The New Stack Analysts

From programming languages and frameworks, to components with bridge functionality, “there is so much innovation happening,” according to Sanjay Patil, senior director of industry standards and open source at SAP, who spoke with The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TH0NTvZu8pQ

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-building-platform-continuous-innovation-cloud-foundry/

From programming languages and frameworks, to components with bridge functionality, “there is so much innovation happening,” according to Sanjay Patil, senior director of industry standards and open source at SAP, who spoke with The New Stack’s Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz of 451 Research for this 76th edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.

Dynamics in the market have led to continually changing business requirements, said Patil. “There is this mix of need for continuous innovation, and a lot of choices available at the same time.” In this ever-changing mix, enterprises want to tap into the potential of these new technologies with a platform “that supports leveraging all these innovations in a more meaningful, somewhat predictable manner,” he said.

SAP saw the need for “a platform for continuous innovation that would include continuous development, deployment, maintenance,” said Patil. Consequently, SAP has been building SAP Hana Cloud Platform (HCP), “a platform for application as a service.”

“And that is squarely where we see Cloud Foundry as the underlying technology,” he said. “In short, Cloud Foundry provides the technical underpinning of SAP’s platform as a service offering.”

Stormy Peters, VP of technical evangelism at the Cloud Foundry Foundation, also participated on the podcast panel.

Among the Foundation’s more than 50 member companies are “a whole lot of user companies” that have to move their applications to the cloud, said Peters. Such a company “is looking for a platform that gives it not only all the tools it needs, but also the portability to not feel locked-in, to be able to move from one vendor to the other, so that they can move to the one that’s best for them,” she said.

From Node.js Interactive in Portland, this one’s a frisky discussion that endeavored to focus on the symbiosis of Node.js and Docker. It succeeds not only to inform but also to entertain. The New Stack founder Alex Williams roamed the aisles with microphone à la Phil Donohue while TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson moderated the panel:

Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent

Jacob Groundwater, Product Research Team, New Relic

Matt Hernandez, Product Manager with Modulus

Peter Elger Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at NearForm

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGZa3_bNYZE

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-perfect-storm-node-js-docker/

If containers were originally supposed to be more secure than VMs because they would replace them, how secure will they be now that it appears containers and VMs must co-exist? The New Stack talks with security experts from Docker, Red Hat, Apcera, Intel and CoreOS to find out!

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XQAi1r1qWM

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/the-year-ahead-container-security-and-the-reality-of-virtual-machine-coexistence/

It was a grey drizzly day in December, and the schedulers were maximizing throughput, totally. The New Stack founder Alex Williams, his forehead nuzzled into his trademark fedora in an effort to escape the harsh florescent lights, slipped quickly through the glass doors of the Hilton, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of staticky dust from the light-rail-inlaid streets of Portland, Oregon entering along with him.

Along a mossy path beside a still-affordable southeast craftsman home of deceptive square footage, a neighborhood cat sashays past a streaming HD camera toward a bowl of artisan chow. A macabre grin passed across Williams’ face. “Portnodia,” he thought, to himself at first; later he would do so out loud. But now, in a silent and ceremonious sort of way, he unveiled a comically oversized podcasting microphone and presented it to the group, meeting each in turn with his piercing journalistic stare. With a brush of his mouse finger he powered-up some solid-state storage and hit the “record” button, so as to capture this episode of The New Stack Analysts.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8N_uGTVXO

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-code-gui-keep-node-weird-portland/

If containers were originally supposed to be more secure than VMs because they would replace them, how secure will they be now that it appears containers and VMs must co-exist? The New Stack talks with security experts from Docker, Red Hat, Apcera, Intel and CoreOS to find out!

From Node.js Interactive in Portland, this one’s a frisky discussion that endeavored to focus on the symbiosis of Node.js and Docker. It succeeds not only to inform but also to entertain. The New Stack founder Alex Williams roamed the aisles with microphone à la Phil Donohue while TNS Managing Editor Joab Jackson moderated the panel:

Bryan Cantrill, CTO of Joyent

Jacob Groundwater, Product Research Team, New Relic

Matt Hernandez, Product Manager with Modulus

Peter Elger Co-Founder and Director of Engineering at NearForm

Is Node.js doomed to failure in the enterprise, or is it perfect just the way it is? This is one of the false dichotomies which The New Stack was privileged to help dispel at Node.js Interactive during a short stack with a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams, and Managing Editor Joab Jackson.

An excellent group of participants with a depth of experience in both programming and consulting cut through a stack of pertinent topics, including semantic versioning, the re-unification with io.js, and tooling for collaboration, more of which is needed, everyone agreed, in order for for the enterprise to fully embrace Node.js:

Dan Shaw, CTO and Co-Founder of NodeSource

Ashley Williams, Developer Community and Content Manager at npm, Inc.

Matteo Collina, Software Architect at NearForm

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BCvcRwqazEI

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-node-js-tooling-enterprise-please/

It was a grey drizzly day in December, and the schedulers were maximizing throughput, totally. The New Stack founder Alex Williams, his forehead nuzzled into his trademark fedora in an effort to escape the harsh florescent lights, slipped quickly through the glass doors of the Hilton, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of staticky dust from the light-rail-inlaid streets of Portland, Oregon entering along with him.

The lobby smelt of rain-dampened valet parking mats and savoy cabbage rolls with eggplant, zucchini and jicama in a lemon balm broth. At one end of the hallway a coloured poster advertising the pancake breakfast that had been served and broken down was turned in its now-uselessness to face the wall. Dozens of polished escalators teemed with many of the several-hundred Node.js Interactive 2015 attendees, relieved that the node.js and io.js projects had resolved their differences, and the electric currents sizzled with the release of Node.js v4.0.0.

From inside a partitioned conference room a feline voice was reading out data freshly mined with open source modules. Outside, even through the thick dark wood paneling, could be heard the townsfolk celebrating the Timbers MLS Championship. At the center of an elegant foyer during the peak of an inter-session break Williams met up with his subjects: the blond-bearded Oregon native Max Ogden, the GitHub developer and designer Jessica Lord of the Warner Robins, Georgia Lords, and Carter Thaxton VP Technology of Voicebox Karaoke Lounge.

Along a mossy path beside a still-affordable southeast craftsman home of deceptive square footage, a neighborhood cat sashays past a streaming HD camera toward a bowl of artisan chow. A macabre grin passed across Williams’ face. “Portnodia,” he thought, to himself at first; later he would do so out loud. But now, in a silent and ceremonious sort of way, he unveiled a comically oversized podcasting microphone and presented it to the group, meeting each in turn with his piercing journalistic stare. With a brush of his mouse finger he powered-up some solid-state storage and hit the “record” button, so as to capture this 73rd episode of The New Stack Analysts.

Is Node.js doomed to failure in the enterprise, or is it perfect just the way it is? This is one of the false dichotomies which The New Stack was privileged to help dispel at Node.js Interactive during a short stack with a panel discussion facilitated by The New Stack’s Founder Alex Williams, and Managing Editor Joab Jackson.

An excellent group of participants with a depth of experience in both programming and consulting cut through a stack of pertinent topics, including semantic versioning, the re-unification with io.js, and tooling for collaboration, more of which is needed, everyone agreed, in order for for the enterprise to fully embrace Node.js:

Dan Shaw, CTO and Co-Founder of NodeSource

Ashley Williams, Developer Community and Content Manager at npm, Inc.

Matteo Collina, Software Architect at NearForm