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Jan 1, 2024 | 
thenewstack.io | Joe Fay |San He |Tim Banks |Kimberley Mok
The open source world started 2023 on an unsettled note, with widespread tech layoffs, a volatile economy, and a new generative AI platform that didn’t just produce answers, but apparently could produce computer code. The last 12 months have seen generative AI evolving in leaps and bounds, and a license change by HashiCorp that suggested venture capital firms don’t see much future in the open source model — all against a background of continued economic uncertainty.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Tim Banks |Kimberley Mok |Jelani Harper
Kubernetes is complex, and, once in production, costly to debug. If only there were a way where you could test a new Kubernetes deployment in a realistic fashion before you actually run up the cloud provider bills? SimKube is an effort to offer this sort of capability. It can record some behavior on an actual cluster, then play it back on a simulated cluster so the behavior can be inspected in detail.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Bruce Gain |BC Gain |Tim Banks |Kimberley Mok
An open source tool, BumbleBee extends eBPF’s reach and enhances its adaptability to operate in various environments, thanks to use of the Open Container Initiative (OCI) image specification. In essence, BumbleBee simplifies the process of building and running distributed eBPF programs, encapsulating them as OCI images, then publishing them into an OCI-compliant registry.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Tim Banks |Janakiram MSV |David Cassel |Chris Preimesberger
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Jonathan Rende |Joe Fay |Tim Banks
SvelteKit 2.0 released in late December. The framework for building apps with Svelte now supports Vite 5 and paves the way for Svelte 5, which is expected to be released in 2024. It also adds support for one “much-requested feature,” the team noted in a SvelteKit 2.0 release blog post. Svelte is calling it shallow routing, and it allows developers “to associate state with a history entry without causing navigation,” the team wrote.
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Dec 22, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Tim Banks |Kimberley Mok |Jelani Harper
Maybe we are doing microservices all wrong? This was the main thesis of “Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications” (PDF), a paper from a bunch of Googlers (led by Google software engineer Michael Whittaker) that was presented in June at HOTOS ’23: Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems. The problem, as Whittaker et al pointed out, was that microservices largely have not been set up correctly, architecturally speaking.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Tim Banks |Darryl Taft |Jennifer Riggins |Susan Hall
The FinOps vendor landscape contains a wealth of options for the best way to move a container or a workload from one instance type to another based on a secret combination of reasons. They use fancy AI/ML algorithms to reach decisions on how and where to schedule your tasks so you don’t have to.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Tim Banks |Heather Joslyn |Richard MacManus |Jelani Harper
Tim Banks is a lead developer advocate at Dell Technologies. His tech career spans over 25 years. Tim's journey into tech started as a U.S Marine, having originally joined up to be a musician. He was later reassigned to avionics. Upon leaving the military, he worked for hardware manufacturers and defense contractors as a civilian. Later, he left government contracting for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and small startups.
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Sep 20, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Tim Banks |Chris Preimesberger |Dormain Drewitz |Susan Hall
In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, very often, a new white belt will learn a technique in training, and practice that technique with their partners repeatedly. The student will memorize all the details of the technique and, with a willing training partner (known as an uke), be able to pull it off by executing the move. However, when sparring or in a competition, the student may be unable to successfully use the technique, believing that the technique is deficient.
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Mar 28, 2023 | 
thenewstack.io | Saad Malik |Nicolas Vermande |Omer Hamerman |Tim Banks
This post is one of a series of posts previewing KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023, April 18-21, Amsterdam. Join us there, to learn more about the transformative nature of cloud native applications and open source software. There’s always a lot going on in the world of Kubernetes. But the eve of a big community gathering like KubeCon gives us the opportunity to take stock of how far we’ve come — and where we’re going next.
