Pivotal Podcasts

Hannah works on the platform operations team at VMware. Her teams helps organizations put platform teams in place that run their cloud native platform, like Pivotal Cloud Foundry. As she says, the platform team that delivers an internal platform as a service to the developers. Hannah has spent a lot of time finding and working with those operations people who end up being SRE-like, coding folks. They're running those centralized cloud platforms in large organizations. We discuss some approaches to changing ops people's work, working through resistance to change, helping ops people become systems programmers, a bit of SRE, and putting in place a friendly culture.

In this episode, I talk with Dawn Foster about companies working in open source, the kubernetes community, and a few other topics. I was especially interested to hear about the goals of the kubernetes community, what is it that that community wants? We also discuss: the multitude of roles in open source communities, beyond programming or even documentation; why hardware vendors get interested in open source; and what's kept Dawn working in open source all these years.

We're kicking off the new year with Paul Czarkowski talking all about kubernetes and…soup. First, we discuss Paul's take on drinking broth, especially bone broth.

As a security expert and consultant, Wim Remes (@WimRemes), was fed up with clients using security products that had lacking API security themselves. But he knew that it was a multi-faceted problem that couldn't be addressed in one place. So, he developed a maturity model for security APIs that could serve as a check list for clients evaluating products, procurement teams involved in purchasing security products, and security vendors building the products. As it turns out, it's a pretty good checklist for any developer building APIs. Read the full show notes here: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/a-checklist-for-api-security-with-wim-remes

In this episode, we talk with Paula Kennedy who heads up our education and platform groups. She talks about the type of education about cloud native development and operations that our customers find useful and also the platform as a product concept and methods. We also go over some predictions for 2020, not all super-nerdy, but mostly.

In this episode, Coté talks with AirFrance-KLM's Fabien Lebrere about starting AirFrance-KLM's platform group. They discuss how and why the platform team started, how they determined what they needed to do, and how they're working with developers. Fabien also discusses how to prioritize which services to work on and gives advice for those just starting out. For even more, check out Fabien and friend's presentations from Cloud Foundry Summit 2018 and 2019.

With a mandate to adopt cloud to cut costs, the team at Intrado (formerly known as West Corporation) found themselves stuck in early 2018. They had 600-700 application instances on the Pivotal Platform, but that was far from their projected goal. Why were they stuck? Terry Miles, platform owner at Intrado, describes it as the "last mile" issues, including workflows and processes. How did Intrado triple the number of application instances on the platform in the next year? In this episode you'll hear Terry and Jason Nash, Product Engineering Manager at Intrado, describe how they identified blockers and "broke the dam." Read the full show notes at: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/solving-the-last-mile-to-the-cloud-at-intrado

In this episode we talk with Pivotal's Demetrious Robinson about his experience becoming a programmer, starting with RPG games, learning in Last Mile while in prison, and then through a General Assembly coding Boot Camp and into Pivotal. We also cover recent Pivotal related news with Pivotal Container Service (PKS), PAS on Kubernetes, and the Pivotal Build Service.

Ahead of their January 23 webinar (https://content.pivotal.io/webinars/jan-23-app-modernization-with-net-core-how-travelers-insurance-is-going-cloud-native-webinar), Dormain sat down with Viraj Naik, Lead Solutions Architect at Travelers Insurance, and Rohit Kelaure (https://twitter.com/RKela), Principal Solutions Architect at Pivotal. We talked about why and how the team at Travelers modernized a workload off of the mainframe on to .NET Core running on Pivotal Platform. Tune in to learn about why the team needed more scaling flexibility, how they overcame performance challenges, and how they used Domain Driven Design (and RabbitMQ!) to arrive at the right number of microservices. See full show notes at: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/modernizing-from-mainframe-to-net-core-at-travelers-insurance

In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, T-Mobile's Mohammad Salman and Matt Murphy, along with Altoros' Ryan Meharg share insights into building platform automation, deploying and operating PKS, and building trust between teams. See full show notes here: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/platform-automation-and-kubernetes-with-t-mobile-and-altoros

With SpringOne Platform over, Danielle Burrow and Bryan Friedman join us to re-cap the conferences, esp. their favorite sessions and some notable fun findings. The news segment also covers Pivotal Application Service 2.7, Azure Spring, and the Pivotal Vanguard program.

Emily Casey got into tech "by accident," but we're sure glad she did. As an engineer on the Cloud-Native Buildpacks contributor team, Emily has been working to mature how people build container images. Last year, she presented about "Cloud Foundry Buildpacks and the Future of Opinionated Cloud Builds" at SpringOne Platform. Since then, the vision for cloud-native buildpacks has become a reality. Casey and team have been tackling how to make the more modular cloud-native buildpacks more interoperable, among other enhancements. This year at SpringOne Platform, you can hear her talk about "Pack to the Future: Cloud-Native Buildpacks on k8s." If you're a developer building on Kubernetes, you won't want to miss her session. Read full show notes here: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/pack-to-the-future-cloud-native-buildpacks-on-k8s-with-emily-casey

SpringOne Platform is in just one week! Richard and Coté talk about the conference, some of their highlights, and some quick food recommendations (burgers!). Perhaps too quick! We also cover some recent news in .Net, serverless, and Azure security. Richard discusses a DevOps Report webinar he did with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, and Coté gives an overview of the new book he's working on (The Business Bottleneck) and preview of a two part webinar on the topic (part one, part two). There's still time to register for SpringOne Platform. It's Oct 7th to 10th in Austin, Texas - Coté's home town! Use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off.

"The Product Manager is the one who leads the product." In this SpringOne Platform interview, Coté talks with Alexandra Lung about her and Fanny Verney's talk at SpringOne platform: "Leading Product: The Sparks, the Challenges, and the Victories." They discuss enterprise product management, an example from Orange, and the daily work of product managers. There's still time to register and come see this talk and many, many other awesome ones. SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th to 10th in Austin, Texas. When you register, use the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off!

While many organizations *want* to use the public cloud, they aren't in a position to do so. With applications written decades ago and an offshoring strategy, companies need to invest in re-engineering applications for the cloud era. This is where Northern Trust found itself a couple years ago. In this podcast, you'll hear how Northern Trust began to modernize core software and build new functionality according to 12 Factor principles. You'll hear how they worked closely with Pivotal and Solstice to adopt agile and a cloud-native application platform, which now supports 600 developers. You'll also hear how they included compliance and risk teams at the financial institution into the automation process. See the full show notes here: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/unwinding-folklore-to-modernize-at-northern-trust-with-len-hardy