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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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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

Culture

A Very Geeky Christmas: Four Gift Ideas for the Programmer in Your Life

15 Dec 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Open Source

Xs:code Wants to Simplify Open Source Funding

11 Dec 2019 10:15am, by Mike Melanson

Culture

Programming Christmas Advent Calendars for 2019

8 Dec 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

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Culture / Data

Why Do Contestants Keep Underbidding on ‘The Price Is Right’? A Behavioral Economist’s View

1 Dec 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Open Source / Security / Tools / Sponsored

How SREs and Automation Can Save Your Security Infrastructure

27 Nov 2019 9:25am, by B. Cameron Gain

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Culture

Jimmy Wales’ New Social Network Tests Whether Moderation Can Scale

24 Nov 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

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Culture / Data / Machine Learning

Threads and Threats When Computers Think and Biases Emerge

21 Nov 2019 5:30pm, by Alex Williams

Culture / Development

Four Fun November Events Challenge the Creativity of Programmers

17 Nov 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Service Mesh / Tools / Sponsored / Contributed

The Art of the Service Mesh Policy

17 Nov 2019 4:00am, by Andrew Jenkins

Culture / DevOps / Sponsored / Contributed

How Digital Business Analytics Can Jumpstart DevOps to Become BizDevOps

16 Nov 2019 6:00am, by Andreas Grabner

Culture

What Happened When Popular Mechanics Tried to Predict the Future?

10 Nov 2019 6:00am, by David Cassel

Culture / Development / Open Source / Technology / Contributed

The Bacon Method: A Plan for Building Communities That Matter

8 Nov 2019 1:00pm, by Amanda Brock

CI/CD / Culture / Development / Open Source / Sponsored / Contributed

Open Source Tools: The Good, the Bad and the Truth in Between

6 Nov 2019 3:10pm, by Kara de la Marck

Culture / Data / Machine Learning / Contributed

4 Keys to Navigating the AI/ML Modernization Journey

5 Nov 2019 9:04am, by Kristin Simonini

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