The Hot Aisle – Step into Kubernetes with Kelsey Hightower – Episode 44

Kelsey Hightower (@KelseyHightower) Software Engineer for Google’s (@google) Kubernetes(@kubernetesio) and the Samuel L. Jackson of Tech Conferences, joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about the 1 year old birthday kid, Kubernetes. We’ll learn how Kubernetes is ready for production use with your containerized applications; and your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the how, why, and what, of Kubernetes to ensure your applications are treated as first class citizens…Grab your crayons and glue sticks, because we’re about to break this down all elementary like!

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Video Spotlight - EMC's "All About Talent"

I was recently given the opportunity to "speak" to the roughly 4000 Global EMC Systems Engineers through a bi-weekly segment called "All About Talent" put together by EMC Human Resources.  The focus was a quick < 2 minute video spotlight with me talking a little about the "who, what, and why" of The Hot Aisle podcast that myself and Brian Carpenter do on a weekly basis.  Below is a screenshot of the email that was sent out:

I am humbled and proud to be an EMC SE and to be able to have this opportunity to spread the nerd word to all my techies out there.  I hope this helps you get to know me a bit more and gets you excited to listen to The Hot Aisle.

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The Hot Aisle – What’s Your Storage Sign? I’m a Torus. with Barak Michener – Episode 43

Barak Michener (@barakmich) Software Engineer for CoreOS (@CoreOSlinux) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Torus, their take on the modern distributed storage system. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how Torus approaches software defined storage, why distributed storage is the right fit for containerized workloads, how Torus integrates with things like Kubernetes & VMware, and how GIFEE is the motto at CoreOS (Google Infrastructure for Everyone Else). So slip on those comfy running shoes because we’re about to do a mental marathon that you’ll want to see to the end.

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The Hot Aisle – Deploying Containers in Production with Stephen Pope – Episode 42

Stephen Pope (@StephenGPope) Partner & Software Engineer for Project Ricochet(@ProjectRicochet) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Application Development, platform rationalization, and why customers are leveraging Containers to deploy their new apps.  Fresh off a trip to Seattle, he also brings us a few DockerCon highlights and thoughts. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how applications and content can be architected, managed,and deployed leveraging Drupal & Meteor with Docker Containers. So push up your glasses, drop in your pocket protector, and prepare to get a bit more nerdy on this episode of The Hot Aisle.

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The Hot Aisle – Demystifying Serverless with Eric Windisch – Episode 41

Eric Windisch (@ewindisch) Founder and CEO of IOPipe (@iopipes) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Serverless and help define what it is, and what it isn’t. What did we learn? Serverless != Server Less! Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dig into subjects like Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS), how serverless scales and is utilized, the concept of never paying for idle time, the overall landscape of serverless. We’re not afraid to ask about how organizations can offer serverless on premises either. What we got you gotta get it put it in you… The Hot Aisle is here with some more Knowledge-as-a-Service (KaaS) on this week’s episode.

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The Hot Aisle – Fibre Channel is Dead, Right? With Dr. J Metz – Episode 40

Dr. J Metz (@drjmetz) R&D Engineer for the Office of the CTO at Cisco (@cisco) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle and expertly educates us on a number of storage (and not-so-storage) related topics including but not limited to: Fibre Channel, FCoE, Ethernet, iSCSI, PCIe, NVMe, NVMf, iSCSI, RDMA over Ethernet, and More!  Our conclusion? Fibre Channel is NOT Dead – but you should listen and decide for yourself!  Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down the myth of “One Storage Protocol to Rule them All”, Why When you might choose FC or FCoE, and what “Deterministic” & “Non-deterministic” are (plus, why it absolutely matters to your storage architecture).  So pop in your ear-buds and crank to volume to 100 to ensure lossless transmission of this capsule of knowledge.

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The Hot Aisle – Manage your Cloud Management with David Estes – Episode 39

David Estes (@davydotcom) VP of Engineering at Morpheus Data (@MorpheusData) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about Multi-Cloud Automation and Orchestration from your P2 (Traditional) and P3 (Cloud Native) Application Stacks.. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down how the Morpheus Platform enables companies to provision Bare Metal, VMs on VMware KVM & Hyper-V, all the way to AWS, Azure, & OpenStack with the click of a button, and also deploy Containers to give you a true Hybrid/Multi-Cloud experience. So be sure to take your heart medication and breathe deeply as you listen, because you’re gunna overheat your internal nerd engine – and we can’t be held liable.

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