057: Cloud Native Buildpacks with Joe Kutner

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Kutner is a Software Architect here at Salesforce working on the Heroku Platform. In this episode, I’m sitting down and talking with Joe about Cloud Native Buildpacks and they are powering cloud based deployments and trends like microservices. We talk about their origins at Heroku, and how Kubernetes, Docker, and all sorts of other really cool technology allow developers to convert their apps into images that can be easily served to users. With all of his experience at Heroku, Joe has incredible insights to share with all of us on how Cloud Native Buildpacks have evolved from their beginnings. Tune in to receive great value and learn a lot.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How Joe got started at Heroku and what the Heroku platform actually is.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The impetus of Buildpacks and what they were like in the early days.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A basic level walk-through from detection to compilation on the Heroku server.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">API competition and how Cloud Native Buildpacks are resolving it.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Capabilities in the new API that weren’t supported in the old one.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What Docker and Kubernetes are and how they work with Buildpacks and each other.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">How this technology helps enable microservices.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The prerequisites to moving your applications to a Cloud Native Buildpack.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links:</strong></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Joe on Twitter:</strong> <a href="https://twitter.com/c