Brian McClain

Brian is a Principal Product Marketing Manager on the Technical Marketing team at Pivotal, with a focus on technical educational content for Pivotal customers as well as the open source communities. Prior to Pivotal, Brian worked on both the development and operations of software, with a heavy focus on Cloud Foundry and BOSH at companies in many industries including finance, entertainment and technology. He loves learning and experimenting with new technologies, and more importantly sharing the lessons learned along the way

  • AutoZone's road to cloud-native computing and empowered developers

    AutoZone's road to cloud-native computing and empowered developers

    How AutoZone modernized its infrastructure and applications, and improved its business.

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  • Slaying the Hydra: The Multi-Headed Beast That Is API Security

    Slaying the Hydra: The Multi-Headed Beast That Is API Security

    Validating someone's identity and ensuring they only have access to the resources they’re entitled to, all while locking down the fort from attacks can quickly become a Herculean task.

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  • Getting Started with Spring Cloud Stream

    Getting Started with Spring Cloud Stream

    Spring Cloud Streams offer a straightforward way to implement event-driven architecture, whether your backend is RabbitMQ, Kafka, or something else. Here's a demo.

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  • Hitch a Ride With Sidecar Support in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.6

    Hitch a Ride With Sidecar Support in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.6

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  • PCF 2.5 Strengthens Istio and Envoy Integration, Brings Weighted Routing and Multi-Port Support

    PCF 2.5 Strengthens Istio and Envoy Integration, Brings Weighted Routing and Multi-Port Support

    Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.5 includes a new routing tier powered by Istio and Envoy. This post explains how to this new tier enables Weighted Routing to ease blue/green deployments.

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  • Knative: Whittling Down the Code

    Knative: Whittling Down the Code

    Take a look at what options Knative gives developers, and learn how to gradually work down the amount of code we're writing with Brian McClain.

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  • Worried About Header Spoofing and Compromised Networks? Fight Back with TLS in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

    Worried About Header Spoofing and Compromised Networks? Fight Back with TLS in Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

    Pivotal has steadily added the transport layer security (TLS) protocol to many communication paths in PCF. In this post, we recap our progress and why it matters.

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  • Patch While You Relax - Automated PCF Upgrades With Concourse

    Patch While You Relax - Automated PCF Upgrades With Concourse

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  • CredHub and The Road to Credential Rotation

    CredHub and The Road to Credential Rotation

    CredHub manages credential generation, storage, and access for the Cloud Foundry ecosystem. In this post, we examine its past, present, and future.

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  • To Speed Software Development, Use Build Pipelines. Then, Use Concourse Dashboards To Analyze Progress.

    To Speed Software Development, Use Build Pipelines. Then, Use Concourse Dashboards To Analyze Progress.

    Pivotal customers have success with a number of different CI tools, but Concourse is uniquely tailored to the modern software organization. One feature that makes it special: dashboards.

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  • Developing a Custom Concourse Resource

    Developing a Custom Concourse Resource

    This post provides a quick look at how to create your own custom Concourse resource.

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  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Cloud-Native Security

    Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Cloud-Native Security

    A look at what Cloud-Native Security means to Pivotal as well as how the Pivotal Cloud Foundry suite delivers on those promises today and in the future.

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