open source

Philly ETE 2020 – Theo Schlossnagle – Latency SLOs Done Right

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Median, average, 90th, 99th percentile. We’ve all seen these metrics on our monitoring systems, both open source and from commercial vendors, but often they are used incorrectly when constructing Service Level Objectives. This session will show three … Read More

Philly ETE 2020 – Martin Snyder – All Kinds of Free

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Free is a word that has been overloaded through the course of human history, with both good intentions and bad. All will be enumerated with a specific focus on “free” in the context of the modern internet … Read More

DevNews #91 – What we know about Angular 2.0 (so far)

If you’ve been working with Angular a lot recently, you may have received word about a set of potentially breaking changes in the next major version, 2.0. In this podcast, Ken Rimple, Don Coleman and Joel Confino discuss Angular 2.0, the reason for these changes, and some of the potential impact.

Business of Technology #4 – Gilt Groupe CTO Michael Bryzek on Gilt and Open Source

In this interview with Gilt Groupe CTO Michael Bryzek, we discuss how the company started, the open source technologies they’ve used, and how their open source commitment has evolved. We take some time to talk about the scale of their operation, and how they leverage micro services as a way to make it more manageable and scalable in both infrastructure and human terms.

The DataPhilly Meetups

Sujan Kapadia writes: “This year I’ve started going to the DataPhilly meetups, and I think I’m hooked. The bottom line is DataPhilly talks are very intriguing, expose you to topics you don’t encounter everyday, and give you the chance to meet “non-traditional” developers (scientists and statisticians), whose ranks are rapidly growing.”

The Pivotal Initiative – The Future of Spring and Open Source at VMware/EMC

EMC and VMware have poured their open source software development workforce into a new wholly-owned subsidiary, dubbed “The Pivotal Initiative”. This organization will focus on data science consulting and tooling from GreenPlum, including SpringSource/vFabric development teams. It is being girded by a team of forward-looking developers at Pivotal, a recent EMC purchase and well known … Read More

TechCast Special Event – Announcing the 2013 Philly Enterprise Hackathon Contest

PHILLY ENTERPRISE HACKATHON! APRIL 2-19, 2013! (got your attention?) This podcast episode is an interview with three leaders of the 2013 Philadelphia Enterprise Hack-a-thon contest, which is being launched at Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise on April 2-3, 2013. The interviewees are: Mike Schellhase – Director of Field Applications – Bentley Systems Phil Moyer … Read More