Enterprise Initiatives

Our guest on the podcast this week is Ben Bernstein, CEO and Co-founder of Twistlock. We discuss the myths surrounding the security of applications in containers in the cloud and advice for people just starting a container initiative.

We discuss why Vanguard went to the public cloud, the value of DevOps and best practices for IT leaders who are just getting started on their cloud initiative.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Issy Ben-Shaul, Co-Founder & CEO at Velostrata. We discuss the difference between hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. Hybrid is anything that’s not just one cloud provider, which includes multi-cloud. Multi-cloud is a strategy where some workloads are running on one cloud, some on another. One trend we see is that big enterprises are splitting workloads more and more between at least two major public clouds for a multi-cloud strategy. According to Gartner, 70% of enterprises will be implementing a multi-cloud strategy by 2019. Some do it because they are mandated by regulators to have more than one cloud. Others are deciding they can’t put all eggs in one basket and want the flexibility to use multiple different vendors. Companies used to look at cloud as a data center and it was all about IaaS. Now it’s becoming more and more abstract: PaaS, containers as a service, microservices, functions as a service, IoT developer kits, and edge computing are just the beginning. It seems that the more mature a company is in the cloud, the further up that stack they go. Where is all this going? Customers are looking for operational efficiencies, cost savings and more productivity and agility. In conclusion, there is no question customers will slowly continue to adopt these new technologies.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Don Duet, President and COO at Vapor IO. We discuss the many definitions floating around for what edge computing is. Some call it fog computing or MEC (mobile edge computing). It is simple. It is a perspective that as the shift goes from wireless networks and person-to-person interaction to machine-to-machine interaction, underlying architectures must change along with that shift. For things like IoT and distributed data, they require reliability and speed at the source. Increased embeddedness from IoT to healthcare, finance to automotives requires lower latency and need solutions that are mass-scaled to meet distribution requirements. There are many use-cases for edge computing. Many often think first of Fitbits or Amazon Echos. However, it is transforming enterprises and changing entire business models based on the access to real-time data on the edge. It’s used in places like industrial IoT where sensors and sound collection takes place in factories. Managing these at the source helps solve scalability issues. Hospitals are transforming into mobile computing labs. As this technology enters the operating room, it needs to be 100% reliable and fast because lives are on the line. Last, autonomous vehicles and drones use edge computing. Decision-making is brought closer to the device, reducing steps of communication that can result in errors or latency and could cause accidents. Clearly, edge computing is the future in many budding industries.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Shannon Williams, Co-Founder and VP, Sales at Rancher Labs. We discuss how Kubernetes has won the war as a leader in orchestration. However, it is still not easy to use or maintain. We explore what organizations need to consider to build operational efficiencies around the technology. Kubernetes, Docker, and containers are very different from something like VMware and Amazon in terms of adoption. When new technology comes into an organization, they usually would quickly become an IT-led project. With containers, they are more like Puppet, Chef, and Ansible. They pop up in clusters around the organization, started directly by DevOps teams, developers, and users.  A lot of times they already exist scattered around an organization and need a framework or logic to manage it all. That is what Rancher does, they act as a services platform to help manage many clusters. Key Considerations for Kubernetes We talk about the key considerations organizations need to think about when trying to deploy Kubernetes across multiple clusters across multi-cloud. Some key points are: Understanding expectations of scale Where will you be running it How to make it highly available Understanding your organization’s tolerance for failure What many don’t realize is that often organizations are running Kubernetes in conjunction with legacy technologies. If you keep up with cloud news, it can sometimes seem like everyone is using the latest technology. In reality, many organizations still use legacy technology like VMs and only make small incremental changes. The two biggest place Rancher runs containers is on VMware and on Amazon. In summary, Kubernetes may prolong the life of legacy technologies like VMware.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Brian Gracely, Director of Product Strategy at Red Hat. Brian discusses a small bank in Ohio and how they have a business use-case for Kubernetes. Because Kubernetes was built to manage Google-sized technology, it is surprising that there is a reason to apply it to a small brick and mortar bank just starting with web and mobile. What they noticed in the switch is that because customers get paid on Fridays and are more likely to check if they got paid on their personal mobile device, as soon as they launched mobile their Friday traffic soared. For just one fifth of business days, Fridays received ten times the amount of traffic as any other day. This unexpected spiky traffic pattern was a great use-case for Kubernetes. Kubernetes was built to deal with problems like that, even at small businesses. We also look at the state of the big three orchestration engines: Kubernetes, Mesos, and Swarm. Kubernetes and Mesos began as internal projects from larger companies. Mesos began in 2014 as a container scheduler Twitter was  using to manage its own containers. They released it as open-source, so a community began to form around that. It focused on big data elements because of their applications to Twitter. To this day, Mesos is still preferred to run big data applications compared to the other two. Kubernetes began as Google’s Borg technology, used internally then released open-source. It was focused on the 80/20 type of use-cases such as batch use-cases and container use-cases. What happens when open-source solutions are released is that the community flocks to one and Kubernetes won more of the community than any solution. With a strong community, Kubernetes is better suited to work with many different types of applications. Last, Docker came out with Swarm to compete in the market. They keep things as simple as possible to get a few containers clustered together. Swarm has evolved to work mostly around Docker’s data center products. Tracking this industry over time reveals how containers have evolved to having use-cases in enterprises of all sizes.

We discuss RightScale’s State of the Cloud report analyzing trends in the cloud. RightScale helps customers adopt cloud by helping them with a cloud management and optimization. This is the sixth year of the report so we can start to see trends over time now and there were a few interesting takeaways this year. In the report, RightScale asks two big questions for enterprises. First is about cloud strategy and what their intention is on cloud – to use private, public, or combinations of those. Second, they are asked about what they use today for private or public clouds. From a strategy point of view, people are still focused on multi-cloud with a special focus on hybrid cloud. In strategy, there was a shift away from private-only strategies. Fewer people were saying they plan to use only private cloud or multiple private clouds as their strategies. On adoption, there was a slight drop in people who are already using private cloud from 77% last year down to 72% this year. This may indicate companies who had tried to build their own private cloud with Openstack, and are now backing off from that strategy. The survey found that the average company leverages about four different cloud vendors. This a result of a combination of acquisitions of companies that use different cloud providers and a strategy to leverage different cloud providers. Rightscale asked people for a list of public and private clouds they are running applications on (focused on IaaS and PaaS, not SaaS) and whether they’re experimenting with particular public and private clouds. They found that among people that are using at least one public cloud, they’re running applications in 1.8 public clouds. They are typically experimenting with another 1.8 clouds. Even if they are not using one of the big cloud vendors, they are often at least experimenting with it. The ones that are adopting private cloud are reporting about 2.3 different private clouds.   For top challenges this year there was a three-way tie between security, spend and skills (access to skilled resources). Last year skills was highest and it has dropped a bit this year. The people in IT who are concerned about security has been declining each year. Among enterprises, in 2017 over 35% rated cloud security as a significant challenge, and six years ago that number was about 10% higher. We have now reached a tipping point where people realize that when done right, cloud can be as secure if not more secure than a traditional data center. As people adopt public cloud, the cost has been increasing and companies are starting to realize they are inefficient with their spend. On average companies believe they are wasting 30% of their cloud spend. RightScale has found that 30-45% or more is typically what companies are wasting on their cloud spend. The survey found that the more mature a cloud instance is, the more important spend becomes. This year Docker has moved into first place in the list of tools RightScale researches, and while all tools had an increase in usage, Chef and Puppet had a decrease in usage. The survey specifically focuses on configuration management tools and container tools. Docker usage moved from 13% in 2015 to 27% in 2016 to 35% this year, while Chef and Puppet each dropped about 4% this year. The other big increase seen this year was in Kubernetes, which doubled from 7% last year to 14% this year and seems to be in the lead for scheduling and orchestration tools. There is an early trend RightScale noticed that people are starting to use Docker to take advantage of the temporary instances from the cloud providers such as AWS Spot or Google Preemptibles. For people looking to use those, which can mean 70-90% savings on demand, they need the ability to be very portable when they lose their temporary instances, so using Docker along with a container as a service can be helpful in saving those costs. We look at predictions for next year’s State of the Cloud report. Private cloud will likely continue to be under pressure, though we may see a slight uptick with VMware on AWS. It is likely that Docker will continue to grow and that the cost of the cloud will continue to be an ongoing challenge for enterprises.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Gene Kim, DevOps expert and author at "The Phoenix Project" and "The DevOps Handbook." We discuss “The DevOps Handbook”, which was started over five and a half years ago and released in October 2016. Gene co-wrote the book with Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, and John Willis. The book includes over 48 case studies that range from unicorns like Google, Amazon, Facebook, but also horses like Nordstrom, Target, and Capital One. Many of the case studies came from the DevOps Enterprise Summit. The book has discussions of both greenfield and brownfield deployments, even touching on mainframes. The most common question enterprises ask about DevOps is: Where do we start? “The DevOps Handbook” starts with a chapter on starting with DevOps by picking the right value stream. The research started by looking at where successful unicorns and horses started with their DevOps initiatives. They also look at the failed DevOps initiatives to learn what to avoid. Failures can be categorized in two ways: starting too small or starting too big. Initiatives that start too small often start with a simple Chef or Puppet project end up looking like like more of a hobby. When they finish the project, they haven’t actually proven anything and the project gets easily dismissed. Initiatives that start too large often choose something too critical to the operations of the organization, and is unforgiving of mistakes. The most successful journeys start with something that creates a material contribution to the organization, but is small enough that it does not get shut down early for small mistakes. Their studies found that one out of three leaders who were starting these transformations were being promoted for their contributions. There is no one answer for how to change an organization’s culture for DevOps, but there is a prescriptive set of guidelines. The technical practices do not change such as version control, continuous testing, continuous integration, automated deployments, proactive monitoring of the production environment, security integrated into every step. What is different is where these initiatives start from. Some come from the Director ofr Operations, a Chief Architect, or even Director of Development. This transformation starts from different people and teams at different organizations. There are many different ways to reach a great DevOps practice. The three guiding principles of DevOps are: Flow : Maximizing the flow of work and minimizing the lead-time Feedback: Creating check-ins and the equivalent of being able to stop the assembly line Culture: Fostering a culture of continuous experimentation and learning There is a myth that with DevOps you can’t have any central control. We discuss differences in self-service teams like Netflix and Amazon to function-based teams used at Google and Disney. We look at Etsy’s liason model assigning ops engineers to various service and product teams. Many companies do well with the technical aspects of DevOps, but struggle with the culture changes it requires. Ten years from now, it will be about creating learning organizations and the command and control model will not be effective. It won’t be about who caused a problem or who to blame, but will be about creating a culture of learning for a successful team.   

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jim Ford, Chief Strategic Architect at ADP. We discuss Docker adoption, DevOps, and security for a company as big as ADP with over 630,000 customers, 35 million users in 100 countries, and 55 million stored social security numbers. We see how DevOps processes and security is never a completed initiative and can always be improved. We also see how DevOps at ADP varies significantly across projects and seems to mold to the team using it.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO at RackN. We discuss the differences between Docker Swarm and Kubernetes as well as the debate about how many companies use containers the right way. We also look at hybrid and how it can be easy to lift a container from Amazon and move it to Google, but there will still be key differences in networking and storage between the two that make the shift more complex. Last, we talk about the pros and cons of going all in on one vendor.

Our guests on the podcast this week are Luke Kanies, CEO, andAlanna Brown, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Puppet. We discuss key findings from Puppet's 2016 State of DevOps Report. The report separates high performers by key metrics: deploy frequency, lead time for changes, mean to to recover, and change failure rate. Puppet found that high performers had 200x more frequent deployments than low performers, and 2,555x faster lead times. We look at how IT can take notes from the lean manufacturing model, especially in moving security and quality forward so that they can be closely involved in the initial design of features to avoid future issues.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Kim Weins, VP of Marketing at RightScale. We discuss RightScale’s recent State of the Cloud Report, taking a deep dive into DevOps and Docker adoption. Adoption is increasing across the board for configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible, but Docker has seen the greatest growth since last year. Last year 13% of the teams surveyed were using Docker, while this year 27% are using it and 35% reported they plan to use it in the future. At this rate of growth, Docker could take the lead on widespread adoption as soon as next year. We also see a trend in large enterprises embracing DevOps, sometimes with more enthusiasm that SMBs. RightScale has taken their own steps to migrate to Docker to save costs and we see how they were successfully able to make the switch.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Michael Heflin, CEO at Sensuron. We discuss Sensuron’s research on fiber optic sensing, which is sure to change the game for internet of things in multiple industries from aerospace to energy to medicine. These sensors may be expensive now, but in less than ten years they are predicted to be offered at a consumer-level price. Small data, or data directly from sensors, is becoming increasingly important as internet of things spreads more widely.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Heather Andrus, Managing Director at Radius. We discuss hardware development for internet of things, overcoming the challenges of getting a new device to work reliably and scaling production. Cloud data storage will be a key factor in the future of hardware and connected devices.

Our guest on the podcast this week is John Dulchinos, VP, Global Automation and 3D Printing at Jabil. Up until 2016, 3D printing was only used for creating models, however on the immediate horizon is a new generation of printers that will allow you to print parts with the quality for real end use. We discuss how designs can be optimized in a number of hours, accelerating the product introduction process. We also discuss how 3D printing will impact traditional manufacturing and design for consumer goods from athletic shoes to internal bone structure and what this means for its corresponding industries

Our guest on the podcast this week is Damon Edwards, Founder atDTO Solutions and SimplifyOps and one of the early thought leaders in the DevOps movement. We discuss why Bimodal IT is the problem, not the solution. It is true that if technology moves too quickly an organization can lose control, but that does not mean the opposite is true and that an organization is completely safe if it moves very slowly. Large enterprises who have been successful at implementing DevOps practices include Ticketmaster, Nordstrom, and unicorn companies like Amazon who have been able to build DevOps processes from scratch as they grew.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Solomon Hykes, Founder and CTO at Docker. We discuss Docker’s upcoming third birthday and how they have been able to grow an entrepreneurial and engineering-focused team that moves quickly. We look at innovations in internet of things and the importance of Docker’s recent acquisition of Unikernel Systems.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Sean Hull, a cloud solutions architect specializing in data & DevOps at scale. We discuss the five tech challenges on Sean’s mind from issues with Docker, Redshift and Hadoop, to DevOps automation, to too much hardware and Amazon’s disruption of VC’s. Sean blogs weekly on his Scalable Startups blog. Find him on twitter at @hullsean and LinkedIn.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO at RackN. We discuss hybrid devops and why the hybrid cloud is here to stay. We talk about the importance of abstraction layers in allowing each team to use whichever vendor works best for them while continuing to be supportable. We debate the security of containers versus private cloud and how the discussion is changing with the emergence of new companies that monitor security overall and will not run a container with a vulnerability.

We discuss how the industrial and consumer IoT worlds are beginning to collide with technologies such as the Apple Watch and Microsoft Kinect. We also look at the growth of IoT in 2015, specifically focusing on the increase of acquisitions and mergers in the semiconductor space. Finally, we consider the transcendence of drones, robots and augmented reality into mainstream movements in 2016 and beyond.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Matthew Lodge, Chief Operating Officer at Weaveworks. We discuss how speed triumphs over size when competing as a disruptor, which is why microservices and containers are increasingly important to allow companies to keep up. A focus on small, dispersed teams changes the landscape of cloud computing. With many new companies entering the microservices market, we anticipate future trends for the next few years from mergers and acquisitions to IPOs.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jason Parsons, Senior Architect and Big Data expert at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss the benefits of real time, big data processing in the cloud and why some companies are hesitant to migrate from their traditional data centers. Jason explains why planning is key when moving from on-premise centers and why all companies should begin their cloud initiatives with a minimum viable product before going into full production.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Preeti Somal, VP of Engineering at Yahoo. We discuss the cloud challenges that come with supporting over a billion consumers per day at Yahoo. One way the Yahoo team simplifies this is through automation and smarter monitoring. Yahoo also leverages open source projects such as Hadoop and OpenStack, which helps onboard employees through their many mergers and acquisitions.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Mike Draper, Vice President, Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss 2015 cloud trends and news from this year’s AWS re:Invent. With topics from big data, application migration, security, and internet of things, there is no shortage of new products and services available in the industry. The most notable announcements so far have been the release of AWS Database Migration Service and Snowball, a 50TB shippable data storage appliance.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Dave Zwieback, Author of Beyond Blame, Head of Engineering at Next Big Sound, and CTO at Lotus Outreach. We discuss how to reach a blame-free culture where outages are linked to multiple conditions instead of one person. Dave shares his framework for Learning Reviews and effective Postmortems. In an increasingly complex world, it is impossible to predict how a system will fail, but through these practices we can see emergent trends and understand how to continuously improve our systems.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Tom Gallagher, VP and Client Partner at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss why large enterprises are rapidly switching from the private cloud to the public cloud and the massive cost benefits that come with that decision. We also look at bottlenecks that arise from using legacy processes and how to avoid them with DevOps adoption.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Paul Duvall, Chairman and CTO at Stelligent, and author of “Continuous Integration” and “DevOps in AWS”. We discuss continuous integration and the cultural changes that must occur for an organization to make the switch to continuous delivery and integration. We also hear about the most common tools being used for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and testing.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Creator of Jenkins and CloudBees. We discuss highlights and takeaways from theCloudBees Jenkins User Conference, which emphasizes the strong community around Jenkins. Jenkins makes continuous delivery a strategic enabler because it changes the speed at which optimizations can reach users’ hands. We also get a preview of what we can expect with Tiger from CloudBees.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Matt Stratton, Senior Solutions Architect at Chef and Co-Host of the Arrested DevOps Podcast. We discuss building DevOps communities in new cities with DevOps days, as well as best practices from Orbitz and Target in DevOps adoption. Matt highlights great ways to start small with DevOps (maybe even without calling it DevOps) in your organization to gain traction and prove results to make adoption smoother in large companies.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Helen Beal, Head of DevOps at Ranger4 Limited. We discuss how successful DevOps transitions depend on culture, so to start companies must identify their current problem areas. Helen describes the most successful DevOps culture as a place where each individual has autonomy as part of the larger team and where experimentation is encouraged.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Nicola de Carne, Founder, President and VP of Marketing at Wi-Next. We discuss ways to manage data on the edge, by allowing end nodes to react and make decisions close to industrial machines without communicating back to a centralized ERP. We also see how the most disruptive part of IoT is not the new technologies, but the innovative ways businesses use the new information to optimize their initiatives.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Ruslan Synytsky, CEO at Jelastic. We discuss why containers are a key component to the right PaaS solution for enterprises, stressing the importance of giving customers freedom with architecture so they do not get locked into specific technologies. We also learn about the differences between technology adoption in Europe versus the US.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Alex Polvi, CEO at CoreOS. We discuss how CoreOS fundamentally improves the security of the internet by modeling the infrastructure best practices developed by Google, Facebook and Twitter. Alex also breaks down the specifications of CoreOS’ new innovative products from Rocket to App Container to Tectonic.

Our guest on the podcast this week is JP Morgenthal, Global Solutions Executive at CSC. We discuss the architecture of microservices and how to overcome the challenge of making different tools work together. We learn about the importance of hiring engineers who can compose services into an integrated system.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Kacy Clarke, Vice President and Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss common issues companies face when migrating to AWS, and the importance of systems thinking. Listen in to discover the best strategy to launch your DevOps initiative.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Tim Crawford, CIO Strategic Advisor at AVOA. We discuss the need for disruption in disaster recovery practices after recent tech issues grounded all United Airlines flights, and halted trading at the New York Stock Exchange. Listen in to learn more about how disaster recovery practices must change from just building more redundancy to completely re-architecting systems on the cloud that do not break.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Adrian Cockcroft, Technology Fellow at Battery Ventures. We discuss what makes Docker and Netflix highly successful, especially through their use of well-designed IT architecture and DevOps.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jess Groopman, Industry Analyst at Altimeter Group. We discuss her recent report, ‘Consumer Perceptions of Privacy in the Internet of Things’ and see how forward-thinking companies can incorporate privacy, trust, and education for consumers to differentiate their businesses.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Rodney Rogers, Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Virtustream. EMC recently acquired Virtustream for $1.2 billion, in a growing trend of M&A activity. As the cloud market grows, we will see more companies consolidate to acquire new capabilities, talent, or IP. Listen in to find out what’s in store for Virtustream.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Randy Bias, VP of Technology at EMC. We discuss his recent ‘State of the Stack’ presentation. Highlighting the tension seen within the OpenStack community on the issue of re-writing code and reducing complexity for users. Listen in to see what the future holds for OpenStack.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Joey Jablonski, VP and Principal Architect at Cloud Technology Partners. We discuss the differences between on-premises and cloud-based big data projects. While on premise systems once offered the greatest capabilities for analyzing your application’s data, the tides have turned as public cloud providers continue to roll out new technologies for analyzing ever larger data sets. Listen in to discover which approach is the best fit for your big data project.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Chris Rezendes, Founder of INEX Advisors and Partner at IoT Capital Partners. We discuss why Boston is a hotspot for the Internet of Things. While the Northeast has a strong foothold in the B2B market where IoT thrives, Boston also fosters many innovative companies working on connected devices and technologies. Listen in to learn what makes Boston a prime location for the advancement of IoT. 

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jon Baier, container expert and Senior Cloud Architect atCloud Technology Partners. We discuss why containers have risen in popularity and whatadvantages they bring to cloud computing. Platforms, like Docker and Kubernetes, maximize resource usage, and increase flexibility for development teams. Listen in to learn how containers will continue to gain support and which companies are leading the charge.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jeff Sussna, Founder of Ingineering.IT. We discuss the parallels between LeanUX and DevOps, identifying how each can benefit from the other’s methodologies. LeanUX uses nimble processes to create a digital experience designed for the end user, whileDevOps uses three ways to integrate feedback between development and operations teams. Listen in to learn how to successfully create a digital service offering by incorporating LeanUX and DevOps processes.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Tom McKinnon, Founder and CTO of Agribotix. We discuss drones and their many applications in agriculture, especially around crop monitoring and production. Using near infrared cameras Agribotix turns drone imagery into actionable information enabling farmers to efficiently seed and fertilize fields. Listen in to learn how drones could revolutionize farming, and what obstacles stand in their way.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jim Haughwout, Chief Technology Architect at Savi Technologies. We discuss Internet of Things sensors and the growing demand for data driven architectures to support the sheer volume of data being collected. It’s clear that many businesses adopting the Internet of Things are unprepared for the volume of data that needs to be processed. Listen in to learn how to put your Internet of Things strategy into place as the technology continues to evolve.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Mitchell Hashimoto, Founder of HashiCorp. We discuss golden images which ensure that every copy of a replicated environment is identical. Image creation has historically caused organizational problems, however, new technologies utilize configuration management tools that are DevOps friendly creating an easy and valuable process that enables teams to iterate often and deliver a consistent product to end users. Listen in to learn more.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jesse Proudman, Founder and CTO of Bluebox. We discuss Walmart’s recent OpenStack success storyand the expanding capabilities of DIY private clouds. While DIY private clouds require large investments in configuring open source software to meet business needs, they can have several advantages over managed services alternatives. Listen in to learn how a DIY model could make or break private cloud deployment.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Jason Bloomberg, President at Intellyx. When we build services we want them to be lightweight, stateless and scalable while doing one thing really well. In today’s cloud world, we’re revisiting what to takes to make a good service in the first place. Listen in to learn why following “the book” doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re solving key business problems.

Our guest on the podcast this week is David Houghton, Director at Bright Wolf. We discuss the evolutions of connected technologies leading to the Internet of Things (IoT). Industrial use cases are transforming operational efficiency, remote monitoring asset tracking, preventative maintenance, and safety and regulation benefits. Listen in to learn how IoT extends beyond commercial use cases.

Our guest on the podcast this week is Tim Prendergast, Founder and CEO of Evident.io. We discuss the concept of “continuous security” and other ways to keep up with the dynamically changing environments created by the cloud. Listen in to learn why it is essential that your security solutions match the speed of your release cycle, even becoming integrated into your DevOps initiatives.