The New Stack

In September, Amazon settled a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that accused the e-commerce platform of using dark patterns in ways that were manipulative and deceptive in getting users to sign up for Prime. It cost them $2.5 billion in payouts to customers and the FTC.

Dark or deceptive patterns are UX designs that trick or manipulate users into performing a forced action, according to Selam Moges, a software engineer with Apella, which creates technology for surgeons. She spoke on “Deconstructing Dark Patterns: Ethical…

Disclosure: Sidero Labs paid for the author’s travel and lodging to TalosCon.

The last few years have seen a huge shift from the public cloud to on-premises and private cloud infrastructure, thanks to a range of drivers — including skyrocketing costs and data sovereignty concerns. This is, in turn, having a major effect on Kubernetes management.

Sidero Labs’ Talos Linux offers a refreshing alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate Kubernetes and other deployments.

In many ways, it does the opposite of Red…

The aftermath of Bitnami halting its program of maintaining a library of popular open source containers and pulling down its popular Helm charts for those containers has left many teams wondering when the next shoe will drop in open source software. Bitnami’s decision caused significant disruption, compelling the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to publish a blog post noting that Bitnami’s action did not affect the open source status of the Helm project.

Bitnami’s move is only the latest major instance of changes to open source…

For all the investments corporations are making in AI, the results are decidedly mixed. While the chipmakers and hyperscale cloud platforms are doing very well, most businesses are seeing significantly less impressive results.

Recently, MIT NANDA shook things up by reporting research that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail. Because they don’t deliver measurable returns to the business, most of the $30 billion to $40 billion enterprises are investing in AI are delivering no returns on investment (ROI), according to MIT NANDA’s “State of AI…

Organizations often want to integrate the latest Kubernetes features or security upgrades as soon as possible. However, ReveCom’s analysis shows a lag of 2 to ~7 months between the release of Kubernetes updates by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and their general availability through Kubernetes platforms from on-premises cloud infrastructure providers or hyperscalers. This means that organizations can be left waiting for critical security patches, performance enhancements, and often for essential new features. This difference…

Enterprises don’t modernize databases casually. They do it when latency becomes a business liability, when global uptime is non-negotiable, when licensing pressure grows unbearable and when developers need to move faster than procurement cycles allow. Increasingly, these factors are pushing organizations to PostgreSQL as a replacement for costly incumbents, such as Oracle and SAP.

In speaking with Dave Page, VP of engineering at open source Postgres vendor pgEdge and a longtime PostgreSQL community leader, one message was clear: This…

Sidero Labs’ Talos Linux is not an orthodox Linux distro. It’s designed to offer a refreshing alternative to the high cost and complexity of managing disparate Kubernetes and other deployments.

It can be argued that it does the opposite of Red Hat’s Linux OpenShift, SUSE Rancher, and other Kubernetes distributions. In all of these, Kubernetes is installed and runs on top of a general-purpose operating system.

Sidero Labs, with its open source Talos Linux, argues that this entire foundation is not only unnecessary but a liability,…

DevOps teams spend nearly a third of their time on manual work, according to a DevOps report from DuploCloud. If you have 50 engineers making an average salary of $200,000, that translates into $3 million wasted each year, assuming that all of the manual work can be automated.

A new survey of 135 engineering and DevOps leaders across North America and Europe reveals where AI is helping teams reclaim time and where it still struggles. The respondents come from startups and mid-market Software as a Service companies. This includes technical…

The enterprise AI landscape has evolved from experimental prototypes to production-grade systems, driving the emergence of a sophisticated, multilayered technology stack.

Understanding each layer and its constituent components is essential for architects building scalable AI systems. Hyperscalers — including Amazon, Microsoft and Google — are leading this category by delivering an end-to-end stack that spans accelerated compute to user experiences.

This architecture represents the convergence of infrastructure, intelligent orchestration…

The power of creating something from scratch, whether a tangible artifact or an illuminating idea, has been driving our lives for centuries, shaping for us unbeaten roads of progress, discoveries and success.

However, sometimes innovation requires a further push to benefit people in the long run. Take the most famous scientific breakthroughs that led to huge leaps in progress and extended our lifespans.

Unfortunately, innovation and productivity don’t always go hand in hand. Even as innovation drives progress, the cost and effort to achieve…