Pete Johnson

If the ability to write code is a super power, my origin story is rooted in an obsession with classic coin-op video games that started when I was 10 years old.  The DevNet team always finds creative ways to inject fun into a conference experience, when friend and fellow retro gaming enthusiast Hank…

If you’ve ever wanted to learn the fundamentals of serverless and get your hands dirty building a LAMP-like application, DevNet Create has a session for you. On both April 24 and April 25 from 11:45a to 12:30p, I’ll be running an exercise entitled “FONK: FaaS on K8s working examples.” During our 45…

Examining the FaaS on K8S Market When AWS introduced the first Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) runtime, Lambda, in 2014 and subsequently enabled developers to evolve beyond Microserrvices to create Serverless application architectures, it was inevitable that there would eventually be on premises varian…

Cisco Live in Orlando next week will be an exciting time that will include new product announcements, but as a preview, I wanted to share a demo I’ve been working on with my friends in Enterprise Networking that involves the intersection of serverless and edge computing: We’re looking fo…

As far back as 2016 when Tech Republic used metrics like search queries and StackOverflow activity, Kubernetes claim to fame as the top container cluster management platform has been pretty solid. Follow that up with a survey that the Cloud Native Computing Foundation conducted the summer of 2017, a…

Recently, you may have noticed Cisco discussing Kubernetes quite a bit.  Back in October we announced our partnership with Google to bring joint hybrid cloud solutions to market that include GKE, Google’s managed Kubernetes offering and in February there were a number of articles here on the Cisco C…

Maybe you saw the announcement that Cisco is now providing a Google-blessed Kubernetes distribution that is super easy to install on prem.  Possibly you even watched the TechWiseTV episode that shows the wizard-like experience that spins up a container cluster in a few minutes.  Whatever your exposu…

Last time in this space I covered APIGee, a component of the Cisco and Google Hybrid Cloud announcement that enables legacy data stores to be front-ended by a modern, secure API with analytics and monitoring.  But if you have business logic running in the public cloud, how can you securely and relia…

When we announced the joint hybrid cloud partnership Cisco has developed with Google, Kip Compton revealed the pieces of the solution with this high level diagram: Between now and GA, I’ll be discussing some details on the individual components of the solution that make up the combined whole, start…