The New Stack Podcast

“We developed Cloud Custodian to give us a sort of unified view of, and enforcement of, all the policies that are happening in an AWS public cloud account,” explained Capital One Senior Distinguished Engineer Kapil Thangavelu, in a conversation with Alex Williams from the recent O’Reilly Open Source conference for The New Stack Makers.

Developers, Thangavelu told us, tend to do silly things – for example, leaving whole portions of their databases public.  As Capital One built out its containerization strategy, its engineers found themselves devising scripts for ensuring that these stupid things don’t yield catastrophic results.  But these were case-by-case instances, involving YAML and Python, and soon they needed a way to apply more generic scripts to wider sets of criteria, to enforce policies and apply guardrails as developers wandered into unexplored territories.

Listen now to 'Cloud Custodian and Capital One Ask, What's In Your Amazon Cloud?' — the latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e2lT2i7zqOM

“We developed Cloud Custodian to give us a sort of unified view of, and enforcement of, all the policies that are happening in an AWS public cloud account,” explained Capital One Senior Distinguished Engineer Kapil Thangavelu, in a conversation with Alex Williams from the recent O’Reilly Open Source conference for The New Stack Makers.

Developers, Thangavelu told us, tend to do silly things – for example, leaving whole portions of their databases public.  As Capital One built out its containerization strategy, its engineers found themselves devising scripts for ensuring that these stupid things don’t yield catastrophic results.  But these were case-by-case instances, involving YAML and Python, and soon they needed a way to apply more generic scripts to wider sets of criteria, to enforce policies and apply guardrails as developers wandered into unexplored territories.

Listen now to 'Cloud Custodian and Capital One Ask, What's In Your Amazon Cloud?' — the latest edition of The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e2lT2i7zqOM

An effort has been under way at SAP to investigate one open source platform — Cloud Foundry — well before its official stance on open source technology was famously reversed.  As Bernd Krannich, the technical lead for SAP’s cloud platform, told The New Stack’s Alex Williams, his colleagues began investigating Cloud Foundry as early as 2011.  According to Krannich, it was VMware, which gave birth to Cloud Foundry, that started the process that brought SAP into the open source fold.

What tipped the scales for SAP actually embracing Cloud Foundry, was its customers’ need, and its own departments’ need, for enabling microservices architecture.  Krannich told us that, as SAP customers more accurately define for themselves the services they want users to be able to consume, those services evolve into microservices.  SaaS applications are then built atop that layer, perhaps on Cloud Foundry, perhaps on SAP’s own PaaS.

Listen now to SAP: Microservices Drove the Need for Cloud Foundry, the latest edition of The New Stack Makers from the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

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

An effort has been under way at SAP to investigate one open source platform — Cloud Foundry — well before its official stance on open source technology was famously reversed.  As Bernd Krannich, the technical lead for SAP’s cloud platform, told The New Stack’s Alex Williams, his colleagues began investigating Cloud Foundry as early as 2011.  According to Krannich, it was VMware, which gave birth to Cloud Foundry, that started the process that brought SAP into the open source fold.

What tipped the scales for SAP actually embracing Cloud Foundry, was its customers’ need, and its own departments’ need, for enabling microservices architecture.  Krannich told us that, as SAP customers more accurately define for themselves the services they want users to be able to consume, those services evolve into microservices.  SaaS applications are then built atop that layer, perhaps on Cloud Foundry, perhaps on SAP’s own PaaS.

Listen now to SAP: Microservices Drove the Need for Cloud Foundry, the latest edition of The New Stack Makers from the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

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

An effort has been under way at SAP to investigate one open source platform — Cloud Foundry — well before its official stance on open source technology was famously reversed.  As Bernd Krannich, the technical lead for SAP’s cloud platform, told The New Stack’s Alex Williams, his colleagues began investigating Cloud Foundry as early as 2011.  According to Krannich, it was VMware, which gave birth to Cloud Foundry, that started the process that brought SAP into the open source fold.

What tipped the scales for SAP actually embracing Cloud Foundry, was its customers’ need, and its own departments’ need, for enabling microservices architecture.  Krannich told us that, as SAP customers more accurately define for themselves the services they want users to be able to consume, those services evolve into microservices.  SaaS applications are then built atop that layer, perhaps on Cloud Foundry, perhaps on SAP’s own PaaS.

Listen now to SAP: Microservices Drove the Need for Cloud Foundry, the latest edition of The New Stack Makers from the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

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

There are a number of new methodologies being applied to software development teams.  One is based around the ideal that the platform can enable small development teams to build applications on an experimental basis: trying what might work, to determine what does work.  It’s a method that requires a willingness among executives and senior managers to trust that solutions can be found by doing.

Hear more about how Brian Gregory and his Express Scripts team are facing down the huge challenge of facilitating process building for their enterprise.  Listen to With Speed Comes Challenges in App Development that Test Security Practices — the latest edition of The New Stack Makers from the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

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

There are a number of new methodologies being applied to software development teams.  One is based around the ideal that the platform can enable small development teams to build applications on an experimental basis: trying what might work, to determine what does work.  It’s a method that requires a willingness among executives and senior managers to trust that solutions can be found by doing.

Hear more about how Brian Gregory and his Express Scripts team are facing down the huge challenge of facilitating process building for their enterprise.  Listen to With Speed Comes Challenges in App Development that Test Security Practices — the latest edition of The New Stack Makers from the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

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

There are a number of new methodologies being applied to software development teams.  One is based around the ideal that the platform can enable small development teams to build applications on an experimental basis: trying what might work, to determine what does work.  It’s a method that requires a willingness among executives and senior managers to trust that solutions can be found by doing.

Hear more about how Brian Gregory and his Express Scripts team are facing down the huge challenge of facilitating process building for their enterprise.  Listen to With Speed Comes Challenges in App Development that Test Security Practices — the latest edition of The New Stack Makers from the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

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

Up to this point, we haven’t talked a lot about Equinix here in The New Stack. From a data center operator’s perspective, that’s a bit like discussing the solar system but avoiding mention of Jupiter. For a great many IT professionals, Equinix is a daily subject of consideration, a fact of their lives, like electricity and coffee.

“Equinix was a company that was historically peer-to-peer networking,” explained Equinix’ director of global solutions marketing, Lauren Cooney, in an interview with Alex Williams for The New Stack Makers, “where data centers would be the place where all the traffic would come. And they would exchange capacity, and things along those lines.

Hear more about how Equinix is assembling its softer, more abstract, data center connection strategy in How Equinix is Architecting the Digital Edge, part of The New Stack Makers recorded at the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qf98Pbw-Y7Y

Up to this point, we haven’t talked a lot about Equinix here in The New Stack. From a data center operator’s perspective, that’s a bit like discussing the solar system but avoiding mention of Jupiter. For a great many IT professionals, Equinix is a daily subject of consideration, a fact of their lives, like electricity and coffee.

“Equinix was a company that was historically peer-to-peer networking,” explained Equinix’ director of global solutions marketing, Lauren Cooney, in an interview with Alex Williams for The New Stack Makers, “where data centers would be the place where all the traffic would come. And they would exchange capacity, and things along those lines.

Hear more about how Equinix is assembling its softer, more abstract, data center connection strategy in How Equinix is Architecting the Digital Edge, part of The New Stack Makers recorded at the last Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qf98Pbw-Y7Y