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In a funny coincidence, SpringOne Platform, on September 24th, has lots of talks about stateless apps and stateless functions and it just happens to be located in Washington DC….a stateless district. Those workloads are interesting, but I originally worked with the data products from Pivotal, so how we can manage and maintain state is a lot more interesting to me. Once “Platform” was added to the name of the conference, it began a metamorphosis into one that covered not only Spring development, but application/business transformation dev/ops, cloud, and data. So, if you are someone who considers themselves a data or database person, the conference has a lot of interesting sessions to offer. I put on my green Greenplum Chucks and took a walk through the conference agenda to see what would interest me if I was a Data Professional and thought I could provide some highlights. The conference officially begins on Tuesday, but if you are interested in an In-Memory data grid, super-fast transa

I just returned from CF Summit 2018 in Boston. It was a great event this year that was even more exciting for Pivotal employees because of our IPO during the event. I had every intention of writing a technology focused post, but after having some time to reflect on the week I decided to take a different route. After all the sessions were complete and I was reflecting on the large numbers of end-users that I had seen present, I decided to go through the schedule and pick out the names of companies that are leveraging Cloud Foundry in some way and were so passionate about it that they spoke about it at this event.   I might have missed a couple when compiling this list, so if you know of one not on here, it was not intentional. Allstate Humana T-Mobile ZipCar Comcast United States Air Force Scotiabank National Geospatial-Intelligence

Today, I decided to play around a bit with the new local Kubernetes support in the new beta release of Docker for Mac.  I decided to take the Project Riff Setup work done by Brian McClain from my Tech Marketing team and get it working on this new environment as a quick test of its functionality and usability.    It’s actually REALLY easy to get started with the support.  Once you download and install the Beta, you need to enable the support within Docker.   You can find the settings inside the Docker Preferences panel. Once installed and up and running, it pretty much acts like minikube in that you get a tiny K8S implementation to play around with.   In order to test with Brians's stuff, I needed to make a few tweaks.  (https://github.com/dbbaskette/riff-demos).    1) Obviously, the minikube install and start can be removed. 2) You have to change your context to "docker-for-desktop" 3) minikube has a nice command to output a formatted URL to access a