Pivotal Podcasts

It's a scary world out there. Threats to your software and applications seemingly lurk around every corner. So what's a development team to do? In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Surag Patel, chief security officer at Contrast Security, joins Jeff and Dormain talk about integrating security into the software development process. Find out how shifting security left results in faster releases, lower costs, and more secure software.

While much of the magic of cloud native apps comes from being stateless, state must exist somewhere. Not only does this data need to be stored and accessible, but just as with the source code and builds for your application, the backing databases need to be managed and included in the build pipeline. Datical has been working on this problem for sometime. In this episode, their CTO, Robert Reeves, discusses all of this with us. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Every enterprise today is concerned about security. And so they should be. They're also eager to embrace modern development techniques and associated tools to get better and faster at creating great software. How do you take on the latter without sacrificing the former? In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Pivotal's Chief Security Officer for Product Justin Smith talks about the security implications of digital transformation and why a threat-centric point of view is the key to success.

All the kids are crazy for kubernetes. And for good reason, it's helping smooth out the rough, weird area between IaaS and PaaS, making it easier for organizations to run their IT in a cloud native fashion. In this episode, Richard and Coté talk with Pivotal's Paul Czarkowski about the history, purpose, and experience of running kubernetes. We also touch on how it intermixes and effects serveless and DevOps. Plus, we talk about doing CFPs, and, as always, we also go over recent news in the infrastructure world. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Doing proper, product-driven, user-driven agile in large organizations is hard. Much of it, of course, has to do with organizational processes that are inflexible and built around long-term planning. Emily Tate knows all this first hand, and we discuss her about her recent talk on this topic. As always, we also go over recent news in the infrastructure world. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Josh Long is well known in the Spring community for his insightful and humorous conference presentations, not to mention his work with hundreds of enterprises, helping them learn the skills needed to develop software better and faster. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Josh joins Jeff and Dormain to discuss the trends in software development in the enterprise (such as the emergence of reactive programming), preview the upcoming Spring release, share some insights from his latest book, and explain why precisely he decided to put a Blue-eared Kingfisher on the cover.

Open source has become one of the most popular - if not the most popular? - ways of producing and maintaining software. What are the advantages for developers, and how should organizations evaluate the long term viability of open source projects? We discuss these topics, plus a little bit of a look back at the history of commercialized open source in this episode.

The application development landscape is evolving rapidly. One of the latest and most exciting developments is Project Riff. Unveiled late in 2017 at SpringOne Platform, Project Riff is an open source function service designed to run on Kubernetes. Pivotal's Dan Baskette, who helped develop Riff, joins the show to talk about the excitement around functions-as-a-service and serverless computing, the benefits Riff offers developers working with functions, and where the project fits into the broader cloud and platform ecosystem.

Technology and process are important when it comes to improving how you do software, but selling the organization on the change is always an issue. GAIC's Jon Osborn gave a great talk on navigating the "no's" to change at SpringOne platform. The day before he gave the talk, Coté talked with him about his experience getting a large organization onboard with cloud native and agile concepts, all the way down to tactics like how like slides and business cases. He also talks with Ben Romito who'd moved from doing .Net development at GAIC to Java development. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

In their two-part blog post, Pivotal's Brian McClain and Bryan Friedman compare BOSH - an open source tool for release engineering, deployment, lifecycle management, and monitoring of distributed systems - to Chef and Ansible. Turns out, BOSH is the clear winner when it comes to managing Day 2 operations. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Brian and Bryan join Jeff and Dormain to dig into their findings, share what surprised them most, and argue that BOSH isn't just for Cloud Foundry.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.0 represents a major step forward for the leading cloud-native platform. The application runtime is now joined by an enterprise-grade Kubernetes service, called Pivotal Container Service, and a new Functions-as-a-Service offering, Pivotal Function Service. Pivotal's Jared Ruckle joins Jeff and Dormain to kick-off 2018 with a first look at PCF 2.0 and what it means for both developers and operators.

Very few enterprises start with a pure green field portfolio, with the ability to create and manage applications in a cloud native mode. They often need to intermix "legacy" style application with these new ones, let alone just run the applications on their own. While at SpringOne Platform, Coté talked with Ben Wilcock about a project he'd worked that fits right in here. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

When Xavier Perret took over as chief digital officer for Orange France’s business-to-business division, it was anything but business as usual. Perret was intent on modernizing the division's software development capabilities with a focus on continuous customer feedback and rapid release cycles. It wouldn't be easy, but Perret knew it was necessary to go cloud-native to compete and win in the highly contested European telecom market. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Perret joins Jeff and Dormain to share the story of Orange France's ongoing digital transformation.

At the end of the year there's no end of predictions from the IT analyst would. In this episode, Richard and I talk with Pivotal's head analyst relations, Rita Manachi. We cover predictions in software development, infrastructure and cloud, and handful of miscellaneous ones like AI. Just for funsies, each of us throws in a prediction as well, plus a bonus book recommendation to start the new year with. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

While event-driven applications have existed for as long as our cyber-memories can rollback, we're seeing a revitalization of interest in them at the moment. In this episode, Coté talks with Kenny Bastani about his talk on this topic, meandering from some basics on the topic, to why you'd be interested in this architecture style, to the benefits of it. Matt Curry also joins into the discussion. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast