Alex Williams
Co-Host of The New Stack Context
Alex Williams is founder and editor in chief of The New Stack. He's a longtime technology journalist who did stints at TechCrunch, SiliconAngle and what is now known as ReadWrite. Alex has been a journalist since the late 1980s, starting at the Augusta Chronicle in 1989 after completing his master's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Early in his career, he reported for newspapers in New York and Oregon, worked for a magazine writing about home textiles (ask him about it some time) and spent a year as a television business news anchor. Alex's online career began in 2003 when he did a web event called RSS WinterFest, which was followed by Podcast Hotel, an event all about the intersection of art and commerce and the impact digital media has on independent culture. While in college, Alex played baseball in France, which led him to writing stories of his experiences, and eventually a career in journalism.
Alex Williams has hosted 113 Episodes.
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Episode 110: Context: Diversity in the Board Room
January 31st, 2020 | 35 mins 5 secs
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Episode 109: The New Stack Context: The Long Road to Cloud Native Computing
January 27th, 2020 | 25 mins 18 secs
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Episode 108: Linux and the Hidden Politics of Open Source
January 17th, 2020 | 52 mins 26 secs
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Episode 107: Context: A Preview of GitLab Commit San Francisco
January 10th, 2020 | 41 mins 4 secs
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Episode 106: Microservices for Dummies
January 3rd, 2020 | 6 mins 44 secs
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Episode 105: The New Stack Context: Optimize Your Continuous Integration and Delivery
December 21st, 2019 | 32 mins 39 secs
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Episode 104: The New Stack Context: Raygun Portland Tech Leaders’ Lunch
December 13th, 2019 | 38 mins 54 secs
This week, The New Stack Context podcast comes to you live from Portland, where we recorded key takeaways from the Raygun Tech Leaders Lunch, a discussion about monitoring, metrics, and how IT systems can help with customer satisfaction. In this lunchtime panel discussion, we heard how software teams at Chef, Nike, Microsoft, and The Standard prioritize user experience and performance in their product development workflow, by closing the feedback loop and monitoring what matters.
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Episode 103: The New Stack Context Episode 95: AWS Re:Invent, Packet’s IFX 2019
December 5th, 2019 | 22 mins 8 secs
In The New Stack Context Episode 95, The New Stack Crew discusses two conferences that took place in Las Vegas this week: Amazon Web Services’ Re:Invent 2019 and Packet’s IFX 2019. TNS publisher Alex Williams hosted this episode, and our guest for this episode is TNS European correspondent B. Cameron Gain, who attended both conferences.
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Episode 102: KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2019
November 22nd, 2019 | 32 mins 34 secs
On this week’s episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we discuss some of these stories as well as the event itself. In this episode, we are joined by Alex Williams, founder and editor-and-chief of The New Stack, as well as TNS correspondent Emily Ormier and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson. TNS editorial and marketing director Libby Clark served as host.
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Episode 101: The New Stack Context: The Past, Present and Future of Kubernetes
November 15th, 2019 | 39 mins 53 secs
Welcome to The New Stack Context, a weekly podcast where we discuss the latest news and views from the cloud native community. This week we speak to Joe Fernandes, Red Hat's vice president of product for the company's cloud platforms business unit. We discuss the past year and the future of Kubernetes, as well what to expect next week at the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon conference in San Diego next week. Libby Clark, who is the editorial and marketing director at TNS, hosted this podcast, along with Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack.
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Episode 100: Context: How to Choose Proprietary vs. Open Source Tools
November 8th, 2019 | 28 mins 45 secs
Today on The New Stack Context podcast we talk with Kara de la Marck, open source community manager at CloudBees, about when it makes sense to rely on open source tools and when proprietary alternatives should be considered.
The abundance of tooling in the cloud native ecosystem can be overwhelming as teams weigh which options work best for their business needs, infrastructure and workflows. To help provide a framework for the decision, De la Marck wrote a contributed article this week on “Open Source Tools: The Good, The Bad and The Truth in Between” as a preview of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's upcoming KubeCon and CloudNativeCon San Diego event in a few weeks.
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Episode 99: How NetApp Can Help Run Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes
November 1st, 2019 | 26 mins
On this week’s episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we discuss Kubernetes and cloud native storage with NetApp's Business Director for its Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit, Dale Degen, during NetApp's annual user conference this week in Las Vegas, NetApp Insight 2019.
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Episode 98: All Things Open 2019
October 25th, 2019 | 33 mins 30 secs
Our guests for the week are Matthew Broberg, technical editor for Red Hat’s OpenSource.com, and Anais Dotis-Georgiou, who is a developer advocate at InfluxData, as well as a speaker at the conference. We discussed the grassroots independence that makes All Things Open so enjoyable, as well as what open source trends we caught at this year’s show.
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Episode 97: Spring for Microservices, the Future of the Cloud Computing Market
October 18th, 2019 | 34 mins 46 secs
On this week's episode, we spoke with The New Stack founder and publisher Alex Williams and TNS correspondent and columnist Mike Melanson about the Pivotal SpringOne Platform developer conference in Austin, which they both attended last week.
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Episode 96: Oracle's Autonomous Database, Puppet's Continuous Delivery Orchestrator
October 11th, 2019 | 29 mins 40 secs
We speak to Maria Colgan, Oracle master product manager, to learn about the company's Oracle Autonomous Database.
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Episode 95: RPA with Tricentis, Automation at AnsibleFest
October 4th, 2019 | Season 2 | 27 mins 47 secs
For this week's episode, we’re talking with Wayne Ariola, chief marketing officer at Tricentis. Tricentis develops DevOps tools for continuous software testing and is a sponsor of The New Stack. Ariola is a frequent contributor to The New Stack on the topics of software quality, agile and continuous testing, test automation and, most recently, robotic process automation (RPA).