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Culture

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The New Stack’s cultural coverage looks at how cloud native computing, DevOps and other modern information technology practices are influenced by larger cultural forces, both for good and ill.

For instance, there is much discussion underway about the increasing surveillance of people, through cameras and other technologies, using much of the technology we cover on a day-by-day basis. We look at how machine learning can be used to automatically generate ‘fake news’ and how the same technology can be used to detect such spurious reports.

Another topic we watch closely is institutional bias, where IT companies and development shops continue to hire and create products for, white males. They neglect the talents and purchasing power, of women, people of color and from different cultures, much to the loss of the industry. We are not here to point fingers but to point the way towards all more inclusive industry. If computing is meant for all people, then all people should be represented in its creation.

Open source, of course, is a pertinent topic for us, as independent developers spar with large cloud companies over the rights — and the responsibilities —  that come with the use of free software. How open source communities self-organize is another ongoing topic of interest for us.

Naturally, we look for how good business and development practices can benefit the operation of cloud native systems. And, on some Sundays, we take a look back through time, to how computers and IT systems were managed in the past, from the very first computer ever built, to the spreadsheet software that changed the world. Although most of these technologies are but historic oddities, how they broke new ground can teach us valuable lessons in navigating the cutting edge of technology.


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A Farewell Tour with His Puppet Robot Pals for MST3K Creator Joel Hodgson

9 Feb 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development

This Week in Programming: Iowa Shows Apps Can’t Replace Institutional Knowledge

8 Feb 2020 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

Culture / Open Source / Technology

Why Bruce Perens Is Proposing ‘Coherent Open Source’

5 Feb 2020 8:54am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development / Technology

Why the User Experience Is Often So Bad and How to Fix It

3 Feb 2020 5:00pm, by B. Cameron Gain and Alex Williams

Culture

Context: Diversity in the Board Room

31 Jan 2020 5:00pm, by TNS Staff

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Culture

How NASA’s Next Mars Rover Will Look for Signs of Past Life on the Red Planet

26 Jan 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development

How the ‘Y2K’ Bug Returned on Jan. 1, 2020

19 Jan 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development / DevOps / Sponsored

Open Source Programs Shift from Legal to Engineering Productivity Focus

16 Jan 2020 3:00am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Culture / Open Source

A Guide to Leveraging Open Source Licensing

15 Jan 2020 5:00pm, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture / Open Source / Contributed

Measuring the Costs of Open Source Language Builds

15 Jan 2020 1:44pm, by Bart Copeland

Culture / DevOps / Sponsored / Contributed

How to Include Every Department in DevOps

13 Jan 2020 10:15am, by Bethan Vincent

Culture / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning / Technology

Headless Robot Cats, Parallel Realities: CES 2020 and the Shape of Things to Come

12 Jan 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / DevOps / Security / Sponsored / Contributed

4 New Year’s Resolutions to Integrate Security into DevOps

9 Jan 2020 12:46pm, by Brian Levine

Culture / Open Source / Contributed

Why Open Source Makes the UK Open for Business Post-Brexit

8 Jan 2020 3:00am, by Amanda Brock

Culture / DevOps / Sponsored / Contributed

How DevOps Quality Trends Vary Around the World

6 Jan 2020 11:42am, by Wayne Ariola

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Culture / Data

Games Data Play: The SQL Murder Mystery

5 Jan 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Cloud Native / Culture / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

Enterprise Adoption and the Kubernetes Community

2 Jan 2020 9:17am, by Tasha Drew

Culture

Hopes and Fears: A Look Back at Some of the Iconic Tech Stories of 2019

29 Dec 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / DevOps / Sponsored

‘The Unicorn Project’ Author Gene Kim on Why Management Still Doesn’t ‘Get It’

27 Dec 2019 11:13am, by B. Cameron Gain

Culture / Data / DevOps / Contributed

The 3 Elements of FutureOps

26 Dec 2019 1:00pm, by Bhanu Singh

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Culture / Technology

Donald Knuth’s 2019 ‘Christmas Tree Lecture’ Explores Pi in ‘The Art of Computer Programming’

25 Dec 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture

Boldly Going: The Life of Pioneering ‘Star Trek’ Writer D.C. Fontana

22 Dec 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development

This Week in Programming: Nitpicking Angles in the State of JavaScript 2019

20 Dec 2019 1:00pm, by Mike Melanson

Culture / Development / DevOps / Sponsored / Contributed

Why Software Testing Remains a Bottleneck

18 Dec 2019 11:42am, by Wolfgang Platz

Culture / Development / Open Source / Sponsored / Contributed

The Key Benefits of a Managed Open Source Approach

17 Dec 2019 1:00pm, by Chris Grams

Culture / DevOps / Technology / Sponsored / Contributed

How Uniting Back and Front End Developers Benefits the User

17 Dec 2019 10:47am, by Abby Kearns

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