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Tanzu Talk
by VMware Tanzu
A collection of podcasts from VMware Tanzu, covering IT modernization and digital transformation from every angle. Michael Coté and Rita Manachi host the eponymous Tanzu Talk. Danielle Burrow and Derrick Harris host Cloud & Culture. Guests range from engineers in the weeds of cloud native technology to customer executives pushing change within their organizations. Listen and learn!
Episodes
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How executives can kick-start their enterprise AI strategies, also, what is "agentic AI," with Adib Saikali
In this episode, Adib and Michael discuss the concept of 'Agentic AI' and its historical context within technology evolution. They talk about how new UX patterns and capabilities have defined different technological eras and examine where AI agents fit in this narrative. They explore the role of...
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Data Gravity, Ecosystem Gravity, and Control - Private Cloud is Still the Best Choice for Many
In this episode of Tanzu Talk, Coté and Purnima Padmanabhan discuss the evolving landscape of private vs. public cloud infrastructure and the crucial role of developer platforms. Purnima elaborates on the need for a seamless developer experience, focusing on the advantages of Tanzu Platform 10…
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Code to Production: From Cloud to DevOps to Platform Engineering, with Purnima Padmanabhan, VMware Tanzu by Broadcom
In this episode, Purnima Padmanabhan, the general manager of Tanzu at Broadcom, talks with Coté about the evolution of DevOps and platform engineering. Purnima has worked at many interesting over the years LoudCloud, BMC Software, and VMware. That experience gives her a great perspective on the...
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Using AI in Healthcare: Diagnostics, Patient Records, Research, Revenue Management, with JT Perry
JT Perry is back to talk about enterprise AI in healthcare. They also talk about the status of new business models like "doc in a box" and Amazon Health. See the full show notes in the video version of this episode.
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Developer Platforms and Productivity, with Serdar Badem
Fresh from working on developer platforms at Uber, Serdar Badem tells us his experience working on improving developer productivity. He's working at Tanzu now and so he also discusses the work we're doing to help improve developer productivity.
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What is ”waste” in software development? With Steve Pereira
The phrase "value stream" is used so often in software development that it's easy to forget exactly what it means. "Waste" is another word like that. In this episode, Coté talks with Steve Pereira about value stream mappings, what waste is, exactly, and why it's so difficult to do what seems like...
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Re-thinking tech debt, developer productivity, & better meetings, with Laura Tacho
In this episode Coté talks with Laura Tacho, the CTO of DX on several topics, starting with tech debt. Laura shares her viewpoint on how the concept and use of 'tech debt' changes based on perspective, and the need for better quantification of these concepts for businesses. They also discuss...
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Keep it small to make big changes, with Betty Junod
You always hear that making a series of small changes is better than BIG BANG change. How does this really play out though? Doesn't that seem a little...naive when it comes to large organizations doing the BIG and MISSION CRITICAL work? In this episode, Coté talks with Betty Junod on this topic....
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What is Backstage? What does Backstage do? What does Backstage not do? Why would you use Backstage?
Ben educates Coté on what Backstage is. Coté is always thinking that new tech does more than it actually does, and he eagerly de-scopes his inflated expectations with Ben's wiseness. This is the most detailed explanation of the core of Backstage you're likely to see, and the two only about third…
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What is a Service Mesh? And Why Would You Want One?
The three of us are back to discuss what a service mesh is and why it exists as a stand-alone thing. The result we come to is that you want this kind of network control and management as its own layer, not something that’s built into the stack. Check out the video if you prefer that. Come see us...
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Lessons from 5 years of agile transformation at Jaguar Land Rover
What does a car manufacture need to do to speed up their software delivery cycle? Manufacturing is often finely tuned following lean and other principles, but the software development and delivery process, oddly, is not. In this episode, we talk about he last five years of software transformation...
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The Business Doesn’t Care About Kubernetes as a Kost Center. They Care About This, with Bryan Ross.
Coté talks with Bryan Ross about fitting Kubernetes (and it's use) into the business strategy. Check out Bryan's YouTube channel for more Bryan.
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A Developer Perspective on Developer Experience, also, COBOL, with Paul Kelly
"75% of IT and business executives say that their companies’ ability to compete is directly related to their ability to release quality software quickly" reads a recent Forrester Consulting report. If that’s the case, why are so many developer in large organizations have a bad developer…
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Manage Kubernetes Clusters Anywhere, From Anywhere with Tanzu Mission Control, with Corey Dinkens
In this episode, Coté talks with Corey Dinkens about Tanzu Mission Control. The most recent version can now run on-premises, meaning those who can't run it as a public SaaS now can run Tanzu Mission Control where ever they like, on or off the Internet. We also discuss Tanzu Mission Control in...
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Platform marketing, advocacy, DevEx, documentation, and Backstage
So you've built an app platform. And those pesky developers aren’t showing up to use. Or, worse, they grumble about it! Did you remember to tell anyone about it, to convince them to use it? You know: marketing! Also, they'll need to know how to use it. And you know what that means! Documentation....
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Changes in the RHEL Streams, and, what is Crossplane?
This week, Ben and Ed try to help Coté understand what the changes in RHEL open source development mean. We don't figure it out completely, but get close enough. Also, Ed tells us what Crossplane is. Finally, we briefly discuss two new reports from Gartner and Forrester that seek to define the...
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Cloud Foundry Day 2023
Right after Cloud Foundry Day 2023, Nick and Coté do a quick re-cap of the day. Taking place in Germany, there were many people from the German community, and elsewhere of course. Nick goes over his little talk which focused on Cloud Foundry usage and metrics. His recent post on The New Stack...
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Cloud Foundry: Community, Developer Experience, Kubernetes, and more, with Ram Iyengar
Cloud Foundry is one of the most mature, most proven platform as a service stacks. And it's open source! Ahead of CF Day on June 21st, 2023 (in person and live), Coté catches up with Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at Cloud Foundry Foundation. They discuss Cloud Foundry's integrations with…
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What’s a ”Platform Maturity Model”?
In this episode, Cora and Coté talk with Abby Bangser about the platform maturity model draft that the platform working group at the CNCF has been working on. While the draft is a work in progress, the model the team is developed is extremely useful for thinking about how you build and run your...
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Cloud Native Security & Compliance, with David Zendzian
We talk about getting PCI compliance into Kubernetes, and other security think in the cloud native world. Securing Tanzu Application Service and Tanzu Application Platform. David Zendzian talks with Cora and Coté about what exactly “security” means in the cloud native context. They use his…
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Sausages and Cycling - Coding with AI/LLMs, microservices vs. monoliths, kubernetes vs. application developers
This week, Coté and Ben talk about using AI for software development, and general text use. They check in on Kubernetes usability for application developers, and give their takes on the recent microservices vs. monoliths dust-up. There’s a bonus discussions about cycling in London and regional...
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The Smells of the Kubernetes Community
We discuss what we did at KubeCon, the recent VMware State of Kubernetes 2023 survey, and the smells of platform engineering maturity. Also, some tips on daily logging and to do list management. Here is the original video recording if you're into that kind of thing. As ever, with your three...
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How to change mainframe apps into microservices, modernizing mainframe applications with Fouad Hamdi
In this episode, Coté is joined by Fouad Hamdi, to discuss a project he worked on to modernize of a 30-year-old mainframe app. Fouad provides a comprehensive breakdown of how he and his team at VMware Tanzu Labs approached this task, migrating a system relied on by over 3 million users from a...
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Creating the business case for platform engineering, Kerry Schaffer
A lot goes into getting a platform up and running. Before you even get to that point, though, you’ll need to put together a business case and the plans for your platform. In this episode, Coté talks with Kerry Schaffer about that business case, but also about the role of developer happiness and...
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What’s in the Tanzu Application Service 4.0? With Nick Kuhn
With Backstage, more Windows support, support for MySQL 8.0, and numerous other improvements, the new release of the Tanzu Application Service is packed. In this episode, Nick Kuhn walks us through the highlights of the Tanzu Application Service 4.0. Nick goes over the 4.0 release in detail in a...
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The 3 Types of Kubernetes, and, Better Developer Productivity Improves Everything
We should start distinguishing between on-premises kubernetes and public cloud kubernetes. Also, it looks like improving developer productivity improves everything. That’s what Ben and Coté conclude after look over a recent analyst report ranking kubernetes distros/services and a survey on...
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orly? ops people actually talking with developers. Also: Spring talk.
In the DevOps, cloud, platform world we're told that operations people starting working closely with developers. This week @thecote been asked "does that really happen?" several times. We discuss the orly on that. Also, Ben and Coté talk about the Spring Framework community. Here is the video...
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DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu - A Discussion with the Authors
What is VMware Tanzu? I get asked this question a lot and, you know, I try to explain it. If you want a really good explanation, you should check out a new book on the topic, DevSecOps in Practice with VMware Tanzu. It’s expansive and in-depth, not only on the parts of Tanzu, but also the theory,...
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Cloud Repatriation and Low CI/CD Usage
There's been a lot of talk about controlling cloud costs by bringing workloads back to the datacenter, you know, private cloud. The three of us discuss what's going on here. Also, surveys consistently show that only about half of developers are doing continuous integration (CI), and fewer are…
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You were told to install kubernetes, now what? A talk with Robert Kloosterhuis of ITQ
You've been asked to build a cloud native cloud platform. The developers need some containers, probably some orchestration. So, what do you now? In this episode, Coté talks with ITQ's Robert Kloosterhuis about just this topic. Drawing on Robert's background as a virtualization admin and now, the...
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The more kubernetes you use, the more frequently you release software
The CNCF has a new kubernetes survey out and it has some interesting findings. We discuss several of them and our takes on them. Also, fresh back from cfmgmtcamp in Ghent, Coté talks about a new entrant in the configuration and release management space, System Initiative. As ever, with your three...
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State of Spring 2022 Survey, Kubernetes in the Wild
In this episode, we check in on the Spring community by looking at the most recent State of Spring survey. While in survey land, we look at the Dynatrace Kubernetes in the Wild study: what are the top languages used in kubernetes, and how is on-premises use shaping up> Also, SpringOne was great,...
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When low code is good, when it’s dangerous, and $4.5 trillion worth of computer stuff
What's the deal with low code? After discussing current IT spending forecasts, Ed, Ben, and Coté discuss some recent thinking on how low code seems to fit into your business. We also discuss the organization structures needed for doing platform engineering and all that. As ever, with your three...
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2023 Predictions and Hopes
It’s the last episode of the year so the three of us go over not only predictions in the cloud native space, but also our hopes for what happens. Also, there’s special guest ChatGPT on its predictions and a surprise piece of advice for New Year’s Day. In the original video of this recording, at…
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Developer templates and secure software supply chains for kubernetes with the Tanzu Application platform. Also: developer tools at AWS re:Invent and using ChatGPT to eliminate needless work.
In this episode, we discuss the use of accelerators in the Tanzu Application Platform to help developers start programming quickly and efficiently. We also touch on some of the developer-focused announcements made at the recent AWS re:Invent conference. Finally, we have a discussion about ChatGPT...
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What is GraalVM? What is Spring Native? And why do you need native Java?
Ben educates Coté on what exactly native Java is and goes over GraalVM. They also discuss what Spring Native is and why it exists. You can also watch the video version of this episode. Links More on Spring Boot 3.0. Spring Native here.
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Highlights from #VMwareExplore; Backstage/DX/platform engineering checkin; new IaaS+PaaS MQ; learning from Twitter
There was a lot going on at VMware Explore Europe last week, so we focus in on the Tanzu related stuff. Then: we do our usual check-in on platform engineering; a brief magic quadrant tour; see if there's any lessons to learn from Twitter the company; and close out discussing VMware's recent open...
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The Vibe at Cloud Foundry Day
What’s going on in the Cloud Foundry community? In this episode, Ben and Coté are joined by Nick Kuhn (a return guest!) to talk about the recent Cloud Foundry Day at KubeCon. They discuss Cloud Foundry on kubernetes, build packs, Detroit pizza, and singing the hits of the day back in the late…
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What’s is Backstage? How are people using backstage to improve developer productivity
Coté talks with Charles Lowell and Taras Mankovski about the Backstage work they've been doing with clients. First, they talk about what Backstage is in the first place. Obviously, it's an internal developer portal...thing...but what does that mean beyond, like, a wiki? Check out The Frontside…
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The people side of platform engineering, and, what is platform engineering?
Coté talks with Darran Rice about his experience and other's with building and sustaining platform engineering teams. If you haven’t already, check out our conference SpringOne, Dec 6th to 8th. We’ll be talking a lot about platform engineering and you can hear from people like Darran who’ve...
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Platform Engineering is something like”DevOps4k8s,” maybe (idk?), and, Google Next and Microsoft Ignite News
We check-in on "platform engineering," and ponder the theory that it's "DevOps for kubernetes." Also, Coté gives his theory on the rise of platform engineering. In the news section, we cover some of the announcements from Google Next and Microsoft Ignite. Before we start: VMware Explore EU is…
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Networking in Kubernetes, and, The SpringOne Missing Track
Conferences are a great chance, sometimes the only change, to discuss your peculiar problems with peers and experts. In the case of SpringOne, the topics range from programming, operations, and even management. It's the hallway track! Ben and Coté discuss two talks where you can maximize the...
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The Best Developer Conference, Platform Engineering, FinOps
This week we give a little previous of what will be at the SpringOne conference, then cover some recent conferences. We then discuss the sudden emergence of "platform engineering" as a thing, and finish out by discussing what the kids are calling "FinOps," getting a handle on how much you're...
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Tanzu Application Service 3.0 Overview, with Nick Kuhn
The new version of the Tanzu Application Service is out. In this episode, Nick Kuhn walks Coté and Ben through the new features for developers and operations staff. Find out more: Blog with full details on VMware Tanzu Application Service 3.0. Get the deep dive on the version format and updates…
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Ambient Mesh, the 90% of IT and the 2% of sysadmins, and an uninformed look at GitLabs
How much on-premises IT is there? Is it 25% of all IT, or more like 90%. We try to figure that out at the start, and then move onto our selected news items since last time: a new take on services meshes known as "ambient mesh," a look at GitLabs, and two surveys going over cloud security and...
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Davanum ”dims” Srinivas on the CNCF and kubernetes SIGs at VMware Explore 2022
This week it's another interview from VMware Explore, this time about the kubernetes community and governance. Alex Williams and Coté talk with Davanum "dims" Srinivas. We cover lessons learned from other foundations, especially OpenStack; how new ideas are introduced into the CNCF; and otherwise...
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Dagger.io, programable pipelines, platform engineering, and more with Solomon Hykes at VMware Explore 2022
There's a lot going on in the build, pipeline, CI/CD, supply chain space - so much so that there's all these phrases for the concept. Dagger.io is taking stab (hahahahah...) at builds and pipelines. In this episode, Alex Willians of The New Stack and Coté talk with Solomon Hykes to answer the...
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VMware Explore, k8s 1.25, Heroku’s free tier EoL’ed, NGINIX talks open source, Serverless
This week's news: VMware Explore, k8s 1.25, Heroku's free tier EoL'ed, NGINIX talks open source, Serverless But, first: Candy Corn! After the news, you'll hear an interview from VMware Explore with Jen Kelly all about Backstage. Check out her presentation and the original interview, in video...
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Operations new customers: developers
How does operations change when you’re supporting developers? That’s what Barton George and I discuss in this episode. We recorded this at DevOpsDays Dallas 2022. Check out the video of this discussion if you’re into that. Also, check out our upcoming conference on this topic and app dev,...
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Platform as a Product with Bryan Ross
What is Platform as a Product? As Bryan Ross and Coté discuss, it's how operations people shift their mindset to be more customer-centric as they help developers out. It involves building a platform to automate as many tasks as possible to shift to self-service, but also changing expectations and...
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A collection of podcasts from VMware Tanzu, covering IT modernization and digital transformation from every angle. Michael Coté and Rita Manachi host the eponymous Tanzu Talk. Danielle Burrow and Derrick Harris host Cloud & Culture. Guests range from engineers in the weeds of cloud native technology to customer executives pushing change within their organizations. Listen and learn!
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