Cloud Data at epic scale with DataStax Enterprise and Pivotal Cloud Foundry

Most enterprises have millions (if not billions!) of lines of code across their app estate. Knowing how hard it will be to modernize business critical applications, and whether an app is suitable for the cloud is foundational to choosing a strategy and prioritization of your modernization effort.

Advanced modernization tools can help you complete technical analysis in days, not months or years. A great set of tools allows you to invest time and resources into business analysis and hands-on modernization work, and helps you avoid ‘analysis paralysis’ and overly expensive or failed initiatives.

In this webinar, we’ll demonstrate some of the tools used by VMware Pivotal Labs app modernization experts that are now open source. These tools help us make informed decisions quickly and take an evidence-based approach to app modernization. We’ll review tools that:

- Aggregate commonly available, open source code quality scanners
- Analyze source code for cloud suitability
- Use Artificial Intelligence/Deep Learning for code analysis

Join us to learn about these tools and how these can help with your modernization efforts!

Software professionals are constantly deciding where to focus. Do we work on new features or do we need to respond to support tickets? How much time do we spend not coding in order to gather context and align on goals with the rest of the team? And is now the right time to review and update our toolchain and working agreements?

Effectively balancing these demands can be even trickier when your team is working remotely, which many of us are doing for the first time due to the COVID crisis. How do you keep the big picture in mind while still shipping software? And what are the right tools and practices to being a healthy and effective software development team?

VMware Pivotal Labs is a recognized leader in agile software development and has successfully delivered amazing business outcomes using distributed teams for hundreds of customers. Join us on May 14, 2020 to hear practical advice, processes, and practices we’ve developed for fully remote software development. Learn how to stay focused on business outcomes and high-velocity delivery. And discover why we are proponents of pair programming, and how to make remote pairing just as effective, regardless of where your pair is.

Microservices and big data increasingly confront us with the limitations of traditional input/output. In traditional IO, work that is IO-bound dominates threads. This wouldn't be such a big deal if we could add more threads cheaply, but threads are expensive on the JVM, and most other platforms. Even if threads were cheap and infinitely scalable, we'd still be confronted with the faulty nature of networks. Things break, and they often do so in subtle but non-exceptional ways. Traditional approaches to integration bury the faulty nature of networks behind overly simplifying abstractions. We need something better.

Spring Framework 5 is here! It introduces the Spring developer to a growing world of support for reactive programming across the Spring portfolio, starting with a new Netty-based web runtime, component model and module called Spring WebFlux, and then continuing to Spring Data Kay, Spring Security 5.0, Spring Boot 2.0 and Spring Cloud Finchley. Sure, it sounds like a lot, but don't worry! Join me, your guide, Spring developer advocate Josh Long, and we'll explore the wacky, wonderful world of Reactive Spring together.

As you lead your organization to adopt containers and Kubernetes at scale, maintaining compliance with security policy and IT governance becomes increasingly complex. The idea of hundreds of thousands of containers in unmanaged repositories on the internet is especially unnerving to security and operations teams. Bad things can happen when developers and app operators use the wrong containers, so why would they do such a thing?

They are under pressure to innovate rapidly, and by circumventing IT governance they can ship faster. “What’s in that database I got online? Who knows, but I have a deadline to hit! YOLO, right?”

But there’s good news for those worried about YOLO ops. New approaches to software packaging with automated tooling and self-service models can make compliance frictionless and eliminate the need to go rogue.

Join VMware Principal Engineer Joe Beda and VP of Product Graham Siener as they sit down with Stephen O’Grady from RedMonk to discuss how a new approach to the secure software supply chain can deliver superior outcomes on Kubernetes without sacrificing efficiency or security. Attend this webinar to hear a discussion about:

- How container metadata enables information about the origin, contents, and security attributes of every container to travel with it through the software supply chain
- How you can bake compliance into all of the software you run on Kubernetes, whether it is built in-house or consumed from external sources
- How VMware is helping customers solve IT governance challenges with products and services in the Tanzu portfolio and through partnership with the broader cloud-native community