The New Stack Podcast

First came agile. Then came DevOps. Except they only came to a few departments, mainly the traditionally IT ones. What's keeping them from reaching the most extreme realms of tech? According to Luke Marsden, CEO and founder of Dotscience, enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is being held back, in part, because the mathematicians and statisticians behind it are stuck in the days of Waterfall — still emailing code back and forth to each other.

Basically most enterprise AI and machine learning initiatives are stuck at the gate. On this episode of The New Stack Makers, we talk to Marsden about why.

Today on The New Stack Context podcast we talk with Kara de la Marck, open source community manager at CloudBees, about when it makes sense to rely on open source tools and when proprietary alternatives should be considered.

The abundance of tooling in the cloud native ecosystem can be overwhelming as teams weigh which options work best for their business needs, infrastructure and workflows. To help provide a framework for the decision, De la Marck wrote a contributed article this week on “Open Source Tools: The Good, The Bad and The Truth in Between” as a preview of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's upcoming KubeCon and CloudNativeCon San Diego event in a few weeks.

VMware has certainly seen some changes in its corporate structure during the past few years — but today, VMware’s business moves have been especially relevant for developers. Following its agreement to purchase Pivotal in August, for example, VMware continues to try to adapt its open source contributions and services for the ever-evolving needs of the community, with a greater emphasis on Kubernetes. This means VMware is increasingly engaged in offering and creating the tools and platforms developers need for Kubernetes, as well as for other open source projects. 

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast: Kubernetes, open source, the developer experience and new technologies. VMware’s role during the upcoming KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference was also discussed. The guests from VMware on hand to discuss these topics were:

Bryan Liles, senior staff engineer.

Tim Pepper, senior staff engineer.

Tasha Drew, product line manager. 

All three guests are actively engaged in the open source community, and particularly, in improving the Kubernetes experience for DevOps engineers.

Executives from Pivotal joined this latest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast recorded at the SpringOne Platform conference to discuss what the developer experience is like around the world. They were particularly well-suited to offer input about what developers face as customers worldwide since each executive is based in the U.S., Europe and Asia, respectively. The common-thread experiences they described also covered what it's like to deploy software on Kubernetes and CI/CD best practices and tools.

The podcast guests from Pivotal were Lionel Lim, vice president and managing director, Asia Pacific and Japan; Chad Sakac, Americas Sales; Bas Lemmens, vice president and general manager, EMEA.

On this week’s episode of The New Stack Context podcast, we discuss Kubernetes and cloud native storage with NetApp's Business Director for its Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit, Dale Degen, during NetApp's annual user conference this week in Las Vegas, NetApp Insight 2019.

Since its acquisition of StackPointCloud last year, storage giant NetApp has become a leader in Kubernetes management. The NetApp Kubernetes Service provides a control plane for running any commercial or even homegrown Kubernetes distribution. Users can deploy a complete Kubernetes distribution within three clicks. When used in conjunction with NetApp's OnTap storage operating system and Cloud Volumes, users can set up a multicloud Kubernetes deployment.

Then later in the podcast, we chat about the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2019, which was attended by Alex Williams, TNS founder and editor-in-chief. We also discuss some of the top news from the TNS site, including Pivotal's recent Spring Platform conference, some tips for running Kubernetes in production, and the future of serverless and cloud computing.

At least in the tech industry, the word “community” is teetering somewhere between adage and advantage. As developer experience becomes more of a necessity, does building a community have to be part of your business strategy?

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, we sit down with Jono Bacon, community and collaboration strategy consultant, speaker and author. Our conversation unsurprisingly begins with talking about the emerging role of developer relations, developer advocate or developer evangelist. It is often an external-facing role, and yet acts as the liaison among infrastructure, product and marketing. It’s a role that is still rather a fish out of water, often immeasurable and flopped around from department to department.

Stateful data management and storage are set to remain ever-present in IT infrastructures for the foreseeable future. But as containers and Kubernetes take hold, storage management for stateless and multiplatform environments is set to change. This holds true whether your organization employs hundreds of developers spread around the world who regularly spin up stateless containers or if your organization has data spread among multicloud and on-premises legacy environments. In any case, all of this data must be stored somewhere in a stateful form.

At the end of day, all that “state” really means is that “data outlasts containers,” Murli Thirumale, CEO and co-founder of Portworx, said. However, in this era of stateless data, a new kind of storage has emerged.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, recorded during TC Sessions: Enterprise in September in San Francisco, Thirumale described this new era of storage management and Portworx's role in this context as a provider of stateful storage for containers and multiplatform environments.

How does your product change when it scales up in the open source world? How does that change your drive to create a better developer experience? In this episode of The New Stack Makers recorded at the SpringOne Platform conference, The New Stack founder and editor-in-chief Alex Williams sits down with Olga Kundzich, senior product manager for the Spinnaker continuous delivery platform at Pivotal. They discuss the best practices that help drive Pivotal's open source community, and how that informs Spinnaker's roadmap.

It wasn't that long ago when data fabrics were mainly relegated to various strategies organizations had in place for data management. The concept was largely limited to making sure data was where it should be and stored in the right places. Flash forward to today, and data fabrics are very much tied to often mission-critical analysis, often across a mix of multicloud and on-premises environments. DevOps teams, of course, increasingly rely on data fabrics to help support DevOps operations and culture. 

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, Neil Stanley, product manager, data fabric at NetApp Cloud Data Services, and Jason Blosil, senior product marketing manager, cloud solutions, for NetApp, spoke about what data fabric means today, and how NetApp has adapted its architectural approach for modern DevOps challenges.

Welcome to The New Stack Context podcast, where we discuss the week’s hottest news around cloud native technology. On this week’s episode, we discuss one of our favorite yearly events, All Things Open open source conference, held earlier this month in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Our guests for the week are Matthew Broberg, technical editor for Red Hat’s OpenSource.com, and Anais Dotis-Georgiou, who is a developer advocate at InfluxData, as well as a speaker at the conference. We discussed the grassroots independence that makes All Things Open so enjoyable, as well as what open source trends we caught at this year’s show.

Then, later in the show, we discuss some of the top posts and podcasts for the week, including a wide-ranging interview with Pivotal’s Cornelia Davis, a tutorial on how to get the most from the ZFS file system on Ubuntu, how Microsoft has been been making it easier for developers to use Kubernetes, as well as the state of Linux kernel open source after the recent wave of CPU-based vulnerabilities.

Libby Clark, editorial and marketing director at TNS hosted this podcast, along with Alex Williams, TNS founder and editor-in-chief, and Joab Jackson, TNS managing editor.