Swapnil Bhartiya
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Cloud Native Challenges and Opportunities with Continuous Delivery
Cloud Native means different things to different people. However, Ian Andrews, vice president, products, of Pivotal, sees continuous delivery at the heart of the cloud native movement. “In the last ten years or so, a handful of organizations decided that the model of building and operating software was not effective. One of the changes they … → Read More
Erica Windisch: Why Foundations Are a 'Disaster'
Alex Williams, the founder, and editor-in-chief of The New Stack sat down with Erica Windisch, to learn about her background, upbringing, and her evolution as the co-founder and CTO of IOpipe. Windisch grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania in a middle-class family. She got interested in computers via playing video games. At one point she realized … → Read More
Erica Windisch: From a Commodore 64 to Serverless
Alex Williams, the founder, and editor-in-chief of The New Stack sat down with Erica Windisch, to learn about her background, upbringing, and her evolution as the co-founder and CTO of IOpipe. Windisch grew up in Levittown, Pennsylvania in a middle-class family. She got interested in computers via playing video games. At one point she realized … → Read More
Red Hat-IBM Acquisition: Clash of Cultures or Best of Both Worlds?
Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM has been the biggest story of the year, dwarfing Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. But the acquisition has been notable for many reasons, one of them is that this is the third largest IT acquisition in history, after Broadcom and Dell-EMC. New Stack founder and editor-in-chief, Alex Williams sat down with … → Read More
Microsoft's Mark Russinovich on Defining Microservices
Have you ever tried to explain microservices to anyone? Depending on the context, people explain it differently. But when it comes to establishing the relationship between microservices and cloud native computing, no one explains it better than Mark Russinovich, chief technology officer of Microsoft Azure, in this latest edition of The New Stack Makers podcast. … → Read More
The Internet of Things: Securing Tomorrow's Cars
Brandon Shibley is the vice president of innovation at Toradex, a company that makes Arm-based System-on-Modules (SoM). SoM are used in specialized markets such as industrial automation, test and measurement, digital signage, automotive, medical, and more. Toradex SoM powers the world’s fastest electric car, the Rimac Concept One, which uses Apalis iMX6. “We focus on … → Read More
Docker Makes It Easy for a Developer to Build and Deploy Apps
Recently, Docker announced the new version of Docker for Mac and Docker for Windows that enables a developer to create an app and run it in production under a minute, using templates. Now building and deploying an app is as simple as creating a Microsoft Office document. This is not surprising. One of the biggest … → Read More
Containers, Microservices and Cloud-Native Technologies
Microservices is the talk of the town these days, even if the term and technology have actually been around for a while now. Why is everyone suddenly interested in microservices architecture? What has changed? To understand microservices, I sat down with Patrick Chanezon, chief developer advocate at Docker at the Open Source Leadership Summit Sonoma, … → Read More
Understanding Licensing Compliance for Open Source Software
As the consumption of open source technologies is skyrocketing, one of the biggest yet most underrated challenges are software licenses. Organizations often use a mix of open source technologies that are released under different open source licenses. Sometimes these licenses are compatible with each other and sometimes not. Additionally, lack of adherence to the license … → Read More
Univa's Project Tortuga and the Intersections of Kubernetes and HPC Workloads
HPC software provider Univa recently announced project Tortuga, a fully open source project that’s also upstream for the company’s commercial offering, Navops Launch. For this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Alex Williams, the founder of the New Stack, sat down with Robert Lalonde vice president and general manager of Univa to talk about the … → Read More
The JS Foundation Focuses on Serverless and the Internet of Things
JavaScript has been around for ages, since the Netscape days. It’s the backbone of the modern web experience. However, the technology is being used beyond websites. In 2016, the jQuery Foundation and Dojo Foundation were merged to create the JS Foundation to drive broad adoption and ongoing development of key JavaScript solutions and related technologies. … → Read More
Microsoft's Work With Open Source Databases and How to Be Data-Driven
Rohan Kumar is the general manager of the database systems group at Microsoft. He covers SQL Server, the RBDMS and all of the Azure PaaS properties for relational databases. This includes Azure SQL database and Azure SQL Data Warehouse. It also spans out to open source-based databases including Azure Database for MySQL, Azure Database for … → Read More
The Future of Machine Learning
Ali Ghodsi, CEO and co-founder at Databricks, has been a major influence in three big open source projects — Apache Mesos, Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop. What’s interesting about all of these three projects is that there are very successful companies around these projects. We sat down with Ghodsi for this latest episode of The … → Read More
Over Time, Kubernetes May Take Over the Entire Lifecycle of Applications
CoreOS has been in the ecosystem of containerization from the very beginning. In fact it was the first company to introduce an enterprise product (Tectonic) around the Kubernetes open source container orchestration software. Today Kubernetes is everywhere in the emerging cloud-native landscape. All three of the major cloud providers — Amazon Web Services, Google Compute Engine … → Read More
3 Use Cases Driving the Adoption of Functions-as-a-Service
Function-as-a-service is more than just a buzzword, it’s an evolution of application development and deployment that started with virtualization over a decade ago. Back in the 90’s we used to essentially build applications and run them on hardware. One application per machine. It was inefficient and expensive. VMware changed this with virtualization. Users could package … → Read More
NSX-T: VMware’s Networking Solution for Modern, Multicloud Applications
VMware has played a pivotal role in helping transform the data center by virtualizing compute. The company has also been doing the same with network virtualization. VMware’s network virtualization platform, called NSX, creates network services like routing, load balancing, firewalling and more. All of it is done in software that can be implemented on any … → Read More
Why Oracle Embraced Kubernetes
Ask not who embraces Kubernetes, ask who doesn’t. Because everyone is using Kubernetes, it seems. Including Oracle, the undisputed king of databases that’s steadily (and stealthily) moving into the public and private cloud space. Oracle has been in container management for over two years now. The company gained container expertise and solutions through the 2016 … → Read More
How Netflix Supports DevOps at Scale
In this newest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Dianne Marsh, director of engineering for engineering tools at Netflix. Her team is responsible for building the tools, including Spinnaker, that the other teams use for deploying their changes to the cloud. It also means that her team is at the pinnacle of helping … → Read More
VMware and Pivotal’s PKS Distribution Marries Kubernetes with BOSH
In the cloud-native space, broadly speaking, there are two groups of users: platform operators and developers. And rarely does a new product or service meet the needs of both groups equally well. Through the recently announced PKS (Pivotal Container Service), VMware and Pivotal — in partnership with Google Cloud — are focused squarely on solving this … → Read More
MapR: How Next-Gen Applications Will Change the Way We Look at Data
The data landscape is changing right in front of our eyes. We are seeing gargantuan growth in total volume of data; we are generating and consuming massive amounts of video, images, sensor inputs of all sorts. Moreover, “the type of data that’s growing most rapidly are not the data sets we think of historically as … → Read More