The New Stack Analysts

Attendees at Basho Technologies’ RICON 2015 conference were treated to plentiful discussion of distributed systems as regards the Internet of Things. The audience also enjoyed a tasty short stack as The New Stack’s Alex Williams moderated the esteemed panel. Dave McCrory, CTO at Basho Technologies, Inc. Nicholas Weaver, Director, Intel SDI-X at Intel Corporation Duncan Johnston-Watt, Cloudsoft Founder and Chief Executive Officer Donnie Berkholz, Research Director at 451 Research, and Mac Devine IBM DE, VP & CTO, Networking & Innovation, IBM Cloud Division Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-64-distributed-systems-object-oriented-reality/

During the OpenStack Summit Tokyo, The New Stack hosted a Bento Box Luncheon to discuss “What Makes OpenStack Thrive in the Enterprise?” for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Joining The New Stack Founder Alex Williams were Ruchi Bhargava, director of Intel’s Datacenter and Cloud Software, Open Source Technology Center, and Allyson Klein, director of Initiative and Leadership Marketing for Intel’s Datacenter Group. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/0igfDKEdv5Q Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-63-bridging-gaps-intel-tokyo-openstack-summit/

Hashicorp’s first ever user conference, HashiConf 2015 held in Portland, Oregon, sold out in six weeks, according to Hashicorp founder Mitchell Hashimoto. “It’s worked out really well,” he says of the two-day, two-track event. During the conference, Mitchell joined Alex Williams, Donnie Berkholz and Kelsey Hightower to discuss HashiCorp’s announcements coming out of the event, and that discussion on this episode of The New Stack Analysts. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Fso5yNGeStA Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-62-at-hashiconf-2015/

Host Alex Williams says he’s hard-pressed to find a better episode of The New Stack Analysts that we’ve had this year than this one, recorded at AWS re:Invent. The panel discusses APIs and containers, the inexorable progression of architecture continua, and the changeling as a metaphor for abstraction naïveté. Alex’s guests are Al Hilwa, Program Director for IDC’s Application Development Software research, Rachel Chalmers, Principal at Ignition Partners, and Steve Willmott, CEO at 3scale. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO63UlCs31o Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-61-the-metaphors-the-continua-and-jedi-mind-tricks/

A variety of conversation topics and whole lotta short stacks were served to the huge crowd that turned out for The New Stack’s pancake breakfast at the SpringOne 2GX conference in Washington, D.C. For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded live at the event, Alex Williams spoke with Jon Schneider and Taylor Wicksell, senior software engineers at Netflix; Groovy programming language project lead Guillaume LaForge, and Graeme Rocher, Grails Project Lead at OCI; and James Watters, VP of Cloud Platform Group at Pivotal. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eDbWoZydT5s Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-60-netflixoss-groovy-and-grails-and-all-things-cloud-native-at-springone-2gx/

This year’s DevOpsDays India was a two-day single track event especially focused on containers, with more than 300 attendees and speakers from various technology domains. The New Stack’s community manager Atul Jha spoke with three attendees at the Bangalore conference for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/C05BhBKRCZg Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-59-the-wild-wild-west-of-containers-at-devopsdays-india/

The New Stack’s pancake breakfast and podcast circuit joined the 2015 Software Circus at the Amsterdam Roest. The New Stack Analysts host Alex Williams explored the conference theme, “Programmable Infrastructure,” with a panel that included David Blank-Edelman, Technical Evangelist for Apcera, as well as three of the conference keynote speakers: Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures; Ken Owens, CTO Cloud Services at Cisco Systems; and Kelsey Hightower, Product Manager and Chief Advocate at CoreOS. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yUaz-cLm9yk Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-58-programmable-infrastructure-is-developer-driven/

In recent months, the conversation about OpenStack has turned to Docker and container orchestration. There are good reasons why. The container movement has gained so much momentum that the developer interest behind it is leading to questions about how OpenStack fits into an app development context. The affect that developers are having on these discussions surfaced recently at OpenStack Silicon Valley event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Ca., where the topic of Docker and containers came up frequently. And Google may be the impetus for its rise in popularity in the OpenStack ecosystem. At the conference, Boris Renski, co-founder and chief marketing officer at Mirantis, and Spike Curtis, core developer and evangelist at Project Calico, spent some time with Alex Williams talking about how application architectures fit with OpenStack. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AzmlUX5qzY Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-57-the-openstack-conversation-turns-to-containers-and-orchestration/

The state of Docker and the container ecosystem was the touchstone for discussion at The New Stack’s pancake breakfast hosted by Alex Willams at ContainerCon 2015. Joining Alex were Krishnan Subramanian, Director of OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat, Aneel Lakhani from the marketing team at SignalFx, Erica Windisch, a security engineer at Docker, and Sam Charrington, analyst with The New Stack. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WOs9eZOxAJI Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-56-the-pancake-breakfast-circuit-comes-to-containercon/

As OSCON 2015 was winding down in Portland, Oregon (the home base of The New Stack Founder Alex Williams), Alex convened a panel comprised of co-host Donnie Berkholz (Research Director, Development, DevOps & IT Ops at 451 Research), Adrian Cockcroft (Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures), and Mike Amundsen (Director of API Architecture, API Academy at CA Technologies), to record this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_PUxfLzKxeQ Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-55-google-docker-and-the-state-of-open-source-projects/

A lot of great thinkers and makers are all in one place at a conference such as OSCON. For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex Williams gathered several such people at one time, in what he suspects is the largest group he’s assembled yet for a podcast, and in this case bigger is definitely better. The panel: Sam Charrington, principal analyst with The New Stack Casey West, principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal Jesse Proudman, CTO at Blue Box, An IBM Company Abby Kearns, Technical Marketing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry Sam Ramji, CEO Cloud Foundry Foundation Klint Finley, Journalist for Wired, The New Stack and Mindful Cyborgs Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ltFnrTCTY Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-54-live-at-oscon-cloud-native-before-and-after-containers/

On the eve of OSCON 2015, Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz are joined by Sarah Novotny, technical evangelist and community manager for Nginx (who’s also in her fifth year as OSCON Program Chair), and Casey West, Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal, for this conference-previewing edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wUavx5a9Q Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-53-previewing-oscon-and-microservices-as-a-metaphor-for-the-broader-community/

What paths will the Go programming language take? This question is posed to CoreOS CTO and Co-founder Brandon Philips, and DeferPanic Founder Ian Eyberg, at the start of this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded at GopherCon 2015. “We’re talking about systems that aren’t writing kernels – not writing underlying, low-level bits that are talking directly to hardware – but systems that are interacting across a data center or across the Internet,” says Brandon. “The cool thing is,” says Brandon, “it’s a piece of technology that’s enabling a lot of interesting research and development in those areas. So you’re seeing time-series databases being built, you’re seeing these consistent databases being built, schedulers, things that talk to and configure network fabric.” Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsA7pTuRHkg Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-52-code-genealogy-tooling-evolution-and-the-future-of-go/

“Go is not just a programming language; it is a way of doing software development.” “It’s very precise.” “It’s gotten popular enough that there are people who hate it.” “It is pragmatic, painfully pragmatic.” “It’s from the stone ages.” “It’s a nicer C.” “There’s no future without Go.” The New Stack founder Alex Williams was merely asking his guests to talk about what changes they’d noticed from a year ago. Thus begins this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, captured at GopherCon in Denver, with guests Alex Polvi, CoreOS CEO and Founder, and Mitchell Hashimoto, CEO and Founder of Hashicorp. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2I5iJ1X2WnE Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-51-hashimoto-and-polvi-on-the-painfully-pragmatic-go-and-defining-google-for-everyone/

DramaFever started running Docker in October of 2013. That makes them one of the first, especially considering Solomon Hykes only shared Docker with the world in April of that year. It also made DramaFever's Bridget Kramhout and Tim Gross pretty decent guests for this 50th episode of The New Stack Analysts that we recorded this week at DockerCon. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN5kaGAIyFA Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-50-docker-for-today-and-tomorrow-from-dockercon/