Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Hot Aisle – Monitoring Elastic Infrastructures with SignalFX – Episode 57

Patrick Lin, VP of Products & Marketing at SignalFX (@SignalFX), joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about monitoring the Billions and Trillions of streaming events that happen in a modern Cloud Native application architecture. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) break down why capturing these real-time events is necessary and what you can do with them once you do.  You might want to apply additional resources to your brain, because we’re about to exceed all your thresholds!

Thursday, January 12, 2017

The Hot Aisle – Falling out of the Cloud with Tom Lyon – Episode 56

Tom Lyon (@aka_pugs) Chief Scientist and Founder at DriveScale (@DriveScale_Inc) joins us this week on The Hot Aisle to talk about making a Private Cloud for Big Data using composable rack-scale infrastructure. Your hosts Brent Piatti (@BrentPiatti) and Brian Carpenter (@intheDC) dive into how a UNIX kernel developer goes on to create a cool startup for Hadoopers and more.  So grab your umbrellas because it’s raining workloads vacating from the cloud!