Loggly CTO Jon Gifford talks with Andy about the concept of logging as a service and how it allows for easier log management and manipulation. The scale of what can be done simultaneously (and stably) within large systems is truly exciting. Learn the details of how Loggly does what it does, how it's different from what you've used before, and where it's going in the future.

The Red Hat principal software engineer and open source evangelist explains how Arquillian eases integration testing by providing a test harness to abstract away container life cycle and deployment from test logic.

IBM blogger/tech evangelist Todd "Turbo" Watson is my guest on TWOdW and does about 3 minutes each on the following: a five-year cyber security exposure that impacted 74 organizations and governments around the world; the IBM - Google 1000 patent deal; the 30th birthday for the IBM PC.

Considering moving into the cloud? This podcast, with developerWorks contributor and automation expert Paul Duvall, details the many considerations and options a company must investigate to migrate its infrastructure smoothly and safely.

Bradford Stephens is Co-Chair of OSCON Data and CEO of Drawn to Scale, creators of Spire, the "Real-Time Big Data" cloud Platform. Bradford discusses why we need ways of handling very large distributed data sets, why SQL doesn't quite work anymore, and the possibilities that lie at the intersection of structured and unstructured data.

Steve Chin is Chief Agile Methodologist with GXS and organizer of the Java track at OSCON. Steve talks about JVM languages, the effect of non-Java JVM languages on the Java ecosystem, and why a Java skillset is now an on-ramp to bleeding-edge platforms.

Edd is Lead Architect, Conferences, for O'Reilly Media and a former regular contributor to developerWorks. Edd discusses how OSCON has changed over the years, how the Java platform is ideal for big data and cloud computing architectures, and which languages are helping to bring functional programming into its own.

Gary Barnett is a partner and CTO with IT analyst firm, The Bathwick Group, and specializes in software development and middleware. In Part 2, more on the value of developerWorks, knowledge paths, and the IBM Champion program.

Gary Barnett is a partner and CTO with IT analyst firm, The Bathwick Group, and specializes in software development and middleware. In Part 1, Gary talks about trends, the evolution of collaboration technology, and increasing demand for and importance of soft skills.

Does your language of choice allow you to express yourself more effectively? Dr. Nic Williams believes so, especially when the language is Ruby / JRuby. Listen in as Nic discusses Ruby — its efficiency, syntax, and happiness factor — that makes it such a useful language for web applications and the cloud.