The Cloudcast #192 - Pets, Cattle & Chickens

Aaron and Brian talk to Bernard Golden (@, VP of Strategy, ActiveState) about the latest from ActiveState, Bernard's extensive writing experience, as how containers are changing the pets vs. cattle model.

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Links from the show:

• Why the Enterprise Needs Shadow IT to Succeed
• Bernard's Third Platform Article
• Pets, Cattle & Chickens?

Topic 1 - For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - We spoke to Bart almost two years ago about ActiveState, I’m sure a lot has changed… What about containers? (Pets, Cattle, and Chickens blog)

Topic 2.5 - You’re latest article on CIO.com was very interesting. It was about why the Enterprise Needs Shadow IT. Can you tell everyone about it?

Topic 3 - You’ve been very open about your support of public cloud and AWS (you wrote the AWS for Dummies Book). What is your position these days now that you daily work is on the Platform side?

Topic 4 - Talk of growth on third platform going forward (your blog and IDC report), We’ve said many times on this podcast, starve the old, feed the new. How disruptive is third platform compared to traditional IT going forward?

Topic 5 - How and where does PaaS (or just platforms) fit into third platform(s) vs. just straight up microservices/12 factor apps/containers/etc. What are the benefits

Topic 6 - Finally, you worked for George Reese at Enstratus/Enstratius. Is he as grumpy is he is in public on Twitter?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #191 - Cloud Foundry + Netflix OSS

Brian talks to The Pivotal Gang - James Watters (@wattersjames, VP of Cloud Platform), Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) and Michael Cote (@cote) about the latest from Pivotal, Enterprise adoption of PCF, and NetFlix OSS.

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Links from the show:

• Cloud Foundry Summit Sessions on YouTube
• Cloud Foundry Summit Session Slides 
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry

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The Cloudcast #190 - Live from Cloud Foundry Summit

Aaron and Brian talk to Richard Seroter (@rseroter, VP of Product CenturyLink) and Ed Saipetch (@edsai, CenturyLink Office of the CTO & Speaking in Tech Podcast) about the latest in both public and Private PaaS including Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AppFogV2, Iron Foundry, the evolution of Enterprises, and the differences between containers and PaaS

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Links from the show:

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry
• CenturyLink AppFogV2

The Cloudcast #189 - Containers + Data Persistence

Aaron and Brian talk to Clint Kitson (@clintonskitson; Developer Advocate - EMC {code}) about how containers and microservices deal with data persistence, as well as some of the work that he’s doing lately and what other projects are looking at for containers + data.

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Show Notes:

Clint’s Projects:

• GitHub Page - https://github.com/clintonskitson
• RexRay - https://github.com/emccode/rexray
• Dogged - https://github.com/emccode/dogged
• Arrowhead - https://github.com/emccode/arrowhead
• VagrantSpice - https://github.com/emccode/vagrantspice

Topic 1 - Give us a little bit of your background and what some of your focus areas are these days?

Topic 2 - You live in the Bay Area, but also attend events and talk to companies outside the Bay Area. Give us some perspective on how different those world are.

Topic 3 - People have heard of 12-Factor Apps and Microservices. Give us the basics of how they are different from “traditional apps”, especially in the context of using/storage/managing data.

Topic 4 - A while back, I asked you to start digging into the area of “data + containers”, because I wanted to better understand how these new application architectures would deal with persistent data.

Topic 5 - Tell us about some of the project you’re currently working on

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The Cloudcast #188 - The ContainerPocalyse Ahead

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Topic 1 - What have you been up to lately?

Topic 2 - Most interesting feedback you’ve gotten since we pivoted the focus of the show?

Topic 3 - What’s been the most interesting announcements, acquisitions, VC funding for you so far in 2015?

• AWS Earnings Announcement 
• Nebula goes out of business 
• Commercialized Kubernetes and Mesos (Mesosphere, Kismatic, CoreOS) 
• Docker’s Round D funding 
• VMware’s Container Announcement 
• Infrastructure funding levels vs. Software funding levels 
• Interesting Moves by Microsoft (Containers, Linux on Azure, etc.) 

Topic 4 - What’s been the most confusing or surprising announcement or move?

Topic 5 - We usually do end-of-year predictions, but stuff is moving so fast, maybe we should throw out 1 or 2 for the next 3-6 months?

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The Cloudcast #187 - API Performance Monitoring

Aaron talks to John Sheehan (@johnsheehan; CEO of Runscope - @runscope) about the differences between API and application development, testing, performance, and monitoring. Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com) https://www.runscope.com/ https://www.runscope.com/community https://github.com/Runscope

Topic 1 - Briefly about your background on the company and team (John was at Twillio and IFTTT).

Topic 2 - How is API testing different than application testing? How is API Monitoring different from simple uptime monitoring? Who is a typical customer of Runscope, what types of challenges and tests are they solving for?

Topic 3 - Walk us thru how the testing works (you mention "no code needed") through the lifecycle of an application. What are some common problems across different platforms (browsers, OS) or different regions of the world?

Topic 4 - API versioning is a major headache. Anything you do to help simplify or manage that for customers? Don’t you still code as a CEO? Do you feel this pain?

Topic 5 - Runscope has a lot of community based projects (link in show notes). How did this come about and what advantages have you seen through the development of an API community?

Topic 6 - With so many APIs these days what's the best way to get started with API testing?