containerization

In this special episode, Rick interviews Oscar. We talk about Oscar’s work at Virtual Vaults. For the people who don’t know, Oscar is the CTO of Virtual Vaults, a platform for M&A transactions. Mergers & Acquisitions, that is. We discuss the development of their SaaS platform, emphasizing security and compliance. Oscar highlights their focus on constant improvement through new features, evolving technologies, and an agile culture. He outlines their plans for the coming year, which include improving reliability, security, and developer experience through initiatives like moving to Azure Container Apps. We also cover topics like cloud adoption, software architectures, database choices, and lessons learned over the company's evolution.

About this episode, and Oscar van Tol in particular: you can find Oscar on @oscarvantol on X and GitHub. 

About Betatalks: have a look at our videos and join us on our Betatalks Discord channel 

1010WINS Reporter Carol D'Auria has more on the story.

So, how about that Malcolm McLean? Oh…? You haven’t heard of Malcolm McLean, a man whose work has resulted in economic betterment for many hundreds of millions of people for decades? No surprise there. The story of McLean’s work is buried in many items on the shelves of the nearest Walmart and has pervasively impacted the world. Join Kevin in a fascinating rendering of McLean’s world of impacting others through amazing innovation—the very kind of stewardship thinking and action that God has purposed for each of us!  // Download this episode's Application & Action questions and PDF transcript at whitestone.org.

This interview was conducted in November of 2021 following Dr. Jones' special lecture on his book at the United States Naval Academy.

As we continue our season on value chains, in this episode, we explore logistics. 

The cost of goods and food is disproportionately higher in Africa than anywhere else in the world, with consumers in some markets, spending 50% or more of their total income on food alone. A major reason for these high prices is logistics. 

So how do we fix this? How do we improve the efficiency of logistics on the African continent, and ultimately drive down the cost of goods?

[04:20] - On the role of containerization and efficient ports, with Jetstream Africa's Miishe Addy.
[11:37] - After we get through the ports, our goods are loaded onto a truck. We hear from Omar Hagrass on how Trella is trying to improve long-haul efficiency in North Africa and the Middle East.
[15:26] - From the port, we move on to the wholesale distributor. As we discuss with Daniel Yu, Sokowatch is aggregating small retailers at the fragmented last-mile and offering same-day delivery of fast-moving consumer goods. 
[22:37] - As the nature of retail evolves and more small merchants need logistics solutions, logistics-as-a-service providers like Sendbox are playing a role at the last-mile. We hear from its CEO, Emotu Balogun. 
[26:41] - But amidst all of this tech and innovation - what about infrastructure? To what extent is the problem just poor ports and roads? The Flip's b-mic, Sayo Folawiyo, and its host, Justin Norman, call up infrastructure investor Dami Agbaje for some insight. 
[32:42] - This episode's retrospective with Sayo and Justin. 

This season is sponsored by MFS Africa.

All this season, we're exploring value chains. And in the payments value chain, no fintech has a wider reach on the continent than MFS Africa. Through their network of over 180 partners - MNOs, banks, NGOs, fintechs, and global enterprises - MFS Africa's API hub makes connects over 320 million mobile wallets across 30+ countries in Africa.

As we continue our season on value chains, in this episode, we explore logistics. 

The cost of goods and food is disproportionately higher in Africa than anywhere else in the world, with consumers in some markets, spending 50% or more of their total income on food alone. A major reason for these high prices is logistics. 

So how do we fix this? How do we improve the efficiency of logistics on the African continent, and ultimately drive down the cost of goods?

[04:20] - On the role of containerization and efficient ports, with Jetstream Africa's Miishe Addy.
[11:37] - After we get through the ports, our goods are loaded onto a truck. We hear from Omar Hagrass on how Trella is trying to improve long-haul efficiency in North Africa and the Middle East.
[15:26] - From the port, we move on to the wholesale distributor. As we discuss with Daniel Yu, Sokowatch is aggregating small retailers at the fragmented last-mile and offering same-day delivery of fast-moving consumer goods. 
[22:37] - As the nature of retail evolves and more small merchants need logistics solutions, logistics-as-a-service providers like Sendbox are playing a role at the last-mile. We hear from its CEO, Emotu Balogun. 
[26:41] - But amidst all of this tech and innovation - what about infrastructure? To what extent is the problem just poor ports and roads? The Flip's b-mic, Sayo Folawiyo, and its host, Justin Norman, call up infrastructure investor Dami Agbaje for some insight. 
[32:42] - This episode's retrospective with Sayo and Justin. 

This season is sponsored by MFS Africa.

All this season, we're exploring value chains. And in the payments value chain, no fintech has a wider reach on the continent than MFS Africa. Through their network of over 180 partners - MNOs, banks, NGOs, fintechs, and global enterprises - MFS Africa's API hub makes connects over 320 million mobile wallets across 30+ countries in Africa.

The great promise of containerized applications and services is one of true platform agnosticism. Microservices are quick to spin up, knit together, and scale, are less resource-intensive than full-blooded virtual machines and can be deployed on hybrid infrastructure as easily as on a single bare metal instance.

As organizations start to explore the options that containers might offer them, we talk to Vishal Ghariwala, CTO for APJ and Greater China, from SUSE about the advantages of the technology, the power of open-source, and the leadership that SUSE is showing in the sector.

Although the German software giant has long been active in the enterprise computing space, its acquisition of Rancher Labs in December 2020 has positioned it nicely. It's rapidly becoming the de facto solution for containerization deployed in all areas of production, from IIoT in edge environments to large, elastic roll-outs for mixed and hybrid clouds.

Vishal has a history with Red Hat, Intalio, and IBM, and his cloud-native and open-source background serves him well as an ambassador for both containerization and the SUSE variants on Linux and open-source technology. We also touch on some projects to watch from SUSE's development labs that are making waves, including Harvester, the first genuinely open-source, non-proprietary hyperconvergent platform.

If you're interested in how containers' advantages might change the way you think about DevOps and enterprise software in general, this episode of the Tech Means Business podcast is for you.

SUSE Rancher: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-rancher/

Kubernetes Management for Dummies: https://www.suse.com/lp/kubernetes-for-dummies/

Rancher Desktop: https://rancherdesktop.io/

Harvester: https://harvesterhci.io/

Vishal can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalghariwala/

Joe Green, TMB's host is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephedwardgreen/

Darren and Erik talk about Containers: This episode discusses the AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) in some depth.  General containerization concepts and challenges are discussed:

• Moving from the monolith
• Developer challenges
• Fargate vs. EC2
• Democritization of DevOps
• Cultural challenges 
• ECS

You can find Sai's videos here. Come for the deep dives on Docker, stay for the live lightboard  magic. Yes, I know what the comments say, but no, he isn't writing backwards. 

Sai also does a lot of work around OpenShift, the containerization software products created by Red Hat. He talks about what the tie up between IBM and Red Hat has been like and how the enterprise is increasingly learning to work with open source. 

Our lifeboat badge of the week goes to Alex for explaining why you're Getting this as undefined when using arrow function.

If you want to find more from Sai, you can follow him on Twitter here.

 

 

 

If you've read any tech blogs in the past few years, you'll certainly have seen rapturous exaltations about containers and Kubernetes. But does this decade's big innovation live up to the hype?

This week, host Michael Bird takes us back to basics to explore the dynamic world of containers from the ground up, from Docker to Kubernetes. Google Advocate Kaslin Fields explains the who, the what, the why, and the how, of this small, yet mighty innovation.

Not just a handy tool for DevOps teams, Chris Ibbitson explains why organisations should start evaluating containers, and demystifies microservices, the 12 factors, and cloud-native methodologies. Plus, Stuart Anderson talks implementation and scaling, and how containers have shaken their insecure image.

The long show notes for this episode can be found here: https://community.hpe.com/t5/hpe-blog-uk-ireland/containers-this-decade-s-biggest-innovation-technology-untangled/ba-p/7099513#.X03tDHlKiUk

If you're going to work in modern web development, one of the key ingredients is a local development environment that doesn't rely on anything but your local machine to run.

But, even just in the Laravel world, there are so many options to choose from!

In this episode, three guests will talk us through the pros and cons of Laravel Valet, Laravel Homestead, and Docker-based solutions like Laradock and Vessel.

• Chris’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrByteZC
• Joses’ Twitter: https://twitter.com/josecanhelp
• Joe’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoePFerguson
• Valet: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/valet
• Homestead: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/homestead
• Docker: https://www.docker.com/
• Laradock: https://laradock.io/
• Vessel: https://vessel.shippingdocker.com/
• Jose on Twenty Percent Time: https://twentypercenttime.simplecast.com/episodes/jose-soto-docker-for-local-development-P7pz7_EJ
• Jose on Laracasts: https://laracasts.com/series/guest-spotlight/episodes/2
• Jose's Docker Site: https://daytodaydocker.com/
• Valet Diagnoses Command: https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/936
• HyperV: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/about/
• VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
• VMWare: https://www.vmware.com/

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Editing sponsored by Tighten; transcript sponsored by Larajobs.

In this episode, we cover the following topics:

• We continue our discussion of microVMs with a look at Kata Containers.
• Kata Containers formed by the merger of two projects: Intel Clear Containers and Hyper runV.
• How does Kata Containers integrate with existing container tooling?
• How mature are Kata Containers - are they ready for production?
• We then take a look at unikernels, which take a dramatically different approach to solving the problem of providing high security with blazing performance.
• The benefits of unikernels along with a comparison on how they differ from containers.
• We discuss some of the most popular unikernel implementations, including OSv and MirageOS.
• Does the future point to a deathmatch between containers and unikernels, or will there be a need for both approaches to cloud-native apps?

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In this episode, we cover the following topics:

• We revisit a misunderstanding from last week's show to find out exactly what the Firecracker team means when they list "Single VM per Firecracker process" as a security benefit.
• We discuss what's next on the Firecracker product roadmap, with particular emphasis on support for snapshot/restore.
• We learn how AWS uses Firecracker in production today with AWS Lambda.
• AWS is currently working on updating Fargate to use Firecracker. We look at why they are doing this and the design details of updating Fargate to use Firecracker.
• We finish by looking at how you can use Firecracker for your own containers, by incorporating Firecracker-aware tooling into your container infrastructure. Specifically, we look at firecracker-containerd and Weave Ignite.

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In this episode, we cover the following topics:

• We review virtual machines (full virtualization) and their benefits and tradeoffs.
• We then revisit containers (OS-level virtualization) and briefly recap how they use OS kernel features to enable virtualization.
• Containers provide great performance and resource efficiency, but at the cost of losing strong isolation. Can we have the performance and efficiency benefits of containers but with the strong isolation of VMs? There are some promising technologies that aim to combine the best of both VM and container worlds: microVMs, unikernels and container sandboxes.
• What are microVMs?
• What are unikernels?
• What are container sandboxes?
• AWS Firecracker is one of the most talked about microVMs. We discuss what it is, and the key benefits of using Firecracker.

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