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 102: The Middle-management Bind
November 19, 2018 22:46 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBThere's few tasks harder than refactoring a large organization, but that's exactly what we're asking management to do in all this digital transformation hoopla. Existing organizations are tremendously conflicted and tied up in competing incentives already, and then when you try to shift to a product team driven approach, things go even more haywire. Here, Richard & Coté talk with Pivotal's Carl Coryell-Martin who's been pulling apart that bureaucratic bowl of spaghetti for many years now.
Episode 101: Everyone's Getting Better at Software, Highlights from SpringOne Platform 2018
October 05, 2018 11:46 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBFrom all the stories at SpringOne Platform you get the feeling that every organization out there is doing a real bang-up job with improving their software capabilities. Of course, it's not actually everyone out there, but each year we hear about more enterprises and government agencies that are using their own, custom written software to improve their business and operations. In this episode, Richard and Coté go over some of their highlights from SpringOne Platform 2018, cover some of the new...
Episode 101: Everyone’s Getting Better at Software, Highlights from SpringOne Platform 2018
October 05, 2018 11:46 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MBFrom all the stories at SpringOne Platform you get the feeling that every organization out there is doing a real bang-up job with improving their software capabilities. Of course, it's not actually everyone out there, but each year we hear about more enterprises and government agencies that are using their own, custom written software to improve their business and operations. In this episode, Richard and Coté go over some of their highlights from SpringOne Platform 2018, cover some of the new...
Episode 100: Focusing on Product, Not Just Operations, and Growing Customer-focused Staff, with Thomas Squeo
September 25, 2018 00:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBPerhaps the phrase "business transformation" is what we should say instead of "digital transformation." If the goal of IT transformation is to switch over your organization from an operations, service provider to a product-centric approach, it fits better. While at SpringOne Platform 2018, I talked with West's Thomas Squeo about how West has been making this shift from an IT-as-operators and project gnomes to end-to-end product people. We also discuss the other side of the transformation, how...
Episode 99: Changing Culture with Habits & the Un-toasted Panini Quandary, with Kyle Campos
September 23, 2018 00:00 - 28 minutes - 13.5 MBIt's easy to understand what kind of IT culture you need if you're going to improve how you do software, but how do you actually change such a squishy thing? While at SpringOne Platform 2018, I talked with Kyle Campose about how he's done it. We also talk about the phrase "digital transformation" and some sandwich ontology.
Episode 98: Product Management, with Jonathan Sirlin
September 08, 2018 00:00 - 47 minutes - 22 MBYou often hear about the "product manager," but rarely about what they actually do day-to-day. This episode we talk with Pivotal's Jonathan Sirlin about product management using several examples of applications and organizations he's worked with. He talks in-depth about one application he and team worked on, covering the process they used to find, prioritize, and then create features and software.
Episode 97: Serverless, Knative, & Project riff, with Mark Fisher
August 19, 2018 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB"More and more, we see that more traditional, enterprise-y use cases start to fall into these categories," Mark Fisher, Pivotal. Few topics are driving more interest than "serverless." Pivotal has been working on a function framework called Project Riff for awhile. At its core, it's an event driven model for building applications. Recently, the team announced that riff works on knative. We discuss riff, knative, and serverless in general. There's also a little bit of news this week, and some ...
Episode 96: Design, with Salomé Mortazavi
August 14, 2018 00:00 - 54 minutes - 25.4 MB"As designers, we think about the why and understanding the human experience, empathizing, and observing, and being curious, and trying to understand what are those important touch-points between a person and technology." We finally talk about design in this episode with Salomé Mortazavi. She goes in-depth into what design is for software, how it operates in a very user centric way, what it's like to pair in designing, tools Pivotal design people use, and modeling how to track the success and...
Episode 95: Magic Little Scripts & Favorite SpringOne Platform Talks
August 05, 2018 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MBSpringOne platform is coming up quick - next month! - so Richard and Coté do their annual favorite talks review. There's talk on agile, pipelines, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Spring, case studies, and so many more they don't have time to discuss. In recent news, Knative was recently announced which is wangling to be "the building blocks for running serverless workloads on kubernetes," as Google's DeWitt Clinton put it. Richard and Coté discuss knative, Istio, and how "serverless" seems to now mea...
Episode 94: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.2 and Potpourri, with Jared Ruckle
July 15, 2018 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MBThere's a lot of new features in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.2 from kubernetes updates to security. This week, we talk with Jared Ruckle about those features, plus a new white paper on the Open Service Broker API. As always, we also talk about recent infrastructure software news and manage to throw in some house packing tips as well.
Episode 93: Databasing with Greenplum, with Ivan Novick
July 08, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBWe talk databases in this episode. First, with the history of databases and why the relational database become king, for awhile at least, and then about how databases evolved, ending up talking about Greenplum. Greenplum is the world’s first fully-featured, multi-cloud, massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform based on the open source. With Ivan Novick, we go over all that and cover some use cases. Also, as always, some recent infrastructure software news.
Episode 92: Modernizing Legacy Applications with the App Transformation Program
June 28, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MBEvery successful organization is faced with a daunting task: modernizing your legacy applications and services. The benefits of cloud native are alluring, to be sure, but modernizing your existing applications can seem impossible. Sarah Ehmann & Rohit Kelapure go over Pivotal's App Transformation methodology to get you over that hump. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 91: Cloud-native .Net, all the Great KS’s, and Travel
June 18, 2018 00:00 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBIn this episode, among other topics, Richard and Coté cover some recent kubernetes news, cloud native .Net, and tips for making business travel more enjoyable.
Episode 91: Cloud-native .Net, all the Great KS's, and Travel
June 18, 2018 00:00 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBIn this episode, among other topics, Richard and Coté cover some recent kubernetes news, cloud native .Net, and tips for making business travel more enjoyable.
Episode 90: Cloud-native Malay Food, Tracing in Java, and Databases
June 12, 2018 14:48 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MBDuring a discussion of South East Asian good, Coté & Josh Long manager to talk about Josh's book, Cloud Native Java (co-written by Kenny Bastani). They go over some of the less well discussed sections, like instrumentation and monitoring applications. In doing so, they discuss opentracing, Zipkin, Sleuth, and how developers should both code and use for better tracing. There's some nuanced detail on monitoring versus tracing as well. Also, we discuss how relational databases are traditional ta...
Episode 89: Working with Legacy Code, with Rahul Rajeev
June 04, 2018 00:00 - 40 minutes - 18.6 MBAn enterprise application of any significance will end up needing to work with legacy systems. It's often legacy code itself! Dealing with legacy code brings its own challenges, which Coté & Rahul discuss. Most of it has to do with getting a high confidence in your tests, which is a devilish problem for legacy code. We also, of course, discuss food in Singapore. This episode was recorded at Voxxed Days Singapore. http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 88: Pay transparency, being public, and hiring for culture, with Joe Militello (Ep. 103)
May 13, 2018 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this episode, we check back in with Pivotal's head of HR, Joe Militello. We discuss progress on Pivotal's pay transparency program and why it'll net help the employees and company. Also, there's some tips on practical Interviews for a creative, software driven companies like Pivotal and many of our customers. Since last we talked Pivotal went public, so we talk about the relatively small) differences in HR since then. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 87: Conference, news, & white papers catsup with Jared Ruckle
May 10, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBWith all these conferences since last time, we have to bring in Jared Ruckle to help us sort out all the news that's happened since last time. There's Dell Technologies World, CF Summit, Kubecon, and Microsoft build. We also discuss the new Built to Adapt Benchmark and how Jared's picks for other interesting, revent Pivotal content. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 86: The Technologist’s Hippocratic Oath & #techethics, with Mariesa Dale
April 09, 2018 00:00 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBAll these "users" are actually people using our software. What designers, programmers, product managers, QA, and operations people put into the software and support in it has real impact on our actual life, here in the real world. Despite that, we don't have a strong sense of ethics in software, which our guest this week, Mariesa Dale, is trying to start addressing. She recently wrote a Hippocratic oath for technologists which we discuss. As always, we also go over recent infrastructure and ...
Episode 85: From grumps to transformation metrics, the questions we get asked (Ep. 100)
April 01, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.8 MBWhat do you do with grumpy people? How do you track how much - or how little! - you're actually improving? These are two of the questions Richard and Coté are frequently asked. In this episode - our 100th! - we go over these two questions and others that we're often asked. Of course, we also cover our attempts to answer them. As always, we also cover some recent infrastructure news and give some business travel tips at the beginning. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 84: The Cloud Foundry Foundation & CF Summit, with Abby Kearns (Ep. 99)
March 25, 2018 00:00 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBThe Cloud Foundry user base and projects have expanded over the past year, adding members, users, and major components like the Container Runtime. In this episode, we catch up the CFF's Executive Director, Abby Kearns, on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and the upcoming CF Summit. Also, Richard and Coté's tell you the sessions they're looking forward to and discuss when it's time to do the great pants to shorts switchover, plus Coté's seersucker collection. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 83: The Twelve-Factor App, with Nate Schutta (Ep. 98)
March 23, 2018 16:30 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBPart of what defines an application as "cloud native" is an application and management style described by "the 12 factors." While these seem simple at first, each of them just the top of the iceberg of recommendations. Coté plumbs the depths with Nate Schutta to see what's under the waterline. They also discuss where state is in this stateless model and how it's managed. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 82: Spring Tools 4 and IDE Innovation, with Martin Lippert (Ep. 97)
March 05, 2018 00:00 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MBDeveloper tools have changed wildly over the past 10 years from build tools to IDEs. The IDEs available have not only increased, but usage of each has grown. In this episode, Richard & Coté talk with Martin Lippert about Spring Tools 4. And, as always, we cover some recent news in the cloud, infrastructure, and development spaces, plus, the squirrels of Coté's yard. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 81: Security processes & culture, with Molly Crowther (Ep. 96)
February 28, 2018 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.9 MBSecurity is more about more than finding holes and devising patches. For one, once you find those holes and have a patch, you have to make sure everyone not only knows about them, but applies them. We talk about how Pivotal is doing this both inside Pivotal and with our customers, with Molly Crowther. Also, we talk about tactics for getting your developers more security conscious, in a way that both is useful and doesn't spook them off. As always, we also cover some recent news and discuss th...
Episode 80: Beyond stateless - DevOps & Databases, Robert Reeves of Datical (Ep. 95)
February 09, 2018 00:00 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MBWhile much of the magic of cloud native apps comes from being stateless, state must exist somewhere. Not only does this data need to be stored and accessible, but just as with the source code and builds for your application, the backing databases need to be managed and included in the build pipeline. Datical has been working on this problem for sometime. In this episode, their CTO, Robert Reeves, discusses all of this with us. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 79: Kubernetes, Serverless, and DevOps, with Paul ”Czarkernetes” Czarkowski (Ep. 94)
February 06, 2018 00:00 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBAll the kids are crazy for kubernetes. And for good reason, it's helping smooth out the rough, weird area between IaaS and PaaS, making it easier for organizations to run their IT in a cloud native fashion. In this episode, Richard and Coté talk with Pivotal's Paul Czarkowski about the history, purpose, and experience of running kubernetes. We also touch on how it intermixes and effects serveless and DevOps. Plus, we talk about doing CFPs, and, as always, we also go over recent news in the i...
Episode 79: Kubernetes, Serverless, and DevOps, with Paul "Czarkernetes" Czarkowski (Ep. 94)
February 06, 2018 00:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MBAll the kids are crazy for kubernetes. And for good reason, it's helping smooth out the rough, weird area between IaaS and PaaS, making it easier for organizations to run their IT in a cloud native fashion. In this episode, Richard and Coté talk with Pivotal's Paul Czarkowski about the history, purpose, and experience of running kubernetes. We also touch on how it intermixes and effects serveless and DevOps. Plus, we talk about doing CFPs, and, as always, we also go over recent news in the i...
Episode 78: Building Product in the Enterprise, with Emily Tate (Ep. 93)
January 31, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBDoing proper, product-driven, user-driven agile in large organizations is hard. Much of it, of course, has to do with organizational processes that are inflexible and built around long-term planning. Emily Tate knows all this first hand, and we discuss her about her recent talk on this topic. As always, we also go over recent news in the infrastructure world. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 77: Open Source and the People Who Love It
January 23, 2018 00:00 - 49 minutes - 23 MBOpen source has become one of the most popular - if not the most popular? - ways of producing and maintaining software. What are the advantages for developers, and how should organizations evaluate the long term viability of open source projects? We discuss these topics, plus a little bit of a look back at the history of commercialized open source in this episode.
Episode 76: Navigating the no, and moving from .Net to Java, at Great American Insurance Group (Ep. 91)
January 16, 2018 00:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBTechnology and process are important when it comes to improving how you do software, but selling the organization on the change is always an issue. GAIC's Jon Osborn gave a great talk on navigating the "no's" to change at SpringOne platform. The day before he gave the talk, Coté talked with him about his experience getting a large organization onboard with cloud native and agile concepts, all the way down to tactics like how like slides and business cases. He also talks with Ben Romito who'd ...
Episode 75: Kubernetes for app modernization in manufacturing, with Ben Wilcock (Ep. 90)
January 01, 2018 00:00 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MBVery few enterprises start with a pure green field portfolio, with the ability to create and manage applications in a cloud native mode. They often need to intermix "legacy" style application with these new ones, let alone just run the applications on their own. While at SpringOne Platform, Coté talked with Ben Wilcock about a project he'd worked that fits right in here. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 74: 2018 analysts predictions round-up, plus, our own, with Rita Manachi (Ep. 89)
December 18, 2017 00:00 - 52 minutes - 24.4 MBAt the end of the year there's no end of predictions from the IT analyst would. In this episode, Richard and I talk with Pivotal's head analyst relations, Rita Manachi. We cover predictions in software development, infrastructure and cloud, and handful of miscellaneous ones like AI. Just for funsies, each of us throws in a prediction as well, plus a bonus book recommendation to start the new year with. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 73: Event-driven architectures, with Kenny Bastani (Ep. 88)
December 14, 2017 00:00 - 19 minutes - 9.01 MBWhile event-driven applications have existed for as long as our cyber-memories can rollback, we're seeing a revitalization of interest in them at the moment. In this episode, Coté talks with Kenny Bastani about his talk on this topic, meandering from some basics on the topic, to why you'd be interested in this architecture style, to the benefits of it. Matt Curry also joins into the discussion. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 72: DevOps in the enterprise, and if it even really exists (Ep. 87)
December 13, 2017 00:00 - 20 minutes - 9.45 MBHow is DevOps actually panning out in organizations? In this episode recorded at SpringOne Platform, Kenny Bastani and I talk with Matt Curry about his talk on putting DevOps in place. We discuss how being more open in conversations helps build trust, shifting to a product-centric approach, and some ideas about scaling DevOps. Also, we discuss the idea of "is DevOps actually real," a favorite topic of Coté's. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 71: SpringOne Platform 2017 Preview (Ep. 86)
November 29, 2017 00:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBThe best conference in cloud native is right around the corner, SpringOne Platform, Dec 4th to 7th. Chock full of actual end-users and enterprises (along with your friends from Pivotal), it'll be a great time to learn about new technologies and how to improve how your organization does software. There's somewhere around 150 sessions. Richard and Coté go over some of their highlights, what to get out of the conference, and, as always, some recent infrastructure software news. Full show notes: ...
Episode 70: Learning Spring Boot, with Greg Turnquist (Ep. 85)
November 22, 2017 00:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBSpring Boot is unquestionably a popular framework and has been rising in popularity as the months flip by. In this episode we're joined by Greg Turnquist who talks about the second edition of his book, Learning Spring Boot. We also talk about the process of writing a book and Greg's fiction writing.
Episode 69: Learning cloud native architecture and coding, with Michael Barinek (Ep. 84)
November 14, 2017 04:52 - 45 minutes - 21.2 MBThe benefits of truly doing agile and XP are well proven at this point. Supported by a platform like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, you can expect to start improving how you do software. That said, cloud native development is a new style of doing software, from pair programming, to following 12 factor coding practices, and breaking apart software into independent services. It helps to get some training on this shift, which is what the Platform Acceleration Lab at Pivotal does. In this episode, we tal...
Episode 68: Concourse, with James Ma and Lyle Murphy (Ep. 83)
October 31, 2017 00:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBYour build pipeline is one of your most valuable assets in a cloud native organization. When you need to build and test your application, managing all the dependencies, branches, and, not to mention setting up your cloud environments is no small feat. And then there's the whole part where you deploy to production as well. In this episode, Richard and Coté talk with Pivotal's James Ma and Lyle Murphy about Concourse, the build pipeline system that's used by Pivotal and several of Pivotal's cus...
Episode 67: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.12, with Jared Ruckle
October 29, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MBAfter a brief overview of some recent kubernetes news (Docker has added support), we talk with Jared Ruckle about the new features and updates in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.12. There are, as always, many security updates including tools to help migrate to CredHub and mTLS. Also, .Net support has widened in the Steeltoe framework and additional operational functionality. We also discuss the small footprint Pivotal Cloud Foundry profile which compliments the PCFDev desktop profile, as well as PCF ...
Episode 66: Pivotal Container Service (PKS), with Cornelia Davis and such (Ep. 81)
October 23, 2017 00:00 - 48 minutes - 22.5 MBThere's a new option for running kubernetes, Pivotal Container Service, or PKS. PKS uses the underlying management layer from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to create a standardized cluster manager. This means you can run your applications in the existing Pivotal Cloud Foundry runtime, the Elastic Run Time (ERT) or PKS. With both of these runtimes in PCF, you can run virtually anytime of application, from cloud native apps to I/O intensive and "legacy" applications. We talk with Cornelia Davis about P...
Episode 65: And now for this thought-lordin’ break, plus CF Summit EU (Ep. 80)
October 16, 2017 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBWe’re back after a month off with tales of New Zealand’s expansive bacon selection, discussion of the new Spring Framework version, and CF Summit EU. We also discuss three pieces of ours from the past month on the usual topics of why all this cloud-native stuff is kind of a big deal.
Episode 65: And now for this thought-lordin' break, plus CF Summit EU (Ep. 80)
October 16, 2017 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBWe’re back after a month off with tales of New Zealand’s expansive bacon selection, discussion of the new Spring Framework version, and CF Summit EU. We also discuss three pieces of ours from the past month on the usual topics of why all this cloud-native stuff is kind of a big deal.
Episode 64: Pivotal Container Service at VMworld 2017 (Ep. 79)
September 12, 2017 14:40 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBA couple weeks ago Pivotal announced how kubo is being productized into Pivotal Cloud Foundry, namely, as Pivotal Container Service (or "PKS"). We discuss what PKS is and the types of workloads it seems suited for compared to the existing Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. There's also a couple of studies about container adoption and some other news from the infrastructure software world.
Episode 63: Blue-skying machine learning in retail and fast-food (Ep.78)
September 07, 2017 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.4 MBWe discuss a retail-oriented demo application that looks around trying to find latent buyers. See the project diagram we mention here: https://twitter.com/sct/status/878377986520633344
Episode 62: Agile strategy & roadmaps, with Joanna Beltowska (Ep. 77)
August 20, 2017 00:00 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in...
Episode 61: PCI, BOSH, CI/CD, and microservices - white papers galore, with Jared Ruckle
August 13, 2017 00:00 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBIt's a white paper party! Jared Ruckle helped several Pivotal platform architects put together four white papers, all released last week, on microservices, PCI, build pipelines, and BOSH. Jared gives us a brief overview of each paper and tells us his highlights. We also discuss recent infrastructure news from Amazon, the world of RAD-cum-low-code, and a bevy of new hype-cycles in the appdev space. The papers: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/the-whiteboard-sessions-introducing-a-new-tech-paper...
Episode 60: PCF Data Services and hipster coffee scouting, with Ben Laplanche (Ep. 74)
July 31, 2017 19:49 - 49 minutes - 23 MBHey, so data matters. Where are you supposed to stick it and does anything about that change when you’re acting all cloudy? Coté and Richard talked to Ben Laplanche who leads up Pivotal’s data services effort. We chat about what Pivotal offers, how the role of the DBA is changing, what to consider when crafting “high availability”, and more.
Episode 59: A hopeful view of cloud-native enterprise architecture (Ep. 73)
July 23, 2017 00:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MBIt's probably a good idea to learn about enterprise architecture by talking to someone who's actually done it. In this episode, we talk with Stuart Charlton, now of Pivotal, but previously of roles where he EA's, even back in the SOA era! We discuss the mapping of traditional EA to cloud-native, and also some strategies for Coté to increase his Twitter followers, and, as ever, some recent cloud-native news. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/blog Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/774jj5u...
Episode 58: The Fat Baby in the Water: Cloud-Native Enterprise Architecture (Ep. 072)
July 17, 2017 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MBIn the cloud-native and DevOps world, there's a lot of hand-wringing and snark around the role of "enterprise architect." At scale, the goals of this EA function seem to be valuable: understanding and translating to IT what the business does and how it functions, ensuring that best practices and technologies are used, and helping make sure IT is actually helping the business with as little risk taken on as possible. However, the relationship between EAs and cloud-native teams seems a bit misa...
Episode 57: It’s private cloud all over again (Ep. 71)
July 08, 2017 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBThere's some exciting private cloud news on the horizon with Microsoft's Azure Stack coming out in September. We discuss the brief history of private cloud and several models people have tried, along with some other news from the infrastructure software world. With no guest, Richard and I discuss some projects we're working from cloud-native .Net, enterprise integration, and enterprise architecture. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c1bxamn5wske...