PurePerformance

If you lift & shift to the cloud or move things back from the cloud to on-premise you most likely didn’t understand cloud and how it can help you transform your business and organization. A bold statement but very much true so as we learn in our conversation with Mike Kavis, Chief Cloud Architect at Deloitte.
Mike (@madgreek65) has been in technology for 35+ years and was an early adopter of cloud technology as early as 2007 when AWS only had about 6 APIs. He has launched several startups and is now helping organizations to rethink what cloud means for them!
Listen in to this podcast and learn why organizations fail if they don’t understand that cloud is about agility, it’s a platform for innovators and that traditional IT teams have to transform into internal cloud providers that provide services to their development teams for them to deliver better business value faster.
Mike also runs his own podcast – you may want to listen in to the episode he recorded with Andi on Speeding up Digital Transformation with Cloud Native.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekavis/
https://twitter.com/madgreek65
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/consulting/articles/digital-transformation-requires-a-cloud-native-mindset-cloud-computing-cloud-value-devops-noops-aiops-software-development-business-value.html

Mark Tomlinson, “a veteran” in Performance Engineering, discusses how DevOps is a big opportunity for performance engineering – but also a threat for many that have been in the business for a long time. The big question is: are “traditional performance engineers” using their Load Runners or SilkPerformers at the end of the project lifecycle ready to change? Ready to learn new tools? Ready to think about automating performance engineering into the delivery pipeline and doing that in collaboration with the rest of the engineering team? Ready to “Check your Ego at the door”?
Listen to our conversation where we also discuss how these roles have changed in organizations we recently interacted with.

The initial idea of the Cloud has long become commodity – which is IaaS. Containers are the current hype but still require you to take care of correctly configuring your container that will run your code.
Mike Villiger (@mikevilliger) – a veteran and active member of the cloud community – explains why it is really PaaS that should be on top of your list. And why monitoring performance, architecture and resource consumption is more important than ever in order for your PaaS Adventure not to fail.
Related article:
http://www.it20.info/2016/03/the-incestuous-relations-among-containers-orchestration-tools/

When moving to the cloud - have you thought of the performance difference between App Gateway and Application Load Balancers? The disk speed and disk cache limitations impacting Cassandra and or Elasticsearch Performance? Challenges with pre-built containers or resource limits on pods impacting Java Garbage Collection behavior?
These are all performance considerations Klaus Kierer, Senior Software Engineer in the Cluster Performance Engineering Team at Dynatrace, has learned over the past months as he helped performance optimize the Dynatrace Platform as it was expanded from running on AWS Compute to run on Kubernetes hosted in Azure (AKS) or Google Cloud (GKE).
Listen in and learn why Performance Engineering is more important than ever as you are moving your workloads to the “hyper-hybrid-cloud”.
Show Links:
Klaus on Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/klaus-kierer-67b83a81/
Blog - When to use Azure Load Balancer or Application Gateway:
https://blog.siliconvalve.com/2017/04/04/when-to-use-azure-load-balancer-or-application-gateway/
K8ssandra performance benchmarks on cloud managed Kubernetes
https://k8ssandra.io/blog/articles/k8ssandra-performance-benchmarks-on-cloud-managed-kubernetes/

Keptn is now a CNCF sandbox project bringing a new event-driven approach to continuous delivery and operations. While many are just hearing about Keptn the first time, it is interesting to learn more about how it started, which challenges the team ran into, what they learned about K8s, and running an open-source project. We therefore invited Johannes Braeuer (@braeuer_j) and Andreas Grimmer (@grimmer_andreas) – both Keptn project maintainers and contributors – who have been working on the Keptn project since its inception.
Especially for groups that want to start open-source projects or are on the brink of deciding pro or con Kubernetes should listen until the end as Johannes and Andreas tell us what they would do differently now if they would start today based on the learnings from the past 18 months.
If you want to join the Keptn community, make sure to star our GitHub project, join the Slack channel, and join our regular community meetings!
Keptn
https://keptn.sh/
Johannes Bräuer on Twitter
https://twitter.com/braeuer_j
Andreas Grimmer on Twitter
https://twitter.com/grimmer_andreas
Keptn Github
https://github.com/keptn/keptn
Keptn Slack
https://keptn.slack.com/
Keptn Community
https://github.com/keptn/community