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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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Steven Willmott presenting at APIdays Australia

API Management / Cloud Native / Culture

The Five Principles of Software Ethics

13 Mar 2017 2:30pm, by Mark Boyd

Samantha King and R H Sin - Make Poetry Great Again

Culture

How Instagram Brought Literary Success to Feminist Poet r.h. Sin

12 Mar 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Waze Connected Cities

Culture

Shifting Traffic Patterns, Navigation Apps Challenge Residents, City Planners

11 Mar 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

CI/CD / Containers / Culture / Development / Edge / IoT / Open Source

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Automation Meets the Wine Devotee

11 Mar 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

Culture / Development

Code n00b: What Is the Path Forward for Novice Developers?

10 Mar 2017 2:50pm, by Michelle Gienow

Culture / Edge / IoT / Serverless / Storage

Serverless Architecture: Five Design Patterns

7 Mar 2017 10:26am, by Mark Boyd

Cloud Services / Culture / Development / Storage

Mobile Dev: Filestack’s Upload Macro Gets a Makeover

7 Mar 2017 1:00am, by Susan Hall

SHAKEY at SRI International

Culture / Machine Learning

Remembering Shakey, the First Intelligent Robot

5 Mar 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development / Edge / IoT / Open Source

Tinkerers Make Self-Driving Cars Using DIY Kits and Smartphones

4 Mar 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Culture

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Get Beyond ‘Blinking the LED’

4 Mar 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

Culture / Data / Development / Open Source

Tax Your Brain: Open Source Takes on Government Black Box Economics

28 Feb 2017 11:44am, by Michelle Gienow

Culture / Edge / IoT

Toys Go High-Tech: The Best of the 2017 Toy Fair

26 Feb 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Culture

‘Robot Tamer’ Reprograms Industrial Robots to Be Curious about Living Creatures

26 Feb 2017 6:00am, by Kimberley Mok

Zume pizza truck

Culture

Zume Tests Pizza Delivery Trucks with Automated Ovens for Fresher Deliveries

25 Feb 2017 3:00pm, by David Cassel

Culture / Data / Edge / IoT / Open Source

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Exploring the Embedded Linux Conference in Portland

25 Feb 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

Cloud Native / Culture / Data / Development / Open Source

Amidst Bias, Women Work to Find a Place in Open Source Communities

20 Feb 2017 3:00am, by Darryl Taft

Culture

Remembering the First Cat in Space

19 Feb 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Stupid Shell prints a cat

Culture

Sweden’s ‘Very Stupid Hackathon’ Produced Some Pretty Malicious Hacks

18 Feb 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Data / Edge / IoT

Apache Kafka: A Primer

17 Feb 2017 7:27am, by Janakiram MSV

Culture / Data / Development / Open Source

How Microsoft Finally Came Around to Open Source

16 Feb 2017 8:59am, by Darryl Taft

Cloud Native / Containers / Culture / Data / Edge / IoT

Apache Kafka: The Cornerstone of an Internet-of-Things Data Platform

15 Feb 2017 8:10am, by Janakiram MSV

CI/CD / Cloud Native / Containers / Culture / DevOps / Tools

How Operable Built its ChatOps Cog Platform on Docker Images

14 Feb 2017 10:44am, by Jennifer Riggins

The Merelo family learns Perl 6

Culture

Computer Science Professor Stages a Play to Teach his Family Perl 6

12 Feb 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Edge / IoT / Machine Learning / Monitoring

Deep Learning AI Pinpoints Mechanical Breakdowns by Listening to Machines

12 Feb 2017 6:00am, by Kimberley Mok

Culture / Data / Machine Learning

Super Bowl Sunday in the Age of Data and Drones

11 Feb 2017 9:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Edge / IoT / Open Source / Tools

Off-The-Shelf Hacker: Linux for Cheap Hardware, Then and Now

11 Feb 2017 3:00am, by drtorq

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