Tanzu Talk
311 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingA collection of podcasts from VMware Tanzu, covering IT modernization and digital transformation from every angle. We cover the week’s news, talk with guests, and have the occasional oddball thing. Topics range from engineers in the weeds of cloud, developers, to executives pushing change within their organizations.
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Making developer's lives easier and securing the software supply chain with The VMware Marketplace, with Ramya Sarangarajan
November 16, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBDevelopers rely on all sorts of 3rd party frameworks, packages, and projects for their applications. Ensuring that those components are available, secure, and fit into an organizations overall enterprise architecture can be a challenge. Ramya Sarangarajan joins us in this episode to cover how the VMware Marketplace helps out. Check out the VMware Marketplace yourself (https://marketplace.cloud.vmware.com). Also, follow the marketplace in Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmwmarketplace), if you're...
Making developer’s lives easier and securing the software supply chain with The VMware Marketplace, with Ramya Sarangarajan
November 16, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBDevelopers rely on all sorts of 3rd party frameworks, packages, and projects for their applications. Ensuring that those components are available, secure, and fit into an organizations overall enterprise architecture can be a challenge. Ramya Sarangarajan joins us in this episode to cover how the VMware Marketplace helps out. Check out the VMware Marketplace yourself (https://marketplace.cloud.vmware.com). Also, follow the marketplace in Twitter (https://twitter.com/vmwmarketplace), if you're...
Application Aware Platforms, Kubernetes, and Spring, with Ben Hale
November 03, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBBen Hale talks about one the foundational concepts in the VMware Tanzu Application Platform, application aware platforms.
How to Get Started Securing Your Internal Software Supply Chain
October 19, 2021 13:00 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBHear Alex Barbato and John Kjell of the VMware Tanzu team discuss why it's important, but still challenging, to secure your software supply chain. Importantly, they focus on the process of building secure software rather than buying it, and explain how new offerings such as Tanzu Application Platform can help automate some of the tedium for developers, operators, and security teams. Learn more: VMware Tanzu (https://tanzu.vmware.com/) VMware Tanzu Labs (https://tanzu.vmware.com/labs) Tanzu Ap...
The Best of Cloud & Culture
October 05, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 58.1 MBThis episode features highlights from every episode so far, including a mix of VMware Tanzu Labs experts and clients. Because of the show's focus, the topics here range from building your first product as a startup to scaling Kubernetes inside a large organization, and cover industries including retail, financial services, and health care.
Kubernetes: When You Need It and How to Scale It (from Sept. 14, 2020)
September 15, 2021 20:30 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MBIn this episode, which first aired in September 2020, VMware's Josh Rosso explains when organizations and teams should look at adopting Kubernetes (hint: it's much more accessible than even a couple years ago), as well as some of the tricks to doing it successfully. Rosso spends his days helping large organizations scale Kubernetes environments, so he knows from whence he speaks. Since this episode aired, VMware Tanzu has updated its product lineup and roadmap to improve the developer experie...
Reinventing Finance with Customer Experience, with Henri van den Bulk
August 17, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 28.7 MBAmong other things, the banking world is looking for new revenue and ways to retain customers. Focusing on customer experience is one way to get there. Shifting to a product-centric way of thinking results in dreaming up new types of “features” and even products to offer existing customers and help retain them - maybe even garnering new customers above the humming churn rate. In this episode, Coté talks with Henri van den Bulk about these drivers and some examples of that product-centric thin...
Modernizing Retail Apps: Deceptively Complex and Incredibly Valuable
July 21, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 63.9 MBIn this episode of Cloud & Culture, Shaun Anderson and Brandon Blincoe of VMware Tanzu Labs share lessons they've learned while helping large retail clients modernize their online and in-store operations. Among other things, they discuss the nuances of inventory management, the best strategies for integrating systems after acquisitions, and the potential benefits of running Kubernetes clusters inside stores.
Opening up healthcare with FHIR & other healthcare innovations
July 12, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBRight now there’s no end of possibilities for technology-driven innovation in healthcare. Coté and JT Perry discussed this state in part one of the conversation, and it part two they go over examples of those innovations. First, they discuss what FHIR (in the US) is and how it creates new opportunities for better patient care. Also, discussed: the software development tool-chain for more innovation in healthcare, at-home devices to reduce hospital stays, and API implementation and management....
Now is the time for innovation in healthcare, with JT Perry
July 05, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 16.3 MBThe US healthcare industry will likely see a lot of changes in the next five years - there's already a lot going on with mergers and new services forced by the pandemic. In this episode, fresh from working in the healthcare industry, JT Perry talks with Coté about all that horizon 2 and 3 stuff. The recent introduction of APIs and data interoperability is one of the more interesting topics. This is part one - in part two, we'll discuss the tools and practices companies can use to be part of t...
Mainframes, Microservices, and Money: Modernizing Apps in Financial Services
June 28, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 53.8 MBIn this episode of Cloud & Culture, Shaun Anderson and Felicia Schwartz of VMware Tanzu Labs explain the state of application modernization among financial services firms. They draw from firsthand knowledge working with large customers to explain the threats these firms face, the opportunities they're trying to capture, and how using processes like the Swift methodology helps them maximize their efforts and even evolve their IT culture.
Moving from project to product at Yapı Kredi Bank, with Taylan Güney
June 28, 2021 10:45 - 31 minutes - 22.3 MBWe discuss how Yapı Kredi Bank has been moving their approach to software from a project mindset to a product mindset. Part of this re-organizing around product lines. To do this, the team analyzed their portfolio of 300+ apps and to define the products. As IT has been evolving, they're now working on transforming their relationship with the business side as well. We also discuss building up bi-directional trust between management and staff, banking security and regulations, and so much more...
Moving from project to product at Yapı Kredi Bank, with Taylan Güney
June 28, 2021 10:45 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBWe discuss how Yapı Kredi Bank has been moving their approach to software from a project mindset to a product mindset. Part of this re-organizing around product lines. To do this, the team analyzed their portfolio of 300+ apps and to define the products. As IT has been evolving, they're now working on transforming their relationship with the business side as well. We also discuss building up bi-directional trust between management and staff, banking security and regulations, and so much more...
Secure Supply Chain, with Henri van den Bulk
June 24, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.9 MBDevSecOps alert! Container security alert! Coté talks with Henri van den Bulk about the ideas of a “secure software supply chain.” When you’re building, running, and managing your own software, how you secure your software goes all the way back to development - it shifts left! Henri goes what it means do security governance needed in the development phase through deploying to production. We also discuss thinking about “risk management” in security, a sort of obtuse topic for those of us who ...
App Modernization 101: Intro to the Swift Method
June 10, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBIn this episode of Cloud & Culture, Shaun Anderson of VMware Tanzu Labs walks us through the Swift method—a successful approach to application modernization that he helped create. Through a series of exercises, Swift helps teams identify the target behaviors and goals for their applications, and the optimal approach for delivering them.
Find Customer Friction, with Bernard Golden and Jesse Bean
June 09, 2021 14:00 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBCoté is joined by Bernard Golden and Jesse Bean to talk about how companies they’re talking with are thinking through and approaching digital transformation and modernizing their software strategy. Get Coté's new book for free (https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/ebooks/changing-mindsets-the-missing-ingredient-to-digital-transformation?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=TanzuTalk&utm_content=bernard).
Spring Cloud Gateway, Services Mesh uses with Chris Sterling
May 31, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes - 22.9 MBWhat’s the difference between an API Gateway and a Service Mesh? How do they work together? Why would you use either? Christ Sterling joins Rita and Coté to discuss all that. Mentioned: Spring Cloud Gateway: https://tanzu.vmware.com/developer/guides/spring/scg-what-is/ Chris’ Ttech debt book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9277805-managing-software-debt RedMonk videos with Chris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMpjc3lSqw Chris in Twitter: https://twitter.com/csterwa GitOps for APIs: ht...
Shopify VP on Innovation, Culture, and Remote Work
May 26, 2021 15:00 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBShopify VP of Engineering Farhan Thawar shares his thoughts on a variety of topics related to managing software teams. He discusses fully remote software teams, pair programming, how to innovate within a company of Shopify's scale, and the benefits of engaging with a team like VMware Tanzu Labs (Thawar was at Pivotal Labs until 2015). He's joined by guest hosts Saad Ahmed and Joe Moore of VMware Tanzu Labs, who also offer their perspectives on what they're seeing in the field.
It’s always been about developer productivity, SOA to DevSecOps, with Ajay Patel
May 18, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBVMware Tanzu’s Ajay Patel talks with Rita and Coté about the history of app servers, SOA, and how we got there to our current cloud native stacks. And, Ajay also lays out the what enterprises are asking for in their app and kubernetes stack and the product strategy Tanzu is putting in place to solve those problems. Plus, we walk down BPE Lane. Mentioned: Ajay in Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatelAjayp
How State Farm Teaches Developers New Tricks
April 20, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs State Farm 18 Months to Migrate 800 Applications: State Farm's Transformation Journey Follow everyone: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Data transformation: Systems matters, but don’t ignore business value
March 24, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs VMware Tanzu Data Services Running Persistent Data in Multi-Cloud Architectures Analytic Workloads from BI to AI with VMware Tanzu Greenplum Follow everyone: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Data transformation: Systems matters, but don't ignore business value
March 24, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs VMware Tanzu Data Services Running Persistent Data in Multi-Cloud Architectures Analytic Workloads from BI to AI with VMware Tanzu Greenplum Follow everyone: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
To Cloud or to Multi-Cloud, That Is the Question
March 10, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 39.8 MBEpisode Notes Learn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs Refactor or lift-and-shift: How to prioritize modernization efforts Three Transformations Powering App Modernization Follow everyone: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Adam Bohle Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Chaos engineering, explained
February 08, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs Should that be a Microservice? Part 5: Failure Isolation VMware Customer Reliability Engineering for Kubernetes Making Chaos Engineering Real for PCF at T-Mobile Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Sean Keery Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 187: DevSecOps for US Federal agencies (FIPs, STIGs, auditors, AOs, and all that)
January 27, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBWhen Federal people ask to secure a DevOps app creation and delivery process, what do they mean? Chris Willis joins Coté in this episode to answer that question with a #vmwaretanzu customer example: the Tanzu Build Service, buildpacks, Tanzu Application Service (Pivotal Cloud Foundry), and other components. He covers FIPS encryption requirements, STIGs, working with the authorizing official, and the overall practices and culture-think for securing build pipelines.
Refactor or lift-and-shift: How to prioritize modernization efforts
January 26, 2021 14:00 - 35 minutes - 33.4 MBEpisode Notes Learn more: Application Modernization with Tanzu Labs Three Transformations Powering App Modernization App Modernization 101: An Executive’s Guide to Shipping Better Software The 1-Factor App: Using Kubernetes to Get a Jumpstart on Modernization Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Tanzu Labs Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 186: From Objects to Capabilities: Joe Hoh on Infrastructure Team to Platform Team
January 06, 2021 17:00 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBWhat's different about the day in the life of a DevOps Platform pro from an infrastructure pro? In speaking with Joe Hoh of Great American Insurance Company it's all about delivering capabilities instead of objects. The work isn't measured by the number of VMs delivered and tickets fulfilled. It's about adding new capabilities to developers and their business use cases. And that is much more rewarding work. What helps? Embracing the reality of change and making rework easier with a platform. ...
(Almost) everything you need to know about SRE
December 18, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Reliability Engineering for Humans A Quick Guide For Getting Up to Speed on SRE SRE in 15 Minutes How RBC adopted SRE culture to help it embrace cloud-native applications A Service-Level What? Getting good at messing up, negotiating SRE error budgets, and small talk topics SLIs and Error Budgets: What These Terms Mean and How They Apply to Your Platform Monitoring Strategy Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs H...
Bringing Software to the Fight Against Human Trafficking
December 03, 2020 14:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Pivotal Act A21 Building Products with Nonprofits—Lessons Learned from VMware Pivotal Act Systems Thinking with Pivotal Act: A Tool for Every Software Project What It's Like Helping Nonprofits Develop Software—and What We All Can Learn Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs A21 Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 185: Managing remote working, strategy & people
December 01, 2020 00:00 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MBIn this episode, Coté is joined by Rick Clark and Sophie Seiwald to discuss management challenges of remote working. You know the drill: everyone has been working from home since the spring, taking away all the advantages and habits of working face-to-face. What’s new in this conversation is some advice for doing strategy communication, something that’s especially important when you’re relying on autonomous developer teams. We also discuss keeping people’s spirits up and making casual convers...
Episode 184: The Business Case For Cloud Computing with Kevin Jackson
November 18, 2020 21:16 - 29 minutes - 41 MB"Cloud computing is a risk management exercise" In this episode, Dormain talks with Kevin L. Jackson, author of "Click to Transform," about the business case for cloud computing. Kevin argues that the real value is in delivering products better, faster, and to more people. In many cases this involves a jump from physical products to virtual experiences. But the technology isn't the hard part; shifting to an ecosystem approach is much harder. What about cost savings in the cloud? Kevin points...
Episode 183: Everything I know about platform operations, platform as a product
November 10, 2020 00:00 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MBWhat platform operations and “platform as a product” means, how it differs from existing ops, and why it’s so. Also, some “therefore, do these things” tactics. Original video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ROovjWTcng
What It's Like Helping Nonprofits Develop Software—and What We All Can Learn
October 30, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MBEpisode Notes Learn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Pivotal Act Building Products with Nonprofits—Lessons Learned from VMware Pivotal Act Design-led Solutions for Humanitarian Aid Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Ellie Ereira Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
What It’s Like Helping Nonprofits Develop Software—and What We All Can Learn
October 30, 2020 13:00 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBEpisode Notes Learn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Pivotal Act Building Products with Nonprofits—Lessons Learned from VMware Pivotal Act Design-led Solutions for Humanitarian Aid Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Ellie Ereira Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 182: Sympathy for the Platform Team with Adam Furtado of Kessel Run
October 27, 2020 20:24 - 30 minutes - 42 MBAs the saying goes, before you judge or criticize someone (or a team), you should walk a mile in their shoes. In this week's episode, Dormain sits down with Adam Furtado (Twitter: AdamSFurtado), who recently went from leading product development teams at Kessel Run (a division of the United States Air Force), to walking a mile in the platform teams shoes. What has he learned? Have a listen and read the show notes here: https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/podcasts/sympathy-for-the-platform-team-...
Episode 181: The kubernetes community for developers, with Jorge Castro
October 23, 2020 12:53 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBJorge Castro explains how the kubernetes community works, the different parts, how to get involved, and what developers should know about it. Also, see the interview video: https://youtu.be/c1OVw8Pt7dY
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Remote Software Development
October 16, 2020 13:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Resources for Remote Software Teams Guides and Tips for Remote Agile Development Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Joe Moore Paul Sullivan Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 180: State of Spring 2020, survey
October 09, 2020 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.4 MBWe cover interesting finds from the 2020 survey: popular Spring Frameworks in us, how many apps are containerized, and kubernetes plans.
Why Communication Is Critical for Agile Development
October 02, 2020 20:00 - 32 minutes - 30.2 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Need to Kickstart Your Digital Transformation? Start By Changing Your POV Agile: The Way to Develop Great Software What Makes a Great Product Manager Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 179: Finding business value, with Robbie Clutton
September 29, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBOriginally broadcast live: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/748574487?filter=archives&sort=time
Kubernetes: When You Need It and How to Scale It
September 18, 2020 13:00 - 37 minutes - 35 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs The Podlets [podcast] TGIK [podcast] Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Josh Rosso Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 178: Kubernetes as enterprise architecture, with Rick Clark
September 17, 2020 00:00 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MBIn this episode, Rick and I discuss something I've been thinking about recently: kubernetes as an enterprise architecture. As we open up with, kubernetes people like to call it an "API," which always seems weirds to me as a former programmer. But, there's something important that they're getting to: a standard set of interfaces, processes, and data formats that comes together to define a programming and operations model. You know: an enterprise architecture. Also, Rick tell us what his weird ...
Episode 177: Responsible Microservices, with Nate Schutta
September 10, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.7 MBSometimes you feel like a microservice, sometimes you feel like a monolith. In this episode, Coté talks with Nate Schutta about his new book Responsible Microservices: when to use them, when to use a service mesh, the (false?) hope of polyglot programming, monolithic shaming, and giant zucchinis.
Turning a Passion Project Into a Venture-Backed Business
September 04, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Jackie Ros Amable Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 176: SpringOne 2020 Talk Picks
September 02, 2020 00:00 - 37 minutes - 17.5 MBThis year's SpringOne conference is packed with great talks. In this episode, Rita and Coté tell you their picks. Go to SpringOne.io to register and attend for free!
Episode 175: You can’t do everything at once, large scale app modernizing, part two, with Rohit Kelapure
August 28, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBIn part one, Rohit showed how to analyze and sort an application portfolio to find apps that should be modernized first. In part two, we discuss the process of breaking down a monolith. It starts by making sure that everyone agrees on goals and objects.
Episode 175: You can't do everything at once, large scale app modernizing, part two, with Rohit Kelapure
August 28, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBIn part one, Rohit showed how to analyze and sort an application portfolio to find apps that should be modernized first. In part two, we discuss the process of breaking down a monolith. It starts by making sure that everyone agrees on goals and objects.
From Idea to Product in Months: The Alluceo Story
August 21, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBLearn more: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Alluceo Intermountain Healthcare Launches New Company, Expanding Access to Proven Mental Health Integration Approach Follow everyone on Twitter: VMware Tanzu VMware Pivotal Labs Alluceo Laurie Gomer Danielle Burrow Derrick Harris
Episode 174: Learning product management by managing Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys
August 21, 2020 00:00 - 42 minutes - 19.8 MBThis week Coté talks with Jen Handler about two of the sessions she’ll be in at the SpringOne conference. They’re both on product management walking through some of the key functions product managers do with a few real world examples. They also discuss Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, and the Murder She Wrote/Magnum PI cross-over.
Episode 173: Eating elephants one bite at a time, large scale application modernization with Rohit Kelapure
July 31, 2020 00:00 - 56 minutes - 26.2 MBWhatever you want to call it, “legacy” software is a problem. In one of our recent surveys, 76% of executives said they are too invested in legacy applications to change how they do software. It can seem hard, but fixing that blocker is possible. As with all things in software, there is no quick fix, it just takes discipline, work, and time. In this episode, Coté talks with VMware Tanzu’s Rohit Kelapure who’s been working in application modernization for years. He goes over the initial portfo...