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In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, host Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack and co-host Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem at CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), discuss why secrets management is essential for DevOps teams, what the tool landscape is like and why Vault was selected as the top alternative. CNCF Tech Radar contributors and featured guests were Steve Nolen, site reliability engineer, RStudio — which creates open source software for data science, scientific research and technical communication — and Andrea Galbusera, engineering and co-founder, AuthKeys, a SaaS platform provider for managing and auditing servers authorizations and logins.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams virtually shared pancakes and syrup with guests to discuss how Apache Cassandra, gRPC and, other tools and platforms play a role in managing data on Kubernetes.
Mya Pitzeruse, software engineer and OSS contributor from effx; Sam Ramji, chief strategy officer at Datastax; and Tom Offermann, a lead software engineer at New Relic were the guests. They offered deep perspectives about the evolution of data management on Kubernetes and the work that remains to be done.
On the last The New Stack Analysts of the year, the gang got together — remotely, obviously — to reflect on this year. And oh what a year! But for a year in tech, 2020 still had a lot of hits — and some misses.
Publisher Alex Williams was joined by Libby Clark, Joab Jackson, Bruce Gain, Steven Vaughan-Nichols, and Jennifer Riggins. We looked back on the year that saw millions die, no one fly, and a lot of jobs in turmoil. It was also a year that, while many things screeched to a halt, much of the tech industry had to keep going more than ever.
Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.
Identity and access management (IAM) was previously relatively straightforward. Often delegated as a low-level management task to the local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) admin, the process of setting permissions for tiered data access was definitely not one of the more challenging security-related duties. However, in today’s highly distributed and relatively complex computing environments, network and associated IAM are exponentially more complex. As application creation and deployment become more distributed, often among multicloud containerized environments, the resulting dependencies, as well as vulnerabilities, continue to proliferate as well, thus widening the scope of potential attack surfaces.
How to manage IAM in this context was the main topic of this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, as KubeCon + CloudNativeCon attendees joined TNS Founder and Publisher Alex Williams and guests live for the latest “Virtual Pancake & Podcast.” They discussed why IAM has become even more difficult to manage than in the past and offered their perspectives about potential solutions. They also showed how enjoying pancakes — or other variations of breakfast — can make IAM challenges more manageable.
The event featured Lin Sun, senior technical staff member and Master Inventor, Istio/IBM; Joab Jackson, managing editor, The New Stack and Nathaniel “Q” Quist, senior threat researcher (Public Cloud Security – Unit 42), Palo Alto Networks. Jackson noted how the evolution of IAM has not been conducive to handling the needs of present-day distributed computing. Previously, it was “not exactly a security thing” nor a “developer problem,” and wasn’t even “a security problem, he said.
“[IAM] really almost was a network problem: if a certain individual or a certain process wants to access another process or a resource online, then you have to have the permissions in place to meet all the policy requirements about who can ask for these particular resources,” Jackson said. “And this is an entirely new problem with distributed computing on a massive and widespread scale…it’s almost a mindset, number one, about who can figure out what to do and then how to go about doing it.”
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon sponsored this podcast.
How to manage database storage in cloud native environments continues to be a major challenge for many organizations. Database storage also came to the fore as the issue to explore in the latest Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Tech Radar report.
In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, host Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack and co-hosts Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Dave Zolotusky, senior staff engineer at Spotify discuss stateless database storage, recent results of the report findings and perspectives from the user community.
The podcast guests — who both contributed to the CNCF Tech Radar report and hail from the database storage user community — were Jackie Fong, engineering leader, Kubernetes and developer experience for Ticketmaster, and Mya Pitzeruse, software engineer, OSS contributor, effx.
Accurics sponsored this podcast.
Who doesn’t love hotcakes? And to make them right, you need to wait until the batter starts to bubble up before you flip them. Immutable infrastructure management and related security challenges are also “bubbling up” these days, as many organizations make the shift to cloud native environments, with containerized, serverless and other layers.
In this The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams asked served up pancakes with KubeCon attendees who joined him for a “stack” at the “Virtual Pancake Breakfast and Podcast” while they offered their deep perspectives on what is at stake as immutable infrastructure security and other related concerns take hold.
The guests joining the virtual breakfast were Om Moolchandani, co-founder and CTO for Accurics, Rosemary Wang, developer advocate for HashiCorp, Krishna Bhagavathula, CTO, for the NBA (who also brought his own L.A. Lakers-branded spatula), Chenxi Wang, Ph.D., managing general partner of Rain Capital, and Priyanka Sharma, general manager, for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon sponsored this podcast.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is known for its particle accelerator and experiments and analysis of the properties of subatomic particles, anti-matter and other particle physics-related research. CERN is also considered to be where the World Wide Web (WWW) was created.
Research and experiments conducted at the largest particle physics research center consisting of a 27-km long tunnel generate massive amounts of data to manage and store. All told, CERN now manages over 500 petabytes — over half of one exabyte — which, in a decade's time, is expected to total 5,000 petabytes, said Ricardo Rocha, a staff researcher at CERN.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we learn from Rocha how CERN is adapting as a new accelerator goes online in the next few years with the ability to manage 10x the data it manages now.
Some legacy infrastructures are certainly more difficult to manage than others when organizations make the shift to cloud native. In the case of the heavily regulated financial services industry and the deep legacy infrastructure involved when banks transition to the cloud, challenges inherent in the sector abound. Regulatory and compliance and data-management challenges are also usually amplified when the bank has an especially large international presence.
In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, as part of The New Stack’s recent coverage of end-use Kubernetes, Michael Lieberman, senior innovation engineer, vice president, of Tokyo-based MUFG, discusses his company’s journey to scale out architectures in a microservice and Kubernetes environment in the world of financial services. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack hosted the podcast with co-hosts Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Dave Zolotusky, senior staff engineer at Spotify.
In the serverless paradigm, the idea is to abstract away the backend so that developers don’t need to deal with it. That’s all well and good when it comes to servers and complex infrastructure like Kubernetes. But up till now, database systems haven’t typically been a part of the serverless playbook. The assumption has been that developers will build their serverless app and choose a separate database system to connect to it — be it a traditional relational database, a NoSQL system, or even a Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution.
But the popularity of serverless has prompted further innovation in the data market. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talked about the latest developments in regards to managing data in a serverless system.
My two guests were Evan Weaver, co-founder and chief technology officer of Fauna, and Greg McKeon, a product manager at Cloudflare. Fauna is building a “data API” for serverless apps so that developers don’t even need to touch a database system, while Cloudflare runs a serverless platform called Cloudflare Workers.
Kubernetes is becoming boring and that’s a good thing — it’s what’s on top of Kubernetes that counts.
In this The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS Founder & Publisher Alex Williams asked KubeCon attendees to join him for a short “stack” at our Virtual Pancake & Podcast to discuss “What’s on your stack?” The podcast featured guest speakers Janakiram MSV, principal analyst, Janakiram & Associates, Priyanka Sharma, general manager, CNCF, Patrick McFadin, chief evangelist for Apache Cassandra and vice president, developer relations, DataStax and Bill Zajac, regional director of solution engineering, Dynatrace. The group passed the virtual syrup and talked Kubernetes, which may be stateless, but also means there’s plenty of room for sides.
A lot of the time, it’s harder to convince your friends and family than a stranger. The first group is usually more decisive and direct with you. The same goes for your work family. When you’re building an internal infrastructure for autonomous teams, it becomes your job to not only provide that technical backbone, but to act as sales and customer support.
Nobody said internal developer advocacy would be easier.
The sixth episode of The New Stack Analysts End User Series brings together again our Publisher Alex Williams with co-hosts Cheryl Hung from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Ken Owens of Mastercard. In this episode they talk with Simone Sciarrati, the engineering team lead at Meltwater media intelligence platform about the autonomous engineering culture, molding developer experience, and those tough technological decisions.
Spotify is well known worldwide for its music service. Not so well known, is its path to Kubernetes Oz has been a road with many twists and turns.
What also may be a surprise to many is that Spotify is a veteran user of Kubernetes and how it owes much of its product-delivery capabilities to its agile DevOps. Indeed, Spotify continues to increasingly rely on a container and microservices infrastructure and cloud native deployments to offer a number of advantages. This allows its DevOps teams to continually improve the overall streaming experience for millions of subscribers.
In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, as part of The New Stack’s recent coverage of end use Kubernetes, Jim Haughwout, head of infrastructure and operations, shares Spotify’s cloud native adoption war stories and discusses its past and present Kubernetes challenges. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack; Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Ken Owens, vice president, cloud native engineering, Mastercard hosted the podcast.
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon sponsored this podcast as part of a series of interviews with Kubernetes end users. Listen to the previous stories about the ups and downs of Box’s Kubernetes journey and what Wikipedia’s infrastructure is like behind the firewall.
It started simply enough but soon the site needed more than a server to keep things managed. Today, EquityZen runs on Kubernetes and is considering its next moves, in particular exploring how container as a service may serve them.
In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Andy Snowden, engineering manager, DevOps, for EquityZen, discusses how he helped the company begin its cloud native journey and the challenges associated with the move. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack; Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Ken Owens, vice president, cloud native engineering, Mastercard hosted the podcast.
When Snowden joined EquityZen, he immediately began to apply his background managing Kubernetes environments to help solve a chief concern the company had: The reliability of its infrastructure.
“During our initial conversations, they explained to me that ‘hey, we are having these issues and we are having these big site hits where the site will go down’ and that is really bad for our customers. They also asked ‘what have you done in your past that has worked well for you?,’” said Snowden. “And knowing Kubernetes as I knew it, I said this sounds like a really good use case for it and I explained that these are the sort of things I might consider doing.”
Once convinced that a Kubernetes environment would both boost reliability and help the company to better scale its operations, making the shift was, of course, a major undertaking.
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon sponsored this post.
Box was one of the first companies to build on Kubernetes. Initially building its platform on PHP, Box’s architecture still uses some parts of the PHP architecture. Today, Box serves as a case study of a software platform’s cloud native journey that began a few years ago. The company also continues to rely on its legacy infrastructure dating back to the days when PHP ran on Box’s bare metal servers in its data centers.
In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Kunal Parmar, director of engineering, Box, discusses the evolution of the cloud content management provider’s cloud native journey with hosts Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Cheryl Hung, vice president of ecosystem at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Ken Owens, vice president, cloud native engineering, Mastercard.
Prior to Box’s adoption of Kubernetes, the company sought ways to “create more services outside of the monolith in order to scale efficiently,” Parmar said. One way to do that, he explained, was to shift its legacy monolith applications into microservices.
“For anybody who has [made the shift to Kubernetes], they would know this is a really long and hard journey. And so, in parallel, we have been focusing on adopting Kubernetes for all of the new microservices that we have been building outside of the monolith,” said Parmar. “And today we are at a point where we're actually now looking at also starting to migrate the monolith to run on top of Kubernetes so that we can take advantage of the benefits that Kubernetes brings.”
The Wikimedia Foundation‘s impact on culture and media sharing has had immeasurable benefits on a worldwide scale. As the foundation that manages the fabled Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and a number of outlets, Wikimedia’s mission is to “to bring free educational content to the world”
All told, Wikipedia alone is available in about 300 different languages with more than 50 million articles on 1.5 billion unique devices a month with 6,000 views a second — with 250,000 engaged editors, Chase Pettet, senior security architect, Wikimedia Foundation, said.
“Editors are sort of the lifeblood of the movement,” he said.
In this, The New Stack Analyst podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder, and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, and Ken Owens, vice president, cloud native engineering for Mastercard, Pettet discussed Wikimedia’s infrastructure-management challenges, both past and present, and what makes one of the world’s foremost providers of free information tick.
In this, The New Stack Analyst podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder, and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, and Ken Owens, vice president, cloud native engineering, Mastercard, Jennifer Strejevitch, site reliability engineer for Condé Nast speaks about her experiences and observations at the front lines of the publishing company infrastructure-related challenges and successes.
Condé Nast is one of the most well recognized media brands in the world, with a range of stand-out titles that include “Wired,” “The New Yorker” and “Vanity Fair.” The publishing giant also represents a case study of how a large multinational company was able to shift its entire international web and data operations to a homogenous Kubernetes infrastructure it built and now manages with open source tools.
Indeed, during the past five years, Condé Nast has been able, build a single underlying platform consisting of several dozen websites spread out around the world, including Russia and China in addition to the U.S. and Europe. Its web presence now hosts more than 300 million digital unique users per month and 570 article views every second.
Thanks to the COVID-19 global pandemic, many IT systems are facing unprecedented workloads, reaching levels of usage on a daily basis that usually only happen on the busiest days of the year. The good news is that the cloud native approach has been rapidly gaining popularity with businesses large and small to help meet these sudden demands. And proper security precautions must be built into these emerging cloud native systems.
Applying principles of cloud native security to the enterprise was the chief topic of discussion for our panel of experts in this virtual panel. Panelists were:
Cheryl Hung, Director of Ecosystem, Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Carla Arend, Senior Program Director, Infrastructure Software, IDC. John Morello, Palo Alto Networks Vice President of Product, Prisma Cloud. Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack hosted the discussion.
Certainly, operations have changed for most of us due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic. But this can be a good opportunity for an organization to rethink how they approach business continuing and resiliency, Arend noted. Those who were on the digital journey are getting much better through this crisis than those just starting. Now is a great time to focus on digital innovation.
Indeed, if anything, innovation is just accelerating in this time, Morello agreed. Without having the ability to interact in person, the tools that enable digital transformation — Kubernetes, containers — helps people operate more efficiently.
What is the role that the data plane plays in a Kubernetes ecosystem? This was the theme for our latest (virtual) pancake breakfast and panel discussion, sponsored by DataStax, the keeper of the open source Cassandra database.
Last month, Datastax released a Kubernetes operator, so that the NoSQL database can be more easily installed, managed, and updated in Kubernetes container-based infrastructure.
The Panelists for this discussion:
Kathryn Erickson, DataStax senior director of partnerships. Janakiram MSV, principal analyst of Janakiram & Associates. Aaron Ploetz, Target NoSQL lead engineer. Sam Ramji, DataStax chief strategy officer. Alex Williams, publisher for The New Stack served as moderator for this panel, with the help of TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson.
in 2015, Ramji worked at Google and oversaw the business development around its then-newly open source project, Kubernetes, which was based on its internal container orchestrator, the Borg. The Borg provides Google a single control pane for dynamically managing all its many containerized workloads, and its scale-out database, Spanner, offered the same for the data plane.
“The marriage of those two things made compute and data so universally addressable so easy to access that you could do just about anything that you could imagine,” Ramji explained.
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In this, The New Stack Analysts podcast, Lee Calcote, an analyst and founder of Layer5, and Brian “Redbeard” Harrington, a principal product manager for OpenShift service mesh at Red Hat, discussed the many nuances of what the survey numbers really mean.
Calcote, for example, notes how traffic management is seen as a key feature among the many different service mesh capabilities, but it’s most useful to advanced users. Speaking about the use of traffic management functionalities, Calcote said: “Folks tend to be a little more advanced as they get into that because they’re at that point they’re actually affecting traffic and then routing requests differently, as opposed to something like just purely observing or getting a ‘read-only’ view in their environment.”
Harrington agreed. “I’m happy that Lee kind of pointed out the specific distinction around traffic control, because among the users who I’m talking to that’s the — pun intended — ‘gateway drug,'” Harrington said. Organizations with legacy bare metal environments and “pretty expensive hardware incumbencies” face challenges as they move “move to dynamic environments” and as they “de-prioritize” some legacy hardware, traffic management capabilities service meshes can provide help when making the shift, Harrington said.
The survey results and experience in the field also indicate organizations are still mulling the best use cases for service meshes. When asked whether an organization should adopt or how they should begin to rely on service meshes, it is often “irrespective of whether they’re starting on the simpler…or more sophisticated [possibilities] in that spectrum,” Calcote said.”The advice is generally the same which is you should start and adopt a bit at a time a bit of value at a time and what that value is sort of dependent upon what you’re looking for out of mesh,” Calcote said. “But between you getting comfortable with what you’ve deployed and getting the value out of what you’ve deployed, [organizations should] take the next step from there to hopefully at some point leverage all of the functionality of the mesh.”
The New Stack Editor Alex Williams sat down, with Diane Patton, technical marketing engineer at NetApp, Jenny Fong, VP of marketing at Diamanti, and Sriram Subramanian, an analyst at IDC, to learn how Kubernetes has evolved into the preferred infrastructure layer for stateful environments. Listen to this episode of The New Stack Analysts to hear more about where we are heading and how we should be able to handle state in any given situation.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we explore how two Kubernetes Special Interest Groups (SIG) are taking into account all of the various user personas in order to help shape the user experience on Kubernetes. Guests on this episode include:
Tasha Drew, co-chair of the Kubernetes Usability SIG and a product line manager for Kubernetes and Project Pacific at VMware. Lei Zhang, co-chair of the Kubernetes Application Delivery SIG and a staff engineer at Alibaba. Emily Omier, The New Stack correspondent and a content strategist for cloud native companies.
Many IT teams begin moving their applications to containers and Kubernetes after their managers mandate the switch. Then in the rush to deploy they may forget, or simply delay, some fundamentals. Only six to 12 months later does integrating security into their CI/CD pipeline becomes a priority.
This gradual evolution toward cloud native security best practices is worrisome, but it’s the norm among organizations adopting Kubernetes today. This is what we learned from a panel of cloud native security experts at The New Stack’s pancake and podcast from KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America this week. The New Stack founder and publisher Alex Williams was joined on the panel by:
Keith Mokris, product marketing manager, container security at Palo Alto Networks; Maya Kaczorowski, product manager at Google. Santiago Torres-Arias, Ph.D. student at New York University Center for Cyber Security; Sarah Allen, co-chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Security Special Interest Group (SIG); Sean M. Kerner, senior editor at InternetNews.com.
Prisma by Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.
The developer will certainly face new challenges when making the switch to a cloud native platform. The process might include, for example, learning how to add code to Kubernetes clusters or mastering the mechanics of etcd and kubectlis. The power and scaling flexibility a cloud native platform and Kubernetes offer, among other things, are often worth more than developers’ investment in time and resources when adopting these technologies.
And yet.
What developers are usually more concerned about is the business goals they need to achieve. They will likely care less what the underlying infrastructure is as much as it can be used to create code that might improve their organization’s bottom line, or for a public institution, better meet the needs of a citizen.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts recorded at the 2019 European Cloud Foundry Summit in The Hague, The Netherlands, this month where the business needs of developers and the role of the Cloud Foundry community were dicussed — and debated.
Hosted by Alex Williams, The New Stack founder and editor-in-chief and co-hosted by Devin Davis, vice president of marketing, Cloud Foundry Foundation, the panelists were:
Abby Kearns, executive director, Cloud Foundry Foundation Michael Cote, marketing director, Pivotal Tammy Van Hove, distinguished engineer, IBM Udo Seidel, Tech Writer, Heise iX
Enterprise startups are building the tools that help their customers to create an agile modern enterprise that adapts quickly to market changes. But the enterprise isn’t always open to that change, or even aware of the benefits of that change, said Frederic Lardinois, writer and news editor at TechCrunch, in this episode of The New Stack Analysts recorded at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise held on Sept. 5 in San Francisco. This is a primary challenge for enterprise software companies today.
The people and technologies that help enterprise software startups grow was the focus of this recent panel discussion at The New Stack pancake breakfast and podcast at TC Sessions: Enterprise. TNS founder and publisher Alex Williams moderated the discussion, which was sponsored by GitLab. Panelists included:
- Frederic Lardinois / writer & news editor / TechCrunch
- Katherine Boyle / Principal / General Catalyst
- Melissa Pancoast / founder & CEO / The Beans
- Sameer Patel / former CEO / Kahuna
- Sid Sijbrandij / co-founder & CEO / GitLab
What became the punk rock genre may be a harbinger of what is in store for the open source movement — but hopefully not. At any rate, open source’s popularity can certainly be compared to punk rock’s rise. When Linux began to be seen as a powerful and very practical alternative to Unix, and especially, Windows, during the 1990s, the movement then felt very...well, underground.
Trading discs of Linux distros and sharing tips on how to hack “Doom” (okay, the hacks were open source but Doom’s code was obviously wasn’t). But hopefully, open source will take a different path than what became of punk rock, especially for enterprises, as open matures, or to take the punk rock analogy further, become corporate musak.
The punk rock comparison was one a main theme of this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded during VMware World San Francisco, with guests Tom Petrocelli, a research fellow at Amalgam Insights, and Adam Jacob, CEO at The System Initiative and former CTO of Chef Software. They described what the open source movement has become and where it’s heading, and more importantly, what it all means for enterprises.
It would be a mistake to ignore the immediate impact artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is already having on software development processes and DevOps. While some may see AI and ML as new technologies high on the hype cycle with overall marginal influences — even though they have been available for years — many organizations are already taking advantage of how they can automate many tasks during the development process. This includes their role in performing more mundane and time-consuming tasks that developers, as well as operations staffers, would prefer not to do by letting the machine take over.
During this The New Stack Analysts podcast, two DevOps and development process experts spoke about AI’s and ML’s effects on DevOps and the state of algorithm development today and it impact on IT operations today: Hyoun Park, CEO and chief analyst, Amalgam Insights, and Bola Rotibi, Research Director, Software Development, CCS Insight. This roundtable was hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor in chief of The New Stack.
Already, AI and ML are affecting DevOps workflows have provided “an amazing access to computing and processing” over the past few years, Park said. They have provided DevOps with the ability to test a wide variety of algorithmic strategies, as well as provide storage and data-management capabilities to handle the processing, the testing and benefits associated with machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Just four years ago, industry analysts were wary of running production workloads in containers, but certainly the industry got over that fast. Numbers around Docker and Kubernetes adoption vary broadly, but it's safe to say that well over half of Fortune 100 companies have embraced containers.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, our Editor in Chief Alex Williams sits down with Briana Frank, director of product management at IBM, and James Ford, independent technical strategy advisor, to reflect on the origins of containers, how Kubernetes and Docker began, and how adoption has grown so fast in only a few years.
Frank said the impetus behind rapid container adoption came from Docker allowing everyone to get started quickly and simply — about ten minutes. For her, this accessibility is a continued source of inspiration when she's creating demos and Getting Started tutorials, as this ease of use accelerates innovation.
“We can attribute a lot of the popularity of Kubernetes today to the Docker beginnings,” she said.
You put three journalists from leading tech news outlets in a podcast room with the founder and editor in chief of the media outlet of record for the development and DevOps community. One could guess they would have rather opinionated thoughts to share and more than enough background based on an incessant curiosity — or arguably — an obsessional drive to uncover and analyze the truth beneath the marketing-laden facades of the cloud native software development industry today.
In fact, all of the above aptly describes the theme and atmosphere of a podcast meeting featuring most of the press corps members attending the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference in Barcelona in May.Speaking with Alex Williams, founder and editor in chief of The New Stack, the podcast guests included:
Frederic Lardinois, a writer and news editor for TechCrunch; Ron Miller, an enterprise reporter for TechCrunch; Sean Michael Kerner, senior Editor for InternetNews.com
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_Ej3OCK5k
Some might assume artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are among the “latest and greatest technologies” that are on top of today’s hype list. Their adoption cycle — if they ever do see deployment on a large scale — is years away, one might assume. After all, software developers are really just beginning to take advantage of Kubernetes and microservices on a large scale a few years after their creation.
However, providers of AI and ML systems have begun to show how developers can already reap advantages of AI and ML for their existing production pipelines for cloud native deployments in a number of ways. The concept is simple: pure AI or neural network-aided ML can assume many of what developers says are the more cumbersome, time-consuming, and ultimately, boring tasks on both the development and operations side.
The overlap between machine learning and cloud native and other themes were among the topics discussed during a panel discussions at an Oracle-sponsored pancake breakfast.
The New Stack organized the event at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference in Barcelona in May. Maple syrup was also provided.
The panelists were:
Bob Quillin, vice president, cloud developer relations, Oracle; Jon Girven, co-founder and CTO, Antix and Sauce; Ant Kennedy, CTO, Gapsquare; Bola Rotibi, research director, software development, delivery and lifecycle management, Creative Intellect Consulting.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/22nYF4GOGRE
Service meshes have emerged as essential tools in managing deployments on containers and microservices. Indeed, one would be hard pressed to find DevOps teams that have successfully deployed on Kubernetes without the observability and management capabilities they offer give the immense complexity involved in such a project.
The key role service meshes play in the cloud native world also accounts for why they were a major topic discussed during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Barcelona and how Envoy, Istio, Linkerd, Aspen Mesh and other projects will continue to serve as open source alternatives.
Indeed, the announcements at KubeCon about Microsoft’s Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification and how Solo.io has created what it calls “the first reference implementations” for SMI were arguably the most important newsworthy developments during the conference.
Solo.io’s founder and CEO Idit Levine was also on hand to put service meshes into perspective as one of the panel guests during The New Stack pancake breakfast in this podcast about services meshes held during the first of the Barcelona conference. Hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor in chief, and co-hosted by Libby Clark, editorial director, of The New Stack, the other guests on hand included, in addition to Levine:
Cliff Grossner, executive director research and technology fellow, IHS Markit; Pere Monclus, vice president and CTO, networking and security, VMware; Florian Dudouet, product owner and cloud engineer, Swisscom; Lee Calcote, founder, Layer5, and author of “The Enterprise Path to Service Mesh Architectures.”
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2v9zvBR7Ds
A blog post by Saad Ali, senior software engineer at Google, drew considerable attention early year when Ali first described Kubernetes GA in “Container Storage Interface (CSI) for Kubernetes GA. In that post, Ali described how “CSI was developed as a standard for exposing arbitrary block and file storage systems to containerized workloads on Container Orchestration Systems (COs) like Kubernetes.” Among other things, CSI protects backwards compatibility with protection by a Kubernetes deprecation policy, Ali wrote.
The implications of CSI, as well as Kubernetes storage and the evolution of containers, were the subject of a podcast episode of The New Stack Analyst hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, with Janakiram MSV, a TNS correspondent and principal of Janakiram & Associates. Joining Ali as a guest was Anand Babu "AB" Periasamy, co-founder and CEO at MinIO. The podcast was broadcast during DockerCon 2019, Docker's flagship user conference, which recently took place in San Francisco.
Christopher Liljenstolpe is the founder and chief technology officer of Tigera, a provider of cloud native security and networking software. He formed Tigera to offer commercial support for Project Calico, a control plane he created for cloud native applications.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson and TNS contributing analyst Janakiram MSV talk with Liljenstolpe about Calico's creation, overlay networks, service meshes and IPv6.
Key Takeaways:
Originally created for OpenStack, Calico was designed to make it easy to get data packets from one part of the network to another, using the Internet technologies like IP routing, rather than switching, virtual networks, overlay networks or other complex approaches.
Since this form of networking offers only a coarse-grained isolation across nodes, so Calico uses real-time distributed filtering engines to control which nodes can communicate with one another, in effect acting as a network policy enforcement tool.
Anticipating containers, Calico was designed for very dynamic environments, and can manage hundreds of thousands of end-points that can change location at any time.
It is hard to believe for many, as it is for this writer, that Cloud Foundry has existed for more than a decade after it was founded in 2008. Since its beginning, it certainly has more than established itself as a platform as a service (PaaS) of choice for deploying and scaling open source applications. It has also certainly played a role in the growing momentum in the adoption of Kubernetes, microservices, cloud native and other new technologies as well as many other open source tools that continue to help transform DevOps practices.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we recorded a panel discussion held during a pancake breakfast at Cloud Foundry Summit North America earlier this month in Philadelphia with Cloud Foundry as the featured topic.
Hosted by The New Stack’s Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, and co-hosted by Joab Jackson, managing editor, panel invitees discussed Cloud Foundry’s evolution over the past few years and the key role it continues to play in the open source community.
The panelists included: Abby Kearns, executive director, of the Cloud Foundry Foundation; Cornelia Davis, Vice President of Technology, Pivotal; Daniel Jones, CTO for EngineerBetter; Rick Rioboli, Senior Vice President and CIO, for Comcast; and Stephen O'Grady, an analyst for Redmonk.
The magnanimous shift to cloud-native has brought with it obvious changes and shifts in how DevOps’ manage application deployments. Key among the challenges are observability and monitoring, logging, routing and, of course, security. As a way to keep this all under control, service meshes are increasingly seen not only as extremely useful extra layers to have — but as a necessity production pipelines, deployments and operations running on microservices and Kubernetes live and die by.
This was the main theme of a The New Stack makers podcast hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack and co-hosted by Sriram Subramanian, founder and principal at CloudDon. From Instana, which offers application performance management (APM) solutions for microservices; Williams and Subramanian were joined by Mirko Novakovic, Instana CEO and co-founder, and Michele Mancioppi, Instana senior technical product manager.
It is now widely assumed that making the shift to microservices and cloud-native environments will only lead to great things — and yet. As the rush to the cloud builds in momentum, many organizations are rudely waking up to more than a few difficulties along the way, such as how Kubernetes and serverless platforms on offer often remain a work in progress.
“We are coming to all those communities and basically pitching them to move, right? We tell them, ‘look, monolithic is very complicated — let’s move to microservices,’ so, they are working very, very hard to move but then they discover that the tooling is not that mature,” Idit Levine, founder and CEO of solo.io, said. “And actually, there are many gaps in the tooling that they had or used it before and now they’re losing this functionality. For instance, like logging or like debugging microservices is a big problem and so on.”
Levine, whose company offers service mesh solutions, also described how service meshes were designed to “solve exactly this problem,” during a podcast episode of The New Stack Analyst hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, with Janakiram MSV, The New Stack Correspondent and principal of Janakiram & Associates.
Monitoring and observability will also play a major in this brave new AI/ML landscape with Kubernetes and microservices. This was the main theme of a podcast Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief of The New Stack, hosted, with Janakiram MSV, The New Stack Correspondent and principal of Janakiram & Associates, as the co-host.
Irshad Raihan, director of product marketing at Red Hat, was the guest who spoke about the role of data and observability in AI/ML, in addition to how DevOps is changing for AI/ML, especially with increasing availability of direct data and data streaming.
I've got to admit it's getting better (Better) A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)
Paul McCartney and John Lennon, respectively, sum up the two ways to look at the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning — with optimism over limitless potential or pessimism over increased job loss and income equality. The New Stack's Libby Clark and Jennifer Riggins sat down (via Zoom) with The New York Times's Martin Ford, author of Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it, and Ofer Hermoni, chair of the technical advisory council for The Linux Foundation’s Deep Learning Foundation projects, to talk about the current state of AI, how it will scale, and its consequences.
The last year alone has seen major advancements in deep learning, machine learning, and neural networks — frameworks for machine learning algorithms to work together and process complex data inputs. However, as Ford points out in this podcast, we are only at the start of the ethical implications of AI, including the implications of reduced privacy, potential weaponization, and the unconscious bias that is feeding much of the data going into these models.
On today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, TNS founder Alex Williams is joined by Janakiram MSV, a principal analyst with Janakiram & Associates, and Steve Burton, VP of Marketing at Harness.io to discuss not only the effects containers and Kubernetes have had on realizing our DevOps dreams, but also how machine learning is taking it to the next level with the evolution of AIOps.
"In the last five years, DevOps has actually matured. So, we started with VMs, and DevOps was all about provisioning and configuration management and then, eventually CI/CD came in and Jenkins became the front and center of build management and release management, but that entire game was taken to the next level when containers became mainstream," said Janakiram. "We have evolved. Basically the current phase is driven predominately by container orchestration managers like Kubernetes that makes it extremely easy to spin up a staging environment or a test environment. And then we have Docker images as the unit of deployment. That fundamentally changes the game."
This week on The New Stack Analysts podcast, we take a closer look at the appeal of using virtual machines in Kubernetes environments.
The discussion was sparked by a popular blog post penned last month by Pivotal Principal Technologist Paul Czarkowski. The problem with basic Docker-styled containers is that they do not offer sufficient security in multitenant environments, where multiple deployments intermingle on the same set of Kubernetes-controlled servers. So we spoke with Czarkowski to learn more of his thinking.
Linux containers all rely on a shared kernel from the kernel, and isolation is provided by the kernel through namespaces. The Kubernetes API, however, is not secured, and most K8s components are not aware of the tenants. This is forcing service providers to provision Kubernetes workloads for different clients as separate clusters, not taking full advantage of the full savings that Kubernetes could provide by pooling workloads on the same cluster, Czarkowski argued.
We learned a lot about our readers upon completion of our reader’s survey at the end of last year. According to those who responded to the SurveyMonkey questionnaire, working mostly in development and/or DevOps or operations, the trends and topics you are especially interested in include artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) on Kubernetes or serverless in cloud native environments. DevOps, as well as security, of course also play a big role as data is processed, managed and stored in new and exciting ways.
It was with these topics in mind that Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, of The New Stack, hosted the podcast, along with Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor, hosted the last TNS podcast of 2018. The guests were Dillon Erb, CEO of Paperspace, which offers solutions for ML and AI deployments on the cloud, and Chenxi Wang, managing director of venture capital firm Rain Capital, with an emphasis on next-generation security solutions.
Functions as a Service (FaaS), and especially, serverless are major buzzwords today, but beneath the hype, they offer tremendous resource-savings and scaling opportunities. But as organizations make the shift from monolithic-centric platforms as they rely on FaaS to, for example, scale to cloud native environments, the concepts and promise of what are on offer can also make it easy to forget what is involved to make the jump on a hands-on and practical level. In other words, great things await your organization as it makes the transition, but getting there will require a lot of work — for what usually is a huge payoff as FaaS and cloud providers assume much of the heavy lifting for server management and other infrastructure-related tasks.
During a panel discussion hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, managing editor, of The New Stack; at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018, a panel of FaaS and serverless experts were on hand to discuss their down-in-the-trenches experiences and ideas about what implementing FaaS and relying on cloud providers is really like. The panel members included:
- Ara (Araceli) Pulido, Kubernetes engineering manager, Bitnami;
- Chad Arimura, vice president, serverless advocacy, Oracle and former CEO and cofounder of Iron.io;
- Christopher Woods, research software engineer, University of Bristol;
- Tom Petrocelli, analyst, Amalgam Insights
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UPf8sCKNb4E
The advent of service meshes can be traced back to Linkerd, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. Now, as Linkerd’s adoption curve continues to accelerate, a number of other options have emerged that allow for the management and scaling of an often vast network of microservices and the applications within them. Istio, of course, is among the leading alternatives.
The state of Istio and services meshes was the main topic during a panel discussion for this podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, managing editing, of The New Stack; at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018.
The attendees, who were also treated to a pancake breakfast during the event, were able to ask questions about service meshes and Istio to the panel of subject matter experts consisting of:
- Jason McGee, IBM fellow, vice president, CTO, IBM Cloud Platform;
- Ken Owens, vice president, digital native architecture, Mastercard;
- Jennifer Lin, director of product management, Google Cloud;
- Simon Richard, analyst, Gartner;
- Pere Monclus, vice president and CTO network and security BU, VMware.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7iGgwU9DY
It would have been difficult to predict the magnitude of open source’s role in today’s platforms and the explosion of choice on offer in today’s computing world thanks to its massive adoption. On the industry side, IBM’s purchase of Linux giant Red Hat this year for an astounding $34 billion has come as an even bigger surprise.
The state of open source in 2018, and especially, the IBM's Red Hat purchase, were discussed during a podcast with Rachel Stephens, an analyst with of RedMonk, and Michael Coté, director, marketing, at Pivotal Software, hosted by Libby Clark, editorial director, and Alex Williams, founder and editor-in-chief, of The New Stack.
Indeed, 2018 is even being touted at the “year of open source” in many circles, Stephens said. “The mega acquisitions and just tends to really validate open-source as the method of building in the future and as a viable approach for building your stack. And I think, at the same time, we contrast that with some kind of clouds on the horizon in terms of the growing tension between an ability to run an open source business in the face of cloud providers.”
Red Hat’s acquisition by IBM has been the biggest story of the year, dwarfing Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. But the acquisition has been notable for many reasons, one of them is that this is 3rd largest IT acquisition after Broadcom and Dell-EMC.
New Stack Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Alex Williams sat down with Lauren Cooney, Founder & CEO, Spark Labs, Tyler Jewell, CEO, WSO2 and Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF CTO/COO, to discuss the repercussions of this acquisition.
The core points discussed included the impact on the market, the impact on open source contribution made by Red Hat, the impact on the culture within Red Hat and the possible clash between the product teams of both companies fighting over the same client. But when companies bring two different cultures together, things could go wrong.
Successful cloud native deployments largely hinge on DevOps’ ability to break down silos and other inter-organizational barriers by directly engaging all stakeholders, including business teams, developers, operations and other otherwise separate groups throughout the entire process. But aside from the general description, DevOps can mean a lot of different things to many different people.
In some extreme cases, DevOps’ role in cloud native development and operations might just represent a job ticket for some organizations, such as when a developer discovers a security vulnerability in an application’s code in a cloud native deployment. He or she then merely delegates fixing the security hole to an on-staff security staff while their responsibility ends there.
What Cloud Native DevOps really means, as well as its future, was a main theme of this podcast, hosted by The New Stack Editor-In-Chief Alex Williams during The New Stack pancake breakfast held during Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2018. Devin Davis, vice president, marketing, for the Cloud Foundry Foundation, served as the co-host. The panel consisted of the following guests:
Abby Kearns, executive director, the Cloud Foundry Foundation; Chisara Nwabara, technical program manager, Pivotal software; Dieu Cao, director of product management, Pivotal software; Frederic Lardinois, analyst and journalist, TechCrunch; Julian Friedman, the Cloud Foundry project lead, IBM.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QXL0urTSN88
The divide continues to grow between people developing serverless technologies and those in DevOps roles building, deploying, and managing Kubernetes. "Questions about serverless approaches and Kubernetes don't really come up with developers," said Timirah James, a developer advocate with Cloudinary on today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
James joined TNS founder Alex Williams and Analyst/Co-Host Klint Finley, contributor at WIRED, to discuss how organizations and developers both can help bridge this gap.
Detailing her experience at Notre Dame University in Belmont, California, James noted that, "If you're pursuing education in this field and trying to go to college for it, if you're trying to go to college for anything, you want to make sure you're attending an institution that has a network, community, and foundation around what you're studying. Especially something as niche as Computer Science."
Anne Currie Chief Strategist, Container Solutions, has been thinking about some of the deeper questions the software industry poses. These questions aren't just about interconnected systems, and the repercussions of everyone having access to the Internet. Rather, they're about the moral and ethical obligations faced by software developers. Are developers responsible for the things done with their software? In a recent StackOverflow survey, most developers said "No."
"My job is to go out and talk to a load of people about what they're doing. I go out and talk to a lot of industry, enterprise folks, building thigns, finding out what's happening. What's become clear is that over the past couple of years we have enormously increased the speed with which we can get products to market and ideas to market by three orders of magnitude. It's actually quite astonishing. When people start to use the new DevOps technologies and cloud all together, and CI/CD, and everything that's coming through at the moment in DevOps, they're aim is to get ideas from basically developers typing into a keyboard out to customers incredibly fast. It's more like fifteen minutes as opposed to six months. Three years ago it was six months. Now it's fifteen minutes if you're really advanced with using DevOps technology, which, eventually, all of us will be," said Currie.
Blockchain has finally gotten over the Wall Street hump. Now that BitCoin and Ethereum are essentially old news, the actual technology behind these commodities is beginning to trickle into real world enterprise applications. Blockchain, it seems, has many useful use cases out there in the business world, and with the help of the Linux Foundation and IBM, enterprises can now take advantage of the open source Hyperledger implementation of blockchain technology.
On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts recorded live at OSCON 2018, Klint Finley, Reporter with Wired and the author of the Wired Guide to Blockchain, said that he had a few real and hypothetical use cases the piece he wrote a few months ago. One of those use cases was that of, "Blockchain feels like the thing that is the most hard to parse the value out of the hype. With cloud computing it was clearly an enormously hyped concept, but there were use cases and benefits. With big data it was coming out of actual real use cases at places like Google and Yahoo! With the Internet of Things, that's probably the least well established of those at this point, but there are still established use cases for that. With Blockchain it feels really preliminary," said Finley.
Serverless computing and functions as a service are both growing in appeal for enterprises, but there are still many questions about how they fit into a standard business environment. For a start, how do you manage your dependencies in a serverless environment? How are applications, themselves, tracked and managed over time? And how do the various serverless and fucntions-as-a-service offerings handle in real world enterprise use cases?
To find the answers to these questions and more, we sat down with Mike Roberts, partner at Symphonia.io and Austen Collins, Founder and CEO of Serverless, Inc. Together, they've got front row seats into how business application developers and administrators are utilizing serverless technologies today. One of the big topics of discussion, however, still focuses on where these functions will live: in the cloud, or in Kubernetes?
Serverless compute sounds like heaven, but without the right mindset it can be hell. Between the constraints placed on serverless environments by cloud providers, the potential for proliferation of applications and variations of versions, and the general mind shift required to build for serverless, the shift to cloud functions isn't something that just happens overnight.
"The interesting thing about serverless platforms is they are a constrained execution environment, which is a good thing. It means that the cloud vendor can provide capabilities for customers at a fraction of the cost of what they were if they were fully customizable... The problem is, as these platforms are still maturing, they are necessarily constrained in what kind of execution they will allow. For instance, most of them don't let you run for more than five or ten minutes... The challenge is, what if you can't run in that uniform environment? This is where containers come into play," said Donna Malayeri, Product Manager at Pulumi.
"OK, we're going to write some functions, but how do we deal with our data? We have 14 petabytes of data and we can't just whimsically move it somewhere. So, introducing more environment control from that perspective is kind of a big deal to me. I keep running into these scenarios, and a lot of the times it's still a big question mark. What are we going to do? We started to build on this new serverless architecture, but we still have huge data problems," said Adron Hall, of Thrashing Code.
Serverless, containers? The debate doesn't matter for customers coming to ioPipe, says Erica Windisch, founder and CTO of ioPipe. Their customers have already decided to adopt or even further adopt serverless architectures. They are not talking about containers or Kuberbetes. Her comments speak to a deeper discussion about the role of container and serverless architectures that TNS Analysts Guest Host Adron Hall addresses in discussing the larger picture about the decisions any company is trying to make now.
"I have been hearing more about trying to run Open FaaS in Kubernetes, which is an interesting take on the whole situation," said Hall.
Full cloud services offer it all but there are also applications running on bare metal, others in VMs, across a heterogeneous infrastructure and hybrid/CDN-style hosts. It's a deeper discussion that will help me at least think of guide posts as we talk to more people who are making decisions about serverless or not. It may all come down to what Windisch describes as "application operations."
To do cloud-native computing, you need to identify all your workloads, and, more importantly, they need the ability to identify each other, so they can work together in automated chains. To aid in this task, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation has adopted the open source SPIFFE specification, and its associated SPIRE runtime. SPIFFE provides a standard for securely identifying software components in heterogeneous IT systems and SPIRE is the engine that can make it happen (and, in this setup, CNCF's Open Policy Agent [OPA] can enforce the authorization duties).
If you feel all this is a bit much to take in, then you are not alone. For our latest "pancakes and podcast" edition of the The New Stack Analysts — recorded live at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 on May 3 — we focused our panel discussion on SPIFFE, and the room was filled with those curious about this topic (and/or hungry for delicious pancakes).
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lO7CZZVGRz4
For this latest edition of The New Stack Analysts, we took our pancakes and our podcast equipment to Boston, for the Cloud Foundry Summit in Boston, for a wide ranging discussion on Cloud Foundry, cloud-native computing and Kubernetes.
Hosted by TNS founder Alex Williams, with TNS managing editor Joab Jackson, our panel consisted of:
Frederic Lardinois, reporter for TechCrunch. Abby Kerns, executive director for Cloud Foundry Foundation. Chen Goldberg, engineering director for Google. Jennifer Kotzen, senior product manager for SUSE.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ekBh7_9ZVYA
How venture capitalists and technologists view the cloud-native technology space is the subject matter for this episode of The New Stack Analysts.
It’s getting to the point that service level agreements pretty much don’t allow access to source code unless it’s open source. To Lightstep Co-Founder Ben Sigelman that pretty much means that open-source code is now part of business and it’s a matter of developing the code into stadard techologies that may be used by all.
Sigleman was joined by RedPoint Venture Capital’s Astasia Myers and Scott Raney who say there is no way to attack the infrastructure layer market unless you have a core belief in the role of open source. RedPoint is a co-author of the cloud native landscape run in conjunction with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS Founder Alex Williams, TNS Correspondent TC Curie, and Janakiram MSV, Principal Analyst at Janakiram & Associates were joined by Heptio Co-Founder and CTO and Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda, alongside Sebastien Goasguen, Kubernetes Tech Lead at Bitnami. The discussion this week centered around the many abstractions available to developers working with Kubernetes, and how these impact developer teams both large and small.
“What I’m seeing is there is this full effort to bring in another abstraction layer on top of Kubernetes to encourage users, beginners, and even large enterprise IT teams to target Kubernetes without understanding the nuts and bolts of Kubernetes certificates," said MSV.
The concepts of craft and how it applies to software development is quite relevant but at times contradictory. Technologists aspire to make great tools and services that reflect their attention and passion for making things but paradoxically we also face a culture with values based upon speed and the mass consumption of resources.
How craft relate to the way we work and how is it relevant in a culture that puts such a premium on speed and consumption is what we discuss in this episode of The New Stack Analysts with RedMonk Co-Founder James Governor and Charity Majors, Honeycomb.io co-founder and CEO. It's also a core theme for Monkigras, the conference in London that Governor is hosting this week and where Majors is one of the speakers.
It's this idea of sustainable craft that Governor is building as a core theme of Monkigras. The conference will put an emphasis on "topics such as apprenticeship, community management, writing sustainable documentation, software archaeology, sustainable open source, hop farming, and typefaces."
In the second instalment of our podcasts on Values and how they affect workplace culture, Alex Williams and TC Currie from The New Stack are joined by Sam Ramji, VP Product Management at Google, Daniel Lopez Ridruejo, CEO Bitnami; Chris Brandon, CEO, StorageOS and Dave McCrory, VP of Software Engineering at GE Digital. Their companies range in size from seventeen employees to many thousands, but the need for consistent values across the company, no matter its size, is universal. “What we’ve found at The New Stack,” said Williams, “is it all comes down to trust, respect, and integrity.”
Google’s mission, said Ramji, “is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and universally useful.” This core value is overlaid at the engineering level with the focus of “How are we doing this at the next order of magnitude?” As a company, they are working on how to provide engineers with a level of empathy for individual engineers.
Listen to part one of our miniseries on Values at:
https://soundcloud.com/thenewstackanalysts/154-how-do-values-affect-software-companies
In this livestream from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017, The New Stack Analysts will take a deep dive into Univa’s Universal Resource Broker (URB). We learned how this open source adapter allows Kubernetes and Mesos workloads to run on the same infrastructure, where TNS Founder Alex Williams was joined by Univa Corporation CTO and Business Developer Fritz Ferstl, and Thrashing Code Software Architect Adron Hall.
"I know a lot of groups want to containerise [their applications]. Bring over the modularisation and isolation without worrying about the 30 year old hardware that it runs on," said Hall.
Ferstl added that people running Kubernetes rather than Mesos may look at it and say, "There is something useful there, I can work with that, rather than try to force code into Kubernetes, I can take something like the URB that just runs it."
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/sIkzQC9DOSc
In this end-of-the-year discussion about missions, values and goals, Alex Williams, TNS Founder was joined by Ashley Williams, Services and Ops Engineer at npm, Inc. who has been active in the Node.js and Rust communities, Charity Majors, CEO of Honeycomb, a company that provides “observability for a distributed world,” and TC Currie, TNS San Francisco Correspondent.
Topics include hacker culture, preferred perks, what gets lost when pushing employees, what is gained and more.
Following Amazon's many announcements at AWS re:Invent 2017, including its support for Kubernetes in its new EKS offering, many wondered how Amazon is going to position itself within the Kubernetes community, and hows its EKS and Fargate offerings will impact ECS and the Kubernetes community as a whole.
Developers noticed that Fargate almost negates the need for EKS, which raised questions with our guests on today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, where we were joined by Matt Asay, Head of Developer Ecosystems at Adobe, and Krishnan Subramanian, Founder and Chief Research Advisor, Infrastructure, Application Platforms and DevOps.
Amazon noted its continued exponential growth of its ECS platform while at re:Invent. “I was surprised to see the numbers. That’s pretty impressive. But if ECS is growing at such a fast rate, why would you want to bring in Kubernetes? That’s a question I’m still trying to answer," said Subramanian.
Last week, at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017, much of the buzz seemed to be around service meshes, with everyone curious as to why they needed one now that they've installed the Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine. The topic brought a SRO audience to our pancake podcast panel discussion on the topic at the event, which we captured for your listening please on this latest episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
The event proved to be a popular one, as people packed the room in order to hear more about the technology from our panel, which was moderated by TNS founder Alex Williams:
Borys Pierov, National Center for Biotechnology Information, DevOps tech lead William Morgan, Buoyant, CEO Kris Nova, Heptio, advocacy boss Joab Jackson, The New Stack, news editor
On this very morning, Buoyant launched Conduit, its next generation service mesh developed specifically for Kubernetes. It instantly joined the list of emerging service mesh contenders for this nascent market, alongside of Lyft's Envoy, Istio and Buoyant's own Linkerd.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/el6fWr689t0
Should developers need to interact with the Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine at all? That was one of the many intriguing questions we got from the audience during our second pancake podcast, held Thursday, at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubecon 2017. We caught it all here on this latest edition of The Stack Analysts podcast.
Sponsored by Alcide and Chef, this panel discussion set out to explore the "Evolving Patterns in Kubernetes." Leading the discussion, moderated by TNS founder Alex Williams, were the following panelists:
Erica von Buelow, CoreOS software engineer Tasha Drew, Chef product manager for Habitat Jeyappragash "JJ" Jeyakeerthi, Technologist Gadi Naor, Alcide co-founder and chief technology officer
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G4XJzvuUMiI
On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, we sat down with Robust Perception Founder Brian Brazil and Frederic Branczyk, engineer at CoreOS to get the latest insights around the recent Prometheus 2.0 release. With new developments in storage and its Time Series Database, Prometheus 2.0 brings new features such as instantaneous backup to users.
On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS Founder Alex Williams and TNS reporter Swapnil Bhartiya spoke with Josh Bernstein, Vice President of Technology at Dell, and Patrick Chanezon, Member of Technical Staff at Docker.
At this year's DockerCon EU conference, Docker announced it will begin support for Kubernetes. While certain projects may benefit from this announcement, developers working on tasks requiring an orchestrator such as Mesos may have found it lacking. For those working with large scale data services, Bernstein explained that Mesos is often the developer tool of choice for big data applications and those running the SMACK stack, emphasising that Kubernetes simplistic nature has yet to address these issues.
"I think the announcement here surrounding Docker embracing Kubernetes is a big deal. I think it shows the path forward in the industry and you get broader adoption of the Kubernetes ecosystem as people no longer have to choose between one or the other," said Bernstein. Bernstein noted that Dell announced a Docker to CSI bridge at DockerCon EU as part of the REX-Ray 11 package, focusing on bringing CSI into the Docker ecosystem.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8FfrjkqprtM
“Sometimes the shift to Kubernetes opens the door to re-evaluating a lot of other things that might make it easier to get to CI/CD,” said Craig Martin, the senior vice president for software engineering and consulting firm Kenzan, as part of a panel for this edition of The New Stack Analysts with Alex Williams, “and look at how they work with technologies holistically. Kubernetes is not the thing that gets them there, but it might be the thing that opens up the door, to get them to think even bigger than they did before.”
Martin was joined by Microsoft software engineer and Kubernetes co-lead Michelle Noorali and Google staff developer advocate Kelsey Hightower for a wide-ranging discussion about the key topics on the docket for the upcoming KubeCon and CloudNativeCon events, scheduled for the first week of December in Austin, Texas. Noorali and Hightower will co-chair this year’s KubeCon. Listen now to this panel discussion, and get a glimpse of how the leaders of today’s growing Kubernetes community may be taking some time for introspection.
Going into Cloud Foundry Summit in Basel, Switzerland, there were without a doubt questions about Kubo, the Kubernetes on BOSH project developed by Pivotal and Google. At the keynote yesterday, the questions were only fueled by the announcement of Kubo's rebranding to the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime and its packaging with what Cloud Foundry is calling its Application Runtime. Both runtimes run on BOSH, "the underlying open source tool for release engineering, deployment, lifecycle management, and monitoring of distributed systems" that serve as the foundation for Cloud Foundry's platform.
The shift to the new runtime discussion also changed the tenor of the conversation for the pancake breakfast The New Stack hosted, sponsored by VMware.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nej2EsJQwyQ
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we talk with Tyler Jewell, the new CEO at WSO2 and Kin Lane, the API evangelist who talk about the need for a new thinking of middleware, event-based architectures and the need to rethink the dogma of REST. Is the structure and binding of REST sufficient in a time when data is by its nature unstructured and unbound?
It promises to be the serverless community’s largest get-together to date: Next October 8 in New York City, for three days, Serverlessconf promises to bring hundreds of cloud-native applications developers together, for in-depth discussions about how the newest concepts in serverless will mesh with the existing developer culture — which is already in flux for other reasons.
“Initially, there was this discussion that maybe serverless is ‘No-ops.’ And it turned out to not be true at all,” admitted Peter Sbarski, who leads the Serverlessconf conferences and is vice president of engineering at A Cloud Guru. Speaking with Alex Williams for this edition of The New Stack Analysts, Sbarski told us, “When you are deploying functions, you are basically building a large distributed system. It needs to be managed, organized, looked after. You need to have monitoring, logging. You need to know what is going on with the functions, with the third-party services that you consume. How do you even do a release that makes sense? How do you release dependencies in the right order?
So there’s a lot to be explained. Sbarski gets into this topic and other subjects to be covered during Serverlessconf in New York City, with TNS Founder Alex Williams and our contributing analyst, Krishnan Subramanian, in this latest edition of The New Stack Analysts.
To kick off Open Source Summit 2017, taking place in Los Angeles this week, The New Stack held a special pancake and podcast panel discussion to discuss the intersections of all things hardware and open source.
For the event, the panel was comprised of Chris Wright, VP & Chief Technologist, Office of Technology at RedHat, Aaron Welch, SVP of Product at Packet, Ashley McNamara, Principal Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Nithya Ruff, Senior Director of Open Source Practice at Comcast & Director of Board of Directors for The Linux Foundation, and Al Gillen, Analyst at IDC.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/moeELYFQzA8
The “eco-” part of the term “ecosystem” has the same root as both “ecology” and “economy.” It’s hard to build anything that’s designed to be economically self-sustaining, around a core product that’s essentially free. You’ve heard Apcera CEO Derek Collison sound such warnings before. As readers of The New Stack will recall, Apcera produces a premium container management platform that lets customers deploy applications across clouds.
In an InfoWorld interview published last month, Collison turned up the heat, suggesting to Matt Asay that Kubernetes may have value as an ecosystem core only to companies with a direct interest in it, such as Google. But Google will inevitably improve its Cloud Platform business model around APIs, Collison said, creating efficiencies that steer the customer around Kubernetes. And when that happens, the lifeline to the Kubernetes ecosystem could get pinched.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/analysts-apcera-ceo-derek-collison-flip-side-kubernetes/
Now that containerization and orchestration platforms have upset the proverbial apple cart with respect to traditional concepts such as endpoint security, what are the points in the modern network that get security treatment, and who’s responsible for them?
“The folks that are doing SRE at scale are a couple of really hyperscale companies,” said Fintan Ryan, an industry analyst at RedMonk, speaking with Alex Williams for the latest edition of The New Stack Analysts.
Independent industry analyst Dr. Chenxi Wang, in the same interview, noted that the latest batch of security startups are taking a very different approach to security policy and frameworks than the traditional, endpoint-centric mindset.
Hear the complete discussion with Wang and Ryan in 'The Intersection Between Containerization and Security,' the latest edition of The New Stack Analysts with Alex Williams.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS Technical Editor Ben Ball spoke to Mark Boyd, Writer and Analyst at Platformable, Guy Podjarny, CEO of Snyk, and Paul Johnston, Founder of Roundabout Labs, about the state of severless security. In our discussion at ServerlessConf Austin, we talked about both the tools used to secure serverless environments, and the methodologies used to provide inherent, consistently secure approaches.
We talked about how serverless moves the security concern from the infrastructure level to high-level targets, such as application security, data security, and network security. The panel agreed that there are many classic security questions which remain the same, especially in regards to best practices from cloud providers, but there are still new security threats dealing with the pace at which serverless allows teams to experiment. Finally, we also discussed how the state of serverless security will change as it sees greater adoption.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QBKvDM_pgX4
Stackie, the New Stack's traveling pancake robot, ventured to Santa Clara California this week to host a pancake breakfast and podcast recording for the Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017. As steampunk hacker Dr. Torq tended to the fussy 3D pancake maker,
TNS founder Alex Williams hosted a lively panel discussion about the evolution of Cloud Foundry, the Open Service Broker API, and Kubo, which is a new open source project being developed by Pivotal and Google that uses Google Bosh to package and deploy Kubernetes. The panel also discussed their favorite forms of communications for geographically diverse development teams, mentioning Twitter, Slack, telepathy and conferences.
The panelists for this episode of the The New Stack Analysts podcast were:
Dieu Cao: Pivotal director of product management, Holger Mueller: Constellation Research vice president and principal analyst, Abby Kearns: Cloud Foundry executive director, Sarah Novotny: Google Program Manager of Kubernetes Community.
As an added bonus, play through to the end of the podcast to hear a special bonus segment where Dr. Torq explains the hardware hacker methodology and demonstrates his steampunk eyeball and as well as his "Electro-Matic Conference Personality Identification Device."
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NXlQ5UZmqxA
Where will Kubernetes eventually fit in the emerging picture of the distributed applications stack? Is it the virtual infrastructure provider for developers’ work environments? And if that’s the case, doesn’t that work against its chances to penetrate more production environments? Or is it the physical infrastructure manager that OpenStack may never have become for many users? These are questions that The New Stack’s Alex Williams and Scott Fulton put to three of the most respected names in open source infrastructure: Donnie Berkholz, former analyst with 451 Research, and now vice president of IT service delivery at Carlson Wagonlit Travel; Krishnan Subramanian, founder and chief research advisor at Rishidot Research; and Jani MSV, principal at Janikiram & Associates.
Docker’s decision to hire Steve Singh as its new CEO surfaces questions about the future of arguably still the most symbolic and important company in the shift to container-based architectures.
With Singh as CEO, the message is clear. Docker is making a big move into the enterprise market. We decided to ask Fintan Ryan, an analyst with RedMonk about Singh’s appointment, what it says about Docker’s focus, how it impacts their engineering strategy and the larger context for ecosystem partners, cloud service providers and the overall developer community.
On today’s episode of The New Stack Analysts, Redmonk Principal Analyst & co-founder Stephen O'Grady and PagerDuty Director of Platform Strategy David Hayes joins me to discuss PagerDuty's digital operations management platform strategy, its emphasis on developer ecosystems, and how the company is adapting to the new intersection of infrastructure and app-centric approaches.
On this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we sat down with Ken Owens, Cisco CTO Cloud Platforms and Services Group, Susie Wee, Cisco VP and CTO of DevNet Innovations & Networked Experiences, and our guest analyst for this recording, Krishnan Subramanian, Rishidot Research CEO and Chief Research Advisor. The topic of discussion was the Cisco DevNet Create conference and the focus on the intersection of infrastructure and application technologies.
Cisco offers a detailed description of the event:
"The application development landscape is changing. Innovation that has its roots in startups, APIs, cloud computing, containers and microservices is quickly making its way into the enterprise and into verticals such as manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and transportation.
(Cisco is) launching DevNet Create to bring together the application developers, infrastructure engineers, designers, innovators, DevOps engineers and IT Pros who want to define and build this new landscape."
Are Docker and Kubernetes friends? Maybe. Are they partners? Definitely. Many tech companies have a shared interest in promoting the successful adoption of cloud-native technologies. As Diane Mueller, Red Hat’s Director of Community Development for OpenShift recently wrote on Twitter, “Everyone and everything is connected, nothing wrong with cross-community collaboration #everybodywins.”
On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, Scott Ottaway, Research Director for DevOps, Cloud Application Platforms and Open Source at IDC joins Alex and Lawrence to discuss partnerships and alliances in the cloud-native ecosystem. Scott provides context into how and why companies enter into relationships with larger cloud providers. Deep into the conversation, Scott thinks about the relative position of Kubernetes, Mesosphere and Docker’s orchestration capabilities.
Scott is very diplomatic but we all laughed when he said “There’s a whole bunch of dogs that won’t hunt when you see joint press releases.”
PaaS, CaaS, container management, cloud platform, what do you call that technology you’re using? In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Larry Carvalho, research manager and lead analyst for Platform as a Service at IDC, explains why the term PaaS is actually passè.
Instead of talking about platforms as a service, Larry uses the term “cloud application platform. ”
This cloud platform provides compute abilities, developer services, as well as back-end services. At its core, it has to provide a compute engine that traditionally was provided as a VM, but compute is increasingly done with containers and even as functions. In other words, no matter how an application is packaged, it can still be run on top of a platform.
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we talked to conference co-chairs of OSCON, the open source convention being held in Austin on May 8-11. Interview participants were:
Rachel Roumeliotis, Strategic Content Director, O’Reilly Media, Inc. Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft. Kelsey Hightower, Google developer advocate.
A few highlights from the conversation include:
There will be a lot of discussion about collaboration and community. Topics will cover managing contributions in a large organization, incentivizing community members and how to leave a project. Outside of the actual sessions, expect lots of one-on-one mentoring in the hallways.
Open source business models continue to be something people want to talk about even if there is no long-term plan to transition a project to a full-blown start-up.
Hanselman made sure to let us know about the care with which speakers were picked. All the co-chairs are on the speaking circuit and didn’t want to hear the same old people giving the same old talk.
Can Kubernetes serve as the entry-point for the multi-cloud? This episode of The New Stack Analysts was recorded live, during our pancake breakfast panel sponsored by Wercker, at the CloudNativeCon/Kubecon conference, held in Berlin last week. Panelists Aaron Rice (Wercker), Aparna Sinha (Google), Fintan Ryan (RedMonk) and Kris Nova (Deis) discuss the intricacies of setting up multi-cloud operations, the benefits of Kubernetes, and equipping your continuous integration and deployment pipeline for the cloud-native age.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NB_kf-FfxM0
On this episode of TNS Analysts, Nancy Gohring of 451 Research joined TNS Analyst Lawrence Hecht to talk about the differences between monitoring and IT operations analytics. Just defining the market is complicated, so Nancy provided some explanation. In many ways, she sees many similarities between APM (application performance monitoring) and what is going on in server and infrastructure monitoring.
However, she sees more differentiation when it comes to providers dealing with log management. Where there is the greatest degree of overlap, and where vendors are focusing hard on innovation, is the area of advanced analytics.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/analyzing-morphing-monitoring-market-apm-logs-pricing-analytics/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, we focused on GoDaddy’s journey toward developing a containers-as-a-service (CaaS) platform. Heading the discussion was Shaheeda Nizar, senior director of engineering at GoDaddy, joined by Micah Rupersburg, GoDaddy CaaS engineering leader. Donnie Berkholz, director for 451 Research, joined TNS founder Alex Williams in the interview.
Throughout the conversation, Nizar and Rupersburg explained that as GoDaddy developers saw the advantages of containerizing applications and packaging together dependencies, it became a necessity to build a platform to run, orchestrate, and manage those containers.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/godaddy-built-container-service-platform/
DevOps, SecOps, DevSecOps, ChatOps, NoOps, the terms go on and on. In this episode of TNS Analysts Toph Whitmore, Principal Analyst at Blue Hill Research, talks about DataOps. He describes it as looking at the data production pipeline in a holistic manner, marrying data-management objectives with data-consumption ideals to maximize data-derived value.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/delving-dataops-matters/
On today's episode of The New Stack Analysts, TNS founder Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson sat down with RedMonk analyst and co-founder James Governor to learn more about the upcoming MonkiGras 2017 event, launching 1/26/2017 in London, England.
While packaging software and refining the user experience will be discussed at length in both the traditional and technical sense, MonkiGras and RedMonk's follow-up event in October 2017, dubbed MonkToberFest, introduce the parallels found between software and craft beer. coffee, and microbreweries.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/monkigras-2017-software-and-craft-beer/
This week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts is our year-end wrap-up, with TNS staffers reflecting back over 2016 in scalable technology, with Research Analyst Lawrence Hecht, veteran journalist Scott M. Fulton III, Technical Editor Benjamin Ball, Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and founder Alex Williams.
Tasked with breaking down three of the biggest topics in the ecosystem during 2016, the group launched into the conversation, also offering some predictions as to what 2017 may bring to open source.
These topics were:
- Whatever happened to the much-rumored Docker Fork?
- The Future of OpenStack and Containers
- The Growing Influence of Open Source in the Enterprise
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/KTspO7vDHOU
Read more at: http://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-2016-year-end-wrap-discussing-docker-openstack-open-source/
The D in ContainerD stands for daemon and a whole new shift in the ever subtle and not so subtle mechanics the container and orchestration communities. This news from Docker is one of three topics we explore in The New Stack Analysts. We start with a conversation about CoreOS and Container Linux, Docker's major news about its shift in strategy and plans to donate ContainerD to what it calls a neutral standards body. We finish with thoughts about AWS and the questions surfacing about its forays into the open source world.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49Is8NSBhw0
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-115-buzz-tectonic-summit-2016/
Throughout 2016, the community around the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration tool has continued to grow at a pace that surprised many.
“Probably the biggest defining moment for the Kubernetes community right now is that other communities are communities of vendors more so than Kubernetes. I think Kubernetes is more a community of developers, operators, and users than it is of vendors. It’s up to us as users and developers in that community to continue to keep that feeling,” Intel Vice President and General Manager of Cloud and Infrastructure Technologies Jonathan Donaldson said on the 114th edition of the The New Stack Analysts podcast, a special “Pancake Breakfast Podcast” recorded during the CoreOS Tectonic Summit, held in New York this week.
Donaldson was joined by SAP Director of Cloud Architecture & Engineering Nishi Davidson, CoreOS Vice President of Engineering Mike Saparov, and Tigera CEO Andy Randall.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT9p17y5Fcw
Learn more at: http://thenewstack.io/tectonic-summit-pancake-breakfast/
In this discussion with Loris Degioanni of Sysdig, we talk about how the speed at which containerized environments move has proven to be difficult for traditional monitoring solutions. Users may have tens of thousands of containers, with some lasting only a few seconds, and a traditional monitoring solution whose sampling and reaction time is measured in minutes. It’s important to have the contextual information about these containers in order to handle them in an environment where orchestrators are constantly spinning up and removing containers.
Without context, you can be quickly overwhelmed by metrics that aren’t useful to you. Degioanni talks about the importance of having visibility into the container, and how Sysdig achieves this with its own ContainerVision technology. Instead of placing an agent inside the container, ContainerVision places a module in the operating system – essentially allowing it visibility into all current and future containers. We also go on to talk about the container orchestration revolution, overcoming telemetry issues, and updating traditional monitoring solutions.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VggD3lBoi3c
Download our 5th eBook, Monitoring & Management with Docker and Containers free of charge at: thenewstack.io/ebookseries/
To kick off the GrafanaCon user conference, taking place in New York this week, The New Stack held a special pancake and podcast panel discussion, to mull over these very topics.
For the event, the panel was comprised of Paul Dix, chief technology officer for InfluxData, keeper of the InfluxDB time-series database; Raj Dutt, cofounder and CEO of Raintank, which offers a commercial distribution of the open source Grafana visualization monitoring software; Theodore Staack, a software developer at office supply retailer Staples; and Matthew Brender, Intel developer advocate.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/grafanacon-pancake-podcast-intricacies-composing-new-monitoring-stack/
As the Kubernetes community has evolved over the last year, some have wondered if the momentum will continue as the container orchestration ecosystem grows. As more enterprises begin to use Kubernetes in production, this has resulted in many speculating as to what the future ideal use case for Kubernetes may look like, particularly with the decisions made over the last year by Docker.
On this special Thanksgiving episode of The New Stack Analysts, Cisco Cloud Native Platforms CTO Ken Owens spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams alongside The New Stack editorial team of Joab Jackson, Lawrence Hecht, Ben Ball, and SM Fulton III to discuss how Kubernetes and the container ecosystem as a whole can not only evolve but thrive as customers embrace the many benefits cloud native software development practices offer.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/HU-d8B9jdMk
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-thanksgiving-special-evolution-kubernetes-container-ecosystem/
For our Kubecon TNS Analysts Pancakes and Podcasts, held Wednesday, we invited Cisco Chief Technology Officer of the Cloud Platforms and Services Group Ken Owens, consulting analyst and TNS contributor Janakiram MSV, Google Cloud Platform Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower, and Bitnami COO and co-founder Erica Brescia, for a discussion on how Kubernetes can progress as a community. TNS founder Alex Williams moderated the panel and TNS managing editor Joab Jackson drummed up questions from the audience.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp3CKUi980Q
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-keep-the-dream-alive/
Last December, Joyent chief technology officer Bryan Cantrill asked if we had reached "peak confusion" in the container space, referring how the possible combinations of container technologies and platforms would leave any CTO, however, prescient about future technologies, completely bewildered.
At the TNS Analysts Pancake Breakfast Panel, held Nov. 8 at CloudNativeCon 2016, CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn was joined by Comcast Systems Architect Erik St. Martin, CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi, and Wercker CTO Andy Smith to discuss the progression and future of Kubernetes. They fielded audience questions regarding its adoption in the enterprise and highlighted between them how developers can best circumvent some of the challenges still facing developers working with Kubernetes today.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/kubecon-pancake-breakfast-kubernetes-beyond-valley-peak-confusion/
For the recording of our pancake breakfast at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona 2016, we invited CERN's infrastructure manager, Tim Bell, CERN distributed system architect Ricardo Rocha, as well as Red Hat Ansible community architect Robyn Bergeron, and Intel software developer Dan Bode to join us to chat about massive scalability, programmable infrastructure and the sometimes mind-staggering "Big Tent" complexity of OpenStack.
Mesosphere Product Management and Marketing Lead Somik Behera joins Cisco CTO Ken Owens in this week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts for a discussion surrounding container standardization.
As this topic continues to sweep the developer community, it has also extended into container networking. Such standardization has arrived in the form of Container Network Interfacing (CNI), developed by CoreOS. Clearly communicating and improving upon these proposed standards presents an ongoing stream of dialogue between developers, network administrators, end users, and vendors.
Behera and Owens join TNS Founder Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson to discuss the above topics, the container networking plugin ecosystem, and the future of CNI technology as a whole.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/standardizing-container-networking-cni/
As Docker has continued its evolution, it has come under scrutiny from the community for a perceived lack of transparency surrounding the direction of the project, particularly its recent announcement of built-in Docker Swarm integration as a part of the core Docker engine.
In a discussion expanding on the events taking place at Dockercon 2016, Red Hat Director of Product Strategy Brian Gracely joined Principal at Contino Consulting Jesse White, TNS Founder Alex Williams, and Managing Editor Joab Jackson to break down the impact of Docker's announcement on the container ecosystem and developer community.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/critical-analysis-docker-landscape-post-docker-swarm-integration/
HPE Cloud System 10 reflects the company's transition to a hardware-oriented viewpoint with software integrated as services for developers to run applications across multiple cloud environments.
HPE Cloud System 10 is a cloud broker that integrates with Helion Stackato and HPE's OpenStack distribution. It exposes the ability to build applications targeting to different environments, but having all of those environments centrally managed by the operations team, said HPE Helion Technical Marketing Lead Nik Garkusha in an interview with TNS Founder Alex Williams, Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and CloudDon CEO and Analyst Sriram Subramanian.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/travelling-open-road-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure-hpe-helion-stackato/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we’re back with a short stack from our Pancake Overlord at Cloud Native Day 2016 in Toronto, Canada. Topics discussed include the ever-increasing adoption of platforms such as Mantl to help developers better manage their stack and containers in production, how today’s open source projects improve the developer community, and the variety of ways that containers can be utilized at scale.
TNS Founder Alex Williams moderated the panel. Guests included Cisco CTO Ken Owens, Scale Factory Consultant Dawn Foster, SolarWinds Cloud Technology Leader Lee Calcote, Red Hat Vice President & Chief Technologist Chris Wright, and Samsung Senior Linux Kernel Developer Shua Khan.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/cloudnative-day-pancake-podcast-containers-at-scale/
In this week's episode of The New Stack Analysts, we dive into a discussion surrounding migrating from Amazon EC2 to containers, the shift toward container-based infrastructure, and how Joyent has helped reverse logistics solution platform Optoro to achieve its own API-driven infrastructure while remaining on premise.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host EBook editor Benjamin Ball spoke with Optoro Director of DevOps Zach Dunn for an in-depth discussion surrounding these topics and more.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzlNyWBmIdQ
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-107-exploring-economics-containers/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we’re back for another short stack with our pancake overlord at ContainerCon 2016. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams, TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson, and TNS EBook Editor Benjamin Ball hosted a breakfast panel to discuss the state of the container ecosystem and its overall health today.
Speakers included Kubernetes Community Program Manager Sarah Novotny, Apcera Technical Evangelist David Blank-Edelman, Cloud Foundry Vice President of Industry Strategy Abby Kearns, and Cloud Native Computing Foundation Executive Director Dan Kohn.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/containercon-2016-pancake-breakfast-addressing-tyranny-choice/
In this special, surprise episode of the New Stack Analysts podcast, we take a quick reading on the fallout from our story, "A Docker Fork: Talk of a Split Is Now on the Table," which described rumors of a number of prominent container ecosystem players discussing whether or not to fork the Docker codebase.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/docker-fork-talk-split-now-table/
In this week’s episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how developers got their start in open source, why foundations may not be a perfect solution for bringing into open source communities, and best practices for bug reporting and problem solving in today’s open source ecosphere.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Lee Calcote spoke with Apcera Software Engineer Jamie Piña and Apcera Lead Software Architect Josh Ellithorpe to get their insight on these matters and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/powerful-collaboration-tools-open-source-community/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XiSDtFnx99s
In this discussion with John Morello of Twistlock, we talk about how containers can actually be a better medium for automating and securing applications. Containers being immutable and lightweight makes it easier to follow images from early in the development life cycle all the way to the registry and compute environments. Twistlock collects data from this life cycle and creates a predictive model for a container’s behavior. This model looks for inconsistent behaviors, and depending on what you want, it can set off an alert or even block the activity entirely.
Later in the discussion, we talk about Twistlock’s focus on four distinct use cases, recent changes to its core features, the value of partner integration and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/creating-automated-model-container-security/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9xcCjcEi-FY
In this discussion with Hari Krishnan and Harmeet Sahni of Nuage Networks, we talk about how to use software-defined networking (SDN) to address the networking and security needs of containers. SDN can help prevent infrastructure-related performance bottlenecks, as well as provide the fine-grained policy enforcement that allows users to handle dynamic container environments. Nuage Network’s Virtual Services Platform (VSP) provides these capabilities in all types of cloud environments, featuring user intent-focused definition, virtual routing and switching components, and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/software-defined-approach-networking-security/
Estes talks about the challenges of networking containers, the evolution of container namespaces, and the current state of container security, to which he offers a positive security outlook. This discussion extends into the plugin ecosystem for Docker, and how this pluggable model benefits the vendors and their customers.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-bridging-open-source-container-communities/
In this episode, delve into a discussion surrounding our latest EBook on Container Networking, Security, and Storage.
IBM Fellow, VP and CTO at IBM Cloud Platform Jason McGee discusses bringing together the various tools in the open source and container ecosystems, including the many networking tools looking to address the needs of containers. IBM is focused on bringing these communities together by contributing to core technologies and building a world-class cloud platform.
In this discussion with Ken Owens of Cisco, we talk about how to apply existing models of networking, security and storage to containerized environments. Owens talks about how bringing a DevOps mindset forward to containers reveals the strong foundations for security, networking and storage and how they still apply.
But the challenge is often in the varying perspectives involved in operating these environments, from Linux and network administrators to security and storage teams. It’s important to link up these perspectives through the components they control, while creating policy around resource management.
The discussion moves on to the roles of Contiv and Mantl, and how they address these issues.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/uniting-teams-devops-perspective/
In this discussion with Nathan McCauley of Docker, we talk about the different ways that users have come to think about Docker security over the years. McCauley explained that many early security concerns stemmed from users not being familiar with the technology at play. Docker has addressed these concerns in the base platform over the years, aided by a movement in the DevOps community towards embracing container technology and how it can help them achieve their security goals. The discussion also covers Docker 1.12’s native Swarm orchestration mode, and some additional security features like cryptographic node identity.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/foundation-of-secure-containers/
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5XJ1Vsu1O0
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how NATS hopes to stand out in the message broker ecosystem, why simplicity is a powerful tool for message brokerage at scale, and how developers can ensure their services remain cost-efficient in the long term.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host 451 Research Analyst Donnie Berkholz spoke with Apcera Product Manager Larry McQueary and Apcera VP Alliances & Channels Steve Dischinger to learn more about NATS.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/finding-simplest-path-value-apcera-nats/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ttMMzRwbUBE
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore the ways in which OpenStack and Kubernetes have evolved throughout the years, some of the challenges facing the Kubernetes community, and the ways in which foundations such as CNCF are shaping projects such as Kubernetes. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and Managerial Editor Joab Jackson hosted another pancake breakfast with Pancake Bot serving up its own short stacks at OpenStack Silicon Valley 2016.
Panel guests included Google Product Manager Craig McLuckie, CoreOS VP of Engineering Mike Saparov, Mirantis Co-Founder and CEO Alex Freedland, and Iron.io. Co-Founder and CEO Chad Arimura.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoB95KZgH2c
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/ossv-pancake-breakfast-kubernetes-openstack-usher-paas-2-0/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore the ways in which open source projects interconnect with one another, how open source communities can both increase and improve their contributions, and the issues facing open source projects hoping to operate at scale.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams spoke with Cisco CTO Ken Owens along with GitHub Community Programs researcher Nadia Eghbal to hear their thoughts on these topics and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/navigating-open-source-galaxy/
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJVtJyDEDT0
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we dive into the pitfalls working with massive amounts of data present to enterprises today, why Joyent built its own facility called Thoth to automate its crash dump management, and how object computing at the source is crucial for getting the most out of one’s data when working at scale.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams spoke with Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill to hear his thoughts on these topics and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-101-joyent-manta-aims-simplify-object-storage-scale/
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkP2sdTsYa0
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explore how Chef Habitat may be used in today’s enterprise, what businesses can do to ensure they are addressing the right workflow problems, and how tools such as Chef Habitat are making life easier for today’s developers.
Host Lee Calcote and co-host Joab Jackson spoke with Boyd Hemphill, Director of Infrastructure Services, Casasa, Jere Julian, Extensibility Engineer, Arista Networks, Adam Mikeal, Director of IT at Texas A&M College of Architecture, and Victoria Blessing, Operation Engineer at the Texas A&M College of Architecture to discuss their thoughts on these issues and more during ChefConf 2016.
Read more at: http://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-100-chef-habitat-may-become-devops-gamechanger/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7b6txTrmP14
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts embedded below, we explore the core foundations upon which CloudBolt was built, its evolution, and how today’s cloud management solutions for the enterprise have transformed in a discussion between The New Stack host Lee Calcote, co-host Managerial Editor Joab Jackson, Seagate Architect and Engineering Manager Yogi Porla, CloudBolt CEO Jon Mittelhauser, and Booz Allen Hamilton Chief Technologist Nirmal Mehta.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-99-evaluating-cloud-management-platforms-chefconf/
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/T1PZSkDliaU
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we take a look into the ways that Chef is positioning its latest offerings Habitat and Automate to help DevOps and developers alike automate their workflow from any angle. Aiming to be as infrastructure agnostic as possible, Habitat presents a powerful way for developers to better manage their applications at scale. The New Stack’s own Lee Calcote and Joab Jackson spoke with Chef CTO Adam Jacob and Chef CEO Barry Crist to get the latest on the above during last week’s ChefConf 2016 event.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XdykeF8M7I
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-98-making-automation-sandwich-habitat-chef/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, we delve into a discussion surrounding the security of containers at scale, how hardware visualization impacts container security, and the ways in which Joyent has contributed to the ongoing use of containers in production. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams teamed up with co-host and ebook editor Benjamin Ball to speak with Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill to hear his thoughts on these issues and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-97-departing-container-island-joyent/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, it’s time for another pancake breakfast featuring our very own PancakeBot at Dockercon 2016. The topic of discussion is networking for and in containers with industry professionals offering their thoughts on their thoughts on not only the ways in which networking has evolved with the rise of Docker, but how developers and network managers alike can bridge the gaps technology has yet to close to ensure their applications run at their best.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Joab Jackson served up a short stack alongside Cisco CTO Ken Owens, Docker Software Alliance Engineer Brent Salisbury, Gartner Research Director of Data Center Networking Simon Richard, and consultant and Cisco customer Nicholas Anderson.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/internet-of-happy-things-pancake-breakfast/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, learn more about how GoDaddy has leveraged both OpenStack and Kubernetes to the benefit of its developers, how Oslo hopes to eases the challenges of developing software in an OpenStack world by standardizing libraries, and discuss the fact that in some cases--Kubernetes isn’t right for everyone.
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Managing Editor Joab Jackson spoke with GoDaddy Director of Engineering Shaheeda Nizar and Josh Harlow, GoDaddy OpenStack Technical Lead to get their thoughts.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lEieobGbqjw
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-95-consider-containerizing-openstack/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, The New Stack founder Alex Williams sat down with Duncan Johnston-Watt, Cloudsoft founder & CEO, Adam Lewis, Atos Origin Solution Manager and Enterprise Architect, and Sriram Subramanian, CloudDon CEO & Founder during Cloud Foundry Summit 2016 to learn more about how Cloudsoft and Atos make the most of platforms such as Cloud Foundry, why contributing to open source projects is crucial, and help to break down some of the complexities surrounding distributed control planes.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fToFonvdHDQ
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-94-making-technology-accessible-open-source/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts embedded below, The New Stack hosted a pancake breakfast at MesosCon in order to find out from some of the community’s experts more about how Mesosphere and Intel are positioning their organizations for the future, and what developers interested in open source can do to help.
Founder Alex Williams and co-host Benjamin Ball spoke with Murali Sundar, Principal Engineer in Intel’s Software Defined Infrastructure Group, Ben Hindman, Mesosphere Founder & Chief Architect, and Jessica Frazelle, Mesosphere Software Engineer.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BrkDtVNiBwA
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/abstraction-mesoscon-2016-pancake-breakfast/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, The New Stack hosted a pancake breakfast Q&A session at Cloud Foundry Summit 2016. TNS Founder Alex Williams and co-host Lee Calcote spoke with Abby Kearns, Vice President of Industry Cloud Strategy at Cloud Foundry, Adam Lewis, Vice President of Enterprise Cloud Platforms at Canopy Cloud, Brian Swanson, Vice President of Cognitive Services at Dataskill, and Chris Ferris, Distinguished Engineer and CTO Open Cloud in the IBM Cloud Division's Open Technologies to learn more about making the shift to open source in the enterprise, developing team member skillsets, and creating a stronger open source community.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-pancake-breakfast-qa-cloud-foundry-summit/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams spoke with Teridion CMO Dave Ginsburg and Jim Davis, 451 Research Analyst to learn more about the ways in which both of these companies are approaching all things networking, monitoring, and orchestration.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/cloud-optimized-networking-happening-teridion/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams chatted with Tyler Jewell, CEO at Codenvy alongside co-host Benjamin Ball. The trio discussed Codenvy’s value propositions within the continuous deployment sector, the impact containerization has had on CI/CD, and the future of automated workflows in production.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/codenvy-changing-face-continuous-integration/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams sat down with Ivan Dwyer--Iron.io’s head of Business Development, and Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research to discuss developing for today’s serverless environments, how integration and frameworks play a crucial part in today’s workflow management, and how the unification of these tools will better the community as a whole.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/iron-io-redefining-serverless-experience/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts embedded below, you’ll hear about some of the core concepts coming out of OpenStack Austin surrounding automation, containers, and creating better infrastructures. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Scott M. Fulton III spoke with Demetrius Comes, Vice President of Hosting and Engineering at GoDaddy along with Brad Figler, GoDaddy Senior Software Engineer Manager to learn more about how GoDaddy has improved its internal automation processes, developed its internal platform, and its approach to creating APIs in an OpenStack environment.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/openstack-austin-godaddy-amping-infrastructure/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts embedded below, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host Scott M. Fulton III heard about GoDaddy’s transition to a more automated production pipeline, and the Openstack Oslo Project. By working as a team to identify opportunities to better automate processes, on-boarding OpenStack, and transitioning to microservices, GoDaddy has cut its time to market drastically.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/godaddy-makes-infrastructure-improvements-team-effort/
At The New Stack’s panel Wednesday morning at the OpenStack summit in Austin, over 300 people ate stacks – of pancakes – while listening to a panel chew over the future of workload orchestration.
The panel, comprised of Jonathan Donaldson, vice president of Intel's data center group, Madhura Maskasky, head of product management at OpenStack distributor Platform9, Joab Jackson, managing editor of The New Stack, and Brian 'redbeard' Harrington, head of infrastructure at CoreOS, spoke on the importance of interoperability. TNS founder Alex Williams moderated the panel, and TNS reporter Scott M. Fulton III scoured the audience for questions.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47DvQneUEvA
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/pancake-breakfast-podcast-openstack-kubernetes-besties-now-really/
On this latest episode of The New Stack Analysts, the New Stack Founder Alex Williams and Editor Benjamin speak with the chairs for the OSCON open source conference, May 18-19 in Austin Texas: Scott Hanselman (Microsoft Principal Program Manager), Kelsey Hightower (Google Staff Developer Advocate) and Rachel Roumeliotis (Software Architecture Conference Program Chair at O'Reilly Media).
They discussed the ways in which OSCON is creating paths for diverse speakers and presenters to share their thoughts with the open source community, the future of open source as a commodity, and more.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-diversifying-open-source-oscon/
In part two of an interview with HPE Vice President of Products and Services Omri Gazitt, we continue the discussion surrounding how HPE’s Helion Eucalyptus and Stackato offerings help elevate developers to the superheroes of their company’s cloud-based stack.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/hpe-empowers-enterprise-developer-part-2-2/
On the latest episode of The New Stack Analysts, HPE Vice President of Products and Services Omri Gazitt speaks with The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and Editor Benjamin Ball. Gazitt discusses how HPE not only offers today’s enterprises relevant IT solutions built for their architecture, but how HPE's cloud-based offerings have become central to its success.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-show-83-hpe-cloud-core-part-1-2/
As more businesses shift toward a microservice-based approach to developing applications, the need for a more agile, responsive solution to manage these services has also come into relief. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts,
The New Stack founder Alex Williams sat down with Weaveworks Founder & CEO Alexis Richardson and its COO Matthew Lodge to discuss some of the issues facing developers working with microservices and containers at scale, Richardson's work as Chair of the Technical Oversight Committee at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and the future of working with containers at scale.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0ZPPuQt2ubE
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-collaboration-summit-weaveworks/
Apcera founder and CEO Derek Collison has a message for developers: Focus your resources on setting up trust and security as the first component into an application’s infrastructure, rather than having these issues languish at the bottom of the barrel.
In an interview with The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson, Collison explained just how security, transparency, and audit standards need to start taking place at the beginning of the development workflow.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-show-83-apceras-derek-collison-trust-third-wave/
According to SAP HANA Product Management Director Thomas Jung, who joned Alex Williams for this 80th installment of The New Stack Analysts podcast, an intensive years’ worth of development went into preparing standard Node.js for enterprise customers of SAP’s high-performance application server.
“We have a product installer built around it. We have a controller framework that monitors instances of the Node engine, scales it up, scales it down, that runs it isolated per service,” said Jung, adding that its support features include a built-in, web browser-based, interactive debugger.
Also on hand for the discussion was RedMonk principal analyst and co-founder Stephen O’Grady, who said of SAP HANA’s Node.js support, “it’s embracing the lightweight nature, the versatility of the platform, its embed-ability.”
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/sap-unveils-hanas-full-featured-node-js-integration/
The strategic partnership between Cloudsoft and InContinuum that was announced recently at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas provides the context for this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Joab Jackson explored multi-platform environments, cloud automization and control planes, in a cordial conversation with Duncan Johnston-Watt, Founder and CEO of Cloudsoft Corporation, and also with Phillip Hyde, CEO and founder at InContinuum Software, and Scott Hartzel, Director of Product Management at Cloudsoft.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qyUS5RaT4Xo
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/cloudsoft-incontinuum-set-controller-fully-fungible-cloud/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, host Alex Williams, along with co-host Benjamin Ball welcomed Matt Curry, Director of Cloud Engineering at Allstate, to discuss the eminent insurance company’s journey into continuous integration, continuous deployment and test-driven development using Pivotal Cloud Foundry. And, returning to the show was Bridget Kromhout, a principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GcleEH5kEw
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/allstates-devops-honeymoon-pivotal-going-strong-one-year-later/
Tech metaphors don't get much easier to relate to than describing heavy traffic and outages on the Internet by comparing it to the bane of everyday travel: gridlock. In this 77th edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast you’ll hear Teridion founder Elad Rave explain that their solution to the Internet’s infinite rush hour, using virtual machines and the cloud, is “elegantly simple.”
The New Stack’s Alex Williams and Managing Editor Joab Jackson were also joined by Kris Lahiri, VP Operations and Chief Security Officer at Egnyte, provider of Adaptive Enterprise File Services for sharing content stored on-premises or in the cloud.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/egnyte-partners-teridion-combat-cloud-congestion-customers/
From programming languages and frameworks, to components with bridge functionality, “there is so much innovation happening,” according to Sanjay Patil, senior director of industry standards and open source at SAP, who spoke with The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TH0NTvZu8pQ
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-building-platform-continuous-innovation-cloud-foundry/
From Node.js Interactive in Portland, this one’s a frisky discussion that endeavored to focus on the symbiosis of Node.js and Docker. It succeeds not only to inform but also to entertain. The New Stack founder Alex Williams roamed the aisles with microphone à la Phil Donohue while TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson moderated the panel:
Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent Jacob Groundwater, Product Research Team, New Relic Matt Hernandez, Product Manager with Modulus Peter Elger Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at NearForm
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZa3_bNYZE
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-perfect-storm-node-js-docker/
If containers were originally supposed to be more secure than VMs because they would replace them, how secure will they be now that it appears containers and VMs must co-exist? The New Stack talks with security experts from Docker, Red Hat, Apcera, Intel and CoreOS to find out!
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQAi1r1qWM
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-year-ahead-container-security-and-the-reality-of-virtual-machine-coexistence/
It was a grey drizzly day in December, and the schedulers were maximizing throughput, totally. The New Stack founder Alex Williams, his forehead nuzzled into his trademark fedora in an effort to escape the harsh florescent lights, slipped quickly through the glass doors of the Hilton, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of staticky dust from the light-rail-inlaid streets of Portland, Oregon entering along with him.
Along a mossy path beside a still-affordable southeast craftsman home of deceptive square footage, a neighborhood cat sashays past a streaming HD camera toward a bowl of artisan chow. A macabre grin passed across Williams’ face. “Portnodia,” he thought, to himself at first; later he would do so out loud. But now, in a silent and ceremonious sort of way, he unveiled a comically oversized podcasting microphone and presented it to the group, meeting each in turn with his piercing journalistic stare. With a brush of his mouse finger he powered-up some solid-state storage and hit the “record” button, so as to capture this episode of The New Stack Analysts.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8N_uGTVXO
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-code-gui-keep-node-weird-portland/
Is Node.js doomed to failure in the enterprise, or is it perfect just the way it is? This is one of the false dichotomies which The New Stack was privileged to help dispel at Node.js Interactive during a short stack with a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams, and Managing Editor Joab Jackson.
An excellent group of participants with a depth of experience in both programming and consulting cut through a stack of pertinent topics, including semantic versioning, the re-unification with io.js, and tooling for collaboration, more of which is needed, everyone agreed, in order for for the enterprise to fully embrace Node.js:
Dan Shaw, CTO and Co-Founder of NodeSource Ashley Williams, Developer Community and Content Manager at npm, Inc. Matteo Collina, Software Architect at NearForm
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BCvcRwqazEI
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-node-js-tooling-enterprise-please/
Day two of the Tectonic 2015 Summit kicked off with a short stack and a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Managing Editor Joab Jackson, with support from The New Stack’s Technical Editor & Producer Benjamin Ball and contributor Lawrence Hecht.
The panel: Gabriel Monroy, CTO at Engine Yard and the creator of Deis Matthew Brender, Developer Advocate, Software Defined Infrastructure team at Intel Corporation Alex Polvi, Founder and CEO at CoreOS, Inc.
At the outset, Polvi promised, as a reward for those attending so early, that the panel would make things “as controversial as we possibly can,” the likelihood of which was increased by the numerous topics — container security, the enterprise adoption curve, DevOps as a job description, how to compete with AWS, the prospective lock-in with Kubernetes and which open source projects it will make redundant — served up in the electric atmosphere during this breezy session.
Any and all controversy that was to be had has been captured for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-controverial-short-stack-tectonic-summit/
Call it another overwhelming indication of the power and potential of open source. DigitalOcean's Social Media Manager Daniel Zaltsman said that Hacktoberfest 2015, the month-long event encouraging people to contribute to GitHub-hosted open source projects, "was way more successful than we expected."
"It's kind of crazy to look at the numbers," from this year to compared to last year, Zaltzman said. Although the much of the big data is still wriggling, Zaltsman reeled in a few statistics for The New Stack founder Alex Williams and managing editor Joab Jackson during this edition of The New Stack Analysts.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZeDK5E38c
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-digitalocean-hacktoberfest/
Talk about a fantastic meeting of the minds – in this installment of The New Stack Analysts, host Alex Williams is joined by Ilan Rabinovitch, Director of Technical Community at Datadog, and John Mathon, who shares his thoughts on open source and enterprise software on his CloudRamblings blog, and was most recently VP of Product Strategy at WSO2.
Recorded at KubeCon, this show makes for great listening just to hear Mathon, who started TIBCO Software and is also the inventor of publish–subscribe, engage Rabinovitch in discussing the features of DataDog’s hosted monitoring platform.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdQjHw3BNF8
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/datadog-kubecon-infrastructure/
In San Francisco did KubeCon at the stately Palace Hotel convene. And in the closing hours there, The New Stack founder Alex Willams teamed with conference organizer Patrick Reilley, as well as Martin Klaus and Grant Shipley of Red Hat, to record this edition of The New Stack Analysts.
The group discussed the diversity of schedulers, the standardization choices facing enterprises, and also Red Hat’s recent achievements with OpenShift, which had just seen its 3.1 release.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnpsObsJHNI
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-talking-openshift-schedulers-kubecon-2015/
Are speed and agility at hopelessly irresolvable odds with safe and compliant development? In this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Derek Collison, Founder & CEO at Apcera, said that his team is working to allow developers and DevOps to go at speed, on a trusted platform system that brings together security and compliance.
Also joining The New Stack’s Alex Williams for this insightful discussion, which was recorded at Kubecon 2015, was Janakiram MSV, who is an analyst and advisor at Janakiram & Associates, and is also a contributor to The New Stack.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/PJCLTtRKc2w
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-derek-collison-building-apceras-trusted-cloud-platform/
On the eve of DockerConEU 2015, a collection of intrepid souls seeking community and adventure convened at a Mediterranean gastrobar nestled in Les Corts along Barcelona’s Avinguda Diagonal. On that night at Metric Market, in the multifunction basement space called “The Bunker,” which is dominated by a beautiful sofa, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and our friends at Container Solutions hosted this eclectic group for a “champagne podcast,” perhaps the first of its kind ever in the vast, silicon sweep of digital history. As you listen, perhaps after refreshing your own secondarily fermented and chilled beverage, imagine this crowd, if you will, to be code slam poets riffing metaphoric on the zoology of distributed infrastructure, or grizzled prospectors huddled bent-kneed around a promising lode of microservices interconnectivity, and enjoy.
Captured in all of its Catalonian splendor, the podcast features Container Solutions’ CTO Pini Reznik and Chief Scientist Adrien Mouat, as well as Casey Bisson, Product Manager at Joyent, and Mark Coleman, the CEO of Implicit Explicit, the company who, along with Container Solutions, runs the Software Circus conference. Also contributing were numerous attendees who each revealed what brought them to DockerCon in Spain, and who shared their stories with each other, and with us, for this installment of The New Stack Analysts.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-p_DT4wkt4
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-66-champagne-podcast-wishes-dockercon-dreams/
DockerConEU 2015 in Barcelona, Spain kicked off with a podcast session hosted by The New Stack’s Alex Williams, recorded live for this edition of The New Stack Analysts. This time, waffles — not short stacks — were on the menu, but no one was heard to complain, because Barcelona.
Neither did the early-morning panel waffle as it touched on new technologies, container security and monitoring, and the rapid adoption of Docker and Kubernetes, even helping to define the abstract notion of “microservices,” and the result was a brisk and forward-looking discussion that captured the enthusiasm at the beginning of the conference.
Joining in the discussion were: Chenxi Wang, Chief Strategy Officer at Twistlock Jérôme Petazzoni, senior engineer at Docker Fintan Ryan, analyst at RedMonk Kit Merker, Product Manager at Google
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/maK6MM2Rdnw
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-65-kicking-off-dockercon-eu-2015/
Attendees at Basho Technologies’ RICON 2015 conference were treated to plentiful discussion of distributed systems as regards the Internet of Things. The audience also enjoyed a tasty short stack as The New Stack’s Alex Williams moderated the esteemed panel.
Dave McCrory, CTO at Basho Technologies, Inc. Nicholas Weaver, Director, Intel SDI-X at Intel Corporation Duncan Johnston-Watt, Cloudsoft Founder and Chief Executive Officer Donnie Berkholz, Research Director at 451 Research, and Mac Devine IBM DE, VP & CTO, Networking & Innovation, IBM Cloud Division
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-64-distributed-systems-object-oriented-reality/
During the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, The New Stack hosted a Bento Box Luncheon to discuss “What Makes OpenStack Thrive in the Enterprise?” for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Joining The New Stack Founder Alex Williams were Ruchi Bhargava, director of Intel’s Datacenter and Cloud Software, Open Source Technology Center, and Allyson Klein, director of Initiative and Leadership Marketing for Intel’s Datacenter Group.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0igfDKEdv5Q
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-63-bridging-gaps-intel-tokyo-openstack-summit/
Hashicorp’s first ever user conference, HashiConf 2015 held in Portland, Oregon, sold out in six weeks, according to Hashicorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto. “It’s worked out really well,” he says of the two-day, two-track event. During the conference, Mitchell joined Alex Williams, Donnie Berkholz and Kelsey Hightower to discuss HashiCorp’s announcements coming out of the event, and that discussion on this episode of The New Stack Analysts.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fso5yNGeStA
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-62-at-hashiconf-2015/
Host Alex Williams says he’s hard-pressed to find a better episode of The New Stack Analysts that we’ve had this year than this one, recorded at AWS re:Invent. The panel discusses APIs and containers, the inexorable progression of architecture continua, and the changeling as a metaphor for abstraction naïveté.
Alex’s guests are Al Hilwa, Program Director for IDC’s Application Development Software research, Rachel Chalmers, Principal at Ignition Partners, and Steve Willmott, CEO at 3scale.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO63UlCs31o
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-61-the-metaphors-the-continua-and-jedi-mind-tricks/
A variety of conversation topics and whole lotta short stacks were served to the huge crowd that turned out for The New Stack’s pancake breakfast at the SpringOne 2GX conference in Washington, D.C.
For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded live at the event, Alex Williams spoke with Jon Schneider and Taylor Wicksell, senior software engineers at Netflix; Groovy programming language project lead Guillaume LaForge, and Graeme Rocher, Grails Project Lead at OCI; and James Watters, VP of Cloud Platform Group at Pivotal.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eDbWoZydT5s
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-60-netflixoss-groovy-and-grails-and-all-things-cloud-native-at-springone-2gx/
This year’s DevOpsDays India was a two-day single track event especially focused on containers, with more than 300 attendees and speakers from various technology domains. The New Stack’s community manager Atul Jha spoke with three attendees at the Bangalore conference for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/C05BhBKRCZg
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-59-the-wild-wild-west-of-containers-at-devopsdays-india/
The New Stack’s pancake breakfast and podcast circuit joined the 2015 Software Circus at the Amsterdam Roest. The New Stack Analysts host Alex Williams explored the conference theme, “Programmable Infrastructure,” with a panel that included David Blank-Edelman, Technical Evangelist for Apcera, as well as three of the conference keynote speakers: Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures; Ken Owens, CTO Cloud Services at Cisco Systems; and Kelsey Hightower, Product Manager and Chief Advocate at CoreOS.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yUaz-cLm9yk
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-58-programmable-infrastructure-is-developer-driven/
In recent months, the conversation about OpenStack has turned to Docker and container orchestration. There are good reasons why. The container movement has gained so much momentum that the developer interest behind it is leading to questions about how OpenStack fits into an app development context.
The affect that developers are having on these discussions surfaced recently at OpenStack Silicon Valley event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Ca., where the topic of Docker and containers came up frequently. And Google may be the impetus for its rise in popularity in the OpenStack ecosystem.
At the conference, Boris Renski, co-founder and chief marketing officer at Mirantis, and Spike Curtis, core developer and evangelist at Project Calico, spent some time with Alex Williams talking about how application architectures fit with OpenStack.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AzmlUX5qzY
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-57-the-openstack-conversation-turns-to-containers-and-orchestration/
The state of Docker and the container ecosystem was the touchstone for discussion at The New Stack’s pancake breakfast hosted by Alex Willams at ContainerCon 2015.
Joining Alex were Krishnan Subramanian, Director of OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat, Aneel Lakhani from the marketing team at SignalFx, Erica Windisch, a security engineer at Docker, and Sam Charrington, analyst with The New Stack.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WOs9eZOxAJI
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-56-the-pancake-breakfast-circuit-comes-to-containercon/
As OSCON 2015 was winding down in Portland, Oregon (the home base of The New Stack Founder Alex Williams), Alex convened a panel comprised of co-host Donnie Berkholz (Research Director, Development, DevOps & IT Ops at 451 Research), Adrian Cockcroft (Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures), and Mike Amundsen (Director of API Architecture, API Academy at CA Technologies), to record this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_PUxfLzKxeQ
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-55-google-docker-and-the-state-of-open-source-projects/
A lot of great thinkers and makers are all in one place at a conference such as OSCON. For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex Williams gathered several such people at one time, in what he suspects is the largest group he’s assembled yet for a podcast, and in this case bigger is definitely better.
The panel:
Sam Charrington, principal analyst with The New Stack Casey West, principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal Jesse Proudman, CTO at Blue Box, An IBM Company Abby Kearns, Technical Marketing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Sam Ramji, CEO Cloud Foundry Foundation Klint Finley, Journalist for Wired, The New Stack and Mindful Cyborgs
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ltFnrTCTY
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-54-live-at-oscon-cloud-native-before-and-after-containers/
On the eve of OSCON 2015, Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz are joined by Sarah Novotny, technical evangelist and community manager for Nginx (who’s also in her fifth year as OSCON Program Chair), and Casey West, Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal, for this conference-previewing edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wUavx5a9Q
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-53-previewing-oscon-and-microservices-as-a-metaphor-for-the-broader-community/
What paths will the Go programming language take? This question is posed to CoreOS CTO and Co-founder Brandon Philips, and DeferPanic Founder Ian Eyberg, at the start of this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded at GopherCon 2015.
“We’re talking about systems that aren’t writing kernels – not writing underlying, low-level bits that are talking directly to hardware – but systems that are interacting across a data center or across the Internet,” says Brandon.
“The cool thing is,” says Brandon, “it’s a piece of technology that’s enabling a lot of interesting research and development in those areas. So you’re seeing time-series databases being built, you’re seeing these consistent databases being built, schedulers, things that talk to and configure network fabric.”
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsA7pTuRHkg
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-52-code-genealogy-tooling-evolution-and-the-future-of-go/
“Go is not just a programming language; it is a way of doing software development.” “It’s very precise.” “It’s gotten popular enough that there are people who hate it.” “It is pragmatic, painfully pragmatic.” “It’s from the stone ages.” “It’s a nicer C.” “There’s no future without Go.”
The New Stack founder Alex Williams was merely asking his guests to talk about what changes they’d noticed from a year ago. Thus begins this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, captured at GopherCon in Denver, with guests Alex Polvi, CoreOS CEO and Founder, and Mitchell Hashimoto, CEO and Founder of Hashicorp.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2I5iJ1X2WnE
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-51-hashimoto-and-polvi-on-the-painfully-pragmatic-go-and-defining-google-for-everyone/
DramaFever started running Docker in October of 2013. That makes them one of the first, especially considering Solomon Hykes only shared Docker with the world in April of that year. It also made DramaFever's Bridget Kramhout and Tim Gross pretty decent guests for this 50th episode of The New Stack Analysts that we recorded this week at DockerCon.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN5kaGAIyFA
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-50-docker-for-today-and-tomorrow-from-dockercon/
In this monitoring-powered edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, captured during a break between sessions at Monitorama 2015 in Portland, Oregon, Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research reflect on the conference’s big take-aways, with returning guests Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures, and James Turnbull, VP of engineering at Kickstarter.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuA1AjorCQs
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-49-reflections-on-monitorama-2015-with-adrian-cockcroft-and-james-turnbull/
As Mesosphere co-founder and CEO Florian Leibert puts it, “The data center is the new form factor, and it needs an operating system.”
That’s why they are particularly excited that Mesposphere’s Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) is now generally available. “We just want to make the life of data center operators and what we call ‘new framework developers’ much easier.”
Florian joins The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, an engaging and informative discussion about the virtues of Apache Mesos, and the concepts and tools involved with architecting big data.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CMyA9WYMKng
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-48-mesospheres-florian-leibert-on-the-new-data-center-os/
If you caught The New Stack Makers interview with Sam Ramji, you might remember Bill Hilf as the one who in 2005 offered Sam the opportunity to take over the open source software lab at Microsoft.
Bill is now SVP, Helion Product Management at Hewlett-Packard, having left behind product management for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform.
At HP Discover 2015 in Las Vegas, Bill graciously joined The New Stack founder Alex Williams, along with Steve O’Grady and James Governor of RedMonk, for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IG_4VVSmWH0
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-47-with-hp-and-the-red-monk-crew-talking-about-all-things-composable/
For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast,host Alex Williams dials up Google I/O 2015 attendees Jack Clark, a reporter covering technology for Bloomberg in its San Francisco bureau, and Steve O'Grady, co-founder of RedMonk, who was back at the hotel administering to his Android-M-bricked conference-giveaway Nexus 9 tablet.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hZUa72X4ock
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-46-google-io-redux-the-ai-engine-and-the-android-push/
For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex welcomes back SignalFx founder and CTO Phillip Liu, who is joined this time by Karthik Rau, SignalFx founder and CEO. Also participating is James Turnbull, VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research.
Karthik explains that SignalFx was designed from the ground up to provide better monitoring and visibility for modern distributed applications: "We're seeing new applications being designed as distributed applications, and more microservices architectures, and it's quite common to find applications to have dozens, hundreds, and potentially even thousands of components."
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiGqvNL3gQg
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-45-why-analytics-is-a-core-function-of-monitoring-microservices-architectures/
Alex Williams convenes a spirited panel for some analysis of the state of the browser, and by extension the state of the Web, leading to a fair amount of speculation about the direction of things. Sometime co-host James Governor, co-founder of Red Monk, John Edgar, Strategic Initiative VP at DigitalOcean, and John Lilly, Partner at Greylock (and who was CEO of Mozilla from 2008 until 2010) add their perspectives, while Paul Irish, Project Manager at Google, finds himself in the middle of the ring as the voice of Team Chrome, the leading browser.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-44-its-an-unsettling-time-for-browsers-and-the-web/
Alex Williams welcomes Pivotal’s Matt Stine, author of the recently published book Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures to The New Stack Analysts podcast.
The topics of conversation, drawn mainly from Matt's book, include twelve-factor applications, antifragile, and this era-defining debate on microservices and cloud-native architecture. Co-host Donnie Berkholz contributes as well, noting that, "The game is definitely changing."
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-43-pivotals-matt-stine-on-cloud-native-application-architectures/
Kelsey Hightower, Product Manager and Chief Advocate at CoreOS, joined host Alex Williams, and harsh-light-of-morning-averse co-host Donnie Berkholz, to partake in The New Stack’s pancake breakfast at CoreOS Fest, and to discuss Tectonic, package management, and shaping the appc spec. Kelsey and Donnie delved into the state of the stack market before fielding questions from the carbed-up crowd, and also re-asking the enduring question, “what is DevOps?”
“I really like what Docker has done for the market system,” says Kelsey. “I think it’s healthy competition. When they do something well, like libnetwork, there’s a lot of overlap for some of the things we’re doing in Rocket.”
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-42-a-short-stack-with-the-new-stack-at-the-inaugural-coreos-fest/
For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex Williams and returning co-host Donnie Berkholz are joined by Phillip Liu, Founder, CTO, and Engineer at SignalFx, to discuss monitoring the modern distributed application.
"It's very easy to create a virtual machine," says Phillip, "and the virtual machine is basically sized for your application, so no longer are you in a world where you have big metal servers and you have many applications running on the same physical server."
However, if and when problems arise, it's not as easy to pinpoint the causes as it was ten years ago, when IT teams would triage these issues in-house.
Alex wonders, "How is monitoring moving to the center of this new generation of microservices architecture that users are building?"
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-41-monitoring-and-microservices/
Antony Falco, CEO and co-founder of Orchestrate, joins his long-time Portland colleague Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, for this TNS Analysts podcast episode. They discuss the evolution of query languages, the silicon graveyard of abandoned GitHub projects, and the growth of database as a service, especially as an accessory to the Internet of Things.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-40-the-problems-with-too-many-databases/
The recording is from an April 16, 2015 panel in Seattle, Containers and Continuous Delivery for the Enterprise, moderated by The New Stack founder Alex Williams at IC3, a training conference for IT executives and their staffs who are looking to change their organizations through DevOps. The sound quality is unfortunately not up to the usual high standards of The New Stack Analysts, but the discussion is definitely among the liveliest we’ve had the pleasure of sharing.
Regarding the hype around containers, Alex suggests that those who really believe in containers are very passionate, and that “there’s a difference between a ‘believer’ and a supporter.'” Still, he offers, “Why would you not believe in containers if you can take a monolithic application and reduce the time it takes to deploy that? You can do a build in thirty seconds versus fifteen minutes.”
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-39-containers-and-continuous-delivery-for-the-enterprise/
The New Stack was a media sponsor for this year's RubyConf India in Goa, and TNS represented with community manager Atul Jha in attendance.
For this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded at the conference, Atul quarried a jocular panel comprised of keynote speaker Eleanor McHugh, Red Hat's Aaron Patterson, who's on both the Ruby core team and the Rails core team, and Sidu Ponnapa, Founder and CEO of C42 Engineering, a boutique software engineering consultancy.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-38-ruby-should-borrow-from-go-rust-and-the-rest/
It’s time once again for The New Stack founder Alex Williams to catch up with his fellow tech journalist and long-time ally, Wired writer Klint Finley, for a future-seeking glimpse into cutting edge startups. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast Alex and Klint also take a moment to acknowledge the demise of Giagom and to wish their colleagues the best.
Klint discusses his recently-published story about Percepto, “an Israeli company in the drone space.”
“The big thing is that they’re open-sourcing all of their machine vision technology,” says Klint. “What they’re hoping, like a lot of companies that open-source their technology,” Klint says, “is that it’ll drive some adoption, get more developers involved and advance the entire state of the art more quickly.”
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-37/
During the waning hours of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas, with the conference crew already packing up the Dev Lounge and the Social Lounge at the MGM Grand, Alex Williams convenes a panel of attendees, all of whom coincidentally have British accents, for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-36-the-british-invasion-at-ibm-interconnect/
At our first WarmUp of 2015, on March 3rd in Seattle, we talked about the transition to new distributed environments, and the ways in which platform providers, app developers, operations pros and enterprises are adapting. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, which was recorded live at the event, host Alex Williams is joined by four excellent panelists who are on the front lines of managing and analyzing distributed systems:
Avi Cavale, co-founder and CEO at Shippable, Heather McKelvey, vice president of engineering at Basho, Richard Seroter, director of product management for CenturyLink Cloud, and, Kit Merker, product manager at Google.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-35-discussing-all-things-distributed-from-the-new-stack-warmup/
"The mainframe lasted for a while, but as IT got decentralized, the physical machine became the fundamental unit that people used, in order to think about their infrastructure and their architecture — having the host as the center of the universe," says Alexis Lê-Quôc, CTO and Co-Founder of Datadog, during this conversation with Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk about monitoring distributed architecture.
Alexis continues, "You wouldn't think in terms of, 'they're just apps that run somewhere, and someone's taking care of the ether in which they run.' It's really, 'it's the machine — it's there — I can see it,' or, 'it's in the data center next door.' I clearly map an application to a machine to the point where, when I say 'the database,' I mean 'the application' but I also mean 'the machine that runs the database.'"
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-34-monitoring-distributed-architectures/
"It's very much India's Go Conference. It's not just us coming in and talking at you," says Dave Cheney, an Australian speaker, blogger, and open source author. Dave co-organizes the Sydney Go Users group and has been an active contributor to the Go project since February 2011. He spent some time during GopherConIndia 2015 to talk with Atul Jha, Community Manager for The New Stack, for this episode of The New Stack Analysts."
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-33-go-developers-talk-shop-at-gopherconindia-2015/
At the Node Summit last month, Donnie Berkholz and I recorded a discussion with TJ Fontaine about a new foundation for Node.js that was announced just before the conference. It follows the formation of io.js, a new Node community that split fom the core Node.js group.
The interview with Fontaine, project lead for Node.js, started with a bit of joking that actually proved to be quite perinent to the issues about open source governance that have surfaced over the past several months.
The interview covers a lot about the balance between the needs of the big users, such as Microsoft and IBM with the interest in pushing node forward and trying new things.
The discussion gets a lot into the technical future of Node with a foundation model and how it might compare to other open source groups.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-32-the-node-js-foundation-io-js-and-the-new-world-of-open-source-governance/
"It was the second-highest user-voiced request," says Neal Shrader, Senior Software Engineer at DigitalOcean, discussing their move to support FreeBSD. "It's understandable why people wanted it. People who are into BSD are passionate about BSD and they have no problem in voicing that."
Dealings with the community have been great, says Thor Swehla, Software Engineer at DigitalOcean. "It helped us make the offering a lot more solid and tailored to what the users were trying to do," he says. "I would definitely look for something with that strong of a community, or make sure that we were talking to the right community, for anything that we launch in the future."
Neal and Thor join The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz for this episode of The New Stack Analysts.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-31-digitalocean-learned-adding-freebsd-support/
Klint Finley, writer for Wired magazine, joins his long-time colleague Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, in the PDX Airport terminal to record this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Using Klint’s recent piece on Black Duck’s Open Source Rookies of the Year as a touchstone, the conversation covers a number of these cutting-edge projects. Without question, there are some very interesting ideas being realized, and the discussion is well worth a listen. Alex and Klint also talk about past Rookie of the Year winners, the mainstream adoption of Kubernetes, and a wide range of trends and products that will increase in relevance in the months ahead.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-show-30-black-ducks-open-source-rookies-year/
At the time of recording this episode, Alex was still researching his January 29, 2015 in-depth post on The New Stack, “SDN, Docker and the Real Changes Ahead,” and he engages Michael in quite a bit of thinking out on the topic of SDN.
Referring to a John Willis presentation that he captured at DockerCon Europe, Alex summarizes the transition from traditional, centralized software-defined networking to the current trend toward decentralized, distributed SDN. According to Willis, says Alex, there are two major factors that are affecting the way we think about networking.
One issue is density, “the amount of virtual machines on any physical server, and how heavy they are because they carry that operating system.” Docker containers being more light-weight, “you may have the possibilty of thousands of containers on a server,” says Alex. “Secondly,” Alex continues, “data gravity comes into play because we have lots of services and apps that might be inside of these containers,” requiring more thought toward management and orchestration.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-show-29-docker-density-data-gravity-new-complexity-sdn/
Looking forward to a schedule full of conference activity, The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk ease into this first-of-the-year episode of The New Stack Analysts by comparing their go-to travel planning tools. RedMonk's Monki Gras is first up later this month, and its theme is "Nordic Craft Culture and Tech."
Donnie explains the impetus behind the choice to focus on the Nordic and Scandinavian influence on technology. "A huge amount of really vital internet infrastructure has come out of the Nordic countries - a lot that I hadn't realized."
"Many people know that Linus Torvalds who wrote Linux grew up in Finland," says Donnie, "but what people may not know is that tools like SSH , IRC, MySQL, Skype - more recently Spotify and Varnish - have all come out of the Nordic countries as well - a lot of these core pieces of internet infrastructure that really do a lot to equalize communication and equalize technology for the rest of us..."
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/new-stack-analysts-show-28-monki-gras-nordic-dev-communities-data-science-matters-sysadmin/
To explore the response to the recently-disclosed Git security vulnerability (which we wrote about at: http://thenewstack.io/major-git-security-vulnerability-discovered-causing-github-to-encourage-update-to-git-clients/) and to provide some context for it in a world of imperfect code, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams called upon Tal Klein of Adallom and Bryan Helmkamp, CEO and Founder of Code Climate, for this episode of The New Stack Analysts.
Bryan refreshes us on the nature of the Git vulnerability: “It allows an attacker who has control of a Git repository to execute arbitrary code on the client machine of anybody connecting to that Git repository with a vulnerable version of the Git client.”
Tal is not at all surprised by this news: “Vulnerabilities are going to happen; there’s no such thing as perfect code,” he says. “Git was another popular attack vector for the Shellshock vulnerability,” says Tal, describing Git as the perfect candidate through which to attempt to obtain privileges to escalation. “It’s actually the second scenario in which Git itself becomes an attack vector,” he says.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-27-the-git-vulnerability-and-its-aftermath/
Alexis Lê-Quôc, CTO & Co-Founder of Datadog, sits in with The New Stack Founder Alex Williams, and co-hosts Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk and Michael Coté of 451 Research, for this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Alexis discusses the genesis of the checklist, which presents Datadog’s understanding of the AWS ecosystem and service portfolio. “We have an emphasis (in the checklist) on monitoring because that’s what we do, but even as an end user of integrated services, we find ourselves asking the same questions over and over for each new service that’s coming out,” says Alexis.
For operations, it serves as a template with which to look at these new services, and one that could also be extended to services that have yet to be announced, and to services in general.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-26-datadogs-aws-checklist-and-herding-distributed-services/
Always willing to take the heat for convening a Friday afternoon Google hangout, The New Stack Founder Alex Williams is joined by co-hosts Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk and Michael Coté of 451 Research for this episode of The New Stack Analysts, because not only is there a podcast to record, but there is also news to discuss regarding the launch of the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-25-the-cloud-foundry-foundation-and-managing-open-source-projects/
This episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast was recorded in the NEMO Science Center in Amsterdam at the conclusion of DockerCon Europe 2014. Co-host Michael Coté reflects on the conference and ponders the Docker juggernaut with The New Stack Founder Alex Williams.
“It seems like it’s moving even faster,” says Alex. Michael wonders how does one measure the success of Docker? Total number of individual contributors and partners?
“It would be interesting to come up with a good way of modeling out how you measure a company operating in the new stack space,” says Michael. “What are the key numbers for them, if not revenue? If it’s not revenue, which is always the easiest and most generic, how do you measure their success?”
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-24-dockercon-europe-redux/
I keep thinking of this important week for Docker when listening to this recording from OpenStack that we did in Paris last month at our WarmUp event.
Lke OpenStack, this week's DockerCon is a community event, Both OpenStack and DockerCon are reminders that confusion is customary in emerging technology markets and there will be efforts to divert thinking. We see that in almost any technology community. The container community is no different.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-23-docker-its-just-the-beginning/
The New Stack Founder Alex Williams hosts this episode of The New Stack Analysts from the semi-arid climes of Broomfield, Colorado during the Defrag 2014 Conference. Alex is joined by Shippable Co-founder & CEO Avi Cavale and API Evangelist Kin Lane, and co-host Michael Coté.
Before Alex turns the discussion to the topic of tech conferences in general, with particular reflection on the positive aspects of the Defrag conference, the panel looks at the relationship of application programming interfaces (APIs) to Docker, and specifically how both APIs and Docker, the very popular platform for distributed applications, are gaining considerable presence on the web, contributing to much innovation, and much staking-out of territory.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-22-apis-docker-and-containers-in-the-cloud-casino/
Off the record (but not off one of the records in his vast and eclectic collection of vinyl), The New Stack founder Alex Williams had been characterizing the different types of tech press, from Microsoft Groupies to SaaS Bloggery, and taking no prisoners. Co-host Michael Coté, prowling for viability, recounts these merciless dissections past the intro and into the Thunderdome of this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-21-the-tech-press-as-it-were-and-the-new-stack/
OpenStack blueprints are used to track the implementation of significant features in OpenStack.
The New Stack tracked the 11 integrated projects of the OpenStack Juno release, covered in: A Guide to Developer Contributions in the OpenStack Juno Blueprints. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast presented with Alex Williams and co-hosts Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk and Michael Cote of 451 Research, we explore the research Analyst Atul Jha conducted.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-20-an-analysis-of-openstacks-juno-blueprints/
For whom are developers developing? Within what environments will they develop? The answers to these questions will not only shape the next generation of developers, but they will also affect technology development over the next five to ten years.
The New Stack founder Alex Williams offers up this topic to his guests, Jerry Chen, Partner at Greylock, and John Edgar, Chief Technology Evangelist at DigitalOcean, in this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-19-web-vs-mobile-vs-native-vs-open/
Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Burkholz are joined by Tal Klein of Adallom in this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, in which Tal’s recent article for The New Stack, "Architecting a SaaS and PaaS for the Neophyte Developer," is a touchstone for the discussion. Alex also brings up his George Plimpton moment at the Open Data Center Alliance, memorialized in "Who Knows How To Use AWS?"
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-18-the-ripple-effects-of-saas-and-paas-integration/
At their 2014 Cloud Customer Summit, CenturyLink's Jonathan King, cloud strategy and business development; and David Shacochis, vice president, cloud platforms; joined up with The New Stack Analysts co-hosts Alex Williams before a live audience to record this episode, in which they look back at and explore topics that were first raised in previous episodes.
The reflections begin with Show 2, "The Rise of Microservices in the PaaS World" which was recorded at GlueCon 2014 with Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller, and DigitalOcean's Jeff Lindsay, as well as with Woody Rollins, CEO of AppScale, and The New Stack Analyst co-host Donnie Berkholz.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-17-revisiting-orchestration-paas-and-the-business-of-the-new-stack/
Increasingly, there is a growing community of less technical people who are interested in becoming more adept at building their own apps and finding ways to monitor them, too.
New Relic serves as a case study for a company that is adapting to this shift in business interests. From a new stack perspective, we are increasingly curious about how developer tool companies are changing as tools become more acceptable and the overall market continues to grow.
The shifts that happen when the enterprise comes calling served as a topic of discussion last week with Trinity Ventures' Dan Scholnick and New Relic's Bill Lapcevic. Scholnick has been a board member at New Relic since 2008 and is now a General Partner at Trinity. Lapcevic is New Relic’s Vice President of Customer Success and Business Development. They joined The New Stack Founder Alex Williams over a cup of San Francisco's Ritual Roasters coffee, which without a doubt helped them savor the conversation as it drifted into topics about the mechanics of running a developer tool business.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-16-how-new-relic-adapted-when-the-enterprise-came-calling/
There is a certain myth when it comes to how we think of the way we define, build and manage new stack infrastructures. Too often, the conversation sinks into discussions that are too broad for any meaningful understanding. But when we start talking about mythology and its context to the data center, then we can really start exploring our roles and how we relate to the new stacks people are developing.
It's this discussion about mythology that surfaced in TNS Founder Alex Williams's conversation at the Open Data Center Alliance Forecast 2014 in San Francisco with Corey Voo, Infrastructure CTO, UBS; Chris Swan, CTO at CohesiveFT and Jonathan King, Vice President, Cloud Strategy and Business Development at CenturyLink Technology Solutions.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-15-myth-lore-and-religion-in-the-new-open-cloud/
On today's episode of TNS Analysts, TNS founder Alex Williams is joined by co-host, Donnie Berkholz, analyst at RedMonk; Tom Drummond of Heavybit; Matthew Wong of CB Insights; and by Gil Penchina, co-founder of Fastly. The recent news that Docker and Fastly received $40 million funding each spurs Alex’s curiosity about the evolving status of developer tools as investments.
With the acceleration of open source proliferation of developer tools and a history of tepid ROI outcomes for venture-funding in this market, questions remain as to the worthiness of investment in these services.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-14-are-dev-tools-crossing-over-the-investment-rainbow/
We took The New Stack Analysts show to the Intel Developer Forum this past week. On the eve of the conference, TNS Founder Alex Williams gathered with Billy Cox of Intel and two respected cloud analysts: Ben Kepes of Diversity Limited and Paul Miller of Cloud of Data.
We wanted to know how the conversation about the data center has changed in the last year. Has the change been that significant? Cox has some perspectives about a data center that works entirely by itself, commanded by people from some distant place; Miller has perspectives about Google Kubernetes and Kepes keeps it real.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-13-defining-orchestration-and-drinking-the-docker-kool-aid-at-idf/
In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, captured at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, Alex Williams and Virtustream's Chairman & CEO Rodney J. Rogers discuss innovation and competition in the Infrastructure as a Service utility marketplace.
Rogers suggests it's the top of the fourth inning of the customer-vendor relationship, and the push is on. Rogers' and Williams' analysis and insights on the current state and future of the industry cover many topics, including hybrid, containerization and the burden of operations.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-12-this-is-not-aws/
On this episode of TNS Analysts, Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures and Christian Gheorghe, CEO of Tidemark, joined co-host Michael Coté and Alex Williams to discuss how executives are adopting the cloud and SaaS platform in particular. Noteworthy: their conversation about the rise of data science in the executive wing and what services management are adopting.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-11-saas-in-the-executive-wing-with-adrian-cockcroft-and-christian-gheorghe/
SAP wants to make its APIs as easy to consume for developers as Twitter or Facebook do for their communities. In this interview with SAP's Joav Bally and Apigee's Ed Anuff, we discuss a new partnership between SAP and Apigee and why marketing and all aspects of a business really have to transform if it wants to play in the API economy.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMWgexbmG8
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-10-what-is-sap-in-the-context-of-an-api/
At the Black Hat conference last week, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Adallom's vice president of marketing, Tal Klein; EMC's senior director of trust, Davi Ottenheimer; and Ryan Potter, Fortinet's senior director of strategic alliances, to discuss the security features of Docker.
We used this discussion as the starting point for a larger conversation about the rise of application development, the context of trust, and the industry’s overall flawed fascination with making things easy to use.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-9-dockers-inherent-lack-of-security-the-black-hat-view/
In contrast with the news that Rackspace has left the IaaS provider market, the recent earnings reports from Microsoft and Amazon show that these two major players are further settled into this market. But how comfortably? Based on what they reveal about those earnings It's hard to tell, but we can look at their histories. While numerous contenders vie for market share, it seems that Google, Azure and AWS may be settling in for a long, slow, triple duel. Or a stalemate. However it may unfold, it makes for fascinating discussion.
Alex Williams and co-host Michael Coté talked with Nancy Gohring about Microsoft Azure's success, what it might mean for AWS, and what it might mean to Apple and other competitors in the cloud.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kWdNcRacs2k
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-8-aws-v-azure/
Docker sold DotCloud to a German company today, shedding its vestiges of the company's origins as a PaaS provider. The sale follows the acquisition of Orchard, the maker of Fig, a multi-host Docker orchestration technology. Docker is already serving as a core to several new PaaS providers. But orchestrating containers for purposes of portability and communication between multiple hosts is what truly could be a critical shift, impacting the basic workflows of companies that for years have used virtual machines for moving and orchestrating applications.
In a New Stack Analyst recording last month at DockerCon, there were sure signs that Docker and many other companies see orchestration as significant in the future of the container technology.
Joining us were Docker's James Turnbull; Brandon Philips, CTO at CoreOs; Paul Showalter of New Relic; and Lucas Carlson of CenturyLink Labs.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-dockers-future-is-in-the-orchestration/
API ubiquity is, without a doubt, coming. We've rehashed the factors driving this phenomenon any number of times. It's the devices that use APIs and the data we create and deliver through APIs. Everything will need an API, or at least require some way to communicate with other programs and devices.
In show 6 of The New Stack Analysts, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Apigee's Sam Ramji and New Relic's Frederic Paul and talked about the way platforms and ecosystems are now being used. We discussed what defines a technology or business platform and how each compares to a brand developing an experience through its API management and partner ecosystem.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-what-comes-with-api-ubiquity/
At DockerCon, Chris Dawson presented the research we did about the popular open source project, Docker. In this first part of our two-hour podcast, Chris presented what he discovered from the data, what it reflects and how the lightweight container technology is being used by the community.
Hosts: We were joined by Michael Cote, an analyst at 451 Research, Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk and Chris, a regular contributor to The New Stack.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-podcast-docker-contributor-analysis/
This week's episode of TNS Analysts features a discussion about Apple's CloudKit and Swift, the new PaaS and programming language.
Joining us were Michael Cote of 451 Research and our guest, Sravish Sridhar, CEO of Kinvey, a backend service provider. Kinvey is a founding sponsor of the New Stack. Fellow co-host Donnie Berkholz could not make the show.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-4-cloudkit-and-swift/
DevOps is generating a buzz. The tools, the processes and the hot new technologies are getting attention. But it's a bit different in the mainstream market where legacy tools are the norm. In this week's show, we discuss the latest research data from 451 Research and what it says about mainstream adoption of DevOps technologies.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-3-how-has-devops-spread-into-the-mainstream/
What's going on in the PaaS market? What is the impact of microservices and lightweight technologies such as Docker?
In the second episode of The New Stack Analysts, we explored these questions, the impact of open source and the implications of the Oracle v. Google ruling.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-podcast-show-2-the-rise-of-microservices-in-the-paas-world/
On this episode of TNS Analysts, we recorded our first live Google Hangout and presented the results of the data research report we conducted on OpenStack contributors. The podcast provides a summary of the the report's key findings and why Samsung and Huawei are contributing code to OpenStack at a greater rate than are other members of the organization. Our gues host was Tal Klein, vice president of marketing at Adallom, a service that detects anomalies in an individual’s data usage in and across different SaaS providers.
Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-podcast-episode-1-openstack-code-analysis/