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SwampUP: DevOps Needs Guardrails, Not Gates, for Security
Baking security into DevOps processes (via “shift left”) continues to be a challenge for many fast-moving shops, though some smart thinkers at JFrog‘s recent SwampUP virtual conference have a few ideas...
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The New Stack Makers: Staying ‘In the Zone’ with the Right Dev Tools
Today’s developer seems to be working with more tools than ever. Building a Node.js-based JavaScript application could require over a dozen tools to get code out into production. It’s easy to get...
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Cloud Native Security Shifts the Focus Back to the Application
Cloud native computing is bringing about such a sea change in how applications are developed, deployed and run, that, not surprisingly, it is changing the rules for information security as well. Case...
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WebAssembly Aims to Eliminate the File System
WebAssembly continues to disrupt the IT ecosystem. The latest plans for the Web Assembly System Interface (WASI) aims to, over time, do away with the file system, and possibly even the operating system...
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LogDNA: Observability Enables DevOps
For the folks at LogDNA, DevOps is all about empathy, in getting beyond the “hot potato” mindset of not worrying about something because it is not your problem, and instead getting the whole crew...
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CDRA Completes the CI/CD Software Development Lifecycle
When it comes to at-scale software development, is continuous delivery and release automation (CDRA) the next step in the evolution of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)? Forrester...
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Facebook Makes a Big Leap to MySQL 8
Try not to put off upgrading your vital infrastructure software for more than one release, and if you do make custom code changes to an open source project, prepare for the extra work integrating those...
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Cloud Foundry HTTP 2 Project Thwarted by GoLang Indifference
A project to bring HTTP/2 to the CloudFoundry application development platform ran into a roadblock when the keepers of the Go Language did not respond to requests, with sufficient swiftness anyway,...
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How Airbnb and Twitter Cut Back on Microservice Complexities
Two recently-posted talks from Airbnb and Twitter show how these web-scale companies are battling encroaching complexity in their respective microservices-based architectures. Both established robust...
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Facebook Rolls Its Own High-Precision Commodity Time Servers
Unsatisfied with the accuracy provided by off-the-shelf time-synchronization, Facebook has created and released as open source the specifications for its own picosecond-precise time-keeping device, the...
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John Deere Harvests Def Con Mockery for Lax Web Security
Agricultural equipment giant John Deere left an extremely sensitive Okta-generated digital certificate on a public-facing website, potentially jeopardizing the security of a whole range of remotely...
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What to Expect at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon
It’s that time of the year again when we gather to discuss all matters related to Kubernetes and the other assorted tooling necessary to make cloud native computing happen. KubeCon+CloudNativeCon will...
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Machine Learning Data Gets Type Checking, Validation with Flyte, Pandera
Machine Learning has a data quality problem. A set of bad data can work its way through the entire modeling process before someone may notice that it’s faulty, forcing a laborious debugging process....
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Linux’s Rocky Road to Rolling Releases
The way the keepers of Linux increment the version numbers of their kernel releases, and what many of its users think these release numbers mean, are two different things. And now the Linux kernel...
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Data on Kubernetes: Operators, Tools Need Standardization
When it was introduced to the world, Kubernetes showed off its ability to easily juggle stateless workloads — those workloads that did not need to interact with some form of permanently stored data....
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CNCF Working Group Sets Some Standards for ‘GitOps’
Engineers from GitHub, Microsoft, CodeFresh, Weaveworks, Red Hat and other cloud native-savvy companies have banded together to assemble a set of definitions and conformance specifications for GitOps....
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Amazon CloudWatch Gets Feature Flags, User-Based Monitoring
Competitively aligning with other application observability platforms, Amazon Web Services has augmented its Amazon CloudWatch monitoring service with feature flags and A/B testing, the company...
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Amazon Inspector Comes to Prisma Cloud
Thanks to a partnership with Amazon Web Services, Palo Alto Networks has extended the capabilities of its Prisma Cloud cloud native security platform through an integration with AWS’ Amazon Inspector....
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Amazon Web Services Now Supports the Zettabyte File System
A decades-old file system, one with a storied history, may play a pivotal role in the future of high-volume cloud computing. The Zettabyte File System (ZFS), has found a home at Amazon Web Services,...
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Werner Vogel’s 6 Rules for Good API Design
If there was any one company that should know how to build Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), it should be Amazon Web Services. The cloud giant processes 1/2 billion API calls a second just for...
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