Cloud-Native Apps

Tips and Tricks for VMworld Newbies from VMworld Veterans (or how to survive VMworld!)

Ning Ge posted 6 days ago

With tens of thousands of people attending the event, VMworld can get hectic if you don’t know how to navigate it. Sessions, workshops, exhibitions, hands-on labs, meet the-expert roundtables, power sessions, theater presentations, hackathons, parties … you can easily get overwhelmed with all the activities happening around you in the fully loaded week of VMworld. Read more...

Application Stats Collection in Kubernetes via Telegraf Sidecars and Wavefront

Cloud-Native Apps posted 9 hours ago

by Bahubali Shetti Director of Public Cloud Solutions for VMware Cloud Services at VMware This blog was originally posted here, on August 7, 2018. (This is a follow up for the blog: Monitoring VMware Kubernetes Engine and Application Metrics with Wavefront) Kubernetes (K8S), is becoming the defacto management tool to run applications homogeneously across resources (bare metal, public cloud, Read more...

Dispatch – A Batteries-Included Open Source Enterprise Functions Framework

Jonas Rosland posted 3 days ago

By Berndt Jung, Senior Manager of Engineering, Serverless, VMware and Jonas Rosland, Open Source Community Manager, Cloud Native Apps, VMware Forget about managing a fleet of servers – developers can now focus their efforts on business logic without concern for infrastructure. It’s about serverless computing and deploying code as opposed to deploying VMs or Read more...

Architecting your company’s digital future? Get your answers at the Gartner Catalyst Conference.

Susan Wu posted 4 days ago

By Susan Wu, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cloud-Native Apps BU The latest tech trend is about building cloud-native applications using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). These technologies are advancing rapidly as a new digital economy emerges and a diverse, complex technology ecosystem begins to take root. For many architects, however, the skills and Read more...

If Kubernetes is in, is vSphere out?

kendrickc posted 5 days ago

By Kendrick Coleman, Open Source Technical Product Manager, Cloud-Native Applications Business Unit (CNABU) The topic has been approached countless of times over the past decade. Why do I need vSphere when I can run X, Y, or Z on bare metal? I’m here to tell you that no matter what reasoning you can come Read more...

Be on the Cloud-Native Cutting Edge! Get the Inside Story from Early Adopters at our PKS Panel

Ning Ge posted August 13, 2018

One of the best practices of attending conferences like VMworld is to never miss a session which includes customer stories, and that’s the reason why you don’t want to miss this PKS panel at VMworld. On the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 27 at VMworld US, three industry experts will join Paul Dul, VP of Product Read more...

Fire Up Your Data Processing with Apache Spark on vSphere Integrated Containers

arslanabbasi posted August 8, 2018

By Arslan Abbasi, Technical Product Manager, Cloud-Native Apps BU Apache Spark is an open-source distributed processing framework that has become a de facto standard for big data applications. It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python, and the statistical programming language R. It also supports high-level tools, including Spark SQL, MLib for machine learning, GraphX Read more...

Monitoring VMware Kubernetes Engine and Application Metrics with Wavefront

Cloud-Native Apps posted August 7, 2018

By Dan Illson, Bill Shetti, and Pierre Tessier For a demonstration of the solution discussed in this article, please see this video posted by Boskey Savla. Monitoring is a cornerstone of the process of characterizing, analyzing, and optimizing applications. As an increasing number of applications either move to or are built atop container technologies, Read more...

Crunching Numbers to Max Out Your VMworld Schedule? Stream into these Power Sessions from PKS Partners

Cloud-Native Apps posted August 6, 2018

VMware {code} is bringing focused presentations and workshops called “Power Sessions” to VMWorld Las Vegas. Held in the VMware {code} Shop, Power Sessions will run the gamut from presentations to demos, but they’re all short, focused bytes of DevOps knowledge. We have worked with our partners at Redis Labs, Crunchy Data, Confluent, and CloudBees to Read more...

Strategic Approaches for a Successful Digital Transformation

Cloud-Native Apps posted August 3, 2018

Guest blog by Gautham Pallapa Vice President, Systems and Platforms at West Corporation Driving a digital transformation for an organization with a lot of brownfield applications in its portfolio can be extremely hard, and the journey can be arduous and perilous. Since legacy applications usually grow organically based upon the culture, structure, domain, and clientele Read more...