This Week in Programming: GitHub Copilot Tests the Copyleft
CoPilot, GitHub’s machine learning-assisted code completion feature continues to generate controversy in some quarters of the open source community. Late last month, Microsoft’s GitHub has moved the...
View ArticleThis Week in Programming: Honeycomb’s ARM Advantage
This week at the AWS Summit in New York, we got a fascinating glimpse into how Honeycomb.io helps engineers debug their systems through the use of big data. Honeycomb’s service is “differentiated by...
View ArticleGoogle Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++
Frustrated by the slow evolution of the C++, Google engineers have launched a new “experimental” open source programming language, called Carbon, as a possible successor to the venerable but aging C++....
View ArticleThe Silent Semantic Failures That Break Distributed Systems
It’s hard enough debugging complex distributed systems when things go wrong, but it’s even harder when they don’t. And it’s these silent errors sysadmins need to watch out for. A group of John Hopkins...
View ArticleTemenos Benchmarks Show MongoDB Fit for Banking Work
A benchmarking test by a financial services software provider has found that the MongoDB database can provide the power and speed needed for banking transactions, suggesting new possibilities of...
View ArticleCloudflare’s Kiwi Farms Support May Soon Hurt Its Bottom Line
At what point should a cloud services provider assume responsibility for the actions of its users? In the U.S., internet service providers are protected under Section 230 of the Communications Decency...
View ArticleHashiCorp Cloud Can Now Spin up a Single Sign-on Zero Trust Network
The HashiCorp Cloud Platform now offers the ability to do single sign-on, reducing a lot of the headache of signing into multiple applications and services. Safer too, arguably. This approach, can...
View ArticleTerraform Cloud Now Offers Less Code — and No Code — Options
Cloud computing infrastructure software provider HashiCorp has given a graphical user interface (GUI) to its popular Terraform auto-provisioning tool, in hopes of making it simple enough for even...
View ArticleKubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022 Rolls into Detroit
It’s that time of the year again when cloud native enthusiasts and professionals assemble to discuss all things Kubernetes. KubeCon+CloudNativeCon 2022 is being held later this month in Detroit,...
View ArticleWebAssembly Needs Schedulers, and Kubernetes Doesn’t Quite Fit the Bill
Cloud native computing no longer only means working with containers. One good example is the architecture of Cosmonic WebAssembly Platform as a Service. It is as cloud native as you can be, but with...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 15: MERGE Ahead
With last week’s release of version 15, the Postgres relational database system had made it easier for enterprise users of Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server to move to this open source alternative,...
View ArticleLatest Enhancements to HashiCorp Terraform and Terraform Cloud
What Is Terraform? Terraform is HashiCorp’s flagship software. The open source tool provides a way to define IT resources — such as monitoring software or cloud services — in human-readable...
View ArticleMLOps Needs a Better Way to Manage GPUs
GPUs are a necessity for deep learning and other large-scale forms of machine learning, yet we don’t yet have the tools to manage them effectively as we can with regular CPUs. Especially with the...
View ArticleZero Trust Security and the HashiCorp Cloud Platform
Organizations are now, almost by default, now becoming multicloud operations. No cloud service offers the full breadth of what an enterprise may need, and enterprises themselves find themselves using...
View ArticleKubernetes and Amazon Web Services
Cloud giant Amazon Web Services manages the largest number of Kubernetes clusters in the world, according to the company. In this podcast recording, AWS Senior Engineer Jay Pipes discusses AWS’ use of...
View ArticleHow Boeing Uses Cloud Native
In this latest podcast from The New Stack, we spoke with Ricardo Torres, who is the chief engineer of open source and cloud native for aerospace giant Boeing. Torres also joined the Cloud Native...
View ArticleDocker versus Kubernetes: Start Here
Kubernetes won soundly, in the battle between Kubernetes vs. Docker. Kubernetes today casts a fearsome shadow over all of production-grade IT; Docker’s bits are scattered across different open source...
View ArticleHazelcast and the Benefits of Real-Time Data
In this latest podcast from The New Stack, we interview Manish Devgan, chief product officer for Hazelcast, which offers a real-time stream processing engine. This interview was recorded at...
View ArticlePlatform Engineering Benefits Developers, and Companies too
In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we delve more deeply into the emerging practice of platform engineering. The guests for this show are Aeris Stewart, community manager at...
View ArticlePort: Platform Engineering Needs a Holistic Approach
By now, almost everyone agreed platform engineering is probably a good idea, in which an organizations builds an internal development platform to empower coders and speed application releases. So, for...
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