preeminent software registry for Node.js and JavaScript modules, npm, the two companies announced Monday. GitHub plans to invest in...
View ArticleBeyond Kube-Proxy: Project Calico Harnesses eBPF for a Faster Data Plane
Thanks to the power of the newly-introduced eBPF in the Linux kernel, Tigera has been able to outfit its Kubernetes-focused Calico network management software with a new data plane mode, one that can...
View ArticleIstio 1.5 Brings a Binary Installer, WASM-Based Extensibility for Envoy
The newest version of the open source Istio service mesh, version 1.5, comes with a fresh installer to simplify the deployment process, along with a new extension model, based on WebAssembly (WASM), to...
View ArticleThe New Stack Context: Who Owns Security in the DevOps Process?
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with Liran Tal, a developer...
View ArticleCTOs Seek Volunteers to Help the U.S. Government’s COVID-19 Efforts
A group of technology leaders from organizations such as Facebook and Kleiner Perkins has launched a volunteer initiative to find IT professionals to set up and run the tech to help the U.S. federal,...
View ArticleKubernetes 1.18 Brings Kubectl Debugging, Ingress Improvements
With the release of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Kubernetes 1.18, the open source container orchestration platform has achieved an optimal balance between new experimental “alpha” features,...
View ArticleCNCF Picks New Dates for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019
Thursday, Aug. 13 to Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020: Those are the new dates The Cloud Native Computing’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020, originally planned for this month, but canceled earlier this...
View ArticleCNCF: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe Still on; Coronavirus Progress Monitored
Update: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 has been postponed. Despite worries around the spread of the coronavirus, the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe conference — expected to bring thousands of...
View ArticleLightstep: Pay for the Observability, Not Just the Telemetry
In the opinion of Ben Sigelman, CEO and co-founder of Lightstep, users should not have to pay for system metrics. For monitoring microservices, telemetry should be a commodity. The value-add should...
View ArticleDigitalOcean: COVID-19 Puts Capacity Planning on an Accelerated Schedule
While countries around the world struggle to get a handle on the COVID-19 pandemic, engineers are watching and tweaking their networks to accommodate sudden growths of traffic, as students move to...
View ArticleChip Childers Takes Executive Director Role at Cloud Foundry
The Cloud Foundry Foundation has announced that its long-time chief technology officer, Chip Childers, is assuming the role of executive director as of April 2. He is replacing Abby Kearns, who has...
View ArticleDragonfly Brings Peer-to-Peer Image Sharing to Kubernetes
Dragonfly, a peer-to-peer image and file-sharing technology developed by Alibaba Cloud, is now an incubation-level hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The software provides a way...
View ArticleTrow, a Container Registry to Run Inside Your Kubernetes Cluster
Today, most container registries run independently of the clusters that run the containers built from their images. But running a registry within a cluster itself could offer many advantages, including...
View ArticleOpenTelemetry Steps up to Manage the Mayhem of Microservices
Work continues to make OpenTelemetry the standard set of vendor-neutral specifications and associated tools for capturing cloud native operational data. Bringing the work close to production-readiness...
View ArticleThe New Stack Context: Stress, Resilience and the Network Effects of COVID-19
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with The New Stack correspondent...
View ArticlePancake Podcast: Cassandra and the Kubernetes Data Plane
DataStax sponsored this podcast. What is the role that the data plane plays in a Kubernetes ecosystem? This was the theme for our latest (virtual) pancake breakfast and panel discussion, sponsored by...
View ArticleWhy COVID-19 Contact Tracing Requires a Distributed Database
As the COVID-19 global pandemic continues to work its way through the population, a discussion has arisen over the best of tracking the virus. One proposition floated for the United States anyway has...
View ArticlePulumi: Program the Infrastructure with an Actual Programming Language
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with Joe Duffy, founder and CEO...
View ArticleHow HAProxy Streamlines Kubernetes Ingress Control
In 2016, when the digital media arm of the French Métropole Television (M6) streamed the European Football Championship (UEFA Euro) and the French team made it to the final, the infrastructure Ops team...
View ArticleAWS Bottlerocket and the Age of the Linux Cloud Distributions
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a podcast where we discuss the latest news and perspectives in the world of cloud native computing. For this week’s episode, we spoke with Deepak Singh, Amazon Web...
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