Pivotal Podcasts

Increasing release velocity is often a key driver for enterprises that adopt cloud-native software development. But developers would be wise to spend a little more time ensuring their software is prepared for Day 2 operations upfront, according to Capital One's Kevin Hoffman. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Kevin joins Jeff and Dormain to chat about building monitorable, scalable and configurable software. He also shares some thoughts on the importance of .NET Core and why regulations are no excuse for not innovating.

There's a lot of new features in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.2 from kubernetes updates to security. This week, we talk with Jared Ruckle about those features, plus a new white paper on the Open Service Broker API. As always, we also talk about recent infrastructure software news and manage to throw in some house packing tips as well.

In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Dormain and Jeff welcome Rocky Lotka to the show. Rocky is CTO at Magenic, a software consultancy that helps enterprise's turn digital transformation aspirations into reality. In this episode, Rocky shares his thoughts on when and how to modernize your legacy .NET applications, why the twelve factor aren't just for Java applications, and why .NET and Java aren't so different after all.

We talk databases in this episode. First, with the history of databases and why the relational database become king, for awhile at least, and then about how databases evolved, ending up talking about Greenplum. Greenplum is the world’s first fully-featured, multi-cloud, massively parallel processing (MPP) data platform based on the open source. With Ivan Novick, we go over all that and cover some use cases. Also, as always, some recent infrastructure software news.

Every successful organization is faced with a daunting task: modernizing your legacy applications and services. The benefits of cloud native are alluring, to be sure, but modernizing your existing applications can seem impossible. Sarah Ehmann & Rohit Kelapure go over Pivotal's App Transformation methodology to get you over that hump. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

To borrow a phrase from the great Winston Churchill, cloud-native data is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, MongoDB's Alan Chabbra joins Jeff and guest host Kamala Dasika to crack the riddle and share how enterprises can make the most of the cloud-native data opportunity.

Containers offer a new, simplified way to deploy and operate databases. But the approach brings with it a host of challenges, including how to manage state and migrate data between environments. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, SnappyData's Jags Ramnarayan joins Jeff and Dormain to talk through the promise and perils of containerized databases. They also chat about the evolving role of the data engineer and how data professionals fit into the cloud-native organizational structure.

In this episode, among other topics, Richard and Coté cover some recent kubernetes news, cloud native .Net, and tips for making business travel more enjoyable.

This week, Chad Sakac, a longtime EMC executive who in recent months joined Pivotal, joins the show to talk about his new role. Chad spends most of his time on the road working closely with enterprise customers, helping them achieve transformational business outcomes. Chad, Jeff and Dormain chat about the importance of focusing on business outcomes to achieve digital transformation success, why a superhero-led team usually isn't the best approach, and how to choose the right platform abstractions.

During a discussion of South East Asian good, Coté & Josh Long manager to talk about Josh's book, Cloud Native Java (co-written by Kenny Bastani). They go over some of the less well discussed sections, like instrumentation and monitoring applications. In doing so, they discuss opentracing, Zipkin, Sleuth, and how developers should both code and use for better tracing. There's some nuanced detail on monitoring versus tracing as well. Also, we discuss how relational databases are traditional tacos, while all these new data stores are fusion tacos.

Developers and operations teams face different but related database challenges. Developers want to use the best database for the job at hand, while operators want to manage the fewest number of databases possible to reduce complexity. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Pivotal's Joshua McKenty and Microsoft's Ulrich Homann join Dormain to discuss database challenges facing both developers and ops teams, and how a new approach can help satisfy the needs of both groups.

An enterprise application of any significance will end up needing to work with legacy systems. It's often legacy code itself! Dealing with legacy code brings its own challenges, which Coté & Rahul discuss. Most of it has to do with getting a high confidence in your tests, which is a devilish problem for legacy code. We also, of course, discuss food in Singapore. This episode was recorded at Voxxed Days Singapore. http://pivotal.io/podcast

How do you get everyone bought into continuous integration and continuous delivery? One tactic, says Miranda LeBlanc, is to bring the pain forward. Put another way, you need to practice the hard stuff. A lot. In this episode of Pivotal Insights, Miranda, a cloud engineer at Liberty Mutual, shares this and other tactics, from both a technology and culture perspective, she has seen used to accelerate teams releasing software faster and smarter.

In this episode, we check back in with Pivotal's head of HR, Joe Militello. We discuss progress on Pivotal's pay transparency program and why it'll net help the employees and company. Also, there's some tips on practical Interviews for a creative, software driven companies like Pivotal and many of our customers. Since last we talked Pivotal went public, so we talk about the relatively small) differences in HR since then. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast

With all these conferences since last time, we have to bring in Jared Ruckle to help us sort out all the news that's happened since last time. There's Dell Technologies World, CF Summit, Kubecon, and Microsoft build. We also discuss the new Built to Adapt Benchmark and how Jared's picks for other interesting, revent Pivotal content. Full show notes: http://pivotal.io/podcast