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ISSUE 330: The New Stack’s New Look

“It’s a huge amount of power and carbon emissions that we are taking out of the system by moving to proof-of-stake.”

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ConsenSys’ Ben Edgington, on Ethereum’s moves from the environmentally damaging proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism to the energy-efficient proof-of-stake (PoS). “Ethereum’s Big Day: How the Merge Will Impact Web3 Developers”

Full Stack and Backend Developers' Diverging Use Cases

The State of WebAssembly 2022 survey data indicates that not all WebAssembly (Wasm) users are alike, with a divide emerging around backend developers and everyone else.

Colin Eberhardt, the editor of WebAssembly Weekly, surveyed 297 people in June 2022, of which almost half (49%) had at least three years of experience working with Wasm. Overall, those with little experience were not that different from everyone else, which indicates that there is an opportunity to change opinions in the market.

The New Stack’s New Look

This week, we rebooted our website, giving it a fresh new look and feel.

The update is more than cosmetic, however. The site reflects how we have evolved as an online news publication since our ‘umble beginnings back in 2014. Founder Alex Williams launched the publication to cover a nascent set of new open source technologies – centered around Docker – that enabled developers to run their applications seamlessly in the cloud. Later we would call this practice Cloud Native Computing, though that phrase wasn’t around yet.

It’s a good thing Alex didn’t call TNS “Docker Journal” instead. Otherwise, none of us would be here today. We’ve taken an expansive view of what “The New Stack” means in today’s DevOps landscape, and quietly widened our coverage over the years.

We’re still to the go-to source for cloud native computing, and its many supporting technologies. But we’ve enlarged our scope to include all the technologies and practices around the entire DevOps spectrum. This is why you’ll see stories covering everything from frontend development to site reliability engineering.

The nice thing about the new site is how it reflects this broadened scope. On the home page are a set of key topics and related stories where you’ll find our best coverage around topics such as TypeScript, WebAssembly, Zero Trust Computing and others. We also have category landing pages that you can bookmark if you just want to read about frontend computing or cloud services.

So whatever the future holds, you can turn to The New Stack to get an honest explanation and analysis of the technologies that will shape your future.

NSA’s New Guidance for Securing Software Supply Chains

The National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new how-to on securing software supply chains, "Securing the Software Supply Chain for Developers." The report was written by the Enduring Security Framework (ESF), a public-private working group that provides security guidance on high-priority threats to the nation’s critical infrastructure.

Uber Eats Carves out a Cache to Deduplicate Images

By implementing a basic hash map and control flow logic, Uber Eats has cut the number of images its servers send out to 1% of what was previously delivered. Given the services serves millions of images to end users every day, the savings in resources is considerable. And the solution very much reads like a LeetCode problem.

How to Build a Modern Data Infrastructure Using a Lakehouse

So you decided on building a data lakehouse. You will need support from lots of other tools. Here is what you need to know to make it happen — from the folks at Persistent Systems, a consultancy that specializes in data management.

Sláinte! We're on the road again at #ossummit in Dublin with VMware’s Dawn Foster and Heather Joslyn at the AWS booth discussing long-term sustainability in Open Source projects.

Fermyon co-founder Radu Matei enjoying one of the many nooks to sit and chat at the Open Source Summit in Dublin.

Andres Véga is going to ControlPlane to open the consultancy’s North America office. Way to go, Andres!

VMware's Suzanne Ambiel (middle) gets into the shot with The New Stack's Heather Joslyn and Colleen Coll (left and right respectively).

HONK is the mascot for the OSSF but it loos like the goose went to Chris Robb's head. Or is that a swan?

Anthi Gilligan of Akeero (left) and Aimee Louise Carton of Concentrix enjoyed a voyage aboard a double-decker bus to the Irish countryside for dinner in a centuries-old manor with 40 others from Dublin startups and a group attending the Open Source Summit. Thanks to Jana Iris and her team at TQ Ventures for the fun dinner event!

OpenUK was in the house! At Open Source Summit in Dublin this week.

HashiConf Global OCT. 04-06, LOS ANGELES, CA & VIRTUAL

HashiConf Global
OCT. 4-6, LOS ANGELES, CA & VIRTUAL

Get ready for two days of inspirational speakers, community connection, and a front-row seat to discussing infrastructure and security automation, modern application delivery, and the future of cloud! Register today!

Trust No One & Automate (Almost Everything): Building a Modern Zero Trust Strategy

With cyberattacks on the rise, no organization can afford to be careless about its security. But cloud architecture makes old ways of keeping systems and data safe obsolete.

In a distributed network, there’s no single “castle” to defend. Instead, a new strategy — known as “zero trust” — is the best approach to keeping everything that matters locked down tight — and malicious actors locked out.

A zero trust security strategy calls for not only technology that automates authentication and authorization tasks, but also a shift in thinking and organization-wide cultural changes. In this ebook, we offer a high-level overview and explore what it takes to implement a zero trust approach in an organization.

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What zero trust is.
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How cultural changes support a zero trust strategy.
The role automation plays in ensuring security.

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