Who is pivotal labs

Through what's called cloud computing, these web giants were offering their new breed of infrastructure to the rest of the world, letting any business run big applications without help from vendors such as VMWare and EMC.

Sometimes, as Gordon Ritter says, you have to "disrupt yourself. After much discussion within the two companies -- and with outsiders, including big-name business advisor McKinsey and Company -- Maritz and the rest of the EMC brain-trust resolved to create a new outfit that would tackle the new way of doing things.

VMware then offered a very new kind of technology, and though it became an EMC subsidiary, the parent company set it up as a largely independent operation.

Eventually, it would even go public on its own. This is still a rather unusual arrangement, and now, Pivotal uses a similar governance model. Or you get startups, at the other extreme," Maritz says. The difference is that EMC didn't acquire the new company.

Maritz and team seeded this independent operation with several software projects that were already a part of EMC and VMware, including Cloud Foundry, myriad other tools for building online applications, and software for analyzing "big data. At the time, it seemed like an odd buy for the storage hardware giant. But it now has a definitive purpose. Yara is the founder of a data analytics outfit called Greenplum, that was itself acquired by EMC in Mee's outfit didn't just teach agile development techniques.

It brought newbies like Greenplum into its own offices and paired them up with its own engineers, demonstrating agile techniques -- including pair programming -- on the fly. To be sure, these techniques aren't for everyone. Many developers chafe at the rigidity of Pivotal way. But for Yara and others who have worked with Pivotal Labs engineers, including Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, the results are well worth the clash of cultures.

According to Roger Neel -- the chief technology officer at Mavenlink, a company that has worked closely with Pivotal Labs for over three years -- the process not only improves the quality of software code. It helps you introduce new hires to your code, and makes it that much easier to share tasks among engineers. Ultimately, this means you're not as dependent on any one engineer or group of engineers. The key, says Mee, is to find engineers suited to this way of working.

He hand-picks each engineer, giving candidates a collaborative coding test that has become known as the RPI, short for Rob Pairing Interview. I have point scale, and we only consider people in the top 10 percent. When the new Pivotal was created, the old Pivotal Labs was charged with steering the development of Cloud Foundry. As the project was reshaped, according to Maritz, it lost two-thirds of its existing engineers, and that includes Mark Lukovsky.

But, says Maritz, it needed to evolve. At first blush, the new Pivotal seems like a rather eclectic collection of software tools. It includes everything from the Spring Java framework -- a means of building applications with the Java programming language -- to data analysis tools built by Greenplum.

But the aim is to provide a wide ran of tools for building and running a modern online operation -- a Google-like operation -- and all the Pivotal projects fit the bill. Most of the world's biggest and most ambitious outfits now build their sites with Java.

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