Tasha Drew is the Director of Product Incubation at VMware, which focuses on incubating and delivering to market products that are 1-3 years ahead of roadmaps, in collaboration with partners, customers, and business units. She is also the co-chair for Kubernetes’ SIG Usability and co-chair for Kubernetes’ Multi-tenancy Working Group. We hope you enjoy this conversation about bringing Kubernetes to VMware users, throwing blueprints at the bazaar, and charming pirates. Links from the show: Charming Pirates: Reframing user acquisition and referral for OSS KubeCon 2021: Studying Kubernetes' Users with SIG Usabilty Kubernetes SIG UsabilitySpecial Guest: Tasha Drew.

Today Mark and I are joined by Cisco Distinguished engineer Mike Dvorkin. Mike is one of the original architects of Cisco's UCS and their Application Centric Infrastructure and Application Policy Infrastructure Controller, as well as an advisor and investor in numerous infrastructure and technology startups. We hope you enjoy this ranging conversation over the origin story of UCS, the cost-benefit analysis of cloud repatriation, policy as code, and AI for cows. Links from the show: Cattle Care Databento LoopHole Labs Netris StyraSpecial Guest: Mike Dvorkin.

On this episode of the Cloud Native Application Flows podcast Sebastien and I are joined by Jacques Chester, the author of Knative in Action. Jacques is a former engineer for Pivotal and VMware, and he now works for Shopify. We hope you enjoy this conversation about writing the book on Knative, the history of Cloud Foundry versus Kubernetes, and the under-appreciated beauty of Buildpacks. Links from the episode: Cloud Native Buildpacks Knative in Action Skenario load testing framework Special Guest: Jacques Chester.

On this episode of the Cloud Native Application Flows podcast we’re joined by cloud pioneer James Urquhart. James has been an influential author for many years, his new Flow Architectures book from O’Reilly Media lays out the landscape for event driven architectures and the future of our industry. Be sure to continue the conversation with the book's blog and read the article on Evaluating Stream Consumption mentioned in the show. We hope you enjoy this captivating conversation.Special Guest: James Urquhart.

When we started the podcast we knew we wanted to talk to the legendary John Willis. In this episode John regales us with tales of his history on the DevOps scene, from Chef to Docker to Red Hat and beyond. Be sure to check out his new Profound podcast and you can catch up with him at @botchagalupe on Twitter.Special Guest: John Willis.Sponsored By:TriggerMesh