During AppDev Field Day 2 at KubeCon 2024, Jon Myer explored SOUTHWORKS’ innovative approach to application development, which they term “development on demand.” Unlike conventional system integrators, SOUTHWORKS offers scoped projects with a flat-fee pricing structure, emphasizing knowledge transfer to minimize customer dependencies for future modifications. Their approach, likened to a “SWAT team” for software tasks, such as app development and migrations, was well received by delegates. Attendees particularly valued how SOUTHWORKS harnesses sophisticated cloud functionalities and facilitates cloud-to-cloud mobility, effectively addressing prevalent challenges in the industry. Their strategy of offering scalable engineering resources was noted for its potential to significantly enhance organizational efficiency and flexibility in software development efforts.
Heroku – AppDev Field Day – KubeCon @cncf 2024
During the AppDev Field Day 2 at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon, Jon Myer discussed with delegates Heroku’s status as a pioneering platform-as-a-service (PaaS) provider, highlighting its emphasis on simplifying developer experiences by abstracting the complexities of infrastructure management. The delegates reviewed Heroku’s approach which favors usability over the deeply technical, infrastructure-focused style typical of cloud-native development. They acknowledged Heroku’s aim to ease enterprise operations and their move towards embracing open-source with initiatives like the open-sourcing of the 12-Factor App Manifesto. However, concerns were raised about the lack of transparency in its infrastructure. Despite some finding Heroku’s detailed presentations overwhelming, the overall commitment to addressing challenges and setting clear future paths was well-received, underscoring Heroku’s ongoing effort to bridge the gap between developers and operations, specifically targeting enterprise-level applications.
Codiac – AppDev Field Day – KubeCon @cncf 2024
In this video, Jon Myer asks the AppDev Field Day 2 delegates for their reaction to Codiac’s presentation. Delegates found the session intriguing and appreciated Codiac’s focus on bridging the gap between software development life cycle (SDLC) and infrastructure management, particularly through a GUI and drag-and-drop interface. This approach simplifies processes for infrastructure teams unfamiliar with pipelines and unit testing, addressing challenges like technical debt, migrations, and workload transitions across environments. Delegates highlighted Codiac’s potential to reduce friction between developers and platform engineers by streamlining collaboration and deployment workflows. Overall, they were excited about Codiac’s innovative approach and eager to see more.
Nebulon Shadow Storage
In his blog, The Data Centre Brit, Storage Field Day delegate Jason Benedicic says his initial impression of Nebulon was way off. After listening to their presentations at Storage Field Day and having some follow up conversations with them, Jason writes that Nebulon has changed his initial impression and that they have a great chance of making a splash in the market. Because of their unique placement in the storage industry, Jason thinks of Nebulon as a “Shadow Storage Vendor.” Read more about Jason’s take on Nebulon on his blog and check out videos from their first ever Storage Field Day presentations on our website!
VMC on AWS: 5 Reasons You Should Give a Damn!
Jason Benedicic was one of the delegates at our Security Field Day event last week and got to hear from VMware, and came away with a new appreciation for VMware Cloud on AWS. Much of the appeal comes from his experience refactoring applications, moving big monolithic apps to the cloud can be quite challenging. These are often tightly coupled with other infrastructure components, meaning moving to the cloud can be a very gradual process as you disentangle everything. VMware Cloud on AWS allows organizations to move the existing application and all its dependencies as-is to a familiar operating environment, as close the cloud as possible. Jason breaks down a lot of the concerns admins have with this approach, and thinks this is a viable solution for many organizations with legacy applications.
Top 5 Takeaways From #SFD19 Day 1
One of the great things about Field Day events is that they are live streamed on the internet, expanding our pool of delegates from the dozen individuals in the room to a much wider audience. We always love to hear people’s impression from the live stream, and Jason Benedicic has a great write up with his takeaways from our recent Storage Field Day event. For Jason, the event showed the breadth of quality engineering talent from across the world, showed NetApp’s exciting solutions with Active IQ and StorageGRID, and demonstrated that spinning disks aren’t dead yet. Be sure to check out all his thoughts in this post, and if you’ve watched the Storage Field Day presentations, why not share your big takeaways as well!
Cloud Field Day 5
At Cloud Field Day, Jason Benedicic is joining us as a delegate. He’s had a taste of the Field Day experience Tech Field Day Extra at NetApp Insight, but this will be his first time drinking from the informational firehose of the full event. It’s always a pleasure to bring in new voices from the community, and we can’t wait to hear about Jason’s experience at the event. Be sure to watch full video of all the Cloud Field Day presentations to get the same experience.
Mid-March – Where Did That Come From?
Ahh tempus fugit, the old passage of time. No matter how many times we hear about it, it somehow still sneaks up on all of us. Jason Benedicic certainly relates in this post, when after a hectic 2018, he finds himself almost through March in 2019. Luckily he’ll have a few days of technical deep dives at Cloud Field Day in April to slow things down a bit. We can’t wait to hear what he thinks about all the presentation at the event.
Jason Benedicic
Independent Consultant with a passion for all things technical, currently focusing on Cloud, Automation and DevOps. Member of NetApp A-Team, Cisco Champions and vExpert.
