Pivotal Podcasts

Speeding up software development and delivery in the enterprise isn't something that happens overnight. Nor is it the responsibility of just a chosen few developers. This week on Pivotal Insights, Jeff and Dormain Brian Roche, Vice President of Products at Cognizant Digital Business, on why accelerating development in the enterprise requires an all-hands-on-deck mentality and Brian shares his experience working with clients across industries to modernize their software development practices.

Legacy enterprise applications, particularly those that aren't mission critical, often get overlooked during digital transformation initiatives. And that makes sense, to a degree, considering they don't deliver as much value as mission-critical legacy applications and net-new cloud-native apps. But there are real benefits, including better operational efficiency, to moving legacy apps to a modern runtime environment, such as Pivotal Container Service, or PKS. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Solstice's Mike Koleno joins Jeff and Dormain to discuss where to run your legacy applications in a cloud-native world.

The federal government, particularly the armed services, is known for its top-down power structure. But the concept of small, autonomous teams empowered to make their own decisions, as is the case in modern software development, is catching on at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Jeff and Dormain speak with Keith Strini, head of the federal practice at Pivotal, and Timmy Richardson, lead cloud architect at NGA, about the agency's adoption of cloud-native technologies and development techniques, and how they are helping a new generation of military personnel accomplish their missions faster, safer and more efficiently with software.

All these "users" are actually people using our software. What designers, programmers, product managers, QA, and operations people put into the software and support in it has real impact on our actual life, here in the real world. Despite that, we don't have a strong sense of ethics in software, which our guest this week, Mariesa Dale, is trying to start addressing. She recently wrote a Hippocratic oath for technologists which we discuss. As always, we also go over recent infrastructure and cloud news, plus cover tips on what to take, and not take, when you go camping. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Many cloud-native applications are stateless. But as enterprises move more complex workloads to platforms like Pivotal Cloud Foundry and develop data-driven applications, how data is managed, secured and analyzed is an increasingly important question. As it stands, however, there are no easy answers. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Southwest Airline's Brian Dunlap, Redis' Adi Foulger and RedMonk's James Governor join Jeff and Dormain to move the cloud-native data conversation forward.

What do you do with grumpy people? How do you track how much - or how little! - you're actually improving? These are two of the questions Richard and Coté are frequently asked. In this episode - our 100th! - we go over these two questions and others that we're often asked. Of course, we also cover our attempts to answer them. As always, we also cover some recent infrastructure news and give some business travel tips at the beginning. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

This week, Jeff and Dormain chat with CSAA’s Kyle Campos, who is Technology Operations Manager for the auto insurer’s digital services organization. Kyle talks about the strategies he and his team took to transform CSAA’s approach to software development, offers advice to other would-be transformation leaders about how to get business buy-in, and explains why there are some things you just can’t learn until you’re running in production. There's also a Chris Rock reference or two, which is always a good thing.

The Cloud Foundry user base and projects have expanded over the past year, adding members, users, and major components like the Container Runtime. In this episode, we catch up the CFF's Executive Director, Abby Kearns, on the Cloud Foundry ecosystem and the upcoming CF Summit. Also, Richard and Coté's tell you the sessions they're looking forward to and discuss when it's time to do the great pants to shorts switchover, plus Coté's seersucker collection. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Part of what defines an application as "cloud native" is an application and management style described by "the 12 factors." While these seem simple at first, each of them just the top of the iceberg of recommendations. Coté plumbs the depths with Nate Schutta to see what's under the waterline. They also discuss where state is in this stateless model and how it's managed. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Developer productivity is a key metric when it comes to digital transformation. But how do you not just identify but remove non-value add activities that are part of your organization's current software development process. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Matt Gunter, Senior Technologist and Customer Advocate at Pivotal, explains how value stream mapping helps developers find and cut the hidden areas of waste in their development process.

In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Jeff speaks with Jacque Istok, who runs Pivotal's field data team, about the company's Innovation Lab. The Lab is dedicated to using data science and analytics to solve customers' hardest business challenges. Jacque also previews the upcoming Greenplum Summit, a conference dedicated to open analytics and machine learning, taking place April 18-20 in Jersey City. Register today using code 2018_GPDB2018 for a 25% discount.

Digital transformation isn't all about technology. In fact, it isn't mostly about technology. Just as important are people that use technology and new processes to get better and faster at building great software. But digital transformation involves significant change to long-held assumptions and ways of working. Success requires building a team of people with the right skills and mindset. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Matt Curry from Allstate and Jon Osborn from Great America Insurance Group share their advice on building teams for transformation based on their real-world experience doing just that at their respective companies.

Developer tools have changed wildly over the past 10 years from build tools to IDEs. The IDEs available have not only increased, but usage of each has grown. In this episode, Richard & Coté talk with Martin Lippert about Spring Tools 4. And, as always, we cover some recent news in the cloud, infrastructure, and development spaces, plus, the squirrels of Coté's yard. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Security is more about more than finding holes and devising patches. For one, once you find those holes and have a patch, you have to make sure everyone not only knows about them, but applies them. We talk about how Pivotal is doing this both inside Pivotal and with our customers, with Molly Crowther. Also, we talk about tactics for getting your developers more security conscious, in a way that both is useful and doesn't spook them off. As always, we also cover some recent news and discuss the merits of dog licks. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

In this episode of Pivotal Insights, VMware's Sai Chaitanya joins Jeff and Dormain to talk about new approaches to network management and security in cloud-native environments like Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Specifically, Sai explains the concept of network virtualization, how not to let networking turn into a bottleneck, and how VMware NSX helps get the job done.