Benjamin Ball
The New Stack
Raleigh, NC, United States
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Assessing the Current State of Serverless Security
Security is almost always a leading pain point cited by users, and it doesn’t seem to really matter what environment or technology they’re being polled about. Anytime we’re moving into focusing on a new technology or ecosystem, security will always be one of those things that’s on top of the mind. But when it comes to … → Read More
The Need for Infrastructure Tooling in the Serverless Ecosystem
As the methodology around serverless technologies matures, there’s an immediate need to focus our efforts on refining the tooling around the serverless ecosystem. The push to expand on the tooling workflow with new technologies is especially prevalent with serverless, which went from concept to execution perhaps much quicker than normal. In this episode of The … → Read More
OpenWhisk, Bluemix, and Event-Driven Architectures in the Cloud
Despite whatever terminology the larger development industry settles on, serverless environments are ultimately event-driven systems. These architectures are still going to ultimately involve servers and cloud management for many. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we spoke to Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform, at ServerlessConf Austin. We talked about … → Read More
Skipping Containers Altogether for Serverless Environments
While we’re often so focused on developer workflows with serverless tools, it’s important to also understand what kinds of organizations are adopting serverless workflows and environments, and what their motivations are for doing so. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we spoke to Jared Short, Director of Innovation at Trek10, about why organizations … → Read More
How Serverless Is Shaping the Future of Software Development
Serverless architectures are often positioned as the next big thing in cloud computing, but what exactly is serverless, who is utilizing these tools and services, and how is this ecosystem maturing? In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke to Mike Roberts, co-founder of Symphonia.io, about all things serverless. Symphonia is Roberts and … → Read More
Establishing Best Practices for Adopting Kubernetes
Establishing best practices for emerging technologies is a task that many will argue is impossible. But it’s still important for you to identify how teams are consistently solving problems, even when the technology changes around them. With Kubernetes, there are many best practices whose emergence may provide keys for assessing Kubernetes’ future. In this edition of The … → Read More
Whether You're Dev or Ops, Says Honeycomb.io, You Need Observability
Every software engineer should be able to answer these questions: What just happened? What’s happening now? What’s about to happen? Charity Majors, the CEO of debugging platform Honeycomb, believes it’s not just something that the operations team needs to know — everyone needs that level of observability. Building services that manage data intelligently are everyone’s task, and to … → Read More
CodeFights: A Platform to Test Coding Skills, Prepare for Interviews and Apply for Jobs
It’s never been very easy to get a job as an engineer, and part of that is the rigorous and sometimes disconnected process of interviewing with a company. You don’t always know what to expect from a coding exercise, or what kinds of topics they’ll be looking to cover. CodeFights has emerged as one of the … → Read More
City-as-a-Service: Helping Cities See the Value of Data
Collecting, processing, storing, and making large data sets actionable is a proven business model in the software development industry, but what if you applied the same technology for city services and infrastructure? In this episode, we talk to John Edgar, co-founder and chief executive officer for Stae.co, a data platform for civil engineering that brings … → Read More
Rubrik Takes on the Chores of Seamless Data Backup and Recovery
Data backup and recovery used to be a chore at best, but that may finally be changing. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke to Chris Wahl, chief technical evangelist at storage software vendor Rubrik. Rubrik is trying to bring a greater focus to backup and cloud data management while also making it … → Read More
Skippbox Acquisition Brings Kubernetes Expertise to Bitnami
The Kubernetes landscape has been altered slightly, so we talked to the movers behind the change. In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Sebastien Goasguen, the founder of Skippbox, a start-up that specialized in applications for managing the Kubernetes container orchestration engine. Today, cloud software package manager Bitnami announced that it is … → Read More
Cumulus and the Challenges of Web-scale Networking
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we spoke to Josh Leslie, Chief Executive Officer, and JR Rivers, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Web-scale networking software provider Cumulus Networks. We discussed how to best define web-scale networking, and how Cumulus Linux is different from traditional networking solutions. They spoke to the need for inter-system communication for … → Read More
Windocks Brings Containers to Microsoft Windows
In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we talk about bringing containers to Microsoft Windows environments with Paul Stanton, Windocks’ vice president for the cloud. We asked about the benefits of bringing containers to SQL Server and Windows environments, as well as how Windocks enables continuous integration practices. We also talk about the challenges around … → Read More
Helm Co-Creator on Using Kubernetes and Deis Workflow at Clearbit
In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we speak to Rimas Mocevicius, operations engineer at Clearbit. Mocevicius was one of the co-creators of the Helm project, a package manager for the Kubernetes container orchestration engine, which has since become part of Kubernetes. Clearbit offers sales and marketing data, which it keeps current through a … → Read More
Our Latest Ebook on Container Monitoring and Management
As we’ve produced The Docker & Container Ecosystem ebook series, it feels like container usage has become more normalized. We talk less about the reasons why to use and adopt containers, and speak more to the challenges of more widespread container deployments. With each book in the series, we’ve focused more on not just moving … → Read More
Woot! You Found Our Secret Ebook Page
“Fortune Favors the Prepared Mind” — Louis Pasteur Winner, winner, chicken dinner! You’ve stumbled on this article during our early launch phase of our next eBook, “Monitoring and Management with Docker and Containers.” The book is currently available to download on the website, but we don’t officially launch until Monday. That makes you part of an … → Read More
Networking, Security and Storage for Docker and Containers: Our EBook is Here
Keeping pace with the technology, practitioners and vendors in the container space is immensely difficult. It is the largest challenge in publishing our container ecosystem ebook series. Every time we narrow our area of focus, we’ve been opened up to yet another microcosm of experienced users, competing products and collaborative projects. Our solutions directory for … → Read More
Codenvy's DevOps Container Ecosystem Market Map, Refined
Containers are relevant to the entire stack, and there are many companies, products, services, and open source projects that overlap in what they look to address — and while various foundations are looking to create consensus on some of these technologies, so far the ecosystem is only getting bigger. The container ecosystem has proven to … → Read More
All You Need to Know About Microservices and Containers is Here In Our New Ebook
As an architectural pattern, microservices have been getting a lot of attention in the last several years, reaching a level of adoption and evangelism that would be hard for most practitioners to ignore. But while microservices architectures have received wide praise as changing the application development and production process on the whole, there are many … → Read More