On this month's episode of The New Builders Podcast, host Joshua Carr is joined by Mark Chmarny, Technical Program Manager for Serverless at Google, and Michael Behrendt, Distinguished Engineer and Serverless/FaaS Chief Architect for IBM Cloud

Ep. 43: From 3 Months to 8 Hours—The Evolution of VM Deployment

Oct 11th, 2018 42m 28s

The New Builders Podcast is back! We're now a part of the New Builders Initiative on the IBM Cloud Blog, and we're going to continue to bring you interesting guests and deep dives into fascinating topics in the cloud world. Our new host is Josh

Ep. 42: Why Kubernetes Will Never Be Boring

Mar 29th, 2018 27m 41s

We’re excited to welcome IBM Fellow and VP of IBM Cloud Jason McGee and CNCF COO and Linux Foundation VP of Developer Relations Chris Aniszczyk to discuss the world of containers. We kicked off the conversation by discussing the increase in use

Ep. 41: Offline First as a Social Movement

Feb 23rd, 2018 35m 24s

This week, Teri Chadborne joins to Thom introduce Offline Camp, a gathering of people who come together to focus on developing with an Offline First mentality before jumping into a great discussion. Bradley Holt, IBM dev advocate, led a discuss

Ep. 40: Transforming Big Data with Apache Hadoop & Apache Spark

Jan 26th, 2018 17m 18s

This week on the New Builders Podcast, Preetam Kumar interviews IBM Analytics Engine offering manager Rohan Vaidyanathan. IBM Analytics Engine is a service that makes it easier for data engineers, data scientists and developers to develop and d

Ep. 39: Containerize All the Things?

Jan 12th, 2018 23m 28s

The New Builders Podcast is back after a short hiatus with great content from all over the data universe. We’re joined in this episode by Kelsey Hightower, open source advocate, Go expert and Kubernetes guru, to discuss k8s. Kelsey opens up the

Ep. 38: All the News That's Fit to Impact Your Investment Portfolio

Aug 24th, 2017 27m 47s

In the world of wealth management and financial investments, even the most sophisticated risk management tools aren't always enough to shield a portfolio from catastrophic losses. Rob Seidman and Rob Hodgson, from IBM Cloud for Financial Se

Ep. 37: The FaaS and the Furious - Serverless Architecture with Apache OpenWhisk

Jul 28th, 2017 21m 40s

Glynn Bird (@glynn_bird) remembers the days when he had to install servers in racks and maintain connectivity manually. Since then, the unit of scalability has evolved from the server, to the platform - and now to individual event-driven functi

Ep. 36: All About the State - Checking in from CoreOS Fest

Jun 23rd, 2017 19m 24s

Earlier this month, Compose's JP Phillips (@jipperinbham) gave a talk at CoreOS Fest, "Data Pipelines Made Easier with Kubernetes." JP joins the New Builders to share a little bit about his talk (3:06) and broader issues around containers and

Ep. 35: Data Science for All - From Mundane to Magic with PixieDust

Jun 2nd, 2017 30m 21s

In David Taieb's view, the best line of code is the one you didn't have to write. Hence the inspiration behind PixieDust, an open source helper library, built by Taieb and his team. PixieDust makes it easier for users of Jupyter Notebooks to st

Ep. 34: Dispatch from ApacheCon in Miami

May 25th, 2017 17m 12s

It's that time of year for the annual conversation between The New Builders and ODPi, the Linux Foundation project standardizing the big data ecosystem around Apache™ Hadoop®. We met up with ODPi VP of Technology Roman Shoposhnik at ApacheCon 2

Ep. 33: Conquer Your Data Layer

May 11th, 2017 24m 11s

The data layer doesn't always get the top billing it deserves in app development circles. To shine a light on the databases that power today's top apps, Compose is hosting its second annual DataLayer event on Wednesday, May 17 at the Alamo Draf

Ep. 32: Predictable, Progressive, Performant – A SXSW Encore on Offline First Apps

Apr 26th, 2017 1h 2m

After playing to two full houses at SXSW, the panel "From Mobile First and Offline First" is taking over the airwaves of the New Builders Podcast. For this third go-round, Offline Camp alums Maureen McElaney (IBM Watson Data Platform), Gregor M

Ep. 31: Data, Demos-N-Harmony at InterConnect

Mar 15th, 2017 42m 10s

This week, we're previewing everything InterConnect has to offer to developers - keynotes, demos and even a welcome event Sunday night if you happen to be in town. The team from Harmony kicks off the episode with a preview of the keynote addre

Ep. 30: Meditations on Cloud Analytics - The Media Mantra Story

Feb 27th, 2017 33m 16s

The TV landscape has progressed far beyond the days of the Big Three television networks and single-TV households. For media companies, this wave of new cable channels and OTT providers, plus consumer behaviors like cord-cutting, has increased

Ep. 29: Chatting Chatbots and Conversation Trees

Feb 13th, 2017 13m 24s

IBM Developer Advocate Mark Watson (@markwatsonatx) joins developerWorks TV's Calvin Powers (@cspowers) to preview his talk at DeveloperWeek 2017, "Building and Designing Bots and Bot Architectures." Mark discusses developers' interest in incor

Ep. 28: Tinkering with a Graph Database Service

Feb 1st, 2017 32m 33s

Kamal Shannak (@shannakam) and his team have been building IBM Graph since 2015. In that short time, they've become part of a growing group of enthusiasts and fans of graph databases - a relatively new database technology. In this interview, Ka

Ep. 27: Oh, To Be Offline and Conflict-Free – The Distributed Web and CRDTs

Jan 17th, 2017 28m 35s

On the eve of his presentation at the Web 1.0 Conference – and a few weeks after attending Offline Camp California (give our recap a listen if you haven’t already) – Paul Frazee (@pfrazee) sat down with Teri Chadbourne (@EventTeri) to explain B

Ep. 26: The Map is the Territory – Open Source Mapping

Dec 20th, 2016 30m 10s

As the New Builders Podcast closes out 2016, we talk to Ryan Baumann (@RyanBaumann), Sales Engineer for Mapbox, about the ins and outs of open source mapping. Ryan shares how Mapbox has differentiated from traditional mapping and geo visualizat

Ep. 25: All Dat and More

Dec 13th, 2016 27m 52s

There are large CSV files, and then there are CSV files like the ones Max Ogden (@denormalize) is familiar with through his work with academic and scientific researchers. In this case - a team of astronomers cataloguing every star they could se

Ep. 24: A Hodgepodge at the Lodge – Live from Offline Camp California

Dec 1st, 2016 1h 24m

The Offline First community is certainly fond of unplugging for a few days. Earlier this month, the group hosted its second Offline Camp (@OfflineCamp), a weekend retreat on the Central Coast of California. We ventured into the wilderness to in

Ep. 23: Start Open, Stay Open - On Early Adoption and Open Source

Nov 21st, 2016 39m 6s

"We love open source - we love everything about it." SUMO Heavy is a digital commerce strategy firm co-founded by Bob Brodie (@bob_brodie), who is also the company's CTO. Brodie joined the New Builders Podcast to showcase how he built SUMO Heav

Ep. 22: The Right Fit - Building a Flexible, Scalable POS for Retailers

Nov 7th, 2016 25m 59s

For years, point-of-sales systems used a combination of custom-built hardware and relational databases to manage transactions data, and required a network connection to function properly. But when it came time for Doug Stewart and Greg Nacu to

Ep. 21: The Internet of My Things - Brain Readers and Bots

Oct 20th, 2016 35m 57s

Earlier this year, IBM Bluemix Technical Liaison Joshua Carr (@Josh_schwaa) became an internet sensation when he took his love of Star Wars to a new level by building a cloud application that allowed him to control a Sphero BB-8 toy robot – a m

Ep. 20: Opening Up An SDK For All

Oct 6th, 2016 20m 25s

Bruno Denuit, Chief Software Architect at Enplug, recently spoke to The New Builders podcast about the impact third-party developers have had on his business. Enplug, a digital signage company, relies heavily on open source to run its core tech