The New Stack Podcast

Isaac Mosquera, CTO & co-founder at Armory.io sat down to talk testing mircorservices in production with The New Stack San Francisco Correspondent TC Currie as part of The New Stack’s series on Microservices.  

Within Armory platform platform is a product called Canary which is one tool to help test microservices in production.  The name comes from the traditional  miners’ practice of taking a canary with them into coal mines.  When mined, coal can release an odorless toxic gas that would kill miners where they stood.  The canary became an early warning system.  If the canary died, the miners booked it out of there.  

Similarly, Canary, launches a small bit of code into production to see how it effects the system as a whole, and discover is this element introducing a lot more risk into the production environment. “That’s a lot cheaper way to do it than set up manual QA testing to assess the risk,” Mosquera said.

Isaac Mosquera, CTO & co-founder at Armory.io sat down to talk testing mircorservices in production with The New Stack San Francisco Correspondent TC Currie as part of The New Stack’s series on Microservices.  

Within Armory platform platform is a product called Canary which is one tool to help test microservices in production.  The name comes from the traditional  miners’ practice of taking a canary with them into coal mines.  When mined, coal can release an odorless toxic gas that would kill miners where they stood.  The canary became an early warning system.  If the canary died, the miners booked it out of there.  

Similarly, Canary, launches a small bit of code into production to see how it effects the system as a whole, and discover is this element introducing a lot more risk into the production environment. “That’s a lot cheaper way to do it than set up manual QA testing to assess the risk,” Mosquera said.

Back at the end of March, the CNCF accepted a new sandbox project for identity management. The project is called SPIFFE, which stands for  Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. It's being supported by Amazon, Google and Red Hat, but at the center of the project is Scytale, a startup founded specifically for SPIFFE.

Scytale and SPIFFE are the brainchild of Sunil James, who's been in the software industry since the turn of the century. With a resume that dates all the way back to one of the first companies to offer security bug bounties, and time at both Amazon and Google, James has a long view of some of the pain points that have been experienced by teams moving their enterprise environments into rapidly scalable, cloud-based infrastructure.

Back at the end of March, the CNCF accepted a new sandbox project for identity management. The project is called SPIFFE, which stands for  Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. It's being supported by Amazon, Google and Red Hat, but at the center of the project is Scytale, a startup founded specifically for SPIFFE.

Scytale and SPIFFE are the brainchild of Sunil James, who's been in the software industry since the turn of the century. With a resume that dates all the way back to one of the first companies to offer security bug bounties, and time at both Amazon and Google, James has a long view of some of the pain points that have been experienced by teams moving their enterprise environments into rapidly scalable, cloud-based infrastructure.

Back at the end of March, the CNCF accepted a new sandbox project for identity management. The project is called SPIFFE, which stands for  Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone. It's being supported by Amazon, Google and Red Hat, but at the center of the project is Scytale, a startup founded specifically for SPIFFE.

Scytale and SPIFFE are the brainchild of Sunil James, who's been in the software industry since the turn of the century. With a resume that dates all the way back to one of the first companies to offer security bug bounties, and time at both Amazon and Google, James has a long view of some of the pain points that have been experienced by teams moving their enterprise environments into rapidly scalable, cloud-based infrastructure.

When TNS Founder Alex Williams met with Ben Golub and Solomon Hykes at the Doug Fir in Portland, it was 2013 and OSCON was buzzing. Golub had found a home with Docker as CEO, following a successful run leading Gluster, the storage company that sold to Red Hat.

Today, Golub is now the interim CEO at Storj and Hykes just a few weeks ago left Docker.  Their departures are a discussion for another day. But they were leading in opening the market and since 2013, we do know, that containers have been widely adopted. The question now is about application-oriented architectures and the resources that they run on in an ever distributed manner. That is a topic that transcends discussions about containers and into topics that orient on application infrastructure and the influence of data architectures for building new predictive-modeling systems.

When TNS Founder Alex Williams met with Ben Golub and Solomon Hykes at the Doug Fir in Portland, it was 2013 and OSCON was buzzing. Golub had found a home with Docker as CEO, following a successful run leading Gluster, the storage company that sold to Red Hat.

Today, Golub is now the interim CEO at Storj and Hykes just a few weeks ago left Docker.  Their departures are a discussion for another day. But they were leading in opening the market and since 2013, we do know, that containers have been widely adopted. The question now is about application-oriented architectures and the resources that they run on in an ever distributed manner. That is a topic that transcends discussions about containers and into topics that orient on application infrastructure and the influence of data architectures for building new predictive-modeling systems.

When TNS Founder Alex Williams met with Ben Golub and Solomon Hykes at the Doug Fir in Portland, it was 2013 and OSCON was buzzing. Golub had found a home with Docker as CEO, following a successful run leading Gluster, the storage company that sold to Red Hat.

Today, Golub is now the interim CEO at Storj and Hykes just a few weeks ago left Docker.  Their departures are a discussion for another day. But they were leading in opening the market and since 2013, we do know, that containers have been widely adopted. The question now is about application-oriented architectures and the resources that they run on in an ever distributed manner. That is a topic that transcends discussions about containers and into topics that orient on application infrastructure and the influence of data architectures for building new predictive-modeling systems.

Naveed Anwar, Managing Vice President of Global Platform, Strategic Partnerships, Integrations & Developer Community at Capital One said at SXSW that the core strength of technology architecture comes with the first building block and that’s the development of a great team.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Anwar discusses who Capital One hires, what they are looking for and how teams at Capital One execute on projects.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/02ECl37ZUsg

Naveed Anwar, Managing Vice President of Global Platform, Strategic Partnerships, Integrations & Developer Community at Capital One said at SXSW that the core strength of technology architecture comes with the first building block and that’s the development of a great team.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers, Anwar discusses who Capital One hires, what they are looking for and how teams at Capital One execute on projects.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/02ECl37ZUsg