In this episode we are aurally assaulted with Australian accents: featuring Dr Nic Williams – VP Developer relations from Engine Yard, and the host Michael Neale from CloudBees.

Michael and Nic talk about Nic’s research into VMWare’s Cloud Foundry/BOSH (tutorial here), and RHT’s OpenShift, as well as the history and current state of play with Engine Yard.
The perils of NIH syndrome and open source are discussed – Nic is a prolific open source project maker (and some what abandoner?)

What makes up a good runtime for a PaaS is discussed, as is the state of ruby runtimes and Engine Yard’s ruby webserver replacement “Puma“.

Make sure to follow Dr Nic and Michael on Twitter (I do and I enjoy it )