The New Stack Analysts

For whom are developers developing? Within what environments will they develop? The answers to these questions will not only shape the next generation of developers, but they will also affect technology development over the next five to ten years. The New Stack founder Alex Williams offers up this topic to his guests, Jerry Chen, Partner at Greylock, and John Edgar, Chief Technology Evangelist at DigitalOcean, in this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-19-web-vs-mobile-vs-native-vs-open/

Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Burkholz are joined by Tal Klein of Adallom in this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, in which Tal’s recent article for The New Stack, "Architecting a SaaS and PaaS for the Neophyte Developer," is a touchstone for the discussion. Alex also brings up his George Plimpton moment at the Open Data Center Alliance, memorialized in "Who Knows How To Use AWS?" Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-18-the-ripple-effects-of-saas-and-paas-integration/

At their 2014 Cloud Customer Summit, CenturyLink's Jonathan King, cloud strategy and business development; and David Shacochis, vice president, cloud platforms; joined up with The New Stack Analysts co-hosts Alex Williams before a live audience to record this episode, in which they look back at and explore topics that were first raised in previous episodes. The reflections begin with Show 2, "The Rise of Microservices in the PaaS World" which was recorded at GlueCon 2014 with Apprenda CEO Sinclair Schuller, and DigitalOcean's Jeff Lindsay, as well as with Woody Rollins, CEO of AppScale, and The New Stack Analyst co-host Donnie Berkholz. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-17-revisiting-orchestration-paas-and-the-business-of-the-new-stack/

Increasingly, there is a growing community of less technical people who are interested in becoming more adept at building their own apps and finding ways to monitor them, too. New Relic serves as a case study for a company that is adapting to this shift in business interests. From a new stack perspective, we are increasingly curious about how developer tool companies are changing as tools become more acceptable and the overall market continues to grow. The shifts that happen when the enterprise comes calling served as a topic of discussion last week with Trinity Ventures' Dan Scholnick and New Relic's Bill Lapcevic. Scholnick has been a board member at New Relic since 2008 and is now a General Partner at Trinity. Lapcevic is New Relic’s Vice President of Customer Success and Business Development. They joined The New Stack Founder Alex Williams over a cup of San Francisco's Ritual Roasters coffee, which without a doubt helped them savor the conversation as it drifted into topics about the mechanics of running a developer tool business. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-16-how-new-relic-adapted-when-the-enterprise-came-calling/

There is a certain myth when it comes to how we think of the way we define, build and manage new stack infrastructures. Too often, the conversation sinks into discussions that are too broad for any meaningful understanding. But when we start talking about mythology and its context to the data center, then we can really start exploring our roles and how we relate to the new stacks people are developing. It's this discussion about mythology that surfaced in TNS Founder Alex Williams's conversation at the Open Data Center Alliance Forecast 2014 in San Francisco with Corey Voo, Infrastructure CTO, UBS; Chris Swan, CTO at CohesiveFT and Jonathan King, Vice President, Cloud Strategy and Business Development at CenturyLink Technology Solutions. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-15-myth-lore-and-religion-in-the-new-open-cloud/

On today's episode of TNS Analysts, TNS founder Alex Williams is joined by co-host, Donnie Berkholz, analyst at RedMonk; Tom Drummond of Heavybit; Matthew Wong of CB Insights; and by Gil Penchina, co-founder of Fastly. The recent news that Docker and Fastly received $40 million funding each spurs Alex’s curiosity about the evolving status of developer tools as investments. With the acceleration of open source proliferation of developer tools and a history of tepid ROI outcomes for venture-funding in this market, questions remain as to the worthiness of investment in these services. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-14-are-dev-tools-crossing-over-the-investment-rainbow/

We took The New Stack Analysts show to the Intel Developer Forum this past week. On the eve of the conference, TNS Founder Alex Williams gathered with Billy Cox of Intel and two respected cloud analysts: Ben Kepes of Diversity Limited and Paul Miller of Cloud of Data. We wanted to know how the conversation about the data center has changed in the last year. Has the change been that significant? Cox has some perspectives about a data center that works entirely by itself, commanded by people from some distant place; Miller has perspectives about Google Kubernetes and Kepes keeps it real. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-13-defining-orchestration-and-drinking-the-docker-kool-aid-at-idf/

In this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, captured at VMworld 2014 in San Francisco, Alex Williams and Virtustream's Chairman & CEO Rodney J. Rogers discuss innovation and competition in the Infrastructure as a Service utility marketplace. Rogers suggests it's the top of the fourth inning of the customer-vendor relationship, and the push is on. Rogers' and Williams' analysis and insights on the current state and future of the industry cover many topics, including hybrid, containerization and the burden of operations. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-12-this-is-not-aws/

On this episode of TNS Analysts, Adrian Cockcroft of Battery Ventures and Christian Gheorghe, CEO of Tidemark, joined co-host Michael Coté and Alex Williams to discuss how executives are adopting the cloud and SaaS platform in particular. Noteworthy: their conversation about the rise of data science in the executive wing and what services management are adopting. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-11-saas-in-the-executive-wing-with-adrian-cockcroft-and-christian-gheorghe/

SAP wants to make its APIs as easy to consume for developers as Twitter or Facebook do for their communities. In this interview with SAP's Joav Bally and Apigee's Ed Anuff, we discuss a new partnership between SAP and Apigee and why marketing and all aspects of a business really have to transform if it wants to play in the API economy. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlMWgexbmG8 Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-10-what-is-sap-in-the-context-of-an-api/

At the Black Hat conference last week, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Adallom's vice president of marketing, Tal Klein; EMC's senior director of trust, Davi Ottenheimer; and Ryan Potter, Fortinet's senior director of strategic alliances, to discuss the security features of Docker. We used this discussion as the starting point for a larger conversation about the rise of application development, the context of trust, and the industry’s overall flawed fascination with making things easy to use. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-9-dockers-inherent-lack-of-security-the-black-hat-view/

In contrast with the news that Rackspace has left the IaaS provider market, the recent earnings reports from Microsoft and Amazon show that these two major players are further settled into this market. But how comfortably? Based on what they reveal about those earnings It's hard to tell, but we can look at their histories. While numerous contenders vie for market share, it seems that Google, Azure and AWS may be settling in for a long, slow, triple duel. Or a stalemate. However it may unfold, it makes for fascinating discussion. Alex Williams and co-host Michael Coté talked with Nancy Gohring about Microsoft Azure's success, what it might mean for AWS, and what it might mean to Apple and other competitors in the cloud. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/kWdNcRacs2k Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-show-8-aws-v-azure/

Docker sold DotCloud to a German company today, shedding its vestiges of the company's origins as a PaaS provider. The sale follows the acquisition of Orchard, the maker of Fig, a multi-host Docker orchestration technology. Docker is already serving as a core to several new PaaS providers. But orchestrating containers for purposes of portability and communication between multiple hosts is what truly could be a critical shift, impacting the basic workflows of companies that for years have used virtual machines for moving and orchestrating applications. In a New Stack Analyst recording last month at DockerCon, there were sure signs that Docker and many other companies see orchestration as significant in the future of the container technology. Joining us were Docker's James Turnbull; Brandon Philips, CTO at CoreOs; Paul Showalter of New Relic; and Lucas Carlson of CenturyLink Labs. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-dockers-future-is-in-the-orchestration/

API ubiquity is, without a doubt, coming. We've rehashed the factors driving this phenomenon any number of times. It's the devices that use APIs and the data we create and deliver through APIs. Everything will need an API, or at least require some way to communicate with other programs and devices. In show 6 of The New Stack Analysts, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Apigee's Sam Ramji and New Relic's Frederic Paul and talked about the way platforms and ecosystems are now being used. We discussed what defines a technology or business platform and how each compares to a brand developing an experience through its API management and partner ecosystem. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-what-comes-with-api-ubiquity/

At DockerCon, Chris Dawson presented the research we did about the popular open source project, Docker. In this first part of our two-hour podcast, Chris presented what he discovered from the data, what it reflects and how the lightweight container technology is being used by the community. Hosts: We were joined by Michael Cote, an analyst at 451 Research, Donnie Berkholz of RedMonk and Chris, a regular contributor to The New Stack. Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-new-stack-analysts-podcast-docker-contributor-analysis/