SMW '18: MediaKind's Mark Russell Talks Microservices

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Read the complete transcript of this interview:

蒂姆Siglin: Welcome back to 流媒体 West 2018. 我是蒂姆·西格林, 流媒体杂志特约编辑，非盈利组织HelpMe的创始执行董事! 流. Today I've got a guest from MediaKind. Introduce yourself and then tell us what MediaKind is, because I think people will know the components, 但他们不知道名字.

马克拉塞尔: 确定. 我毫不怀疑那是真的. 我是马克·罗素. I am the CTO of MediaKind, the media technology division of Ericsson. 现在, 我们正在将这些业务分拆成一家独立的公司，推出我们的品牌. 我们将在今年年底完全分拆出来，成为一家独立的公司.

我们有压缩媒体传输, 云DVR, and then we'll be called a media platform of TV platforms, so this would be a media first media room area. Compression really on the hardware side more our Tandberg heritage. 我们在2015年收购了Envivio, 这是软件压缩的真正开始，也是该组合层中微服务架构的基础. And we bought Databricks for both the 云DVR platform. It is also a very nice layer for an application platform, 如果你愿意, 对于活体和机器人起源来说，这是自适应比特率传输的下一代.

蒂姆Siglin: So what's the end goal with MediaKind? 显然，从爱立信剥离出去可以让你只专注于媒体部分，但是……

马克拉塞尔: 我们的目标是打造媒体技术领域最大的玩家之一, it's really focused on media technology exclusively, since it does give us a chance to do that, 这让我们很兴奋, 顺便说一下. It's a very exciting proposition to be, 成为…的一部分, 我认为, if we were to think about our end goal, 我的意思是, 这就是我在这里的原因. 我不得不说, 你知道, we come from a heritage of pretty classic broadcast in pay TV, and really have a lot of experience in that mold, 但是我的天啊, 你环顾四周, 你知道, pay TV is becoming streaming TV and streaming TV is going everywhere, 你知道广播公司直接面向消费者，我们现在是流媒体.

蒂姆Siglin: And with IPTV versus OTT it continues to be even more confusing. 因此，其意图是创建本质上的白标签系统，媒体公司可以使用它们自己的交付?

马克拉塞尔: 是的. So, 如果我们思考我们应该如何参与到今天的市场中，我们制造的产品是有目的的, 这是在服务提供商或广播领域进行电子构建并支持它并做所有必要和伟大的事情的非常经典的方式. 当我们展望未来, 我们确实看到了一个未来，投资组合的架构方式可以全部作为服务提供.\

现在, 话虽如此, 将会有许多潜在客户想要以不同的模式运营, 因此，我们非常致力于继续解决组件问题，并以市场希望的方式参与市场.

蒂姆Siglin: So, there are some possible hybrid approaches.

马克拉塞尔: 完全. We're a vendor, we're not service provider.

蒂姆Siglin: 当然，这很有道理.

马克拉塞尔: So, we are committed to both helping our customers get to the future, but also help them with their current investments.

蒂姆Siglin: 好吧，不，我明白. It's one of the craziest gifts, that 你知道, less vertically integrated ...

马克拉塞尔: There's a mountain of that stuff, and we contributed to that mountain. 但是会有一个过渡, 我认为 a company in our position, very well positioned to architect for the future and help bridgeto get there.

蒂姆Siglin: And not only do you have the background and heritage of broadcast, 而是爱立信本身, 在微服务被称为微服务之前，电信公司处理微服务的背景和传统. 我有个小问题要问你. microservices is a really hot topic.

马克拉塞尔: 我今天做了两个专题讨论.

蒂姆Siglin: The last guest I had I asked what he sort of saw microservices as. 你能简单描述一下你们认为微服务在哪里吗? Because there are companies that will say, “I'll take my monolith shove it in a kubernetes container, 称之为微服务,这并不准确.\

马克拉塞尔: 这是正确的. 我想他们会发现，这可能是旅程的开始，但不会是结束. 我们把微服务看作是一种生态系统，在这里你可以采用一种新的方式来设计你的产品, you're adopting a different way of operating them, you're adopting a different way of maintaining them over time, 所以你不希望微服务脱离这个生态系统. So it’s continuous delivery, continuous evolution. That is a very important aspect of this, and if you start from that perspective, you very quickly realize that microservices, 简单地说, 它是价值的容器, and you want to have that do as few things as possible.

蒂姆Siglin: 正确的. 因此有了“微”的部分.

马克拉塞尔: There's no real set definition of what that is, 但真正的价值在于每个人在灵活性和可扩展性等方面获得的价值, 来自于收养, 你知道, all of the surrounding parts of the ecosystem, all of the things that make a microservices component live and breathe. I think ecosystems are a great metaphor, 因为最终，这些部分中的每一个都依赖于其他部分来创建更大的服务.

蒂姆Siglin: Mark, thank you very much for your time. This has been Mark Russell with MediaKind. 我们很快就回来.