Pivotal Podcasts

Kubernetes is exploding in popularity. The container orchestration platform makes it significantly simpler to manage and operate application containers. But Kubernetes is not without its challenges, including getting the platform to run effectively in private datacenters. This week on Pivotal Insights, Pivotal's John Allwright joins Dormain and Jeff to introduce Pivotal Container Service (PKS), a new offering that eases the Day 2 operations burden for container orchestration and provides access to infrastructure primitives. John, Dormain and Jeff also talk about the relationship between PKS and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and the role VMware and Google played in developing PKS.

Don't look now, but .NET is in the midst of a renaissance. It started with Microsoft's embrace of open source and continues thanks to Steeltoe, an open source project that helps .NET developers implement common cloud-native patterns like service discovery, shared configuration, and circuit breaker. Steeltoe 1.1, released in mid-September 2017, includes a number of new capabilities that are sure to please .NET developers building microservices application. Pivotal's Zach Brown and Dave Tillman join Jeff and Dormain to dig into the details.

o read the tech trade press, you'd think AWS, Microsoft and Google are in the midst of a winner-take-all battle for the cloud. It's a zero-sum game and only one public cloud provider will survive & thrive. Turns out, that's not the case. A new survey confirms what many of us already believed: Most enterprises use two or more cloud providers and will continue to do so for the forseeable future. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, guest Jared Ruckle, a member of the Pivotal Cloud Foundry product marketing team, joins Dormain and Jeff to break down the findings of the new survey and what they say about the future of the cloud in the enterprise.

A couple weeks ago Pivotal announced how kubo is being productized into Pivotal Cloud Foundry, namely, as Pivotal Container Service (or "PKS"). We discuss what PKS is and the types of workloads it seems suited for compared to the existing Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform. There's also a couple of studies about container adoption and some other news from the infrastructure software world.

To successfully operate Cloud Foundry, you must be one with Cloud Foundry. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, learn how the Pivotal Cloud Foundry Dojo helps ops teams find the "place of the way" of platform operations with Pivotal's Kevin Mackett and Parker Flemming. They also explain why, sometimes, new Dojo participants are tempted to punch them in the nose. Just kidding. Sort of.

We discuss a retail-oriented demo application that looks around trying to find latent buyers. See the project diagram we mention here: https://twitter.com/sct/status/878377986520633344

In this week's episode, Jeff and Dormain are joined by Pivotal Senior Solutions Architect Ben Wilcock for a deep dive into building microservices applications using the command query responsibility segregation, or CQRS, architectural pattern and event sourcing. Despite what you may have heard, CQRS really isn't that much more complex than other approaches, such as CRUD, and provides significantly more flexibility and other benefits, Ben says. "When you look at the number of components involved and what feature benefits you get from those components, CQRS punches above its weight." Ben also shares his feelings about CI/CD tooling (hint: He's not a huge fan of Jenkins!)

Pivotal GemFire is a powerful in-memory data grid used to support web-scale applications that demand agility and speed. Agility and speed, it turns out, aren't just important for the applications GemFire supports, but also for deploying GemFire itself. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Pivotal's Jag Mirani and Jacque Istok join Jeff and Dormain to talk about the release of Pivotal GemFire on the AWS Marketplace. With just a few clicks, users can spin up GemFire on AWS to support some of the most demanding application workloads.

Pivotal is excited about the upcoming Open Source Summit, with not one but two great speaking sessions. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Dormain previews her sessions at the summit on navigatng open source business models in the cloud era. Pivotal's Zach Brown likewise talks about his presentation on building .NET Core microservices with Steeltoe.

"Agile Long Term Planning" sounds like an oxymoron. Or does it? A common misunderstanding about agile methodology is that it doesn't get along with long-term planning. In this episode, Coté talks with Joanna Beltowska on the topic of long-term planning in cloud-native organizations. Being agile doesn't mean a lack of vision, strategy, or a road-map at all. Indeed, those activities are more important than ever, but adding in the ability to experiment with theories and learn from the results in key. It's not that we don't want strategy and long-term planning: we want those, but with the ability to correct and modify them as they collide with the buzz-saw of reality. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p7yqhyynfrvptla/AACwF7VfYZNaXzHjkkooZoe3a?dl=0

We've talked a lot about the role of data and databases in cloud-native architectures here on Pivotal Insights. Unfortunately, how and where developers manage their application data, as important as it is, hasn't always been at the top of the priority list. That's in part because most databases aren't particularly well-suited for cloud-native environments. But that is changing. In this week's episode of Pivotal Insights, Crunchy Data's Paul Laurence joins Jeff and Dormain to chat about the ways in which databases are evolving to better fit into modern cloud-native environments. Crunchy Data's own offering, an enterprise-grade distribution of PostgreSQL with an emphasis on security, is one great example.

It's a white paper party! Jared Ruckle helped several Pivotal platform architects put together four white papers, all released last week, on microservices, PCI, build pipelines, and BOSH. Jared gives us a brief overview of each paper and tells us his highlights. We also discuss recent infrastructure news from Amazon, the world of RAD-cum-low-code, and a bevy of new hype-cycles in the appdev space. The papers: https://content.pivotal.io/blog/the-whiteboard-sessions-introducing-a-new-tech-paper-series Show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wwl4j34afmom384/AAB7tDv5--cDRPzrpZHh-HMVa?dl=0

Turns out, Cloud Foundry isn't just for net-new applications. More and more enterprises are replatforming and modernizing existing, mission critical applications, according to Shaun Anderson, an Advisory Solutions Architect at Pivotal. They're doing so to take advantage of the flexibility Cloud Foundry gives them to quickly develop and release new features in order to reduce time to market. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Shaun chats with Jeff and Dormain about his experience leading Pivotal's application modernization practice, shares advice on how enterprises can choose which applications are the best candidates for modernization, and discusses the human element in application modernization. There will also be some arts & crafts. Don't forget the popsicle sticks and yarn.

When Allstate decided they wanted to speed up their software development and delivery process, they knew they'd need to put a good cloud platform in place. After looking at several options, they created a team to run and extent Pivotal Cloud Foundry. As time went on, the team starting adding services, consulting with the rest of the organization on cloud-native development, and started becoming more than just "operators." In this episode, I talk with two people on that team - Anthony Lee and David Brock - about that journey and how to platform team fits into and supports Allstate's development organization, CompoZed. Show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/19exz51twkskar8/AAAyOfpXxz9E6rPgOH_WqXxVa?dl=0

Hey, so data matters. Where are you supposed to stick it and does anything about that change when you’re acting all cloudy? Coté and Richard talked to Ben Laplanche who leads up Pivotal’s data services effort. We chat about what Pivotal offers, how the role of the DBA is changing, what to consider when crafting “high availability”, and more.