Scott M. Fulton III
Co-Host of The New Stack Context
First there was the wheel, and you have to admit, the wheel was cool. After that, you had the boat and the hamburger, and technology was chugging right along with that whole evolution thing. Then there was the Web, and you had to wonder, after the wheel and the hamburger, how did things make such a sudden left turn and get so messed up so quickly? Displaying all the symptoms of having spent 30 years in the technology news business, Scott Fulton (often known as Scott M. Fulton, III, formerly known as D. F. Scott, sometimes known as that loud guy in the corner making the hand gestures) has taken it upon himself to move evolution back to a more sensible track. Stay in touch and see how far he gets.
Scott M. Fulton III has hosted nine Episodes.
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Episode 9: Microservices and the Hunt for the New Normal
January 24th, 2017 | Season 1 | 10 mins 14 secs
apm, apm development, application development, cortex, performance monitoring, platform management, weaveworks, web development
There is no “normal” for a microservices environment. And if a groundbreaking November 2016 white paper, produced by a team of six researchers from the University of Messina, the U.K.’s Newcastle University, and IBM Research, is to be taken at face value, perhaps such a state of equilibrium may never be attained. Every data center, the researchers write, has unique operating requirements. Once microservices are deployed there, the configurations they require become not only unique, but baked into their respective systems.
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Episode 8: The Container Ecosystem - Who's in Charge Here?
January 24th, 2017 | Season 1 | 14 mins 42 secs
application development, cloud foundry, cloud foundry foundation, cncf, container ecosystem, developers, devops, ecosystems, technology ecosystem
The ideal of a technology ecosystem is that the people who benefit most from it — presumably, the customers — share the fruits of their labor with the producers who maintain this system. Both the suppliers and the demanders benefit each other, and in so doing, exchange roles from time to time. It’s the phenomenon we first saw with the Apple II in the late 1970s — the first community-driven economy devoted to a commercial computing product.
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Episode 7: Hyperscale Only Takes You So Far
September 29th, 2016 | Season 1 | 9 mins 55 secs
application development, developers, devops, microservices, open source software, programming, software, software development
I would use the term “trump card,” except that I don’t want to jinx anything. VMware holds a very high card in its portfolio of infrastructure resources: its installed base among enterprises. Its existing server virtualization platform is said to hold as high as 80% worldwide market share in terms of current sales. And as we’ve noted here before, some market analysts actually rate VMware as the leader in containerization, simply because its competitors in that space (you may have heard of Docker, for instance) have too few assets to bother examining them.
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Episode 6: Kubernetes and OpenStack: Who's On First?
September 14th, 2016 | Season 1 | 10 mins
application development, developers, devops, microservices, open source software, programming, software, software development
It wasn’t all that long ago — not quite a year — that the leaders in the OpenStack community were openly discussing whether their platform should be expected to support both conventional and cloud-native workloads simultaneously. Some expressed their fear that customers were demanding an evolutionary path, and vendors may be answering demands for such a path, that the platform wasn’t intended to take — and that contributing developers didn’t want to follow.
And on the other side of the fence, the rapid rise of Docker led some prominent voices to declare the impending death of OpenStack.
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Episode 5: What Does It Mean, "Server-less?"
August 17th, 2016 | Season 1 | 10 mins
cloud-native development, container orchestration, developers, devops, operations, serverless, serverless computing, serverless technology, software implementation
“Serverless computing,” at the time of this writing, is an emerging ideal that’s past the embryonic stage, yet not quite fully formed. It has a variety of advocates, some of whom make more sense than others.
But what does the term “serverless” mean, exactly? We speak with two such advocates who put forth the most sensible cases thus far: Michael Hausenblas, a developer and developer advocate at Mesosphere, and author of a recent New Stack article entitled, “Making Sense of Serverless Computing”; and Chad Arimura, the CEO of Iron.io and a previous guest of our podcasts.
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Episode 4: Revolution in the Container Revolution
July 18th, 2016 | Season 1 | 9 mins 56 secs
application development, containers, developers, devops, docker, microservices, open source software, programming, software, software development
Four years ago, the virtualization industry was blown wide open by the arrival of Docker — a format which made it possible to stage workloads and scale them without the overhead of VMware, Xen, or KVM virtual machines. Last year, Docker Inc. graciously donated its container standard to the Open Container Initiative, run by the Linux Foundation — a neutral governing party. The idea was to end all the bickering over what the container format should be. Instead, what’s happening is a fresh re-opening of the debate over why there should be just one.
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Episode 3: Making Virtual Machines and Containers Coexist... Nicely
July 6th, 2016 | Season 1 | 9 mins 21 secs
application development, developers, devops, microservices, open source software, openstack, programming, software, software development
In May 2015, analysts at Gartner rejected OpenStack as a viable platform, for reasons which boil down to its being disruptive. Not quite a year later, analysts at Gartner appeared on stage at OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, to embrace OpenStack as a viable platform, for reasons which boil down to its being disruptive. It sounded a little two-faced, as though the analysts group were presenting both a negative and a positive view of a cause-and-effect relationship simultaneously.
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Episode 2: Microservices and the Unsustainable Security Model
June 21st, 2016 | Season 1 | 19 mins 38 secs
application development, cloud, coreos, developers, devops, docker, iot, kubernetes, open source, openshift, podcast, programming, software, software development, tech, technology
Our latest edition of The New Stack: Context dives nose-first into three sides of the container security pond simultaneously, to see which side cracks first. In this podcast, you’ll hear more from our visit to the Cloud Security Alliance summit at the last RSA Conference, where we’ll talk to the cloud service provider community and the security services community. And we’ll compare their vantage points to that of Docker, which so far has had to go it alone with respect to forging a new model for infrastructure security.
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Episode 1: OpenStack and the Homogeneity Problem
June 8th, 2016 | Season 1 | 21 mins 9 secs
application development, cloud, developers, devops, iot, kubernetes, open source, openstack, podcast, programming, software, software development, tech, technology
The one most prophetic, emerging fact of life in a technological world where open source is the most prominent ethic, is that there may always be more than one open methodology contending for the same market space, at any one time. The moment enough factions come together around a single methodology, such as pooled storage or application orchestration, another group of factions come together around a viable competitor. An open source world will perpetually be a contest of ideas.