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Welcome to this special installment of the Java technical podcast series. This season is focused solely on the cloud. In the following podcasts, you'll hear from those people who not only influence, but directly impact cloud computing, regardless of the underlying language or platform. There's a lot to learn here, so put on your headphones and get ready for some interesting conversations.
Listen now: Cloud provider Blue Box's CEO, Jesse Proudman, explains his view of the cloud -- where it makes sense to go bare metal versus virtual, and how service makes a difference.
With more than 15 years of experience building and leading IT businesses, Blue Box founder and CEO Jesse Proudman has successfully demonstrated his technical and business leadership aptitude as a hands-on, do-it-yourself entrepreneur with a strong work ethic that remains a constant theme throughout his professional endeavors. A University of Puget Sound Business Leadership Program graduate, he founded Blue Box in 2003 and has led the company to record growth levels through both prosperous and troubled economic times. Jesse continues to infuse Blue Box with high standards of customer satisfaction that includes the relentless pursuit of success through personalized solutions that deliver increased value to customers. Jesse is also an advocate and active member in business and leadership mentoring programs through the University of Washington and University of Puget Sound. Jesse resides in Seattle, Washington with his family.
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- Blue Box
- Follow Jesse Proudman
- Cloud hosting startup Blue Box raises venture capital after nearly 10 years in business GeekWire
Listen now: James Ward likes Heroku. James Ward likes the cloud. In this podcast, James talks about enterprise Java and its applicability to the cloud. He details how Heroku arcs from hobbyist platform to enterprise Java platform.
James Ward works for
Typesafe, where he teaches developers the Typesafe Stack (Play Framework, Scala, and Akka). James frequently presents at conferences around the world such as JavaOne, Devoxx, and many other Java get-togethers. Along with Bruce Eckel, James co-authored First Steps in Flex. He has also published numerous screencasts, blogs, and technical articles.
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- Podcast: Adam Wiggins and Jesper Joergensen on Heroku developerWorks
- Follow James Ward
- Git-commit your Java apps with Heroku's PaaS Andrew Glover, developerWorks
Listen now (Transcript): Learn about Puppet, an automation tool for cloud operations. In this podcast, Brian Jakovich, Stelligent's lead on Elastic Operations, discusses how to get started, what it can do, how it compares to Chef, and where it fits with regard to DevOps and Continuous Delivery.
Brian Jakovich is the Director of Elastic Operations (an Open Continuous Delivery
PaaS) at Stelligent. His experience spans the software life cycle working on DevOps projects for large organizations such as Macy’s and the National Cancer Institute with Stelligent. He’s a contributor to DevOps in the Cloud (Pearson Education, 2012). He is passionate about automation, software delivery, and the cloud and actively blogs at Stelligent.com.
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- Elastic Operations
- Agile DevOps Paul Duvall, developerWorks
Listen now (Transcript): "Rock-solid Java in the cloud" is how Jelastic describes its wares -- and it appears to be true. These guys are different; they don't run on AWS and offer data centers in various global markets. Find out more about Jelastic, reliability, and data locality in this podcast.
Judah Johns serves
as Chief Evangelist of Jelastic, where he is responsible for sharing the good news
that is Jelastic. Previous to Jelastic, he worked for the UK2 Group in London,
where he helped grow the VPS.net brand and created and launched their Latin
American hosting brand, HostPuro. He is a trained chemist but has worked in
industries as varied as politics and oil and gas. He holds bachelor’s degrees in
Chemistry and Political Science from the University of Houston and has worked at a
number of research institutions in the United States. He is currently back living in his hometown of Houston, Texas with his two black labs, Luther and Remy.
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- Jelastic
- Java and Cloud in 10 minutes? Jelastic! The Java Momentum
- Follow Jelastic
Listen now (Transcript): Learn about NuoDB, a relational db that scales horizontally without the need for sharding, and how it fits into a cloud ecosystem.
Wiqar Chaudry,
Director of Product Management, is an IT professional with over a decade of
experience in database systems and web technologies. He has been responsible for
designing large scale data warehouses for the fortune 500 and has played key roles in several data centric start-ups as a solutions architect, sales engineer, and product manager. Academically, Wiqar holds a BBA in Finance from Temple University, and an MS in Computer Information systems from Boston University. In his spare time, Wiqar writes a blog on collaborative economics. You can follow him on twitter: @WiqarC.
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Jason McCay and Kurt Mackey, MongoHQ
Listen now: MongoHQ, a DBaaS (Database as a Service), provides an interesting view on the cloud landscape. In this podcast, you'll learn what it means to be a database service in the cloud. You'll hear about the challenges of running a hosted database, what people should look for in a provider, and, importantly, when it makes sense to go the traditional data-center route.
MongoHQ was conceived two years ago to solve our own problem. As we created applications for our Rails consultancy and were learning about and enjoying the use of this new database technology in our projects, we found it hard to easily create databases for these applications without having to exert a lot of effort. With our background creating software as a service, we were intrigued at the future of a data layer that could be offered to developers, allowing them to focus on their code instead of having to worry about their data. With that, we created MongoHQ, the first DBaaS (Database as a Service) of its kind.
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- MongoHQ
- 10gen, the MongoDB company
- Podcast: Eliot Horowitz on MongoDB developerWorks
- Podcast: 10gen's Steve Francia talks MongoDB developerWorks
- Follow MongoHQ
Bill Platt and Mark Gaydos, Engine Yard
Listen now (Transcript): Engine Yard execs discuss the difference between an IaaS versus a PaaS, what to look for in a PaaS, how to build a community, and what's coming in the future with regard to the cloud.
Bill Platt spent the last four years at
NComputing, a desktop virtualization startup, serving as the senior vice president responsible for product development and support for all virtualization client software and virtual desktop devices. Prior to NComputing, Platt was senior vice president of products at Wyse Technologies. His career also includes a 15-year tenure at Sun Microsystems where Platt built multiple businesses in the services organization for the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, as well as serving as a vice president in the software business unit responsible for Solaris and the Java Enterprise System. Bill has a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of Business.
Mark Gaydos has
more than 20 years of enterprise marketing experience. Prior to Engine Yard, he was
vice president of Worldwide Marketing at VirtuOz. Mark has also held a variety of
marketing roles at successful technology companies, including Oracle, SAP, Tripwire,
and Comergent. He is also an instructor at UC Berkeley Extension where he has been
teaching for over a decade: a course he founded on software product management and product marketing. Gaydos has an MBA in management science from San Diego State University and a BA in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Listen now (Transcript): CloudBees' Sacha Labourey on public versus private clouds, what to look for in a cloud provider, how Java is being influenced by the cloud, and where cloud technology is headed.
In 2001, Sacha
Labourey
joined Marc Fleury's JBoss project as a core contributor and implemented JBoss's
original clustering features. In 2003, he founded JBoss' European headquarters,
and led the strategy and partnerships that helped fuel the company's growth in
that region. He led the recruitment of some of JBoss's key talent and acquisition
of key technology. In 2005, he was appointed CTO of JBoss. In June 2006, JBoss was
acquired by Red Hat, where Sacha remained CTO and played a crucial role in
integrating and productizing JBoss software with Red Hat offerings. In 2007, Sacha
became co-GM of Red Hat's middleware division. He left Red Hat in April 2009. Following a period of research, Sacha became convinced that public cloud infrastructure would lead a fundamental IT paradigm shift and that middleware would play a key role in that shift. As a result, CloudBees was formed in April 2010.
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- CloudBees
- Sacha Labourey's blog
- Podcast: Sacha Labourey on abstracting the cloud to work better for Java developers developerWorks
Andrew Glover is a developer, author, speaker, and entrepreneur with a passion for behavior-driven development, Continuous Integration, and Agile software development. He is the founder of the easyb Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework and is the co-author of three books: Continuous Integration, Groovy in Action, and Java Testing Patterns. You can keep up with him at his blog and by following him on Twitter.
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