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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 / Development

Should There Be a ‘Robot Tax’ to Offset Human Job Loss from Automation?

22 Sep 2017 12:00pm, by Kimberley Mok

API Management / Culture

Why Writing Great Docs Matters So Much to the UK’s Government Digital Service

21 Sep 2017 2:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

The Negev - 2014 (screenshot of Facebook photo)

Culture

The Dark Side of Life in a Silicon Valley ‘Hacker House’

17 Sep 2017 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development

Code n00b: Cooking up Some Workflow

15 Sep 2017 12:00pm, by Michelle Gienow

Culture

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Geek Hurricane Hacks

13 Sep 2017 12:00pm, by drtorq

Cloud Native / Culture / Development / Edge / IoT / Microservices / Serverless

Event-Driven Architecture Is the Wave of the Future

11 Sep 2017 9:00am, by TC Currie

CI/CD / Cloud Native / Culture / Microservices

Microservices: The Good, the Bad and the Hype

11 Sep 2017 2:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture / Development / Machine Learning

How Should Bots Respond to Frustration?

10 Sep 2017 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development

Code n00b: One Year In, We Can Drive It Home

8 Sep 2017 12:08pm, by Michelle Gienow

Culture / DevOps / Machine Learning

PagerDuty Debuts Machine Learning Capabilities and Community Outreach

7 Sep 2017 4:01pm, by TC Currie

Culture / Edge / IoT

Eel-Like Aquatic Robots Use Living Sensors to Locate Water Pollution

7 Sep 2017 11:00am, by Kimberley Mok

Culture / Development

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Showing Temperatures on an ‘Analog’ Gauge

6 Sep 2017 12:00pm, by drtorq

Culture / Development / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning

With Recent Acquisitions, Progress Tackles Cognitive Applications, Mobile Development

5 Sep 2017 5:00am, by Susan Hall

National Park Service (demo of eclipse glasses from July)

Culture

Eclipse 2017 Mania: All the Data

3 Sep 2017 5:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Edge / IoT

Carbon Nanotubes Could Provide the Base for True Random Number Generation

31 Aug 2017 11:00am, by Kimberley Mok

API Management / CI/CD / Culture / Development

No Testing, No Documentation, No Problem?

31 Aug 2017 1:00am, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Use the Processing Programming Language to Build an On-Screen Gauge

30 Aug 2017 12:00pm, by drtorq

Containers / Culture / Data / Edge / IoT / Monitoring / Contributed

How We Designed CrateDB as a Realtime SQL DBMS for the Internet of Things

29 Aug 2017 9:00am, by Jodok Batlogg

Containers / Culture / Development / Open Source

Open Source Leaders: Dirk Hohndel Brings Open Source to VMware

29 Aug 2017 2:00am, by Swapnil Bhartiya

Culture / Edge / IoT

Researchers’ Electronic Nanomesh Is an Ultra-Comfortable Wearable

28 Aug 2017 6:00am, by Kimberley Mok

Culture / Development

Strange Brew: How the Web’s 418 Error Code Became Steeped in Controversy

27 Aug 2017 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development / Open Source

This Week in Numbers: Comparing Corporate Open Source Contributions on GitHub Organizations

26 Aug 2017 6:00am, by Lawrence E Hecht

Culture / Edge / IoT

Geek Glamor: Or, the Girl in the Glowing Gown

21 Aug 2017 12:00pm, by Michelle Gienow

Culture / Development

Coding in Prison: The Dev Shop at San Quentin

20 Aug 2017 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture

A Geek’s Guide to Monday’s Solar Eclipse

18 Aug 2017 12:00pm, by Michelle Gienow

Culture / Development

How JSON Toppled XML and Other Lessons from the Vintage Computer Fest

18 Aug 2017 9:00am, by Alex Handy

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