Valkey, a Redis fork supported by the Linux Foundation, challenges Redis' new license. In this episode, Madelyn Olson, a lead contributor to the Valkey project and former Redis core contributor, along with Ping Xie, Staff Software Engineer at Google and Dmitry Polyakovsky, Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle highlights concerns about the shift to a more restrictive license at Open Source Summit 2024 in Seattle .

A virtual cluster, described by Loft Labs CEO Lukas Gentele at Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Paris, is a Kubernetes control plane running inside a container within another Kubernetes cluster. In this New Stack Makers episode, Gentele explained that this approach eliminates the need for numerous separate control planes, allowing VMs to run in lightweight, quickly deployable containers. Loft Labs' open-sourced vcluster technology enables virtual clusters to spin up in about six seconds,...

When Weaveworks, known for pioneering "GitOps," shut down, concerns arose about the future of Flux, a critical open-source project. However, Puja Abbassi, Giant Swarm's VP of Product, reassured Alex Williams, Founder and Publisher of The New Stack at Open Source Summit in Paris that Flux's maintenance is secure in this episode of The New Makers podcast.

The use of large language models (LLMs) has become widespread, but there are significant security risks associated with them. LLMs with millions or billions of parameters are complex and challenging to fully scrutinize, making them susceptible to exploitation by attackers who can find loopholes or vulnerabilities. On an episode of The New Stack Makers, Chris Pirillo, Tech Evangelist and Lance Seidman, Backend Engineer at Atomic Form discussed these security challenges, emphasizing the need...

The Kubernetes community primarily focuses on improving the development and operations experience for applications and infrastructure, emphasizing DevOps and developer-centric approaches. In contrast, the data science community historically moved at a slower pace. However, with the emergence of the AI engineer persona, the pace of advancement in data science has accelerated significantly. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack co-hosted a discussion with Sanjeev Mohan, an...

LLM observability focuses on maximizing the utility of larger language models (LLMs) by monitoring key metrics and signals. Alex Williams, Founder and Publisher for The New Stack, and Janikiram MSV, Principal of Janikiram & Associates and an analyst and writer for The New Stack, an analyst and writer for The New Stack, discusses the emergence of the LLM stack, which encompasses various components like LLMs, vector databases, embedding models, retrieval systems, read anchor models, and...

In a conversation on The New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, and Charles Humble, an industry expert who served as a software engineer, architect and CTO and now podcaster, author and consultant at Conissaunce Ltd., discussed why software developers and engineers should care about their impact on climate change. Humble emphasized that building software sustainably starts with better operations, leading to cost savings and improved security. He cited...

This New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by Alex Williams, TNS founder and publisher, and Adrian Cockcroft, Partner and Analyst at OrionX.net, discussed Nvidia's GH200 Grace Hopper superchip. Industry expert Sunil Mallya, Co-founder and CTO of Flip AI, also weighed in on how it is revolutionizing the hardware industry for AI workloads by centralizing GPU communication, reducing networking overhead, and creating a more efficient system.

This New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by TNS founder and publisher, Alex Williams and Joan Westenberg, founder and writer of Joan’s Index, discussed Copilot. Westenberg highlighted its integration with Microsoft 365 and its role as a coding assistant, showcasing its potential to streamline various tasks.

This New Stack Makers podcast co-hosted by Adrian Cockroft, analyst at OrionX.net and TNS founder and publisher, Alex Williams discusses the importance of monitoring services utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs) and the emergence of tools like LangChain and LangSmith to address this need. Adrian Cockcroft, formerly of Netflix and now working with The New Stack, highlights the significance of monitoring AI apps using LLMs and the challenges posed by slow and expensive API calls from LLMs.

In this New Stack Makers podcast, Martin Parker, a solutions architect for UST, spoke with TNS editor-in-chief, Heather Joslyn and discussed the significance of internal developer platforms (IDPs), emphasizing benefits beyond frontend developers to backend engineers and site reliability engineers (SREs).

In this New Stack Makers podcast, Ben Wilcock, a senior technical marketing architect for Tanzu, spoke with TNS editor-in-chief, Heather Joslyn and discussed the challenges organizations face when building internal developer platforms, particularly the issue of scope, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America.

Mike Stefaniak, senior product manager at NGINX and Kate Osborn, a software engineer at NGINX discusses with The New Stack editor-in-chief, Heather Joslyn the challenges associated with network ingress in Kubernetes clusters and introduces the Kubernetes Gateway API as a solution. NGINX has also introduced the NGINX Gateway Fabric, implementing the Kubernetes Gateway API as an alternative to network ingress.

Ben Kramer, co-founder and CTO at Monterey.ai and Cole Hoffer, Senior Software Engineer at Monterey.ai discusses how the company utilizes vector search to analyze user voices, feedback, reviews, bug reports, and support tickets from various channels to provide product development recommendations in a podcast with The New Stack Makers.

Ron Masas, lead vulnerability researcher at Imperva, emphasizes the trade-off between building fast and creating secure applications and APIs in a podcast with The New Stack Makers.

As we begin a new year, we are revisiting some of our most popular episodes of 2023. Kaspar Von Grünberg joined TNS host Heather Joslyn for a discussion about Platform Engineering that is still just as relevant today.

As we wrap up and year, we are revisiting some of our most popular episodes of 2023. Is the end of programming nigh? If you ask Matt Welsh, he'd say yes. TNS host Alex Williams is joined by Welsh, a former professor of computer science at Harvard and the founder of fixie.ai, to discuss if we are witnessing the beginning of the end of programming.

This discussion from KubeCon, hosted by Alex Williams, with Red Hat's Vladik Romanovsky and Nvidia's Ryan Hallisey focuses on Kubevirt 1.1. We get introduced to new features and find out about the stability of Kubevirt.

The Kubernetes landscape is shifting from the domain of visionaries and early adopters to a more mainstream audience. TNS host Alex Williams discusses this evolution with Ratan Tipirneni, CEO of Tigera, at KubeCon.

Take flight for Boeing's open-source journey with Damani Corbin, the architect behind Boeing's Open Source office as he speaks with TNS host Alex Williams at KubeCon. Learn how they foster collaboration, contribute to projects, and prioritize code reuse for a secure, community-driven approach.

Engineers from Amazon Web Services provide updates on kubectl, containerd, Karpenter and more from KubeCon.

Predictions about generative AI, developer productivity, DevSecOps and more are on the mind of Heath Newburn, global CTO of PagerDuty, in this episode of The New Stack Makers.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, the co-founder of Chronosphere, Rob Skillington, joins us at KubeCon in Chicago to share what he’s learned from building platforms and tools for his colleagues.

In this special edition of The Tech Founder Odyssey, Jean Yang of Akita Software chats with TNS host Alex Williams about advocating for a pragmatic and data-driven approach to shape programming languages and tools in response to real-world developer needs.