James watters biography pivotal

The two biggest milestones for Cloud Foundry

In a stimulating conversation led by AppFog’s founder (and current CenturyLink’s executive) Lucas Carlson, James Watters of Pivotal went into detail about Diego, BOSH, Pivotal CF, and Docker.

These are the big, high-level takeaways:

• The biggest change with Cloud Foundry over the years came when it went to buildpacks and an extensible model.

  James Watters leads the Research and Development Team at Broadcom Inc., a Watters was previously SVP of Product and Strategy at Pivotal Software.

• James Watters leads the Research and Development Team at Broadcom Inc., a Watters was previously SVP of Product and Strategy at Pivotal Software.
• Watters, who is the SVP of Product at Pivotal (part of VMWare and therefore also Dell-EMC), is a veteran of monetizing open source — from.
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• CenturyLink Labs' Lucas Carlson, sat down to interview Pivotal's James Watters.
• The authors keynote on Pivotal and Cloud Foundry, the role of women in software development, containers and broken culture.

“It had a very deterministic pipeline before. Now it plugs into a broad ecosystem.”

• Cloud Foundry broke open the concept of programming against framework, not infrastructure “in a developer-friendly way.”
• Diego is the second-biggest change.

  “We realized we needed to be more modular. With Diego and the Go language, we were able to take down the payload and memory footprint, so you can now use a modular piece of code as your own little container scheduler with great availability.”

• Diego also came from a need to develop a more microservices-based appr