Pivotal Moments from 2018

It’s been a BIG year for us at Pivotal, and we wanted to give our community an easy way to revisit the top moments and stories from 2018. Check out the following posts, videos, and comics that we were proud to bring you this year. Comment if you have a favorite that we missed!

Pivotal moments

From our IPO, to launching a program to support humanitarian organizations and launching Pivotal Function Service, these were some of our biggest announcements in 2018.

• Pivotal Software Lists on NYSE as PVTL

• Pivotal Function Service: The First Open, Multi-cloud Serverless Platform for the Enterprise Is Here

• Pivotal Container Service 1.1, Now GA, Helps You Run Kubernetes Without Complexity. Why PKS Just Works

• Meet the New AWS Service Broker for PCF, Now an Open Beta. Here's Why It's the Easiest Way to Add 18 AWS Services to Your Cloud Native Apps

• Hybrid Cloud, Without the Stress: PCF on Azure Stack

• How to Apply the Meltdown Fix to All Your Systems in Less than a Day

• Announcing Pivotal Act, A Program to Help the Humanitarian Sector Build Technology

• Benchmark Report Reveals Critical Quantitative Metrics for Enterprises Transforming into Software-Driven Organizations

• Windows Containers in Cloud Foundry? Here's How We Did It

• Pivotal Greenplum 5.10 Introduces Greenplum-Kafka Connector for Real Time Data Loading

Good advice to read at any time

From Nate Schutta’s must-read six-part series to Cornelia Davis’ philosophical exploration on Kubernetes, these articles will get you thinking architecturally.

• Should that be a Microservice? Keep These Six Factors in Mind

• How to Save a Fortune On Cloud Infrastructure

• Use Value Stream Mapping to Guide Your Software-Driven Future

• Adaptability-as-a-Service with Kubernetes

• Changing Group Behavior with Small Actions: Inclusion Thing of the Week

Customer stories

We’re incredibly proud to be helping some of the biggest companies in the world and we encourage you to read and watch some of these recent stories of transformation.

• A Unifying Foundation for the Customer Journey at Mercedes-Benz

• Merrill Corporation: The Most Important Company You’ve Never Heard Of

• Modernizing Legacy Software is Paying Off for Liberty Mutual

• How Software Innovation and Agility Brought Thales to New Heights

• Hitting the Refresh Button at Dev and Ops at COUNTRY Financial

• The Air Force Proves Modern Software Development Isn’t Just for the Private Sector

How to be more Agile

These workflow-focused posts were seriously popular with developers, engineers, and product managers all over.

• Why TDD

• What’s The Best Way to Pair?

• Getting Started With Agile: Growing Great Agile Teams

• The Case for a Connected and Centralized Knowledge Center

• Code Complexity is a Design Problem

• Pairing for Product Managers

• SLIs and Error Budgets: What These Terms Mean and How They Apply to Your Platform Monitoring Strategy

• Does Your Platform Engineering Team Have a Train Driver? Here’s Why You Should Consider this New Role

• How to INVEST in Your User Stories

Open source

We are strongly committed to many open source communities at Pivotal and here are some posts that reveal a bit about how we embrace open source at Pivotal.

• A Closer Look at How Pivotal is Embedding Istio to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative

• Knative: Powerful Building Blocks For a Portable Function Platform

• Love Spring and Spring Boot? Then, You’re Going to Love These Projects, Too

• Building Functions with riff

• Developing a Custom Concourse Resource

• Steeltoe 2.1 Boosts Your .NET Microservices with Actuator Endpoints, Distributed Tracing, and Deeper Support for the Frameworks that Matter.

Comics

For those who like to learn visually, we have a collection of comics available on our Facebook page, but here are some of our favorites.

• Monoliths to Microservices

• Another Perspective on Interrupting Developers at Work

• Good Pair, Bad Pair

Thank you to everyone—Pivots, partners, and customers, who have helped make 2018 a wonderful year!