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 57: It's private cloud all over again (Ep. 71)
July 08, 2017 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 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...
Episode 56: Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide, Duncan Winn’s new book (Ep. 70)
July 05, 2017 00:00 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MBCloud Foundry for operations staff can seem a bit of a black box. Lucky for you, Duncan Winn's new book, Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide is freshly out, making that box much more clear. We talk with Duncan about his new book, giving an overview of the book, who it's for, and delving into some of the contents like BOSH. As always, we also discuss some recent infrastructure software news like new Google Cloud regions, Microsoft's new cloud sales force, and an early preview of SpringOne Plat...
Episode 56: Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide, Duncan Winn's new book (Ep. 70)
July 05, 2017 00:00 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MBCloud Foundry for operations staff can seem a bit of a black box. Lucky for you, Duncan Winn's new book, Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide is freshly out, making that box much more clear. We talk with Duncan about his new book, giving an overview of the book, who it's for, and delving into some of the contents like BOSH. As always, we also discuss some recent infrastructure software news like new Google Cloud regions, Microsoft's new cloud sales force, and an early preview of SpringOne Plat...
Episode 55: Cloud-native Ops, with Tony Hansmann (Ep. 69)
June 28, 2017 17:34 - 54 minutes - 25.3 MBOperating IT in a cloud-native mindset requires changes up and down the stack, especially in operations. The degree of automation in the stack changes the need for much of the manual work and process-driven checks and balances in IT ops as we know it. In this episode, we talk with Pivotal's Tony Hansmann on what those changes are, how the technology pushes these changes, and some of the barriers. See full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 52: Cloud-Native Monitoring & PCF Metrics, With Todd Persen (Ep. 65)
May 15, 2017 00:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode we talk with Todd Persen on the topic of monitoring cloud-native applications with Pivotal Cloud Foundry Metric. We discuss the changing nature of monitoring in cloud-native platforms, how developers can now turn black-boxes into white-boxes, why time-series dominates the thought-technology in this space now, and the benefits of open source taking over most innovation in systems management. Richard is out this week, so Andrew Shafer returns to fill in as co-host. Full show not...
Episode 50: Blockchain in Cloud Foundry, with Gary P. White (Ep. 62)
May 02, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 22 MBPreviewing his CF Summit talk, Gary White explains what blockchain is and how it's being integrated into Cloud Foundry as a service. We start talking about how blockchain works and what kinds of capabilities it provides, beyond just bitcoin. We use the example of a shoe supply-chain to go over an example of using a blockchain verified ledger. Gary then goes over some examples of blockchain could be used in Cloud Foundry and how folks he's working with are integrated it into the platform for e...
Episode 49: Cloud Foundry Myths Dispelled (Ep. 63)
April 30, 2017 00:00 - 51 minutes - 23.6 MBThere's a whole slurry of myths about Cloud Foundry. With the platform updating so quickly, many of the issues behind these myths have long been addressed, and many were just false from the get-go. Coté and Richard talk about a recent post dismissing common myths. We also discuss recent news from the infrastructure software world and go over a bunch of upcoming events that Pivotal will be at. See full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 48: Container networking & storage with Usha Ramachandran (Ep. 61)
April 25, 2017 04:30 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MBNetworking and storage are two of the most difficult and complex parts of a cloud-native platform. In this episode we talk with Usha Ramachandran who product managers containing networking and volume services in Cloud Foundry. We discuss the networking problems being solved with c2c and why networking problems is so difficult. While not as extensive, we have a brief conversation around storage. Also, as ever, we discuss some recent news from DockerCon, Google voice services, and the recent Sp...
Episode 47: How Microservices Enable DevOps, with Josh Long (Ep. 60)
April 12, 2017 00:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBIn preparation for his DevOpsDays Atlanta talk, Josh and Coté (well, mostly Coté) talk about the relationship between microservices and DevOps. They use the CAMS framing to go over how microservices could provide the architectural requirements to make DevOps possible. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast
Episode 46: The Google SRE Book With Andrew Shafer (Ep. 58)
April 08, 2017 00:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBThe Google SRE book is a great collection of Google's practices, approaches, and management priorities that form the basis of how Google operates and builds their overall platform. Google Site Reliability Engineers are a combination of system administrator and programmer who spend about half of their time on traditional operations "toil" and the other half actually coding updates and net-net services and platforms used by the product teams at Google. Andrew Shafer and Coté discuss a general o...
Episode 45: Always Be Shipping: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.10 (Ep. 57)
April 06, 2017 00:00 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MBA new release of Pivotal Cloud Foundry was announced today, version 1.10. We bring back Jared Ruckle to discuss the highlights of the release, namely: further .Net and Windows support, monitoring and tracing improvements, several security and networking additions, and several other improvements to the platform. As usual, we also discuss some recent infrastructure and cloud news from the likes of VMware, Rackspace, and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/p...
Episode 44: Bringing Agility to Enterprise Data Workflows, with Sina Sojoodi (Ep. 55)
March 14, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 22.1 MBThis week we talk with about how organizations are increasingly looking to improve how they use data and workflows around data to innovate in their business. As with discuss with our guest, Sina Sojoodi, More than the usual ideas about "big data" and "machine learning," we talk about the practical uses of data workflows like insurance claims handling and retail optimization. In many large, successful organizations the stacks to support all this processing are aging and not providing the agili...
Episode 43: ”Running like Google,” the CRE Program & Pivotal, with Andrew Shafer (Ep. 56)
March 14, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 22 MBWhat does it really mean to "run like Google"? Is that even a good idea? Andrew Shafer comes back to the podcast to talk with Coté about how the Google SRE book and the newly announced Google CRE program start addressing those questions. We discuss some of the general princiapls, and "small" ones too that are in those bodies of work and how they represent an interesting evolution of it IT management is done. Many of the concepts that the DevOps and cloud-native community talks about pop in Go...
Episode 43: "Running like Google," the CRE Program & Pivotal, with Andrew Shafer (Ep. 56)
March 14, 2017 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MBWhat does it really mean to "run like Google"? Is that even a good idea? Andrew Shafer comes back to the podcast to talk with Coté about how the Google SRE book and the newly announced Google CRE program start addressing those questions. We discuss some of the general princiapls, and "small" ones too that are in those bodies of work and how they represent an interesting evolution of it IT management is done. Many of the concepts that the DevOps and cloud-native community talks about pop in Go...
Episode 42: Dieu Cao on PMCing in Cloud Foundry, isolation segments, & cloud-native QA (Ep. 59)
March 10, 2017 00:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode, Richard and Coté talk with Dieu Cao, the Elastic Runtime PMC, about how work on the open source Cloud Foundry code base works, prioritizing features, and some of the projects she works on like isolation segments. While we have her, we also talk about the naming schemes of Cloud Foundry components and the evolution of QA from way back in Dieu's early days as a tester. Our short news segment goes over Microsoft buying Deis and some cloud spending indicators around public cloud ...
Episode 41: Beyond ”Survival Is Not Mandatory,” the Cloud-Native Cookbook (Ep.54)
March 07, 2017 00:00 - 44 minutes - 20.8 MBThere's a handful of cloud news to go over - AWS S3 going down, Google's new database, Spanner, and others. We then discuss some ideas for how enterprise architects can help out in a cloud-native organization. Then, we discuss Coté's new project, tactical advice for organizations who are finding it difficult to do all the right things that DevOps and cloud-native think prescriptions. See the work in progress at http://cote.io/cloud3. See full show notes at http://pivotal.io/podcast.
Episode 41: Beyond "Survival Is Not Mandatory," the Cloud-Native Cookbook (Ep.54)
March 07, 2017 00:00 - 44 minutes - 20.7 MBThere's a handful of cloud news to go over - AWS S3 going down, Google's new database, Spanner, and others. We then discuss some ideas for how enterprise architects can help out in a cloud-native organization. Then, we discuss Coté's new project, tactical advice for organizations who are finding it difficult to do all the right things that DevOps and cloud-native think prescriptions. See the work in progress at http://cote.io/cloud3. See full show notes at http://pivotal.io/podcast.
Episode 40: Bringing Data to DevOps (Ep. 53)
March 01, 2017 00:00 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MBWe talk about the traditional and new relationship between data and application development, and, now, DevOps. The world of databases, data warehouses, and other DBAs is not starting to collide with DevOps. In this episode, we talk with Dormain Drewitz, Stephen O’Grady, and Kenny Bastani about the evolving role of data in DevOps-think. See full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcasts
Episode 39: All you ever wanted to know about cloud-native Java, with Kenny Bastani & James Governor (Ep. 52)
February 14, 2017 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MBWe've got all your answers to "what exactly is 'cloud-native'?" in this episode with special guests Pivotal's Kenny Bastani and RedMonk's James Governor. Kenny gives us a good overview of what cloud-native is, as Coté summarizes it: handling the configuration and automation for your applications along with all the supporting frameworks and platforms to do that. We then discuss the process ("culture") angle, the origin of Spring Boot, the concept of "lock-in," and if public cloud is needed o...
Episode 38: Thawing the frozen middle (Ep. 51)
February 12, 2017 00:00 - 20 minutes - 9.45 MBImproving how you do software requires changing how every layer your organization's functions day-to-day, from executive leadership, to middle-management, and staff. Often, middle-management is resistant to change and acts as a "frozen middle," slowing and sabotaging leadership and staff's desires to change. Along with Pivotal's Dormain Drewitz, we're joined by RedMonk's Rachel Stephens and Stephen O'Grady to discuss this frozen middle problem and tactics to thaw it. See full shows and more a...
Episode 37: Dino Helps Us Figure out What to Do With Legacy Applications (Ep. 50)
February 10, 2017 00:00 - 55 minutes - 25.8 MBOnce you have your shiny new Pivotal Cloud Foundry instance installed, it's time to start selecting new applications to build and existing applications to migrate. Many of this second bucket will be "legacy" applications that aren't immediately compatible with the cloud native approach. Dino Cicciarelli and his team work with Pivotal customers to navigate through this process. We talk about the common process, roadblocks, and mental shifts people go through to be successful. One of the chief ...
Episode 36: A false choice: systems of record vs. systems of engagement (Ep. 49)
January 31, 2017 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17.9 MBWhat's the best way to categorize and prioritize your IT projects? Splitting them up between systems of record (ERP) and systems of engagement (user-facing apps) is a popular mode of thinking, highly related to bi-modal IT. In this episode, guest Ian Andrews explains why this framing is a bad idea and offers a value-driven way of thinking about it instead, along with plenty of commentary from Coté and Richard. See full show notes at: http://cote.io/conversations49
Episode 35: Avoid the Ninja Anti-Pattern, Planning Out Your Cloud Platform Project (Ep. 48)
January 25, 2017 00:00 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MBHow do containers fit into your cloud native planning? That's a the question we start with this week, with (returning guest) John Feminella. We quickly arrive at a conversation on the larger question which is how to build a cloud platform and the allure of building it yourself. Also, we cover recent news in the infrastructure software space. Show notes: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/avoid-the-ninja-anti-pattern-planning-out-your-cloud-platform-project
Episode 34: The Undying Death of JEE - Gartner, App Servers, and Cloud-Native (Ep. 47)
January 01, 2017 00:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBOne of your favorite technologies is on the death wagon, again. Gartner recently recommended avoiding JEE for new, cloud native application development. This predictably kicked up all sorts of push-back from the JEE stalwarts. In this episode we discuss the report, the responses, and all the context to figure out what to make of all this. Spoiler: JEE isn't dead, as ever, it's just a part of the ongoing gumbo that is a Java application. See full show notes at http://cote.io/conversations47
Episode 33: Filling the Developer Skills Gap, with Abby Kearns and James Governor (Ep. 46)
December 16, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBWe don't have enough people, and the people we have don't have the right skills. That's a gasp oft heard during the machinations of digital transformation. To investigate this sentiment, the Cloud Foundry Foundation recently fielded a survey to probe into both sentiment around developer skills and how organizations are addressing it. The findings were actually optimistic, but there's still work to be done. In this episode, we dig into this survey and what the findings mean for how IT departme...
Episode 32: Checking in with the Analysts at #GartnerAPPS, with Rita Manachi (Ep. 44)
December 06, 2016 00:00 - 53 minutes - 24.8 MBHow are analysts reckoning with "cloud native"? Rita Manachi joins us again to talk about industry analysts and what they're up to. We briefly recap what analysts relations (AR) does, and then jump into how analysts are thinking about Pivotal now. There's several new reports out that are good reads for the Pivotal-minded. Having just talked with several analysts over some chafer warmed lunch, we discuss how analyst meetings go and what to get out of them. We also cover recent news, primarily,...
Episode 31: Cloud-native at Home Depot, with Tony McCulley (Ep. 45)
December 05, 2016 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBHome Depot has been using Pivotal Cloud Foundry and developing in the Pivotal way for over a year now. Thus far, they have roughly 150 applications running in Pivotal Cloud Foundry across all parts of their business. While at Gartner's Application Strategies & Solutions Summit, we talk with Tony McCulley about Home Depot's journey putting cloud native thinking and technologies in place. Tony had just given a talk about this experience so we all had the topics fresh in out minds. There are two...
Episode 30: Step One: Build a Pizza Factory (Ep. 43)
November 26, 2016 00:00 - 52 minutes - 24 MBWe're seeing more adoption of agile in large organizations than ever before. More interestingly, they're really doing it, totally transforming the multiple layers of process to boil down to the the leanest bucket of parts that ensure quality, useful software. While there's a lot - a lot! - of work to be done, there's a slew of useful best practices, stories, and anecdotes emerging. In this episode we discuss this general trend and two of the related topics: scaling agile up and pair programmi...
Episode 29: The Alignment Anti-pattern, Improving Developer Skills, and Cloud-Native Teams (Ep. 42)
November 11, 2016 00:00 - 47 minutes - 22.1 MBCompanies that want to get better at software are staffing and organizing themselves in new ways. The traditional "silos" approach clusters teams together into functional groups, whereas modern approaches cluster around product. We cover skills by looking at a recent Cloud Foundry Foundation survey on developer skills and then discuss some sections of Coté's upcoming cloud native journey booklet related to team composition and outsourcing. While news is sparse this week, we point to some "wha...
Episode 28: Containers Ain’t No Sriracha Sauce (Ep. 41)
November 06, 2016 01:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBContainers are as big a deal in the Cloud Foundry world as anywhere else; what was once an obscure method of process isolation is a good way to boost developer productivity. In this episode we talk with Pivotal's Onsi Fakhouri and James Bayer about containers and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. After discussing the history of containers, we talk about how containers are supported in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and then discuss how to think through the use of containers versus buildpacks, or using container...
Episode 28: Containers Ain't No Sriracha Sauce (Ep. 41)
November 06, 2016 00:00 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MBContainers are as big a deal in the Cloud Foundry world as anywhere else; what was once an obscure method of process isolation is a good way to boost developer productivity. In this episode we talk with Pivotal's Onsi Fakhouri and James Bayer about containers and Pivotal Cloud Foundry. After discussing the history of containers, we talk about how containers are supported in Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and then discuss how to think through the use of containers versus buildpacks, or using container...
Episode 27: Rebasing Your Wobble Detector, Industrial IoT and Pivotal (Ep. 40)
October 29, 2016 00:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBThere's no end of discussion about the Internet of Things now-a-days, but much of it is either about flashing toothbrushes or crazy-making huge numbers with abstract use cases. This week we talk with Pivotal's Saurabh Gupta about the work he's been doing in the IoT space with Pivotal customers. He has a great model illustrating how to think about IoT use cases which we cover in-depth, with several examples. At the end of our discussion, you'll have a good appreciation of IoT is improving the ...
Episode 26: Inter-Service Communication, Consumer-Driven Contract Testing, and Service Versioning (Ep. 39)
October 21, 2016 22:12 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBDistributed systems are hard. Building a microservices architecture that supports evolutionary changes without breaking “contracts” among services? Especially hard. In this podcast, we grabbed Oliver Gierke, Kenny Bastani, and Andrew Clay Shafer to talk about inter-service communication, consumer-driven contract testing, and service versioning. Listen in as we wrestle with tricky concepts, and still end up as friends. See full show notes at https://blog.pivotal.io/pivotal-conversations.
Episode 25: Live to Tape from DellEMCWorld (Ep. 38)
October 20, 2016 00:00 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MBLive to Tape from DellEMCWorld (Ep. 38) by Pivotal Software
Episode 24: Microservices Governance with Spring Cloud Contract, guest Marcin Grzejszczak (Ep. 37)
October 07, 2016 20:29 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBWhen you're moving fast, things will break more often. It's little wonder, then, that with a microservices approach you need to pay close attention to ensuring the safe, yet speedy change to APIs. The idea of "consumer-driven contracts" has been percolating for a long time. The idea is to shift the "power" in the relationship between the provider of APIs and the consumer of those APIs more to the consumers. In this episode, I talk again with Marcin Grzejszczak on this topic and we discuss how...
Episode 23: Managing Employee Experience and Building Trust, Cloud-Native HR with Joe Militello (Ep. 36)
October 01, 2016 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51.3 MBBuilding a high performance organization requires more than just putting good technologies and practices in place for developing and delivering product, it requires the right culture as well. In large organizations, this often means changing the culture. At the heart of that is people, so it's natural that Human Resources will get involved, hopefully sooner rather than later. To discuss these topics, we bring back Joe Militello for the second time to discuss how Pivotal thinks through HR and...
Episode 22: Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.8 with Jared Ruckle (Ep. 35)
September 25, 2016 00:00 - 53 minutes - 48.7 MBReleased a few weeks ago, Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.8 is chock full of new features and improvements. We talk with Jared Ruckle about them, delving into security, databases, and new services. These features deliver on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry goal of speeding up time to market (with faster release cycles) and, yet, still being a general purpose application platform that organizations can use to run all their customer software. We also discuss another recent piece from Jared on opinionated plat...
Episode 21: 034: Building DIY platforms: now you've got two problems, with Matt Walburn
September 18, 2016 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBBacked up into a corner, developers will start coding. It's little wonder then that as large organizations have been faced with modernizing their approach to software - all that "digital transformation" - developers in years past have been focusing on building their own platforms. Our guest this week, Matt Walburn, worked on one such project. He joins us this week to talk about the lure of the DIY platform and why, now that options like Pivotal Cloud Foundry are available, it's usually a poor...
Episode 21: 034: Building DIY platforms: now you’ve got two problems, with Matt Walburn
September 18, 2016 00:00 - 55 minutes - 51 MBBacked up into a corner, developers will start coding. It's little wonder then that as large organizations have been faced with modernizing their approach to software - all that "digital transformation" - developers in years past have been focusing on building their own platforms. Our guest this week, Matt Walburn, worked on one such project. He joins us this week to talk about the lure of the DIY platform and why, now that options like Pivotal Cloud Foundry are available, it's usually a poor...
Episode 20: Gigantic Stranglers and Crazy Infrastructure, Working on Legacy Code with Rohit Kelapure (Ep. 33)
September 13, 2016 17:46 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBNo matter how fresh and new your company is, you're going to have some "legacy" applications to work with when you're mounting your cloud native efforts. The nature of those legacy apps and services are varied: mainframes, ESBs, batch job, and plain old J2EE and .Net apps. If you find yourself unable to make changes quickly enough without the fear of it all blowing up in your face, you're probably dealing with legacy. Pivotal's Rohit Kelapure talks with us in this episode about the type of an...
Episode 19: The Microservices Substrate - NetflixOSS, Spring Cloud Services, and Pivotal Cloud Foundry (Ep. 32)
August 27, 2016 00:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBMicroservices aim to bring an unprecedented amount of agility to complex, distributed systems: each service can update at will, always getting the latest innovations and functionality into production. That said, this amount of rapidly moving parts brings a whole new set of management and operations needs to the forefront, not to mention simple acts like looking up a service to use. In this episode, we talk about the history of how Netflix solved these problems with their Netflix OSS stack. So...
Episode 18: Stories, Points, and Backlogs with Pivotal Tracker, guest Ronan Dunlop (Ep. 31)
August 20, 2016 00:00 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBContinuing our Circle of Code agenda, we talk with Ronan Dunlop of Pivotal Tracker. Tracker was developed over ten years ago as the in-house project management software used by Pivotal Labs and has since then become a product in its own right used by many teams. We discuss what Tracker's history, what it does, and most importantly the philosophy behind tracker. We also discuss some recent news about the Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant (see free reprint and Coté's highlights), SQL Server suppor...
Episode 17: Tracing and Monitoring Microservices and Applications with Spring Sleuth (Ep. 29)
August 02, 2016 00:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBWhile at SpringOne Platform 2016 I, Coté talks with Marcin about one of the projects he works on, Spring Sleuth. There's plenty of technical overviews of Sleuth out there, but I wanted to talk with Marcin about the "why" of Sleuth, how he came to use, and get a high-level overview of how it works. Sleuth, based on Zipkin, is a framework for distributed tracing which turns out to be handy for the types of architectures we see in cloud native applications, particularly microservices. Monitoring...
Episode 16: Platforms as Contracts with John Feminella (Ep. 30)
August 01, 2016 00:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBWhile at SpringOne Platform I talked with John Feminella about his talk on platforms and contracts. He uses the legal metaphor of contracts to describe the beneficial trade-offs between things like 12 factor coding and continuous delivery. As the abstract for his talks puts it: Platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) can be viewed as contracts between applications and the people who build, operate, and deploy them. At the root of these contracts is a core premise: if your application che...
Episode 15: Partnering in the Cloud-Native Ecosystem, Guest Josh McKenty (Ep. 28)
July 31, 2016 00:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThis week, while at SpringOne Platform, Richard and I talk with Josh McKenty, head of the partnering engineering team. With a general purpose application stack like Pivotal Cloud Foundry there's a lot of partner applications, services, and consulting that typically gets used beyond what Pivotal provides out of the box. Josh's team does the implementation with partners around these extensions and service integrator partnerships. We discuss how the program works, why it's needed, different mode...
Episode 14: The Circle of Software (Ep. 27)
July 24, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBWhen you put all of the step needed to create good software up on the board, there's a lot of them. It's a lot more than just writing code, or even writing requirements and stories. Around Pivotal, we think of this full, end-to-end process as the circle of code: Ideas → prioritization / planning → coding → deployment → runtime → monitoring → feedback, and back again. Richard and Coté discuss these steps and how organizations are starting to appreciate "the big picture." They also cover some c...
Episode 13: SpringOne Platform Preview, Pokémon Go, Will Azure Win Against AWS? (Ep. 26)
July 07, 2016 00:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThe biggest, best cloud native conference around is just around the corner, SpringOne Platform, this August 1st to 4th. This week we talk about the sessions we're looking forward to: Richard has his top five and Coté has a longer write-up. As both a technical and "meatware" conference, there's a whole lot to like, spanning the broad category of better ways of doing software. There are some great case study talks from the likes of Home Depot, ExpressScripts, Allstate, and Dish. In the technica...
Episode 12: .NET and Beyond 12 Factors with Kevin Hoffman (Ep. 25)
July 04, 2016 00:00 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBWe've seen a goodly spate of news in the container space recently which we cover in the episode. In the second half, we talk with Kevin Hoffman about the .NET world, Steel Toe, and his book, Beyond the Twelve-Factor App. A recent survey from the Cloud Foundry Foundation is widening the framing around container management, adding in the use of Platform-as-a-Service into the usual container orchestration mix. The survey also shows some interesting results around adoption, e.g., managing contain...
Episode 11: Analyst Relations, How Does it Work? (Ep. 24)
June 20, 2016 21:29 - 56 minutes - 52.3 MBYou've heard of "analysts," those people who cover the technology world with all sorts of quadrants, waves, and forecasts about how much money is spent on different types of software. What industry analysts do is actually a long, interesting list depending on who you are, their customer: a buyer and user of IT, financial and investment banker types, or vendors. This week, after a small section of new left over from last week - are you keeping up here? - we interview Rita Manachi, head of anal...
Episode 10: Can "PaaS" Be Saved, Or Is It Gibberish Now? (Ep. 23)
June 13, 2016 00:00 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBAfter all these years, what does "PaaS" mean? Most of the vendors in this space fight tooth-and-nail to avoid the term. Coté and Richard discuss a brief history of PaaS, starting in the mid-2000's to now and then discuss why "PaaS" may not be the best term to use currently. Spoiler: it's overly anemic when it comes to all the stuff a full "cloud platform" does. Plus, it has a limited view and sentiment based on the "plug-in" origins of the term. The two also cover recent interesting tech news...