Charity Majors: Taking an Outsider's Approach to a Startup
In the early 2000s, Charity Majors was a homeschooled kid who’d gotten a scholarship to study classical piano performance at the University of Idaho. “I realized, over the course of that first year, t...
21 Sep 202234min
How Idit Levine’s Athletic Past Fueled Solo.io‘s Startup
Idit Levine’s tech journey originated in an unexpected place: a basketball court. As a seventh grader in Israel, playing in hoops tournaments definitely sparked her competitive side. “I was basically...
16 Sep 202234min
From DB2 to Real-Time with Aerospike Founder Srini Srinivasan
Aerospike Founder Srini Srinivasan had just finished his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin when he joined IBM and worked under Don Haderle, the creator of DB2, the first commercial relational datab...
8 Sep 202228min
The Stone Ages of Open Source Security
Ask a developer about how they got into programming, and you learn so much about them. In this week's episode of The New Stack Makers, Chainguard founder Dan Lorenc said he got into programming halfwa...
30 Aug 202226min
Curating for the SRE Through Lessons Learned at Google News
In the early 1990s, many kids got into programming video games. Tina Huang enjoyed developing her GeoCities site but not making games. Huang loved automating her website. "It is not a lie to say that ...
24 Aug 202230min
A Technical Founder's Story: Jake Warner on Cycle.io
Welcome to the first in our series on The New Stack Makers about technical founders, those engineers who have moved from engineering jobs to running a company of their own. What we want to know is wha...
17 Aug 202226min
Rethinking Web Application Firewalls
Web Application Firewalls (WAF) first emerged in the late 1990s as Web server attacks became more common. Today, in the context of cloud native technologies, there’s an ongoing rethinking of how a WAF...
9 Aug 202227min
Passage: A Passwordless Service with Biometrics
Passage adds device native biometric authorization to web sites to allow passwordless security on devices with or without Touch ID. In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Passage Co-Founders Cole He...
2 Aug 202211min
