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Salesforce, Comcast Test Kubernetes for Massively Scalable Workloads
While Kubernetes is currently riding high on top of the hype cycle, the real proof of its utility will be enterprise adoption. At the recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation‘s Kubecon Europe event,...
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This Week in Scalability: System Backups in the Container Era
“To be clear; I am a believer in decentralization. Having built systems with that I can tell you it is not the magic dust you are looking for.” — Amazon Web Services Chief Technology Officer Werner...
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Boomi the Cloud Integrator Takes on Data Management
In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, we catch up with what is happening in cloud integration. We spoke with Chris McNabb, CEO of one of the pioneering companies in this space, Dell Boomi....
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This Week in Scalability: The KEG Hangover
“Is it plugged in? At both ends?” — Ed Vielmetti, celebrating Sysadmin day (July 28) on Twitter. Unnecessary levels of specification get you in trouble every time. This week we got hella feedback from...
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This Week in Scalability: Why Your Work May No Longer Be (Statistically)...
“Distributed systems are never ‘up’; they exist in a constant state of partially degraded service. Accept failure, design for resiliency, protect and shrink the critical path.” — Charity Majors. At...
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AWS Joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Boosting Kubernetes Momentum
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), a move that suggests that enterprise cloud providers are taking CNCF’s flagship orchestration engine Kubernetes very...
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StackPointCloud Brings Kubernetes to DigitalOcean
Kubernetes managed service provider StackPointCloud is offering Kubernetes users the opportunity to run the container orchestration engine on DigitalOcean. The company has expanded its fully managed...
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Node.js Forked Again Over Complaints of Unresponsive Leadership
The codebase for popular Node.js JavaScript runtime has been forked again — the second time in less than three years — with a growing number of contributors charging that the Technical Steering...
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Don’t Panic: How PagerDuty Handles Incident Management
In the movie about the nearly disastrous return entry of the Apollo 13 spacecraft, the lead engineer at Mission Control, played by Ed Harris, stormily exalts that “Failure is not an option.” While such...
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Open Source Summit: Kubernetes as the New Linux
Even as the Linux Foundation celebrates the ongoing success of its open source operating system kernel, the ever-shifting technology landscape may shuffle operating systems aside to put another player...
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CNCF Adds Oracle, Onboards the Envoy and Jaeger Projects
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation continues to gain momentum, signing on as a sponsor one of the most venerable enterprise software companies, Oracle, and adding two more cloud-native projects to...
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Uber Devises a Scheduler to Run TensorFlow Deep Learning Jobs Across Multiple...
While “Big Data” tools such as Spark and MapReduce may offer a resilient way to spread a job out across multiple nodes in such a way that the work can tolerate the failure of a few nodes, some deep...
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The Role of API Gateways in Microservice Architectures
Despite their differences in nomenclature, newly emerging service meshes aren’t all that different that API Gateways, and the similarities between the two will continue to grow over time, so predicts...
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Jupyter Notebooks Meet the Challenge of Reproducibility
Every application needs to have one killer feature. For the Jupyter Notebook, that feature may be reproducibility. Although reproducibility was initially an academic challenge, the entire IT sector...
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OpenFaaS: Package any Binary or Code as a Serverless Function
Why limit serverless functions to whatever programming languages that are supported by the provider? OpenFaaS is a new open source serverless software program can run any CLI-driven binary program...
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Netflix Builds a Pipeline for Polyglot Programming
Once Netflix was a Java shop, and its focus on one programming language allowed the company to streamline its pipeline so developers to speed code to production as quickly as possible. But programmers...
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A Look at SCONE: Secure Linux Containers in Untrusted Environments with Intel...
For sensitive containerized workloads in the cloud, good security practice requires not only safeguards from outsider intrusion but also protections from superusers of the cloud system itself. Does...
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CNCF Brings Security to the Cloud Native Stack with Notary, TUF Adoption
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation continues to vigorously build its portfolio of open source cloud-native technologies. CNCF’s Technical Oversight Committee voted to accept both the...
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Are You Ready for the WebAssembly Revolution?
Imagine a day when you can write a web application in any (statically-typed) language of your choosing. No more fiddling with JavaScript, or even HTML or CSS for that matter. And the apps you build...
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How Microsoft Forged a Scalable Git to Better Manage Windows Development
Frustrated by the limitations of BitKeeper, Linus Torvalds created the Git distributed source control software from scratch over a weekend a decade ago, as a better way to manage the ongoing...
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