Kiran Oliver
The New Stack
New Zealand
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Camunda: How We Automated Dev Releases to Maven Central
Using Terraform Cloud from, Aqua Security’s Trivy, and GitHub Actions, the Infrastructure and Developer Experience teams at Camunda combined forces to build a CI/CD release tool that allows developers to automate their releases to Maven Central. → Read More
MozFest 2019's Neurodiversity Space: Technology for the People
The 2019 Mozilla Festival, which took place on Oct. 27-29 at Ravensbourne University in London, England brought together many individuals from a variety of backgrounds to share in a weekend of discussion surrounding a variety of topics such as internet health, openness, decentralization, and for the first time, neurodiversity. Arriving at the Neurodiversity Space early … → Read More
How Mozilla Festival 2019 Will Highlight Neurodiversity
Neurodiversity spans a variety of experiences, and there is no ‘one size fits all,’ approach to accessibility. Whether one is autistic, has ADD/ADHD, sensory processing disorder, dyscalculia, Tourette's, or dyspraxia, these are just a few examples of what it means to be neurodiverse.At Mozilla Festival (MozFest) 2019, the 10th annual Mozilla conference held this year from October 21st-27th, 2019… → Read More
Pivotal SpringOne Platform Keynote Overview: Is Kubernetes Boring Yet?
Building enterprise level software takes a lot of skill and creativity. When developers want to come together to discuss, create, and inspire one another, the place they flock to is the SpringOne Platform conference, which took place this year in Austin, Texas. Pivotal Senior Vice President of Product James Watters said it best at the keynote for the event, which he later recapped alongside… → Read More
Stateful Workloads in Kubernetes with Trident — The NetApp Way
A question that may come to mind for those managing enterprise workloads is: What is Trident? This is the topic that George Tehrani, NetApp's director of product management for the open ecosystem answered on this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by TNS founder and Editor-in-Chief Alex Williams. → Read More
GitLab’s Growth: Deep Transparency Makes a Difference
For this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, GitLab CEO and co-founder Sid Sijbrandij, candidly discussed what the next steps are for GitLab. → Read More
Netlify's Head of Community Perry Eising on Creating Accessible and Inclusive Tech Events
When applying for an open award for activists in the Portland tech community, Netlify’s Head of Community Perry Eising found himself having to identify outside of his gender identity. The form didn’t have an option for nonbinary people to be recipients of the award. After realizing he was getting mixed signals, he decided to ask … → Read More
Leadership and Inclusion in the Open Source Community
When asking someone what makes a solid leader in today’s open source communities, the answer often varies. In this podcast, we discuss leadership and the ways in which a community can and should do to better help underrepresented minorities become leaders in open source.Joining us for this discussion is is The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Director of Ecosystem Cheryl Hung, Microsoft… → Read More
Stackery CEO on the AWS Serverless Application Model
On this newest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, TNS founder Alex Williams is joined by Stackery CEO Nate Taggart, at ServerlessConf San Francisco, to discuss the makings of Stackery, and how it has standardized on top of the AWS Serverless Application Model to the benefit of both its developers and enterprise customers. Prior … → Read More
The Widening Gap Between Serverless and Kubernetes
The divide continues to grow between people developing serverless technologies and those in DevOps roles building, deploying, and managing Kubernetes. “Questions about serverless approaches and Kubernetes don’t really come up with developers,” said Timirah James, a developer advocate with Cloudinary on today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast. James joined TNS founder Alex Williams … → Read More
A Look Back at Kubernetes with Microsoft's Brendan Burns
On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, TNS founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams sat down with Microsoft distinguished engineer Brendan Burns at a lively afterparty from this year’s Portland-based OSCON 2018. To begin the conversation, Williams inquired as to the time before OSCON, before Kubernetes — Specifically, where was Burns, and what had … → Read More
Form and Functions with Cloudreach's Emily Young and Linda Nichols
On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams went live from ServerlessConf 2018. Williams sat down with Linda Nichols, cloud enablement leader at Cloudreach, and Emily Young, Cloudreach cloud software engineer to discuss not only ServerlessConf, but hiring practices, how companies utilize functions, and more. Launching the discussion was … → Read More
Exploring the Dual Popularity of Kubernetes and Serverless Architectures
As a company heavily invested in community, Snyk is not about hiring security practitioners, but around getting developers to embrace security best practices. On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS founder Alex Williams sat down with Snyk’s CEO Guy Podjarny to discuss the levels of abstraction in today’s infrastructures, how those impact developers, … → Read More
Exploring the Autonomous Cloud and the New Enterprise
Joining TNS founder Alex Williams on today’s episode of The New Stack Makers podcast are Alois Reitbauer, vice president, chief technical strategist and head of innovation lab at Dynatrace, and Kamala Dasika, product marketing director at Pivotal. Dasika started off the discussion by highlighting how she got involved with Cloud Foundry, back when it was … → Read More
How T-Mobile Is Ushering in 5G with TIBCO and Cloud Foundry
On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, TNS founder Alex Williams was joined by Rahul Kamdar, TIBCO director of product management and strategy; Kristopher Wilson, T-Mobile director of IT development; and Chandra Sriramoju, T-Mobile principle site reliability engineer. They discussed the ways in which integration software provider TIBCO and T-Mobile are joining forces … → Read More
Netlify's Approach to the CDN, Microservices, and Breaking Down Your Monolith
On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, TNS founder Alex Williams explores how Netlify created its content delivery network, the rise of microservices and AWS Lambda, and how working at scale has impacted today’s developers and their workflows. Williams was joined for this interview by Matt Biilmann, Netlify CEO and co-founder and Chris … → Read More
Intel's Approach to Measuring Diversity and Inclusivity in Open Source Communities
On this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, TNS founder Alex Williams sat down with Nicole Huesman, Intel senior global marketing manager and open source advocate, to discuss the company’s processes around encouraging diversity. Huesman noted that Intel has been working with software analytics software provider Bitergia on gender diversity research. But for Intel, … → Read More
Exploring Kubernetes Abstractions
On today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS founder Alex Williams, TNS correspondent T.C. Currie and Janakiram MSV, principal analyst at Janakiram and Associates were joined by Heptio CTO and Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda, as well as Sebastien Goasguen, Kubernetes tech lead at Bitnami. The discussion this week centered around the many abstractions available to … → Read More
Linden Lab's Project Sansar Brings Virtual Reality to Second Life
On this newest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, Tara Hernandez, Linden Lab’s senior director of engineering, and Lu Chen, Linden Lab Data Analyst joins host T.C. Currie to talk about Project Sansar, the next generation of Second Life currently in beta. While Second Life was an immersive experience, Hernandez explained, it was … → Read More
Microsoft Expands the Kubernetes Toolset with the Virtual Kublet
Microsoft’s support of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration tool seems to grow by the day. At Kubecon 2017, held last year in Austin, we spoke with Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Brendan Burns as well as with Gabe Monroy, the Microsoft Azure program lead for containers. We chatted about the latest tools that have come from … → Read More