The New Stack Makers

Episode 497: Accessibility as an Essential Part of the Inclusive Developer Experience

August 13th, 2019  |  28 mins 54 secs

We've written some about accessibility in terms of building apps and websites — although there's always more to learn and do — but what about accessibility and inclusion in the developer world? How can you best serve your full customer base when your customers are developers? How is designing for inclusion an essential part of the developer experience? These are the questions Pivotal Labs' Senior Designer Raquel Breternitz is trying to answer in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Episode 496: Splice Machine Allows Businesses to Modernize AND Keep Customized Programs

August 12th, 2019  |  36 mins 29 secs

Splice Machine brings SQL Back, said Monte Zweben, CEO at Splice Machine, but with a spectacular twist.

It’s common for data infrastructure to reside on three separate platforms:  transactional databases, data warehouses, and the recently-added machine learning (ML) environment.

Most artificial intelligence (AI) applications are built on historical data that has been loaded in to ML environments for data mining.  So you’re looking in the rearview mirror to figure out what has already happened, he said.  And that requires computational engines.

Episode 495: TC Sessions Preview: Why Software is the New 5-Year Growth Plan for the Enterprise

August 8th, 2019  |  52 mins 9 secs

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It’s just easier — a greenfield startup founder picks and chooses the best technology platforms and software development tools that best serve the needs of the business model. For organizations with years of legacy software in place, the digital journey is often harder, yet inherently necessary to survive in today’s DevOps-centric world.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor in chief of The New Stack, ahead of the upcoming TC Sessions: Enterprise event, how organizations attempt to keep up with the disruption amid an explosion of new and powerful open source tools served as a central theme.

Episode 494: How Graph Databases are Changing Our Relationships with Data

August 7th, 2019  |  44 mins 32 secs

What does Justin Bieber have to do with our relationships to, well, anything? If nothing else, his staggering 105.8 million followers on Twitter (at the time of this conversation) is a real challenge for data scientists. If you wanted to know how The Bieb’s assemblage relates to him and one another, you could never achieve it with an entity-first relationship model — you know, columns, rows and spreadsheets, or, as Wikipedia calls it, “a simple relational database implementation, each row of a table represents one instance of an entity type, and each field in a table represents an attribute type.”

Episode 493: Intel's AI4Good: Good News for a Change

July 31st, 2019  |  26 mins 13 secs

“There’s so much passion for using AI in ways that are beneficial,” Anna Bethke, Head of AI4 Social Good at Intel’s AI Products Group.  And she wanted to make it easier for others to get involved.

Bethke’s team partners with companies and social justice organizations to give them access to Intel’s knowledge of deep learning skills and techniques, making it easier for them to mine social media and other data to filter out the noise.

Episode 492: What the Paradigmatic Shift in Machine Learning Means for DevOps

July 30th, 2019  |  38 mins 52 secs

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have been under study for years. But what is new is the tremendous impact and overlap AI and ML are now having on application development. Among the benefits, we will continue to see applications based on massive amounts of data sets that make use of human brain-like neural network computing to perform tasks in minutes or seconds that previously required thousands of human hours to perform.

Episode 491: Cloud Foundry Sees Challenges Worldwide, Exciting Differences in China

July 29th, 2019  |  29 mins 31 secs

The Cloud Foundry Foundation may have faced some …

Episode 490: Can the Tech Industry Curb Climate Change and Inequality?

July 25th, 2019  |  37 mins 37 secs

Inequality is growing. The climate crisis and glo…

Episode 489: How A China-Based Bare Metal Provider Solved a Problem with Open Source

July 24th, 2019  |  22 mins 34 secs

Kubernetes continues to spread across the cloud a…

Episode 488: The Evolution of the Site Reliability Engineer

July 23rd, 2019  |  29 mins 2 secs

This episode of The New Stack Makers podcast talk…

Episode 487: How PingCAP’s TikV Is Set to Process Transactions from China's 800 Million Internet Shoppers

July 17th, 2019  |  28 mins 19 secs

It wasn’t that long ago when Kevin Xu, general manager of global strategy and operations at PingCAP, remembers walking into what he described as a “dark and dingy” basement at an internet cafe to play World of Warcraft and eat noodles in his native China.

“Those days did exist, but not so much anymore — there are many mobile phone vendors now and [almost] everything is being done on your smartphone,” Xu said.

Episode 486: Want Career Stability? Look to Infrastructure, says Tameika Reed, founder of Women in Linux

July 15th, 2019  |  29 mins 54 secs

In today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, TC Currie is joined by Tameika Reed, whose day gig is as a  Senior Infrastructure Engineer at EXPANSIA, a company providing full spectrum services for IT migration and integration.  After 16 years in infrastructure, she got tired of not seeing anyone like her. So three years ago she decided to be the change she wanted to see in the world, and founded Women In Linux. This group provides free on-line training in the wide variety of ways in which Linux is used, along with job boards and career advice.

Episode 485: OpenFaaS Creator on the Success of Open Source's Community-Funding Model

July 11th, 2019  |  34 mins 19 secs

In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we sit down with Alex Ellis, creator of OpenFaaS, to discuss the latest update to his open source serverless platform, what this new concept "Serverless 2.0" means, and the difficulties of supporting an open source project.

Ellis created OpenFaaS a few years back after wanting to extend the functionality offered by Amazon Web Services' function-as-a-service Lambda to any containerized computing environment, a feature that has since been emulated by other serverless offerings.

Episode 484: The Continuous Delivery Foundation Gets a Reality Check

July 10th, 2019  |  56 mins 44 secs

The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) was created to help introduce processes, standards and other support and stewardship for DevOps teams that now face what some say is the Wild West of open source tools and platforms for deployments on Jenkins and coud native platforms. While there have been concerns expressed about potential overlap with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) — a sibling Linux Foundation-managed project — the concept is certainly attractive, especially for those teams that plan to or already rely on Jenkins, Jenkins X, Spinnaker and Tekton for their production pipelines. However, there is one catch: the CDF has yet to release any specifications and primitives after the initiative was announced a few months ago

Episode 483: What Makes Docker So Important

July 8th, 2019  |  25 mins 55 secs

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, host Jack Wallen chats with two members of the Docker staff, engineer Christopher Crone and marketing specialist Jim Armstrong, about certain best practices (for both developers and enterprise users) when using Docker containers. Anyone from developers and enterprise users trusted with deploying containers will gain some insight into this agile technology.

Episode 482: Leadership in the Open Source Community

July 5th, 2019  |  17 mins 33 secs

When asked what makes a solid leader in today’s open source communities, the answer often varies depending on who you ask. In this podcast hosted by TNS Podcast Producer Kiran Oliver, the topic of leadership expanded beyond the basic, “What makes for a competent leader in today’s OSS community?” to encompass the ways in which we as a community can and should do to better help underrepresented minorities become leaders in open source.

CNCF Director of Ecosystem Cheryl Hung, Microsoft Director of Open Source Initiatives Ashley McNamara, Aqua Security Technology Evangelist Liz Rice, and Two Sigma Engineer Leah Petersen all started their journeys in open source at different times, with very different goals in mind.