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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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CI/CD / Culture / DevOps

Gene Kim on Biggest Obstacles Faced by DevOps in 2021

3 Feb 2021 11:16am, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture / Development

Objective-C’s Roots in the Life of Brad Cox

31 Jan 2021 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Monitoring / Security

Declare, Respond, Mitigate, Learn: How Kintaba Tackles Incident Response

29 Jan 2021 6:57am, by Jennifer Riggins

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Culture / Linux / Open Source

The Open Source Lesson of the Linksys WRT54G Router

24 Jan 2021 6:00am, by David Cassel

Cloud Native / Culture / Sponsored / Contributed

The First Six Months: CNCF Observations and 2021 Vision

20 Jan 2021 12:00pm, by Priyanka Sharma

Culture / Development

Was Parler Really a Progressive Web App?

19 Jan 2021 10:20am, by Richard MacManus

Cloud Services / Culture

Why Parler Can’t Rebuild a Scalable Cloud Service from Scratch

19 Jan 2021 9:00am, by Mary Branscombe

Culture

Why Tech Is Still Toxic for Women (and What to Do About it)

18 Jan 2021 6:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture / Development / DevOps

This Week in Programming: The Intriguing Tale of Parler’s Demise

16 Jan 2021 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

Culture / DevOps / Machine Learning / Contributed

Meet the Star Member of the IT Team: The AI Assistant

15 Jan 2021 1:07pm, by Bob Friday

Culture / Development / DevOps

Swimm Helps New Dev Hires Stay Afloat with Continuous Documentation

15 Jan 2021 5:00am, by Mike Melanson

Culture / Data / Security

How Parler’s Data Was Harvested

14 Jan 2021 9:42am, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Culture / Development

This Week in Programming: GitHub Opens Back Up to Iran

9 Jan 2021 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

Culture / Development

The Game of Life: The Sprawling Legacy of Mathematician John Horton Conway

7 Jan 2021 3:00pm, by David Cassel

Cloud Services / Culture

Want to Save the World? Start by Cutting Your Cloud Costs

6 Jan 2021 3:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture

Making a Difference at Uber and Airbnb, the Story of a Reliability Engineer

5 Jan 2021 1:56pm, by Alex Williams

Culture / Linux

Precious Times: 2020’s Forgotten Tech Stories

1 Jan 2021 3:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Machine Learning

The Year in AI: What’s Behind in 2020, and What’s Ahead

31 Dec 2020 7:00am, by Kimberley Mok

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Culture

What a Systems Programmer Learned from Working at a Fast-Food Restaurant

26 Dec 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

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Culture / Data / Development

Mary Poppendieck on Why You Should Just Burn Your Backlog

23 Dec 2020 6:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

vSpatial (via Oculus blog)

Culture / Development

TNS Gift Guide 2020: Practical Projects and Fabulous Fun

20 Dec 2020 6:02am, by David Cassel

Culture / Open Source / Security

SolarWinds, the World’s Biggest Security Failure and Open Source’s Better Answer

18 Dec 2020 2:01pm, by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Culture / Development / Contributed

How to Write a Better README Mission Statement

16 Dec 2020 8:28am, by Emily Omier

Culture / Development / Machine Learning

Glassdoor: Don’t Sacrifice Performance for New Features

14 Dec 2020 3:00pm, by Alex Williams

CI/CD / Culture / Development / Monitoring / Contributed

Why Value Stream Management Focuses the Software Development Lifecycle

14 Dec 2020 12:37pm, by Jeff Keyes

Culture / Technology

Days of Yore: On the Discovery of Abandoned Soviet-era Computers

13 Dec 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

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