Alex Handy

Oakland

Principal Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat

Managing Editor and Writer at Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Blog

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Articles

Updates to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes Cloud Service strengthen your security posture

1 week ago | redhat.com | Alex Handy

Making sure your Kubernetes environment is secure and compliant is a critical, ongoing challenge, especially for enterprise workloads in the hybrid cloud. To help you meet security requirements with greater confidence and efficiency, we’ve just rolled out key updates to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes Cloud Service.
Kubernetes Powers Mastercard's AI-Workbench for Secure Innovation

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Alex Handy

AI isn’t a foreign idea for many businesses today. With the right tools, platforms and team, useful business implementations of AI and machine learning can grow as an extension of a company’s current infrastructure. For Mastercard, a deep understanding of data science was already built into the globe-spanning payments company.
5 Kubernetes Vulnerabilities To Watch Out For

2 months ago | thenewstack.io | Alex Handy

Kubernetes just had a rough week for security, as CVE-2025-1974 came to light on March 24. Since you’re probably already thinking heavily about Kubernetes security, we thought we’d do a quick tour of some other vulnerabilities you should watch out for and give you a brief idea of how to prevent them from ruining your week too. Kubernetes security is its own thing — the Kubernetes platform involves numerous layers that all need to be secured.
Transferring Trillions of Dollars Daily Using Kubernetes With No Internet

Mar 6, 2025 | thenewstack.io | Alex Handy

There are plenty of architectural diagrams out there describing cloud-based architectures deployed in traditional enterprises. But what if you operate financial market infrastructure that processes transactions that are worth trillions of dollars every day? How do you securely manage and operate an environment at scale with almost no internet access? What if the users inside the cluster can’t access that cluster’s underlying infrastructure in any way, save through the application they’re using?
Kubernetes Security Report: Evolving Landscape of DevSecOps

Jun 27, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Alex Handy |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel

Administrators and architects aren’t the only ones who feel the pinch if there’s a security issue in Kubernetes, or with a container. Today’s microservices and cloud-based distributed architectures offer the benefits of resilience and scalability, but they come with the trade-off of tremendous interdependency. Everything is interdependent in the cloud, and building more secure software inside of Kubernetes is not just a matter of keeping an up-to-date OS image and virtual machines available.
Dev Tools: 17 Seconds Shaved Off a Build and a Crowd Went Wild

May 7, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Alex Handy |Joe Fay |Mike Barborak |Usama Jamil

The things people get excited over in the software business would make most people scratch their heads in confusion. Seemingly random events, like the announcement of extended support windows for essential enterprise software at Red Hat Summit 2024 got me reminiscing about the loudest cheer I ever heard at a developer conference. Years ago I was a journalist and the host of the now-defunct Android Developer Conference (AnDevCon). I emceed the main stage and introduced all the keynote speakers.
Virtualization and Containers: Better Together

Mar 19, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Alex Handy |Darryl Taft |David Cassel |David Eastman

Change is always intimidating. When enterprise virtualization started to rear its head back in the early 2000s, it forced administrators and architects to unshackle their resource planning from single-machine thinking. Now, thanks to virtualization, every machine could be a bunch of machines. Giant servers could host a hundred virtual machines on a single box, driving server consolidation and cost reduction.
Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks talks about AI, open source and cloud

Jan 15, 2024 | redhat.com | Alex Handy

Matt Hicks has been a Red Hatter since 2006. In that time he’s seen the market for enterprise software evolve from one obsessed with complex closed source solutions, to one more focused on services, on-demand software development tools, open source and global scale. Sitting atop that current pile of innovative technologies are things like AI and quantum computing.
How Red Hat OpenShift saves your developers time

Nov 23, 2023 | redhat.com | Alex Handy

The feedback loop for a single developer building desktop software can be quite short. If you're using a dynamic language like JavaScript or something that can be compiled just-in-time, the space between coding and testing can be as short as the time it takes to type in a command. Alan Kay understood the necessity of this tight feedback loop all the way back at Xerox PARC.
OpenShift-based hackathon offers cash prizes for building cloud-native apps

Oct 11, 2023 | content.cloud.redhat.com | Alex Handy

Hackathons are a time honored tradition in the software industry. They stem from a time when software developers had to stay up all night hacking away at their code while the time sharing machine had free cycles. At 4 AM, it’s easier to book time on the room-sized PDP-10. Rather than cram all of that excitement and creativity into a single evening or weekend, however, we at Red Hat kicked off our CodeShift Hackathon on September 26, 2023.