Paul Vixie: Story of an Internet Hero
Paul Vixie grew up in San Francisco. He dropped out of high school in 1980. He worked on the first Internet gateways at DEC and, from there, started the Internet Software Consortium (ISC), establishin...
28 Sep 202228min
Deno's Ryan Dahl is an Asynchronous Guy
Ryan Dahl is the co-founder and creator of Deno, a runtime for JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly based on the V8 JavaScript engine and the Rust programming language. He is also the creator of No...
27 Sep 202220min
How Can Open Source Sustain Itself Without Creating Burnout?
The whole world uses open source, but as we’ve learned from the Log4j debacle, “free” software isn’t really free. Organizations and their customers pay for it when projects aren’t frequently updated a...
22 Sep 202217min
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
