CenturyLink Labs Podcast

Eric Raisters on the CLC Security team joins Jonathan Townsend to talk all things security on the cloud and how the cloud handles new security measures, how CSPs develop their protocols, the merging of Security processes with DevOps culture and what role the customer plays in developing and maintaining security in a cloud-based environment.

This podcast episode features Jessica Weber and Jonathan Townsend from the CLC Content Team based in STL talking to Jon Tait and Joe Pritzel of the Backup Team about Simple Backup Service, its key features, capabilities, service details, and other functionality-based elements.

On this Cloud Talk episode, the Content Team at CenturyLink Cloud talks about the team's roles and responsibilities within the CLC organization. The team works with a diverse range of platform teams to generate, edit, and curate documentation for internal and external consumption, education, and communication. The Content Team operates on a wide array to help product and platform teams, partners, contributing authors, and stakeholders so they can all have their work represented as accurately and effectively as possible. This podcast discusses the importance of continued attention to detail around documentation processes and details what goes on day-to-day within the content engine at CenturyLink Cloud.

On this CenturyLink Cloud Podcast Principal Data Scientist, Ryan Kirk who’s based in the CenturyLink Cloud offices in Bellevue, Washington joins us to chat about the Internet of Things (IoT) and Capacity Planning. Ryan sheds some light on what he as his team are currently working on and what products, programs, and ideas are currently in use. Ryan also shares information on projects, pieces of content, and conferences he is planning on working on and attending in the near future. The bulk of the conversation revolves around things in development as they relate to Capacity Planning. Additionally, the podcast shifts towards exploring new, innovative ideas and emphasizes CenturyLink Cloud’s commitment to cultivating and fostering thought leadership in the industry. One of Ryan’s key insights is the Analytics as a Service products and ideas surrounding that concept with real life applications in real-time. The conversation also covers Data-based paradoxes such as Simpson’s Paradox, Anonymity Paradox, the Spotlight Paradox and many of the associated trends that take place with regards to data analysis and cultivation.

Jon Townsend (Content Team) and Christine Parr (Relational DB Product Owner) talk about Relational Database while focusing on a. Our team is responsible for building out the database as a service product with a focus on relational database engines like: MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle. The team released its first database engine in late January of this year (2016), which is a MySQL-compatible Relational DB product.

Jon Townsend (Content Team) and Christine Parr (Relational DB Product Owner) talk about Relational Database while focusing on a. Our team is responsible for building out the database as a service product with a focus on relational database engines like: MySQL, MSSQL and Oracle. The team released its first database engine in late January of this year (2016), which is a MySQL-compatible Relational DB product.

We had a chance to sit down with Principal Engineer, Bob Stolzberg, who spoke about all things Ecosystem. One of Bob's main functions within the CenturyLink Cloud organizations is to work with other third party companies and vendors better known as 'partners' to integrate their technology with the platform at CenturyLink Cloud via automation to ultimately bring those technologies into the Marketplace. Companies like Microsoft, Dynatrace, and Vormetric are prime examples of partners that have integrated and certified their technologies with the platform at CenturyLink Cloud. Check out the Ecosystem Program Partner Resource Guide (https://www.ctl.io/knowledge-base/ecosystem-partners/partner-integration-resources/ecosystem-program-resources/) to learn more about technical integration via third party technology with CenturyLink Cloud takes place by leveraging one of our automation methods (templates, bluprints, APIs, and add-ons). For companies seeking to integrate their products and services with CenturyLink Cloud, check out the or the CenturyLink Marketplace Provider Program Guide (https://www.ctl.io/knowledge-base/ecosystem-partners/partner-integration-resources/centurylink-cloud-ecosystem-program-guide/), which outlines the process expectations for information on any requisite certification requirements and qualifying considerations. Learn more! Listen to the podcast featuring Bob Stolzberg to learn more about partner events, user groups, evangelism campaigns, community-based initiatives, and much more! Be sure to visit the Marketplace Provider Program (https://www.ctl.io/marketplace/program/) online! To express interest in joining the program, prospective partners can visit the CenturyLink Cloud Marketplace Provider Program web page or send email to ecosystem@ctl.io.

What is Docker Swarm and Docker Compose? Find out today by listening to Docker's Product Manager explain these new projects.

Docker is not the only Linux Container manager available. Recently, CoreOS launched their own project named Rocket which has some architecturally different approaches to managing containers. This week, we interview the brain behind Rocket to ask what is Rocket and why they built it.

Deis is a Platform as a Service that uses Docker and so it makes Docker application development very easy to use and very familiar if you know something like Heroku. It is very similar to a Heroku-like system. This week we brought Deis' founder back on the show to tell us about what's new including the latest changes to the public-facing APIs and future-proofing work they have finished.

VirtKick wraps awkard virtualization technology in a convenient, usable panel. VirtKick does to open source what DigitalOcean did to SaaS. Simplicity and privacy are their core goals. The project is currently alpha and the code is on GitHub - https://github.com/virtkick

Wynn Netherland is a developer, an author, and all around geek. He currently works at GitHub on APIs and other things. He has co-authored or contributed to several books, including Sass and Compass in Action, Open Government, and ASP.NET Custom Controls.

What if your laptop asked you which core you would like to run Word in today? Sounds archaic, but that's the current state of the art with server infrastructure. You still have to pick with virtual machine you want to put your Rails app in. Florian Leibert's mission at Mesosphere is to create a smart infrastructure mesh that lets developers no longer have to think about which piece of code should run where. Hear how he plans to do this on this week's episode.

Cloud Foundry is one of the oldest and most mature open-source PaaS frameworks out there, and a lot has changed since last time you saw it. For example, Diego is a small Go scheduler that can use Docker independently of installing all of Cloud Foundry to get started. Listen to this week's episode to get a better sense of all that has changed since last time you checked out Cloud Foundry with head of product, James Watters.

Will it scale? This is the guiding question for Pantheon (https://www.getpantheon.com/) CTO David Strauss, whose all-for-one-and-one-for-all improvements to web infrastructure have made the largest content sites in the world more scalable and secure, while saving developers thousands of hours in manual updates. Pantheon is a platform service for Drupal and Wordpress. More business websites run on Drupal and WordPress than on any other technology in the world. Businesses need more than hosting to build, launch, and run their websites. Pantheon is the professional website platform top developers, marketers, and IT pros use to build, launch, and run all their Drupal and WordPress sites. Pantheon powers 70,000+ sites, including Intel, Cisco, Arizona State University, and the United Nations.

You probably own at least a few O’Reilly books. You know, the ones with the animals on the cover? O’Reilly Media is well known to put out the highest quality technical books on the market. Does Docker not only change DevOps, but could it change the way we fundamentally learn technology? What does the future of technical books look like? With the rise of eBooks, videos, interactive online learning, and guided courses, online education is changing rapidly and dramatically. And what does this mean for a company like O’Reilly who’s known primarily for its paper books? I ask these questions and more this week to Andrew Odewahn, the CTO of O'Reilly Media.

How do you do databases with Docker? Or for that matter, how do you do anything that stores persistent data in Docker? Sure you can attach a volume container to your application container, but that doesn’t scale and it makes your container dependent on your host, which is not ideal if you have a multi-server Docker cluster.

What is NPS and how do you use it to get critical feedback on whatever you are working on.

RedHat and specifically the OpenShift team was an early adopter of Docker technology. OpenShift Online 3 (the hosted service) and OpenShift Origin (the open-source part of OpenShift) of was recently released. This week we talked to Krishnan Subramanian (director of OpenShift Strategy @krishnan on twitter) and Clayton Coleman (lead engineer for OpenShift, @smarterclayton on github) about why they believed in Docker so early and what makes RedHat a company philosophically aligned with the Docker project. Show notes: http://www.centurylinklabs.com/how-does-redhats-openshift-work-with-docker/

This week we spoke to a leading member of the Docker community, James Turnbull. James is the VP of Services & Support at Docker and also the author of The Docker Book http://dockerbook.com He's the authoritative brain-to-pick when it comes to all things Docker.