Joe Kutner is a Software Architect here at Salesforce working on the Heroku Platform. In this episode, I’m sitting down and talking with Joe about Cloud Native Buildpacks and they are powering cloud based deployments and trends like microservices. We talk about their origins at Heroku, and how Kubernetes, Docker, and all sorts of other really cool technology allow developers to convert their apps into images that can be easily served to users. With all of his experience at Heroku, Joe has incredible insights to share with all of us on how Cloud Native Buildpacks have evolved from their beginnings. Tune in to receive great value and learn a lot.

 

Show Highlights:

• How Joe got started at Heroku and what the Heroku platform actually is.
• The impetus of Buildpacks and what they were like in the early days.
• A basic level walk-through from detection to compilation on the Heroku server.
• API competition and how Cloud Native Buildpacks are resolving it.
• Capabilities in the new API that weren’t supported in the old one.
• What Docker and Kubernetes are and how they work with Buildpacks and each other.
• How this technology helps enable microservices.
• The prerequisites to moving your applications to a Cloud Native Buildpack.

 

Links:

1. Joe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codefinger
2. Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekutner/
3. Joe on GitHub: https://github.com/jkutner/

 

Special Update!

Cloud Native Buildpacks have been promoted to incubation.  Read more here: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2020/11/18/toc-approves-cloud-native-buildpacks-from-sandbox-to-incubation/

 

Special shout out in this episode to James Ward (https://twitter.com/_jamesward)

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