The New Stack Analysts

In this monitoring-powered edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, captured during a break between sessions at Monitorama 2015 in Portland, Oregon, Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research reflect on the conference’s big take-aways, with returning guests Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures, and James Turnbull, VP of engineering at Kickstarter. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuA1AjorCQs Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-49-reflections-on-monitorama-2015-with-adrian-cockcroft-and-james-turnbull/

As Mesosphere co-founder and CEO Florian Leibert puts it, “The data center is the new form factor, and it needs an operating system.” That’s why they are particularly excited that Mesposphere’s Datacenter Operating System (DCOS) is now generally available. “We just want to make the life of data center operators and what we call ‘new framework developers’ much easier.” Florian joins The New Stack founder Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, an engaging and informative discussion about the virtues of Apache Mesos, and the concepts and tools involved with architecting big data. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/CMyA9WYMKng Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-48-mesospheres-florian-leibert-on-the-new-data-center-os/

If you caught The New Stack Makers interview with Sam Ramji, you might remember Bill Hilf as the one who in 2005 offered Sam the opportunity to take over the open source software lab at Microsoft. Bill is now SVP, Helion Product Management at Hewlett-Packard, having left behind product management for Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. At HP Discover 2015 in Las Vegas, Bill graciously joined The New Stack founder Alex Williams, along with Steve O’Grady and James Governor of RedMonk, for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IG_4VVSmWH0 Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-47-with-hp-and-the-red-monk-crew-talking-about-all-things-composable/

For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast,host Alex Williams dials up Google I/O 2015 attendees Jack Clark, a reporter covering technology for Bloomberg in its San Francisco bureau, and Steve O'Grady, co-founder of RedMonk, who was back at the hotel administering to his Android-M-bricked conference-giveaway Nexus 9 tablet. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hZUa72X4ock Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-46-google-io-redux-the-ai-engine-and-the-android-push/

For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex welcomes back SignalFx founder and CTO Phillip Liu, who is joined this time by Karthik Rau, SignalFx founder and CEO. Also participating is James Turnbull, VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research. Karthik explains that SignalFx was designed from the ground up to provide better monitoring and visibility for modern distributed applications: "We're seeing new applications being designed as distributed applications, and more microservices architectures, and it's quite common to find applications to have dozens, hundreds, and potentially even thousands of components." Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiGqvNL3gQg Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-45-why-analytics-is-a-core-function-of-monitoring-microservices-architectures/

Alex Williams convenes a spirited panel for some analysis of the state of the browser, and by extension the state of the Web, leading to a fair amount of speculation about the direction of things. Sometime co-host James Governor, co-founder of Red Monk, John Edgar, Strategic Initiative VP at DigitalOcean, and John Lilly, Partner at Greylock (and who was CEO of Mozilla from 2008 until 2010) add their perspectives, while Paul Irish, Project Manager at Google, finds himself in the middle of the ring as the voice of Team Chrome, the leading browser. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-44-its-an-unsettling-time-for-browsers-and-the-web/

Alex Williams welcomes Pivotal’s Matt Stine, author of the recently published book Migrating to Cloud-Native Application Architectures to The New Stack Analysts podcast. The topics of conversation, drawn mainly from Matt's book, include twelve-factor applications, antifragile, and this era-defining debate on microservices and cloud-native architecture. Co-host Donnie Berkholz contributes as well, noting that, "The game is definitely changing." Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-43-pivotals-matt-stine-on-cloud-native-application-architectures/

Kelsey Hightower, Product Manager and Chief Advocate at CoreOS, joined host Alex Williams, and harsh-light-of-morning-averse co-host Donnie Berkholz, to partake in The New Stack’s pancake breakfast at CoreOS Fest, and to discuss Tectonic, package management, and shaping the appc spec. Kelsey and Donnie delved into the state of the stack market before fielding questions from the carbed-up crowd, and also re-asking the enduring question, “what is DevOps?” “I really like what Docker has done for the market system,” says Kelsey. “I think it’s healthy competition. When they do something well, like libnetwork, there’s a lot of overlap for some of the things we’re doing in Rocket.” Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-42-a-short-stack-with-the-new-stack-at-the-inaugural-coreos-fest/

For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex Williams and returning co-host Donnie Berkholz are joined by Phillip Liu, Founder, CTO, and Engineer at SignalFx, to discuss monitoring the modern distributed application. "It's very easy to create a virtual machine," says Phillip, "and the virtual machine is basically sized for your application, so no longer are you in a world where you have big metal servers and you have many applications running on the same physical server." However, if and when problems arise, it's not as easy to pinpoint the causes as it was ten years ago, when IT teams would triage these issues in-house. Alex wonders, "How is monitoring moving to the center of this new generation of microservices architecture that users are building?" Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-41-monitoring-and-microservices/

Antony Falco, CEO and co-founder of Orchestrate, joins his long-time Portland colleague Alex Williams, founder of The New Stack, for this TNS Analysts podcast episode. They discuss the evolution of query languages, the silicon graveyard of abandoned GitHub projects, and the growth of database as a service, especially as an accessory to the Internet of Things. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-40-the-problems-with-too-many-databases/

The recording is from an April 16, 2015 panel in Seattle, Containers and Continuous Delivery for the Enterprise, moderated by The New Stack founder Alex Williams at IC3, a training conference for IT executives and their staffs who are looking to change their organizations through DevOps. The sound quality is unfortunately not up to the usual high standards of The New Stack Analysts, but the discussion is definitely among the liveliest we’ve had the pleasure of sharing. Regarding the hype around containers, Alex suggests that those who really believe in containers are very passionate, and that “there’s a difference between a ‘believer’ and a supporter.'” Still, he offers, “Why would you not believe in containers if you can take a monolithic application and reduce the time it takes to deploy that? You can do a build in thirty seconds versus fifteen minutes.” Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-39-containers-and-continuous-delivery-for-the-enterprise/

The New Stack was a media sponsor for this year's RubyConf India in Goa, and TNS represented with community manager Atul Jha in attendance. For this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded at the conference, Atul quarried a jocular panel comprised of keynote speaker Eleanor McHugh, Red Hat's Aaron Patterson, who's on both the Ruby core team and the Rails core team, and Sidu Ponnapa, Founder and CEO of C42 Engineering, a boutique software engineering consultancy. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-38-ruby-should-borrow-from-go-rust-and-the-rest/

It’s time once again for The New Stack founder Alex Williams to catch up with his fellow tech journalist and long-time ally, Wired writer Klint Finley, for a future-seeking glimpse into cutting edge startups. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast Alex and Klint also take a moment to acknowledge the demise of Giagom and to wish their colleagues the best. Klint discusses his recently-published story about Percepto, “an Israeli company in the drone space.” “The big thing is that they’re open-sourcing all of their machine vision technology,” says Klint. “What they’re hoping, like a lot of companies that open-source their technology,” Klint says, “is that it’ll drive some adoption, get more developers involved and advance the entire state of the art more quickly.” Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-37/

During the waning hours of the recent IBM InterConnect conference in Las Vegas, with the conference crew already packing up the Dev Lounge and the Social Lounge at the MGM Grand, Alex Williams convenes a panel of attendees, all of whom coincidentally have British accents, for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-36-the-british-invasion-at-ibm-interconnect/

At our first WarmUp of 2015, on March 3rd in Seattle, we talked about the transition to new distributed environments, and the ways in which platform providers, app developers, operations pros and enterprises are adapting. In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, which was recorded live at the event, host Alex Williams is joined by four excellent panelists who are on the front lines of managing and analyzing distributed systems: Avi Cavale, co-founder and CEO at Shippable, Heather McKelvey, vice president of engineering at Basho, Richard Seroter, director of product management for CenturyLink Cloud, and, Kit Merker, product manager at Google. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-35-discussing-all-things-distributed-from-the-new-stack-warmup/