Episode 24: Mik Kersten + Adrian Cockcroft

01/26/21 • 79 min

Mik + One: The Official Project to Product Podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten

Kicking off the first episode of 2021, Mik is joined by Adrian Cockcroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services. In this episode, Mik and Adrian discuss Adrian’s predictions for application architecture in 2021, what’s happening with microservices architecture and other key discussion points including: - Serverless services and why the time is now to use the fastest way to deliver these applications - Adrian’s guidance for using AWS’ new greenfield applications that can help quickly bring a product to market - How organizations can use Wardley maps as a powerful tool to map out their efforts and navigate rapidly changing technology landscapes - How Adrian approaches chaos engineering - Big data, its uses and what problems you can solve with it - Amazon’s efforts with sustainability and renewable energy, and how moving a workload to the cloud could dramatically reduce a client’s carbon footprint Subscribe to the Mik + One podcast today so you never miss an episode and don’t forget to leave your review. Follow Mik on Twitter: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne www.tasktop.com For more information about Adrian Cockcroft, visit: https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/adrian-cockcroft-ep-24/

Previous Episode

Episode 24: Adrian Cockcroft on Serviceless Servers and Chaos Engineering

Kicking off the first episode of 2021, Mik is joined by Adrian Cockcroft, VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at Amazon Web Services.

In this episode, Mik and Adrian discuss Adrian’s predictions for application architecture in 2021, what’s happening with microservices architecture and other key discussion points including:

Serverless services and why the time is now to use the fastest way to deliver these applications
Adrian’s guidance for using AWS’ new greenfield applications that can help quickly bring a product to market
How organizations can use Wardley maps as a powerful tool to map out their efforts and navigate rapidly changing technology landscapes
How Adrian approaches chaos engineering
Big data, its uses and what problems you can solve with it
Amazon’s efforts with sustainability and renewable energy, and how moving a workload to the cloud could dramatically reduce a client’s carbon footprint

Subscribe to the Mik + One podcast today so you never miss an episode and don’t forget to leave your review.

Follow Mik on Twitter: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne
www.tasktop.com

For more information about Adrian Cockcroft, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/adrian-cockcroft-ep-24/

Next Episode

Episode 25: Rene Te-Strote on The Future of Transport: Virtual Simulation

In this episode of Mik + One, Mik is joined by Rene Te-Strote, Senior IT Project Lead for the BMW Group.

In this episode, Mik and Rene discuss Rene’s contributions to innovate the BMW Group by mixing hardware and software development and other key discussion points including:

How Rene started his career in BMW, first working in a production plant and then moving to the IT department
Some of the foundational principles Rene applied to innovate and point the organization in the right direction, such as thinking of the entire manufacturing process as a product
How Rene accelerated the speed of innovation in an industrial context, and how simulation has become a key part of car manufacturing at BMW Group
Where Rene’s high-performance computing clusters are at now
Rene’s insights into the next 10 years within the automotive industry

Subscribe to the Mik + One podcast today so you never miss an episode and don’t forget to leave your review.

Follow Mik on Twitter: @mik_kersten #MikPlusOne
www.tasktop.com

For more information about Rene Te-Strote, to view the full list of resources featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/rene-te-strote/