CoreOS has been in the ecosystem of containerization from the very beginning. In fact it was the first company to introduce an enterprise product (Tectonic) around Kubernetes. Today Kubernetes is everywhere. Even Docker and Cloud Foundry are using it. All three major cloud providers - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine support Kubernetes.

What makes Kubernetes unique? Brandon Philips, CTO and co-founder of CoreOS, explained in an interview, that traditionally Open Source technologies created commoditized alternatives to dominant closed source technologies. Kubernetes has been an exception. “Linux was a competitor to UNIX, Apache web server was a competitor to Apache IIS. What is Kubernetes competing against? There was no closed source product that we were competing against,” said Philips.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c-EQLB_GFjE

CoreOS has been in the ecosystem of containerization from the very beginning. In fact it was the first company to introduce an enterprise product (Tectonic) around Kubernetes. Today Kubernetes is everywhere. Even Docker and Cloud Foundry are using it. All three major cloud providers - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine support Kubernetes.

What makes Kubernetes unique? Brandon Philips, CTO and co-founder of CoreOS, explained in an interview, that traditionally Open Source technologies created commoditized alternatives to dominant closed source technologies. Kubernetes has been an exception. “Linux was a competitor to UNIX, Apache web server was a competitor to Apache IIS. What is Kubernetes competing against? There was no closed source product that we were competing against,” said Philips.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c-EQLB_GFjE

CoreOS has been in the ecosystem of containerization from the very beginning. In fact it was the first company to introduce an enterprise product (Tectonic) around Kubernetes. Today Kubernetes is everywhere. Even Docker and Cloud Foundry are using it. All three major cloud providers - AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Compute Engine support Kubernetes.

What makes Kubernetes unique? Brandon Philips, CTO and co-founder of CoreOS, explained in an interview, that traditionally Open Source technologies created commoditized alternatives to dominant closed source technologies. Kubernetes has been an exception. “Linux was a competitor to UNIX, Apache web server was a competitor to Apache IIS. What is Kubernetes competing against? There was no closed source product that we were competing against,” said Philips.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c-EQLB_GFjE

About three-and-a-half years ago, Cloud Technology Partners (CTP) started working with HPE as change agents to help in how they used and consumed information technology. In one of the use cases, they were asked to work with an HPE team of about 450 developers who were using a particular waterfall method, said Robert Christiansen, vice president of Global Cloud Delivery at CTP in an interview for The New Stack Makers.

Christiansen said CTP started discussing how an approach using more modern development practices could make them more agile and adapt to market changes faster. Last year, HPE acquired CTP, wedding the two companies to further develop[ the hybrid cloud business.

About three-and-a-half years ago, Cloud Technology Partners (CTP) started working with HPE as change agents to help in how they used and consumed information technology. In one of the use cases, they were asked to work with an HPE team of about 450 developers who were using a particular waterfall method, said Robert Christiansen, vice president of Global Cloud Delivery at CTP in an interview for The New Stack Makers.

Christiansen said CTP started discussing how an approach using more modern development practices could make them more agile and adapt to market changes faster. Last year, HPE acquired CTP, wedding the two companies to further develop[ the hybrid cloud business.

About three-and-a-half years ago, Cloud Technology Partners (CTP) started working with HPE as change agents to help in how they used and consumed information technology. In one of the use cases, they were asked to work with an HPE team of about 450 developers who were using a particular waterfall method, said Robert Christiansen, vice president of Global Cloud Delivery at CTP in an interview for The New Stack Makers.

Christiansen said CTP started discussing how an approach using more modern development practices could make them more agile and adapt to market changes faster. Last year, HPE acquired CTP, wedding the two companies to further develop[ the hybrid cloud business.

Containers got rid of all that duplication of the guest OS. It provided the process level isolation. It’s more lightweight and agile. Serverless or ‘Functions as a Services’ (FaaS) is even more exciting because you're now able to take code functions and run them at the granular level. All of the underlying machinery of having containers being spun up using communities is hidden behind the scene. That’s why ‘FaaS’ is becoming so popular.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7vnRbiTT3mQ

Containers got rid of all that duplication of the guest OS. It provided the process level isolation. It’s more lightweight and agile. Serverless or ‘Functions as a Services’ (FaaS) is even more exciting because you're now able to take code functions and run them at the granular level. All of the underlying machinery of having containers being spun up using communities is hidden behind the scene. That’s why ‘FaaS’ is becoming so popular.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7vnRbiTT3mQ

Containers got rid of all that duplication of the guest OS. It provided the process level isolation. It’s more lightweight and agile. Serverless or ‘Functions as a Services’ (FaaS) is even more exciting because you're now able to take code functions and run them at the granular level. All of the underlying machinery of having containers being spun up using communities is hidden behind the scene. That’s why ‘FaaS’ is becoming so popular.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7vnRbiTT3mQ

For this episode of The New Stack Makers, Host TC Currie is joined by Steve Herrod, VC at General Catalyst where he focuses on infrastructure. He recently published an article on LinkedIn called Cloud vs. Edge – This is Not a Cage Match.

“It comes down to the use cases,” Herrod said about the difference between Cloud and Edge computing, "You don’t want your car’s IoT chip to have to go to the cloud before it decides to make the turn, but it’s faster to go to the cloud to crunch a bunch of sensor data from thousands of IoT devices."

Listen in to hear how existing companies are like elephants, where Herrod looks for engineers to staff his startups, recommendations for existing companies wanting to update their stacks, what he sees as the trends for 2018, and which two things about serverless fascinate him.