Pivotal Podcasts

It's probably a good idea to learn about enterprise architecture by talking to someone who's actually done it. In this episode, we talk with Stuart Charlton, now of Pivotal, but previously of roles where he EA's, even back in the SOA era! We discuss the mapping of traditional EA to cloud-native, and also some strategies for Coté to increase his Twitter followers, and, as ever, some recent cloud-native news. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/blog Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/774jj5umouoiaob/AACmwBobWX7cOTI2ZXSGT6VSa?dl=0

In the cloud-native and DevOps world, there's a lot of hand-wringing and snark around the role of "enterprise architect." At scale, the goals of this EA function seem to be valuable: understanding and translating to IT what the business does and how it functions, ensuring that best practices and technologies are used, and helping make sure IT is actually helping the business with as little risk taken on as possible. However, the relationship between EAs and cloud-native teams seems a bit misaligned at the moment. This week, Coté talks about his research so far into figuring out how "traditional" enterprise architects could and should figure into cloud-native think, mostly by giving an overview of 2006 book on the topic. As ever, we also discuss some recent cloud-native news. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/v3odxmabapz600k/AABDLIqlUujB4wEDeCH3TKURa?dl=0

There's some exciting private cloud news on the horizon with Microsoft's Azure Stack coming out in September. We discuss the brief history of private cloud and several models people have tried, along with some other news from the infrastructure software world. With no guest, Richard and I discuss some projects we're working from cloud-native .Net, enterprise integration, and enterprise architecture. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/c1bxamn5wskej9m/AAA-Qw21XFGdacysg_E2nPqYa?dl=0

There's no shortage of options for developers to choose from when it comes to databases. Redis, the open source in-memory database, is an increasingly popular choice, particularly in cloud-native environments. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Redis Labs' Cihan Biyikoglu joins Jeff and Dormain to talk about how Redis supports DevOps environments, why the database's flexible data structure is a major draw for developers, and how the Redis Lab "wolf pack" helps bring Redis to the enterprise.

Cloud Foundry for operations staff can seem a bit of a black box. Lucky for you, Duncan Winn's new book, Cloud Foundry: The Definitive Guide is freshly out, making that box much more clear. We talk with Duncan about his new book, giving an overview of the book, who it's for, and delving into some of the contents like BOSH. As always, we also discuss some recent infrastructure software news like new Google Cloud regions, Microsoft's new cloud sales force, and an early preview of SpringOne Platform. See show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Operating IT in a cloud-native mindset requires changes up and down the stack, especially in operations. The degree of automation in the stack changes the need for much of the manual work and process-driven checks and balances in IT ops as we know it. In this episode, we talk with Pivotal's Tony Hansmann on what those changes are, how the technology pushes these changes, and some of the barriers. See full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

MySQL is the most popular open source database ... by a mile. Several miles, actually. And no platform is complete if it doesn't offer developers easy access to MySQL instances to support their applications and microservices. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Pivotal's Greg Chase and Morgan Fine join Jeff and Dormain to talk about why MySQL is so popular with developers, detail the latest on-demand version of MySQL for Pivotal Cloud Foundry, and how MySQL supports Agile methodology and DevOps environments. The four also debate the which is the better open source mascot: the whale or the dolphin. You'll have to listen to find out the answer.

The data warehouse market has undergone significant turmoil over the last several years. Large incumbent vendors selling expensive appliances are struggling to maintain market share as new approaches emerge. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Cesar Rojas and Roman Shaposhnik join Jeff to talk about the emergence of the Logical Data Warehouse, it's implications for data engineers and how enterprises can take steps now to implement a truly Best of Fit approach to analytics and data science.

Everyone is always curious about security in cloud-native land. We finally got to talk with one of Pivotal's security experts, Justin Smith, in this episode. We discuss the framing behind Pivotal's security framing (a lot revolves around embracing frequent change, interestingly for change-averse security people), including the famous "three R's." There's also much detail on encryption and credential management in Pivotal Cloud Foundry. We also discuss some recent news like the chart-fest of the Internet Trends report, Cockroach DB, and Istio. Show Notes: http://pivota.io/podcast

Cloud Foundry Foundation Executive Director Abby Kearns joins Jeff and Dormain on this episode of Pivotal Insights to provide a sneak peak of the upcoming Cloud Foundry Summit, taking place June 13-15, 2017 in Santa Clara, Calif. Abby also talks about the new Cloud Foundry Certified Developer program and the foundation's efforts to promote diversity in tech.

Obviously, you want to prevent hackers from infiltrating your corporate network in the first place. But the reality is some hackers are going to find a way in no matter how good your perimeter defenses. That means you'll need to catch hackers already inside your network before they access sensitive data and make their escape. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Pivotal Data Scientist Scott Hajek and his colleague Bob Glithero, Director of Marketing for Data Science and Analytics at Pivotal, explain how lateral movement detection can help identify malicious network behavior before hackers make off with the corporate crown jewels.

File systems are seemingly inescapable, if not just for "legacy" applications, perhaps just because they fit the requirements. The cloud-native world at first eschews "local storage," but the need to continue using that metaphor persists. Plus, in many existing, so called "legacy" systems, you have to work with both new types of storage and good, old fashioned filesystems, even NFS! In this episode, Coté talks with DellEMC's Julian Hjortshoj who works on Cloud Foundry Volume Services about his (and Paul Warren)'s talk at CF Summit on this topic. We first cover the basics of what's needed, how it works from the perspective of a user (i.e., an application developer) and how it's all handled behind the scenes, all the way back to the actual storage systems. If you're interested in that, be sure to come to the CF Summit, June 13-15, 2017. You can get 20% off registration with the code cfsv17cote. Full show-notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

Through events like Red Nose Day, the U.K.-based charitable organization Comic Relief has raised over a billion pounds since its founding in 1988. But a lot has changed since then, including the technology backbone supporting Comic Relief's donations platform. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Jeff and Dormain chat with Zenon Hannick, the organization's CTO, about Comic Relief's recent migration to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, how it provides Comic Relief developers an environment for quickly experimenting with new ideas for engaging with donors, and the larger impact of technology on the world of philanthropy.

Improving how a large organization does software is always difficult, but vital for the ongoing success of the enterprise. In this episode, Coté talks with Allstate's Opal Perry about Allstate's ongoing cloud-native experience. Allstate has always been helpfully open and chatty about this topic, and Opal gives an update on where the company is and tactics learned for managers and executives who are navigating the waters. She also gives a preview of her upcoming talk at CF Summit. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast Transcript: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rk50v4fa2cmdppe/AABnmdq4_b8nqoSNv9HlBKn5a?dl=0

Charity Majors has been on-call in one form or another since she was 17. She knows how to get to the bottom of system performance problems. After stints at Parse and Facebook, Charity and co-founder Christine Yen started Honeycomb, whose mission is to help software engineers use event data to explore and better understand their production systems. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Charity joins Jeff and Dormain to talk about the challenges of debugging distributed systems, why a data-driven approach is the best way to get to the bottom of performance issues, and how software engineers can get their atrophied debugging muscles back into shape.