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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.

Culture / Machine Learning

Researchers Look at How ‘Algorithmic Coloniality’ May Hamper Artificial Intelligence

19 Jul 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Microservices / Serverless / Contributed

Enterprise Application Cost Savings Using Serverless Computing

17 Jul 2020 12:22pm, by Andy Thurai

Culture / Open Source / Contributed

Want to Start an Open Source Program Office? Here Are 6 Marks to Hit

15 Jul 2020 2:00pm, by Bob Lord

Culture / Development / Linux

The Long-Lost Computation Dissertation of Unix Pioneer Dennis Ritchie

12 Jul 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

Cloud Native / Culture / Open Source

The New Stack Context: Google Launches a Trademark Office for Open Source

10 Jul 2020 1:29pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Native / Culture / Development / Contributed

Distributed Teams, Distributed Applications: Collaboration in a Cloud Native World

10 Jul 2020 12:00pm, by Mike Winters

Culture / Machine Learning

Industry Facial Recognition AI Moratoriums Don’t Address Flaws, Privacy Concerns

10 Jul 2020 9:21am, by Kimberley Mok

Culture / Linux / Open Source

What Happens When Developers Leave Their Open Source Projects?

5 Jul 2020 6:00am, by Jack Wallen

Culture / Development

This Week in Programming: Rust Rejiggers Internal Ownership of Its Standard Library

4 Jul 2020 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

Culture / Linux / Open Source

Linus Torvalds on Diversity, Longevity, Rust, and ARM Chips

3 Jul 2020 9:53am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development / Open Source / Sponsored / Contributed

How Inkscape Built an Open Source Community with Mac and Windows Users

30 Jun 2020 6:35am, by Matt Asay

Cloud Services / Culture / Kubernetes / Sponsored

What Tools a Swedish IT Provider Relies on for Its Customers’ Cloud Native Journey

29 Jun 2020 3:00pm, by Alex Williams and B. Cameron Gain

Cloud Native / Culture / Networking / Sponsored

Baptism by Fire: NS1 INS1GHTS Surveys Current DevOps Challenges

29 Jun 2020 2:22pm, by B. Cameron Gain

Culture / Open Source

The New Stack: What ‘Open Source’ Means for the GitHub Generation

26 Jun 2020 3:00pm, by Joab Jackson

Cloud Services / Culture / Contributed

Building and Running a Successful Remote SaaS Operations Team

25 Jun 2020 10:29am, by Viswanatha Raju Penmetsa PVV

CI/CD / Culture / DevOps / Sponsored / Contributed

How Betting Company William Hill Embraced DevOps

24 Jun 2020 12:03am, by Gareth Sephton

Culture

The New Stack Context: Splunk Removes the Term ‘Whitelist’ from Its Software

19 Jun 2020 12:45pm, by Joab Jackson

Culture / Networking / Open Source

Words Matter: Finally, Tech Looks at Removing Exclusionary Language

19 Jun 2020 11:40am, by Jennifer Riggins

Culture / Machine Learning

Clearview’s Controversial Facial Recognition AI Automates Mass Surveillance

19 Jun 2020 11:02am, by Kimberley Mok

Culture / Development / Sponsored / Contributed

Job Security Is Biggest Pandemic Concern of North American Developers

18 Jun 2020 12:00pm, by Tim Hall

Culture / Development / Kubernetes / Sponsored / Contributed

Cloud Foundry’s Second Act: Bring a Proven Developer Experience to Kubernetes

17 Jun 2020 4:17am, by Jared Ruckle

Culture / Open Source / Sponsored / Contributed

How ‘Free Riders’ Make the Musl Open Source Project Grow

16 Jun 2020 9:24am, by Matt Asay

Mike Stewart reviews early version of Apollo 10 LM software - via Curios Marc (YouTube screenshot).

Culture / Development / Storage

How a Programmer Recreated Apollo 10’s Lost Software

14 Jun 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

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Containers / Culture / Kubernetes

Beda, Burns and McLuckie: the Creators of Kubernetes Look Back

10 Jun 2020 12:33pm, by David Cassel

Screenshot from Bryan Lunduke Linux Sucks 2020 (via YouTube) - pointing

Culture / Linux / Open Source

Reasons to Hate Linux: 2020 Edition

7 Jun 2020 6:00am, by David Cassel

CI/CD / Culture / Development

This Week in Programming: Dear Tech Giants, Save Your Moral Platitudes

6 Jun 2020 6:00am, by Mike Melanson

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