The Best Kept Secrets Of High Performance Development Teams

For all the talk of digital transformation, most organizations still struggle to get new code released into production. In fact, according to a Forrester survey of developers, 60% of respondents stated they release applications twice a year or less. How is software going to transform your business if it only changes twice a year?

It turns out that getting software into production frequently benefits business in a number of ways. Developers are more productive. Revenue-generating applications get features to generate more revenue. Security patches are less disruptive and downtime costs decrease.

In a recent study, commissioned by Pivotal (now part of VMware), Forrester Consulting quantified many of these types of improvements in a Total Economic Impact™ Study of Pivotal Platform (now part of VMware Tanzu). In this webinar, you’ll learn about the stringent methodology used by Forrester Consulting to calculate a 142% three year ROI for Pivotal Platform from our guest speaker Sarah Musto of Forrester Consulting. You’ll also hear best practices from Kyle Campos, SVP of SaaS Ops at Smarsh.

Check out the recent study here: https://content.pivotal.io/analyst-reports/the-total-economic-impact-of-the-pivotal-platform-2020

*The Total Economic Impact™ Of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, a December 2019 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Pivotal.

Streaming applications are all the rage these days because they open up exciting, new use cases. Every streaming application demands a common set of capabilities. The most critical of all is reliability of the events delivery and processing. But what does reliable processing entail? How do you build a streaming pipeline that’s responsive to performance changes in a distributed system? That’s where the reactor back-pressure comes into the picture.

Join Pivotal Platform Architect Madhav Sathe and Pivotal Principal Software Engineer Marcial Rosales for this online class as they walk you through the ingredients of building streaming pipelines. You’ll learn:

● An overview of what Project Reactor is and how it works.
● How Project Reactor makes it possible to build an end-to-end streaming pipeline.
● How to use RabbitMQ’s native reactive support and Project Reactor to build stateful streaming transformations.
● How to demonstrate backpressure across multiple distributed systems in this architecture.
● How this stack is being used to solve real use cases.

We look forward to you joining us.

As an industry, we’ve been reasoning about RabbitMQ's behavior without having the right perspective. Existing tooling has prevented us from understanding what’s happening under the hood and sharing the state with those that really understand how the pieces fit together.

In this online class, you’ll learn how this changes with the new observability tooling in RabbitMQ 3.8. You can finally answer many of the RabbitMQ questions yourself, and share anything that you don’t understand with a RabbitMQ expert.

Join RabbitMQ engineer Gerhard Lazu to learn how:

● To start using the new metrics system in RabbitMQ 3.8
● Developers know when your application is using a RabbitMQ anti-pattern
● Developers who use Quorum Queues can understand the mechanics better
● Operators know when a RabbitMQ deployment is imbalanced
● Erlang experts can unlock deeper RabbitMQ insights
● To share your context when you come across a bug

We look forward to you joining us.

You’re faced with the business imperative to deliver value to your customers faster, with less risk, and at enterprise scale. But where do you start? There are so many approaches and products for implementing continuous delivery (CD) of modern apps.

Join our webinar to learn about three trends that can make your delivery pipelines inherently resilient, accessible, and continuous:

● continuous delivery as a relay race
● turning monitoring into automated action
● developer experience at the heart

We’ll share a demo of a delivery pipeline that includes Concourse CI, Pivotal Build Service, and Spinnaker CD with Pivotal Container Service as the destination. You’ll learn how a loosely coupled pipeline can provide speed with guardrails, enabling you to scale delivery of your modern applications.

This webinar is especially relevant for those who:

● think full software delivery automation is a pipe dream.
● have an app delivery pipeline that’s a brittle monolith to maintain.
● suspect all your delivery problems are solved with Kubernetes.

Speakers:
Olga Kundzich, Pivotal, Senior Product Manager Spinnaker
Tony Vetter, Pivotal, Technical Product Marketing Manager
Patricia Johnson, Pivotal, Product Marketing Manager CI/CD

Earning client trust every day is one of Fiserv’s core values. Its key reflection is the quality that gets delivered to Fiserv’s client. In this webinar, Fiserv’s Clint Myers, CTO Fiserv Bank Solutions, and Navdeep Singh, VP, Infrastructure Engineering, share how the company is modernizing its existing core application portfolio for scale, including how it broke up monolithic applications into microservices, running on Pivotal Platform, with no downtime or impact to the customer experience.

While the journey is ongoing, Clint and Navdeep will provide three (3) ingredients for a successful project, including lessons learned that you can incorporate into your modernization program and how Fiserv Business Technology Services can help. Join Pivotal and Fiserv to learn about application modernization challenges unique to companies in regulated industries, including:

● What’s required to modernize these applications into microservices.
● What the Fiserv team wishes they’d done earlier.
● What was most important to Fiserv’s success.

Fiserv is one of the world’s largest payments and financial technology providers. Prior to the acquisition of First Data, they moved over $75+ trillion annually and have over 25m active bill pay users. With millions of consumers, thousands of financial institutions and hundreds of other organizations rely on Fiserv to move and manage money and information on their behalf every day—trust is everything.

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This webinar:
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Supporting legacy applications—much less figuring out how to containerize them—is not high on anyone’s list. Everyone has old infrastructure hosting even older apps, and is asked to “get it in a container.” With the introduction of Windows clusters in Kubernetes, we’re given a straightforward way of accomplishing this that results in very little tech debt.

In this hour-long online class, we’ll set the following goals:

● Make no code changes during the move.
● Run the app in a true Windows container.
● Show step-by-step how it can be accomplished.

We look forward to you joining us.

The Accelerate State of DevOps Report is the result of five years of research—and more than 30,000 data points—and aims to understand how software delivery and operational (SDO) performance drives organizational performance. Our data also supports analyst reports that the industry is crossing the chasm: we see almost 3x the proportion of elite performers compared to last year, with low performers shrinking in comparison.

In this webinar, we discuss the key findings in the 2019 report. Join us and learn:

● the best strategies for scaling DevOps;
● how to leverage the cloud to drive superior outcomes and unlock effective change management;
● how to optimize productivity so you can improve work/life balance and reduce burnout; and
● new findings for how to build a great organizational culture.

Speakers:

Dr. Nicole Forsgren does research and strategy at Google Cloud. She is co-author of the Shingo Publication Award-winning book, Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps, and is best known as lead investigator on the largest DevOps studies to date. She has been a successful entrepreneur (with an exit to Google), professor, performance engineer, and sysadmin. Her work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals.

Richard Seroter is the VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal, a 12-time Microsoft MVP for cloud, an instructor for developer-centric training company Pluralsight, the lead InfoQ.com editor for cloud computing, and author of multiple books on application integration strategies. As VP of Product Marketing at Pivotal, Richard heads up product, partner, customer, and technical marketing and helps customers see how to transform the way they build software. Richard maintains a regularly updated blog (seroter.wordpress.com) on topics of architecture and solution design and can be found on Twitter as @rseroter.

In-memory caching is not new technology. But it takes on renewed significance with cloud-native, distributed applications. Modern day caching can alleviate the performance and availability challenges associated with your most important modern apps.

In this webinar, we will explore why caching should be a vital part of your distributed systems. You’ll learn how:

● A highly available cache can keep apps online serving data, and protect against data loss, in the event of infrastructure failure.
● An elastic cache like PCC can adjust to the needs of your applications. Elasticity at the data layer is crucial for the elasticity of the entire system.
● A caching layer can reduce the adverse efforts of network latency on system performance.
● Enterprises use PCC alongside Pivotal Platform. We’ll also examine the day-to-day experience of managing the caching service.
● PCC can support caching patterns for Spring and .NET microservices.

Join us to find out how caching can improve the performance of your essential customer-facing systems.

Presenter Bio:
Nikhil Chandrappa is a data engineer at Pivotal. He focuses on helping enterprises to architect data platforms on cloud. He specializes in full stack development with focus centered around Spring Data, caching, and cloud native data pipelines. He is originally from Mysore, India, and has a masters degree in computer engineering from Syracuse University.

Operations practices have historically lagged behind development. Agile and Extreme Programming have become common practice for development teams. In the last decade, the DevOps and SRE movements have brought these concepts to operations, borrowing heavily from Lean principles such as Kanban and Value Stream Mapping. So, how does all of this play out if we’re using Kubernetes?

In this class, Paul Czarkowski, Principal Technologist at Pivotal, will explain how Kubernetes enables a new cloud-native way of operating software. Attend to learn:

● what cloud-native operations are;
● how to build a cloud-native CI/CD stack; and
● how to deploy and upgrade an application from source to production on Kubernetes.

We look forward to you joining us.

Over the last few years, software containers have become a big deal. According to Gartner, "by 2023, Kubernetes will be deployed in more than 80% of all on-premises private cloud and cloud-inspired environments, up from less than 10% today, requiring I&O to acquire operational competencies."

The wide adoption of containers has been primarily driven by developers. But to see real success, you need to work across both development and operations teams to ensure the environment in which these containers run can operate securely and at scale.

Join Pivotal Platform Architect, Adam Fowler, for a webinar where we’ll explore how a platform offering, layered on top of containers, enables developers to build and deploy applications at speed and scale, thereby increasing productivity and product time to market.

As the old adage goes, “you can’t manage what you can’t measure.” But what if the measurements are part of the problem? After all, you can move the needle on what you measure, but there may be unanticipated outcomes. When it comes to transforming how an organization delivers software, how you measure success also needs to change.

Despite a marked adoption of agile development practices in the last five years, Forrester Research found that developers haven’t made much progress at delivering software faster. What’s the disconnect? Forrester has found a number of interrelated factors behind organizations that outperform in software delivery. One of them is metrics.

Join this webinar with special guests Jeffrey Hammond, Forrester Research Analyst, and Patrick Feeney, Senior Director of IT Digital Products at Healthcare Services Corporation (HCSC), to learn:

● The types of metrics high-performance software teams are using
● Which metrics are counterproductive to improving software delivery
● How HCSC has used metrics to manage software delivery change
● Which roles should be using which metrics and when

Speakers:
Jeffrey Hammond, Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Patrick Feeney, Senior Director, IT Digital Products, Healthcare Services Corporation

Site Reliability Engineering has become a buzz word in IT Operations since Google released the SRE book in 2016. At Pivotal we don’t view SRE as a role or a team but as a set of principles and practices that can be adopted by anyone.

In this session we’ll introduce the concepts of Service Level Objectives, Service Level Indicators and Error Budgets and discuss how teams can leverage Automation to reduce toil—freeing up engineering time to solve more important problems!

Hear from Hannah Foxwell and Corey Innis about how Pivotal’s CloudOps team have adopted these simple tools and provide advice about how your Platform Team can get started with SRE.

Migrating to the cloud is integral to staying competitive in a changing landscape. While the benefits of migrating are clear, the journey is a process, and it won’t happen overnight. Conquering the obstacles of legacy apps isn’t easy—there are layers of complexity that vary with each portfolio. Figuring out which applications to migrate first and how to do it can be daunting. You’re not alone!

Join this webinar with special guests J.P. White and Sean Graham from DICK’S Sporting Goods (DSG) as they share exclusive insights from their migration journey. Learn more about:

● What challenges DSG encountered and how they navigated through them
● DSG’s Application Transformation journey
● How cultural change, methods, and modern practices have played a significant role in their transformation
● What’s next on their journey

Speakers:
J.P. White, Director of eCommerce Application Development at DICK’S Sporting Goods
Sean Graham, Application Transformation Practice Lead at DICK’S Sporting Goods

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Everybody is talking about the promise of Kubernetes, but it takes more than optimism to turn a complex technology into something that can deliver real business results.

Once deployed, Kubernetes presents a litany of operational, management, and cultural challenges for which many users will not have prepared adequately. This webinar will highlight approaches to successfully implementing Kubernetes at enterprise scale and making it an effective facilitator of digital transformation.

Join special guest Dave Bartoletti of Forrester Research in conversation with Chuck Knostman, Vice President IT at T-Mobile, and Cornelia Davis, Vice President of Technology for Pivotal, as they discuss how companies can get the most value from their Kubernetes deployments, which workloads are best suited for those environments, and the true state of Kubernetes adoption among enterprises.

Speakers:
Chuck Knostman, Vice President IT, T-Mobile
Dave Bartoletti, Vice President, Analyst, Forrester Research
Cornelia Davis, Vice President of Technology, Pivotal

Ah, the mainframe. Peel back many transactional business applications at any enterprise and you’ll find a mainframe application under there. It’s often where the crown jewels of the business’ data and core transactions are processed. The tooling for these applications is dated and new code is infrequent, but moving off is seen as risky. No one. Wants. To. Touch. Mainframes.

But mainframe applications don’t have to be the electric third rail. Modernizing, even pieces of those mainframe workloads into modern frameworks on modern platforms, has huge payoffs. Developers can gain all the productivity benefits of modern tooling. Not to mention the scaling, security, and cost benefits.

So, how do you get started modernizing applications off a mainframe? Join Rohit Kelapure, Consulting Practice Lead at Pivotal, as he shares lessons from projects with enterprises to move workloads off of mainframes. You’ll learn:

● How to decide what to modernize first by looking at business requirements AND the existing codebase
● How to take a test-driven approach to minimize risks in decomposing the mainframe application
● What to use as a replacement or evolution of mainframe schedulers
● How to include COBOL and other mainframe developers in the process to retain institutional knowledge and defuse project detractors
● How to replatform mainframe applications to the cloud leveraging a spectrum of techniques

We look forward to you joining us.

Pivotal Education enables you to continuously deliver business value in a rapidly evolving market by providing the modern software expertise you need to excel in a cloud-native world.

In this webinar, we will discuss the breadth of training, certification and the Platform Acceleration Lab (PAL) options available for Spring and Cloud Foundry developers, architects, and operators.

We'll also show you how Pivotal Education makes it easy create a custom Spring or Cloud Foundry training plan specific to your learning needs and schedule, using in-person and online content and tools.

More and more, teams are looking to develop faster, react faster, and plan faster—even
companies building complex software and hardware products. Do you have the skills to properly
balance moving fast while still documenting and maintaining complicated requirements? Our
expert panel discuss the tools, tricks, and processes they use to achieve success and avoid
failure when managing complex requirements.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this webinar:
● Requirements management done the right way
● Tips for managing requirements across teams and products
● Best practices for traceability and change management

Presenters:
Mark Barbir, Senior Vice President of Engineering at ProductPlan
Bryon Kroger, Chief Operating Officer at Kessel Run.
Robin Calhoun is a Senior Product Manager with Jama Software
Kevin Steigerwald is the VP of Products and UX at Jama Software