HashiCast

This episode of HashiCast features Ben Sigelman from LightStep. Ben Sigelman is the CEO and Cofounder LightStep. LightStep is rethinking observability in the emerging world of microservices. He spent nine years at Google where he led the design and development of several global-scale monitoring systems. The most significant of these were Dapper, an always-on distributed tracing system, and Monarch, a high-availability time series collection, storage, and query system. Join us as we chat about monitoring approaches in the world of distributed systems, OpenTracing, and the growing world of observability with awesome projects like Zipkin. Recorded on April 6, 2018. Links -------- Dapper Paper: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/papers/dapper-2010-1.pdf Vizceral by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/vizceral-open-source-acc0c32113fe Flux by Netflix: https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/flux-a-new-approach-to-system-intuition-cf428b7316ec OpenTracing call: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAa4TcX4eLBenz9A1SjzL-Q/ Blog post "The difference between tracing, tracing, and tracing": https://medium.com/opentracing/the-difference-between-tracing-tracing-and-tracing-84b49b2d54ea Ben’s Monitorama talk: https://vimeo.com/221051832 Ben's Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/el_bhs LightStep: https://lightstep.com/

Cheryl Hung, Product manager at StorageOS, shares insights on managing storage in container-based environments. She discusses the challenges of stateful and stateless applications, the importance of choosing the right storage solution, and how StorageOS simplifies storage management in a Kubernetes environment. The podcast also explores enterprise product models, challenges of being on call, advantages of managed services, and future trends in cloud providers.

Armon Dadgar, Co-CTO and co-founder of HashiCorp, shares his journey into technology, the challenges faced by HashiCorp, and future growth plans. Discussions on academia, past projects, and customer-centric tool design make for an engaging listen.

This episode of HashiCast highlights Liz Rice from Aqua Security. Liz Rice works for Aqua Security who build a platform which provides development-to-production lifecycle controls for securing containerized applications. In addition to her work with Aqua, Liz is very active in the world of technology and has given some fascinating talks at GopherCon, DockerCon and many other conferences around the globe. She is also the maintainer of Kube-bench and Manifesto. We chat all things application security, the state of the industry, problems application developers face and some things you can do to help build a more secure workflow. Guests: Liz Rice - Aqua Security Hosts: Anubhav Mishra, Nic Jackson - Developer Advocates, HashiCorp Intro Music: El Mariachi by The Greek Fandango Orchestra (Creative Commons) freakfandango.bandcamp.com Links: Aqua Security: https://www.aquasec.com Kube Bench: https://github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench Manifesto: https://github.com/aquasecurity/manifesto Talks: Velocity London - Keynote on Cloud Native Security https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB8kzdWWcfA&feature=youtu.be DockerCon - What have namespaces done for you lately? https://youtu.be/MHv6cWjvQjM HashiConf - Your Secret's Safe with Me - Securing Container Secrets with Vault https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3QJRdiTr1I&list=PL81sUbsFNc5Y-jbEC1y5BWenDoYscVv4t&index=30

Join Robbie Mckinstry and Jon Currey from HashiCorp Research as they discuss the origins of HashiCorp Research, the workflow for research projects, critical research approaches, and the importance of establishing a separate research team within a company. Dive into their transition from biochemistry to computer science, the significance of philosophy skills in research, and enjoy a playful conversation about chess pieces and upcoming events.