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Containers and Storage: Why We Aren’t There Yet
Despite assurances from the purveyors of “frothy container orchestration systems,” persistent storage will remain a roadblock for containers for the foreseeable future, argued James Bottomley, an IBM...
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SXSW 2017: Artificial Intelligence Should Empathize, Not Just Understand
So a big theme at the SXSW conference last month was artificial intelligence, or how to use AI to make better products and services. One of the speakers at this year’s event, Sophie Kleber an Executive...
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Kubernetes Sets the Stage for Container-Native Storage
With the release of Kubernetes 1.6 last month, came a number of production-ready features that could streamline storage for containers. And already a number of efforts from Red Hat, CoreOS and Quantum...
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Docker Launches LinuxKit and the Moby Project for Building Containerized...
Docker wants to make containers, rather operating systems, the base building block for data center operations. The company has unveiled two new open source projects for system builders to create their...
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Docker Doesn’t Fear Kubernetes, Keeps Sights on the Enterprise Instead
To hear Docker CEO Ben Golub tell it, when a Docker sales reps pay a visit to an organization that turns out to be interested in cobbling together its own containerized infrastructure, using the...
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Meet the New Docker CEO, Steve Singh
On Tuesday, Docker announced that former SAP executive Steve Singh has taken on the role of CEO for the company. The move came as somewhat of a surprise, given that only two weeks prior, at the...
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Cloud Foundry Service Broker API: Simplicity Is the Secret Sauce
On this episode of The New Stack Makers, we caught up with Cloud Foundry Foundation CTO Chip Childers at CloudNativeCon + KubeCon EU. Topics ranged from why developers should be architecting for...
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Microsoft Debuts Azure Functions for In-House Use, Adds Telemetry to Cloud...
Microsoft has released a version of its serverless service, Azure Functions, that can be run entirely behind the enterprise firewall. The Azure Functions Runtime, packaged within a container running on...
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Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Data Science
When it comes to scientific computing, few names are more well known than Stephen Wolfram. He was the creator of the Mathematica, a program that researchers have been using for decades to aid in their...
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Five Ways Google Tensorflow Beats Caffe
When it comes to using software frameworks to train models for machine learning tasks, Google’s TensorFlow beats the University of California Berkeley’s Caffe library in a number of important ways,...
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Chef Brings its IT Automation Portfolio to the Cloud
Moving IT operations to the cloud will require a good deal of automation, argues IT management software provider Chef. To this end, the company has consolidated more of its technologies into its...
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ChatBots Could Finally Make Knowledge Management Painless
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we spoke with Rick Nucci, co-founder of chatbot platform provider Guru. You might remember Nucci’s name from another company he started a few years back —...
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CoreOS Promises Cloud Portability with a Planned Kubernetes-as-a-Service...
CoreOS wants to help the enterprise treat their cloud providers as commodity suppliers, with the help of the Kubernetes open source container orchestration software. At the company’s CoreOS Fest user...
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Three Perspectives on the Evolution of Container Security
There still exists a kind of chasm in the broader software community between the people who are building new application containers today, and the people sandwiched in the middle of the phrase...
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Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017: Microsoft Joins the Party
For the kickoff of its annual Silicon Valley-based user conference, The Cloud Foundry Foundation has introduced a new member to its fold: Microsoft. Microsoft has joined the Foundation as a gold...
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KISS: Chef Habitat Addresses the Complexities of Moving Containers into...
While great for development, containers introduce a range of new configuration complexities when pushed into production, so argues IT automation software provider Chef. To this end, the company has...
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Cloud Foundry Summit Pancake Podcast: Communications in the Cloud Native Era
Stackie, the New Stack’s traveling pancake robot, ventured to Santa Clara California this week to host a pancake breakfast and podcast recording for the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017. As...
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AI Programming: So Much Uncertainty
Much work, and many tools, are still needed to integrate artificial intelligence into the software engineering workflow, noted Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, speaking at the O’Reilly...
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The New Science of Building Successful Data-Driven Apps
A few years back, when Bit.ly needed to burn in its new Hadoop cluster, the company’s chief scientist of the time, Hilary Mason, and her team decided to use the cycles to analyze three years worth of...
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Benchmarking Serverless: IBM Scientists Devise a Test Suite to Quantify...
The promise of serverless technologies is how they could simplify scalability. Delegating the job of running functions to a cloud provider, and letting it decide how to manage execution, sounds like a...
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