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Neal Ford, the author of The Productive Programmer, discusses the benefits of polyglot programming and the impact it's had on software development.

Polyglot Programming

O'Reilly's Mac Slocum talks with Neal Ford, a software architect and meme wrangler at ThoughtWorks, about software architecture, its relationship with DevOps, and the growing influence of microservices.

How The DevOps Revolution Informs Software Architecture

DevOps is all the rage these days, and enterprises everywhere, of all sizes, want to eek the most efficiency from their people and infrastructure.  The DevOps mentality is one way to help.  DevOps strives to increase efficiency by focusing on communication, collaboration, automation, and shared responsibility between development and operations organizations. This week’s episode features Garrett Mueller, Technical Director, as we discuss DevOps and continuous integration at NetApp.

Episode 6 - DevOps and Continuous Integration at NetApp

I sat down with Sam Guckenheimer of Microsoft to talk about how he led the transformation of Microsoft Visual Studio to Visual Studio Online, a SaaS based offering. Along the way Sam and his team developed the 7 habits of successful DevOps, based on their experiences.

The 7 Habits of Successful DevOps

It's always great to catch up with Robert Reeves, CTO, founder of Datical. Datical just released a new survey about the State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery (https://www.datical.com/whitepapers/survey-the-state-of-database-deployments-in-application-delivery/).  Have a listen to our chat and be sure to download the survey report!

DevOps Chat

The State of Database Deployments in Application Delivery w/ Robert Reeves

In this special edition DevOps Chat we speak with acclaimed DevOps leader and author, Gary Gruver, DevOps pioneer and thought leader, Helen Beal and Electric Cloud executive Sam Fell about the upcoming DevOps Workshop which will follow the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The workshop takes place on June 27th. You can get information and tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/devops-workshop-from-new-learner-to-executive-leader-with-gary-gruver-and-devops-institute-tickets-45409188104 .  Also be sure to check out DevSecOps Days the day after this workshop in London! https://www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=44808855493

Post-DOES London DevOps Workshop - John Willis, Gary Gruver & Helen Beal

In this episode of "The CEO's View" we again chat with Derek Langone of XebiaLabs. Derek tackles a tough question: What's killing your digital transformation? Hint: It might be you.  No one ever said these transformations are easy. A few missteps could doom your progress. But don't give up, keep at it, follow some of Derek's advice here and you might just transform successfully.

The CEO's View: Whats killing your digital transformation? Hint: Might be you

There were several incident management vendors who were "DevOps native" in the market. But with the maturity of the DevOps movement and the adoption of DevOps by organizations large and small, larger more established incident management firms have taken their own lessons in adopting DevOps to tailor their solutions for DevOps. Everbridge is one of those companies. A public company, Everbridge is bringing their best in class solution to the DevOps market.
I spoke with Prashant Darisi, VP of Products there about this and more. Have a listen.

Prashant Darisi of Everbridge for Incident Management

Dale Vecchio has tens of years in the mainframe business. 18 or so of those years was with Gartner covering the mainframe beat. Dale is now with LzLabs. They recently conducted a survey with Microsoft On mainframe use: https://info.lzlabs.com/lzlabs-microsoft-mainframe-modernization-survey-2018

The results may or may not surprise you depending on your views on mainframes. It seems that a very high majority of mainframe users would like to ditch their mainframes if they could. There are some other interesting results here as well.

Of course LzLabs offers software as mainframe and Microsoft is not exactly known as a mainframe powerhouse. So I guess "take it with a a grain of salt" applies.

What do you think? Can we scale out in the cloud without scaling up as we do in mainframes or can we do it all in the cloud?

Would You Like to DITCH Your Mainframe?

Martin Fowler chats about the work he’s done over the last couple of years on the rewrite of the original Refactorings book. He discusses how this thought process has changed and how that’s affected the new edition of the book. In addition to discussing Refactors, Martin and Wes discuss his thoughts on evolutionary architecture, team structures, and how the idea of refactors can be applied in larger architecture contexts.

Why listen to this podcast:

 -    Refactoring is the idea of trying to identify the sequence of small steps that allows you to make a big change. That core idea hasn’t changed.
 - Several new refactorings in the book deal with the idea of transforming data structures into other data structures, Combine Functions into Transform for example.
 - Several of the refactorings were removed or not added to the book in favor of adding them to a web edition of the book.
 - A lot of the early refactorings are like cleaning the dirt off the glass of a window. You just need them to be able to see where the hell you are and then you can start looking at the broader ones.
 - Refactorings can be applied broadly to architecture evolution. Two recent posts How to break a Monolith into Microservices, by Zhamak Dehghani,  and How to extract a data-rich service from a monolith by Praful Todkar on MartinFowler.com deal with this specifically.
 - Evolutionary architecture is a broad principle that architecture is constantly changing. While related to Microservices, it’s not Microservices by another name. You could evolve towards or away from Microservices for example.

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