The New Stack Makers

“I think microservices also give you a great way to experiment and try things out. To have small wins, that’s one great aspect of microservices. You can quickly iterate and deploy applications, and it also means you didn’t spend a lot of time there,” Cloud Foundry Vice President Abby Kearns noted in an interview at OpenStack Summit Frankfurt alongside Pivotal Senior Software Engineer Mike Gehard and Cloud Foundry VP of Technology Chip Childers. The New Stack hosted a day of podcasting at this year's Cloud Foundry Summit in Frankfurt to hear from some of today's most influential community voices surrounding how Cloud Foundry, application development platforms, and open source oriented technologies are being put to use in Europe. Watch this interview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWIHU54oIo8

In today’s world of platforms, services are increasingly connected. In the past, platform as a service offerings were pretty much isolated. It’s that new connected infrastructure that is driving the growth of Cloud Foundry, the open source, service oriented platform technology. Sam Ramji is CEO of Cloud Foundry, which is holding its European event in Frankfurt this week. At the conference, Ramji sat down with Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, to discuss, among other topics: Europe’s adoption of platform technologies. IoT and the connection to serverless technologies. The maturity of the container ecosystem and the corollary to Cloud Foundry. Cloud Foundry BOSH, the open source tool for release engineering, deployment, lifecycle management, and monitoring of distributed systems. The open source community’s collaboration across competing services.

In this episode of The New Stack Tutorial Fridays, we explore how Bitnami and Codenvy are streamlining DevOps CI/CD pipelines. Bitnami VP of Marketing David Dennis joined Codenvy CEO Tyler Jewell and Bitnami VP of Engineering Rick Spencer along with TNS Founder Alex Williams for a short demonstration on working with Eclipse Che and Jenkins in Bitnami’s developer containers, which are preconfigured to get developers up-and-running quickly. Watch the tutorial on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-eQklVIUfk8 Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/streamlining-developer-workflows-eclipse-che-bitnami-integration/

“You will not be able to make everyone happy,” explained Dirk Hohndel, just a few months into his appointment as VMware’s Chief Open Source Officer. “And my goal is not to make everyone happy. My goal is to find the projects where there is agreement to be found, to make things better for them, for us, for the customers.” Hohndel is discussing the tight-wire act that anyone must perform when serving as the public face for open source development, while at the same time representing a company that tightly guards and protects its intellectual property. When the containerization “movement” (such as they are in technology circles) first began, Docker Inc., along with a handful of other companies in Docker’s orbital vicinity, set forth to execute a kind of software-based infrastructure revolution. The objective of that revolution was to overturn VMware’s solid hold on the infrastructure layer. VMware’s response is ongoing, and may yet be viewed historically as masterful. After only a short period of fighting back, VMware adopted the mantle of the movement itself. And at VMworld 2016 in late August, where we interviewed Hohndel for this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, it was assembling the components and the business strategy to actually take over the lead of the entire movement. In short, VMware pivoted before the revolution could hit it. Hohndel’s reputation in the open source community was already legendary before he joined VMware. He was the long-time CTO of the original SuSE Linux AG organization, and later headed open source efforts at Intel for 15 years. Now, he finds himself the point man for perhaps the most important effort VMware has thus far undertaken: selling the idea of vSphere integration to a development community that still, for the most part, perceives proprietary platforms as the enemy.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explore how CoreOS is improving the power of etcd within Kubernetes, how monitoring solutions such as the Prometheus impact Kubernetes, and what today’s developers can expect moving forward when operating etcd in production. CoreOS CTO Brandon Philips sat down with The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and EBook Editor Ben Ball for a discussion during Cloud Native Day Toronto 2016.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we delve into some of the latest work from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, how containers can be utilized to create powerful new stacks, and the evolving narrative surrounding cloud native computing. CNCF Executive Director Dan Kohn joins TNS Founder Alex Williams for a conversation on the above topics and more that took place at Cloud Native Day Toronto 2016.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explore how Red Hat is empowering its OpenShift platform and community through containers and Kubernetes, and what the CNCF community cluster can offer today’s developers. Red Hat Director of Community Development Diane Mueller-Klingspor, Red Hat Vice President and CTO Chris Wright, and Red Hat Senior Principle Software Engineer Jeremy Eder joined TNS Founder Alex Williams for a discussion on the above topics and more taking place at Cloud Native Day Toronto 2016.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explore how OpenStack is being put to use in containerized environments, open source projects currently shaping the ecosystem, and how the changes surrounding infrastructure have shaped OpenStack. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams and co-host SolarWinds Cloud & Container Technology Leader Lee Calcote sat down for a discussion with Cisco Director of Product Management and Strategy Duane DeCapite to get his thoughts.

As more companies make the shift to open source, users working with large scale databases have been demanding more of their infrastructure. Seeking the flexibility of a PaaS platform has led to the creation of Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) offerings and open source projects such as Crunchy Data Solutions. Centering on creating highly scalable and customizable Postgres stacks, the continued evolution of making database technologies that integrate well with other cloud native technologies has been an ongoing challenge. The main problem facing customers was how to approach data persistence in a way that would ensure their Postgres database coexisted with their existing stack. Crunchy Data Solutions Data Architect Jeff McCormick spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams during August 2016’s Cloud Native Day Toronto in a brief discussion on these topics.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Apprenda Senior Director of Product Management: Kubernetes Platform Engineering Joseph Jacks discusses cloud native technologies, open source, and the challenges facing developers today alongside TNS Founder Alex Williams and co-host SolarWinds Sr. Director of Technology Strategy Lee Calcote during August 2016’s Cloud Native Day Toronto.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we dive into pluggable architectures, how projects such as Mantl are helping developers and organizations create ala carte open source stack solutions, and the future of cloud-native development. Cisco CTO of Cloud Native Platforms & Services Ken Owens and SolarWinds Senior Director of Technology Strategy Lee Calcote joined TNS Founder Alex Williams during Cloud Native Day 2016 in Toronto, Canada to offer their thoughts on these issues and more. Also Available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN_3-9cDfaU

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explore how the recent v1.0 beta release of the Serverless framework is redefining how developers work with Lambda, how the open source community’s feedback shaped the direction that Serverless has taken, and the adoption of serverless architectures in today’s developer workflows. The New Stack’s Kiran Oliver spoke with Serverless Founder and creator Austen Collins to get a first-hand look into the topics above.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we learn about the nuances behind software defined infrastructure, how new approaches to telemetry are changing the way users interact with their data, and the ways that distributed analytics can be put into practice in the enterprise. The New Stack Founder Alex Williams spoke with Intel SDI (Software Defined Infrastructure) Distributed Analytics Engineer Brian Womack during the 2016 Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco to get his thoughts on these topics and more.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we take a look at how Grafana and the Intel Snap Framework are changing how enterprises handle their data. Topics ranged from best practices when measuring data, how decoupling plugin architecture enables developers to publish data easier, and the potential shortcomings of machine learning. TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Intel Telemetry Developer Associate Matt Brender and Raintank Co-Founder and CEO Raj Dutt to hear their thoughts on these topics and more during the 2016 Intel Developer Forum.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we explore how container storage has evolved over the years, the parallels between VMs and containers when running functions, and how open source is affecting the container landscape. Intel Senior Principal Engineer and System Architect David Cohen joined TNS Founder Alex Williams during the 2016 Intel Developer Forum to offer his insight on these topics and more. Hear our entire Intel Developer Forum Playlist at: https://soundcloud.com/thenewstackmakers/sets/intel-developer-forum-2016 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/AgvaRIFRKKw