Pivotal Podcasts

How is DevOps actually panning out in organizations? In this episode recorded at SpringOne Platform, Kenny Bastani and I talk with Matt Curry about his talk on putting DevOps in place. We discuss how being more open in conversations helps build trust, shifting to a product-centric approach, and some ideas about scaling DevOps. Also, we discuss the idea of "is DevOps actually real," a favorite topic of Coté's. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

SpringOne Platform, the annual customer and developer event put on by Pivotal, took place last week in San Francisco. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Jeff and Dormain are joined by Pieter Humphrey and Dan Baskette to recap all the announcements, share favorite moments, highlight favorite keynotes and breakout sessions, and provide a quick review of the food (it was awesome ... especially the grilled cheese and tomato soup station.) So if you couldn't make it to the show last week, here's your chance to get caught up on all the action.

The best conference in cloud native is right around the corner, SpringOne Platform, Dec 4th to 7th. Chock full of actual end-users and enterprises (along with your friends from Pivotal), it'll be a great time to learn about new technologies and how to improve how your organization does software. There's somewhere around 150 sessions. Richard and Coté go over some of their highlights, what to get out of the conference, and, as always, some recent infrastructure software news. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides some rather obvious benefits, such as reducing administrative burdens on developers and automating many Day 2 operations. But there is more value in the platform if only you know where to look. That's where value stream mapping comes in. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Mark Ruesink joins Jeff and Dormain to explore the Pivotal approach to value stream mapping and how Mark and his team help customers maximize the value of their investment in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

Spring Boot is unquestionably a popular framework and has been rising in popularity as the months flip by. In this episode we're joined by Greg Turnquist who talks about the second edition of his book, Learning Spring Boot. We also talk about the process of writing a book and Greg's fiction writing.

Matt Stine has some advice for software developers. Stop a moment and try to connect the dots between the code you are writing and the business problem that code is intended to solve. If you can't, there's a good chance you're developing software just for the sake of developing software. And that doesn't help anybody. On this episode of Pivotal Insights, Matt, who serves as Pivotal's Global CTO - Architecture, talks about getting back to fundamental software development principles, improving communication within development teams, and delivering business value with software.

The benefits of truly doing agile and XP are well proven at this point. Supported by a platform like Pivotal Cloud Foundry, you can expect to start improving how you do software. That said, cloud native development is a new style of doing software, from pair programming, to following 12 factor coding practices, and breaking apart software into independent services. It helps to get some training on this shift, which is what the Platform Acceleration Lab at Pivotal does. In this episode, we talk with Michael Barinek about that team, how it operates, and a little bit about the training they do. As always, we discuss some infrastructure software related news and explore some options for keeping warm.

Kenny Bastani had a question. Is it possible to combine a microservice application together with a serverless function? Since nobody else in the industry had an answer, Kenny decided to answer it himself. What he came up with is the concept of the service block. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Kenny joins Jeff and Dormain to discuss service blocks, how he came up with the concept, and what it might mean for future serverless architecture.

Pivotal Greenplum 5.0 hit the market last month, and there's a lot of exciting new features in the release to help enterprises uncover actionable insights in their data. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Cesar Rojas and Jacque Istok join Jeff to talk about what's new in Greenplum 5.0, including multi-cloud support and even more advanced analytics capabilities.

Your build pipeline is one of your most valuable assets in a cloud native organization. When you need to build and test your application, managing all the dependencies, branches, and, not to mention setting up your cloud environments is no small feat. And then there's the whole part where you deploy to production as well. In this episode, Richard and Coté talk with Pivotal's James Ma and Lyle Murphy about Concourse, the build pipeline system that's used by Pivotal and several of Pivotal's customers to manage, well, their pipelines.

After a brief overview of some recent kubernetes news (Docker has added support), we talk with Jared Ruckle about the new features and updates in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.12. There are, as always, many security updates including tools to help migrate to CredHub and mTLS. Also, .Net support has widened in the Steeltoe framework and additional operational functionality. We also discuss the small footprint Pivotal Cloud Foundry profile which compliments the PCFDev desktop profile, as well as PCF Metrics.

Cloud Foundry Summit Europe 2017 was a whirlwind of announcements, hands-on demos and, I assume, chocolate. It was held in Switzerland, after all. Luckily, Pivotal’s own Zach Brown and Steven Benario were at the show and join Dormain, who was also at the show, and Jeff on this episode of Pivotal Insights. They talk about the new Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (formerly Kubo), The Foundry and the vibe at the event.

There's a new option for running kubernetes, Pivotal Container Service, or PKS. PKS uses the underlying management layer from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to create a standardized cluster manager. This means you can run your applications in the existing Pivotal Cloud Foundry runtime, the Elastic Run Time (ERT) or PKS. With both of these runtimes in PCF, you can run virtually anytime of application, from cloud native apps to I/O intensive and "legacy" applications. We talk with Cornelia Davis about PKS and also here upcoming book, Cloud Native. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

We’re back after a month off with tales of New Zealand’s expansive bacon selection, discussion of the new Spring Framework version, and CF Summit EU. We also discuss three pieces of ours from the past month on the usual topics of why all this cloud-native stuff is kind of a big deal.

Refactoring monolithic applications involves more than just replicating existing design patterns in a distributed architecture, according to Oliver Gierke. Gierke, who lead's Pivotal's Spring data team, joins Jeff and Dormain in this episode of Pivotal Insights to share his thoughts on refactoring monolithic applications using what he calls a system of systems approach. And be sure to listen to the end for your chance to save $200 on registration to SpringOne Platform, where Gierke will present on this very topic in December.