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May 6, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
Passport, please!Following public word of a container leakage last January, the release of Kubernetes 1.30 offers a few more security checkpoints, tightening up the permissions and access controls. No longer will errant processes be able to wander about K8s-managed containers and pods namelessly. Thanks to KEP 24 (“AppArmor support”), Kubernetes containers and pods can be secured through AppArmor, a Linux security module for enforcing policies during runtimes.
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May 5, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jack Wallen |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
If you’re a developer, at some point you might need to build a Debian package from your source. Of course, this means your project would have to have been developed for Linux in the first place, as you certainly won’t be able to build a Debian package from the source designed for either Windows or macOS. But if you’re developing for Linux and you want to create a Debian package, read on.
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May 4, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | David Eastman |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
I’ve looked at both regex and JSON persistence generation with LLMs, but it is Structured Query Language (SQL) that many believe is handled well by AI. To help celebrate SQL’s 50th birthday, let’s talk tables, introducing technical terminology as we need it. However, I don’t want to simply test queries against existing tables. The world of relational databases starts with the schema.
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May 4, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
Google laid off staff from the Flutter, Dart and Python teams, TechCrunch reported this week. Google confirmed the layoffs to the news outlet but refused to specify details about the layoffs, including from which teams people are laid off. There was, however, an unhelpful quote from a spokesperson about the company becoming more efficient and aligning resources to company priorities in the coming year.
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May 3, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jennifer Riggins |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
We talk a lot about developer experience in the face of cloud native complexity. Yet 71% of Fortune 500 companies are still on the mainframe. How can we modernize the experience of mainframe engineers? Companies on the mainframe face changing regulatory requirements at a time of rapid growth. Add to this, the average age of a mainframe developer is 47, meaning those with experience are approaching retirement — and the next generation needs onboarding.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
The pandemic created an interesting dynamic, from a developer’s perspective: Even though more people were home on higher-speed connections, there was a big surge in mobile use. That changed how businesses saw mobile applications, explained Mav Turner, chief product and strategy officer for the automated software testing platform Tricentis. “You look at what happened during the pandemic, everybody had massive use of mobile devices, even though they were mostly at home,” Turner said.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
For OpenTofu co-maintainer, Sebastian Stadil the news of IBM acquiring HashiCorp was not exactly a surprise. Like the rest of us, he had heard the rumors of an acquisition for a few days beforehand. But now that the pending ingestion of HashiCorp into the historically open source-friendly IBM is now officially underway, OpenTofu, as an open source collective, must be suddenly wondering what IBM’s plans are for Terraform.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun |Sherlock Xu |Joab Jackson
SEATTLE — The free license that Redis offers under its new license is not a great deal, says the lead contributor to the Valkey project, the new Redis fork backed by The Linux Foundation. “So a lot of people just look at the fact that the new license that Redis is putting out is free for end users,” said Madelyn Olson, a former core contributor to the Redis project, in an interview for The New Stack Makers. The episode, which included Valkey maintainers from Google and Oracle.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Jeffrey Burt |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun |Sherlock Xu
Developers already under siege by attacks on the software supply chain have another worry after researchers uncovered a high-severity security vulnerability in the popular open source R programming language. The discovery of the flaw by analysts with AI security company HiddenLayer would let attackers exploit a weakness in the deserialization process in R to execute arbitrary code in a victim’s systems, essentially enabling them to write code or commands into the system.
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May 2, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |David Cassel |Alex Williams |Mikhail Khlystun
Every IT company today must be trying to incorporate generative AI into their own apps, hopefully in such a way that it will bring value to the user, and loyalty to the vendor. Social networking service LinkedIn recently incorporated GenAI into two of its services and shared its learnings last week in a blog post. The post draws from company experience in building two “premium” LinkedIn services, one for summarizing text in a post, and the other for recommending job posts.
