Pivotal Podcasts

Mark Heckler talks with Cora Iberkleid about two of her SpringOnePlatform talks: "Square Pegs, Square Holes: CI/CD That Fits" and "Reactive Architectures with RSocket and Spring Cloud Gateway." SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th and 10th in Austin, Texas. Register before August 20th to get a comfy, $200 discount by using discount code S1P200_MHeckler.

Mark Heckler talks with Zoe Vance about two of her SpringOnePlatform talks: "RabbitMQ and Kafka" and "Building Reliable Services on Kubernetes." SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th and 10th in Austin, Texas. Register before August 20th to get a comfy, $200 discount by using discount code S1P200_MHeckler.

This week, Mark Heckler talks with Madhura Bhave about her talk at SpringOne Platform 2019, "How to Get Productive with Spring Boot." SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th and 10th in Austin, Texas. Register before August 20th to get a comfy discount, or listen to this episode to hear a discount code that'll shave off $200.

This week, Mark Heckler talks with Ria Stein about her talk at SpringOne Platform 2019, "Hello, Spring Security 5.2." SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th and 10th in Austin, Texas. Register before August 20th to get a comfy discount, or listen to this episode to hear a discount code that'll shave off $200.

This week, Mark Heckler talks with Trisha Gee about her talk at SpringOne Platform 2019, "Fully Reactive: Spring, Kotlin, and JavaFX Playing Together." SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th and 10th in Austin, Texas. Register before August 20th to get a comfy discount, or listen to this episode to hear a discount code that'll shave off $200.

Analysts relations, kubernetes for konservative konsumers, and pig brains, with Rita Manachi We've got Rita Manachi back this week to talk about industry analysts in the tech world. As ever, we discuss some relevant news first - lots of VMware! - and then talk with Rita about the in's and out's of working with analysts. Also, we discuss some actual industry trends like kubernetes and how analysts have looked at and advised around it over recent years. And, remember: SpringOne Platform is coming up on Oct 7th to 10th in lovely Austin, Texas. Register with the code S1P200_Cote to get $200 off!

This week, Mark Heckler talks with Olga Maciaszek-Sharmaabout her talk at SpringOne Platform 2019, "How to Live in a Post–Spring Cloud Netflix World." SpringOne Platform is Oct 7th and 10th in Austin, Texas. Register before August 20th to get a comfy discount, or listen to this episode to hear a discount code that'll shave off $200.

Transforming an IT organization from within is notoriously difficult, sometimes impossible. Instead, when going through digital transformation, many organizations decide to create brand new groups that can start from scratch. This sounds, easy, of course, but is full of all sorts of small tactics and moves that add up to big change. In this interview from Pivotal Paris 2019, Coté talks with Accenture's Regis Allegre about Accenture's program to help companies put New Tech Foundries in place. Don't forget to check out our upcoming conference, SpringOne Platform. It's in Austin, Texas, October 7th to 10th. Use the discount code S1P200_Coté for $200 off (make sure to get the accented e in there).

In our last podcast on chaos engineering with Tammy Butow , we learned about the basic concepts of chaos engineering, failure injection, and "game days." This time, Derrick Harris interviews Karun Chennuri (@karunchennuri) and Ramesh Krishnaram (@RKrishnaram) of T-Mobile about how they are applying this at T-Mobile, where they are running about 3,000 applications and nearly 40,000 containers on Pivotal Cloud Foundry-based platform. What they learned is that chaos engineering tools are not one-sized fits all. Read the full show notes here: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/making-chaos-engineering-real-for-pcf-at-t-mobile

This week, we talk about Pivotal's recent announcements about alphas for running several parts of PCF on kubernetes. We also discuss proper taco eating technique and why Coté is part of the global warming problem, probably. Don't forget to check out SpringOne Platform, Pivotal's annual conference. It's October 7th to 9th in lovely Austin, Texas. You can $200 off registration if you sign up before August 20th.

We've all seen those Net Promoter Score (NPS) surveys ("On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product or service...") in our consumer lives. But what if platform teams collected NPS as a metric for developer satisfaction? In this episode, Mick Pollard (@aussielunix, which I totally mispronounced as "aussie linux"... think UNIX!) shares how using NPS shifted the mindset of a platform team. Instead of measuring on velocity, the team ran a simple NPS survey and was shocked at what they found. Mick shares what the NPS represents, as well as how to go about running the survey. He also shares what needs to happen before and after the survey to build trust with developers and turn the metric into impact. Tune in to hear his recipe for success. For complete show notes, go here: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/the-art-and-science-of-developer-net-promoter-scores-for-platform-teams

This week, we've got another profile of an application that's benefited from being a product, not just a project. I talk with Franck Liso about Protostellar's logistics business and one of the applications that runs the business. As Franck tells it, the application needed a fresh, well designed second version to extend Protostellar reach beyond just one port. We focus on talking through the design process that used small batches to validate features rather than large, big batches. It's a good example of why doing less code more frequently results in better, more useful software.

Designers play a critical role in software development. They impact not just what users see on the screen, but impact important decisions about product direction. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Nate Clinton, managing director at Designit, a unit of Wipro, and Tim McCoy, Senior Director of Design at Pivotal, talk about the evolution of design thinking in software development and share best practices for designing modern software.

Validating your assumptions about app features is one of the core benefits of proper product thinking. This means testing out your design theories, but also testing out higher level, strategic questions. Pivotal's Alex Tran walks us through it all. He also goes over a few examples, mapping metrics to design, discover and framing (D&F), and discusses the idea of product vs. project.

In 2017, Rachel Stephens of Redmonk wrote a great piece about how technical debt is an incomplete analogy. But she agrees that it shouldn't be abandoned. In this episode, she and I expound on the analogy to its breaking points, including liquidity, derivatives, and the perpetual state of refinancing we're all in. See full show notes at: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/continuous-refinancing-of-your-tech-debt-with-rachel-stephens-of-redmonk Register for SpringOne Platform today and save an extra $200 with S1P200_DDREWITZ.

The platform team at The Home Depot has many years of experience running Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Returning guest Tony McCully tells us how it's being used and managed now, plus some compliance automation and process tuning the team has been working on. We also discuss how the team is thinking about using kubernetes. Also, egg salad, carrots, and mustard.

At CF Summit 2019 in Philadelphia, I sat down with Jon Ravenscraft (@Jon_Ravenscraft) and Nick Kuhn (@tehkuhnz ) from Kroger to see what was interesting to them from the event and what was on their list to play around with once they got back home. What ensued was a survey of the many ways that Cloud Foundry is evolving. From Eirini, to Buildpacks, to ISM, to Knative.. they all come back to making developers productive. See the complete show notes and links to Jon and Nick's favorite talks from CF Summit at: Article URL: https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/making-the-right-thing-easy-with-jon-ravenscraft-and-nick-kuhn-of-kroger

What's life without a little chaos? And why not a little chaos impacting your production systems? Sounds scary, but turns out intentionally introducing random errors into production systems helps identify vulnerabilities so you can do something about them before they result in major disruptions. In this episode of Pivotal Conversations, Gremlin's Tammy Butow, one of the leading practitioners of chaos engineering (as the practice is known), talks about the benefits of and shares best practices for introducing chaos to your production systems.

In this episode, Captain Bryon Kroger of the U.S. Air Force's Kessel Run dispells myths about the so-called "frozen middle," and finding resistance—and support—from all levels in an organization. He also shares some of the practices he's used to retain support for ongoing change, including growth boards and collecting feedback quickly.

This week I've got a discussion about DevOps I had with Nate and Paul. I've been curious about the changing nature of DevOps as SRE and platform operations comes into vogue. It seems like the idea of "full stack" DevOps is being dimension...and maybe DevOps itself? Maybe now it's just OpsOps. We also talk about enterprise architecture and governance in the age of decoupled, event-driven, microservices. And somewhere in there, we talk about how culture gets changed and who needs to do it.