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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Episode 139: Using New Tech Foundries for large digital transformation, with Regis Allegre
August 09, 2019 00:00 - 18 minutes - 8.66 MBTransforming an IT organization from within is notoriously difficult, sometimes impossible. Instead, when going through digital transformation, many organizations decide to create brand new groups that can start from scratch. This sounds, easy, of course, but is full of all sorts of small tactics and moves that add up to big change. In this interview from Pivotal Paris 2019, Coté talks with Accenture's Regis Allegre about Accenture's program to help companies put New Tech Foundries in place. ...
Episode 138: Making Chaos Engineering Real for PCF at T-Mobile
August 08, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBIn our last podcast on chaos engineering with Tammy Butow , we learned about the basic concepts of chaos engineering, failure injection, and "game days." This time, Derrick Harris interviews Karun Chennuri (@karunchennuri) and Ramesh Krishnaram (@RKrishnaram) of T-Mobile about how they are applying this at T-Mobile, where they are running about 3,000 applications and nearly 40,000 containers on Pivotal Cloud Foundry-based platform. What they learned is that chaos engineering tools are not one...
Artificial Intelligence (with Andrew Ng)
August 06, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutes - 20.4 MBLearn more: Pivotal Deeplearning.ai Landing AI AI Fund Follow everyone on Twitter: Intersect Andrew Ng Derrick Harris Deeplearning.ai Landing AI AI Fund Pivotal
Episode 137: PAS, PKS,and RabbitMQ on kubernetes
August 01, 2019 03:00 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MBThis week, we talk about Pivotal's recent announcements about alphas for running several parts of PCF on kubernetes. We also discuss proper taco eating technique and why Coté is part of the global warming problem, probably. Don't forget to check out SpringOne Platform, Pivotal's annual conference. It's October 7th to 9th in lovely Austin, Texas. You can $200 off registration if you sign up before August 20th.
Episode 136: Mick Pollard Explains How (and Why) Platform Teams Track Developer NPS
July 25, 2019 14:00 - 41 minutes - 57.4 MBWe've all seen those Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys ("On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product or service...") in our consumer lives. But what if platform teams collected NPS as a metric for developer satisfaction? In this episode, Mick Pollard (@aussielunix, which I totally mispronounced as "aussie linux"... think UNIX!) shares how using NPS shifted the mindset of a platform team. Instead of measuring on velocity, the team ran a simple NPS survey and was shocked ...
MongoDB (with Eliot Horowitz)
July 23, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBLearn more: MongoDB Pivotal Intersect Follow everyone on Twitter: Intersect Eliot Horowitz Derrick Harris MongoDB Pivotal
Episode 134: Design Thinking with Wipro's Nate Clinton and Pivotal's Tim McCoy
July 09, 2019 18:21 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBDesigners play a critical role in software development. They impact not just what users see on the screen, but impact important decisions about product direction. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Nate Clinton, managing director at Designit, a unit of Wipro, and Tim McCoy, Senior Director of Design at Pivotal, talk about the evolution of design thinking in software development and share best practices for designing modern software.
Episode 134: Design Thinking with Wipro’s Nate Clinton and Pivotal’s Tim McCoy
July 09, 2019 18:21 - 52 minutes - 48 MBDesigners play a critical role in software development. They impact not just what users see on the screen, but impact important decisions about product direction. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Nate Clinton, managing director at Designit, a unit of Wipro, and Tim McCoy, Senior Director of Design at Pivotal, talk about the evolution of design thinking in software development and share best practices for designing modern software.
Kubernetes (with Joe Beda)
July 09, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBLearn more: Kubernetes Pivotal Container Service (PKS) VMware Enterprise PKS VMware Open Source (formerly Heptio) The CIO's guide to Kubernetes Follow everyone on Twitter: Intersect (@IntersectIT) Pivotal (@pivotal) Joe Beda (@jbeda) Derrick Harris (@derrickharris) Kubernetes (@apachekafka) VMware (@VMware)
Episode 133: Product design, with Alex Tran
July 03, 2019 00:00 - 52 minutes - 24.3 MBValidating your assumptions about app features is one of the core benefits of proper product thinking. This means testing out your design theories, but also testing out higher level, strategic questions. Pivotal's Alex Tran walks us through it all. He also goes over a few examples, mapping metrics to design, discover and framing (D&F), and discusses the idea of product vs. project.
Episode 132: Continuous Refinancing of Your Tech Debt with Rachel Stephens of Redmonk
June 25, 2019 14:00 - 47 minutes - 65.8 MBIn 2017, Rachel Stephens of Redmonk wrote a great piece about how technical debt is an incomplete analogy. But she agrees that it shouldn't be abandoned. In this episode, she and I expound on the analogy to its breaking points, including liquidity, derivatives, and the perpetual state of refinancing we're all in. See full show notes at: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/continuous-refinancing-of-your-tech-debt-with-rachel-stephens-of-redmonk Register for SpringOne Platform today and save an...
Apache Kafka (with Neha Narkhede)
June 21, 2019 22:00 - 14 minutes - 14.1 MBLearn more: Apache Kafka Confluent Pivotal Follow everyone on Twitter: Intersect (@IntersectIT) Neha Narkhede (@nehanarkhede) Derrick Harris (@derrickharris) Apache Kafka (@apachekafka) Confluent (@confluentinc) Pivotal (@pivotal)
Episode 131: Running the platform at The Home Depot, with Tony McCulley
June 20, 2019 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBThe platform team at The Home Depot has many years of experience running Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Returning guest Tony McCully tells us how it's being used and managed now, plus some compliance automation and process tuning the team has been working on. We also discuss how the team is thinking about using kubernetes. Also, egg salad, carrots, and mustard.
Episode 130: Making the Right Thing Easy with Jon Ravenscraft and Nick Kuhn of Kroger
June 11, 2019 14:00 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBAt CF Summit 2019 in Philadelphia, I sat down with Jon Ravenscraft (@Jon_Ravenscraft) and Nick Kuhn (@tehkuhnz ) from Kroger to see what was interesting to them from the event and what was on their list to play around with once they got back home. What ensued was a survey of the many ways that Cloud Foundry is evolving. From Eirini, to Buildpacks, to ISM, to Knative.. they all come back to making developers productive. See the complete show notes and links to Jon and Nick's favorite talks fro...
Episode 129: Why Every Team Should Embrace Chaos Engineering with Gremlin's Tammy Butow
June 05, 2019 19:30 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MBWhat's life without a little chaos? And why not a little chaos impacting your production systems? Sounds scary, but turns out intentionally introducing random errors into production systems helps identify vulnerabilities so you can do something about them before they result in major disruptions. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Gremlin's Tammy Butow, one of the leading practitioners of chaos engineering (as the practice is known), talks about the benefits of and shares best practices...
Episode 129: Why Every Team Should Embrace Chaos Engineering with Gremlin’s Tammy Butow
June 05, 2019 19:30 - 45 minutes - 42 MBWhat's life without a little chaos? And why not a little chaos impacting your production systems? Sounds scary, but turns out intentionally introducing random errors into production systems helps identify vulnerabilities so you can do something about them before they result in major disruptions. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Gremlin's Tammy Butow, one of the leading practitioners of chaos engineering (as the practice is known), talks about the benefits of and shares best practices...
Episode 128: Speedback and The Recommit with Bryon Kroger
May 21, 2019 14:00 - 22 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode, Captain Bryon Kroger of the U.S. Air Force's Kessel Run dispells myths about the so-called "frozen middle," and finding resistance—and support—from all levels in an organization. He also shares some of the practices he's used to retain support for ongoing change, including growth boards and collecting feedback quickly.
Episode 127: Putting the Ops back into DevOps, SpringOne Tour Istanbul with Nate Schutta & Paul Czarkowski
May 20, 2019 00:00 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBThis week I've got a discussion about DevOps I had with Nate and Paul. I've been curious about the changing nature of DevOps as SRE and platform operations comes into vogue. It seems like the idea of "full stack" DevOps is being dimension...and maybe DevOps itself? Maybe now it's just OpsOps. We also talk about enterprise architecture and governance in the age of decoupled, event-driven, microservices. And somewhere in there, we talk about how culture gets changed and who needs to do it.
Episode 126: One Key to Transformation Success? Being Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable, with TD Ameritrade
May 10, 2019 15:50 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBNobody likes to be uncomfortable, by definition. And experienced software developers and architects, like all of us, want all the answers. "But if you are really trying to achieve the agility that transformation promises, you have to let go of some of that," says Bob Cunningham, Senior Manager, Enterprise Application Architecture at TD Ameritrade. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, recorded on the floor of Cloud Foundry Summit 2019 in Philadelphia, Bob chats about his experience leadin...
Episode 125: The intersection of kubernetes, Edge, AI, and tuna pizzas, with Derrick Harris
May 09, 2019 15:27 - 55 minutes - 25.7 MBMicrosoft Build brought a bevy of Windows news this week, plus, there's some more Windows support in Pivotal land and an overview of Pivotal Cloud Foundry's road-map. Our guest is Derrick Harris who's recently joined Pivotal and runs the CIO crib-notes news site Intersect. Additional topics: Coté might have a tape-worm. In Europe, pizzas are sandwiches. Images in RT's. Coffee and chicken AI/ML. "Will robots come for our jobs, Derrick?" GoGrid, Joyent. "Application first." Boring AI. Edge comp...
Episode 124: Grappling with Data and Application Modernization with Redis Labs' Adi Foulger and Cassie Zimmerman
May 02, 2019 19:19 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBEnterprises across industries are modernizing legacy applications to improve performance and provide great customer experiences. But it doesn't how snappy your application is or how pretty the user interface if the data supporting the application can't keep up. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Redis Labs' Adi Foulger and Cassie Zimmerman talk about the challenges of modernizing your data architecture.
Episode 124: Grappling with Data and Application Modernization with Redis Labs’ Adi Foulger and Cassie Zimmerman
May 02, 2019 19:19 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBEnterprises across industries are modernizing legacy applications to improve performance and provide great customer experiences. But it doesn't how snappy your application is or how pretty the user interface if the data supporting the application can't keep up. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Redis Labs' Adi Foulger and Cassie Zimmerman talk about the challenges of modernizing your data architecture.
Episode 123: Not standing still in Secure DevOps with Jai Schniepp of Liberty Mutual
April 30, 2019 14:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBFive years into their journey with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Liberty Mutual is not standing still. Talking with Jai Schniepp, Senior Product Owner of Secure DevOps Platforms at Liberty Mutual, Dormain learns how the team keeps iterating. Not resting on their laurels from their initial foray into pipeline generators, Jai's team have iterated to solve more of the developer experience in a secure way.
Episode 122: Melting the Retail IT Ice-Tray at Dick's Sporting Goods with Jay Piskorik
April 23, 2019 14:00 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBDick's Sporting Goods has been on an accelerated journey to "own their own destiny" when it comes to digital. But this isn't just e-commerce: this transformation includes melting the barriers between brick-and-mortar and e-commerce teams, as well as literally bringing down the walls between groups working on digital at DSG.
Episode 122: Melting the Retail IT Ice-Tray at Dick’s Sporting Goods with Jay Piskorik
April 23, 2019 14:00 - 16 minutes - 23 MBDick's Sporting Goods has been on an accelerated journey to "own their own destiny" when it comes to digital. But this isn't just e-commerce: this transformation includes melting the barriers between brick-and-mortar and e-commerce teams, as well as literally bringing down the walls between groups working on digital at DSG.
Episode 121: The Clever Task of Product Managing Backing Services, with Laurel Gray
April 18, 2019 07:54 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBThere's a lot of "backing services" in Cloud Foundry: not only middleware like databases, but also operations services like auto-scaling. This week, Richard & Coté talk with Laurel Gray, the product manager for those services at Pivotal. We discuss the services themselves, the open service broker, how to product manage APIs and services, and product management in general. Also, we hop-scotch through the news: a new version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Google's recently cloud announcements, and a...
Episode 120: What is Your Platform GTM strategy with James Urquhart
April 11, 2019 15:00 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBWe've touched on the mindset shift of treating your internal application platform as a product (or offering) for your developers. In this episode, Dormain talks to James Urquhart about defining the go-to-market strategy of that offering. Have you built the right service? What does my MVP look like? How do we educate, broadcast, and onboard developers? This conversation builds upon previous episodes on the topic of "platform as product." We refer to the episode with Paula Kennedy, as well as D...
Episode 119: Overcoming the Cloud-Native Skills Shortage, with HCL's Alan Flower
April 10, 2019 21:02 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MBMost enterprises start their cloud-native journeys with lots of enthusiasm and big plans. But reality often sets in when they try to scale transformations by modernizing hundreds, sometimes thousands of legacy apps. The biggest digital transformation roadblock? It's a lack of cloud-native skills, says HCL's Alan Flower. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Alan shares tips and strategies for overcoming the cloud-native skills gap.
Episode 119: Overcoming the Cloud-Native Skills Shortage, with HCL’s Alan Flower
April 10, 2019 21:02 - 47 minutes - 44 MBMost enterprises start their cloud-native journeys with lots of enthusiasm and big plans. But reality often sets in when they try to scale transformations by modernizing hundreds, sometimes thousands of legacy apps. The biggest digital transformation roadblock? It's a lack of cloud-native skills, says HCL's Alan Flower. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Alan shares tips and strategies for overcoming the cloud-native skills gap.
Episode 118: Beyond the Sea of No's, with Jon Osborn
April 04, 2019 07:00 - 45 minutes - 21 MBDemonstrating the value of software, how it contributes to revenue, is no easy feat. Staffing can be difficult, especially with an eye to sustaining teams over the years. Jon Osborn returns as a guest to discuss these and other transformation hurdles, plus successes they've had at the Great American Insurance Group.
Episode 118: Beyond the Sea of No’s, with Jon Osborn
April 04, 2019 07:00 - 45 minutes - 21.2 MBDemonstrating the value of software, how it contributes to revenue, is no easy feat. Staffing can be difficult, especially with an eye to sustaining teams over the years. Jon Osborn returns as a guest to discuss these and other transformation hurdles, plus successes they've had at the Great American Insurance Group.
Episode 117: Why You Need a Dedicated Platform Team, with Pivotal's Paula Kennedy
March 27, 2019 16:04 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBThere are a number of changes to process and culture needed to be good at software development, and one of the most challenging for many enterprises is creating a team dedicated to the platform and treating it as a product. But that, says Pivotal's Paula Kennedy, is a major predictor of success. "The [Pivotal] customers that are the most successful are those that have their own dedicated team with its own dedicated product manager," says Kennedy. "Those are the ones that are able to prioritiz...
Episode 117: Why You Need a Dedicated Platform Team, with Pivotal’s Paula Kennedy
March 27, 2019 16:04 - 38 minutes - 35.9 MBThere are a number of changes to process and culture needed to be good at software development, and one of the most challenging for many enterprises is creating a team dedicated to the platform and treating it as a product. But that, says Pivotal's Paula Kennedy, is a major predictor of success. "The [Pivotal] customers that are the most successful are those that have their own dedicated team with its own dedicated product manager," says Kennedy. "Those are the ones that are able to prioritiz...
Episode 116: A Preview of CF Summit 2019, with Dormain Drewitz
March 21, 2019 07:00 - 46 minutes - 21.7 MBEach year, the CF Summit brings together users, customers, and other community members. Dormain gives us a tour of the conference with some highlights. Plus, we cover some recent news and talk about open source foundations.
Episode 115: Change Your Mindset with Platform-as-Product, with Stark & Wayne's Dr. Nic
March 15, 2019 15:57 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBIn this episode of Pivotal Insights, Stark & Wayne's Dr. Nic Williams discusses why it's important to treat your platform-as-product. The short answer: It results in a more customer-oriented mindset. Listen to the full episode to learn more, including how putting some constraints on developers plays an important role.
Episode 115: Change Your Mindset with Platform-as-Product, with Stark & Wayne’s Dr. Nic
March 15, 2019 15:57 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBIn this episode of Pivotal Insights, Stark & Wayne's Dr. Nic Williams discusses why it's important to treat your platform-as-product. The short answer: It results in a more customer-oriented mindset. Listen to the full episode to learn more, including how putting some constraints on developers plays an important role.
Episode 114: The Enterprise Event Loop, Multi-cloud, & more, with James Urquhart
March 05, 2019 00:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBThis week, we talk with James Urquhart who joined Pivotal recently in the CTO group. We talk about some architectural ideas for converting the enterprise over to an event-driven flow, discuss the reasons for doing multi-cloud, and also what kinds of conversations "executives" find helpful. Coté does a great job mangling Pivotal product names. Also, hot takes on "on-premises" vs. "on-premise."
Episode 113: The Benefits of Boring Infrastructure with Helpful.com's Farhan Thawar
February 27, 2019 19:47 - 33 minutes - 31.1 MBIn this episode of Pivotal Insights, Helpful.com's Farhan Thawar* talks about the challenges of building a company from scratch, why it's important to apply smart architectural principals to empower development teams, and why he strives for boring infrastructure. *Editor's note: Helpful.com was acquired by Shopify following the recording of this episode but before its publication. Farhan and the entire Helpful.com team joined Shopify where they continue to pursue their mission of making commu...
Episode 113: The Benefits of Boring Infrastructure with Helpful.com’s Farhan Thawar
February 27, 2019 19:47 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MBIn this episode of Pivotal Insights, Helpful.com's Farhan Thawar* talks about the challenges of building a company from scratch, why it's important to apply smart architectural principals to empower development teams, and why he strives for boring infrastructure. *Editor's note: Helpful.com was acquired by Shopify following the recording of this episode but before its publication. Farhan and the entire Helpful.com team joined Shopify where they continue to pursue their mission of making commu...
Episode 112: Modernizing the Mainframe with Michael Minella
February 12, 2019 20:53 - 28 minutes - 26.7 MBWhile they are both big and hulking, unlike the dinosaurs the mainframe still walks among us. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, our own Michael Minella makes the case for mainframe modernization and shares lessons learned from the field.
Episode 111: Running Spring Boot Apps on Kubernetes, and Burgers, with Paul Czarkowski
February 05, 2019 00:00 - 28 minutes - 13.2 MBGetting the blinking cursor of kubernetes up and running is only half the job: the other is actually running software in it. While at SpringOne Tour Charlotte, Paul Czarkowski walks Coté through how that's done using the classic Spring Music and Pet store applications. We also discuss burger innovation in Charlotte and the thumb method.
Episode 110: Optimistic about innovation, with John Mitchell
January 30, 2019 00:00 - 25 minutes - 11.9 MBDuke Energy has been working on their software capabilities for some time now. They've recently reached a milestone by opening a brand new innovation center in Charlotte. Coté took a tour of it recently checking out the numerous product teams and their approach to exploring and building strategy, all the way from corporate strategy down to writing code. John also shares a couple of new examples of how lean product management and design in action. Also: gingham.
Episode 109: Using Software to Improve Medication Adherence with Shields Health Solutions
January 29, 2019 18:55 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBThis week our guests are Dan Stevenson and Brandon Zaharoff from Shields Health Solutions, a maker of software solutions for the specialty pharmacy industry. Dan and Brandon talk about the challenges of developing and running a specialty pharmacy, how Shields' software helps ensure patients are taking their medications as directed, and how and why Shields adopted cloud-native software development to build and evolve its flagship product, TelemetryRX.
Episode 108: Pumping the Digital Transformation Bunny at the US Air Force, with Bryon Kroger
January 16, 2019 14:33 - 54 minutes - 25 MBFew organizations have or rely on as much software the US Air Force. There's plenty of it around and, thus, plenty to be improved. In recent years, one of the more spectacular digital transformation stories has come from the USAF's work modernizing their Air Operations Control software. In this episode, USAF's Bryon Kroger goes over how they've moved multi-year release cycles to just weeks in the Kessel Run projects. Much of the work is in the "fuzzy front" end of planning and procurement, bu...
Episode 107: Scaling Digital Transformation in the Enterprise with Pivotal and Accenture
January 09, 2019 19:26 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBThis week, Pivotal's Mik Freedman and Joey Sabani, both members of the Agile Practice Leadership Enablement team, join Jeff and Dormain to talk about Pivotal's joint work with Accenture, the global consulting firm. This includes collaboration in Accenture's Innovation Hub in Columbus, Ohio, where Pivotal and Accenture work side-by-side with clients to help them scale their digital transformations.
Episode 105: Predictions past and predictions future, 2018/2019 edition
December 23, 2018 09:02 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MBHow's your year go? Pretty good? Well, regardless, it's almost over, so that means it's time for some predictions! Before Richard and Coté go over some hopes and dreams for 2019, they review some 2018 predictions. Some didn't work out at all, some were exactly correct, but, as always, most of them were in the ballpark. Also, the mystery of why we have a flat-head screw driver when the phillips is so clearly superior.
Episode 104: Improving Healthcare Data Interoperability with Cerner's Greg Meyer
December 11, 2018 18:16 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBIn this week's episode of Pivotal Conversations, Dormain and Jeff chat with Greg Meyer, a distinguished engineer at Cerner, a maker of healthcare software. Greg talks about a new specification he helped develop to achieve interoperability and easier data movement between healthcare systems. He also explains how the company is modernizing its development practices to increase the pace of innovation.
Episode 104: Improving Healthcare Data Interoperability with Cerner’s Greg Meyer
December 11, 2018 18:16 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBIn this week's episode of Pivotal Conversations, Dormain and Jeff chat with Greg Meyer, a distinguished engineer at Cerner, a maker of healthcare software. Greg talks about a new specification he helped develop to achieve interoperability and easier data movement between healthcare systems. He also explains how the company is modernizing its development practices to increase the pace of innovation.
Episode 103: Domain-Driven Design & Event Storming, with Jakub Pilimon
December 05, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBFlexible software usually means well modularized software. Instead of one big ball of code, you want to create components that work together. Dividing up your application into those components has always been a bugbear of design and it's what domain-driven design (DDD) is trying to solve. In this episode, Coté talks with Jakub Pilimon to figure out what DDD is, plus how event storming is used to find domains. Also, outside of Poland, is it "evangelist" or "advocate"?