The New Stack Podcast

Security-as-code is the practice of “building security into DevOps tools and workflows by mapping out how changes to code and infrastructure are made and finding places to add security checks, tests, and gates without introducing unnecessary costs or delays,” according to tech publisher O’Reilly. In this latest “pancakes and podcast” special episode —recorded during a pancake breakfast during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in October — we discuss how security-as-code can benefit emerging GitOps practices.The guests were  Sean O’Dell, director of developer advocacy, Accurics, Sara Joshi, who was an associate software engineer for Accurics when this recording was made;  Parminder Singh, chief information security officer (CISO), for hybrid-cloud digital-transformation services provider DigitalOnUs; Brendan O’Leary, staff developer evangelist, GitLab; Cindy Blake, senior security evangelist, GitLab; and Emily Omier, contributor, The New Stack and owner of marketing consulting provider Emily Omier Consulting.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, hosted the podcast.

It takes more than just years of experience to become a senior software engineer — among the prerequisites are having a good marketing sense, interviewing skills and other personal qualities required to become one.In this The New Stack Makers podcast, guests Swizec Teller, a senior software engineer, Tia — a healthcare company— and author, and Shawn Wang, head of developer experience for microservices orchestration platform provider Temporal.io, describe the mindset and other attributes required to become a senior engineer.Darryl Taft, TNS news editor, hosted the podcast.

Software deployments increasingly involve highly distributed and decentralized application development processes for deployments across any combination of data centers, public cloud and to the edge. All the while, reliability, security or performance cannot be compromised.In this The New Stack Makers podcast, a panel of technology executives discussed the best ways to speed up business innovation in today’s multicloud and multi-infrastructure world. They also discussed how to deliver apps and services faster to improve the customer experience — over a pancake breakfast during VMworld, VMware’s annual user’s conference.The guests were Dormain Drewitz, senior director of product marketing for VMware Tanzu, Mandy Storbakken, cloud technologist for VMware, Shawn Bass, CTO for VMware’s end-user computing business, and Jo Peterson, vice president cloud and security services, Clarify360.Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, and Joab Jackson, TNS editor-in-chief, hosted the podcast.

Sometimes, multicloud just happens. Some organizations might have, for example, applications running on Amazon Web Services in one department, while at the same time, while another may come to rely on Google Cloud or other cloud provider services.How do you make them work under one unified architecture? The difficulties of multicloud management is the main topic of this latest episode of the New Stack Makers podcast, where we interview the CEO  and co-founder of mulitcloud management platform provider Mist.io,  Chris Psaltis. Here we discussed the inherent difficulties and possible solutions for running operations across multiple cloud services, as well as how Mist.io can help. TNS Editor Joab Jackson was the host.

Many organizations need better and tighter infrastructure policy for their distributed systems. This need has been underscored by an increasing number of misconfigurations, especially in distributed microservices and Kubernetes environments.How policy as code extends infrastructure as code was discussed in this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, another one of our “pancakes and podcast” special episodes. The guests were Deepak Giridharagopal, chief technology officer of Puppet; Tiffany Jachja, data engineering manager for Vox Media; James Turnbull, vice president of engineering of the internationally known luxury and art auctioneer Sotheby’s; and Shea Stewart, a self-professed DevOps tech nerd. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, hosted the podcast.

As the internet fills every nook and cranny of our lives, it runs into greater complexity for developers, operations engineers, and the organizations that employ them. How do you reduce latency? How do you comply with the regulations of each region or country where you have a virtual presence? How do you keep data near where it’s actually used?For a growing number of organizations, the answer is to use the edge.In this episode of Makers, the New Stack podcast, Ron Lev, general manager of Cox Edge,  and Sheraline Barthelmy, head of product,  marketing and customer success for Cox Edge, were joined by Chetan Venkatesh, founder and CEO of Macrometa. The trio discussed the best use cases for edge computing, the advantages it can bring, and the challenges that remain.The podcast was hosted by Heather Joslyn, features editor of The New Stack.

Cloud native systems are, by definition, distributed —but to run databases securely and effectively on them, what’s needed is not only purpose-fit technology, but a change of mindset, according to this podcast episode’s guests.In this episode of Makers, the New Stack podcast, Jim Walker, principal product evangelist and Michelle Gienow, senior technical content manager, of Cockroach Labs (and a former New Stack reporter), discussed how distributed systems create new challenges for databases, the paradigm shift that’s needed to run databases effectively on Kubernetes, and the results of a new survey of Kubernetes users.The podcast was hosted by Heather Joslyn, features editor of The New Stack.

It’s that time of the year again, when we gather to discuss all matters related to Kubernetes and the other assorted tooling necessary to make cloud native computing happen.KubeCon+CloudNativeCon will be held in Los Angeles next month, October 11 -15.A key difference at this year’s event — the first onsite event from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation since the beginning of the pandemic — is that the flagship cloud native conference will offer a much more significant virtual experience for those unable to travel to the venue in L.A..The virtual aspect of this year’s KubeCon+CloudNativeCon “is expected to continue indefinitely,” Priyanka Sharma, general manager, CNCF said in this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast. Sharma was joined by conference co-chair Jasmine James, who is the Twitter developer experience lead and manager for engineering effectiveness. They discussed this year’s schedule and agenda, how it will all compare to KubeCon+CloudNativeCon of years past and general cloud native trends. TNS Editor-In-Chief, Joab Jackson, hosted this episode of The New Stack Makers.

Database giant Oracle added a container native CI/CD platform to its cloud portfolio when it purchased Wercker in 2017. Since the acquisition, Wercker founder, Micha Hernandez van Leuffen, started Fiberplane, for which he is the CEO. In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, van Leuffen discusses the different aspects of the development of the Wercker and how that has parlayed into his work at Fiberplane, which offers collaborative notebooks for resolving incidents. Alana Anderson, founder and managing partner, base case capital, offered input from an investment capital firm perspective  as well.Alex Williams, founder and publisher, and Joab Jackson, editor-in-chief, both of The New Stack, hosted the podcast.

An organization that has any ambitions or hopes to scale application deployments across cloud native environments is not going to get very far without automation.From CI/CD support, increasing application deployment speed  — often across different environments — and maintaining compliance and security, operations teams manually managing these processes is just not humanly possible after a certain point.In this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast,  Abby Kearns, Chief Technology Officer and head of R&D, and Chip Childers, Puppet Chief Architect, discussed what automation for infrastructure management for cloud native deployments means for Puppet and for the IT industry. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of TNS, hosted this interview.