The New Stack Podcast

Like a lot of startups, CircleCI started with a monolith, running on Amazon Web Services (AWS). But there was only so much that could be done to keep the monolith performing when by 2015 the company started to scale. CircleCI had built its own job scheduler in 2011 because there was nothing on the market that matched what they needed. On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS Founder Alex Williams caught up with CircleCI's CTO Rob Zuber in a live-streamed discussion to dig deeper into the architecture workings behind the organization. 

By 2015, the company had made a conscious decision to use third=party tools instead of building their own, including Kubernetes, Docker containers, AWS, and Nomad. In managing Kuberenetes on AWS, Zuber noted that CircleCI has faced some issues as Kubernetes is not officially supported by AWS, but that the overall experience has been positive.

“In terms of managing our own infrastructure, what mattered to us was the ecosystem. Kubernetes is a scheduler, but with it are all of these tools people have built to help us do our job. It was becoming pretty clear Kubernetes was a leader in terms of the amount of support it was getting.”

Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNoB6gohAY8

At the Cloud Foundry Summit, the story is about developers as the heroes. They're the ones who make the platforms. They are akin to the engineers who played such a pivotal role in designing the railroads, or in modern times made the smartphone possible. This means a more important role for developer advocates who, at Google, are spending a lot more time with customers. These subject matter experts are helping developers build out their platforms. They are gathering data to develop feedback loops that flow back into open source communities for ongoing development.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Google Program Manager of Developer Relations Kim Bannerman to discuss her role at Google, and how working in the cloud continues to shape the way today's organizations are doing business.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FZCwDTFAq3o

At the Cloud Foundry Summit, the story is about developers as the heroes. They're the ones who make the platforms. They are akin to the engineers who played such a pivotal role in designing the railroads, or in modern times made the smartphone possible. This means a more important role for developer advocates who, at Google, are spending a lot more time with customers. These subject matter experts are helping developers build out their platforms. They are gathering data to develop feedback loops that flow back into open source communities for ongoing development.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Google Program Manager of Developer Relations Kim Bannerman to discuss her role at Google, and how working in the cloud continues to shape the way today's organizations are doing business.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FZCwDTFAq3o

At the Cloud Foundry Summit, the story is about developers as the heroes. They're the ones who make the platforms. They are akin to the engineers who played such a pivotal role in designing the railroads, or in modern times made the smartphone possible. This means a more important role for developer advocates who, at Google, are spending a lot more time with customers. These subject matter experts are helping developers build out their platforms. They are gathering data to develop feedback loops that flow back into open source communities for ongoing development.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Google Program Manager of Developer Relations Kim Bannerman to discuss her role at Google, and how working in the cloud continues to shape the way today's organizations are doing business.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FZCwDTFAq3o

At the Cloud Foundry Summit, the story is about developers as the heroes. They're the ones who make the platforms. They are akin to the engineers who played such a pivotal role in designing the railroads, or in modern times made the smartphone possible. This means a more important role for developer advocates who, at Google, are spending a lot more time with customers. These subject matter experts are helping developers build out their platforms. They are gathering data to develop feedback loops that flow back into open source communities for ongoing development.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS Founder Alex Williams sat down with Google Program Manager of Developer Relations Kim Bannerman to discuss her role at Google, and how working in the cloud continues to shape the way today's organizations are doing business.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FZCwDTFAq3o

How do data-driven apps work in context with Cloud Foundry? That's a question that is starting to surface as organizations start to see how technologies, such as TensorFlow, are getting more attention from developers eager to explore the boundaries for how data can be used to drive a new generation of apps and services.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, Pivotal Principal Product Manager Scott Truitt spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe to learn more about how data-driven applications are being put to use in today's businesses.

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

How do data-driven apps work in context with Cloud Foundry? That's a question that is starting to surface as organizations start to see how technologies, such as TensorFlow, are getting more attention from developers eager to explore the boundaries for how data can be used to drive a new generation of apps and services.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, Pivotal Principal Product Manager Scott Truitt spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe to learn more about how data-driven applications are being put to use in today's businesses.

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

How do data-driven apps work in context with Cloud Foundry? That's a question that is starting to surface as organizations start to see how technologies, such as TensorFlow, are getting more attention from developers eager to explore the boundaries for how data can be used to drive a new generation of apps and services.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, Pivotal Principal Product Manager Scott Truitt spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe to learn more about how data-driven applications are being put to use in today's businesses.

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

How do data-driven apps work in context with Cloud Foundry? That's a question that is starting to surface as organizations start to see how technologies, such as TensorFlow, are getting more attention from developers eager to explore the boundaries for how data can be used to drive a new generation of apps and services.

On today's episode of The New Stack Makers, Pivotal Principal Product Manager Scott Truitt spoke with TNS Founder Alex Williams at Cloud Foundry Summit Europe to learn more about how data-driven applications are being put to use in today's businesses.

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

Maybe there is no single path to DevOps nirvana, and no one way of implementing continuous integration. That's the eye-opening conclusion reached by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, founder and CEO of DevOps Research and Assessment, LLC, in a wide-ranging conversation with The New Stack Scott Fulton at PagerDuty Summit 2017 in San Francisco.

Technology such as serverless architecture, she said, may very well abstract away the details of operations from the task of software development. But if it all ends up delivering positive value for the customer in the end, Dr. Forsgren asks, then who cares how or why? The co-author of the State of DevOps report, published annually by Puppet, goes so far as to suggest that for any two organizations, DevOps may not have one state.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6-QG12yOZmc