The New Stack Analysts

The state of Docker and the container ecosystem was the touchstone for discussion at The New Stack’s pancake breakfast hosted by Alex Willams at ContainerCon 2015.

Joining Alex were Krishnan Subramanian, Director of OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat, Aneel Lakhani from the marketing team at SignalFx, Erica Windisch, a security engineer at Docker, and Sam Charrington, analyst with The New Stack.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/WOs9eZOxAJI

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-56-the-pancake-breakfast-circuit-comes-to-containercon/

The state of Docker and the container ecosystem was the touchstone for discussion at The New Stack’s pancake breakfast hosted by Alex Willams at ContainerCon 2015.

Joining Alex were Krishnan Subramanian, Director of OpenShift Strategy at Red Hat, Aneel Lakhani from the marketing team at SignalFx, Eric Windisch, a security engineer at Docker, and Sam Charrington, analyst with The New Stack.

As OSCON 2015 was winding down in Portland, Oregon (the home base of The New Stack Founder Alex Williams), Alex convened a panel comprised of co-host Donnie Berkholz (Research Director, Development, DevOps & IT Ops at 451 Research), Adrian Cockcroft (Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures), and Mike Amundsen (Director of API Architecture, API Academy at CA Technologies), to record this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.

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

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-55-google-docker-and-the-state-of-open-source-projects/

As OSCON 2015 was winding down in Portland, Oregon (the home base of The New Stack Founder Alex Williams), Alex convened a panel comprised of co-host Donnie Berkholz (Research Director, Development, DevOps & IT Ops at 451 Research), Adrian Cockcroft (Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures), and Mike Amundsen (Director of API Architecture, API Academy at CA Technologies), to record this episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast.

A lot of great thinkers and makers are all in one place at a conference such as OSCON. For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex Williams gathered several such people at one time, in what he suspects is the largest group he’s assembled yet for a podcast, and in this case bigger is definitely better.

The panel:

Sam Charrington, principal analyst with The New Stack

Casey West, principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal

Jesse Proudman, CTO at Blue Box, An IBM Company

Abby Kearns, Technical Marketing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Sam Ramji, CEO Cloud Foundry Foundation

Klint Finley, Journalist for Wired, The New Stack and Mindful Cyborgs

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ltFnrTCTY

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-54-live-at-oscon-cloud-native-before-and-after-containers/

A lot of great thinkers and makers are all in one place at a conference such as OSCON. For this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, Alex Williams gathered several such people at one time, in what he suspects is the largest group he’s assembled yet for a podcast, and in this case bigger is definitely better.

The panel:

Sam Charrington, principal analyst with The New Stack

Casey West, principal technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal

Jesse Proudman, CTO at Blue Box, An IBM Company

Abby Kearns, Technical Marketing for Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Sam Ramji, CEO Cloud Foundry Foundation

Klint Finley, Journalist for Wired, The New Stack and Mindful Cyborgs

On the eve of OSCON 2015, Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz are joined by Sarah Novotny, technical evangelist and community manager for Nginx (who’s also in her fifth year as OSCON Program Chair), and Casey West, Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal, for this conference-previewing edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8wUavx5a9Q

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-53-previewing-oscon-and-microservices-as-a-metaphor-for-the-broader-community/

On the eve of OSCON 2015, Alex Williams and co-host Donnie Berkholz are joined by Sarah Novotny, technical evangelist and community manager for Nginx (who’s also in her fifth year as OSCON Program Chair), and Casey West, Principal Technologist for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal, for this conference-previewing edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast.

What paths will the Go programming language take? This question is posed to CoreOS CTO and Co-founder Brandon Philips, and DeferPanic Founder Ian Eyberg, at the start of this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded at GopherCon 2015.

“We’re talking about systems that aren’t writing kernels – not writing underlying, low-level bits that are talking directly to hardware – but systems that are interacting across a data center or across the Internet,” says Brandon.

“The cool thing is,” says Brandon, “it’s a piece of technology that’s enabling a lot of interesting research and development in those areas. So you’re seeing time-series databases being built, you’re seeing these consistent databases being built, schedulers, things that talk to and configure network fabric.”

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsA7pTuRHkg

Learn more at: https://thenewstack.io/tns-analysts-show-52-code-genealogy-tooling-evolution-and-the-future-of-go/

What paths will the Go programming language take? This question is posed to CoreOS CTO and Co-founder Brandon Philips, and DeferPanic Founder Ian Eyberg, at the start of this edition of The New Stack Analysts podcast, recorded at GopherCon 2015.

“We’re talking about systems that aren’t writing kernels – not writing underlying, low-level bits that are talking directly to hardware – but systems that are interacting across a data center or across the Internet,” says Brandon.

“The cool thing is,” says Brandon, “it’s a piece of technology that’s enabling a lot of interesting research and development in those areas. So you’re seeing time-series databases being built, you’re seeing these consistent databases being built, schedulers, things that talk to and configure network fabric.”

Ian says that Go has a consistent syntax that’s easy to learn, that he can read it in one environment and then another, and see the same style. Upon learning it, one can read it anywhere, in easy-to-understand terms, says Ian, whereas Erlang, for example, is a language that has some similarities to Go, but it is hard for people to understand what they are looking at when they see it.

People other than those on the language core team are able to import external packages, an idea that Brandon calls good, interesting, and well-thought-out. As the Go language and tooling matures, it can remain lean.

According to Ian, packaging in general has become a contentious issue. As has generics, too, suggests Alex.

“I think a small minority of people have a problem with (generics),” says Ian. “The people that have a problem with a lack of it, they’re so used to a different style of programming from other languages that allow them to mix and match their code freely, even when it might not be the best idea to do that.”