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Deep Learning Meets CyberSecurity

16 april 2025 | 27 min

Tempering AI Expectations in the Enterprise

13 april 2025 | 29 min

AI Agents vs. AI Assistants

9 april 2025 | 25 min

Dan Lee, (@_dan_lee_, CEO Nooks.ai, @JoinNooks) talks about agentic AI vs. AI assistants, their differences, and we explore ROI in this space vs. GenAI and common paths to adoption.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Dan. Give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is AI Agents vs. Assistants. Let’s start there. Many out there are hearing the terms and will often think an AI Agent is equal to an AI Assistant. What’s the difference?

Topic 3 - One of the big problems I’ve seen with AI adoption vs. hype is the ROI. GenAI hit the scene and brought AI into the mainstream, but the world is quickly moving on to Agentic AI. I’ve mainly seen this play out because the ROI on “chatbots” just isn’t there most of the time and also everyone is still scared for data leaks/privacy and hallucinations.

Topic 4 - We’ll get into Nooks.ai in a bit but before we do, I wanted to point out that your company started prior to the big breakout of GenAI. How did you see the market back then and has LLM’s and transformer models in general changed your approach to AI Assistants?

Topic 5 - When taking customers through the adoption process for AI Assistants, what are the typical steps? How do you go about getting consensus and buy-in from the various orgs in the company? Are there common hurdles folks need to consider?

Topic 6 - With Nooks, you’ve decided to conquer the domain of sales and sales prospecting. What was your thoughts here in deciding where and how to remove friction from sales? Is this decision and thought process transferable to other areas? Any universal considerations?

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How Things Can Change for the 800lb Gorilla in Tech

6 april 2025 | 25 min

AI & Cloud Trends for March 2025

2 april 2025 | 51 min

That Feeling of Losing Technical Knowledge

30 mars 2025 | 22 min

Virtualizing Kubernetes Clusters

26 mars 2025 | 33 min

Are Acquisitions Making a Comeback?

23 mars 2025 | 33 min

Migrating from Infrastructure as Code

19 mars 2025 | 33 min

Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, CEO/Founder @thesysteminit) talks about the evolution and intersection of DevOps 2.0, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and what’s next

SHOW: 907

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke mid-2023. For those that missed that show, tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - When we last spoke, we talked about DevOps 2.0. Give everyone an update on the state of the industry. DevOps 2.0, IaC, etc. Where are we at in that journey? For instance, what’s broken with IaC in the existing approaches and why a new approach?

Topic 3 - One thing I’ve noticed in research for this topic is the move to visual and UI to conceptualize the environment and the corresponding actions. APIs and command lines will always have a place but what are your thoughts on this trend? I personally fall asleep every time someone gives a talk an industry conference and they pull up the command line for their demo. But, I’m also a visual learner.

Topic 4 - When I’ve thought about both DevOps and IaC in the past, my mind immediately jumps to both complexity and dependencies. What do developers today have to consider and have we made any advances here?

Topic 5 - Are there new metrics for success? With DevOps is was number of code commits, with IaC it was number of seamless deployments and actions. What do development teams look for today as the consider new platforms and tools?

Topic 6 - I can see this being an area that could be impacted by AI in a few ways: 1. the summarization of large amounts of data 2. Digital Twins and simulations and 3. Agentic AI performing tasks based on conditions. What are your thoughts on AI here?

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, what’s the best way to get started?

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Decoding Corporate Communications

16 mars 2025 | 36 min

AI Impacts Across Organizations & Startups

12 mars 2025 | 26 min

Jon Duren, Sr. Practice Manager, AI & Data @wwt_inc & Druce MacFarlane, Product @Infoblox talks about the intersection of AI, Startups, and Enterprise Trends.

SHOW: 905

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Topic 1 - Jon and Druce welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick introduction…

Topic 1a - You also have a podcast, tell everyone about that…

Topic 2 - AI has thrown the world of cybersecurity a curveball.. Druce, how are you seeing AI impact the typical conversations you are involved in?

Topic 3 - How is AI affecting start-up companies, thinking beyond all the AI-specific startups, how is AI going to impact the entrepreneur who’s trying to launch a non-AI company? What should they know and think about AI when starting a new company?

Topic 4 - You both talk to a lot of customers about AI, especially to Enterprise customers. Let’s separate the hype from the practical. Where are organizations typically in their AI journey in early 2025? Have we moved beyond the chatbot yet

Topic 5 - I see several organizations considering AI but struggling with ROI. What are you seeing, and how do you help organizations overcome this hurdle? How long is ROI measured with AI projects? It’s not 3-5 years anymore.

Topic 6 - Is the industry moving too fast? Jon and I have had conversations in the past where organizations just can’t absorb the changes in hardware and models (just a few examples). How can an organization commit to a path that we know will change in 12 months

Topic 7 - Tell everyone where they can find your podcast. Also, If anyone is interested, what’s the best way to get started on their AI journey?

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Five Things I Did This Week

9 mars 2025 | 31 min

Cloud & AI News Trends for February 2025

5 mars 2025 | 37 min

Bathing in the Confusion around GenAI

2 mars 2025 | 31 min

Developer Assistance with Coding Co-Pilots

26 februari 2025 | 31 min

Andrew Filev (@andrewsthoughts, Founder @zencoderai) talks about the state and future of developer coding co-pilots.

SHOW: 901

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ZenCoder website

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - As someone who built and ran a large organization and continued to invest in other startups, what’s your take on startups and funding in today’s AI frenzy world? In your Wrike days did you ever foresee a time when funding rounds would be bigger than most valuations from years ago? Is this a sustainable investment model?

Topic 3 - One of the leading use cases that came from GenAI and LLM’s is coding co-pilots. It might be the biggest and most profitable use case. What are your thoughts on Coding Co-pilots as whole and the state of the industry?

Topic 4 - What makes a good coding co-pilot? Are their advantages to models trained specifically on coding How does that compare to the frontier LLM’s and their size and abilities?

Topic 5 - We see lots of talk of coding co-pilots potentially hurting the industry. Lots of click bait headlines that coding is going away with agentic AI or Comp Sci degrees and junior employees might not be needed anymore. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 6 - Some argue that by having a co-pilot do the easy work, some developers might get lazy and the underlying fundamentals of development techniques might disappear. Others say this will elevate developers to new levels of productivity. What’s your view?

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?

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What is your industry's DeepSeek moment?

23 februari 2025 | 21 min

VMware Migrations

19 februari 2025 | 23 min

Madhura Maskasky (@madhuramaskasky, Chief Product Officer at @Platform9Sys) talks about the current state of the VMware virtualization market, thoughts on migrations, and factors to consider to speed migrations.

SHOW: 899

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For those that don’t know, you are a long time returning guest. It’s been about 7 years since the last time we spoke, and this is also the third time we’ve talked to you and the folks over at Platform9. Before we jump in, tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - Our topic today is VMware Migrations. As we’ve documented many times on the podcast, VMware and its customers are in flux. Many are evaluating whether they should stay or they should go. When you speak to customers considering this, what should they consider?

Topic 3 - In general we keep hearing things like VMWare ELA’s that are no only on 3 year renewal and a price hike of 3x, 5x, even 10x. What are you seeing? Is this a limited window of opportunity as customers make that decision to move off or lock in for another 3 years?

Topic 4 - I see two sides to this: the business side and the tech side. I see this potentially being much harder on the technical side. While it might be possible to build a business case, the technical lock-in to the hypervisor technology tends to be a factor in conversions. Rebuilding years worth of virtual networking, storage links, etc. How do you advise customers on this today?

Topic 5 - These migrations take time. Sometimes we are talking about installations in the tens of thousands of vms and and the migrations taking months to years to complete. Why would an organization go to the cost and the trouble to switch platforms?

Topic 6 - Let’s say an organization decides to pull the trigger. My immediate thought goes to Day1+ actions and operations. New platforms, new tools, new constructs. VMware installs tend to be very sticky because careers have been built on their product portfolio and expertise around that. Some engineers carry a large number of certifications and have a lot of money and time invested. How do you talk customers through this and help them?

Topic 7 - Let’s close out there. Where can our listeners go for more information?

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How will AI impact your IT budget?

16 februari 2025 | 21 min

The Path to Tech Executive Roles

12 februari 2025 | 26 min

Drew Saur (Founder, Drew Saur Coaching) talks about the state of the job market in 2025, how delivery and measurements have changed, how to stand out, and what to think about when interviewing for a new role, especially at the executive level

SHOW: 897

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background…

Topic 2 - As someone who helps tech folks with their careers, what is the state of the industry? The news is filled almost daily with layoffs. What advice do you have for folks in 2025?

Topic 3 - Many of our listeners are technical folks who are senior in their careers. Some (like me) struggle to that next step up where the game changes dramatically, and it’s a bit of a deep, dark secret in our industry at times. Tell everyone about that and the jump in thinking

Topic 4 - Brian and I talk to a lot of folks in our industry on an ongoing basis. I feel like the conversations from the last few years can fit in a few buckets but all under a common theme. Many have an idea of where they want to go in the industry or maybe they did and now they aren’t sure due to work from home, changing family dynamics etc. How do you coach folks to find that happy medium. Not everyone gets or wants to be a CEO. What do you balance and how do you balance this

Topic 5 - As we’ve discussed, we met last year and you helped land my with my current role. The tech hiring process, especially for leadership roles has changed in recent years. How should everyone approach the interview process?

Topic 6 - All of this can be overwhelming if approached all at once, what advice do you have on how to break things down and tackle what matters most

Topic 7 - If anyone out there is interested, where can they go for more info or to contact you?

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Welcome to the Bi-Modal Cloud Era

9 februari 2025 | 27 min

Cloud & AI News of the Month - January 2025

5 februari 2025 | 31 min

Shut up and write code!

2 februari 2025 | 19 min

Modernizing Video Production with AI

29 januari 2025 | 38 min

Big Announcements or BIG Announcements?

26 januari 2025 | 27 min

SaaS Pricing & Startup Monetization

22 januari 2025 | 34 min

What would an AI-First CIO do?

19 januari 2025 | 31 min

The Ethics of Using AI Tools at Work

15 januari 2025 | 37 min

Does your CEO know what your group does?

12 januari 2025 | 23 min

Career Advice in 2025

8 januari 2025 | 40 min

The Cloudcast #886 - Reflections, Resolutions and Beginning 2025

5 januari 2025 | 32 min

Auth in the Age of AI Agents

1 januari 2025 | 37 min

2024 Year-End Review and 2025 Predictions

25 december 2024 | 47 min

Evaluating Market Changing Trends

22 december 2024 | 27 min

2024 Year End Mailbag

18 december 2024 | 48 min

Does the AI startup ecosystem need Yacht Rock infrastructure?

15 december 2024 | 18 min

Reacting to the AWS re:Invent Keynote

11 december 2024 | 44 min

The 2024 AWS re:Invent happened, with a new CEO, and an appearance by a previous CEO. What were the big announcements, trends and stories coming out of the keynote?

SHOW: 880

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AWS re:Invent 2024 - CEO Keynote with Matt Garman
Top Announcements of 2024 AWS re:Invent
What hath AWS wrought? (Forrest Brazzeal newsletter)
Prince guitar solo during George Harrison tribute

Overall Takeaways:

The new CEO
The overall themes
Andy Jassy’s appearance

Brian’s Top 5 Takeaways:

The focus is now all ARM and GPUs/AI Accelerators (goodbye Intel)
AWS is getting back to basics on Cloud - a focus on primitives
AWS is trying to get ahead of startup and enterprise usage of GenAI with a focus on Inferencing costs (trying to make it a game of compute costs vs. model capabilities)
What are the 1000 GenAI apps that Amazon has built? (Rufus, Robot package loading? NFL Blitz predictor?

Brandon’s Top 5 Takeaways:

Amazon is the “Everything Store,” AWS is the “Every Service Store”
Garmon is the legacy AWS CEO, Jassy is the AWS AI CEO
AWS wants everyone to build a chatbot and/or call center app using AWS Bedrock
The NOVA foundation models are the AWS answer to OpenAI and Anthroptic.
AWS is attempting to build both the models and the AI Chips to run them. Tenuous partnerships with Nvidia and Anthropic. Neither was on stage.
AWS will never stop telling us about “Working Backwards”
AWS marketing still wants talk about the how rather than the benefit. A long lecture on Nitro and Amazon Aurora DSQL with a lot of discussion about synchronizing clocks.

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Reviewing "AI Eats the World"

8 december 2024 | 41 min

How are the largest VCs viewing the early stages of the AI Era, from the perspective of investment, technology moats, economics, early adoption and future use-cases.

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AI Eats the World (Presentation - Benedict Evans)

IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?

Companies are investing tons of money
Breakthrough results haven’t emerged yet (business models, profits)
It’s not clear that there is a technology moat; but maybe a capital moat
Model training costs are expected to rise 5x to 10x - worse economics??
Lots of VC investment and vendor 2nd-order investments
LLM costs are creating marginal cost of software (been since the mainframe)
Model quality vs. price is improving, but price of the services (e.g. ChatGPT-Pro) is increasing - how much extra value is being delivered?
How will open source impact AI?
“If anything in life is certain, semiconductors are cyclical, commodity tech goes to marginal cost, and every new tech produces a bubble.”
Today’s GenAI question - is it accurate and useful? How can we tell, and how can it improve (or does it need to)?
Start with a simple concept - AI gives us unlimited interns - how can you extrapolate that? How would this have been extrapolated for the original internet (create content, translate language, write code, etc.)
Use cases are still not easy to see beyond Chatbots (and variants), Coding Assistants
Consulting revenue from GenAI is bigger than technology - and still most/many projects still in trials.
Technology can take a long time to adopt - Cloud still only has 30% of workloads (15yrs old)
66% of CEO’s don’t expect their first GenAI app in production until sometime in 2025, 50% at least 2H of 2025.
[Shadow AI] SaaS AI will accelerate adoption, if it follows Cloud pattern - external forces are more motivated to attack business “change” than internal teams
[Build vs. Ecosystem] Do the LLM vendors become the application vendors? Where does the LLM start and stop (infra, platform, API, apps, etc.)
[Learning from the customers] Do the LLM vendors use their knowledge advantage to build the apps?
GenAI Apps Categories - Make something better, Replace something, Just do the thing
“AI is just whatever is wrong/broken now” - How well does AI understand “broken”
Will people be the biggest problem in AI progress?
[Decoupling] Looks at global markets for Internet today - ecommerce/retail, food delivery, advertising, media, autonomous driving,
[Elevator Example] Automation gets rid of people
No real conclusion

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Cloud News of the Month - November 2024

4 december 2024 | 40 min

The Pros and Cons of Living in Silicon Valley during the AI Boom

1 december 2024 | 26 min

Using GenAI for DevSecOps

27 november 2024 | 24 min

Searching for the Netflix of the AI Era

24 november 2024 | 27 min

Building AI Models for IT Operations

20 november 2024 | 33 min

Times of Uncertainty lead to eras of Creativity

17 november 2024 | 24 min

Multi-Cloud Network Observability

13 november 2024 | 41 min

Rosalind Whitley (Dir. Product @Kentikinc) and Ethan Smith (Staff SRE @ An Enterprise Security Company) talk about network observability, the evolution of SRE for networking, flow analysis, and the complexity and tradeoffs or network design and operations at scale.

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Kentik - The Network Observability Platform (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and the areas you focus on today.

Topic 2 - I want to begin with the complexity of networking, and not just in the sense of routing, etc. Can you walk us through some of the things you have to consider, and potentially tradeoff, as you’re thinking about network design and operations (e.g. performance, security, costs, logging, troubleshooting, etc.)

Topic 3 - Usually there are many teams involved in making a large organization work. How do you collaborate across teams, and what types of technical hurdles get in the way of delivering the service? (maybe discuss logging challenges)

Topic 3a - How has the role of SRE and Network Engineer evolved as we’re now dealing with this new complexity? You have all the normal performance, high availability, observability stuff, but also things like egress costs, etc.

Topic 4 - We talked earlier about the challenge of cost management when running a large SaaS service. What are some of the ways that you explore or model costing behaviors and look to improve them?

Topic 5 - As you’re working in a single cloud (e.g. AWS), there’s often a belief that working only in that ecosystem is the best approach, as everything is integrated or billing is simpler. How did you go about exploring alternatives that worked in your cloud, but gave you more flexibility for your services?

Topic 6 - How do you tend to think about lines of demarcation between your team, the SaaS tooling provider and the cloud provider?

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13 Tech Communication Tips after the Election

10 november 2024 | 35 min

Cloud News of the Month - October 2024

6 november 2024 | 45 min

Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants

30 oktober 2024 | 32 min

Keri Olson (@ksolson20, VP AI for Code at @IBM) talks about coding assistants across the software development lifecycle, the future of agents, and domain-specific assistants.

SHOW: 869

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IBM Watsonx Code Assistant (homepage)
IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Ansible Lightspeed (homepage)
IBM Watsonx Code Assistant for Z (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on where you focus your time at IBM these days?

Topic 2 - Developer code assistants have become one of the most popular areas of GenAI usage. At a high level, how mature are the technologies that augment developers today?

Topic 3 - Software development has an entire lifecycle (Generate, Complete, Explain, Test, Transform, Document). It’s easy for developers to just plug in a service, but is that often the most effective way to start using GenAI in the software development lifecycle?

Topic 4 - Software developers are notoriously picky about what tools they use and how they use them. GenAI doesn’t “guarantee” outputs. Are there concerns that if different developers or groups use different coding assistants, that it could create more challenges than it helps?

Topic 5 - What is a holistic way to think about code assistants? How much should be actively engaged with developers, how much should be behind the scenes, how much will be automated or agentic in the future?

Topic 6 - In the past, we essentially had “real developers” (people who wrote code) and things like Low-Code for “citizen developers” on process tasks. Do you expect to see code assistants bringing more powerful skills to people that previously hadn’t identified as a real developer? (e.g. the great idea on a napkin that turns into a mobile app)

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The Most Audacious Sales Pitch Ever

26 oktober 2024 | 28 min

A Modern Approach to App Modernization

23 oktober 2024 | 34 min

Data Lakehouses & Apache Iceberg

16 oktober 2024 | 29 min

Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.

SHOW: 865

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Dremio (homepage)
Hands-on with Apache Iceberg Tutorial
Apache Iceberg Crash Course
Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi (Cloudcast Eps. 694)
Apache Iceberg, the Definitive Guide (eBook)
Apache Iceberg (homepage)
Iceberg + Nessie Catalog (homepage)
Iceberg + Polaris Catalog (homepage)
AlexMerced.com
DataLakehouseHub.com

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we talked about Data Lakehouses, can you give us a little bit of background on this space, and what the most recent dynamics are around these technologies.

Topic 3 - What are the typical integrations with a Data Lakehouse? How are users/developers typically interacting with Data Lakehouse technologies? [The marketplace for Iceberg catalogs like Nessie and Polaris]

Topic 4 - How does an open data format like Apache Iceberg fit into the bigger picture of data lakehouses, or large scale stores of data?

Topic 5 - How does Dremio enable Iceberg? How does Dremio sit in the intersection of Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh and Data Virtualization trends all of which come from the same fundamental problem, the growing scale of data use cases.

Topic 6 - We’ve seen companies start to rethink their data in the cloud strategies. Are you seeing on-premises making a comeback for large data applications

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Will the real AI breakthrough come from Big AI?

13 oktober 2024 | 34 min

Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech

9 oktober 2024 | 34 min

5 AI Trends to Keep an Eye on

6 oktober 2024 | 23 min

Cloud News of the Month - September 2024

2 oktober 2024 | 44 min

Tech Heroes and Imposters

29 september 2024 | 25 min

Modern Identity Verification and Threat Detection

25 september 2024 | 23 min

Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.

SHOW: 859

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a little bit about your background with a quick introduction please.

Topic 2 - You cut your teeth at Square prior to Persona, what lessons did you learn there, and how did your experience there impact what you are doing at Persona?

Topic 3 - We are, of course, seeing an uptick in personal fraud in both our personal and professional lives through identity theft and personal information leaking into the world. If someone has all the proper information, how do you identify this as a false identity?

Topic 4 - How has AI impacted all of this? I would think with the power of GenAI tools, this industry has accelerated dramatically?

Topic 5 - Do we have another arms race on our hands to identify and protect both our personal and professional lives from fraud?

Topic 6 - Is Persona a 3rd party API similar in architecture to Stripe? If I’m an architect in an organization today and I want to get started, how would I do that?

Topic 7 - If there was one thing you wanted people to understand about this, what would it be?

Topic 8 - You have access to a lot of personal data, how is this data handled and secured?

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Will Amazon's new RTO policy reshape tech?

22 september 2024 | 22 min

AI for the Legal industry

18 september 2024 | 25 min

Understanding the Global differences around Enterprise Cloud

15 september 2024 | 27 min

Cloud News of the Month - August 2024

11 september 2024 | 44 min

Unstable Pillars for the Next Generation?

8 september 2024 | 20 min

Understanding the Gartner perspective on Cloud (and more)

4 september 2024 | 48 min

Slow Data, Fast Data and Adapting AI models for your business

1 september 2024 | 21 min

How DevOps is helping to rethink the need for VPNs with Modern Security

28 augusti 2024 | 34 min

From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers?

25 augusti 2024 | 32 min

The Scale of Cloud Networking

21 augusti 2024 | 35 min

Reflections on the Cloud Evolution - with a special guest

18 augusti 2024 | 22 min

Data Center Buildouts for AI

14 augusti 2024 | 30 min

5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024

11 augusti 2024 | 21 min

Cloud News of the Month - July 2024

7 augusti 2024 | 42 min

Technology and Politics Collide

4 augusti 2024 | 18 min

The Evolution of Data Platforms

31 juli 2024 | 38 min

Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability

28 juli 2024 | 23 min

Enabling Voice AI in Applications

24 juli 2024 | 36 min

Overcoming the Hurdles of Deploying Platforms

21 juli 2024 | 28 min

The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag

17 juli 2024 | 42 min

2024 has been evolving very quickly for Cloud and AI. So as we get to the mid-year point, we stop and answer many of your mailbag questions.

SHOW: 839

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MAILBAG QUESTIONS:

Topic 1 - At this stage of the GenAI era, obviously the “picks and shovels” are winning (e.g. NVIDIA). But beyond that, are there obvious winners and losers, or areas that look more promising?

Topic 2 - In the near-term or long-term, do you think there will be big differentiation in the LLM models, or do they eventually commoditized?

Topic 3 - There is some talk that Amazon (&/or) AWS are behind in GenAI, but obviously they are ahead with cloud. Do you think GenAI offerings will be enough to get companies to move clouds, or will it just be another cloud workload and companies already use multiple clouds?

Topic 4 - Do you have any thoughts about how GenAI (or any AI) will impact IT architectural thinking over the next couple of years?

Topic 5 - Do you think the recent rounds of layoffs, or slow downs in hiring, will have a big impact on IT organizations?

Topic 6 - What happens if GenAI doesn’t turn out to be as successful as so many people are forecasting? What happens to all the other potential technology innovations while that plays out?

Topic 7 - If you were advising someone on a tech career choice in 2024, what type of guidance would you give someone?

Topic 8 - DevOps had a long run as “the IT cultural change” for a while. Do you see any of the other tech/culture trends starting to get more popular (FinOps, Platform Engineering, MLOps, etc.)?

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Is there a Market for Private Cloud AI?

14 juli 2024 | 25 min

Scaling Apple Apps with MacStadium

10 juli 2024 | 28 min

The Challenges of Maintaining Freedoms

7 juli 2024 | 19 min

Cloud News of the Month - June 2024

3 juli 2024 | 51 min

Identifying Successful Open Source Projects

30 juni 2024 | 33 min

WASM, Developer Experiences and Kubernetes

26 juni 2024 | 45 min

DevSecFinPlatMLOps

23 juni 2024 | 27 min

Zapier + AI integration

19 juni 2024 | 28 min

How Today's AI is like the Early 2020s

16 juni 2024 | 20 min

Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration

12 juni 2024 | 36 min

Solomon Hykes (@solomonstre, Co-Founder @Dagger_io) talks about the evolution of the container industry, fixing broken CI/CD systems, and modern DevOps.

SHOW: 829

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a number of times over the years and we’ve been overdue to catch up. For the few listeners out there who might not be familiar, give everyone a quick intro and your background with Docker and containers prior to Dagger.

Topic 2 - Dagger has been around for a few years, coming out of stealth in 2022. If I understand Dagger correctly, it is a declarative model to abstract away CI/CD pipelines. What problem are you trying to solve?

Topic 2a - Anytime you add an abstraction layer, you potentially add overhead and complexity. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 3 - Let’s go back to containers quickly. How has Containers as an “industry” changed over the years? How does that relate to what you are trying to do with Dagger?

Topic 3a - What lessons learned from Docker and even back to dotCloud days do you want to bring forward with Dagger?

Topic 4 - What metrics are organizations using to measure the performance and success of Dagger implementations? Is it velocity (number of deployments)? Reduction in friction?

Topic 4a - I get the advantage on the Dev side of DevOps, what’s in it for Ops?

Topic 5 - Dagger has three components, Dagger Engine, Dagger Cloud and Dagger SDK. Walk everyone through the offerings at a high level.

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How Today's AI is like the Early 2010s

9 juni 2024 | 25 min

Cloud News of the Month - May 2024

5 juni 2024 | 56 min

How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s

2 juni 2024 | 26 min

Understanding and Advising CIOs

29 maj 2024 | 38 min

Tim Crawford (@tcrawford, CIO Advisor at @AVOAcom) talks about the challenges of the modern CIO, managing stability vs. innovation, and understanding the business value of tech.

SHOW: 825

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Tim, welcome back to the show! We’ve been friends for years, and it’s great to get you on today! We will discuss everything at the top of CIOs' minds today. Why don’t you give everyone a quick background on how you became known as the CIO Advisor?

Topic 2 - Before we go into trends over the last few years. Put everyone in a CIO mindset. What do they care about? How do they think about the intersection of technology and business? What keeps them up at night?

Topic 3 - We’ve heard many times CIOs have to balance two things: keeping the lights on (the boring side of the business that is often undifferentiated, and the innovative side that often moves the needle. A CIO’s job is to minimize the former and maximize the latter. Do you agree? How accurate is that statement?

Topic 4 - I’ll follow that up with a real-world example many organizations might be facing, one we’ve discussed on the show in the past. We’ll discuss VMware on one end of the stable, the keep the lights on model, and AI on the other end as an innovative technology that could differentiate. Let’s talk about VMware first…

Topic 4b - Now the other end of the spectrum, AI. Have we reached peak AI washing and craziness? Is the trough of disillusionment coming? How should a CIO think about it?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about economics over the last few years. Zero-interest money has gone away for VCs and startups and we are seeing some big changes on the vendor side. How does this impact the people you talk to?

Topic 6 - Last topic, you were there and talked about Hashicorp when they rang the bell last week and then were bought 24 hours later. What was that like as someone who was there?

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Is Everyone's AI Strategy in Chaos?

26 maj 2024 | 35 min

Using AI to Build Tech Communities

22 maj 2024 | 35 min

Jonas Rosland (@jonasrosland, Head of Open Source Community @CIQ) talks about using AI tools to accelerate building and communications in Open Source Software (OSS) communities. We also discuss the differences between Community Roles and Dev Rel.

SHOW: 823

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Good Afternoon Jonas! Give everyone a quick background on your time building open-source communities and a bit about your foundation. We’ll dig into both areas today.

Topic 2 - We caught up at All Things Open last fall. You gave a fascinating talk on using AI tools to accelerate the building of OSS communities. Give everyone the backstory on how that topic and presentation came to be.

Topic 3 - This may be a dumb question, but DevRel is (still) all the rage. What is the difference between the approach to building OSS communities and the straight-up DevRel teams? How is success tracked in each? Are there solid metrics, or is it “fuzzy”?

Topic 4 - Sadly, as far as I can tell, the session wasn’t recorded. But, for me, the big takeaway was how much dabbling you were doing with the tools and your good and bad experiences. I learned a lot from a practical aspect. But, the AI industry and tools are moving so fast. What’s in your toolbox today and why?

Topic 5 - What are some of the gaps in the tools today? What’s missing?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about your side gig. You were part of the founding team and are exec director of a video game preservation society, Hit Save! How did that come to be? What does that entail?

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Lessons Learned from AWS Leadership Transition

19 maj 2024 | 33 min

After just three years, AWS is making another change at the top of the leadership org-chart. What lessons can we learn from leadership transitions and what might come next?

SHOW: 822

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SHOW NOTES:

AWS HAS NEW LEADERSHIP. WHY NOW?

Adam Selipsky is out, Matt Garmin is in. What does it mean?
Why is AWS making the change now?

WHAT LESSONS CAN WE LEARN FROM SELIPSKY’S 3 YEARS AS AWS CEO

Probably don’t take the job immediately after someone is the Nick Saban of tech
Don’t be the complete opposite of the previous boss (wings guy vs. wine guy)

[Andy on X] Lead Amazon, married and father of two kids, big sports/music/film fan, experienced buffalo wings eater. Go Kraken!

[Adam on X] Husband & dad. Water skier/tennis player. Fan of Seahawks & Sounders. CEO at #AWS.

[Andy Jassy] I’ve always had a lot of respect for Adam, and we met several times to discuss the possibility of coming back to lead AWS. In those conversations, we agreed that if he accepted the role, he’d likely do it for a few years, and that one of the things he’d focus on during that time was helping prepare the next generation of leadership.
[Andy Jassy] Matt has an unusually strong set of skills and experiences for his new role. He’s very customer focused, a terrific product leader, inventive, a clever problem-solver, right a lot, has high standards and a meaningful bias for action.
Realize when your job is to lead and inspire vs. producing the weekly report
The post-ZIRP CEO of AWS
2021 - $62B, , 2022 - $80B, 2023 - $90B, 2024 - $100+B
Lost key people
Behind on GenAI vs. other clouds
“Wartime CEO” vs. “Peacetime CEO”

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AI Safety and Regulation

15 maj 2024 | 31 min

Mark Collier (@sparkycollier, COO @openInfradev) talks about the advantages of open source AI and the intersection of OSS and AI transparency, safety, and potential regulations.

SHOW: 821

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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is AI Safety and Regulation. I saw our guest speak at All Things Open here in Raleigh late last year and he is also a Cloudcast alumnus having been on the show previously talking about OpenStack and the OpenInfra Foundation. We’d like to welcome Mark Collier (Chief Operating Officer @ OpenInfra Foundation) for this discussion. Mark, welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - There’s a lot of news today about AI safety and regulation. The industry also seems to be caught up in an AI arms race of who has the bigger model, faster model, etc. OpenAI have become the early category leader but they might have started with good intentions, but, contrary to their name, they aren’t open… at all. One message in your talk is how open-source software will prevent the coming of the “AI overlords”. Tell everyone a bit of what you mean by this. What is the problem we are facing and many may not even realize it.

Topic 3 - I don’t want to call you old (I think we are about the same age), but you’ve seen some things. You’ve also been around OSS and foundations for a bit now. How can open source solve the problem?

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about AI regulation, but this seems to be a moving target. What is both the current and future state of AI regulation? In my opinion, we haven’t seen a lot of successful regulations to date. We saw recently the EU pass an AI Act. Is this the first of many? The start of a trend?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the “day job”. What’s new with OpenInfra Foundation these days?

Topic 6 - OpenStack releases are still going strong and you’ve even run out of letters on OpenStack releases and have rolled around on the alphabet and are back to C. This is the 29th release of OpenStack. What’s the news for the Caracal release?

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Bringing Open Source to AI

11 maj 2024 | 26 min

Front-End Clouds and Web Development

8 maj 2024 | 27 min

Identifying Leadership Traits to Follow

5 maj 2024 | 24 min

Cloud News of the Month - April 2024

1 maj 2024 | 43 min

Open Source and Business…sigh

28 april 2024 | 32 min

Sizing AI Workloads

24 april 2024 | 34 min

John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.

SHOW: 815

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Topic 1 - Our topic for today is sizing and IaaS hosting for AI/ML. We’ve covered a lot of basics lately, today we’re going to dig deeper. There is a surprising amount of depth to AI sizing, and it isn’t just speeds and feeds of GPUs. We’d like to welcome John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) for this discussion. John, welcome to the show

Topic 2 - Let’s start with sizing, I’ve talked to a lot of customers recently with my day job, and it is amazing how deep AI/ML sizing can go. First, you have to size for training/fine-tuning differently than you would for the inference stage. Second, some just think, pick the biggest GPUs you can afford and go. How should your customers approach this? (GPU’s, software dependencies, etc.)

Topic 2a - Follow-up question what are the business side, what are the business parameters that need to be considered? (budget, cost efficiency, latency/response time, timeline, etc.)

Topic 3 - The whole process can be overwhelming and as we mentioned, some organizations may not think of everything. You recently announced a chatbot to help with this exact process, ChatGPU. Tell everyone a bit about that and how it came to be.

Topic 4 - This is almost like a match-making service, correct? Everyone wants an H100, but not everyone needs or can afford an H100.

Topic 5 - How does GPU availability play into all of this? NVIDIA is sold out for something like 2 years at this point; how is that sustainable? Does everything need to run on a “Ferrari class” NVIDIA GPU?

Topic 6 - What’s next in the IaaS for AI/ML space? What does a next-generation data center for AI/ML look like? Will the Industry move away from GPUs to reduce dependence on NVIDIA?

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The Maintenance Episode

21 april 2024 | 22 min

Synthetic Data for AI

17 april 2024 | 26 min

Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI.

SHOW: 813

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is synthetic data. While the concept and need for synthetic data has been around for a long time, it isn’t a topic that typically comes to the forefront and something we haven’t talked about until today. Today is a bit of crossing the streams between developers and testing data and using GenAI to achieve this goal. For this, we’re joined by Kalyan, CEO and Co-Founder of DataCebo. Welcome to the show

Topic 2 - First, for those not familiar, what is synthetic data? What is the use case and need? What problem is it solving today?

Topic 2a - Hopefully, listeners out there are making the connection to the advantages of GenAI for synthetic data, but take us through your original concept at MIT and the history of Synthetic Data Vault (SDV).

Topic 3 - We recently did a show on the security and privacy of training LLMs where we covered the need to mask PII for the training of models for compliance. I can also see bias issues coming into play or maybe training data that doesn’t exist in the real world (weather models example). What are some of the use cases that you’ve seen require synthetic data sets. Are there certain industries (healthcare, financials, etc.) that benefit?

Topic 4 - You were designing this based on GenAI before GenAI was “cool”. How has the rise of LLMs impacted this space?

Topic 5 - If I understand this correctly, organizations would put generative AI on a problem to describe a need for a data set, the model would then evaluate the available data and create a quality synthetic or “fake” dataset. How would the organization verify the quality of the dataset? How would they validate that a synthetic data set is as good as the original data?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about resources for a bit. When I think of GenAI and training, I think of large amounts of hardware and in particular GPU’s that might have limited availability. Is that true here? Also, is this on-prem or in the cloud, or both?

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The Fear and Excitement of Learning in a new era

14 april 2024 | 32 min

Building Media and Streaming Platforms

10 april 2024 | 32 min

Brad Winett (President/Co-founder @TrackItCloud) talks about platforms for entertainment and media. Topics include use cases, partnering with AWS, and creation and consulting services. We even dig into AR and VR a bit at the end.

SHOW: 811

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SHOW NOTES:

TrackIt (homepage)

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is media and entertainment in the cloud. I don’t believe we have ever done a show specifically on this topic, and there are some considerations worth talking about. For today, we have Brad Winett, President and Co-founder at TrackIt. Brad, welcome to the show. Let’s jump right in. The media industry as a whole has undergone major change, just like many others. Most of us see it from the consumer end as a cord-cutter. What made you jump into this market and this industry specifically?

Topic 2 - Platforms and content distribution in the early days of cloud was a differentiator. I think back to Netflix, they initially had a market advantage because they were able to scale better and to more devices than anyone and even open sourced a number of internally developed items and were the AWS poster child. Over time, these user experiences have become the norm. How should people out there think about media platforms? Are we past the days of build your own?

Topic 3 - What about use cases? Media streaming is pretty broad. What does a normal customer look like? Is this big streaming services, smaller companies, etc?

Topic 4 - How much of the tech stack is AWS products and how much of the stack is custom typically? Walk us through what a media streaming stack looks like. How is this different from a SaaS provider providing a turnkey service?

Topic 5 - I know TrackIt is a big AWS partner. Give everyone an overview of the landscape of AWS Partnership these days. Do you provide mainly professional services and consulting?

Topic 6 - Where does open-source software fit into this?

Topic 7 - I feel the standard last question these days is how AI will potentially enhance or impact this is some way.

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Will Enterprise AI adoption patterns follow Enterprise Cloud adoption?

7 april 2024 | 28 min

Cloud News of the Month - March 2024

3 april 2024 | 33 min

The $69B bet against replacement

31 mars 2024 | 28 min

LLM Security and Privacy

27 mars 2024 | 26 min

Sean Falconer (@seanfalconer, Head of Dev Relations @SkyflowAPI, Host @software_daily) talks about security and privacy of LLMs and how to prevent PII (personally identifiable information) from leaking out

SHOW: 807

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is the security and privacy LLMs. What’s Sean’s origin story?

Topic 2 - Let’s dig into LLM security and privacy. We see this concern a lot on the podcast and we’ve touched on it with various past shows, but we haven’t dug in deep. First, let’s frame the problem. What are we talking about when we talk about LLM security and privacy?

Topic 3 - First, there is a fear that customer PII information might leak out. Second, company IP or confidential into might leak out related to products or offerings. We’ve seen examples of both to date. This could be exposed in the form of integration into a model (query it for the answer) or in the fine-tuning or RAG stage. Either one could lead to compliance issues, lost rev etc. But, that same data at risk is the potential differentiation of the models. How do you both mask the data but take advantage of the data?

Topic 4 - One thing I’ve noticed is many orgs only think about privacy in relation to the fine-tuning stage where they are taking a broad model and making it company specific. It is about much more than that though. Just like standard software development, we have different stages. How is the data collected and stored, how is it used for training and fine-tuning, how is it used after deployment and during interaction stage, etc. How should security and privacy be handled across all phases?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk beyond LLMs for a bit. What about Data Lakes and Data Warehousing? I see this as a problem across all big data, correct?

Topic 6 - How does API security fit into this? Much of what we are talking about is at the storage and retrieval level. But, increasingly we see API issues exposing data. How does that fit in here?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk podcasts, we had Jeff, the previous host of Software Engineering Daily on a few times. How are things over at Software Engineering Daily? Tell everyone a bit about the show.

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Cloud Fundamentals needed for AI

24 mars 2024 | 22 min

Building an AI Product Company

20 mars 2024 | 26 min

Krish Ramineni (@krishramineni, CEO/Founder of @Firefliesai) talks about what it is like to build an AI product company in both the pre-LLM era as well as post-LLMs. We also discuss privacy and security concerns and AI behind the scenes.

SHOW: 805

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - Our show and listeners tend to be interested and employed in the Enterprise infrastructure and AI/ML space. Some may find it surprising that we are talking today, but we wanted to really dig into how an up-and-coming AI company provides value at scale from individuals all the way to large enterprises. What goes into both building the product as well as taking that product to market? So, let’s start there. You recently posted about “Free AI” on LinkedIn. What was the problem you were trying to solve, and how did that influence the product you built?

Topic 3 - As the foundational models in the industry keep improving and are going multi-modal, do you worry that the LLMs of the world might push out specialized models? How do you think about staying ahead of the curve? How does something like GPU shortages or big companies like Meta purchasing thousands at a time impact your decisions?

Topic 4 - Fireflies.ai is all about the abstraction of the technology away from the user. They have no idea (and shouldn’t) about the back end and everything “behind the curtain”. How do you think about this abstraction layer from a product standpoint?

Topic 5 - Now, let’s talk about PLG vs. traditional Enterprise software sales models. You did another post about that recently. We’ve worked in environments selling both (sometimes at the same time), and they are very different motions. Do you feel both are needed to build an AI company?

Topic 6 - How does Security and compliance with IT departments fit into all of this? I’ve spoken to customers that have a policy of no AI tools at the personal level for instance or maybe client, company and private data might be at risk and only certain tools are vetted and approved. I’ve seen other companies only allow tools licensed by their corp IT. How do you navigate this issue? How does something like GDPR play here?

Topic 7 - Last question, another AI specific concern we hear about is companies training models on user data. What is your thoughts here? How does a company fine tune and train new models and products but keep customer and company privacy from leaking out?

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What if the CNCF was private equity?

17 mars 2024 | 23 min

Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs

13 mars 2024 | 29 min

Eyal Solomon (@EyalSolomo44643, CEO/Founder of @lunardevapi) talks about integrating, controlling, and observability into 3rd party APIs and services. We discuss the trade-offs of integrating a 3rd party API and how it impacts simplicity and potential loss of insight.

SHOW: 803

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - Controlling 3rd party APIs is increasingly becoming an issue for many organizations. As the world gets built on APIs, consumption of another company's APIs to ingest services is critical. But, this leads to all sorts of control and potentially cost issues. Please give everyone an introduction to the problem.

Topic 3 - Does this mean 3rd Party APIs are a tradeoff? Yes, you might be able to integrate APIs for a payment system for instance quickly, or maybe the latest AI SaaS service, but in doing so won’t an organization potentially lose oversight? Where do most organizations run into problems first? This reminds me of the early days of cloud and people leaving instances running and then getting huge bills and not knowing until it was too late. Is this similar?

Topic 4 - We’ve seen a lot of products and companies tackling the issue of internal company APIs, but not 3rd party APIs. Once an organization determines they have a problem, maybe an observability problem, perhaps a cost problem, maybe a compliance issue, etc. how would they get started gaining API observability and control in their org?

Topic 5 - Is this a solution that sits in traffic flow? Does this potentially introduce latency? Is this almost like a WAF for 3rd party APIs? What kinds of policies or restrictions can be put in place?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common use cases you’ve seen and how do you solve them? What business decisions have to be made if they decide to restrict access in some way?

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The End of the Free Tiers

10 mars 2024 | 25 min

Cloud News of the Month - February 2024

6 mars 2024 | 49 min

Anatomy of a Side Hustle

3 mars 2024 | 31 min

Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana

28 februari 2024 | 28 min

Ronald McCollum (@RonaldMcCollam, Solutions Engineering @GrafanaLabs) talks about updates in the observability space and learning more about Grafana and data visualization.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before diving into today’s discussion, tell us a little about your background.

Topic 2 - We last talked about Grafana back in 2019 and 2020. Observability continues to be a hot topic, how are you seeing the open-source community and open-source tools evolve in this space?

Topic 3 - We always hear about Grafana as a visualization tool. Grafana AND something (Grafana and Prometheus, Grafana and (insert logging/observability tool here). Is that still a fair assessment? Where does Grafana fit in a modern cloud-native observability stack these days?

Topic 4 - When you are speaking to folks out there, where does the data visualization story resonate the most in the organization, and does it become at times political and cultural (meaning cultural changes need to happen)? There can be an ROI/Business case to be made; developers integrations that will need to happen, SRE operations changes, etc. How do you get something that likely spans many different parts of the organization on board?

Topic 5 - Anytime I think about observability I think in two stages. Identification of the problem and resolution of the problem. Some tools address one or the other, and some attempt to do both. Where does Grafana fit on this continuum?

Topic 6 - I have to ask the AI question. How has AI changed or in your opinion will change observability and visualization in the near future?

Topic 7 - You’ve literally written the book on Grafana so this is a softball question. For those who are interested, how would you recommend they get started with Grafana

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Building a Keynote Presentation

25 februari 2024 | 31 min

Validation and Guardrails for LLMs

21 februari 2024 | 27 min

Shreya Rajpal (@ShreyaR, CEO @guardrails_ai ) talks about the need to provide guardrails and validation of LLM’s, along with common use cases and Guardrail AI’s new Hub.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Our topic today is the validation and accuracy of AI with guardrails. Let’s start with the why… Why do we need guardrails for LLMs today?

Topic 3 - Where and how do you control (maybe validate is a better word) outputs from LLM’s today? What are your thoughts on the best way to validate outputs?

Topic 4 - Will this workflow work with both closed-source (ChatGPT) and opensource (Llama2) models? Would this process apply to training/fine-tuning or more for inference? Would this potentially replace humans in the loop that we see today or is this completely different?

Topic 5 - What are some of the most common early use cases and practical examples? PII detection comes to mind, violation of ethics or laws, off-topic/out of scope, or simply just something the model isn’t designed to provide?

Topic 6 - What happens if it fails? Does this create a loop scenario to try again?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Guardrails AI specifically. Today you offer an open-source marketplace of Validators in the Guardrails Hub, correct? As we mentioned earlier, almost everyone’s implementation and guardrails they want to implement will be different. Is the best way to think about this as building blocks using validators that are pieced together? Tell everyone a little bit about the offering

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Experiencing The Sphere in Las Vegas

18 februari 2024 | 31 min

APIs and AI Gateways

14 februari 2024 | 33 min

The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits

11 februari 2024 | 24 min

Cloud News of the Month

7 februari 2024 | 48 min

Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification

4 februari 2024 | 30 min

VCs and Open Source and Funding

31 januari 2024 | 33 min

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about the challenges of VC funding and building profitable companies based on open-source software.

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SHOW NOTES:

Crane VC homepage
Aneel’s 2023 Look Ahead Show
Aneel’s 2022 Look Ahead Show
The Problem with Money in (Open Source) Software - Monktoberfest 2023

Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point, and a returning guest from our look-ahead shows in 2023. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourself

Topic 2 - You recently gave a talk at Monktoberfest about the problem with money in software, specifically open-source software. The crux of it was that VCs require high returns on investments, and software has short windows to gain adoption.

Topic 3 - Could that talk have been given any time over the last 5+ years, or was it triggered by recent “events” with open source companies (e.g. Hashicorp)?

Topic 4 - Has VC thinking changed about software, given that open source provided essentially early marketing and awareness for “free,” but that comes with user expectations of free (cost) as well? Are there any new ideas about how to build cost-effective software moats?

Topic 5 - There are various “conspiracies” floating around that VCs negotiate “the rug pull” with companies at each funding round. Especially in the early stages (where you focus), how much is the VC focused on getting the idea off the ground vs. the validity of the business model? When does the business model discussion typically start?

Topic 6 - We’ve said before that there will never be another Enterprise Software company after VMware. Has the era of open-source enterprise startups ended, or does it just need to go through a phase of rediscovery?

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Harnessing AI for Enterprise Adoption

28 januari 2024 | 32 min

Wiring the Winning Organization

24 januari 2024 | 37 min

Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, Organizational Operations Researcher) talks about the challenges of organizing a team, group, or company to be successful in simple and complex tasks.

SHOW: 789

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SHOW NOTES:

Wiring the Winning Organization (book) (w/ Steven Spear)
The Unicorn Project (homepage)
The Unicorn Project (resource guide)
The Unicorn Project on The Cloudcast (Eps. 433)
The Phoenix Project on The Cloudcast (Eps.79)
The DevOps Handbook
DevOps Enterprise Summit (event)

Topic 1 - Welcome back. It’s been way too long. What have you been up to lately? Tell us a little bit about your co-author and where the research for this book came from.

Topic 2 - This is a different type of book than The Phoenix Project or Unicorn Project, in that it seems more about managerial structure and research than the inspirational story-telling of past books. Is this addressing a different audience, or you felt that it needed a different framework to make the biggest impact?

Topic 3 - At the core of the book are three concepts, amplification (where are the problems) which results in slowificaion (create space for problem solving) and simplification (make problems themselves easier to solve). Walk us through each of these.

Topic 4 - As I was reading this book, the thing that jumped out at me the most was the importance of alignment between problem scope, how teams or individuals were aligned, and how much flexibility could be given to different parts of the problem/solution.

Topic 5 - The Phoenix and Unicorn Projects inspired a generation of IT professionals to be the champion of the change in their organization. What feedback have you gotten from the readers of Wiring the Winning Organization so far?

Topic 6 - These days everyone wants learnings to be quick and with immediate results. Is there a TikTok version of the learnings from this book that anyone could use immediately?

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Technology Shifts vs. Drifts

21 januari 2024 | 24 min

AWS vs. Azure

17 januari 2024 | 36 min

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about comparing AWS vs Azure, evaluating alternatives and what changes over the next 3-5 years.

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SHOW NOTES:

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Strategic Cloud Platform Services (2023)
Q3 2023 Cloud CAPEX (Platformonomics)
Industry fallout from OpenAI (Eps.781)

Topic 1 - Depending on what metric we use (revenue, Gartner MQ, CAPEX spending, headlines), it’s starting to seem like AWS and Azure are pretty neck and neck. Do you see much difference between those two clouds?

Topic 2 - Gartner’s summary boils down to “AWS is better at infrastructure” and “Azure is better at developer services”. If you’re a customer, how do you choose between those ends of the spectrum, or are you mostly choosing both services?

Topic 3 - AWS claims to be the more secure cloud. Aside from some stability issues in various regions (or either AWS or Azure), are there really any indications that one cloud is “more secure” than the other? Don’t they mostly put the burden on the customer and their applications?

Topic 4 - Did you see any distinct usage trends for companies choosing AWS vs. Azure? We’ve seen somewhere between 10-15% of apps move to the cloud (lift & shift?) over the last 10+ years and growth rates are slowing. Can either significantly move that number without some big changes, or is it just a slow, gradual growth?

Topic 5 - We’ve talked a lot about AI recently. How much do you think the AI strategies of AWS vs Azure will impact bigger usage decisions?

Topic 6 - AWS is still #1 and Azure is #2. Is there anything over the next 3-4 years that could shakeup that order?

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Is 2024 the Year of Accountability?

14 januari 2024 | 25 min

2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff

10 januari 2024 | 44 min

Is Cloud just a feature now?

7 januari 2024 | 36 min

2024 Look Ahead - Using AI to Enable Personal Productivity

3 januari 2024 | 35 min

Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle, Founder @peripety_labs) about enabling AI to drive personal productivity, AI experimentation and AIOps soft skills.

SHOW: 783

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SHOW NOTES:

Peripety Labs - Adopt AI today to improve Business Efficiency
The Artificially Intelligent Enterprise (newsletter)
Archive.org for Artificial Intelligence (hosted by Cornell)
Fireflies.ai (automater notetaker)
Llamaindex (middleware)
Langchain (middleware)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Give our audience a little bit of your background and what you focus on now with Peripety Labs?

Topic 2 - If you’re a business leader today, where are you focusing your priorities in terms of taking advantage of AI to improve the business?

Topic 3 - If you’re a knowledge worker today, where are you focusing your priorities in terms of taking advantage of AI to improve your job?

Topic 4 - What’s a good way to think about experimentation with AI vs. trying to start measuring results now? Any tips to help companies or workers accelerate their learning curves?

Topic 5 - What are some of the biggest misconceptions you’re seeing across the industry right now around AI? Concerns, fears, anti-patterns, etc.

Topic 6 - We’re learned over many years (and technology trends) that the most successful ones align technology and people/culture/organization. What are the AI alignments of people and technology that are most needed?

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2023 Year in Review and 2024 Predictions

24 december 2023 | 61 min

@AaronDelp and @BGracely talk about the biggest stories, trends and events of cloud in 2023, and some predictions for 2024.

SHOW: 782

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SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

Our second 2M listens show
Thank you to all our sponsors throughout the year (Datadog, CloudZero, Cisco Panoptica, Section, Fix the Internet, Sysdig, DoIT, Eaton, theCUBE, CNCF, Upland Software, Equinix, Red Hat, Cloudfix, GCore, Kosli)

2023 PREDICTIONS:

AARON’S PREDICTIONS:

A Hyperscaler that isn’t 1 or 2 throws in the towel - We start to see consolidation in the category
Platform Engineering hits its Trough of Disillusionment
Compact, OSS, specialized AI models will become the standard for anything not in the cloud (on device, datacenter, edge)
A new category emerges - AI Customization for the masses (Data Science as a Service) - intersection of ITOps and AI

BRIAN’S PREDICTIONS:

We’ll see the 1st 500M-user AI service
AI economics start to change (smaller models, non-GPU chips)
40-50 former unicorns ($1B valuations from 2020-22) get acquired
Every product adds an AI / LLM capability to simplify usage

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The Industry Fallout from OpenAI 2023

20 december 2023 | 61 min

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Software Defined Talk) talk about the November OpenAI drama and how it potentially impacts the entire AI industry in 2024.

SHOW: 781

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SHOW NOTES:

Benedict Evans - AI, and Everything Else (2024 looking forward)
Is AI the next Oppenheimer event? (Eps.770)
Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud (Eps.774)
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle (Kara Swisher)
NVIDIA - The Dawn of the AI Era (Acquired - Part III)
Software Defined Talk Podcast

Topic 1 - Post-mortem - what do we know about what happened with the almost coup at OpenAI? What speculation (rumors) have been the loudest?

Topic 2 - What are the biggest unknowns?

How is it possible that Sam Altman didn’t/doesn’t have a significant amount of equity in OpenAI and still remain so powerful?
How is it possible that Microsoft invested this much in OpenAI without having more understanding?
How much of a mistake did the board make in assuming their concerns about Sam would be removed with a single firing?
How much does Microsoft get diluted by the latest round of funding (if it happens)?

Topic 2a - What are going to be the biggest concerns and enticements for customers looking at different models to use? Is it ease of use? A single model? Privacy and security?

Topic 2b - Who cracks the code on simplification and personalization? OpenAI with customer GPT’s? OSS models with fine-tuning/RAG?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that the OpenAI model (e.g. GPT-4, or Q*) will continue to be considerably better than all the other existing and emerging models? Do small language models take over? Do specialized models trained on private licensed data become a differentiator?

Topic 4 - Who is driving AI at Google? Is it within GCP, or is there now a commercial side of Google Brain / Deepmind?

Topic 5 - Who is driving AI at Amazon/AWS? How did AWS get into a position where it seems to have so little control over its models?

Topic 6 - Where will the control over AI reside (in the technology stack)?

Topic 7 - Will the AI “wars” be more chaotic that the Cloud “wars” of the last decade? Will we see war-time CEOs? Will we see more irrational decisions?

Topic 8 - Will AI-specific clouds emerge? Will data-specific clouds emerge? Will model-specific clouds emerge?

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2023 End of Year Mailbag

17 december 2023 | 44 min

SaaS Analytics and Dashboards

13 december 2023 | 25 min

How AWS has evolved on Day 2

10 december 2023 | 34 min

LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI

6 december 2023 | 30 min

GUEST: Alex Kvamme (@KwameKvamme, CEO @GetPathlight) talks about using AI to unlock market insights from discussions with customers and partners.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Alex, Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - What is the concept of conversational intelligence and how does it apply to most organizations today? What problem is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - I would think there is a trade off between time and resources to get to a customer issue vs. the value of that insight. How does an organization weigh the opportunity cost? How do you keep the insights generated from being overwhelming

Topic 4 - Let’s move from the concept to practical. Where is the data in most organizations today that will yield results and solve problems? How would you suggest folks get started and what use case are they likely to implement first? Is this data that humans either can’t or won’t get too because it is an enormous amount or maybe too tedious to pay for?

Topic 5 - How does all of this work under the hood? Is this one model or multiple models working in parallel? Is there a framework for the operations and lifecycle managed by an organization?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about what it takes to get an LLM into production. The the rise of LLM’s and foundational models such as Llama2, there is an interest for organizations to use LLM’s, but going from concept to production still has a high barrier to entry. It’s easy to download a model, it’s much harder to either fine-tune it or set up RAG with a vector database for your specific use case. Would you agree and what are your thoughts?

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From Cloud to Cloud-native to COVID

3 december 2023 | 49 min

Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps

29 november 2023 | 37 min

Gary Harmson (Principal Customer Engineer @Google) and Ieva Jonaityte (Technical Account Mgr @DoIT) talk about the team dynamics, culture and training that drive FinOps success.

SHOW: 775

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DoIT Homepage
Simplifying FinOps for AI Workloads (Eps.719)
Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup (Eps. 761)
DIKW Pyramid - Framework for data classification

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show and back to the show. Gary, tell us about your background and what areas you focus on at Google Cloud these days.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about language, specifically the gaps in language (and understanding) between engineering teams and finance teams. What works today and where are the biggest gaps and challenges?

Topic 3 - One of the challenges of Cloud billing, and hence FinOps, is the 100s or 1000s or line-items. What are they for? How are they changing? What are some of the things/tools out there to make sense of all of this spend? (e.g. visualization, tagging, etc.)

Topic 4 - We’re all familiar with budgeting (pre-activity) and complaints about project/cost overruns (post-activity), but what are some of the things happening mid-project, or on-going to avoid the surprises or overruns?

Topic 5 - How much of these on-going changes/tracking is done by the engineering teams and how much is being done by finance teams?

Topic 6 - Can you share with us examples of how companies have evolved with good FinOps principles and hygiene in place?

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Building the Foundations of the Modern Cloud

26 november 2023 | 39 min

Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering

22 november 2023 | 26 min

Can you still call them the FAANG companies considering Facebook is now Meta and Google is now Alphabet? Maybe it’s MAANA now?! Elliott Clark (CEO/Founder, Batteries Included) talks about creating a Platform Engineering org and building an IDP before it was cool.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Elliott, you have some great experiences at Cloudera and Meta/Facebook that shaped you moving out to start your own thing at Batteries Included. Give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - You were building Internal Developer Platforms (IDP) and doing Platform Engineering before it was cool. Tell everyone a little about the need and how it came to be at Meta/Facebook.

Topic 3 - I think it’s probably important to talk about the origin stories for this. What was the problem to solve? How was it solved? What was the final “product” and how was it used?

Topic 3a - Anything you would have done differently?

Topic 4 - We always hear stories about the FAANG companies and the scale they operate in. But, we hear mixed things about if following those practices are a good idea. Some say we should use them because we know it is repeatable at scale. Others say the practices are only relevant at those companies and most organizations don’t need that level of complexity. Thoughts? What are the pros and cons?

Topic 5 - What are your thoughts on the current and future state of Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms? There seems to be a tension between being prescriptive or opinionated enough for operations to scale vs. developers needing to use the tools they know and love to be as productive as possible. Thoughts?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about Open Source. Many have heard about Backstage when it comes to Platform Engineering and we’ve even talked about it on this show before. What are your thoughts around building these platforms on OSS. Also, any thoughts on OSS being cost prohibitive?

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2001- a DotCom Bubble Odyssey

19 november 2023 | 54 min

Intro to Vector Databases

15 november 2023 | 26 min

Is AI the new Oppenheimer event?

12 november 2023 | 23 min

Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration

8 november 2023 | 30 min

Eli Aleyner (@ealeyner, Co-founder at @AtomicJarInc) talks about the issues with shifting left and how to reduce developer frustration with Testcontainers.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create AtomicJar

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. We hear more and more about shifting everything left. In this case we are talking about potentially shifting testing left. What problem are we trying to solve and everything comes at a cost, what are the tradeoffs?

Topic 3 - We hear all the time that adoption of changes to a development practice is part culture and part technology. What is the hook that gets folks interested in investing time and resources into better testing practices?

Topic 4 - Are the tests integrated into the code? How seamless is this into existing CI/CD pipelines or an organization's DevOps practice on average?

Topic 5 - From a business perspective, how are the advantages typically measured? More deployments, less defects, etc

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the OSS project Testcontainers a bit. What is it? How did it come about? How are folks using this concept of throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, and web browsers, for instance. Is this all in Docker containers?

Topic 7 - There’s also testing in the cloud with a SaaS service (Testcontiners Cloud). What is the origin story behind this and how are folks using it today? Is this a replacement for say Docker Desktop?

Topic 8 - For those out there that are interested? How would they get started?

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The Challenges of Pre-Announcements

5 november 2023 | 34 min

Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis

1 november 2023 | 37 min

A New Perspective on The Cloudcast

29 oktober 2023 | 23 min

Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success

25 oktober 2023 | 38 min

Shannon Williams (@smw355, President @AcornLabs) & Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud. Chief Architect ) talk about abstracting away dependencies for developers and packaging in Acorns. We also cover the announcement of Acorn running in AWS.

SHOW: 765

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve spoken a few times over the years. First at cloud.com, then at Rancher. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - This core team has been working together for over ten years and have been through 3 startups now. What makes you want to do it again?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk Acorn Labs, what is the problem you’re trying to solve in the market? Explain to everyone the concept of an application development framework.

Topic 4 - Anything new going on? Announcement of Acorn running in AWS

Topic 5 - You use terms like Acorns, Acornfiles, Acorn services, and even nested acorns. Can you explain the architecture design and how it all connects together? What all are you packaging up (Docker images, configuration files, etc.) What are the advantages to this?

Topic 6 - Can Acorn be considered a runtime abstraction layer?

Topic 7 - This is sort of like a PaaS, or PaaS-like. None of the cloud providers have a service like this on top of their Kubernetes services. What do you know that they don’t

Topic 8 - How do you balance the specificity of individual cloud service but at the same time present a common interface/layer to developers?

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Lessons Learned from a Decade of CNCF Projects

22 oktober 2023 | 34 min

As Docker talks about their successes and failures after 10 years, what lessons can be learned by open source companies, projects and foundations over the past decade.

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Docker at 10 - Three Things we got Right, Three Things we got Wrong (TNS)
Lessons Learned from Docker (Eps.505 - 2021)
Lessons Learned from OpenShift (Eps. 489 - 2021)
If Kubernetes is Boring, what’s next? (Eps.509 - 2021)

IT’S HARD TO SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

Docker was the transition between OpenStack (bad foundation) and Kubernetes (CNCF)
Was Docker a Community or a Cult? How did Leadership work?
Docker was stuck between VMware and Developers

WHAT HAS THE INDUSTRY LEARNED FROM THE DOCKER DAYS?

Customers and communities are very hesitant to adopt another single-vendor offering
Could Docker have succeeded as a “free” implementation?
As much as DevOps and PlatformEngineering are happening, it’s tough to have an “in between” technology (used by both Infra and AppDev)
It’s OK to adapt your monetization model, but it’s not OK to not have one
Open source can’t be the driving force of a business. It’s not a charity.
If somebody offers you $3B, maybe consider taking it….

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Inside Open Source Software

18 oktober 2023 | 34 min

Joe Curley (VP/GM Software & Ecosystem @ Intel) and Arun Gupta (@arungupta, VP/GM Open Ecosystems @ Intel) talk about OSS Software and Open Ecosystems.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Joe and Arun, give everyone a brief background please.

Topic 2 - For many of our listeners, they may not equate Intel with Software and Open Source. Can you give everyone some background on how the intersection of Intel and Open Ecosystems came to be and your involvement today? What’s in it for developers

Topic 3 - How does Open Source Software fit into Intel’s broader software strategy

Topic 4 - What are the trends you are seeing in OSS and how does that impact Intel? How does that impact organizations today?

Topic 5 - What kind of investments does Intel make into Open Source and Open Tools? There is Intel’s oneAPI for instance…

Topic 6 - Artificial Intelligence seems to be everywhere, how does AI fit into Intel’s hardware and software vision and strategy?

Topic 7 - Any final closing thoughts on the future and what to expect from Intel in the future?

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Where Will the Next Software Business Model Come From?

15 oktober 2023 | 21 min

Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup

11 oktober 2023 | 39 min

Anish Bishen (Chief Data Architect @Sliide), Jay Rawal (Head of DevOps @Sliide), Ieva Jonaityte (TAM @DoIT) talk about scaling infrastructure and data services at a rapidly growing startup, with FinOps enabled.

SHOW: 761

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and your focus areas today.

Topic 2 - Sliide delivers a platform that allows Carriers and OEMs to deliver unique digital experiences to customers. Tell us about the architecture behind the platform and some of the bigger challenges you have in delivering those services at scale.

Topic 3 - When delivering services for mobile, there are tons of variables involved (user-experience, bandwidth management, backend data collection, analytics, etc.). What do you think about the tradeoffs in terms of costs vs. experience?

Topic 4 - DId you look at the cost optimizations as a one-time project, or is a FInOps focus now part of your on-going planning and operations? How does that function work with the rest of the platform team?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working with the DoIT team to help optimize the platform and overall costs. How did you decide to work with DoIT to augment your team, and what were some of the core areas you focused on?

Topic 6 - What lessons learned would you pass along to other platform teams?

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Navigating the Annual Review

8 oktober 2023 | 36 min

DevOps Automated Governance

4 oktober 2023 | 35 min

Mike Long (CEO @_kosli) talks about the challenges of enabling Governance and Compliance into DevOps teams and processes

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Kosli (homepage)
Supply Chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA)
DevOps Automated Governance (Reference Architecture)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about building software for businesses. Lots of people have read the Phoenix Project, and yet most companies still struggle to deploy software fast enough. Where are the bottlenecks today?

Topic 3 - What about Governance or Compliance or Auditing as functions? Can you help the audience understand their purpose and what those groups/functions do?

Topic 4 - Software development seems to boil down to lots of impedance mismatches due to managing risk (testing, security, compliance, etc.). How does Kosli play a role in trying to improve those mismatches?

Topic 5 - DevOps Automated Governance. What is it, how is it implemented, what benefits do companies get from it?

Topic 6 - Kosli technology is often described as “a flight recorder for your runtime environments”. Is the recorder primarily for the auditors, or does it become part of operations?

'Topic 7 - How do companies typically get started using Kosli? Does it have to be all at once, are is there a typical Crawl-Walk-Run model?

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Technology Enthusiast Lost at Sea

1 oktober 2023 | 42 min

Today we explore what to do when you’re stuck at a career crossroads between being technically valuable and managerial or leadership valuable. How to consider the tradeoffs.

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I BROKE INTO THE INDUSTRY THROUGH A TECHNOLOGY TRACK, BUT I BROUGHT MORE TO THE TABLE

Lots of people reach a crossroads when they decide to move from technically-focused to manager-focused.
They often struggle because their identity of technical skills feels like it’s slipping away, and they aren’t sure of their identity.
Being a manager can often be unsatisfying and some people want to go back to the technology path.

NOW I’M FINDING THAT I’M GOOD AT MANAGING, BUT I DON’T KNOW IF IT BRINGS ME JOY

Gain an understanding of the career ladders for both a technical path and a managerial path (or other paths in between).
Try and determine what it’ll take to get to several levels higher than you are today (extra schooling, extra certifications, developer technical skills, travel, etc.)
Make a list of the things that are most important to you, and what you’re OK with not prioritizing as a negative. (Location, Salary, Opportunity, Title, Job Risk, etc.)
Figure out what parts of the current path don’t motivate you. Can a mentor help? Can you offset that with enjoyment from other parts of the role?
Sometimes you need to leave a specific job/company, but do that with the “next job” in mind (not the “move job”)
Early in your career you’ll move jobs for opportunity/money/title, but unknown managers. Later in your career you’ll move to work with specific people. Find those people.

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Will a New Cloud Emerge?

27 september 2023 | 38 min

Every company is a Hardware company

24 september 2023 | 39 min

Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models

20 september 2023 | 34 min

Alex Ratner (@ajratner, CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about labeling and training of LLMs. We go over Foundational Models and how to take an “off the shelf” model and fine-tune it for private use.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We last spoke two years ago. A lot has changed so we thought it would be a great time to talk about updates. For those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with when we last spoke. We talked a lot about data scientists and how data labeling works for training LLM’s. For those that aren’t familiar, can you give everyone a quick intro to data labeling and why it is important for training?

Topic 3 - When we last spoke, LLM weren't as mainstream as they are today. How has this impacted how you think about AI/ML in general? What are the big challenges for LLM today that you see?

Topic 4 - Many organizations are trying “off the shelf” models but this may or may not be a good idea. On one side they don’t have to build a model but on the other they still have to fine tune it to their specific needs and use case. What are your recommendations for organizations to get started and be as effective as possible?

Topic 5 - In addition to organization specific models, are teams building purpose built models for specific functions (i.e. are they running multiple models each with a different task?) How does labeling and training come into play here?

Topic 6 - Another challenge I’m seeing is security and data privacy concerns. What do folks getting started need to be aware of to make sure company data is safe?

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A Proposal for OSS Longevity

17 september 2023 | 35 min

As OSS projects continue to look for ways to balance community, sustainability and profitability, let’s explore some alternative considerations for companies and communities.

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Troubles with Open Source Gig Economy (Chris Aniszczyk, CNCF)
Open Source Needs Maintainers, How Do They Get Paid? (TNS)
A New Way to Think about Open Source Sustainability (InfoWorld)

OPEN SOURCE HAS BECOME CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BUSINESSES

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Kafka, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Java are all mission-critical to businesses.
Cloud providers have disrupted the previous OSS models - operationalize vs. contributions
How to pay contributors?
How to avoid unpredictable changes to licensing?
How to provide better transparency to customers and communities?

DO OSS PROJECT NEED MORE STRUCTURE TO SUCCEED OR SUSTAIN?

Establish “types” of projects: Business, Community, Any - Years to Action
Establish some timelines around various types of projects
Patents have a timeline to explore - can there be OSS licenses that have timelines
Government tax credits for paying OSS contributors
Should governance foundations create forks at established times?
Should groups like CNCF be more active in recruiting forks after a period of time?

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Automating Developer Security and Compliance

13 september 2023 | 34 min

Matt Spitz (@mattspitz, Head of Engineering at @TrustVanta) talks about the challenges of developer security and compliance.

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Vanta (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you join Vanta and did your experience at Dropbox factor into this decision?

Topic 2 - Our topic today is developer security and compliance. Let’s start by helping our listeners understand the problem. We hear all the time about developers wanting to go fast. Things like security and compliance can be an afterthought. Do you agree and is this the root of the problem or is it something else?

Topic 3 - Most organizations, especially smaller orgs or startups just getting going, they just want to get to MVP, what advice to you have for them in building security and compliance into their CI/CD pipelines so this becomes more programmatic?

Topic 4 - Security is certainly one angle, but probably just as important, if not more so is compliance. To make it slightly more difficult, compliance can mean many different things based on geography (SOC in US for instance). How do organizations staff for this and keep up with regulation changes? Or, maybe on the flip side, is this a common area where they are understaffed and need outside assistance?

Topic 5 - In security and compliance worlds there is often the concept of identification and discovery as one part, but remediation as the second part. Where and how does Vanta work with organizations to solve for both vectors?

Topic 6 - Automation, especially into CI/CD pipelines seems like a no-brainer here, but I would also add is this an area where AI/ML will come into play in the future?

Topic 7 - If folks want to dig in and learn more, how do you suggest they get started?

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Digital Transformation meets its Liability moment

10 september 2023 | 30 min

Updates to Infrastructure as Code

6 september 2023 | 32 min

Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Co-Founder/CEO @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of infrastructure as code, the challenges of multi-cloud, and applying Generative AI to Ops.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. What made you found Pulumi and you have an extensive developer background at Microsoft as well.

Topic 2 - Pulumi’s been in the market for 6+ years and we first spoke 4 years ago. Has the IaC space “settled down”? Do you consider it still emerging, evolving, or mature at this point?

Topic 3 - We’re seeing a lot of organizations manage resources and infrastructure across multiple clouds. What are the big challenges of multiple vs. single clouds?

Topic 4 - Another big trend is of course Generative AI. You recently announced Pulumi Insights. Can you tell everyone about how this came to be and the problem you are trying to solve?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about culture quickly. How do organizations, especially large organizations with many groups and tools, standardize tools and processes? What are the big hurdles that need to be overcome?

Topic 6 - OSS has been in the news lately, especially around the Terraform project. What are your thoughts on OSS and its place in IaC both today and going forward?

Topic 7 - We see you have a big webinar coming up. It looks to be a great place to dig in and get started. Tell everyone about it for those out there that want to know more.

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The Labor Day episode about Tech Labor

3 september 2023 | 30 min

Economics & Optimization of AI/ML

30 augusti 2023 | 36 min

Luis Ceze (@luisceze, Founder/CEO @OctoML) talks about barriers to entry for AI & ML, the economics of funding, training, fine tuning, inferencing and optimizations.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have an interesting background with roots in both VC markets and academia. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Generative AI is now all the rage. But as more people dig into AI/ML in general, they find out quickly there are a few barriers to entry. Let’s address some of them as you have an extensive history here. The first barrier I believe most people hit is complexity. The tools to ingest data into models and deployment of models has improved but what about the challenges implementing that into production applications? How do folks overcome this first hurdle?

Topic 3 - The next hurdle I think most organizations hit is where to place the models. Where to train them, where to fine tune them and where to run them could be the same or different places. Can you talk a bit about placement of models? Also, as a follow up, how does GPU shortages play into this and can models be fine tuned to work around this?

Topic 4 - Do you see the AI/ML dependence on GPU’s continuing into the future? Will there be an abstraction layer or another technology coming that will allow the industry to move away from GPU’s from more mainstream applications?

Topic 5 - The next barrier but very related to the previous one is cost. There are some very real world tradeoffs between cost and performance when it comes to AI/ML. What cost factors need to be considered besides hardware costs? Data ingestion and data gravity comes to mind as a hidden cost that can add up quickly if not properly considered. Another one is latency. Maybe you arrive at an answer but at a slower rate that is more economical. How do organizations optimize for cost?

Topic 6 - Do most organizations tend to use an “off the shelf model” today? Maybe an open source model that they train with their private data? I would expect this to be the fastest way to production, why build your own model when the difference is in your data? How does data privacy factor into this scenario?

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Considerations for Enterprise AI

27 augusti 2023 | 35 min

Streaming alternatives to Kafka

23 augusti 2023 | 37 min

Yaniv Ben Hemo (@yanivbh1, Founder/CEO at @memphis_Dev) talks about Memphis Cloud, an alternative architecture to delivering streaming data for applications.

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Memphis.dev (homepage)
Getting Started with Memphis (docs page)
Apache Kafka vs. Memphis
Memphis on GitHub

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Memphis.Dev

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the beginning. Most folks will want to know why a streaming alternative. Isn’t Kafka good enough? What challenges did you personally encounter?

Topic 3 - In reviewing the architecture, it mentions differences between a broker and a streaming stack. Can you elaborate on what that means? What components are typically needed for a proper data streaming solution?

Topic 4 - One of the common issues with Kafka I hear about is operations complexity over time. It isn’t uncommon that the more a system scales, the more complex it is to operate and also maybe the harder it is to get insights and mine for key data for instance. Have you seen this in your experience?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk use cases. How do you envision organizations using Memphis Cloud? What problems are you trying to solve in the market? Is Memphis Cloud a SaaS offering? How would it be implemented in an organization?

Topic 6 - The data management side of all of this to always be problematic. Where and how is the data managed? What does the lifecycle of the data look like and what design considerations went into this aspect?

Topic 7 - When building large distributed streaming systems, I’m sure there are trade offs and optimizations of features to consider. What are you optimizing for and what are the design tradeoffs developers need to consider?

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What is AWS after crossing the Chasm?

20 augusti 2023 | 30 min

As the competitive cloud landscape is shifting, let’s take a look at some possibilities of what AWS might look like after they cross the chasm.

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SHOW NOTES:

3 Steps into a 10k race (Episode 428 on Software Defined Talk)
There’s no AI without the cloud (AWS CEO Adam Selipsky) - Decoder podcast
What comes after Zoom? (Benedict Evans)
Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey Moore
Looking at Cloud hyperscaler CAPEX spending in Q2 2023 (Charles Fitzgerald)
Amazon has over half of all ARM servers (The Register)

IF ONLY 10-15% OF APPS ARE IN THE CLOUD, HAVE WE CROSSED THE CHASM?

AWS is $85B/yr business, after 17 years
AWS claims that 10-15% of IT is in the cloud
AWS has attracted startups, and mostly competes against legacy IT companies

AWS MOATS AND WHAT MIGHT COME NEXT?

Amazon/AWS has always made large CAPEX investments
AWS claims to have the largest farm of GPUs, and ARM servers
Open source projects are moving to licensing that reduces competition from AWS
AWS growth rate has been slowing since Q4 2021
Innovation? Application Portfolio? Pricing vs. Profitability?
AWS has done limited acquisitions and partners are kept at arms-length (vs. OpenAI / MSFT)
AWS seems to be behind in the AI race, although still very early in the market maturity
AWS doesn’t have a large set of “owned/branded” applications
What does a future AWS look like that is mostly infrastructure?

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Understanding Machine Learning Features and Platforms

16 augusti 2023 | 48 min

Gaetan Castelein (@gaetcast, VP Marketing at @tectonai) talks about the complexities of building AI models, features and deploying AI into production for real-time applications.

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SHOW NOTES:

Tecton (homepage)
State of Applied Machine Learning 2023 Report
Hello Fresh adopts Tecton - Good article on features and feature stores
What is real-time machine learning?
Feature Platform vs. Feature Store

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some terminology. A lot of our listeners might be relatively new to Machine Learning. I’m still coming up to speed and I actually spent more time than usual just wrapping my head around the concepts and terms and piecing them all together. What is a feature? Why is it important? How many features does ChatGPT 3 have or ChatGPT4?

Topic 3 - How is a feature different from a model? Both are needed, why?

Topic 4 - I’ve always wondered exactly what a data scientist does. Is this where the term Feature Engineering comes into play? Who turns the data into features and picks the appropriate model?

Topic 5 - Early Machine Learning was analytical ML (offline/batch), correct? How is that different from operational ML (online/batch) and real-time ML?

Topic 6 - Now that we have all that out of the way. What is a Feature Platform? How does it integrate into an organization’s existing Devops workflows and/or CI/CD pipelines? (Features as Code) How is it different from a Feature Store?

Topic 7 - How do you know if the features + model yield a good result? How is prediction accuracy typically measured?

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Cloud and Software Economics

13 augusti 2023 | 26 min

Trends in API Security

9 augusti 2023 | 38 min

Filip Verloy (@filipv, Field CTO at @NonameSecurity) talks about the latest trends in API security, how you could be a victim of a Moveit attack, and more

SHOW: 743

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve worked together in the past at previous companies, it’s great to catch up again. For those out there that don’t know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and how you got involved in API security.

Topic 2 - We keep hearing about APIs and API security but in a roundabout way. We hear on tech news that data has been leaked, customer accounts and info got out. There have been many high profile, well known instances. What often isn’t reported is the way in which the breaches happen. More times than not it is API’s and improper security, correct?

Topic 3 - What are the most common problems you see in organizations? What problems do folks bring you in to solve? Why isn’t a WAF (web application firewall) enough?

Topic 4 - Security, no matter the type, can be a tough sell sometimes. It’s hard to do an ROI on something that hasn’t happened for instance. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 5 - As a followup, who is the audience that has the budget? CISO’s don’t typically come from a developer background, true?

Topic 6 - What are the typical steps on a journey towards securing APIs. Where do most folks start (assuming nothing, maybe a WAF at best) and how far does it go. Identification, automated remediation, etc.

Topic 7 - It seems every industry is being impacted in some way by AI/ML. How do you see this playing a role in the future of API security?

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The PizzaHut and TacoBell of Platforms

6 augusti 2023 | 20 min

What's Happening with SuperCloud?

2 augusti 2023 | 38 min

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) gives an update on the status of SuperClouds and talks about the recent SuperCloud 3 event.

SHOW: 741

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SHOW NOTES:

2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds (Cloudcast Eps.586)
SuperCloud 3 (event)
SuperCloud 2 (event)
The Rise of SuperCloud (2021)
theCUBE (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You cover everything, but where are your main focuses these days?

Topic 2 - For anyone that’s new to Cloudcast, or new to this concept of SuperCloud (which has evolved over time), give us the high-level overview of the concept.

Topic 3 - Let’s dive right into SuperCloud, since you just finished the SuperCloud 3 event. What were the big trends within the event?

Topic 4 - The new focus on AI seems to have shown a new light on the location of data, and how well isolated data (and models) are from other companies. How do you see the concept of SuperCloud playing with new AI demands around data locality?

Topic 5 - It seems like nobody is going to be able to afford the CAPEX required to do AI (GPUs) at scale except the big three hyperclouds. They are all going through various levels of economic challenges. Do you expect to see infrastructure becoming an AI bottleneck soon?

Topic 6 - Are you seeing any companies or technologies breaking away from the pack with regard to the SuperCloud capabilities?

Topic 7 - Where are you focusing on the next SuperCloud event and research?

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The Future of Software?

30 juli 2023 | 26 min

Building Large AI Models

26 juli 2023 | 44 min

Dr. Ronen Dar (Co-Founder/ CTO of @runailabs) talks about the challenges of running compute infrastructure for AI, the GPU ecosystem, sizing LLMs and more.

SHOW: 739

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SHOW NOTES:

Run:ai - Build Your Next Large Model (homepage)
Ronen Dar, Run:AI's CTO, on managing computation resources in ML pipelines

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Run:ai.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the challenges of running AI applications. What unique characteristics and requirements do AI applications have?

Topic 3 - Most AI applications run on GPUs. How do things change when using GPUs vs. CPUs to power AI applications? What is needed to get the most out of GPUs?

Topic 4 - As environments grow larger, what is needed to scale-up environments, both in terms of scheduling applications and managing the underlying GPU infrastructure?

Topic 5 - GPUs are not only expensive resources, but also in high-demand. How are companies doing capacity planning with GPUs? What struggles are you seeing companies have as they manage planning for AI projects?

Topic 6 - Are the new Large Language Models (LLMs) much different in size than AI models of the past?

Topic 7 - How well is the industry prepared to deal with the new interest in AI from across the industry?

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Free or Fee is Often Complicated

23 juli 2023 | 28 min

Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services

19 juli 2023 | 45 min

Addison Huddy (@addisonhuddy, Sr Dir of PM @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of cloud-based Kafka platforms, and how this might reshape how all OSS software moves into the cloud.

SHOW: 737

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Confluent.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with Confluent Cloud. What happens when you take an open source project and make it a cloud service?

Topic 3 - After many years of learning, Confluent decided to build Kora. Walk us through that design process and the goals of this new 10x Kafka-compatible service.

Topic 4 - As I’m looking through the capabilities of Kora (see below), can you give us a sense of how these compare to the previous Confluent Cloud?

Topic 5 - Kora remains compatible with existing Kafka. How did you go about essentially maintaining the API/protocol while essentially re-writing the entire backend of the system?

Topic 6 - Obviously you can’t speak for other open source projects, but given what Confluent has learned with Kora, do expect to see other companies potentially trying to build cloud-specific versions? (e.g. Kubernetes)

Topic 7 - What sort of feedback do you get from users of the Kora system vs. the previous Confluent Cloud?

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Higher Quality Outputs are Expected

16 juli 2023 | 22 min

Database Monitoring & Observability

12 juli 2023 | 35 min

Jonathan Morin (Product Lead @datadoghq) & Jason Manson-Hing (Product Manager) talk about emerging trends in Database monitoring and observability.

SHOW: 735

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Troubleshoot blocking queries with Datadog DBM
Datadog DBM
AlwaysOn availability groups with Datadog DBM
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Try Datadog Database Monitoring with a free trial to begin tracking and analyzing query metrics from your database fleet.

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at Snowflake.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about database monitoring. There are so many types of databases these days (SQL, Graph, Time-Series, Document, etc.), are the concepts for database monitoring the same across any database, or does the system need specific domain expertise?

Topic 3 - Given the importance of database performance for the overall application experience, do you find that DBAs (or application developers) are thinking about their monitoring strategy earlier in the DB design process?

Topic 4 - What are some of the most common database challenges to monitor and troubleshoot (e.g. root problems, performance)? What are some of the most difficult to troubleshoot (e.g. AlwaysOn Availability groups)?

Topic 5 - How much time and effort is typically spent monitoring/troubleshooting DB problems in real-time vs. looking at historical trends and trying to either troubleshoot issues or predict how things might behave in the future?

Topic 6 - What are some of the things that can be done to find the right balance between resources being dedicated to application-database processing vs. database-monitoring processing?

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An Analogy for App Modernization

9 juli 2023 | 26 min

2023 MidYear Update

5 juli 2023 | 58 min

Kudos to Kelsey Hightower

2 juli 2023 | 31 min

Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud

28 juni 2023 | 34 min

Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams

25 juni 2023 | 28 min

Second Wave of DevOps

21 juni 2023 | 49 min

Nobody wants to own Security

18 juni 2023 | 21 min

Developer Security

14 juni 2023 | 36 min

The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle

11 juni 2023 | 26 min

The Economics & Beyond of Object Storage

7 juni 2023 | 36 min

Jon Toor (CMO @CloudianStorage) talks about the history and evolution of object storage, the rise of enterprise class object storage, and the changing economics of cloud storage.

SHOW: 725

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SHOW NOTES:

Cloudian website

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Jon. Tell us a little bit about your background. Your career and Cloudian parallel in many ways.

Topic 2 - Cloudian has been around since before object storage was cool. We first heard about Cloudian back in the OpenStack and early AWS S3 days. Object storage has come a long way. Can you help everyone frame where we were and where we are today?

Topic 3 - We’ve seen the rise of Enterprise class, S3 compatible object storage for use cases like hybrid cloud, data sovereignty, and more recently analytics such as data lakehouses. Where are you seeing implementations these days as we’ve moved beyond basic, simple storage behind cloud backends.

Topic 4 - With the recent changes to the world economy, how much does economics come into conversations around the design of solutions. There’s often a healthy tension between what is technically possible and what is economically feasible. How does that design conversation play out lately?

Topic 5 - We used to talk about “Data Gravity” all the time. The concept for those unfamiliar is that data has a certain weight and attracts more data to existing sources and becomes hard to move over time. We haven’t talked about it as much in recent years and we are seeing the rise of hybrid and multicloud solutions but folks often don’t think about access to the data. Where are folks building large data sets? What are they using them for? Are they ever moving them?

Topic 6 - Last question, Cloudian is well known for their partnerships, alliances and solutions. You partner with hardware companies, software companies, backup companies, public clouds, etc. It’s quite a mix. Has this been a factor in Cloudian’s longevity and tell everyone a little bit about how this came to be and how important you see this for the future.

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How to Build a Tech ROI Model

4 juni 2023 | 34 min

DevOps, OSS Communities & WASM in the Public Cloud

31 maj 2023 | 52 min

AI is the new Bi-Modal IT

28 maj 2023 | 19 min

The Rise of Platform Engineering

24 maj 2023 | 41 min

Luca Galante (@luca_cloud, Product @humanitec_com & PlatformCon Organizer) talks about the latest trends in Platform Engineering, what to expect at PlatformCon 2023, and how to get engaged and join the community.

SHOW: 721

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Luca, how did you get involved with Platform Engineering and how did PlatformCon come into being?

Topic 2 - Platform Engineering is having its moment. There is a lot being written about Platform Engineering and a lot of customers, companies and vendors are all jumping on board. As someone who was there at the beginning, why do you think this happened? What was the need filled and the main problem solved?

Topic 3 - We often hear about IDP’s (Internal Developer Platforms) associated with Platform Engineering, often as the “product” or outcome. What are your thoughts on this?

Topic 4 - Every “hype cycle” eventually hits the dreaded trough of disillusionment. Momentum moves from excitement (Backstage as an example) into the “getting things done” stage and often complexity gets in the way. Do you see that happening here and how should the community address this?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about PlatformCon. What is it and what should folks expect? Was 2022 the first year? How did it go? Any lessons learned you are bringing to 2023?

Topic 6 - You’re also heavily involved with the Platform Engineering Slack Community. I think you recently passed over 12k members if I remember correctly. How did that get started and what do you think contributed to such growth in such a short amount of time?

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The Cloud-Native Trough of Disillusionment

21 maj 2023 | 26 min

Simplifying FinOps for AI Workloads in the Cloud

17 maj 2023 | 45 min

Recognizing the Adults in the Room

14 maj 2023 | 20 min

Nautobot Network Source of Truth

10 maj 2023 | 29 min

How AI will impact Cloud-Native

7 maj 2023 | 29 min

Behind the Scenes of a Major OSS Release

3 maj 2023 | 32 min

Kubernetes Community and Career Building

26 april 2023 | 42 min

Steve Buchanan (@buchatech, Principal PM @Azure, Author @Pluralsight) talks about his journey in Kubernetes community, building a personal brand through education and sharing, content creation and maintaining a healthy work life balance

SHOW: 714

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Topic 1 - Today we are going to be talking about careers and Kubernetes. Steve, welcome to the show! You have a super fascinating career journey, can you give everyone a quick introduction?

Topic 2 - I heard you over on the Kubernetes Unpacked podcast. First off, it’s hard to keep up with everything you are doing in the community these days. What is your current focus and passion? Have you reached 20 courses on Pluralsight yet?!

Topic 3 - How do you balance the day job (Program Manager for AKS) and the nights and weekends (PluralSight courses, blogging, podcasts, etc.)? Besides learning and sharing, what benefits are you seeing with this approach?

Topic 4 - I believe your journey parallels our journey here. We started the podcast to learn and give back to the community. Prior to the podcast, blogging was the big thing (we are completely aging ourselves I know) but I think it is safe to say blogging isn’t a primary source today. How would you recommend folks new to the industry get started sharing their journey? Where is the most “bang for your buck” these days?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Kubernetes and specifically AKS, what are customers finding new and interesting? What are the leading solutions and integrations you see combined with AKS? How do you create a “stack” in AKS (GitHub Actions, Azure Container Registry, etc.)

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Reviewing KubeConEU 2023

23 april 2023 | 24 min

KubeConEU 2023 in Amsterdam had over 10,000 attendees. What were the highlights and new trends happening in the CNCF ecosystem?

SHOW: 713

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SHOW NOTES:

Conference sessions, and keynotes are available on-demand to in-person and virtual registrants in the event platform until 5 May 2023. They will also be available publicly on the CNCF YouTube channel by 8 May. CNCF-hosted co-located events will be available on the CNCF YouTube channel within 72 hours post-event.
CNCF Announcements (from vendors)
CNCF Press conference recording
What’s Next in Cloud Native roundtable
Platform Engineering roundtable
CNCF Envoy Documentary

10,000 ATTENDEES, 58% OF THEM ARE NEW TO CNCF

Thank you to the CNCF for the Media pass to the event.
10,000 people in attendance. Lots of energy.
Showers in Europe - why?

THERE’S SOMETHING FOR (MOSTLY EVERYBODY). EVERYBODY WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT ON THE SHOW.

Kubernetes is mainstream for this audience. Now they are dealing with next-gen challenges beyond Kubernetes.
Lots of Observability usage (and vendors)
Lots of cloud cost-management (vendors), and talk that cloud providers would start pushing that message in 2023.
Service mesh drew a lot of interest. Between Ambient Mesh, Ciliium Mesh and Linkerd
Large European customers seem to be slightly behind the rest of the world in terms of adoption, but they were eager to engage at this point in time.
Data sovereignty (local countries) is a big concern in Europe, so it was interesting to hear how companies are dealing with those regulations.
This is a strange show to get a sense from developers. WASM seems to be going through its Java phases.

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Fax to the Future

19 april 2023 | 33 min

How Incumbents Thrive and Survive

16 april 2023 | 32 min

SBOM and Software Supply Chain

12 april 2023 | 29 min

A Framework for Making Sense of AI Chaos

9 april 2023 | 26 min

The Evolution of SaaS Business Models

5 april 2023 | 41 min

Jamin Ball (@jaminball, Partner @ Altimeter Capital, author Clouded Judgement) talks about SaaS business models, common SaaS terminology in judging financials, models for multiples, the impact of interest rates, vision vs. product

SHOW: 708

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to our guest co-host, Brandon Whichard. Jamin, can you give everyone a quick introduction?

Topic 2 - We’ve been huge fans of the Clouded Judgment Substack since inception in 2020. We regularly reference it during our weekly cloud news and recommend it as required reading for anyone interested in the business side of SaaS. What motivated you to start the substack?

Topic 3 - Can you start with SaaS financial terminology. We hear terms like ARR, customer churn, NTM, EV, LTM, etc. For those new to this, what terms matter the most and why? What picture are you trying to construct about the business from these financial values?

Topic 4 - One of the sections of your newsletter is “multiples”, can you explain what multiples are and why you use Revenue Multiple as a valuation framework? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this framework? What other frameworks could be used?

Topic 5 - Everyone is talking about the rise of interest rates, how do interest rates affect multiples and valuation? Why should we care about this? Why should employees at SaaS companies know about this? SaaS business models were on an up and to the right trend for a number of years but we’ve recently seen some ups and downs. What are your thoughts on the current and future state of SaaS as an industry sector?

Topic 6 - The newsletter is very focused on financial metrics, how do you as an investor balance these metrics vs. product vision? How much revenue does a company need for this to become value? What metrics should an early startup focus on?

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Free Lunches Don't Last for Long

2 april 2023 | 27 min

Open Telemetry

29 mars 2023 | 40 min

Gordon Radlein (@maascamp, Engineering Director at @Datadoghq) talks about the evolution of Open Telemetry (OTel), Logging, Metrics and Observability.

SHOW: 706

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Gordon. Tell us a bit about your background, and what you’re focused on these days at Datadog?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - help us connect the dots between Telemetry and Logs and Metrics and Observability. And how does the Open Telemetry (OTel) project fit into the bigger picture?

Topic 3 - Telemetry has always been a tradeoff between how much data to collect and how much data can be processed. How do you see companies using Telemetry today? Does it usually depend on the company size, or the complexity of the application?

Topic 4 - How does Datadog offer Open Telemetry to customers today? Has that evolved over time, as the standard has evolved?

Topic 5 - What are some of the new trends happening around Open Telemetry

Topic 6 - You’ve been around quite a bit of very large-scale infrastructure in your career. What are some of the tips that you’d give anybody trying to build out or scale their observability environments?

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Stop Investing in IT Skills

26 mars 2023 | 28 min

The managers vs. workers leverage pendulum is swinging back again. Will management continue investing in IT Skills, or hollow out the IT future?

SHOW: 705

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SHOW NOTES:

Gartner’s Maverick Research group - Stop investing in IT Skills
StackOverflow’s survey of Emerging Technologies
Amazon’s head of HR rejects employee petition to work from home
“Does IT Matter?” (book, 2004, Nicholas Carr)
Hollowing Out (definition)

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE GREAT RESIGNATION AND QUIET QUITTING?

Economic changes put the leverage back into management’s hands
Everything gets re-evaluated when budgets get tightened
Managers look to offload accountability to external sources

HOW TO COMMUNICATE VALUE vs PRODUCTIVITY vs COST SAVINGS

Many companies look at AI as a 1:1 replacement for tasks and people vs. looking at it to augment people.
Companies outsourced IT in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hollowing out IT. Will that become a new trend in the 2020s again?
Today’s engineers see things like low-code as not being viable, but see AI as being a way to augment their work (not replace it).
Do companies know how to determine what isn’t differentiated vs. requiring creativity or can create differentiation?
Workers have had quite a bit of freedom of movement for the last 10+ years. Will that continue into the next decade? How much does the remote-work trend impact this?
Gartner expects 75% of needed IT roles will go unfulfilled by 2030 (up from 25% in 2023)
Big companies (e.g. Amazon) are pushing back on remote-work demands from workers.

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Cost-Efficient Scale-Out Cloud Storage

22 mars 2023 | 33 min

Gleb Budman (@GlebBudman, CEO/Co-Founder of @Backblaze) talks about the evolution of cloud storage, the shift from on-prem to cloud, best practices and the rise of ransomware.

SHOW: 704

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SHOW NOTES:

Backblaze (homepage)
B2 Cloud Storage (1/5th the price of AWS S3)
Backblaze Blog
Questions for Gleb?

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You started Backblaze in 2007, just a year after AWS S3 launched. What made you decide to start a storage company when EMC, HP and NetApp dominated with big enterprise boxes, and S3 seemed like a weird new thing for Amazon sellers?

Topic 2 - Over the last couple of years, it feels like there has been a shift in how companies think about “the cloud”. We’re seeing more specialty clouds. How do you see this trend playing out in the market?

Topic 3 - You’ve been through multiple stages of how the cloud has evolved. Where do you see us now in terms of cloud evolution, and what are some of the things you see coming on the horizon?

Topic 4 - Backblaze is well known for disrupting both the cost of cloud storage, but also how storage systems are built. Given today’s economic climate, are you seeing more companies demand more flexibility &/or efficiency on how they store data?

Topic 5 - We continue to see ransomware attacks across all industries. Is this leading companies to rethink their backup and disaster-recovery strategies?

Topic 6 - From a storage perspective, do you see bottlenecks emerging about how this appetite for more and more data will eventually run into problems?

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3 Trends Shaping the Madness of March

19 mars 2023 | 28 min

March comes in like a lion, but goes out like a lamb. Let’s explore 3 storylines that might have long-ranging implications for cloud.

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SHOW NOTES:

THERE’S A LOT TO KEEP UP WITH RIGHT NOW

All the good TV shows are coming out with new episodes (many the last season)
The banking industry may or may not be very brittle right now
The weather is getting better - springtime is near
MarchMadness - NCAA Basketball is happening

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

Microsoft bringing AI to productivity tools is going to shift the focus to more strategic thinking, but also being able to know what’s right vs. just “work”
Are you spending time thinking about the various ways that you can make this new easy-to-use, non-data-scientists-driven AI work in your environment?
The US Gov’t is trying to build a cloud strategy that is security-first. Is that possible? Will this bring up the debate about the cloud as a national utility? Security speed vs. agility speed?
Corey Quinn highlights an important aspect of the cloud that isn’t always obvious to people - they leverage their control of the network (inter-region and external) to shape the competitive landscape.

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Backstage & Internal Developer Portals

15 mars 2023 | 31 min

Martina Iglesias Fernández (@martina_if, CTO) & David Tuite (@dtuite, CEO of @Roadiehq) talk about the rise of Internal Developer Portals, the problems they solve, the creation of Backstage and IDP’s as a SaaS service.

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Topic 1 - David & Martina, Welcome to the show. Please give everyone a brief introduction and how you got started with Backstage and internal development portals.

Topic 2 - Backstage was spun out of Spotify and is now a CNCF project. What problems were developers seeing and what is the origin story of Backstage?

Topic 3 - What were the immediate and long term advantages of consolidating the development experience on the Backstage platform?

Topic 4 - There is always a healthy tension with development platforms. How do you balance between setting standards to consolidate and providing freedom of choice?

Topic 5 - One of the common takeaways we have seen recently is that the IDP is the output product of Platform Engineering. Do you agree with this statement and what has your experience shown? Is this more about a set of common standards and automation or about a “product” such as an IDP.

Topic 6 - Why does an IDP succeed or fail?

Topic 7- Backstage doesn’t have a reputation of being the easiest to configure or operate. Is this where Backstage as a service comes in? What are the advantages and disadvantages to Backstage as a Service?

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Understanding How a Bank can Fail

12 mars 2023 | 39 min

This past week, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was closed by banking regulators. Let’s understand the basics of how this happened and why it matters to the tech industry.

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HOW CAN A BANK WITH SO MUCH MONEY SHUT DOWN?

Banks never hold all the money that they have on the books as deposits
Banks manage a portfolio of investments
Banks try and manage the portfolio within certain ratios
Banks have regulations

LEVERAGE, INTEREST RATES, RISK, TIMELINES, COMMUNICATIONS and PANICS

Basics Part I - Systems built on Trust, Regulations to Enforce Actions
Basics Part II - What is SVB?, Deposits vs. Investments, Leverage, Interest Rates
Higher interest rates increases the risk of existing investments
Valuations vs. Valuations on Paper
Insurance, Diversified Portfolio
Cloud Analogies - Single vs. Multi-Cloud, Shared Resources Risks, Profitability of a Service, Best Practices vs. Practicality, Rising Costs (or Shortages)

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2023 Look Ahead for Developers

8 mars 2023 | 42 min

James Governor (@monkchips, Co-Founder @Redmonk) talks about Developer experience in 2023. Topics include trends, platforms, languages and culture.

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Redmonk - The developer focused analyst firm (homepage)
Redmonk Programming Language Rankings
Monktoberfest - Developer Conference (Portland, ME)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You are a rockstar in the developer world, and maybe unknown in the infrastructure world. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - [Developers as a Whole] In 2023, do you think about developers any differently than you did in 2018 or 2021? Do you think about developers in terms of things they get done, or the types of work they do (front-end, back-end, mobile, data-science, etc.), or something else?

Topic 3 - [Trends] What are the big developer-centric trends that you are tracking or really have your interest? AI? Hosting services? Database services? WASM?

Topic 4 - [Platforms] Will we ever find that PaaS pot-of-golf at the end of the rainbow, or is the dream of platforms just a unicorn? Or do we have to realize that successful platforms are all micro-platforms?

Topic 5 - [Languages] Redmonk famously tracks development languages every six months. It feels like there are only two trends - what stays the same, and the language that is the new hotness. Do languages really matter?

Topic 6 - [Culture] Lots of people talk about changing a company’s culture to better serve the needs of developers. Do you have any examples of where that has worked, or best practices?

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Lessons Learned from 3yrs of COVID

5 mars 2023 | 27 min

Edge, InterConnects & CoLo

1 mars 2023 | 36 min

Zachary Smith (@zsmithnyc, Head of Edge Infrastructure @Equinix) talks about Edge Computing, the evolution of CoLocation, Cloud Interconnects and Emerging Trends.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Equinix?

Topic 2 - Equinix is in a very interesting position in the market, because you have visibility to so many different trends - cloud interconnects, edge computing, application migrations, etc. As we move into 2023, what are some of the trends that you’re keeping an eye on?

Topic 3 - You focus on Edge computing. It seems like a very fragmented market (many definitions, many use-cases, many business models). How do you think about the breadth of Edge?

Topic 4 - What are some of the trends you’re seeing from the big cloud providers, and how does it impact different size businesses?

Topic 5 - You also have a focus on bare metal computing. Is that still primarily a performance-centric play in the market, or are there new trends happening that expand what bare metal can be a part of?

Topic 6 - Going forward, what role do you see the global Co-Location providers planning in Cloud, or Edge, or other major trends over the next 5+ years?

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The Ala Carte Internet is Coming

26 februari 2023 | 28 min

Cloud-Native Security & Usage

22 februari 2023 | 41 min

Michael Isbitski (@michaelisbitski, Director Cybersecurity Strategy @sysdig) talks about about Sysdig's 2023 Cloud Native Security and Usage Report. The latest trends, interesting findings and the latest on Cloud Native Security

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Sysdig (homepage)
Sysdig 2023 Cloud-Native Security and Usage Report

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Sysdig?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the 2023 report. This is something that Sysdig has run for many years. What are some of the major Container Security and Usage trends you’re seeing this year (2022 to 2023)?

Report is unique as it looks at real-world data or more than a billion containers
6th report, each year we build on the data collected previously
Beyond the speed of containers and usage data, we also looked at things people care about right now
- Where are there cost savings
- How are we doing with implementing zero trust
- Where can we save time and reduce risk

Topic 3 - It seems like preparedness for attacks, via vulnerabilities, is on the rise? Why do you think we’re seeing things getting worse, rather than better?

Topic 4 - Talk to us about some of the best practices for managing all the vulnerabilities, and how to think about prioritization - such as Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

Topic 5 - It appears that Zero Trust is a big buzzword, but maybe companies have zero trust in zero trust. Did this surprise you? What do you think is causing this?

Topic 6 - What are some of the operational best practices that you’re seeing companies doing to help mitigate these ever growing security threats?

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Here Comes the anti-Cloud Crowd

19 februari 2023 | 29 min

Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi

15 februari 2023 | 31 min

Kyle Weller (@KyleJWeller, Head of Product @onehousehq) talks about the latest trends in OSS Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and the evolution to “Data Lakehouses” with Apache Hudi

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SHOW NOTES:

Onehouse (homepage)
Onehouse raises $25M Series A funding
Apache Hudi (homepage)
Delta Lake (homepage)
Apache Iceberg (homepage)
Apache Hudi vs Delta Lake vs Apache Iceberg - Lakehouse Feature Comparison

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and where you focus your efforts at Onehouse?

Topic 2 - Your focus is on an emerging open source project, Apache Hudi. Before we dive into the project and technologies, we’re always interested in the background of what drove the creation of new projects. What problems existed before Hudi?

Topic 3 - Let’s dive into Hudi. Data lakes, Delta Lakes, Lake houses, Icebergs. What is going on with all these water metaphors?

Topic 4 - Hudi is focused on streaming data lakes. What are some of the things (types of applications) that need a streaming data lake? Where do transactions come into play? Where do data warehouse capabilities come into play?

Topic 5 - Stitching together open source projects and platforms can be complicated. How does the Onehouse platform simplify all of this for either data scientists or platform teams?

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how companies are using Onehouse and Hudi today?

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Takeaways from the Latest Cloud Earnings

12 februari 2023 | 30 min

Composable Data Analytics

8 februari 2023 | 37 min

Josh Patterson (@datametrician, Co-Founder & CEO @VoltronData) talks about the concept of composable data analytics and how it benefits our industry. What is it, why should be using it, and how to get started.

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Topic 1 - Hello Josh and welcome to the show. You have a very diverse and interesting background. Can you give everyone a quick introduction? As a follow up, tell everyone a little bit about your experience as Presidential Innovation Fellow.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into Voltron Data, we need to tell everyone about Apache Arrow. Business and organizations tend to be overwhelmed by big data. Everything from the volume, to the tools, to the lack of data scientists and practitioners. Can you give everyone an overview of Arrow, how it came to be, what problem does it solve?

Topic 3 - Arrow has companies like Snowflake, NetFlix, Meta, Databricks, Google and Microsoft all adopting it. Our listeners will be more familiar with Snowflake & Databricks and their business models, what makes Voltron Data different? How are you building a company on top of OSS?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about communities and standards. I’ve seen various numbers on Arrow and monthly downloads, always in the tens of millions per month. Your focus appears to be providing services for Arrow and other Apache projects to simplify open source for those that don’t have the skills or time, while also working towards the goal of community standards. Is that correct?

Topic 5 - How will open source standards for data help the data analytics industry move faster? Is this a process problem? A data set problem? A tools problem?

Topic 6 - Data Analytics has a reputation for a high barrier to entry. If our listeners are interested, how can they get started?

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Everybody Gets Fired, Eventually

5 februari 2023 | 31 min

The tech industry is going through an employment level downturn at the moment, so what should you do? What shouldn’t you do?

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LAYOFFS ARE NEVER FUN, AND THEY HAVE RIPPLE EFFECTS

Hiring tends to happen in waves, and layoffs happen in blasts
Sometimes layoffs happen for solid reasons, and sometimes for emotional reasons

HOW TO NAVIGATE A LAYOFF, OR BEING AROUND AFTER A LAYOFF

Eventually, everybody gets fired - whether they should or not
Try not to make it too emotional, which is initially difficult
Companies never really take ownership, but they can be compassionate
Allow yourself to go through the grieving process
Decide if you still want to stay in the tech industry
Stay active in life - get up, find a routine, stay healthy, make a plan each day
Begin looking while you have financial buffers
Find something creative - build things
Stay active with your skills - volunteer, side projects, etc.
Stay active with your networks
At some point, be realistic - family needs, sunk costs, titles, etc.

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2023 Look Ahead with the CNCF

1 februari 2023 | 49 min

Chris Aniszczyk (@cra, CTO of @CloudNativeFdn) talks about the evolution of CNCF projects, major cloud-native trends, and managing the intersection of projects, users and vendors.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit of your background, and what does a CTO of a foundation like the CNCF do?

Topic 2 - What does the CNCF do these days, and what should various stakeholders, partners and consumers of CNCF “things” (projects, events, training, etc.) expect from the CNCF?

Topic 3 - The CNCF has a number of ways to represent technologies under its governance - Landscape, Technology Radar, etc. As the CTO, how do you think about all the different ways there are to solve problems using CNCF technologies?

Topic 4 - How much do you worry about the economy slowing down, in the sense of it impacting VC funding for companies that might be at the core of projects (especially new projects). Does the CNCF need a certain amount of volume of projects to provide value, or are you mostly focused on doing good governance to the projects in front of you?

Topic 5 - As the CTO of the CNCF, do you feel like there are “core” projects that need more of your attention because of how many other projects have dependencies? Or are there key concepts that you try to infuse into projects, knowing how interconnected they become?

Topic 6 - Every technologist has their areas of interest. You recently did a post on your predictions for 2023 that everyone should check out. What are some of yours as you look out at 2023?

Topic 7 - What are some of the new things that the CNCF is working on this year?

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New Technologies are Difficult to Explain

29 januari 2023 | 33 min

2023 Look Ahead to FinOps

25 januari 2023 | 38 min

Matt Ray (@mattray, Senior Community Manager for OpenCost) talks about the evolution of FinOps, alignment between Eng and Finance, and FinOps best practices.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus on Cloud Cost Management today.

Topic 2 - The cloud has been around for more than a decade. Why does it seem like Cloud Cost Management has suddenly become such a big topic of discussion over the last couple years - is it mostly the pandemic and economy (interest rates), or more driven by end-user behaviors….or both?

Topic 3 - What do best practices for Cost Management look like today? It is mostly about having the right monitoring tools, or is it how groups are organized, or something else?

Topic 4 - How in the world can any finance person understand the nuances of all the services that are available in the cloud, and how they might impact both architecture and ultimately the bill? Who needs to be educating them?

Topic 5 - How do most companies engage around cost management? Does it start with cost management tools and then bring in consultants (e.g. Corey Quinn) if they can’t figure things out? Or is it the CFO getting heavy-handed and setting strict policies?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about OpenCost.

Topic 7 - Given all the variables involved, can you be useful in the cloud cost management space if they don’t have a strong background in building applications or architecture?

Topic 8 - What are some of the areas of cloud cost management that are most interesting to you today?

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Self Service and Org Charts

22 januari 2023 | 35 min

2023 Look Ahead to VC Funding

18 januari 2023 | 41 min

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Investor, @crane_vc Crane Venture Partners) talks about life as a VC, upcoming trends to look out for, and what to expect with rising interest rates in 2023.

SHOW: 686

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back. You’re almost in the 5 timers club at this point and a returning guest from our look ahead shows in 2022. For our new listeners, tell everyone a little bit about yourself

Topic 2 - We covered a lot of VC basics in last year's show, link above for those that missed it. We still get a lot of questions around VC funding and VC’s in general. What’s the elevator pitch version of what you do day to day as a VC? Also, how is Crane different from say some of the traditional Sand Hill Road VC’s

Topic 3 - Since we spoke last year, what’s changed? What market patterns have you noticed? Have investment and “exit” strategies changed?

Topic 4 - Investment advisors always tell clients to take a long view of markets, because their horizon for things like retirement or college savings, are long term. Do VCs tend to take round–to-round viewpoints of customers, or longer-term (like 5-7yrs) of their investments?

Topic 5 - Last year we talked about the cost of investments (expectations of valuations) being high (cheap money, lots of competition). Given the changes in the economy, do you expect that we’ll see big changes in investments, valuations, etc..?

Topic 6 - At a macro level, what is interesting to you in 2023? What are you researching these days?

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The Decisions that VMware made

15 januari 2023 | 31 min

VMware was one of the great IT successes, but their journey from start-up to behemoth was fraught with decisions that led to the Broadcom acquisition. How did they get here?

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EMC acquires VMware for $625M (2004)
VMware’s 1st IPO (2007)
History of VMware acquisitions
Diane Greene replaced by Paul Maritz as CEO (2008)
VMware revenue history (2005-2022)
VMware acquires Nicira (2012)
Pat Gelsinger named CEO (2012)
VMware launches VMware vCloud Hybrid Service (2013)
VMware launches vSAN hyper converged (2013)
VMware acquires Airwatch (2014)
VMware on AWS cloud service announced at AWS re:Invent (2016)

HOW MUCH VMWARE COULD CONTROL MAKE NEVER TRULY BE KNOWN

VMware was acquired by EMC in 2004, and operated as an “independent” entity, but how independent was it really?
What might VMware have become if they weren’t owned by an infrastructure company?

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

What happens if VMware is allowed to be spun out from EMC? How much did it impact growth? How much did it impact innovation?
What happens if Paul Maritz doesn’t acquire all the companies that tried to become Microsoft?
What happens if VMware didn’t spinout Pivotal, and instead delivered a more vertical software stack?
What happens if Pat Gelsinger doesn’t buy Nicira, and instead focuses on the public cloud offerings 4 years earlier? (AWS revenues by year)
Why didn’t VMware define the integrated computing model (e.g. Cisco UCS)?
What happens if VMware (or Pivotal) had adopted Kubernetes in 2015 instead of 2019?

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2023 Look Ahead to AI/ML

11 januari 2023 | 45 min

Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, host @twimlai podcast) talks about the evolution of AI & ML in 2023, and the possibilities of ChatGPT.

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This Week in AI & ML (podcast, homepage)
Sam talks to ChatGPT to create a podcast
(2017) - Sam on Eps.321
(2019) - Sam on Eps.382
(2020) - Sam on Eps.437

Topic 1 - Hi Sam. Welcome back to the show. Before we get into today’s discussions, tell us a little bit about the breadth of things you’re doing over at TWIMLAI and how people can get involved?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the recent headlines - Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. For those of us that aren’t around this everyday, it feels like some big leaps in useability. Did we see a big jump in AI at the end of 2022, or was this just good UI design, or something else?

Topic 3 - ChatGPT - Give us the basics, and then what are some of the more interesting things you’re hearing people start to talk about with technology like this.

Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about how “the goal posts tend to shift” about what we think of as powerful AI. Do you see any areas of AI getting close to becoming a big shift in terms of ease-of-use, or being hidden/embedded in other technologies?

Topic 5 - There are various reports about GPUs being harder to get these days. There is also speculation that the cost of AI processing has been going up. What are you seeing in terms of cost of processing vs. useful outcomes lately?

Topic 6 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What’s the barrier to entry and has it changed in the last few years? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.?

Topic 7 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2023, whether it’s technology or trends or something else?

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How Microsoft Evolved

8 januari 2023 | 29 min

2023 Look Ahead to Platform Engineering

4 januari 2023 | 40 min

Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle Founder & CEO @rackngo) talks about how Platform Engineering has evolved from DevOps and SRE and how it aligns to Cloud Platforms.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it was great to see you in person at events recently. What have you been focusing on the last couple of years?

Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of discussion about Platform Engineering over the last 6+ months. You’ve been around this space for a while. We’re trying to understand if PE is different from DevOps or SRE or Cloud Platform in the past, or an evolution. Is PE just a common platform maintained with reusable tools, regardless of the infrastructure?

Topic 3 - I’ve heard people say that Cloud Platform and Platform Engineering are colleagues. where one owns/operates the platform, and the other is the “product manager” to the application teams. Is this realistic?

Topic 4 - What does “good” look like for Platform Engineering? Is the goal a frictionless developer experience? Are developer consistency and efficiency valid goals? Are there KPIs or Metrics that “good” teams are striving towards?

Topic 5 - Any interesting technologies that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable?

Topic 6 - Any team dynamics that you’re seeing that make Platform Engineering easier, or more manageable?

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2022 Year-End Mailbag

28 december 2022 | 50 min

A Perspective on Perspectives

25 december 2022 | 17 min

2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions

21 december 2022 | 62 min

Aaron and Brian discuss the 2022 Year in Review, highlighting the biggest trends, as well as making 2023 predictions.

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SHOW NOTES:

THE BASICS:

The show grew nearly 20% YoY (2nd year in a row), with our first 2M listen year.
The Cloudcast named to Top 20 Kubernetes resources of 2022
The Cloudcast hosts named to “Who’s Who of Cloud (2022)” list
Thank you to all our sponsors throughout the year (Datadog, CloudZero, JumpCloud, Mergify, BMC, Teleport, NewRelic, StrongDM, Polyscale, LoadForge, NetApp, Revelo, Lightstep, Granulate, CDN77, Jetbrains, Eaton, Cloudfix)

THE BIG NEWS AREAS:

Tech layoffs in 2HCY22
VMware got acquired by Broadcom (will be part of CA+others)
The US made a big investment in CHIPS
NVIDIA’s acquisition of ARM fell through
AWS - $60B>$85B (+28%), Azure - $35B>$50B (+42%), GCP - $15B>$27B (+38%)
Microsoft is now 50/50 in Software and Cloud revenues
AWS re:Invent is different under Adam Selipsky
Between Texts and Images, AI seemed to make a big leap
WebAssembly (WASM) is starting to make noise in new ways (PaaS 2.0?)
Is Platform Engineering replacing DevOps and SRE?
Docker 2.0 is making money

2023 PREDICTIONS:

Aaron’s Predictions:

We’ll see a Twitter clone founded by folks that left
Azure will become #1 public cloud (pulled from 2022 predictions)
Docker will become a unicorn again and prove everyone wrong
2023 will be the year of the down rounds:
- Worldwide: 450 unicorn and 24 decacorn
- A unicorn will go under
Apple will finally give everyone a peek at their EV car in development, just to mess with Elon a bit.

Brian’s Predictions:

We’ll start seeing some of the 2020-2022 unicorns acquired as sub-unicorn prices
Serverless makes a comeback as a cheaper computer alternative
FinOps conferences become a must-attend event
GCP makes a huge hail-mary acquisition

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Technology Booms and Busts

18 december 2022 | 31 min

Bringing The Cloud to IT

14 december 2022 | 33 min

Bryan Thompson (VP Product Management of @HPE_GreenLake Cloud Services) talks about managing private and hybrid cloud services and bringing the Cloud to data.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at HPE.

Topic 2 - HPE is one of the most iconic brands in all of computing history. A lot has evolved over the years. Where does Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) fit into the picture with HP, and what is the HPE focus these days?

Topic 3 - For the last 10 years, we’ve seen a huge growth in the usage of public cloud, but we also heard many industry leaders claim that we’re still only around 10% in public cloud. That means we have behavioral expectations changing (on-demand, scalable, etc.) but not necessarily actions changing. How does HPE view their role in the evolution and intersection of IT and the Cloud?

Topic 4 - Give us an overview of HPE GreenLake, both in terms of technology and delivery/operations.

Topic 5 - HPE GreenLake has a “bring the Cloud to IT” approach. What does that mean in terms of evolving that 90% that hasn’t moved to the cloud yet? And will they ever move to the cloud?

Topic 6 - What surprises people the most when they start to understand what’s possible with HPE GreenLake that wasn’t there a few years ago?

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State of the OpenCloud 2022

11 december 2022 | 21 min

2022 AWS re:Invent Announcements

7 december 2022 | 17 min

Thoughts from AWS re:Invent

4 december 2022 | 28 min

Building Vector Search Applications

30 november 2022 | 39 min

The Be Thankful Episode

27 november 2022 | 25 min

Developer Data Platforms

23 november 2022 | 37 min

Andrew Davidson (SVP Products, @MongoDB) talks about MongoDB's evolution from a software company to a cloud services company (MongoDB Atlas), how developers traditionally interacted with databases, and the need for Developer Data Platforms going forward.

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Press Release: MongoDB Unveils Vision for a Developer Data Platform at MongoDB World 2022
Forbes: MongoDB Extends Developer Data Platform For Modern Applications
TechCrunch: MongoDB puts a spotlight on its developer data platform

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB.

Topic 2 - Data is a weird beast. It’s cheap to create, it’s expensive to move, and it’s complicated to use because there’s so many ways to interact with it depending on the use-case. So for someone that thinks about data a lot, how do you frame up the challenges of how applications interact with data?

Topic 3 - People tend to think about MongoDB as a database company, and then a Cloud database company. What did the company learn as it moved to the cloud, as a lot of barriers for developers got knocked down in that transition?

Topic 4 - As a developer today, do I still need to think about the relationship between the underlying data and the database access model needed to make that useful to an application, or are any of those lines blurring or going away?

Topic 5 - Databases have traditionally followed the CAP theorem, and different choices have different strengths and tradeoffs. As you start to think about this concept of developer data platform, how do you try and reframe those tradeoffs? Do any of them go away?

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how companies and their developers are able to think differently about how their new applications can be built with this new platform approach to data?

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API First, Lifecycles and Governance

20 november 2022 | 36 min

Kin Lane (@kinlane, Founder API Evangelist & Chief Evangelist @Postman) talks about getting started with APIs. We also cover API lifecycle & governance.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Kin, for those out there that maybe haven’t heard of you, give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - You’ve been doing APIs since before APIs were cool. You started the API evangelist site 12 years ago. Tell us about that journey. As a follow up, how do new folks get started?

Topic 3 - As you mention on the API Evangelist website. APIs are more than technology. The headline of the website is “making sense of the technology, business, and politics of APIs since 2010. What do you mean by that? How does business and politics come into play with APIs.

Topic 4 - We often hear the phrases Cloud First and API First thrown around. What does that mean? Also, help everyone out with terminology differences between say Open API, GraphQL, etc.

Topic 5 - Follow up to API First question. Let’s talk about API First companies, we often hear about the poster children: Twilio, Stripe, and SendGrid for instance. Are they still valid examples? Who are the latest examples and use cases?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about API Lifecycles and dig into Postman a bit. We’ve reached a point in our industry that APIs are treated like a product, have PM and full development teams, and just like any product or service a company would produce. What are the typical steps you see and how does Postman help with this journey?

Topic 7 - You are active in API research, publishing of articles and research around APIs. I noticed you have been digging into Government APIs recently for instance. Where is your focus these days and what are the latest emerging trends you are seeing?

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Cloud Cost Management

16 november 2022 | 24 min

What if Twitter Goes Away?

13 november 2022 | 22 min

From Monolith to Microservice with CI/CD

9 november 2022 | 32 min

Marko Anastasov (@markoa, Co-Founder Semaphore CI) talks about how to manage the evolution of monoliths to microservices using modern CI/CD.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Marko, let’s start with a quick introduction. How did you get involved with SemaphoreCI?

Topic 2 - You have been working on CI/CD for 10+ years. Many listeners are familiar with the concepts of CI and CD but what brought you into the space and what are the primary benefits you see in clients you work with?

Topic 3 - We hear success stories from organizations that are doing hundreds to thousands of deployments a day (Netflix, Twitter, etc.). Many didn’t start out that way. Some didn’t even start with microservices, but started with monoliths and moved to microservices as they outgrew a monolithic architecture. Is this common?

Topic 4 - What are the tradeoffs between monoliths and microservices? Also, does the concept of a greenfield deployment vs. a brownfield deployment factor into the decision? Where does an organization start?

Topic 5 - What are the guidelines to building a successful microservices strategy? Where do you even start to split up a monolith? Is it a line of business function, technical boundary in the application, keeping the size of the development team small?

Topic 6 - In the journey to microservices, what are the first advantages seen? What are the first pitfalls encountered?

Topic 7 - Developers just want to go fast and automate all the things. Once a microservices strategy is built, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, security & cost. All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price?

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The Future of KubeCon?

6 november 2022 | 28 min

Reviewing KubeCon Detroit

2 november 2022 | 41 min

The Open Source Dead End?

30 oktober 2022 | 23 min

GitOps, Security and Modern CI/CD Pipelines

26 oktober 2022 | 30 min

Nick Durkin, Field CTO & VP of Engineering at Harness talk about how the journey to success for cloud-native often runs through CI/CD fundamentals.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Nick, let’s start with a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s dig into CI/CD pipelines a bit. Some like to treat CI different from CD, others say they must be combined. When you talk to customers about deployment strategies and patterns, how do you approach this? Where does GitOps fit into the conversation?

Topic 3 - We hear success stories all the time about top performing organizations that do hundreds to thousands of deployments to production a day. Is this a realistic expectation for the average organization? If they want to improve, where do they start?

Topic 4 - For organizations that are just beginning the journey, how do you convince internal teams to embrace automation and build confidence over time?

Topic 4.5 - Once confidence is built internally, my next thought goes to governance, compliance, & cost? All items that keep developers from going fast. Doesn’t “shifting left” come at a price and builds tension?

Topic 5 - Where does security fit into all of this as automation increases? What other design considerations should be taken into consideration creating pipelines? What are the common mistakes you see?

Topic 6 - How does AI and ML fit into the present and future for CI/CD?

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Examining SuperCloud 3.0

23 oktober 2022 | 26 min

From QAos to Chaos Engineering

19 oktober 2022 | 27 min

Benjamin Wilms (@MrBWilms, co-founder/CEO of @Steadybit) talks about the importance of resilience for SREs, DevOps, and developers through chaos engineering platforms

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Benjamin, give everyone a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the concept of chaos engineering. In its simplest form, chaos engineering intentionally takes down parts of a test or production environment (typically after software has shipped) randomly so teams, typically SRE’s/ops/dev, are forced to make the applications more resilient over time. It’s not a matter of if systems will go down, it’s a matter of when. This makes the systems better over time. Benjamin, you have a consulting background in this area that ultimately led to founding Steadybit. What were the limitations to this approach?

Topic 3 - What you’re talking about is a more proactive approach to downtime. I’ll call this resilience engineering and it requires a shift in mindset in an organization. How do you get developers onboard to embrace the need? Are we asking developers to share responsibility for outages with the SRE organization?

Topic 4 - On the surface, the obvious benefit is reduced downtime. That can be hard to quantify in business value. Outages can be measured, a lack of outages is harder to quantify. Does this become an issue in convincing an organization to embrace this methodology?

Topic 5 - When you say we are going to move chaos engineering into the CI/CD pipeline, what does that mean? Is this code that is added? Testing simulations that have to be passed? Real time failures of databases or nodes or simulated? What are the common use cases?

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ROIOps and the Mediocre Middle

16 oktober 2022 | 24 min

90 Days of DevOps

12 oktober 2022 | 35 min

Michael Cade (@michaelcade1) talks about learning in public and his creation of "90 Days of DevOps" to enable others by teaching the process and principles of DevOps from the ground up.

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90 Days of DevOps

Topic 1 - We’ve known each other for a long time. For those out there not familiar, give us a quick introduction.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into the 90 Days of DevOps project, tell everyone about your career journey at Veeam and now Kasten. You’ve made the transition from infrastructure technologist to DevOps and cloud native technologies. How did that come about?

Topic 3 - You started the project on Jan 1, 2022. Did you have this all mapped out before you started or did you create the content and topics as you went along?

Topic 4 - Tell everyone a little bit about what they can learn if they complete the program. What made you choose these topics? What I like best about the program is the wide variety of topics. Everything from conceptual items (OSI model) to hands on with Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, etc.

Topic 5 - What stuck out to you going through the process? What was most impactful to you in the journey? I remember following along from a far on Twitter while you were doing this. You struck a nerve in the community somewhere along the way (18k stars on GitHub). When did you think this might get bigger than you anticipated?

Topic 6 - What’s next? Do you have plans to continue the project or create another project? What are folks out there asking for? Anything you would change in the current program?

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Where's my 20-30%?

9 oktober 2022 | 27 min

The Evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code

5 oktober 2022 | 27 min

VCs vs. the Cloud

2 oktober 2022 | 24 min

Secure Software Supply-Chain

28 september 2022 | 32 min

Dan Lorenc (@lorenc_dan, Founder/CEO @chainguard_dev) talks about modern software-supply chains, Sigstore and SBOM.

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Chainguard (homepage)
Sigstore - standard for signing, verifying and protecting software
CISA SBOM (Software Bill of Materials)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, and led you to found Chainguard.

Topic 2 - Over the last couple years, we’ve seen several high-profile hacks where malicious code was a big part of the problem. As an industry, where are we in terms of managing the security around software?

Topic 3 - Now that we’re building software much faster, and software is coming from so many different (and often unknown/untrusted) places, what are some of the technology shifts that are happening to address these new environments?

Topic 4 - Chainguard is focused on both secure container images and now secure supply-chain solutions. Walk us through how your offers fit into today’s software challenges.

Topic 5 - There is a new term we’re hearing quite a bit, SBOM (Secure Bill of Materials). How does SBOM fit into this bigger picture? What are the technologies behind the scenes that make it possible?

Topic 6 - For anyone focusing on this area, what are some good ways to get involved with the new technologies and way of thinking about software security?

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Sometimes Boring is OK

25 september 2022 | 17 min

Building Machine Learning Apps

21 september 2022 | 29 min

Did we get Digital Transformation wrong?

18 september 2022 | 29 min

Kubernetes Cost Optimization

14 september 2022 | 30 min

When the Smart Guys get it Wrong

11 september 2022 | 20 min

Istio Ambient Mesh

7 september 2022 | 44 min

Louis Ryan (@louiscryan, Principal Engineer @Google) + Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talk about Istio Ambient Mesh, the new data plane for Istio service mesh.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let's talk about both of your backgrounds, especially as they relate to Istio and service mesh.

Topic 2 - Solo and Google made a significant contribution to the Istio project today, called Ambient Mesh. Give us some background on what it is and what types of service mesh challenges it solves.

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the core elements of Ambient Mesh, and maybe highlight where it’s the same or different from traditional Istio deployments.

Topic 4 - Sidecars (proxy) have been a core element of Istio (and most service meshes) for quite a while. Now we’re hearing about sidecar-less (or no sidecars). Can you explain why we’re starting to hear about these options and what they mean for the application and operations teams?

Topic 5 - If somebody is already using Istio today, what will be the process to add Ambient into their environment? Will they be able to run both Ambient Mesh mode and traditional Istio mode?

Topic 6 - As this is new in the Istio community, what are some of the additional things that you expand might evolve with Ambient in the future?

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The Labor Day Show

4 september 2022 | 22 min

Real-Time Data Cloud

31 augusti 2022 | 35 min

Cost Justification of Software

28 augusti 2022 | 31 min

The State of Serverless 2022

24 augusti 2022 | 33 min

AJ Stuyvenberg (@astuyve, Engineer Lead @DatadogHQ) talks about the 2022 State of Serverless Report and the latest serverless trends.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been around the serverless market for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on today?

Topic 2 - We’re seeing adoption of serverless in all the major clouds. Have the offerings in each cloud gotten to about the same level, or do you think this is mostly a factor of companies using multiple clouds?

Topic 3 - Node.js and Python lead the way in terms of language used with Serverless, but most companies are using 3+ languages. Are you surprised at the breadth of language usage by companies?

Topic 4 - Nearly 50% of all serverless is tied to API-Gateway usage. This surprised us - expected more to be tied to event-driven services. Any insights into how they are using serverless in this context?

Topic 5 - There’s quite a bit of variety between usage patterns between the cloud offerings - from container images, to integration with ECS/Kubernetes, to Cloud Run to Azure Container Instances. It seems to show that the market and usage-patterns are still evolving.

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Queryable Data Encryption

21 augusti 2022 | 36 min

Kenneth White (@kennwhite, Security Principal @MongoDB) talks about the causes of internal breaches, querying encrypted data vs encryption-at-rest, and database evolutions.

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MongoDB Queryable Encryption
Wired article with more background
MongoDB World presentation from June 2022
Product page with FAQ & Documentation
Podcast interview with The New Stack from MDBW in June

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a distinguished career in security and cryptography-adjacent. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on at MongoDB?

Topic 2 - Unfortunately, we’re hearing about more and more attacks that have an internal origination. From a security and cryptography perspective, what typically breaks down to allow this to happen?

Topic 3 - MongoDB has recently launched a database that enables querying encrypted data. Give us some background on how this new concept came into being.

Topic 4 - What are the technology components involved in making this happen - on the database side, on the application side, on the key management side?

Topic 5 - What are some of the application use-cases where this new database technology makes sense?

Topic 6 - How can people start exploring this technology? Is it available in both the software and SaaS offerings?

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Zero Config VPNs

17 augusti 2022 | 28 min

Maya Kaczorowski (@MayaKaczorowski, Product @Tailscale) talks about the new world of remote systems access, zero-config VPNs, and why everyone loves using Tailscale.

SHOW: 643

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some praise and some confusion. We see tons of people saying “we love Tailscale”, and yet most people hate VPNs or are trying to get rid of VPNs. Help us get smart about what Tailscale does.

Topic 3 - Step back a little bit. Help us understand what a modern CISO has to think about regarding remote access vs. zero trust vs. encrypting communications? What are the critical things they worry about?

Topic 4 - What are some of the unique things that Tailscale does with VPNs? Why does everyone seem to love using it?

Topic 5 - Tailscale seems to work on all the modern OSs (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, etc.). How does Tailscale work with existing networking devices?

Topic 6 - What are some of the common customer outcomes that happen when they enable Tailscale? What lessons can be learned from this approach?

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Is Software Still Eating the World?

14 augusti 2022 | 21 min

Over the last decade, software ate the world. So what are the byproducts of all that eating, and is there anything left on the table?

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SHOW NOTES:

Software is no longer eating the world (article)

HOW DID SOFTWARE EAT THE WORLD?

A decade of projects that spun out of the big cloud companies and became open source projects (Kubernetes, Kafka, etc.)
All the things your mom used to do for you is now a mobile app (rides, grocery delivery, making your meals,
We’ve had a decade+ of growth economy (low interest rates, lots of VC funding)

ARE THE INCUMBENTS FINALLY EATING THEIR OWN SOFTWARE?

Incumbents are starting to adopt new business models (Streaming TV/Movies, Electric Cars, Analytics built into Farming/Sports/etc.) and leveraging their previous investments.
Many of the business models of the last 5+ years is falling apart
The monopolies are disrupting the monopolies (Apple/ads),
Web3 is going through a trough of disillusionment
Meta lost $10B, which aligns to what was their metaverse investment plan
Software ate business models, but there is a hardware resurgence coming
People want a “what’s next”” technology trend, but there’s still a lot of Web2 to play out.

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Follow the Cloud Money

10 augusti 2022 | 45 min

Jordan Novet (@jordannovet, Technology Reporter @CNBC) talks about how to analyze earnings from the big clouds, Microsoft’s position as the #2 cloud, and what might disrupt the Big 3 in the future.

SHOW: 641

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SHOW NOTES:

Jordan Novet (on CNBC)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We’re now into a different phase of the economy from the pandemic years of 2020-early2022. What are the trends we’re now seeing for the major cloud companies?

Topic 3 - Beyond looking at quarter to quarter earnings, how do you think about the trends for the bigger cloud companies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and the challenger clouds (Cloudflare, etc.)?

Topic 4 - Are you seeing anything that tells you that we’ll see a change in the standings (AWS, Azure, GCP) anytime soon (e.g. forward CAPEX spending, etc.)? Do you see the challenges/disruptors making any dents in their growth?

Topic 5 - We saw some slowing down in the growth rates of all the cloud providers this past quarter. Do you think that’s just the impact of post-COVID slowdown plus some supply-chain issues around getting new servers, or does this potentially signal that movement to the cloud might be slowing down?

Topic 6 - What types of things does the financial community wish they knew about the cloud providers that either aren't broken out (e.g. different reporting across the cloud providers), or what areas are lacking transparency?

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Mentoring and Being a Mentor

7 augusti 2022 | 26 min

Multi-Cloud Control Plane for Apps

3 augusti 2022 | 35 min

Niall Dalton (@0x01dea, Co-Founder @seaplane_io) talks about simplifying the deployment of complex application and improving Day 2 operations.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what led you to create Seaplane IO.

Topic 2 - I feel like a lot of people talk about Lo-Code to make it easier for non-developers, and serverless for non-ops, but nobody really talks about more robust apps that want deployment and ops taken care of for them. Give us an overview of Seaplane IO.

Topic 3 - If i’m a developer, where does my code and application stop and where does Seaplane IO take over? Is there a “best” application that can take advantage of Seaplane IO?

Topic 4 - What does Day 2 look like for an application deployed to Seaplane IO?

Topic 5 - Help us understand some of the intelligent (“automatic”) things that Seaplane IO does to align my application to user-traffic, or failed cloud infrastructure?

Topic 6 - What are some areas where you see the Seaplane IO “control plane” expanding in the future?

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The DevRel Dilemma

31 juli 2022 | 44 min

Managing Microservices

27 juli 2022 | 28 min

Maxim Fateev (@mfateev, Co-Founder/CEO of @temporalio) talks about building modern applications, rethinking microservices, and orchestrating business logic.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to start Temporal.io.

Topic 2 - There are lots of approaches to building (or running) modern applications - from Low-Code to Serverless to PaaS. Some are more focused on building apps and others on running apps. Where do you see various approaches today having struggles?

Topic 3 - What is the Temporal philosophy on making it easier to build/run modern applications?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the concept of Temporal workflows. Who interacts with a workflow (developer, DevOps teams, etc.), and how much influence does it have on both application design and deployment?

Topic 5 - What are some of the things that happen to an application using Temporal that don’t happen with some of the other tools/frameworks focused on microservices?

Topic 6 - Does Temporal help “modernize” existing applications, or is it primarily focused on new applications?

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Kubernetes Cost Management

24 juli 2022 | 31 min

Webb Brown (@webb_brown, Co-Founder/CEO @kubecost) talks about the evolution of Kubecost, and better management of Kubernetes costs.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team at Kubecost.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about why Kubernetes has a cost problem. Is this mostly driven by the underlying technology, or how companies use Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Walk us through the Kubecost open source project. How does it work, and how does it fit into the broader Kubernetes ecosystem?

Topic 4 - What are the typical stages that a company goes through (using Kubernetes) where they realize that costs are a problem? Is it an “oh sh*t” moment with a EKS/GKE bill, or are they starting to build it into their normal Kubernetes cluster bills?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common mistakes that companies make when using Kubernetes that drive up costs? Is Kubecost mostly focused on identifying them, or trying to improve them?

Topic 6 - With the economy starting to slow down post-COVID-pandemic, are you starting to see a new level of cost-consciousness starting to kick in for Kubernetes users?

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Testing Kubernetes Applications

20 juli 2022 | 33 min

Ken Ahrens (@kahrens_atl, Co-Founder @Speedscaleai) talks about the challenges of testing applications in Kubernetes environments.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and what led to start Speedscale.

Topic 2 - Kubernetes has definitely gone mainstream at this point, but mainstream doesn’t mean that it’s easy to use or operate. How do you see the market today in terms of companies being comfortable with operating Kubernetes - what works well, and where are their struggles?

Topic 3 - In the past we had things that would test Kubernetes conformance (from CNCF, or Sonobuoy from Heptio). Where does Speedscale come into play in terms of Kubernetes testing?

Topic 4 - Where do you see opportunities to bring value to testing of Kubernetes environments? Does this testing tend to help DevOps teams or AppDev teams more?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common areas where you see companies getting benefits from Kubernetes testing?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started in testing for Kubernetes?

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IoT, IIoT and Managing Edge Data

17 juli 2022 | 36 min

Brian Gilmore (@BrianMGilmore, Director IoT/Emerging Technology @InfluxDB) talks about Edge and Industrial Edge Computing, as well as application and data challenges at the edge.

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InfluxData (homepage) - InfluxDB - Time Series Platform
Understanding Time Series Database Platforms (Cloudcast Eps:394)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into the fascinating world of Edge and IoT, tell us a little bit about your background, and then where you focus these days with InfluxData.

Topic 2 - It’s been a little while since we covered IoT and IIoT. In the past it was somewhat of a fragmented market segment (lots of definitions, lots of different use-cases). How do you summarize the IoT and IIoT markets in 2022?

Topic 3 - We’ve always said that the sensor part of IoT isn’t very interesting, but what a company does with the data is very interesting (and complicated). How do companies think about edge data these days – what aspects of the data are valuable?

Topic 4 - Time Series databases seem like the perfect fit for IoT and IIoT use-cases because they are designed to be both real-time and give historical context (from a time perspective). Is this the case, and why do companies ever consider other types of databases at the edge?

Topic 5 - What are the current best practices about managing data at the edge, in terms of long-term retention and what they eventually do with the data (analysis, analytics, etc.) to better optimize those edge applications?

Topic 6 - What are some of the emerging trends you’re starting to see happen at the edge, that maybe weren’t on the industry radar a few years ago?

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Building Apps with WebAssembly

13 juli 2022 | 33 min

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, Co-Founder/CEO @fermyontech) talks about building the next-generation PaaS platform around WebAssembly.

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Fermyon (homepage)
Fermyon launches WebAssembly PaaS platform (June 2022)
Fermyon Open Source
Finicky Whiskers (WebAssembly game)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as well as the team as Ferymon, as you all have some experience building application platforms.

Topic 2 - Before we get into Fermyon, let’s talk about WebAssembly. What is it, and how does it connect to your previous world of being heavily involved in containers and Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what it means to be a WebAssembly PaaS. We’ve seen PaaS platforms in the past (Deis, Heroku, dotCloud, Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.). What do developers need to do, and what does the platform take care of?

Topic 4 - Walk us through the Spin project and what it delivers? Can it be compared/contrasted to a container experience, or something else developers are familiar with?

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases where WebAssembly is a good fit and delivers unique value today?

Topic 6 - How are people able to engage with Fermyon today?

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Perspective on Competition in Tech

10 juli 2022 | 27 min

Secure Cloud Migrations

6 juli 2022 | 40 min

Bryan Woodworth (Solutions Strategist @Aviatrix) talks about the evolution of Cloud migrations, security best practices, and how to organize for migration success.

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Aviatrix (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, because you've been in the big clouds and now you’re helping people navigate the journey to the cloud.

Topic 2 - It’s 2022, walk me through a typical cloud migration for a company? What are their considerations, concerns, common mistakes, etc.?

Topic 3 - Who within the company is typically driving the cloud migration? What are their goals or success metrics? And how often do they misunderstand what the cloud provider does and what the company has to do – especially around security?

Topic 4 - All the clouds are a little bit different, but companies would really like them to look and act the same. How do companies deal with those challenges, from a networking and security standpoint?

Topic 5 - Where and how does Aviatrix come into the picture when companies are doing Cloud migrations?

Topic 6 - For a company that might be new to Cloud migrations, what are some lessons-learned from the past that they can use to avoid common mistakes?

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A 2022 Mid-Year Cloud Update

29 juni 2022 | 55 min

Aaron, Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the big stories, trends and transactions in the cloud in the first half of 2022.

SHOW: 630

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SHOW NOTES:

Software Defined Talk - go subscribe to Brandon’s podcast!

Topic 1 - VMware WTF!?

Would VMware be a different company if it was never acquired by EMC/Dell?
Nearly every successful Enterprise Software company becomes legacy at some point, was this always VMware’s destiny?
If VMware was an independent company, would the rise of Containers (Docker) have been any different?
Should some other company buy VMware and if so, who?

Topic 2 - I really liked the recent analysis on Clouded Judgement Substack about subscription vs. consumption in an economic downturn. (link) If SaaS is the future, does the consumption model really matter as long as value is there?

Topic 3 - Is there any aspect of the crypto industry that hasn’t been proven to be a sham this year? Decentralized (no). DAOs for governance (no). Controlled by the community (no). Secure (no). Not linked to fiat currencies (no). Good technology (no). A16z propaganda (no).

Topic 4 - Are passwords finally dying? Companies like strongDM/Teleport are pushing certificate based authentication and FIDO is gaining adoption in Windows and macOS. Will there be a time when we don’t need passwords?

Topic 5 - We always talk about skills and keeping up with the industry waves on the show. SaaS is less about building skills and more about operating. How does you get/keep up to speed about SaaS and what’s the future? Is the Cloud Architect going the way of the Infrastructure Admin?

Topic 6 - Did the big 3 cloud providers all fire their marketing teams? I feel like there hasn’t been one big announcement from any of them this year.

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What VMware might look like under Broadcom

26 juni 2022 | 45 min

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, CEO/Co-Host of @theCube) talks about the VMware acquisition by Broadcom and the potential future of the combined organization.

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SHOW NOTES:

SiliconAngle - The Voice of Enterprise Tech (homepage)
theCube - Event Coverage
Broadcom will tame the VMware beast (Dave Vellante)
Broadcom to acquire VMware for $61B
Broadcom to transit VMware to subscription model (The Register)
Brian Madden’s perspective on VMware (former VMware employee)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Lets jump right into it - did you expect VMware to get sold this quickly after finally being “free” of a parent company?

Topic 2 - “Accretive acquisition bringing $8.5B of EBITDA by Year 3” - this seems to be the statement (headline) that really has people talking. What does it mean, and what does it say about the future plans that Broadcom might have for VMware?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through their slide “Multiple Levers to Increase VMware’s Profitability

Topic 4 - We all know that vSphere/ESX is the cash cow and isn’t going anywhere. Beyond that, how do you potentially see other parts of the portfolio moving forward - VMware on AWS, NSX (networking), VSAN (storage), Tanzu (AppDev)?

Topic 5 - Could you see companies like Cisco or HP or NetApp or Dell buying any of those businesses (especially NSX or VSAN) so that they have permanent attachment to vSphere?

Topic 6 - Do you have any experience hearing from customers of CA or Symmantec to give current VMware customers a sense of what their new world might look like?

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2022 State of Cloud

22 juni 2022 | 38 min

How Things will Change in a Tech Downturn

19 juni 2022 | 19 min

Observability for Machine Learning

15 juni 2022 | 26 min

Visualizing the Cloud

12 juni 2022 | 37 min

Priyanka Vergadia (@pvergadia, Staff Developer Advocate @GoogleCloud) talks about how to use creative visualization to convey complex cloud topics.

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The Cloud Girl (homepage)
Visualizing Google Cloud (book) - #1 Best Seller
Priyanka Vergadia (LinkedIn)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re one of our favorite follows on Twitter. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on these days at Google?

Topic 2 - As someone who likes to whiteboard things, I’m drawn (no pun intended) to your style of communicating complex ideas. Where did this skill and style come from?

Topic 3 - How was your style looked at by Google, and what types of feedback do you get from the broader community?

Topic 4 - In the book, you cover A LOT of topics. How deep do you need to get into a topic before you start drawing it? How do you go about learning all the different technologies?

Topic 5 - What tools do you use to create all the drawings, and more so, you turn a lot of these into videos. Are these tools that other people could easily use?

Topic 6 - Any tips you’ve learned about how to communicate complex ideas, either to technical or business people?

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Shared Responsibilities for Cloud Providers

8 juni 2022 | 40 min

Finding or Becoming a Mentor

5 juni 2022 | 26 min

CyberSecurity, Economics and Policy in 2022

1 juni 2022 | 42 min

Andy Grotto (@grottoandrew, Researcher @StanfordCyber) and Steve Weber (Professor Cal Berkeley I-School) talk about the big picture intersection of Cybersecurity, Global Economy and Government policy.

SHOW: 622

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SHOW NOTES:

RSA Conference 2022
Andrew Grotto - https://fsi.stanford.edu/people/andrew-j-grotto
Steven Weber - https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/steven-weber

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about both of your backgrounds.

Topic 2 - You both focus on the intersections between Technology, Gov’t Policy and Economics. We tend to focus on technology, but obviously they are all interconnected. Where would you start in a 101 Technology-centric class to branch out from Security threats to how it impacts those other areas?

Topic 3 - Sometimes individuals feel like they can’t impact macro-level issues. So how do you frame your areas of focus when speaking with Government or Business leaders to get them to understand the scope, the breadth, and what actions could be taken?

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about new security technologies, and we talk about companies having trouble keeping up to be able to manage their security. Do you think there are other factors involved that are preventing companies from remaining secure?

Topic 5 - What are some of the security (technology) areas where you see opportunities to improve business and government security? Are these areas that need more implementations, or more funding, or more research?

Topic 6 - We’re coming (mostly) out of COVID-19, there’s various levels of economic uncertainty around the world (supply chain, inflation). What are the headlines you’re writing today and what are some of the scenarios you see playing out over the next 12-18 months?

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Enabling the Enterprise Financial Data Cloud

29 maj 2022 | 36 min

Cory Albert (Global Head of Cloud Strategy, Bloomberg Enterprise Data) talks about delivering cloud services to the financial services industry, new cloud delivery models, and innovations on the horizon.

SHOW: 621

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Bloomberg is one of the most recognized companies in the world. Let’s talk a little bit about your background and where your focus is today.

Topic 2 - Help us understand the scope of Bloomberg’s role in the overall financial markets, in terms of delivering data to clients and partners.

Topic 3 - The demands of financial markets (latency, data volume, security, etc.) have previously mandated that resources be local (on-prem, specialized co-lo facilities, etc.), but we’re hearing more and more about how financial services are leveraging the public cloud. Can you talk about how this hybrid cloud model might be impacting data management?

Topic 4 - As we look out a few years, how do you see shifts in cloud delivery models potentially reshaping how financial services data is used, delivered, protected, etc? What are some of the future trends that you’re keeping your eyes on?

Topic 5 - There is a ton of innovation happening around the financial services markets, from how services are delivered to who is using the services. How do these changes shape the way that Bloomberg has to partner with other companies to remain innovative and competitive?

Topic 6 - You’re a veteran of the financial services industry. What are some of the interesting areas that you’re seeing for new people coming into the industry where they might have an opportunity to potentially shape the future of financial markets?

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Scalable, Serverless Database Platforms

25 maj 2022 | 40 min

Managing Thru Economic Donwturns

22 maj 2022 | 31 min

Running a Large-Scale SaaS Platform

18 maj 2022 | 37 min

Logging Governance and Sensitive Data

15 maj 2022 | 31 min

Pranay Kamat (Prod Mgmt @datadoghq) talks about the challenges is protecting sensitive data, internal vs. external attacks, evolution of DLP, the role of Governance in DevSecOps.

SHOW: 617

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and the areas where you focus at Datadog.

Topic 2 - We continuing to see headlines about critical data being stolen, which is a trend that doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Give us a picture of where we are with the problems that are still causing this, and what new things companies can do to prevent it.

Topic 3 - Where are some of the differences between traditional Data Loss Prevent (DLP) strategies and strategies that proactively look at logs to identify data access and breaches?

Topic 4 - We often think about attacks coming from the outside, but oftentimes attacks happen from inside the house (directly or indirectly). How important is it to be able to control access to logs and what is visible within logs to prevent internal attacks and vulnerabilities?

Topic 5 - What are some of the more dynamic, modern ways to identify sensitive traffic and tag it properly so systems can act on it?

Topic 6 - It’s often said that security is everyone’s issue. In modern teams (DevOps, DevSecOps, etc.), where are you seeing as the owner of this Governance and Sensitive data?

Simplifying Cloud for Developers

11 maj 2022 | 34 min

Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh

8 maj 2022 | 25 min

Cloud Marketplaces

4 maj 2022 | 36 min

SLOs for Everyone

1 maj 2022 | 27 min

No Brian (Gracely) for a Sunday Perspective this week. We have Brian Singer (@brian_singer, CPO @nobl9inc) talking about Service Level Objectives (SLO), what they are, why they matter, and how to use SLOs to focus on innovation vs. technical debt.

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Nobl9 - website
The Cloudcast #502 - Reliability as a Service

Topic 1 - Brian, welcome to the show! We had Alex on the podcast last year and look forward to continuing the SLO conversation. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - If someone isn’t familiar with SLO’s (Service Level Objectives), how do you define them? Why do they matter? What problem do they solve? How are they different from SLA’s?

Topic 3 - Is this a transition from max reliability to instead look at errors as a “budget”? How can you manage a certain window of unreliability and keep customers happy?

Topic 4 - How do you create SLOs? Who creates them? Is this an SRE connecting up to existing systems or new tooling and plumbing? Does it fit into an existing GitOps workflow for instance - SLOs-as-Code? Is there automation triggers that happen when conditions are met?

Topic 5 - How does an SRE know which metrics matter? I would imagine not all downtime is equal? How does this correlate with business KPIs? Do you fine tune over time?

Topic 6 - The big question is always the focus on technical debt vs. innovation. Does this help and if so how?

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CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing

27 april 2022 | 36 min

Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, “shift left” for security and test coverage, and understanding test coverage patterns.

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Datadog acquires Undefined Labs (2020)
Borja on The Cloudcast (Eps.231) to discuss Tutum Cloud
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Master is the new Prod, Devs are the new Ops

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got quite an impressive track-record as an entrepreneur and founder. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re now focused on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - You wrote that “Master is the new Prod, and Devs are the new Ops”. Can you help us unpack the concepts that you were trying to convey?

Topic 3 -.How widespread is the understanding that it’s important to monitor CI/CD environments, vs. the more traditional focus of monitoring production environments?

Topic 4 - What are some of the areas where CI visibility or synthetic CI/CD testing helps improve application quality and overall availability in production?

Topic 5 - All of these efforts to test earlier, integrate earlier and have visibility earlier sound like the “shift left” movement. Are those things difficult to do, since many companies have siloed teams?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that your team has been able to take the technology from Undefined Labs and bring it into the broader scope of capabilities that are available through Datadog?

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Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old

24 april 2022 | 28 min

DataCenter-as-a-Service

20 april 2022 | 32 min

Ian McClarty (President @PhoenixNAP) talks about the evolution of the CoLocation and DataCenter-as-a-Service market, cloud repatriation, how software has changed the economics and working closely with hyperscalers.

SHOW: 610

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PhoenixNAP - Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Cloud and CoLocation Services

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve run PhoenixNAP for more than a decade. Give us some sense of the evolution of the CoLocation | Managed Services market over that time.

Topic 2 - Lots of people focus on the cloud hyperscalers, but there are a ton of business needs that they can’t satisfy - whether it’s location, or dedicated resources, or offloading skills, etc. What are the biggest challenges that your customers are facing these days?

Topic 3 - The breadth of capabilities that you offer has really evolved - from locations, to capabilities, to flexibility you can offer customers. How much has the industry shift to software-defined-services enabled that to accelerate?

Topic 4 - What is a typical relationship that your customers have between you and the hyperscalers? It seems like there are a lot of potential synergies that benefit everybody.

Topic 5 - What differentiates the CoLocation | Managed Cloud providers these days? And where do you see that evolving?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common ways that your customers take advantage of the value you provide them - whether it’s technology, or people skills, or capacity planning or locations?

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Transitioning from Engineering to Product

17 april 2022 | 31 min

Database Caching as a Service

13 april 2022 | 32 min

The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption

10 april 2022 | 25 min

Every week we talk about new technologies and new trends. But studies show us that new technology adoption tends to be very slow, especially at high levels. What’s behind the inability of new tech to displace legacy tech?

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Why Enterprise software moves so slow, despite tech innovations (Matt Asay, TechRepublic)

IF IT AIN’T BROKE, DON’T FIX IT

For existing companies, most of the budget (typically 70-80%) is spent maintaining existing systems. New technologies are rarely used to replace existing technologies, but are usually additive. New teams and new processes are created, and those teams are often expensive (rare skills).

OUTSIDE OF CLOUD, THE COSTS OF CHANGE ARE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE

The learning curve can be long, so companies often hire new talent.
For new technologies, talent is difficult to find, so often very expensive.
And new technology takes a while to mature, so the number of available use-cases is initially limited.
It’s not unusual for wide-spread adoption to take 3-5 years (if it succeeds).
Oftentimes, existing technologies will see a market disruption coming and add similar capabilities.
Many technology spaces have too many alternative options, so it can take a while before a “winner” emerges in the market.

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Multi-Cloud Networking

6 april 2022 | 39 min

How DevOps is like Microsoft Excel

3 april 2022 | 20 min

Automating Decisions, Processes and ML without Code

30 mars 2022 | 28 min

Loren Goodman (CTO @InRule) talks about the intersection of AI/ML, DevOps, and Low Code/NoCode and making complex decisions using automation.

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SHOW NOTES:

InRule Technology (homepage)

Topic 1 - Loren, welcome to the show. How about a brief introduction and background.

Topic 2 - Our audience shows an interest in AI/ML but at least as us as the hosts, we aren’t deep on the AI/ML side. So, let’s start at the start, what is a decision platform? How is AI/ML involved? And most importantly, why do companies need one?

Topic 3 - As I understand this, this is about an intersection of AI/ML with DevOps and then providing access to non-technical SME’s as well? Is this the correct way to think about this? How does this relate to automating complex decisions and how does this help the business? Does this stray into the topic of LowCode/NoCode?

Topic 4 - Anytime I think about automation, especially highly automated CI/CD pipelines, I worry about a ripple effect. Is it true to say the more complex the decisions, the higher the risk that something will not go as planned? Any recommendations or best practices/lessons learned you would like to share?

Topic 5 - This has me thinking about another trend, we keep hearing anything with Ops tacked on the back. Of course DevOps, then DevSecOps, AIOps, etc. Is this DecisionOps? What industries are typically drawn to these types of platforms? I can see this benefiting highly regulated industries.

Topic 6 - As this may be a new topic for some, if folks want to learn more, how would you suggest they get started in this space?

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Did DevOps Ruin Everything?

27 mars 2022 | 26 min

Developing Multi-Cloud Skills

23 mars 2022 | 37 min

Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal, Head of Content @GoogleCloud) talks about the realities of multi-cloud (intended and accidental), how to adapt skills to new cloud environments, and best vs. worst practices.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We first learned about your skills at A Cloud Guru, but you work on a bunch of really interesting projects. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what you now focus on at Google Cloud.

Topic 2 - For a while you were very AWS-centric in your focus. What were your thoughts on multi-cloud a few years ago, and how has that evolved over the last few years?

Topic 3 - Hashicorp’s recent State of Cloud Strategy Survey found 76% of employers are already using multiple clouds in some fashion, with more than 50% flagging lack of skills among their employees as a top challenge to survival in the cloud. What do these survey results tell you about actual company usage of clouds?

Topic 4 - You spend a lot of time talking to people about cloud jobs and transitioning to cloud skills. In the context of multi-cloud, who do you find should be focusing on multi-cloud? Is it more infrastructure-centric or application-centric or something else?

Topic 5 - Technical people obviously can’t be experts in everything (all clouds). Do you have any suggestions for companies that have to manage applications across multiple clouds? Best practices, worst practices, etc.

Topic 6 - We have to ask about the songs. How did it begin, what’s the process, and do your co-workers respond to them?

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Doing What Didn't Seem Possible

20 mars 2022 | 22 min

Automating Crypto for Everyone

16 mars 2022 | 39 min

Jesse Proudman (Makara, Co-Founder & CEO) talks about how he moved from infrastructure into the world of crypto. He gives advice on learning and his plans to make investing in this space more approachable for everyone.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back Jesse! We’ve chatted multiple times over the years but most recently back in 2018 with your first crypto startup, Strix Leviathan. For those who haven’t heard from you before, how about a quick introduction and background.

Topic 2 - By now, everyone has heard of crypto and it seems these days, everyone has an opinion on crypto. What got you started in the space and what prompted you to spin off a second company from Strix Leviathan, the new company is Makara.

Topic 3 - What are the most common misconceptions and objections you run across these days in the crypto space?

Topic 4 - Before we dig into Makara and what is different there. What are your thoughts on differences between tokens? There are many different spaces and types. Layer 0, Layer 1, Layer 2… Does this matter to the average person or is Bitcoin the same as Ethereum?

Topic 5 - Tell everyone a little bit about Makara and why it is different?

Topic 6 - To bring this back around to the previous question on types of crypto and categories. Tell everyone about Makara’s concept of baskets for categories and how do you decide on groupings and when do you introduce new baskets?

Topic 7 - Because of the interest in this space, there are lots of people out there giving bad advice and trying to make a quick buck. Most of the dedicated podcasts covering this space are horrible I’ve found. If someone was new and wanted to get started, where would you go?

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Technology and Teams Going in Different Directions

13 mars 2022 | 21 min

Managing the Business Impact of Data Quality

9 mars 2022 | 34 min

Elliot Shmukler (@eshmu, Co-Founder/CEO @anomalo_hq) and Jeremy Stanley (@jeremystan, Co-Founder/CTO) talk about how data integrity and changes can impact both technology and business decisions.

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Anomalo (homepage)
Anomalo raises 33M Series A (TechCrunch)
Anomalo watches your data for weirdness (Forbes)
Anomalo brings data quality platform to Snowflake (TechTarget)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start with brief introductions and backgrounds. Elliot & Jeremy please introduce yourselves.

Topic 2 - As mentioned you both met and worked together at Instacart. Let’s introduce the concept of data quality and integrity to those who may not be familiar. What patterns and problems did you see. Any possible horror stories you can share?

Topic 3 - Up until now, I’ve seen big data often more about finding the needle in the haystack. It’s in there somewhere, you just have to find it. But, what if it is the wrong needle?

Topic 4 - Are we also talking about data drift over time as the amount of data grows? As data is added to the pool, we may come to different conclusions. How do we know if the new conclusions are based on good data or bad data?

Topic 5 - You recently announced a partnership with Snowflake. This makes sense, why build another data lake and that of course may be a barrier of entry to some, correct? Are we reaching a point with big data and data lakes that we can have one single source of truth? I know we are in early days but how do most customers approach big data today and how do they keep the data sets up to date.

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A Perspective on Fast Change and Slow Change

6 mars 2022 | 17 min

Security Access as Code

2 mars 2022 | 30 min

Tim Prendergast (@auxome, CEO strongDM) talks about security access as code, the latest security trends including Zero Trust and taking a modern approach to security.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show! For those that don’t know, you were on the Cloudcast show #151 way back in the day and one of our first security guests. Hard to believe it has been almost 8 years since we’ve had you on the show. For those that don’t know, give everyone a brief introduction and what you’ve been up to since your evident.io days.

Topic 2 - You introduced our listeners to the concepts of Continuous Security Monitoring and Shared Responsibility in the public cloud. Bring folks up to date, how have security models and concepts evolved?

Topic 3 - Leading question for you Tim… as we know strongDM recently published some great reports on this, go check out the Infographic and Year of Access Reports linked in the show notes. Where do developers and more specifically where does DevOps or even DevSecOps fit into all of this? How do we “air gap” developers in public cloud while maintaining access to the tools and workflows they need. (i.e. ssh keys, AWS IAM keys, RDP logins, and database credentials)

Topic 4 - Security to me has always been a tradeoff of convenience. But, we also have the rise of automation, which I would expect to be a big convenience vs. risk trade off, especially at scale. Is this still true? Where does Zero Trust fit in?

Topic 5 - Lets talk about strongDM specifically quickly. I’ve heard the term “access as code” thrown around. Is this a proxy, a VPN, tell us a bit about the tech and the implementation and use case and what changes.

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The Kubernetes Developer Experience?

27 februari 2022 | 27 min

Kubernetes won the container wars and continues to grow in use across many industries. But how did something that was about Cloud-native Applications gain traction without a developer experience?

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HOW DID KUBERNETES WIN WHEN IT STARTED FROM BEHIND?

Listening to this week's SDT show, and remembering listening to SDT years ago, @cote comments about why Kubernetes "won" were always interesting. In essence it was late to market, was lacking in features vs. competitors (Mesos, Swarm, CF), and had a terrible user-experience...so how did it "win"? It all seems ass-backwards.

HOW HAS KUBERNETES CONTINUED TO WIN, WITHOUT A DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE?

Mesos, CF and Swarm were all single-vendor dominated projects, and many companies had concerns about another generation of vendor lock-in. This point is reasonably valid, but the companies that were using Mesos, CF and Swarm did all seem to love that technology.
Mesos was primarily focused on big data workloads. For each new application-type, you needed to write (or use) another application-specific framework. So it was good at its niche, but couldn't easily be used for other types of apps. [Kubernetes eventually copied this model with CRDs].
Swarm was the easiest to use, but it wasn't very good technology and didn't scale. So it got pigeon-holed for smaller projects.
CF focused on Java/SpringBoot, which is a big Enterprise opportunity. but CF was super complicated to set up. And CF never really embraced containers, so companies were weary of if they were missing this big trend (Docker).
Kubernetes comes along and becomes the good-enough platform. It's not dominated by a single vendor. It natively supports Docker, it has some built-in usage patterns so it's easier than Mesos to add apps, it scales better than Swarm, and it can support Java/Spring or even legacy Java (lift-and-shift). And as Joe Beda says, you could use it natively or you could build some PaaS-y like features on top of it.

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Data Observability

23 februari 2022 | 38 min

DevOps, what's in a name?

20 februari 2022 | 28 min

DevOps is defined as, “Everything you do to overcome the friction created by silos … All the rest is plain engineering” Why is it so difficult to implement, but so easy to make up so many job titles surrounding it?

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Shades of DevOps Roles (Patrick Dubois)

IF EVERYTHING IS DEVOPS, THEN WHAT IS DEVOPS?

Patrick Dubois, one of the original creators of the DevOps concept, recently published a framework to think about all the job titles that have emerged out of the original DevOps concept. Is this a good progression, or is it just hiding the cultural and organizational complexities that DevOps is trying to address?

THE CHALLENGES OF TRYING TO ELIMINATE SILOED TECHNOLOGY FUNCTIONS

It seems like it all began when AWS’ CTO Werner Vogels said, “You build it, you run it.” That was such a foreign concept in the IT world, and ever since, we’ve been trying to invent ways to apply existing organization paradigms to the byproduct of that concept.
Previous applications were rarely changed. Now applications (microservices, etc.) are designed from Day 1 to frequently change. Once again, the existing organization paradigms have to change.
And the public cloud introduces a level of financial transparency and complexity (e.g. here’s a bill every month) that is creating new roles (or newer concepts) that are trying to optimize that information.
Lots of companies say that they can’t support multiple operational models (hence why they try to retrofit old models into new names), but the reality is that they are always supporting multiple process or platform models.
Resume-driven-development has become a real thing, so it’s not unusual to see title-washing happen at various companies. It can also be valuable for recruiting as well, at least in the short-term.
I wish there was some better measurement model for progress along these DevOps paths, instead of just the tiering of the State of DevOps report. It’s too easy to get frustrated, when many companies are just striving to get to a mid-level of DevOps efficiency.

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Cloud Cost Intelligence

16 februari 2022 | 36 min

Erik Peterson (@silvexis, Founder/CTO/CISO @CloudZeroInc) talks about how Cloud Cost Mgmt has matured, the importance of business context for cloud costs, and best practices for managing SaaS costs.

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CloudZero (homepage) - Cloud Cost Intelligence

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a very interesting background. Tell us a little bit how you’ve gone from Nuclear watchdog to Banking to Product guy to Security guy and now focus on Cloud costs.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about maturity levels of companies using the cloud. Engineering teams are fairly mature, but how mature are product teams, finance teams, marketing teams, etc, especially when it comes to understanding cloud costs in their world?

Topic 3 - Cloud Cost Mgmt used to be all about when to use on-demand vs. Reserved Instances. Have the systems evolved to be more contextual - (example) so marketing teams can run experiments and product teams can make smarter feature priority decisions?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing a lot of companies moving from selling software to delivering their capabilities as a SaaS offering. This is a big change in the economics of that business. How can those types of teams think about cloud costs?

Topic 5 - How much of Cost Mgmt is systems vs. people that understand the contexts of costs? What is your perspective on how much should be automated systems vs. human expertise to augment automated systems?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common mistakes you see companies make around Cost Mgmt, or some tips you give to immediately help companies better spend on Cloud

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Lessons Learned from Shadow IT

13 februari 2022 | 31 min

Shadow IT and start-ups were the original users of public cloud, over a decade ago. But as public cloud has become a multi-billion dollar business, let’s explore how the role of Shadow IT has evolved.

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Shadow IT
Why Software is Eating the World (WSJ, 2011)
“Does IT Matter” (Nicholas Carr, 2014)
Bi-Modal IT (Gartner, 2015)

DOES SHADOW IT STILL EXIST IF PUBLIC CLOUD IS MAINSTREAM?

Shadow IT began as a way to be more productive in the office (server under the desk, WiFi in a conference room, etc.) and then it went to the cloud (SaaS, the IaaS/PaaS). But how did it evolve and what situations has it created now?

WHAT DOES THE NEW DISTRIBUTED IT LOOK LIKE NOW?

Everybody has the ability to get access to (almost) any technology, via open-source or public cloud, or freemium services.
Everybody has the ability to learn something new (YouTube, ACloudGuru, Developer Evangelists, etc.
IT organizations have less influence over company-wide architectures and strategies.
IT still is often tasked with maintaining applications/security/compliance, even after another group deployed it.
IT leaders are asked to lead digital transformation projects, and typically aren’t staying in the same place for more than 2-3 years. How much of that time is spent coordinating, communicating, re-organizing around DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, AIOps, etc..
There are hybrid applications, but they aren’t hybrid in the sense of consistently being deployed everywhere to manage vendor lock-in.
There are many multi-cloud companies because IT no longer has a boundary. And the economics of cloud means that most applications won’t move once deployed (easier to turn off than to move).
There are many, many pains-of-glass.

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Understanding & Managing Committed Cloud Spend

9 februari 2022 | 35 min

Tim Banks (@elchefe, Principal Cloud Economist @duckbillgroup) talks about how public cloud providers are offering committed spend programs, and ways to best use their programs to manage cloud spending.

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Duckbill Group (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got a very interesting background of hands-on technical and being on the business side of things. Tell us a little bit about your background and what you focus on at Duckbill Group.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about this trend of long-term cloud contracts. Why are we seeing more and more announced, and who does it seem to benefit more (cloud provider or customer)?

Topic 2a - How do companies typically size these deals? Is it some percentage of current spend forecasted forward, or some aspirational goal, or something else?

Topic 3 - When a company signs up for one of these long-term committed spend contracts, what are the mechanics of the contract? Is it just “all-you-can-eat” technology, or do they tend to include additional capabilities/services, etc?

Topic 4 - What have you found to be the behavior of companies that sign these contracts? Does it lead to more projects getting created, or more experimentation, or any other unintended consequences?

Topic 5 - At what point do companies start re-evaluating the contracts? What happens if they find themselves way below expected spending expectations?

Topic 6 - Have you seen any new behaviors from the cloud providers once they sign a contract, whereas one group (or service) is pushing hard to capture a bigger portion of the contract?

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The Parallel Lives of Kubernetes and Serverless

6 februari 2022 | 24 min

Building Cloud Services from Software

2 februari 2022 | 34 min

After the Great Resignation

30 januari 2022 | 23 min

As the “Great Resignation” rolls along, many people are facing the prospect of a new role or a new company. What are some tips to be successful in the near-term in this new role?

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20-25% OF PEOPLE IN TECHNOLOGY HAVE CHANGED JOBS IN THE LAST 18 MONTHS

Lots of people are taking new jobs, and right now the industry is paying a premium for talent. So how can you stand out in your new role or company? How can you make an immediate difference?

HOW CAN YOU STAND OUT IN YOUR NEW ROLE OR NEW COMPANY

Keep in mind that most managers don’t expect you to make big contributions for 3-6 months (sometimes longer) as they realize there is always a learning curve.
But everyone is watching what you do to make a judgment of “are they a good fit?”.
Find out what’s important to your boss. Understand the things that they are measured on.
Identify an area that is either broken or needs improvement. And try to fix it.
Read as much as you can (read the docs!), and try to be valuable in your group and somewhere else in the company.

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2022 Look Ahead to SuperClouds

26 januari 2022 | 42 min

Dave Vellante (@dvellante, Cofounder & Co-CEO SiliconANGLE Media, co-host of @theCUBE) talks about the emerging trends of powerful application services built for multiple public clouds.

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The Rise of the Supercloud (SiliconAngle)
theCUBE (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while, but tell folks about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this term that you’ve been using at SiliconAngle, “SuperCloud”. You introduced it at AWS re:Invent 2021. Give us some context about what you think is new and what has changed?

Topic 3 - The three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) now have 100s of services, but we’re seeing success from these companies built on top of them. Do you think the cloud providers have misjudged the importance of innovation vs. integration?

Topic 4 - We now have a decade of knowledge in how to build technology on top of the public cloud (architectures, economics, partnership models, etc.). Do you think we’ll see an acceleration of these Supercloud services, and maybe even some unique new capabilities?

Topic 5 - You highlighted that this isn’t just IT-centric services, but also industry-vertical services. We’ve seen SaaS services try and disrupt some vertical industries (FinSvcs, Health, Streaming Media, etc.). How do you see the industry-verticals accelerating with supercloud architectures?

Topic 6 - Do you think that supercloud becomes the new normal for cloud providers, or do you think they double-down on trying to build their application portfolios?

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Cloudcast Demos

23 januari 2022 | 18 min

2022 Look Ahead to web3

19 januari 2022 | 47 min

Chris Castiglione (@castig, Co-Founder One Month, Adjunct Professor @Columbia_Biz) talks about the fundamental concepts behind web3 (crypto, blockchain, decentralized applications and identity of resources), as well as smart contracts and how to get started with web3 apps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re a man of many skills. Tell us a little bit about your background, as an entrepreneur, an educator and as a developer.

Topic 2 - Web3 is potentially a big concept. As someone who both builds web3, but also explains web3, how do you begin explaining the main concepts to newbies?

Topic 3 - Many of the web3 discussions center around “distributed systems”. Can you help us understand what is distributed vs. these more centralized on-ramps like Coinbase or Openseas or a virtual world?

Topic 4 - Is everything associated with web3 tied to cryptocurrencies? Is that the starting point for everything web3?

Topic 5 - What are some ways to understand not only the broad set of crypto coins/tokens, but also the differences between currencies and smart contracts?

Topic 6 - Is there a way to build a Hello World app for web3? Or how would you structure a One Month (to Code) for web3?

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If Remote Becomes the New Normal

16 januari 2022 | 27 min

Ever since the pandemic started, remote work is trending up. Whether or not this becomes the new normal or just a more common option, let’s look at some ways to succeed in distributed environments.

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The Great Switch: distributed work first (Redmonk article)
The Great Switch: distributed work first (Twitter thread)
Software Defined Talk - Slack Channel (come discuss The Cloudcast)

COVID HAS REDEFINED WHERE AND HOW PEOPLE WORK

James Governor at Redmonk makes a great case for how remote work reshaped Silicon Valley and many companies around the world. His article has spurred much debate about whether or not the trend will last.

WHAT LESSONS CAN BE LEARNED TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE AS A REMOTE WORKER

Spend timing understanding how time zones AND cultural norms will affect your communications.
Expect that different people will work different hours (length of day).
Establish some team norms (standards) about how you will communicate, track goals, share information, and notifications.
Figure out ways to have complex or difficult conversations. Just using Green / Yellow / Red status updates often lead to problems down the road.
Managers will need to spend time doing “quality control” between groups in different locations. It’s very easy to let the separation create gaps.
Create mentorship or big-brother / big-sister programs, where people are paired together to help each other.
Just like we design cloud failure domains, it might be useful to organize around failure domains that incorporate locations.
Budget for f2f get togethers (quarterly, every 6 months)

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2022 Look Ahead, Developer Careers

12 januari 2022 | 50 min

Shawn Wang (@swyx, Head of Developer Experience @Temporalio) talks about the breadth of developer skills needed, how developers learn new technologies, and insights into important future trends for a broad set of developers.

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Shawn’s homepage
Temporal.io (homepage) - open source microservice orchestration
Learning in Public - The Coding Career Handbook
The Coding Career (community)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You seem to be at the center of (or around) so many developer-centric conversations. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you’ve been focused on.

Topic 2 - You’re well known for The Coding Career Handbook. With so many options out there for developers, how do you frame conversations about where people should focus?

Topic 3 - At some point, developers (like many engineers) get bored of working on the same things. Right now it seems like we’re in the middle of big changes. What should they think about the transition process?

Cloud distros https://www.swyx.io/cloud-distros/
Self provisioning runtimes https://www.swyx.io/self-provisioning-runtime/
Video in DevRel https://sacra.com/research/lenny-bogdanoff-milk-video-infrastructure/?highlight=ecommerce

Topic 4 - As a developer, what are some of the best ways to get visibility of your projects? How do you find the right balance of public projects, side projects, and whatever you’re currently getting paid for (main company job)?

Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’ve learned to accelerate your learning process?

Topic 6 - How is WFH changing the developer work-life-balance?

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The People Episode

9 januari 2022 | 22 min

2022 Look Ahead, VC Funding

5 januari 2022 | 39 min

Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Venture Partner @crane_vc) talks about the modern state of Tech VC investing, the changing pace of investment horizons, portfolio thesis, and helping founders.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve changed roles. Tell us about what you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - You’ve worked at startups, been an advisor to startups, and an angel investor in the past. In 2022, what does a Venture Capitalist do? How has that evolved over the last 5 years?

Topic 3 - It not only seems like there is a lot more money flowing into startups, but a lot more early. Is there sort of a “homerun” mentality happening across the VC world, or is that just one of the headlines?

Topic 4 - How do you go about creating your investment thesis? Do you have a future horizon that you’re thinking about, or is it more about technology sectors, or founder personalities, etc.?

Topic 5 - How do you balance between investing in something completely new, and seeing something that is just a much better version of a current mousetrap?

Topic 6 - How involved do you get with the companies? How involved do you want to be? How much do the founders guide you vs. you guiding them?

Topic 7 - At the macro-level, what areas are you most interested in (investing) vs. just areas where you’re doing a lot of research (personal interests)?

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2021 Year-End Reading Lists

26 december 2021 | 18 min

2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions

22 december 2021 | 60 min

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.

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PODCAST BUSINESS:

Crossed out 11yr anniversary
We crossed 500 shows (March ’21)
Most listens in history, up about 20% from last year
We launched Cloudcast Basics (4 seasons)
We launched the Sunday Perspectives shows
We got named #1 Cloud podcast
We got named top 20 security podcasts
Listeners in 130 countries | 4200 Cities
IPOs from our guests - $2.678B
VC Funding for our guest - $2.516B

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2021:

COVID pandemic continued, although some parts of many businesses opened up as vaccines became available.
Working from Home seems to be a very real, long-term possibility for many in Tech. 25% of workers changed jobs (via LinkedIn)
AWS - $60B, Azure - $68B, GCP - $15B
AWS has new leadership. re:Invent felt very different.
ARM is making a big push in the cloud (and Mac M1)
This idea of “supercloud” or “overlay cloud services” is gaining traction - companies like Red Hat, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, CockroachDB, etc. are growing quickly as SaaS services, even when the cloud has a native service.
Cloudflare is making a move to chip away at AWS’ profits (egress networking)
Digital Ocean is making a bigger push around SMB cloud and developers
VMware become independent again (from Dell)
Cloud providers still haven’t acquired legacy software companies to get into the on-premises data centers. They keep adjusting their offerings (Outposts, Arc, Anthos)
Kubernetes keeps growing, but the hype has slowed down and moved to other areas adjacent to Kubernetes (Service Mesh, eBPF, etc.)
Software-Supply-Chains and DevSecOps “shift left security” are now heavily funded industry segments.
The metaverse, Web3, Crypto, NFTs are all starting to get a lots of hype (and confusion)

2022 PREDICTIONS:

AARON’s PREDICTIONS

Zero Trust Models (again…) - Also security has been/will be the hardest part of cloud and hot job market will continue
Microsoft will become top public cloud worldwide, AWS will fall to #2
Google will settle into 3rd, 4th, even 5th spot…

BRIAN’s PREDICTIONS

Alphabet/Google decides if they still believe they can get to #2 by 2023
We’ll start seeing the first generation of ex-AWS people starting new companies

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Dealing with Technology Failure

19 december 2021 | 15 min

Computers break. Software has bugs. Cloud services fail. And yet we don’t deal with failures very well. Why don’t we have better Plan B’s, for both personal and business uses of cloud?

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WHY DO WE EXPECT SO MUCH FROM COMPUTERS?

While we have automated testing, test coverage, SLAs, redundancy best practices, etc - We still really don’t know when computers and software will break. So why do we get so frustrated when it happens, instead of having backup plans?

SHOULD WE LOOK AT TECHNOLOGY FAILURES AS THE WORLD TRYING TO TELLING US SOMETHING?

Cloud service failures happen, and tend to last less than a full work day. Most are only a couple hours.
We tend to believe that we’re very dependent on technology and cloud services, until they go away. And then we figure out that we can all adapt.
We could all use some time reading a book, getting outside to do some exercise (go for a walk), or spending some time away from computers or being online.
We could all use a break in our extended hours work days.

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Tools for the Business Engineer

15 december 2021 | 36 min

Thoughts on Cloud Outages

12 december 2021 | 22 min

AWS had an outage in a region and many people responded. What did we learn about outages, responses, and dealing with cloud services going forward?

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CLOUD OUTAGES ARE A PART OF USING A SHARED SERVICE

This week another major cloud service had an outage. They happen frequently enough, for some period of time (usually measured in hours), that we really notice them and then move on. Their impact is felt across many sites and dependent services,

SOME THOUGHTS ON RESPONSES TO CLOUD OUTAGES

5 levels of grief - denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
The cloud providers (typically) don’t snipe at either other - they’ve all been there.
The post-mortems are becoming more consistent - any highly anticipated
We continue to learn about differences in cloud architectures, and where failures points (and failure actions) occur.
We still don’t understand the internal cloud architectural dependencies of each cloud.
How many companies actually follow multi-region best practices? How much does multi-region cost?
Multi-cloud is often a knee-jerk reaction, but it’s never that simple - cost, complexity, skills

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Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2021

8 december 2021 | 35 min

Lessons learned from Dell-VMware

5 december 2021 | 22 min

See How Your Code Works

1 december 2021 | 37 min

Old Man Yells at the Metaverse

28 november 2021 | 37 min

You’ve been hearing about Web3 and metaverse and crypto, and everything is changing. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Let’s yell at the metaverse and see what echoes back.

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WHY IS EVERYONE TRYING TO CHANGE THE EXISTING INTERNET?

The metaverse is part of a bigger evolution called “Web3”, which is looking at new interaction models, new payment models, and new ways to represent life in a fully digital world. How did we get here? What lessons from the past can we learn?

HOW MIGHT THE METAVERSE CHANGE THE INTERNET, FOR GOOD OR BAD?

Like Web 1.0 and 2.0, Web3 is initially being positioned as “for the youth”, but there’s already a subculture of people trying to make it “for the Enterprise, as well”.
Metaverse and Web3 have all-digital versions of things (identity, goods, payments, etc.) that seem complicated and confusing to anyone that doesn’t start there.
There will (likely) be many metaverses, and this will be OK, and people will ask for standards and things to interoperate.
There will be consumer metaverses and Enterprise (“work”) metaverses. People will wish the work one was more like the consumer one - but not always.
Metaverse assumes that we want to blur the lines between what had been a distraction (e.g. gaming) and what we want in the rest of our lives.
A lot has changed since we first tried this 15 years ago (e.g. Second Life).
There is a lot more psychology involved in these virtual worlds than you initially think, especially outside of the “native” community.
Be cautious around the people that talk very fast when you ask questions, and always tell you that you don’t understand it and need to be authentic.
Experiment. Ask questions. To research with problems in mind.

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The Evolution of Serverless Databases

24 november 2021 | 33 min

Being a Technical Product Marketer

21 november 2021 | 28 min

Reviewing Microsoft Insight & GitHub Universe

17 november 2021 | 28 min

Lessons from Hashicorp S1

14 november 2021 | 28 min

Hashicorp has been on The Cloudcast more than any other company. As they prepare for their upcoming IPO, we look back at what makes them successful vs. other OSS-centric companies.

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WHAT MADE HASHICORP UNIQUE IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE SPACE?

Hashicorp was not alone in the Infra-as-Code space, or the Security space, but they have been successful in building a commercial business based on OSS projects. Let’s look at what made them unique and successful.

HOW DID HASHICORP GET HERE?

Hashicorp Revenue - $295M | Gross Margin 82% | Revenue Growth (LTM) 55%

Funding - $350M | NRR 124% | Operating Margin 22%

Funding - $350M

GitLab - $179M | Gross Margin 88% | Revenue Growth (LTM) 72% |

Funding $414M | NRR 152% | Operating Margin 50%

Pivotal - $509M | Gross Margin 55% | Revenue Growth (LTM) 22% | $1.7B

Pivotal (Subscription/ARR) $300M

Always a pragmatic approach, from the perspective of users
Abandoned an early approach to building a “stack” (Hashicorp Atlas)
Aligned to the public cloud
Didn’t try to change the world
Didn’t actively fight with their community; weren’t unpleasant
Had a single revenue producing product (Vault), and maybe Terraform
Good timing (hot market)

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SD-WAN, SASE and the new Virtual Edge

10 november 2021 | 39 min

How to Become a Product Manager

7 november 2021 | 30 min

Networking the Hybrid Cloud

3 november 2021 | 40 min

Developer Platforms aren't Repeatable

31 oktober 2021 | 18 min

Real-life Digital Transformation in Banking

27 oktober 2021 | 40 min

Embrace Your Inner Maker

24 oktober 2021 | 20 min

Many tech workers are struggling with the repetitive effects of the COVID pandemic (work from home, constant video calls, longer hours, etc.). But there’s never been a better time to explore new ways to be a “maker”.

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CREATIVITY GETS THE BRAIN ENGAGED

We (The Cloudcast) frequently discuss the need to have a “learning mindset” in the IT industry, since the only constant is changing technologies. But learning requires a specific time commitment and a specific type of mind engagement. It’s important, but at times can feel very mentally draining. Finding a way to be creative, to be a “maker”, can be a good balance to learning.

MAKERS FIND, ENGAGE and EXPAND via COMMUNITIES

One of the reasons we keep doing The Cloudcast is that it gives us a creative outlet to directly make something. Making something gives you a chance to get feedback. It gives you a chance to succeed or fail.
Makers tend to seek out other makes, to share experiences, to bond, to create new ideas. These communities tend to be more positive than online forums (e.g. Reddit, HN, etc.) which tend to trend towards negativity and complaints.
The tools to be a digital creator are more available and more powerful than ever. Our friend Rodrigo Flores had a good Twitter thread this week about the new Apple Mac M1 Pro and how it’s tailored for the (digital) creator economy.
I’ve been reading a book, The Making of Bandon Dunes, about the history behind the creation of that resort in Oregon. Part of that reading is history, part of it is learning, and part of it is seeing how other creators think about their dreams, their opportunities and their ambitions. And how they overcame challenges.

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WebAssembly and wasmCloud

20 oktober 2021 | 32 min

Technical Debt isn't Free

17 oktober 2021 | 18 min

A New Distributed Cloud Architecture

13 oktober 2021 | 33 min

Innovator's Dilemma Part 2

10 oktober 2021 | 34 min

Evolutions in Security Monitoring

6 oktober 2021 | 36 min

Innovator's Dilemma Part 1

3 oktober 2021 | 23 min

Part 1 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.

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The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)
AWS’s Egregious Egress (Cloudflare)
Announcing Cloudflare R2 Object Storage (without Egress fees)
Cloudflare’s Disruption (Stratechery)
Bandwidth Alliance
Cloudflare is eating the Cloud from outside in (swyx @ dev.to)
Overview of AWS Infinidash (Did The Cloudcast predict R2?)
Understanding Data Transfer in AWS (Last Week in AWS)

ONE COMPANY’S PROFIT IS ANOTHER COMPANY’S OPPORTUNITY

As AWS transitions from long-time leaders to a new leadership team, many industry upstarts are looking for ways to pick away at their most profitable (and customer-problematic) services, with new capabilities that may unlock completely new business models for companies.

CHEAPER NETWORKING, AGILE COMPUTING, and NEW COMPANY MODELS

Disruption rarely happens because of better technology, but more often because of changing economics. (Gracely’s Theorem)
AWS has long had very expensive networking costs, but it’s an area that really hasn’t faced competition.
AWS offered enough services that their customers made the choice to deal with the network costs vs. having to build things themselves.
Being the “everything” thing in computing always has its pros and cons. Computing has historically (last 40yrs) been moving to more distributed, modular architectures.
We’ve seen a number of companies begin to offer edge or serverless types of offerings (GitHub, Netlify, Google Run, various CDN offerings,
New ideas always emerge from difficult times (e.g. COVID pandemic) that we didn’t expect.
Will this create a new round of acquisitions? Will it trigger price wars?

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The State of Cloud Security

29 september 2021 | 42 min

Developing New Habits in COVID

26 september 2021 | 22 min

Managing Tech Burnout

22 september 2021 | 37 min

The Evolution of MongoDB

19 september 2021 | 27 min

Remotely Managing All The Things

15 september 2021 | 39 min

Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit

12 september 2021 | 25 min

Backing Up into the Cloud

8 september 2021 | 38 min

Clouds, Chaos and Change

5 september 2021 | 28 min

We’ve All Become The Cloudcast

1 september 2021 | 38 min

What does Security even mean anymore

29 augusti 2021 | 18 min

Hiring a VP of Engineering

25 augusti 2021 | 46 min

The End of the Cloud Honeymoon

22 augusti 2021 | 35 min

Cloud Computing has been around for more than a decade. It has generated tremendous growth and reshaped the tech industry. But is the “Cloud Honeymoon“ about to be over?

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The honeymoon is over for Cloud Computing (Business Insider, August 2021)
Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management (Cloudcast, Eps. 520)
Is the public cloud growing fast enough? (Cloudcast, Eps.511)

WHAT HAPPENS IF THE HONEYMOON IS ACTUALLY OVER?

A recent article claimed that (public) Cloud Computing is moving into the next phase of maturity, and it will cause challenges for “the big three” cloud computing companies (AWS, Azure, GCP).

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, AS CLOUD COMPUTING MOVES INTO THE NEXT PHASE?

The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox (a16z)
Morgan Stanley CIO survey - Will keep more data in data centers (after pandemic)
Gartner report - company are moving away from “cloud first”

MARKET DYNAMICS

The market is much more competitive than 10years ago, but they don’t have to convince customers that public cloud is viable anymore.
Legacy Applications move to SaaS; Cloud-native Apps move to Public Cloud
Migrations? Lift & Shift? Something simpler?
Competitive consolidation has already happened (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Cloud vendors have eaten parts of their ecosystem (see: Open Source)
Price wars haven’t really happened yet.
Cloud providers are trying to train the next generation of customers.
We haven’t seen the cloud businesses leverage the other parts of the business (much) yet.
Hybrid Cloud | Multi-Cloud 2.0 is coming, on purpose or accidentally

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Making Front-End Development Simpler

18 augusti 2021 | 36 min

Looking for a new Cloud job

15 augusti 2021 | 22 min

This time of year, many people in the tech industry look to change jobs. What are some tips and tricks if you’re looking for roles in Cloud Computing?

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LEARNING CLOUD COMPUTING:

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SHOW NOTES:

WHY DO PEOPLE CHANGE JOBS THIS TIME OF YEAR?

Many companies are in Q3/Q4. Oftentimes they are re-adjusting for the year, or planning for the next year. The fall trade shows (VMworld, re:Invent, etc.) are happening.

TECHNICAL SKILLS, PEOPLE SKILLS, and PICKING PRIORITIES

People are staying in their jobs shorter
More companies are being flexible about where you work - but stay tuned!
Certifications are always valuable, and easier to get than ever
Explore different roles, based on the skills you have and the skills you’d like to evolve
Understand the tradeoffs between Salary, Location, Travel, Hours, Flexibility, etc.
It’s useful to have a broad set of skills, but eventually it’s useful to narrow the list of expertises.
Evaluate the individual team as much as the company.

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The Opportunity for Data at the Edge

11 augusti 2021 | 30 min

The Cost of App Modernization

8 augusti 2021 | 21 min

There’s lots of talk about application migration and modernization, often in the context of digital transformation. But what all is involved in an application transformation, and how do you measure success?

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WHY DO COMPANIES MODERNIZE OR MIGRATE APPLICATIONS

When we look at Application Modernization or Migrations, it’s too easy to look at the technologies involved. But what is the business motivation for the change?

HARD COSTS AND SOFT COST CONSIDERATIONS OF MODERNIZATION

Why make the change? Technology EoL. Industry standards are changing. Systems not able to keep up (performance). Unable to maintain the current system (people/skills). Crippling technical debt (economic).
Own the change or outsource the change?
Own the change - Have the code? Have the free resources? Have the ability to run parallel systems?
Outsource the change - More expensive. Must be well scoped and managed. Must have the right financial incentives.
Own the future or outsource the future?
Own the future - staffed for DevOps, DevSecOps, embracing new technologies, etc.
Outsource the future - SaaS options. Sell off the application to a 3rd-party and buy it back. On-going outsourcing contracts.

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Application Modernization and Migration

4 augusti 2021 | 32 min

The Surge in Tech VC Funding

1 augusti 2021 | 20 min

Digging into GitOps

28 juli 2021 | 35 min

The Boss Says We're an Innovation Company Now

25 juli 2021 | 26 min

Identity Management for Developers

21 juli 2021 | 29 min

Comparing Public and Private Cloud Costs

18 juli 2021 | 27 min

State of Containers in the Public Cloud

14 juli 2021 | 33 min

The Transformation of Microsoft

11 juli 2021 | 23 min

Teach the Geeks to Speak

7 juli 2021 | 35 min

GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness

4 juli 2021 | 24 min

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Let’s explore if our audience can tell the difference.

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SOMETIMES SOMETHING COMPLETELY NEW COMES ALONG...

It might be 5yrs, 10yrs or 100yrs, but eventually (sometimes) things change and they might be awesome!

CAN WE EVER FIGURE OUT IF THE NEW STUFF IS REALLY NEW AND AWESOME?

GitHub CoPilot suggests lines of code or entire functions, within the context of your GitHub Codespace. It’s built on OpenAI Codex.

Real issues: Does it align licenses? Are the code suggestions secure? Do the suggestions write tests or docs?
Maybe issues: Do we need good coders anymore?
Maybe opportunities: Can you bootstrap an entire company on top of this? Enabling more people to code more easily is a good thing, right?

AWS Infinidash is designed to address the one major issue that AWS hasn’t addressed yet - using their network is really expensive and it never gets cheaper. [NOTE: Pure Speculation, might not be 100% (or 1%) correct]

Hybrid Cloud is a real thing, and IT networking is free, because you never see a bill for it.
AWS now loves Hybrid Cloud, and they also love the environment (it’s in the new Amazon Leadership Principles), so AWS Snowmobile isn’t a realistic options because it’s not 100% electric and self-driving, and because Amazon can now package your USB drives in the same packages they use with Amazon Prime, so they’ll be back daily to pick up data - Infinidash Prime.
Within AWS, all networking across AZs and Regions is now free, because people can’t follow the AWS best practices, and AWS doesn’t like people complaining when there is an outage that would be avoided by using Multi-AZ or Multi-Region.
But how will AWS make money? Well, they invented Lambda with microsecond billing, so they really don’t even want you to use EC2 anymore. This has all been a long-game to get more people using Amazon Prime.

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Low Code meets Professional Developers

30 juni 2021 | 36 min

Listener Mailbag Questions

27 juni 2021 | 33 min

We get a lot of questions from our audience each week, so we thought that it would be useful to answer some listener questions that aren’t easily answered during one of the podcasts.

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2010’s Decade in Review and Reader Mailbag Questions (2019)

CLOUDCAST LISTENER QUESTIONS

Thank you for all the questions. Send them to [email protected]

CLOUD GROWTH, PEOPLE MOVEMENT, OPEN SOURCE TRENDS

Question 1 - Do you expect to see any significant changes to the top public clouds over the next few years? - Sam A.

New AWS leadership; AWS profit center needed to keep driving the stock price
Microsoft capturing more of developers “native tools”; more willing to acquire
GCP coming up on the 2023 “1st or 2nd place” goal
“Edge” computing is just starting to take shape.
Will be interesting to watch how aggressive they get with acquisitions given the antitrust concerns from the US Congress

Question 2 - How is the open source world keeping up with the public cloud? - Melissa L.

Cloudera was recently acquired by private equity
IBM acquired Red Hat, and IBM is doubling down on Red Hat technologies
MongoDB continues to grow their Atlas business
Confluent is scheduled to IPO soon
Snowflake is trying to focus more on open APIs and ecosystems
Several companies (Solo, Hashicorp, Buoyant) recently launched cloud versions of their software
The public cloud providers continue to ride both sides of the fence regarding open source

Question 3 - Any opinions on the better way to reduce technical debt - lift and shift apps to the cloud, or modernize existing apps? - Sanjay R.

Question 4 - Is the recent consolidation in the IT training market a good thing or a bad thing? - Thomas A.

Question 5 - Are you seeing any post-COVID trends accelerating or gaining more traction? - Michelle T.

Question 6 - Does it seem like less people are making big money after working for a tech startup than in the past? - Nadir M.

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Mid-Year Cloud Hot Takes

23 juni 2021 | 46 min

Brandon Whichard (@@bwhichard) joins us to talk about the @awscloud leadership transition, the future of @VMware, developer preferences, the return of live events, and OSS licensing strategies.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. How are things going over at Software Defined Talk?

Topic 2 - Following a legendary leader has historically been very difficult. Do you foresee any issues with the transition from Besos to Jassy, and Jassy to Selipsky at Amazon/AWS?

Topic 3 - Has any tech company been more influential, and yet not completely controlled their own destiny than VMware?

Topic 3a - How do we bring gambling to the tech industry? The stock market moves too slow and too many interesting companies are private. For example, can we bet on the next ransomware target, or the next acquisition, or the next company to claim to be Observability?

Topic 4 - Is there a market segment more fragmented than “tools for developers”? There’s the “everyone is recreating Heroku” crowd; the “Serverless or die!” crowd, the “VSCode + GitHub” crowd, the Jamstack crowd, the iOS vs. Android crowd, Data Scientists crowd, etc...

Topic 5 - Between Clubhouse collapsing and all virtual events being snoozefests, has the last year essentially killed our desire in tech to get together in anything resembling “in person”?

Topic 5a - What are the lasting and fading changes from the pandemic?

Topic 6 - Does it make complete tech-karma sense that the only two uses of Blockchain have turned out to be cryptocurrencies and NFTs?

Topic 7 - We’ve seen a number of “OSS companies” try and change their licensing model to deal with competitive challenges from the public cloud. What do you predict will be their next move? Did that previous move do anything?

Topic 8 - How disappointed are you that (seemingly) no big tech company took advantage of their growing stock price to take over their market via acquisitions?

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Improving the Adoption Rate of New Tech

20 juni 2021 | 24 min

Automated Data Labeling for AI Apps

16 juni 2021 | 49 min

Alex Ratner (@ajratner, Co-Founder/CEO @SnorkelAI) talks about Snorkel’s evolution from Stanford AI Labs, the challenges of labeling data for AI modeling, and simplifying how AI applications can be built.

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Snorkel AI (homepage)
Stanford Spin-Out Snorkel AI Solves a Major Data Problem

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, the origins of the company, and a little bit about the founding team.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by framing the day in the life of a data scientist. There’s raw data, there’s a data sorting/organizing process, there’s model building, there’s results and analysis, and the cycle continues, etc. What parts are solved problems, what parts are commoditized, and where is there still room for improvement?

Topic 3 - Now that we understand today’s AI/ML/DataScience landscape, let’s talk about how Snorkel Flow and automated data labeling is able to evolve those environments

Topic 4 - Application Studio seems like the intersection of Low-Code and Industry-specific templates and the Python toolkit that data scientists understand. Walk us through the mindset of today’s data scientists in how they think about the “developer” part of their jobs.

Topic 5 - What are some of the frequent use-cases or business problem areas that you’ve seen drive early adoption of the Snorkel platform?

Topic 6 - Where do you see Snorkel fitting into the broader ecosystem of AI capabilities that companies may already have in place?

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Tips for Identifying Tech Trends

13 juni 2021 | 27 min

Building Private 5G Networks

9 juni 2021 | 32 min

Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management

6 juni 2021 | 28 min

While there are scenarios where public cloud is much less expensive than data centers, there are times when it’s much more expensive. Is repatriation a viable way to manage cloud costs?

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ARTICLE QUOTES:

Repatriation results in one-third to one-half the cost of running equivalent workloads in the cloud

You’re crazy if you don’t start in the cloud; you’re crazy if you stay on it.

infrastructure spend should be a first-class metric

THE CASE FOR REPATRIATION

Cloud costs are a large % of Cost of Sales (often times 50-80%)
Cloud providers operate on large margins (e.g. AWS at 30%)
Repatriation could reduce costs 30-50% of existing cloud spend

THE REALITIES OF REPATRIATION

The case in the article is primarily based on 25-40x valuation multiples for software companies. While every companies believes they are a software company today, not every company is getting 25-40x revenue multiple from the market.
All repatriation calculations begin with, “if you run a highly efficient data center”
All repatriation calculations next involve, “assuming you have the talent to run a cloud”
Repatriation is technical debt. How does your company typically handle that?
Less than 100% repatriation creates multiple operational models (ops, billing, security, etc.)
Most companies use a subset of the features in any given cloud.
Can you create a financial situation in your data center that’s similar to the cloud?

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No Code vs. Low Code

2 juni 2021 | 35 min

The State of Serverless

26 maj 2021 | 27 min

Stephen Pinkerton (@spnktn, Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about the latest trends that Datadog has observed from monitoring serverless applications in the public cloud, adoption rates, as well as how serverless is deployed along with containers

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Before we dive into the latest serverless trends, let’s talk a little bit about your background and focus at Datadog.

Topic 1a - This is the 2nd year of the State of Serverless report. Tell us about the scope and the methodology used.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the growth (by breadth) of the overall Serverless market. Who is using serverless, and where are they consuming it from?

Topic 3 - Your data shows that AWS Lambda is evolving in a couple different ways - both shorter lived usage (average) and involved in a broader set of use-cases (via Step Functions). It sounds like Serverless is becoming more mainstream as it branches out.

Topic 4 - Language popularity is always an area of interest - what are the most popular languages for building serverless apps?

Topic 5 - Given how granular Lambda billing has become, and how frameworks like Serverless and Step Functions are being used, were you surprised at the low rate of automation around serverless functions?

Topic 6 - This year it seems like Edge use-cases for Serverless have really grown. I’d expect this to continue as we’re seeing both CloudFlare and AWS recently expanding their Serverless edge capabilities within their CDN offerings.

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Build More Features or More Services

23 maj 2021 | 26 min

Serverless Trends within AWS

19 maj 2021 | 44 min

Technology never has an off-season

16 maj 2021 | 21 min

ksqlDB Database for Streaming Events

12 maj 2021 | 31 min

Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition

9 maj 2021 | 16 min

Running Databases on Kubernetes

5 maj 2021 | 30 min

Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough?

2 maj 2021 | 29 min

Expanding Open Source in the Cloud

28 april 2021 | 29 min

Heikki Nousiaine (@hnousiainen, Founder/CTO at @aiven_io) talks about how Aiven delivers a broad set of open source data and messaging services via the public cloud, as a managed service.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing to expand open source innovation, let’s talk about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about Aiven and the services it provides - all the most popular open source “data-centric” projects (Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana), on top of AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - plus a bunch of popular integrations (logging, monitoring, authentication, etc.)

SRE / Support Models
Pricing Models
Integrating with the underlying cloud

Topic 3 - How do you typically engage with customers / developers? How much work is typically needed to get those teams initially successful with a given service?

Topic 4 - How does Aiven think about the cloud “shared responsibility model”, in terms of where Aiven’s service stops and the customer's engagement starts? Who is responsible for the data?

Topic 5 - What open source projects are on your radar for adding new services?

Topic 6 - As more technology companies are migrating applications to the cloud, or creating SaaS offerings, are there opportunities for companies to partner with Aiven on the breadth of services you offer?

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If Kubernetes is Boring, What's Next

25 april 2021 | 20 min

As Kubernetes evolves beyond 5yrs of adoption, many say that it is becoming “boring”. So where does the popular open source project and community go next?

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If Kubernetes is boring, what’s next for Kubernetes?

Kubernetes has now shipped 21 releases, which is nearly as many as OpenStack (24 releases), and more than VMware vSphere (12-15 releases).
Kubernetes is shifting from 4 releases a year to 3 releases a year.
On average, 170-180 companies are contributing monthly.
It’s widely available both in private cloud and public clouds
Large percentage of larger companies have projects running on Kubernetes

So what might be next?

To some extent, the projects surrounding and adjacent to Kubernetes are gaining attention and momentum - Serverless, Service Mesh, Multi-Cluster Management Tools, Security Tools, Operators, Helm Charts
Kubernetes is being used across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, a variety of Edge use-cases, and is gaining adoption by Telcos for 5G/Edge use-cases.
Beginning to see some thinking and frameworks around how to use Kubernetes as a Hybrid/Multi-Cloud control plane, not just for Cluster deployment.
Edge use-cases are interesting, since Edge has so many varied deployment models - Does Kubernetes need to be miniaturized? Does Kubernetes ship too often?
AI/ML/Analytics use-cases are exploding as most frameworks are making Kubernetes the default orchestration framework.
Gitops is starting to gain some momentum as an automated, single-source-of-truth management model for Kubernetes clusters and application deployment.
The new way of companies using the public cloud are now trying to figure out how to manage Cloud costs, especially as Kubernetes drives more self-service engagement with platforms.

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Why Silicon Matters in the Cloud

21 april 2021 | 32 min

Garry Binder (@garrybinder, Chief Security Architect @Intel) talks about the challenges of public cloud scale, performance and security.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into today’s discussion, give us a little bit on your background and some of the areas you focus on.

Topic 2 - We’ve done quite a few shows with Intel over the years. This is where we were first introduced to how much work Intel does directly for the largest public cloud providers. Can you give us a sense of how much Intel has evolved to help the cloud providers deliver the scale and performance they do today?

Topic 3 - A few months ago we spoke about Confidential Computing. We all know that security is a challenge best solved with defense-in-depth. Can we talk a little bit about the intersection of embedded security in silicon, and being able to keep up with new performance challenges with the new Ice Lake architecture?

Topic 4 - How do we raise awareness that these native capabilities are available across all the cloud providers - AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, etc., when software features tend to dominate the headlines?

Topic 5 - What do you see as some of the next-generation security challenges that the cloud is well-positioned to (maybe) better handle that we could in data centers?

Topic 6 - Sometimes people see Intel as being one-step removed from the technology companies they directly engage with. What are some of the ways that people can more directly engage in all the programs (developer tools, reference architectures, etc.) that Intel creates?

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10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry

18 april 2021 | 25 min

Managing Unstructured Data in the Cloud

14 april 2021 | 24 min

Lessons Learned from docker

11 april 2021 | 28 min

DevOps Efficiency through Integration

7 april 2021 | 39 min

Simpler Clouds on the Horizon

4 april 2021 | 20 min

Reliability as a Service

31 mars 2021 | 33 min

Three Types of Technology Leaders

28 mars 2021 | 27 min

Technology leaders have many different focus areas and motivations. On today’s show, we’ll discuss three common types of leaders - Visionaries, Maintainers and Resume-Builders.

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Three types of product leaders (via @shreyas)
Pioneers, Settlers and Town Planners (from Geek Whisperers)

THREE TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY LEADERS

VISIONARIES | TRANSFORMERS

Speak in stories, painting big pictures.
Truly understand the overall business, the broader markets, and the potentially changing landscapes ahead over both the near-term and long-term
Understand the timing of the markets and when change is needed vs. nice-to-have
Understand the breadth of competitive threats to the business
Understand both opportunities and opportunity costs

MAINTAINERS | PROTECTORS

Would like to be a visionary, but always default back to focusing on re-optimizing legacy investments
Tend to believe that all decisions are build vs. buy. Aren’t focused on creating longer-term partnerships
Run long RFI processes vs. creating a mindset of incremental experimental scenarios.
Have a protectionist mindset (“avoid vendor lock-in”) with new opportunities, but don’t release that with sunk costs.

RESUME BUILDERS

Recognize that the world is moving fast (lots of new technologies, business models), but aren’t in an optimal starting position.
Establish a big, audacious goal that portrays a visionary mindset.
Establish an “everything” or “all-inclusive” policy, even when it doesn’t make economic sense.
The old 5yrs of building an ERP system is now the 2yrs of transforming to the cloud. Springboard to build the resume without finishing the project.

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From Engineer to Technology Leadership

24 mars 2021 | 36 min

Nick Weaver (@lynxbat, VP Architecture, Innovation, Data/Analytics at @Dicks) talks about the journey from engineer to technology leader within large corporations, the challenges of leading teams during COVID, and the realities of digital transformation.

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Eps.400 - Many Paths of an Engineering Journey (Nick Weaver)
Technology at Dick’s Sporting Goods

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been almost two years. What are you up to these days?

Topic 2 - The last 5-6 years, you’ve really embraced moving from being a hard-core, hands-on engineer to being a leader of very large technology teams, projects and initiatives. Walk us through some of the new muscles developed, some of the unexpected, and some of the stuff you still need to figure out.

Topic 3 - When you were at Nike, you lived through a legitimate “digital transformation”, both in how the company engaged with the market, but also how you dealt with suppliers/vendors. Help us understand some of the dynamics in going through those changes.

Topic 4 - We all know lots of people on the vendor side of things, and how those dynamics work as people compete, collaborate or change companies. How does that work amongst “customers”, either in the same industry or cross-industry?

Topic 5 - You’re still a technologist at heart. What technologies are interesting to you these days?

Topic 6 - From where you are today, how would you mentor a young Nick Weaver that just did a 5 minute demo during an EMCworld keynote in 2008-2009?

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Did COVID transform Tech?

21 mars 2021 | 25 min

The COVID-19 pandemic will last ~18 months, but how long will the impact to the technology industry last?

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HOW WILL COVID CHANGE THE TECH INDUSTRY?

REMOTE WORK and COLLABORATION

The foundational tools are in place (GitHub, Zoom, Slack, Jira, Public Cloud) but are they really designed for large # of remote workers collaborating?
Event sign-ups were up 5-10x, but have people actually been consuming the content?
Will companies continue to encourage and support remote workers, or do we see a boomerang in late 2021 and 2022?

MORE RAPID ADOPTION OF THE PUBLIC CLOUD

Less people in the office, so more adoption of public clouds?
Public clouds grew, but not at faster rates than before - 2021/2022 might be better indicators, as 2020 had “budget concerns” for many companies (uncertainty)
More adoption of SaaS-like offerings (be near the clouds, align buying models, more flexible)
Acceleration of more agile approaches, as the world becomes more polarized - hence stability may be shorter intervals?

WHY DIDN’T THE CLOUD PROVIDERS DO MORE?

Cloud providers have massive cash reserves (Microsoft, $137B, Google $112B, Amazon $50B), but no major acquisitions.
Nobody has initiate price-wars, but we are seeing more long-range ELAs announced

WHERE IS THE “NEXT BIG THING”?

2006/2007 - iPhone, AWS launch ; 2008 Financial Crash
2020 - ???

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Understanding SaaS Financial Models

17 mars 2021 | 32 min

Ben Murray (@br_murray, Founder of SaaS CFO and SaaS Academy) talks about how to understand the financial models behind successful SaaS companies, the tradeoffs on profit vs. growth, and how to spot the health of SaaS businesses.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We don’t usually get CFOs on the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what brought you into the SaaS world.

Topic 2 - The more we study SaaS companies, the more it seems like everyone needs to understand the financial model and associated metrics (executives, product managers, marketing, customer service, etc.). How do you go about teaching best practices to SaaS companies?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the core financial concepts that SaaS companies need to think about (CAC, MRR, ACV, LCV, Churn, Gross Margin, etc.)

Topic 4 - Are there some common financial patterns (metrics, ratios, etc,) to tell how a SaaS company is doing (good or bad)? If so, are there established best-practices to get them out of bad situations?

Topic 5 - Can you help us better understand why some people get excited when a SaaS company has revenue growth and loses money, and others freak out? Help us understand that in growth stages vs. stable stages. (SaaS Rule of 40?)

Topic 6 - Have you found that SaaS businesses are unique in their financial modeling, or can some of these best practices be applied to non-SaaS software businesses?

Topic 7 - You just started SaaS CFO and SaaS Academy. Give us an overview of what people will learn.

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The Complexities of Edge Computing

14 mars 2021 | 22 min

The Value of Value-Stream Mapping

10 mars 2021 | 42 min

Steve Pereira (@SteveElsewhere, Value-Stream Whisperer @ Visible) talks about measuring, understanding business and technology process through Value-Stream Mapping.

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Steve Pereira’s homepage
Steve’s 4x4 Method of DevOps Traction
Value Stream Link - Value Stream resources

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you eventually became focused on helping companies improve their Value-Streams.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Value-Streams and Mapping. What are they, why do we need them, what do they provide?

Topic 3 - Walk us through a Value-Stream-Mapping exercise with a company. What is their pre-homework? What questions do you ask? How do you keep it focused on their language?

Topic 4 - Do you need to fix everything at once, or can it be done in phases? How much of the improvement has to do with the application, and how much is adjusting existing processes?

Topic 5 - Lots of people like to compare this to Lean Manufacturing (Toyota Production System, Six Sigma, etc.). Optimize the system, design for efficient flows, empower the workers to make changes and give feedback, etc. But does this break with software, where there isn’t really an end to a production line?

Topic 6 - Once people understand it, what tends to work well and what tends to lead to on-going failures?

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Lessons Learned from Cloud Foundry

7 mars 2021 | 30 min

Cloud Foundry was going to create an open source alternative to Heroku, as well as replace how Enterprise companies built software. But change is never easy. Looking back, what can we learn from the lessons of Cloud Foundry?

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HOW DID CLOUD FOUNDRY EVOLVE?

An open source, programmable cloud application platform (PaaS). Heroku (2007), Google AppEngine (2008) existed before Cloud Foundry (April 2011). OpenShift launched in May 2011. Apcera was launched in 2012 by Derek Collison

Open Source, Multi-cloud
Multiple languages, frameworks
Automation for the infrastructure (BOSH)
Integrated Logging, Tracing, Routing, GUI
Data Services live off the platform, via Service Broker
Very heavy platform footprint (up to 50 VMs)
Diego container scheduler
Warden container runtime

Many large vendors got involved once it became a foundation.

IBM, SAP, Intel, Cisco, EMC/VMware
Many end-user customers joined (great for recruiting)
None of the Cloud providers, other than an infrastructure stem-cell

By 2016-17, most large Cloud Foundry vendors were shifting their focus to Kubernetes

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

Single-vendor led communities are difficult, especially if a foundation is created.
Technology transitions are hard, oftentimes impossible. Cloud Foundry chose to downplay Docker and Kubernetes as “just for infrastructure”, even within their own community.
Make it simple to get environments/clusters (Managed Kubernetes services, Cluster API, laptop-level environments (minikube). Needs to be a managed cloud service on good clouds.
Platform-aware, Infrastructure automation is important (e.g. like BOSH, except that it works)
Industry is mixed on if stateful / data services should run on-platform or off-platform. Having to also manage the off-platform is difficult.

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Solving Developers Security Challenges

3 mars 2021 | 37 min

Shira Shamban (@ShambanIT, CEO @SolvoCloud) talks about easily bringing security to CI/CD pipelines and software development, the rise of DevSecOps and "Shifting Left.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, you have a very interesting journey starting in cybersecurity for the Isreal Defense Force all the way to CEO of a newly funded startup.

Topic 2 - The rise of CI/CD created some great benefits to software development, it also created some security challenges. Let’s start there, why do developers seem to have so many challenges with security, especially in production?

Topic 3 - Increasingly we hear about the concept of DevSecOps, you introduced the term “Shifting Left”. What does that mean and how does this relate to the larger concept of DevSecOps?

Topic 4 - When a developer pushes code, where is the friction from a security perspective? How does Solvo solve this problem as code is pushed and how do you integrate with the cloud providers to make sure a least-privilege model is used? You recently released a security tool for health checks of your cloud accounts? (link in the show notes)

Topic 5 - We recently raised your first round of funding completely remotely. Tell us about the experience and challenges you faced.

Topic 6 - You are passionate about empowering women and under-represented communities in our industry. Tell us about your ongoing partnerships with SheCodes, Cyber Ladies and other mentoring programs you are involved with.

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How the Cloud is Changing OSS Licensing

28 februari 2021 | 19 min

Brian looks at the recent changes in open source licensing, as it relates to managed cloud offerings, and how the perception of end-users towards free software vs. cloud services is changing.

#SundayPerspectives

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Server Side Public License (SSPL)
What does Open Source mean in the Era of Cloud APIs? (Redmonk)
Cockroach and the Source Available Future (Redmonk)
MongoDB Cloud, MongoDB vs. AWS, MongoDB’s Playbook (Stratechery)
Doubling Down on Open (Elastic)
Evolution of Commercial OSS (The Cloudcast, Eps.492)

THINGS WE KNOW

Open Source has become a mainstream source for innovation - with most of the Internet being built on OSS technologies (in some way or form)
Open Source is more widely used in the Enterprise (than in the past), beyond just Linux
Open Source is often the de facto choice for much of the public cloud (OS, VMs, DBs, etc.)
The need for a “free” experience is expected for anything new in software or cloud, whether that’s for any/all usage, or a fixed period of time.
“Open core”, or other variations on free OSS + non OSS (non-free) features has been a concept for quite a while.
Community driven development does bring a broad set of perspectives, and it distributes the workload across engineers, companies, etc.
Plenty of successful projects have been both Open Source and primarily driven by a single company (especially in the data-centric projects)

THINGS THAT WILL EVOLVE

Where does the value of software come from? Does it come from the features, from the distribution, from the creator(s), or from how it is run?
Do customers value ‘free”, or “stability” or “customizability” (features) or “operationalization”?
How much of an advantage or disadvantage (or neutral) is the OSS companies offering cloud services across clouds?

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

How will the VC community view the changes in competitive landscape and licensing? How does it impact their future funding models?

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Evolution of Commercial OSS

24 februari 2021 | 47 min

Public Cloud Look Ahead for the 2020s

21 februari 2021 | 23 min

Asynchronous Development for Remote Teams

17 februari 2021 | 34 min

Dan Lines, (@linknfg182, COO @LinearB_Inc) talks about asynchronous development for remote teams, managing business-level discussions, bringing greater transparency and accountability to projects, and identifying early signs of developer burnout.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to be so focused on developer productivity and team agility?

Topic 2 - We want to talk about remote teams today, but before we get started, let’s talk about how much this past year has changed the day-to-day life of application development teams.

Topic 3 - You’ve spoken about Asynchronous Development (for Remote Teams) and how the pandemic sort of created the environment that has been evolving for years. Tell us about the concept and some of the things companies can do to embrace it?

Topic 4 - LinearB is a tool/platform that gives teams visibility into what’s happening with projects (status/velocity), backlogs, bottlenecks, etc. How do you think about transparency and accountability for teams, since software projects can get fairly complex?

Topic 5 - How much does it help in conversations with business leaders, who might not have as much understanding of how development teams work, to have the data trends right in front of them?

Topic 6 - You make a point that you can see “burnout” happening within teams or around individuals. What are some tips to reduce that, or address it in ways that it can lead to better long-term conditions within teams?

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Lessons Learned from OpenStack

14 februari 2021 | 19 min

OpenStack was going to create an open source alternative to AWS, as well as displace VMware in the Enterprise. But change is never easy, and some things didn't go as planned. Looking back, what can we learn from the lessons of OpenStack?

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HOW DID OPENSTACK EVOLVE?

An open source, programmable cloud infrastructure. Eucalyptus and CloudStack existed prior to OpenStack. Created as a partnership between NASA (Nova) and Rackspace (Swift).

API-driven, software-defined infrastructure

Every vendor (HW and SW) was on-board: the anti-VMware project

OpenStack Foundation was created - control was maintained by Rackspace (initially).

Focus was split on building an AWS-alternative &/or a VMware-alternative

Was it an integrated platform, or independent projects, or a combination?

What defined something as “OpenStack”? How do you upgrade OpenStack?

The scope eventually got too big - way behind an IaaS (PaaS, DBaaS, Hadoop, etc.)

Cloud Foundry, OpenShift launched in 2011
Threats from Hadoop companies

VMware admins didn’t know how to use python. AWS admins wanted AWS APIs
Where were the customers?

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

Independent governance body; leverage the Linux foundation (events, infrastructure, etc,)
Focus on enabling something new (cloud-native apps, more flexible than PaaS), not replacing something existing
Enable early customers, and remain customer focused.

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The New Economics of Cloud Infrastructure

10 februari 2021 | 26 min

Kevin Deierling (@TechSeerKD, SVP Marketing @NVIDIA) talks about the evolution of cloud and datacenter infrastructure, the new economics of computing, and how DPUs are redefining how data gets inspected and offloaded.

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NVIDIA Homepage - Artificial Intelligence, Computing Leadership
What is a DPU? (NVIDIA Blog)
NVIDIA CUDA
NVIDIA DOCA
NVIDIA Maxine
NVIDIA Omniverse

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to this place where NVIDIA is now the center of cloud and the data center?

Topic 2 - Before we dive into your specific area of focus, I want to see if we can get a big picture view of where we are in 2021 with cloud & the datacenter?

Topic 3 - Everybody knows NVIDIA for GPUs (for gaming, or AI/ML/Analytics) and now ARM is part of the NVIDIA family. Your focus is on something called “DPUs”. Help us understand what a DPU is, and the core technical challenges it solves.

Topic 4 - As we see DPUs start to come into use, design/architecture-wise or SmartNICs, what are the key things that architects need to think about? And who is thinking about DPUs - infra architects, AI teams, etc?

Topic 5 - Where are the most common places where we’ll see DPUs / SmartNICs deployed today (how are they offered)? Can common applications take advantage of them, or do they need to be written to be DPU-aware? “Putting a computer in front of the computer”

Topic 6 - Give us some perspective on what the next couple of years might look like as this amount of processing and throughput becomes available, affordable and distributed to different platforms and clouds.

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Andy Jassy's Legacy at AWS

7 februari 2021 | 19 min

Automating Analytics Teams

3 februari 2021 | 35 min

Derek Knudsen (@dsknudsen, CTO at @Alteryx) talks about the differences between analytics and data science teams, critical analytics workflows, aligning culture and technologies, and best practices in presenting data.

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Alteryx Homepage - Automated, Self-Service Analytics
Alteryx Analytics Platform (APA)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what makes you passionate about helping analytics teams improve their businesses?

Topic 2 - Can we start by talking about how you think about Analytics teams vs. Data Science teams vs. AI/ML teams? Are these different only in name, or are their functional/skill differences, or places where one group is more appropriate than others?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Analytics in the context of workflows. Are you seeing it still be mostly a business analyst “offline” function, or are more workflows and applications introducing more “real-time” analytics capabilities?

Topic 4 - We talk a lot on this show about DevOps and Developer Productivity, in the context of more frequently changing applications. How does that apply to Analytics groups? Where do they have bottlenecks today? How do they get around those bottlenecks?

Topic 5 - How do platforms like the Alteryx Analytics Platform help teams improve their analytics velocity and productivity? And how much do you find that the right tools help improve how teams organize, or do they need to be well organized to best take advantage of the right tools?

Topic 6 - Can you give us some examples of the types of results that companies often achieve when they better align their analytics teams to self-service and automated environments?

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A Transformation Look Ahead for 2021

27 januari 2021 | 46 min

Andrew Clay Shafer (@litteidea, VP Transformation @RedHat ) & John Willis (@botchagalupe, Sr.Dir. Transformation) talk about the importance of "learning organizations", aligning change to business value, and the evolution of self-service and automated governance.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re both really well known in the DevOps communities, but give us the TL;DR of your backgrounds for anyone not familiar with your work.

Topic 2 - Whether people are tired of the term “Digital Transformation” or not, change is a huge part of our industry, especially as it relates to corporate culture and organization. What’s the framing for that type of discussion in 2021?

Topic 3 - I’ve heard you both say “technology is easy, people are hard”. How do you think about these conflicts of transformation, whether people’s individual motivations aren’t always aligned to a business goal?

Topic 4 - One of the biggest differences between existing companies and start-ups is the level of self-service that they build around their systems. The self-service systems allow experimentation, allow automated deployments, etc. But is there a way to bring a concept of automated governance to these end-to-end models?

Topic 5 - Oftentimes transformations are aligned with cloud-native technologies, cloud-native apps. The model of Ops in a cloud-native world is different. What are some of the areas you both focus on to make cloud-native Ops successful, or better aligned to the technology part of transformations?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best and worst “getting started” steps that you see various groups (or companies) take in their transformation journeys?

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A Cloud-First Look Ahead for 2021

20 januari 2021 | 37 min

Jeremy Burton (@jburton, CEO @Observe_Inc; board member @SnowflakeDB ) talks about the differences between traditional IT companies and Cloud-First companies, from product planning and roadmaps, to customer engagements and marketing messaging.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for a while. You’ve had tremendous success in Leadership, Product and Marketing roles in the past. Tell our audience a little bit of your background and what ultimately brought you to your role at CEO of Observe.

Topic 1a - For people that aren’t familiar, what does Observe bring to the market?

Topic 2 - We wanted to do a little “before-and-after”, and focus on what it means to be a “Cloud-First” company. What are the most obvious differences between a company like Observe and a company like Dell or EMC?

Topic 3 - From a product perspective, how do you think about roadmaps and the ways in which you enable new features for customers? Since Observe runs only in the public cloud, how much do you need to think about integrating with the native cloud services?

Topic 4 - You have deep expertise in creating marketing messaging, but so much of how customers learn about your products is no longer the company website. How do you think about reaching potential customers, or generally getting your message into the market?

Topic 5 - Traditional IT was often aligned to centralized buying and architecture groups. How much does Cloud-First change the consumption models for companies - experimentation, on-demand usage, dealing with scaling issues, etc.

Topic 6 - Overall, what are some of the biggest lessons you’ve learned about the Cloud-First approach as you’ve transitioned over the last 3+ years.

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An Event-Driven Apps Look Ahead for 2021

13 januari 2021 | 43 min

James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart, Global Field CTO @VMware, O’Reilly Author) talks about event-driven application architectures, how it's changing real-time business models, and technology stack driven the evolution.

SHOW: 483

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve known you for quite a while, going back to working together on very early Cloud stuff. You’ve always enjoyed being focused on complex, distributed systems. Tell us what you’re focused on these days.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this concept of “event-driven” and flow. Where did it come from, what does it do, why is it valuable to application designers?

Topic 2a - What is a “flow” and how is it related to event-driven?

Topic 3 - Events are data. We’ve had relational databases for data, and then we had NoSQL or eventually-consistent databases for data. Are events a new type of data, or a new way to deal with data in a different context? (channels, replays, etc.)

Topic 4 - Can we talk through an example of an event-driven application, or an event-driven integration between multiple organizations? How is it new/different? What unique capabilities does it bring now? (Kafka, IoT, API Gateways, etc.)

Topic 5 - Cloud made IT self-service. Serverless made Ops become on-demand. If I’m a business leader, what does event-driven give us?

Topic 6 - Where are we in the maturity of event-driven architectures? What might be some of the next stages coming in 2021 or 2022?

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A Hybrid Cloud Look Ahead for 2021

6 januari 2021 | 33 min

Introduction to Cloudcast Basics

4 januari 2021 | 6 min

2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions

23 december 2020 | 58 min

Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021

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SHOW NOTES:

PODCAST BUSINESS:

Over 1.5M listens in 2020
Thank you to all our 2020 sponsors: Datadog, MongoDB, UpCloud, DivvyCloud, strongDM, Logz.io, Taos, Studio3T, CloudAcademy, BMC, Fauna, Okta
2020 Cloudcast Alum Acquisitions: 8 - Thousand Eyes (Cisco), Cumulus (NVIDIA), SwiftStack (NVIDIA), SaltStack (VMware), DivvyCloud (Rapid7), Big Switch (Arista), Rancher (SUSE), Kasten (Veeam)
The (live) Krispy Kreme Challenge is postponed in 2021 due to COVID-19. Need to figure out a fundraising initiative.

FORMAT CHANGES in 2021

“Look Ahead in 2021” shows in January
Still doing the normal, weekly technical shows, starting in February
Will be doing a shorter (15mins) technical show on Sundays, preview the Wed show
Will be launching the Cloudcast Basics podcast series in 2021 (@cloudcastbasics).

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:

COVID sent everybody home. 2020 was the year of VDI and Desktop-as-a-Service.
Conferences went all virtual. Did anybody miss them? Did anybody do them well?
More companies adopted the public cloud, since they couldn’t get into their data centers.
But we also found out the public cloud isn’t infinite resources (e.g. Azure had to prioritize existing customers, healthcare customers). Long-term investments matter.
Did you have a favorite video conference service in 2020?
AWS: $46B, Azure: $30B-ish , GCP: $12-13B, Alibaba: $6-8B - Azure still doesn’t break out their revenues.
OSS-companies are growing their Cloud/Managed business (MongoDB, Confluent, RedisLabs, Red Hat, etc. - as well as others like VMware, Nutanix)
More companies are going cloud-only in their offerings (Snowflake, Tecton, Observ, etc.). Atlassian is moving away from the on-prem offerings (over next couple years)
ARM chips made their name in mobile phones, and now they are poised to take over desktops and public cloud (cheaper, faster) - NVIDIA bought ARM
AWS had an outage just before Thanksgiving - nobody is actually sure how AWS works behind the scenes.
Hybrid Cloud is now officially a thing - AWS, Azure and GCP all have offerings, as well as every traditional vendor.

2021 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 Predictions from last year

Aaron’s Predictions

GitLab gets gobbled up
Event Driven Architecture (FaaS/Serverless) hits early majority status
(agreeing with Brian) 2021 will be the

AzureStack for Hybrid Cloud

16 december 2020 | 35 min

Carmen Crincoli (@carmencrincoli, Sr. ProgMgr @Microsoft) + Todd Christ (@toadster, Ent. Solutions Architect, @IntelBusiness) talk about the evolution of AzureStack, how HCI is being extended as a cloud service, and how COVID is creating new use-cases for on-premises and public cloud.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Todd has been a guest before, but Carmen is new. Tell us a little bit about both of your backgrounds.

Topic 2 - Let start by talking about AzureStack, in a broader context. The “brand” has been in the market for quite a while, but it really went through an evolution about a year ago - different services add, different buying options, etc. Help understand the broader AzureStack story.

Topic 3 - When most people think of HCI, they think about Compute, Storage, and VMs - simplifying the complexity of those systems. Now the world is moving more to the cloud, but on-premises still remains. Let’s talk about the concept of HCI becoming an extended cloud service and how that’s evolving.

Topic 4 - VMs, Containers, Backup/Recovery, Auto-Updates are now all built-in to AzureStackHCI. Which group (or groups) is managing AzureStackHCI in a typical company?

Topic 5 - How important is it to support disconnected (from the cloud) AzureStack HCI instances? Can there be scenarios that are partially-disconnected?

Topic 6 - Are you seeing any new or unexpected use-cases because of COVID-19, or now that HCI can be viewed as an extension of the public cloud?

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Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2020

9 december 2020 | 31 min

The State of Kubernetes

2 december 2020 | 34 min

Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, Docker & Kubernetes training) talks about the current and future state of Kubernetes, who is using it and why, implementation and operational challenges, and how get started and what tools he recommends

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell us about some of your most recent projects, and all the places where people can find your training?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the State of Kubernetes, level of maturity of users/usage. Where do you think we are at the end of 2020?

Topic 3 - Who do you find are trying to learn and use Kubernetes, more Infra/Ops, or AppDev, or somewhere in between (DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, etc.)?

Topic 3a - Where do you see people succeeding, and where are they still struggling to adjust to the requirements of Kubernetes?

Topic 4 - The ecosystem of projects around Kubernetes (immutable Linux, Operators, Service Mesh, Prometheus, OPA, Serverless/Knative, etc.) has gotten very broad. How do you find people are dealing with all these moving pieces?

Topic 5 - There are a lot of ways to engage with Kubernetes these days - DIY (OSS), vendor distributions, Kubernetes on your laptop, web IDEs, Hosted Services (simple & complex). What do you recommend to people, or do you see trends about how people best engage with Kubernetes?

Topic 6 - Do you think it’s OK that Kubernetes doesn’t have a “developer model”, but rather many different options? Do you think this evolves in 2021?

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Great Data Models Need Great Features

25 november 2020 | 35 min

Mike Del Balso (@mikedelbalso, CEO at @TectonAI) talks about lessons learned from Uber’s Michelangelo ML platform, enabling DevOps for ML data, and how Tecton enables features for data models.

SHOW: 477

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s always exciting to talk to new companies. You were doing some pretty interesting things at Uber prior to starting Tecton, so tell us a little bit about that experience and then what motivated you to start Tecton?

Topic 2 - There are lots of Data/AI/ML tools and platforms out there. Tecton talks about “great models need great features”. Give us a high-level overview of the Tecton platform and the perspective you bring to solving complex business problems.

Topic 3 - After reading the papers on the Uber Michelangelo platform, it’s clear that today’s interactions aren’t a bunch of individual “decisions”, but layers of decisions made on ever-changing data (the UberEATS example). Why does business need a new approach to how they interact with data?

Topic 4 - When I think about earlier approaches for companies to “harness data for analytics”, there was always the problem of data silos. Do you find that companies need to organize themselves different, not just organize their data, to be able to overcome those silo challenges? Does it take a much more product-centric approach vs. the traditional “analyst” approach?

Topic 5 - Every new company and platform needs to find product-market fit. What do you see as early “fits” for the Tecton platform?

Topic 6 - How much data-science expertise does a company need today to be able to leverage Tecton, and how much does the platform lower the barrier to entry?

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eBPF & Cilium Cloud-native Networking

18 november 2020 | 36 min

Dan Wendlandt (@danwendlandt, CEO/Co-Founder @Isovalent talks about the evolution of cloud networking, eBPF and Cilium for programmable infrastructure, and blurring the lines between networking, security and service-mesh.

SHOW: 476

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SHOW NOTES:

Isovalent (homepage)
Cilium (homepage)
What is eBPF?

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve been following your work for a while (Nicira, OpenShift networking, etc), but tell our audience a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - A few years ago I wrote an article that said, “if you’re in networking, the #1 skill you should learn is Linux”. Why has there been so much shift from “traditional networking” to so many new capabilities being implemented in software, and specifically Linux?

Topic 3 - Help us understand these two new concepts - eBPF and Cilium. It’s new packet filtering, it’s container networking, it’s multi-cluster networking, it can help with observability - lots going on here.

Topic 4 - What are some of the gaps in today’s networking/filtering/observability stacks that can improve with eBPF/Cilium?

Topic 5 - We’ve seen quite a few companies evolve from expertise in an open-source project to commercial offerings. What lessons have you learned from other companies that shape how Isovalent will both go-to-market and also engage with ecosystem partners?

Topic 6 - What are some of the common use-cases or applications you see that highlight the value of the Isovalent stack?

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Managing SAP in the Cloud

11 november 2020 | 40 min

Eamonn O'Neill (@eamser, Founder/EVP @LemongrassCloud) talks about the five paths of SAP cloud migrations, how SAP is evolving beyond ERP, and the responsibility models for SAP in the cloud.

SHOW: 475

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. The world of SAP has evolved quite a bit over the last decade. Tell us about your background and what led you to focus on bringing SAP to the cloud.

Topic 2 - A decade ago, SAP was very focused on this new HANA database and most people still thought of them as an ERP company. Since then, they have bought a lot of companies, especially in the SaaS space (SuccessFactors, Concur, Hipmonk, Qualtrics, etc.). Can you give us a high-level overview of what relationship SAP has with their customers these days?

Topic 3 - Lemongrass is focused on helping customers move SAP to the AWS Cloud. What types of applications are being moved, and why are customers moving them?

Topic 4 - Lemongrass talks about 5 Waves of Innovations to get SAP into AWS (Migrate, FinOps/SysOps/DevOps, 4/HANA, Big Data, AI). Where are most customers on that journey today? Does it tend to be consistent across industries?

Topic 5 - AWS often talks about a “shared responsibility model” for application-availability or security. How does that model apply to SAP applications, and what role does Lemongrass play for customers on an on-going basis?

Topic 6 - Have you seen the pandemic change how companies are looking at their SAP environments and whether or not it makes them do more in the cloud?

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Serverless Data APIs

4 november 2020 | 37 min

Evan Weaver (Co-Founder/CTO @Fauna) talks about FaunaDB, and enabling serverless, NoOps databases as new applications architectures emerge around APIs, Jamstack and other distributed systems.

SHOW: 474

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Fauna Homepage
The 4th generation application model (client-serverless)
Supported Languages/ Frameworks: https://docs.fauna.com/fauna/current/drivers/

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been at the forefront of really interesting tech in the past. Can you tell us a little bit about your background?

Topic 2 - Over the last few months, we’ve been digging into newer distributed architecture elements (Jamstack, GraphQL, Serverless, etc.). But we haven’t dug into the role of data in these architectures. Help us understand this 4th generation architecture, or client-serverless, and the role of data.

Topic 3 - Data is still stored somewhere, but its usage is now made up of a bunch of data coming together in various contexts. How does Fauna fit into this new world when clients and APIs play as much of a role as “the database”?

Topic 4 - As you talk to people that come from a SQL / Relational-DB background, how does the discussion go in terms of how things change and some of the common bottlenecks/problems that Fauna can solve for them?

Topic 5 - Databases have traditionally been difficult to scale, protect, maintain, etc. How does you enable the data layer or API access to now follow a NoOps model?

Topic 6 - Where are the best places for people to engage to learn more about how to not only use the Jamstack architecture, but apply the principles around Fauna for Data/API management?

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Continuous Application Profiling

28 oktober 2020 | 36 min

Hugo Kaczmarek (Product Manager) and Markus Hirt (Director Engineering) @Datadoghq talk about continuous application profiling in production, having better visibility in application environments, and managing performance budgets.

SHOW: 473

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show and welcome back to the show. Before we dig into today’s topic, can you give us a little bit of your background and how you became focused in this area?

Topic 2 - Production used to be a pretty sacred and untouched environment. Now we’re seeing the need to create chaos in production, test in production, and know more about how things actually work in production. Let’s talk about this concept of “profiling”.

Topic 3 - People often talk about having to “instrument their code” to be able to get feedback. How does that differ from profiling, and what unique things does an application need to be profiled in production?

Topic 4 - On the surface, this seems like it would add quite a bit of overhead to the applications. How do you manage to find the right balance of performance and visibility?

Topic 5 - Help us understand how profiling fits into the bigger picture of all the tools needs - Logging, APM, Observability, etc?

Topic 6 - Is there a profile of who needs profiling? Is this every application team, or just for specific applications (e.g. event-streaming, etc.)?

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Confidential Computing

21 oktober 2020 | 40 min

Vikas Bhatia (@vikascb, Head of Product, Azure Confidential Computing) and Ron Perez (@ronprz, Intel Fellow, Security Architecture) talk about the technologies and architecture behind Azure Confidential Computing

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dig into today’s discussion, can you give us a little bit about your background?

Topic 2 - Defense in Depth is a strategy that has long been in place in Enterprise computing. We’ve seen previous approaches that connected the OS or Application with the Hardware (e.g. Intel TXT). How has this space evolved over the last few years, and what are some of the reasons why we need another level of depth?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the technology basics of Confidential Computing. What are the software elements (Application, OS, SDK) and what are the hardware elements?

Topic 4 - What is the normal migration path for a company to move workloads into Confidential Computing environments? Is this primarily for new workloads, or does it apply to existing applications too?

Topic 5 - Azure has the ability to deliver either Confidential VMs, or recently added Confidential containers along with AKS. When does it make sense to be confidential in one part of the stack vs. other?

Topic 6 - What are some areas where you’re seeing the broader ecosystem (e.g. technology partners or end-user customers) beginning to expand out the functionality of Confidential Computing?

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Understanding the Jamstack

14 oktober 2020 | 39 min

Women of Color in Tech

7 oktober 2020 | 43 min

Susanne Tedrick (@SusanneTedrick, Author “Women of Color in Tech”, @IBM Technical Specialist) talks about the importance of STEM for young girls. the need for mentors and sponsors, and how to better create opportunities for women of color in tech.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into our discussion today, tell us about your background and some of the areas that you’re passionate about.

Topic 2 - For a lot of people, we’re trying to do more listening and learning these days. Let’s talk about women of color in tech.

Topic 3 - As you now have this platform, what are some of the most common and most surprising conversations you’re having these days?

Topic 4 - The book provides a number of examples of women in a variety of technical positions (leaders, engineers, pioneers, etc.). Tell us how important it is to see somebody that looks like you in positions you aspire to be in some day.

Topic 5 - You do an excellent job of talking about women’s journey from early life to careers in tech. Every journey has hills and valleys and roadblocks. What are some of the roadblocks that other people could help women overcome and be more successful?

Topic 6 - What are your favorite resources for people at different stages of their journeys - events, communities, mentors/sponsors, etc.?

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Learn Streaming from the Experts

30 september 2020 | 34 min

Chris Short (@chrisshort, Technical Marketing @RedHat, @CNCF Ambassador) talks about how to deliver compelling technical learning via streaming services, how to engage audiences and communities, and how to improve virtual events.

SHOW: 469

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OpenShift.tv - Weekly Streaming Programming
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Chris Short on The Cloudcast (Eps.277)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s good to have you back on the show (Oct.2016). You’re very well-known in the CNCF community, but give folks some details on your background and what you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - We’re all adapting to a COVID-19 world. You’ve been creating a ton of learning content for OpenShift.tv. Let’s talk about the basics of what streaming content looks like (where to watch, demos vs. discussions, etc.)

Topic 3 - What have you learned about this new way people are learning and engaging?

Topic 4 - What are some of the technical tips and tricks to keep viewers engaged? Is streaming mostly a 1-way medium, or is there 2-way / multi-way communications happening?

Topic 5 - What do people need to get started, if they want to use streaming for a project, or teach their teams (or their customers)?

Topic 6 - With so many events going virtual, what are some emerging things about streaming that could help make virtual events (or any events) better in 2021?

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Security Management & SIEM

23 september 2020 | 31 min

Identity Across Multiple Clouds

16 september 2020 | 32 min

Brian Johnson (SVP Cloud Security Practice @rapid7) talks about the evolution of the Managed Security Provider market, manage security without borders, and the complexities of multiple identity and trust models.

SHOW: 467

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You were the CEO/co-founder of DivvyCloud, which was recently purchased by Rapid7. Give us an overview of the Managed Security Provider market and some of the ways it’s evolved since the pandemic started.

Topic 2 - In today’s world, there no longer is a security perimeter for companies in the way they’ve known for years. What is replacing how companies define perimeters - is identity the new perimeter?

Topic 3 - Can you talk about what kind of Identity management companies need today, and maybe talk through some of the nuances across the disciplines like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).

Topic 4 - Where does MFA (multi-factor authentication) sit within a strong IAM strategy? For example enforcing policies across cloud user accounts?

Topic 5 - We’ve seen some data suggesting over 80%+ of organizations are using a multi-cloud strategy, can you talk about some of the challenges around trying to manage IAM acros clouds? For example (Different policies, tools and terminologies across clouds)

Topic 6 - The security world is beginning to talk about “unified zero trust security models”. Can you talk about what that means and maybe give us a background about DIvvycloud/Rapid7 and how they are working to solve a lot of these topics around IAM.

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How Tensorflow is Evolving

9 september 2020 | 36 min

Andres Rodriguez (Sr. Principal Engineer @Intel) talks about how Tensorflow v2 has evolved, use-cases and applications, frequent usage patterns, and the best ways to begin using Tensorflow.

SHOW: 466

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a really interesting mix of industry, government and academic work around Deep Learning. Tell us a little bit about the areas you focus on.

Topic 2 - Tensorflow is one of the most popular OSS projects on Github. Help us understand the types of data problems where Tensorflow is the best tool/framework (e.g. neural networks). What are some of the most popular capabilities?

Topic 3 - Tensorflow is focused on looking at how data flows through graphs. Are there common types of ML problems that are more appropriate for using Tensorflow than other ML models?

Topic 4 - Tensorflow is able to run on a broad set of hardware, but obviously there is a point where specialized hardware is needed for certain performance or scaling. What are some of the things that Intel is doing to help improve the experience with Tensorflow?

Topic 5 - Tensorflow works primarily with the Python programming language. Beyond having some background with Python, what are some of the skills that are needed to get started and be successful with Tensorflow?

Topic 6 - Having worked with Tensorflow for a while now, what are some of the learning paths that you’ve found successful (problems areas, communities of interest, tools, new skills, etc.)?

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Migrating to the Cloud

2 september 2020 | 33 min

Jeremy Winter (Partner Director of Azure Management at Microsoft) talks about what trends are driving migrations, how companies plan for success, useful tools & frameworks, and leading successful transitions.

SHOW: 465

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of things at Microsoft. Tell us about your current role, as well as how it’s been to see the transition at Microsoft from software company to cloud company?

Topic 2 - Lets start with the concept of migration. Is there a framework that companies use to think about what to migrate to the public cloud?

Topic 3 - Transitions and Testing feel like they are critical for any migration to be successful. How do companies manage to get through an application being in one location vs. being in the cloud?

Topic 4 - As companies think about the economics &/or ROI of migration, how do they think about all the elements involved (e.g. cost to change an application, cost savings of not owning a data center, cost to re-skill existing staff or hire new, etc..)?

Topic 5 - COVID-19 has changed everything these past 6 months. Have you seen the profile of a migration change significantly since the pandemic started, or have well-known migration profiles already in place? (e.g. different applications to migration, different pace of migration, etc.)

Topic 6 - Do you find that migrations are being driven top-down at companies, or are they decentralized by groups? How are they being organized these days?

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Multi Cloud with Google Anthos

26 augusti 2020 | 29 min

Todd Christ (Sr. Solutions Architect @Intel) talks about Google Anthos, core elements, design considerations, mulitcloud, application modernization, and the latest services available.

SHOW: 464

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a broad set of experiences in your career, how did you come into being focused on Cloud and Multi Cloud technologies and solutions?

Topic 2 - Today we’re talking about the Anthos offering from Google Cloud. A few years ago, the cloud providers were all-in on just public cloud. What have you seen shift in the market that has now created their hybrid or multi-cloud offerings that have broader reach?

Topic 3 - Lets talk about Google Anthos. What are the core elements, what types of services does it deliver, and what is the overall customer experience?

Topic 4 - What are some of the newer Anthos capabilities that have been announced and how do they help with hybrid or multi-cloud? (Anthos Migrate, Anthos on AWS/Azure, is there an Anthos “appliance” available for on-premises)?

Topic 5 - Running applications in cloud vs. on-premises is always going to be somewhat different. What are some of the things that Intel does with Google to help improve the overall experience?

Topic 6 - What are some of the use-cases that you’ve found are early successes for Anthos, or some of the early lessons that companies are finding when using Anthos?

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Robotic and Intelligent Process Automation

19 augusti 2020 | 40 min

Mike Kalinowski (@mxkalinowski, Senior Manager of Product at @Infor) talks about the basics of RPA, the challenges of automating diverse heritage systems, the emerging role of AI/ML in RPA, and the evolution of business analysts.

SHOW: 463

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what attracted you to the interaction of business processes and technology automation.

Topic 2 - For anyone that isn’t familiar with the concept of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), can you give us a brief overview of the business problem it attempts to solve and the basic technology behind it?

Topic 3 - We often hear about systems with APIs and how they can be automated and interacted with. But many back-end systems could be older, so how does RPA interact with these types of systems?

Topic 4 - Oftentimes these automated workflows can involve inputs and outputs from various systems (applications). Who tends to be the owner of an RPA system, or does it blur the lines between groups?

Topic 5 - As I look at what Infor OS provides around Intelligent Process Automation, very graphical, it seems like it overlaps with this “Low Code / No Code” trend/buzzword. Is there any reality to that, or are they very different things?

Topic 6 - When I look at case-studies for RPA, the ROIs are usually incredible. How do companies often get started, and are there any gotchas you’d suggest people avoid?

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Introduction to GraphQL

12 augusti 2020 | 41 min

Delegated Identity in the Cloud

5 augusti 2020 | 39 min

How to Secure DevOps

29 juli 2020 | 34 min

Dan “Pop” Papandrea (@danpopnyc, Field CTO @Sysdig Host @PopcastPop) talks about securing DevOps, how to secure containers and runtimes, and the cultural challenges of security in an agile world.

SHOW: 460

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. I first got to know you through your podcast The POPcast, but you’re been around this evolution of the cloud for quite a while. Tell us a bit about your background.

Topic 2 - There’s a concept that’s now been around a couple years called “DevSecOps”. Originally it was “Sec” being jammed in there because it had been excluded from the early days of DevOps (at least in practice). Where are we with DevSecOps today?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about DevSecOps in the context of containers. We now have things like Container Scanning, Container Signing, and Immutable Infrastructure and yet security still concerns people. Isn’t the “software supply chain” supposed to weed out the vulnerabilities before they get into the production systems?

Topic 4 - One of the challenges that companies have in adopting containers is that they were used to having root access to hosts, and containers live in the user space. How can security tools fit into a container world?

Topic 5 - As you talk to lots of companies, how are they dealing with the cultural challenges that go along with implementing DevSecOps?

Topic 6 - Any tips or suggestions you can share to help people avoid common DevSecOps mistakes, or accelerate best practices and wider adoption?

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Introduction to Data Mesh

22 juli 2020 | 44 min

Zhamak Dehghani (@zhamakd, Portfolio Tech Director @ThoughtWorks) talks about the concepts behind Data Mesh, the challenges and problems of Data Lakes / Data Warehouses, and how Cloud-native principles can be applied to Data.

SHOW: 459

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ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
Data Mesh (from Technology Radar)
How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We were introduced to you through the O’Reilly events, but you’ve been involved in software development and architecture for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and your focus areas at ThoughtWorks.

Topic 2 - About a year ago, you introduced this new concept called “Data Mesh”. Before we get into that, give us a little bit of background on the problems that previous generations of Data Warehouses or Data Lakes created.

Topic 3 - Lets begin to walk through how Data Mesh is different from Data Lake. We’re not talking about just dumping all the various data sources into one “pool”, there’s a concept of “domains” within this big pool of data. What are the new concepts of source and consumption?

Topic 4 - Explain the concept of how pipelines are tied into Data Mesh and how this allows the creation of new products/features from the Data Mesh.

Topic 5 - You talk about the data being truthful, and then you bring an SRE concept of SLO into the truthfulness of the data. Explain how that might work?

Topic 6 - Once a Data Mesh is in place, what are the “roles” (or teams) that have specific tasks, and who are the typical consumers of the Data Mesh platform?

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Natural Language Understanding with AI for IT Support

16 juli 2020 | 28 min

2020 in Review - Midyear Edition

8 juli 2020 | 45 min

Aaron and Brian review the first half of 2020, which feels like it’s lasted 6 years.

SHOW: 457

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Back on March 18th, Aaron and Ken Hui did a show about “Working from Home Tips and Tricks”. Can you even remember your mindset back in March?

Zoom becomes a verb

Topic 1a - Is 2020 the Year of Virtual Desktops? Have you seen any last shifts happening about people being remote? [are companies going to allow people to work remote?]

Topic 2 - We’re starting to see the major clouds start to carve out some unique personalities:

AWS - Goes over $10B for the quarter, not a lot of big announcements
Azure - Lots of interesting growth around GitHub; pushing Teams hard with COVID; but had some scaling issues with COVID - also has made several acquisitions
Google - Getting very sales focused (CEO Kurian); pushing Anthos into other clouds (AWS now, Azure soon)
Oracle - Are they becoming the low-cost bandwidth cloud?

Topic 3 - Should anybody be running their own software anymore?

MongoDB, Confluent, Datastax, Hashicorp, Red Hat, VMware (and many more) now have managed cloud-based versions of their core software.

Topic 4 - 2001 Internet Crash drove a ton of new innovation. 2008 Financial Crash led to the public cloud, but also lots of “cost savings” innovation. What does 2020 potentially bring?

Topic 5 - We have to talk about conferences and tradeshows. Do they return in 2021? What have we learned from the virtual ones in 2020?

Topic 6 - Any insights / predictions about the rest of 2020?

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Building a Next-Generation of Serverless

24 juni 2020 | 32 min

Tim Zonca (@timzonca, CEO at @stackeryio) talks about the next evolution of the serverless developer experience, the maturity of customer adoption, how much customer appreciate not having to manage infrastructure, and how to manage the journey to serverless.

SHOW: 456

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a pretty diverse career in terms of elements of making developers successful. Tell about your background and how you became CEO at Stackery almost a year ago.

Topic 2 - It’s hard to believe that AWS Lambda launched about 5.5 years ago. Obviously the serverless ecosystem has grown and expanded quite a bit since then. Where do you see serverless in terms of both maturity of the technologies, and maturity of customer adoption?

Topic 3 - Lets talk about what the Stackery platform brings to the serverless ecosystem.

Topic 4 - As you talk to prospective customers, how much different is it to discuss not have to be burdened by underlying resources vs. previous conversations you’ve had about applications? How long does it usually take them to grasp the magnitude of the changes in development?

Topic 5 - How much of a “traditional” developer experience still exists with serverless (write code, write tests, pipelines, etc.) and what are some immediate things they will see that’s different?

Topic 6 - Having been at Puppet you obviously saw many DevOps transformations. What are some of the steps on a typical Serverless transformation for companies?

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MLOps, GPUs and AI Developers

17 juni 2020 | 25 min

Security Visibility from Observability Data

10 juni 2020 | 31 min

Marc Tremsal (@mtremsal, Director Product Management @datadoghq) talks about the intersection of observability and security, if SRE needs a DevSecOps transition, using security data for modeling, and tips to make immediate impacts on overall security.

SHOW: 454

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SHOW NOTES:

Datadog Security Monitoring

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve played a role in helping to design systems that secure some of the most critical environments in the world. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We’ve talked about monitoring, observability and in various ways “security”, but how do you see all those things beginning to come together more these days?

Topic 3 - As we get into more distributed environments, especially for security (authentication, encryption, key-management, proxies, etc.), how should people think about a framework to have visibility and be able to take action across these distributed systems?

Topic 4 - Is this visibility of security-related activities (or potentially security-associated) mostly useful for real-time security threats (e.g. “we’re being attacked”), or can it also be used for more long-term types of activities (planning, threat modeling, chaos engineering, etc.)?

Topic 5 - Can you share with us any customer-centric stories of how this is helping companies deliver better services, or more uptime for their services?

Topic 6 - What are some tips you can share with the audience today that would help them make immediate impacts to how them monitor for security?

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AI for the Mainstream

3 juni 2020 | 27 min

Continuous Reliability

27 maj 2020 | 32 min

Tal Weiss (@weisstal, Co-Founder/CTO of @OverOpsHQ) talks about the challenges of frequently deploying applications, understanding cloud-native patterns, and helping developers debug problems in production.

SHOW: 452

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SHOW NOTES:

OverOps Homepage

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been a software developer, an entrepreneur and worked on some pretty challenging technical areas - tell us a little bit about your background. What motivated you to start OverOps?

Topic 2 - We are quickly moving to a world where software is no longer a “big bang” planning activity, but lots of continuous activities, loosely coordinated. What sort of challenges does that create for production applications?

Topic 3 - OverOps talks about this concept of Continuous Reliability. What does this mean in a world where cloud-native patterns are teaching people that they should build systems that are designed around unreliable infrastructure?

Topic 4 - How does OverOps begin to make it easier for developers to debug production problems, especially when there are many tools collecting lots and other information about systems?

Topic 5 - Where do you see the most progress for companies that have these highly variable, fast-moving application environments improving the most? Is it the evolution of SRE teams, or visibility tools, or something else?

Topics 6 - Any tips you can pass along to our audience for reaching continuous reliability?

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Network Security with Adaptive DDI

20 maj 2020 | 33 min

Cloud BI for Everyone

13 maj 2020 | 29 min

Pedro Arellano (@DSSPedro, Head of Product Marketing, Looker) talks about the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI), how BI is used by more than data scientists, the importance of visualization, and creating new ways to correlate data sources.

SHOW: 450

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SHOW NOTES:

Looker Homepage
Data in the time of COVID-19
How to choose the best chart for your data (Looker blog)
Data scientists and the Art of Persuasion (HBR)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been around the data industry for a while, and were part of the Looker team that was acquired by Google Cloud in 2019. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what excites you about the Business Intelligence space.

Topic 2 - We live in a world where we are presented with large amounts of data on a daily basis, but most of us aren’t data scientists. How does Looker’s approach to Business Intelligence appeal to the masses?

Topic 3 - Usually BI requires a significant investment in ETL technologies to be able to bring together many different data sources. How does Looker overcome that, or apply “data models” across a variety of data sources.

Topic 4 - Looker has always emphasized the visualization elements of data. Some data scientists live in spreadsheets or Jupyter notebooks. How important do you find it is to be able to visualize complex data, especially as it needs to be used to communicate across groups within a company?

Topic 5 - Given that Looker allows many different types of data sources to be part of the analysis, do you do anything in working with customers to help them think about “new” data sources that could provide new correlations or viewpoints to their business?

Topics 6 - What are some of the examples of new ways that you’re seeing companies use Cloud BI, either to enable new teams to have business insights, or collaborate better across teams?

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Making Microservices Work at Scale

6 maj 2020 | 34 min

Sarah Wells (@sarahjwells, Technical Director for Operations & Reliability at @FT) talks about how she's evolved her career with the changes at FT, how they chose to use microservices, how their internal culture has evolved and how they think about funding and maintaining service ownership.

SHOW: 449

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SHOW NOTES:

Sarah Wells - DevClass Interview
Challenge of Migrating 150 Services to Kubernetes (CNCF Talk - Video)
Mature Microservices and How to Operate Them (InfoQ)
FT colleagues Victoria Morgan Smith and her co-author Matthew Skelton on internal tech conferences

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We often speak with experts working on the technology-vendor side of the industry, but you’re building in a much different way. Tell us about your background, and introduce us to the work you’re doing today at the Financial Times.

Topic 2 - For the last 4 years, you’ve been talking a lot (publicly) about building and using microservices. Give us some background on your journey, and some of the reasons why your teams have chosen this architecture. (experimentation, A/B testing)

Topic 3 - You work in a world that reports on the financial success (or failures) of other companies, but how do you measure your own success? How do you put them in perspective/

Topic 4 - Lets talk about service ownership. Who owns a service, how long do they own a service, do they ever go away?

Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’d be willing to share with our audience about driving successful culture within your team or across other teams?

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Managing App Sprawl with SaaSOps

29 april 2020 | 31 min

Aaron talks to Jim Brennan (CPO @ BetterCloud) about SaaSOps and the challenges of managing SaaS applications in a world when IT is becoming decentralized.

SHOW: 448

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SHOW NOTES:

BetterCloud Website

Topic 1 - Jim, welcome to the show. tell everyone a little about yourself and what has you so passionate about making SaaS better?

Topic 2 - Over the years on the podcast we have watched the growth of the SaaS market. It seems a market isn’t truly it’s own until you attach Ops to it… We’ve seen DevOps, SecOps, NoOps, and many others. So, today we are going to talk about SaaSOps. What is SaaSOps?

Topic 3 - At the core of SaaSOps is the ability to discover all the SaaS capabilities that are being used across a company. There is no longer a central place in IT to discover things, and no longer a fixed perimeter for input and output. So how do you discover things in SaaSOps?

Topic 3a - On the flip side of that, how do you manage data discovery, because if things didn’t go through a known exit point, how do you connect what data left the company (or might be insecurely stored somewhere?)

Topic 4 - Every industry has growing pains. What are some in the SaaS industry? Security seems to always be a pain for everyone...

Topic 5 - How is this space different from straight up identity management and the classical dashboard of SaaS and other apps that may be provided to me as an employee of a company?

Topic 6 - Your background is non-Silicon Valley and the company locations reflect that. How has it been building a company outside the bubble?

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Cloud Observability with ELK and Grafana

22 april 2020 | 31 min

Tomer Levy (@TomerLevy, Co-Founder/CEO of @Logzio) talks about how open source communities have evolved to enable Observability, how teams embed Security into their DevOps processes, and tips for managing better collaborations and communications in distributed teams.

SHOW: 447

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SHOW NOTES:

Logz.io Homepage
Why We Founded Logz.io Video
Logz.io: Infrastructure Monitoring
Launching the Community COVID-19 Dashboard Project
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Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background as both a technologist and entrepreneur, and what excites you about the open-source ecosystem (what motivated you to found Logz.io)?

Topic 2 - Observability is a hot topic these days, how are we seeing the open source community and open source tools evolve in this space?

Topic 3 - We've seen an explosion of application traffic and data over the last few years. What are some of the things that tools like the ELK stack and Grafana have done to help with this scale, as well as making life easier for DevOps teams?

Topic 4 - You have a background in security. Is it possible to have a DevOps team these days without it being DevSecOps? What are some of the things you’ve seen that are making security more manageable in these fast-changing environments?

Topic 5 - None of us know when these work-from-home conditions are going to change, or how long the impact might be on a “new normal’. Any tips or suggestions for newly remote teams to be successful around operations? How important is it for engineers to better manage complexity and costs during this time?

Topics 6 - What are some of the ways that Logz is using your experience in data collection and data visualization to give back to help during these trying times?

Topics 7 - Can you tell us about your upcoming online event -- OpenObservability -- and how the agenda and speakers will cover some of these items in more detail with their unique insights?

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SRE Lessons from the Trenches

15 april 2020 | 41 min

A Practical Approach to Cloud-native Patterns

8 april 2020 | 37 min

Ian Crosby (@IanDCrosby, Managing Director @ContainerSoluti) talks about how Cloud-native applications are as much about new technology patterns as they are about new organization patterns, collaboration patterns and risk-management patterns.

SHOW: 445

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SHOW NOTES:

Container Solutions (homepage)
Ian’s Blog (Container Solutions)
Cloud Native Transformation Patterns (Strategy, Culture, Tech, Orgs, etc.)
Cloud Native Transformation (O’Reilly)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, as you’ve been around software development and this move to cloud-native for a little while now.

Topic 2 - Lets begin by talking about patterns. What are some common application patterns, and how do they begin to change when we’re talking about cloud-native patterns?

Topic 3 - What are some of the more commonly used cloud-native patterns? Are they more focused on the underlying technology (e.g. containers, Kubernetes, etc.) or more focused on the actual application (e.g. 12-factor, etc)?

Topic 4 - Have you found that some patterns are easier for groups (or companies) to adopt than others?

Topic 4a - “Why are patterns useful in Cloud Native?” or “How do you get started using patterns?” are two topics/questions which may be interesting.

Topic 5 - Have you found that some patterns are easier or more difficult to maintain over time?

Topic 6 - What are some common tips that you share with communities or your clients to help them find early success to build confidence?

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SecOps in the Cloud

1 april 2020 | 30 min

GitHub Actions and the DevOps Lifecycle

25 mars 2020 | 28 min

Tips for Working from Home

18 mars 2020 | 30 min

Next-Generation Developer Collaboration

11 mars 2020 | 32 min

API Driven Edge Networking and 5G

4 mars 2020 | 48 min

Sunay Tripathi (@SunayTripathi, Founder and CTO, @MobiledgeX) talk about Edge Networking, why 5G will be a huge leap forward, evolving use cases beyond AR/VR, and creating a clean developer experience by abstracting away the mobile transport layer

SHOW: 440

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself, you have been at the intersection of Network Virtualization, Cloud, and now Edge for quite some time.

Topic 2 - Let’s start at the start. What is your definition of Edge and what are some of the historical problems you see there? In this instance we are talking about network edge devices and not edge computing, correct?

Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about device/identity security at the edge.

Topic 4 - When I think about device based AR/VR, I think about gaming as the primary use case that I’m exposed to as a consumer but we are talking about much more than that. What are some of the prominent use cases you are seeing and are trying to solve for?

Topic 5 - How does the increase in bandwidth at the transport layer, in particular worldwide 5G come in to play? Is this just a “bigger, faster pipe” or does it require a heavy implementation lift to adopt? How does world geography play into this? Some areas of the world are dominated with edge/handheld devices for almost all daily life now...

Topic 6 - We don’t talk about PaaS as much on the podcast lately but would it be safe to characterize MobiledgeX’s technology as a development PaaS for edge devices?

Topic 7 - Tells us about MobiledgeX’s upcoming initiative, Seamster. As I understand it this will bring vendors and developers together, correct?

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DevOps and Incident Response Evolution

26 februari 2020 | 36 min

Chris Riley (@hoardinginfo, DevOps Advocate, @Splunk) talks about the state of DevOps, the evolution of Incident Response with Machine Learning, Service vs. Site Reliability, and using Incident Response to increase quality of development

SHOW: 439

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself, you’ve been active in the DevOps space for quite some time.

Topic 2 - About a year ago we had your peer and good friend of the show, Josh Atwell, on to talk about the State of DevOps in 2019. What are your thoughts on changes over the last 12 months and where we headed in 2020?

Topic 3 - One item in particular that has drawn my attention is your discussions on Incident Response and Machine Learning. Can you tell everyone a little bit about that and why you believe it will be valuable going forward?

Topic 4 - This in a way feels almost like a transition into the next evolution of our model. First we had separate dev and ops and no one talked, then we put them together, then we had every device and app start spitting out logs and alerts and next thing you knew, we were drowning in data… The complexity of the systems has grown exponentially. Fair?

Topic 5 - You recently did a post over on the Victor Ops blog about SRE and the meaning of the “S” in that blog. You propose more and more it should stand for Service Reliability Engineer vs. the more traditional Site Reliability Engineer, especially as we move into a subscription based model world. Can you explain to everyone your thoughts there?

Topic 6 - When I think Incident Response, I think production environments. As part of VictorOps I’m sure you see a lot of use cases and have solved some pretty unique customer problems. How can this be applied outside of production, say for application testing or quality before hitting production? Is that a valid approach?

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Scalable Databases on Kubernetes

19 februari 2020 | 23 min

Peter Mattis (@PeterMattis, Co-founder/CTO of @CockroachDB) talks about the evolution of scalable SQL databases, the challenges of globally scalable data management, how Kubernetes has evolved to manage stateful applications, and lessons learned running Kubernetes and CockroachDB.

SHOW: 438

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SHOW NOTES:

CockroachLabs Homepage
CockroachDB - Scalable, survivable, SQL database
OperatorHub Homepage
Peter Mattis on the Google Kubernetes Podcast

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into our discussion, tell us a little bit about your background in working on scalable technologies.

Topic 2 - Today we’re going to mash together a couple of popular (and complex) topics - the growing use-cases on Kubernetes, and the growing need to synchronize data for anywhere access. Let’s start with the data side of the equation - tell us about the basics of your creation, CockroachDB, and the challenges it solves.

Topic 3 - What are some of the use-cases that are driving more scalable SQL usage vs. more traditional SQL database models?

Topic 4 - When Kubernetes first got started, the focus was on scalable stateless (cloud-native) applications. How are you beginning to see the trend towards companies becoming more comfortable with stateful applications (e.g. databases) on Kubernetes?

Topic 5 - One of the new technologies that’s making it easier to get databases onto Kubernetes is “Operators”. CockroachLabs has been one of the leading platforms supporting this technology. Can you talk a little bit about your experience with Operators and how it images the way Kubernetes teams (developers or platform teams) about databases on Kubernetes.

Topic 6 - What are some of the lessons learned from deploying CockroachDB onto Kubernetes?

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A "AI & ML" Look Ahead for 2020

14 februari 2020 | 43 min

Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Host of TWIML & AI Podcast) talks about AI & ML trends in 2020, frameworks to understand usage patterns, hot new technology to explore, how long projects take to succeed, and the inherent bias built into every AI & ML model.

SHOW: 437

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SHOW NOTES:

TWIML Homepage (Podcasts, eBooks, etc.)
- eBook: The Definitive Guide to ML Platforms
- Study Groups & Education
TWIML Conference Homepage
Sam Charrington on The Cloudcast in 2019 (Eps.321)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Let’s start with the broad set of TWIML activities that you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - You focus on AI & ML every week, across a lot of different domains and usages. It’s a broad scope. If you had to focus it on Enterprise/Business leaders, how do you structure a conversation around how to align business opportunity and technology choices?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most commonly used technologies being deployed around AI/ML systems? Any big shifts over the last couple of years?

Topic 4 - You’ve been around Cloud Computing and DevOps communities, which required companies to go through some people/process change to achieve success. What are the people/process changes that you typically see with AI/ML environments?

Topic 5 - If somebody asked you how they can put a timeline on when they’ll see value around their AI/ML, is that a realistic ask? What are the factors that go into achieving success in AI/ML projects?

Topic 6 - What are some of the interesting usages of AI/ML that you’ve seen in use recently?

Topic 7 - There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about bias in AI/ML algorithms. Can you explain what this means and how it could impact the system’s decision making?

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New Trends in Serverless

5 februari 2020 | 32 min

A “API” Look Ahead for 2020

29 januari 2020 | 32 min

A “Service Mesh” Look Ahead for 2020

22 januari 2020 | 37 min

SHOW: 434

DESCRIPTION: Christian Posta (@christianposta, Field CTO @soloio_inc) talks about the trends that are shaping the Service Mesh space, including emerging standards, application patterns, and interactions with API gateways.

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SHOW NOTES:

Christian Posta’s blog (Service Mesh, Cloud-native apps content)
Solo.io’s blog
Christian on PodCTL podcast (discussing Istio)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show; you’ve been on PodCTL in the past. Tell us about your background, as you’ve been very active with application developers and distributed systems for quite a while.

Topic 2 - A few years ago, Service Mesh came onto the scene as a big deal (Istio, Linkerd, etc.) and people were trying to figure out what it was, what it did, etc. The technology has evolved quite a bit, but people are still oftentimes confused. How should we think about what a Service Mesh does (or doesn’t do)?

Topic 3 - What are the most common use-cases when Service Mesh is being used? What are some of the places where Service Mesh is discussed, but probably shouldn’t be used? (API-Gateway, code in an application, etc.)

Topic 4 - Sometimes we have a technology space that has lots of implementations (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, etc.) that eventually converge into a single industry choice. But Service Mesh still has lots of implementations. Are they all really different? Will we see industry convergence around a standard? Do we need a standard?

Topic 5 - What are some of the areas where you expect that we’ll see advancements in Service Mesh in 2020?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways for people to start either learning more about Service Mesh, or trying out the technology to see if it makes sense for them?

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The Unicorn Project with Gene Kim

15 januari 2020 | 36 min

SHOW: 433

DESCRIPTION: Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim, Author, DevOps Researcher) talks about his new book “The Unicorn Project”, the follow-on to “The Phoenix Project, and the newest trends shaping DevOps and business success.

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SHOW NOTES:

The Unicorn Project (homepage)
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The Phoenix Project on The Cloudcast (Eps.79)
The DevOps Handbook
DevOps Enterprise Summit (event)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s hard to believe it’s been 7 years since you were last on the show. Before we get into the Unicorn Project, let’s talk briefly about some of the other things you’ve been doing since The Phoenix Project (DevOps Handbook, DevOps Enterprise Summit, etc.)

Topic 2 - Let’s do a Cliff Notes version of The Unicorn Project. It picks up 2-3 years after The Phoenix Project - what are the challenges now facing Parts Unlimited?

Topic 3 - Without giving away the ending, there is a sense that the Unicorn Project team essentially says that DevOps is dead and they are going to do things a new way. Is that the message of the story?

Topic 4 - The hero of this story (Maxine) is what I’d call a “25x engineer”. She’s portrayed as super-elite in her engineering skills. I’ve also noticed that the State of DevOps report is also now adding a focus on these super-elite teams. Is that a good thing to focus on, since so few teams identify like that?

Topic 5 - This book talks about 5 “ideals”. How would you stack rank them in terms of ease or difficulty in achieving?

THE FIRST IDEAL: Locality and Simplicity
THE SECOND IDEAL: Focus, Flow, and Joy
THE THIRD IDEAL: Improvement of Daily Work
THE FOURTH IDEAL: Psychological Safety
THE FIFTH IDEAL: Customer Focus

Topic 6 - In Unicorn Project, you have a very broad set of characters. Do you do this so that a broad set of people can identify within these challenging environments?

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A "SaaS" Look Ahead for 2020

10 januari 2020 | 36 min

A "Data" Look Ahead for 2020

3 januari 2020 | 32 min

SHOW: 431

DESCRIPTION: Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen, Director of Technology Evangelism at @NetApp) talks about the growing importance of data to reshape business, emerging data trends and standards, working around 5G networks and more.

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SHOW NOTES:

Go Your Way (podcast)
Enterprise Te.ch (Greg’s newsletter)
California’s new Data Privacy Law - California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For anyone that doesn’t know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you focus on now.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by having an executive-level discussion about “data”. Everyone loves talking about developers and applications, but how do you explain to an executive about the value of managing data as a core business asset? What makes data so valuable in 2020?

Topic 3 - The world used to be “big servers” + “big relational database” + “storage array”. Now that model is blow up into 100s of distributed elements, lots of technology choices, lots of locations. Is there a way to think about data in these distributed models?

Topic 4 - What are some of the emerging data standards that people should be aware of, or learning more about? [alternatives to 5G]

Topic 5 - Data moved from a cost “liability” a while ago, to an “asset” as we started talking about Data Lakes and AI/ML models. Have you found any metrics or conversations that people understand (in the “analytics context”) about how we justify keeping data - or trying to acquire more data.

Topic 6 - We’ve got cheaper ways to store data, faster networks coming (e.g. 5G, alternative options) and cheaper/faster CPUs (e.g. ARM). When these dynamics change, new things emerge that we’ve never thought of before. Are you starting to hear people discuss interesting new business ideas yet?

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2019 in Review & 2020 Predictions

25 december 2019 | 51 min

SHOW: 430

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of 2019, and make bold cloud computing predictions for 2020.

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PODCAST BUSINESS:

Why are Aaron and Brian both on the show recently?
Krispy Kreme Challenge (“The Donut Run”) fundraising
Announcing “The Cloudcast Basics” - coming in early 2020!!

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: The Cloudcast in 2019:

Over 1.6M+ listens, up 40% YoY
Guest Acquisitions: (total: 9) Cloudability (Apptio), Bromium (HPE), Docker (Mirantis), Shippable (JFrog), SignalFX (Splunk), Pivotal (VMware), NGINX (F5), ParkMyCloud (Turbonomics), Twistlock (Palo Alto) - also had 9 in 2018
IPO: Datadog

TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2019:

Public Cloud CAPEX comparisons (through 2018)
Data of AWS trends in Revenues, Growth Rates, Operating Margins, Operating Income
AWS continues to lead in revenues, but their revenue growth has been slowing (as a YoY and QoQ%) for the last 5-6 months. Increased competition from Azure.
Azure won the US DoD JEDI contract.
Google continues to be 3rd or 4th cloud, with Alibaba Cloud often ranked 3rd.
IBM closed the $34B acquisition of Red Hat
VMware made 8 acquisitions in 2019 - Bitnami, Pivotal. AVI Networks, Carbon Black
Lots of discussion about large public cloud spending by web scale companies (Salesforce, Apple, Spotify, etc.)
Several of the Gig-Economy companies continued to struggle in finding a profitable business model - Uber, Lyft, WeWork, DoorDash, etc.

2020 PREDICTIONS

Brian:

We’ll start talking about GitHub as one of the major cloud platforms, in the same way we do AWS, Azure and Google.
We’re going to start seeing more and more vertical-centric AI/ML companies emerge, that curate data and provide insights-as-a-service.
We’re going to start seeing companies that offer distributed versions of the large “monolithic” systems of today (Core Banking, ERP, etc.) that lets new companies and business models emerge.

Aaron:

The “trough of disillusionment” will hit Kubernetes, and it will be fine…
Serverless will get a new name and will hit stride
GitLab and HashiCorp will have breakout years

STARS WARS DISCUSSION:
For the 1st time ever, we indulge Aaron and talk a little bit of sci-fi on the

2010's Decade in Review & Reader Mailbag Questions

19 december 2019 | 46 min

SHOW: 429

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends of the 2010s decade, and answer reader mailbag questions from 2019.

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TRENDS FROM THE DECADE (2010-2019):

Hype or Not?: OpenStack, HCI, Docker, Cloud Foundry (or any PaaS), Kubernetes, Blockchain, AI/ML, Serverless
The re-invention of Microsoft (Azure, GitHub, Open Source, dropping failed efforts (Nokia, Windows Mobile)
It’s hard to believe that Google is still only 3rd or 4th in public cloud (and it’s leadership is questioning its future)
The rise of open-source in the Enterprise, and all the challenges this created across the industry
The rise of developer-lead decision-making (shadow IT, mobile apps, decentralized decision-making, serverless as NoOps)
Everyone still sucks at security, but now it’s a headline problem
10 years of DevOps discussions and most companies still haven’t figured out that it’s org-charts and culture.
The shift from Config-Mgmt (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt) to things like Immutable infrastructure, Declarative schedulers, GitOps, etc.)

READER MAILBAG QUESTIONS:

Question 1 - If you had to advise someone that’s 25, 35 and 45 about “career path” in IT, what tips might you give them? - Thomas T.

Question 2 - You guys see a lot of different technologies through the interviews. Which new ones do you think have longevity and which ones are potentially overhyped? - Michael C.

Question 3 - What “disruptive technology” is a more important skill to learn? - Erika B.

Question 4 - What the most misunderstood concept in IT today? Seema J.

Question 5 - Why do you think our industry is so obsessed with the idea that the new technology will completely eliminate the old technology? Has that ever really happened? - Jacob H.

Bringing DevOps to the Database with Automation

13 december 2019 | 40 min

SHOW: 428

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Robert Reeves (@robertreeves, Co-Founder / CTO of @Datical) about how to bring agility to databases to match the speed of cloud-native applications.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW NOTES:

Datical Homepage
Liquibase Homepage - leading open-source tool for database schema change management.

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - We talk about DevOps a lot on this show. And we talk a lot about various types of databases. But for some reason, we very rarely talk about them together. Why is that? It’s not as if the world of cloud-native applications are all stateless.

Topic 3 - What do you see as the most common challenges that companies have with bringing databases into this world of more frequent software changes (DevOps, Agile, etc.)?

Topic 4 - You’re involved in an open-source project called “LIquibase”, which is focused on database schema change management. How does that help database move into a more automated world?

Topic 5 - Do you find that a lack of automation around databases is a bigger challenge from a continuous deployment perspective, or a security/patching perspective? (or both)

Topic 6 - People are very fearful of databases going down, which restricts them from making changes. How do you suggest companies getting more comfortable in making frequent changes to databases?

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Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2019

7 december 2019 | 33 min

Building an Effective Developer Program

27 november 2019 | 34 min

SHOW: 426

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk to Mark Weitzel (@weitzlm, VP & General Manager, New Relic One at @NewRelic) about building effective developer platforms including lessons learned, best practices and trade offs to consider

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

KubeCon impressions from Brian
AWS announced a bunch of new services prior to Re:Invent
Google Cloud acquires Cloud Simple
IBM continues to add functionality onto Red Hat OpenShift:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Before we dig into the New Relic Developer Program, we wanted to get your perspective on what “developer” means these days - Is it AppDev, DevOps, Data Scientist, Business Analyst? How do you try and put personas around different “developer” needs?

Topic 3 - One of the things I find in working with businesses that are going through transformational change (via technology) is how many don’t understand that their new world (“enabling developers”) will begin to look like a technology vendor’s approach to the market (“enabling developers”). Do you find your customers begin to adopt their internal programs to look like the program that you’ve rolled out with New Relic One?

Topic 4 - What are some of the most important/critical aspects of the program, and how do you measure its progress, its success, or its areas to improve?

Topic 5 - How did you think about balancing the need for content for newer developers (or new to the platform) vs. more expert-level developers?

Topic 6 - How important is community to making the program a success, and helping it scale?

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Reviewing Microsoft Ignite 2019

21 november 2019 | 34 min

Azure Cloud Adoption Framework

14 november 2019 | 27 min

Simplifying Healthcare Interactions

7 november 2019 | 37 min

Evolving Trust on the Internet

6 november 2019 | 34 min

Understanding HTTP/S, CDNs and Edge Proxies

30 oktober 2019 | 41 min

SHOW: 421

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Julia Evans (@b0rk, software engineer, data scientist, ‘zine artist) about the fundamentals of HTTP/HTTPS, and the interaction of web traffic with CDNs, Load-Balancers and Edge Proxies.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 1a - We’ve followed your “zines” via Twitter for a while. They cover quite a large number of topics. Give us some background on how you started taking this self-learning process and turning it into a visual medium?

Topic 2 - You’ve recently been doing a bunch of work around HTTP. Most people know HTTP as the thing they type into a web-browser (sometimes). Let’s dig into why it might be important for people to know more about how the lifecycle of HTTP can impact their application performance.

Topic 3 - Lots of the content we access on the Internet is stored/cached in CDNs around the world. Walk us through the basics of how CDNs work, and some of the interactions between HTTP and CDNs that can either improve performance or generally make an application’s life miserable.

Topic 4 - Beyond CDNs, another big element that impacts HTTP traffic is load-balancers. Many people understand how basic IP-load balancing works, but how can it be different between L4 and L7 load-balancers?

Topic 5 - Now how does encryption factor into all of this, as things like HTTP or TLS become part of the traffic? What are some of the guidelines that either developers or infrastructure teams should be thinking about with regard to those encrypted streams?

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Buying & Selling SaaS Services

23 oktober 2019 | 32 min

SHOW: 420

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Nicolas Vandenberghe (@NicolasVDB, Co-Founder at @ChiliPiper) about the buying and selling of SaaS services, how to streamline interactions, and how to better engage with potential SaaS users.

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Splunk has agreed to acquire @streamlio, an open-source distributed messaging leader.
SAP CEO leaves to go to ServiceNow
ServiceNow CEO leaves to go to Nike
MPLS is back - Pensando Systems
Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 shipped / GA

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Chili Piper Homepage

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a broad background in the SaaS space. Can you tell us a little bit about your background prior to founding Chili Piper?

Topic 2 - The buying of IT services has become so distributed, not only the buyers, but the influencers, and the actual sellers. Can you help us better understand the bigger picture about the processes involved in information gathering, decision-making, and then the on-going relationship with the services being bought?

Topic 3 - Chili Piper brings together, or orchestrates, the ability to gather and use information from lots of tools that help sales, marketing, and analytics teams (Hubspot, Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce, Twillio, etc.). How does the work you do translate into the teams that need either a bigger picture, or sometimes a smaller more granular picture of the market?

Topic 4 - Can you talk about some examples of how your customers leverage the Chili Piper technologies to improve their performance or market perspective?

Topic 5 - Are the tools and techniques that Chili Piper brings to market specific to the SaaS business model, or could they equally be applied to other more CAPEX-centric or Contract-centric business models?

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From the Battlefield to the Boardroom

16 oktober 2019 | 35 min

Building a Cloud Practice in Azure

9 oktober 2019 | 34 min

SHOW: 418

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Joseph Landes, (@josephlandes, Chief Revenue Officer @GetNerdio) about the unique characteristics of the Azure Cloud, how MSPs are able to differentiate or partner in the market with public clouds, and how Nerdio helps bring together popular services in simple ways.

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Nerdio Homepage

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we talk about Nerdio, tell us about your background prior to joining the company, and about your focus today.

Topic 2 - We spend quite a bit of time on this show talking about the technology offerings of Azure (and other clouds). Give us a sense of what the partner ecosystem of companies building enabling services on Azure looks like today.

Topic 3 - Lets talk about how Nerdio interacts between Azure services and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Help us understand the interaction between that ecosystem.

Topic 4 - Traditionally, MSPs had the advantage of being regionally close to customers, and having some ability to differentiate based on vertical markets. How has their world evolved over time, what are their biggest struggles today, and how does Nerdio help them be more successful?

Topic 5 - We often look at Azure holistically, through the broad lens of 100s of services. Is it better to look at them in groups of services, targeting a specific market segment or market vertical?

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Developer Tools for Kubernetes

2 oktober 2019 | 38 min

SHOW: 417

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Ellen Korbes (@ellenkorbes, Developer Relations at @garden_io) about the emerging sets of tools and frameworks to make it easier for application developers to interact with Kubernetes.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell a little bit about your background, and some of the things that you do in your day-to-day of Developer Relations with Garden.

Topic 2 - Kubernetes is a weird system because it involves containers and schedulers, neither of which developers really want to deal with. So why has Kubernetes become so popular, if it’s potentially not that friendly for developers?

Topic 3 - There has been a lot of activity in open source communities to create ways to make it easier for developers to work with Kubernetes. Some of those have been “PaaS” offerings (s2i, buildpacks, etc.), and some have been new tooling (e.g. Helm, Draft, Skaffold, Forge, Telepresence, Garden, and Tilt). Can you tell us about some of the new tooling - how do they map to developer needs?

Debugging - Squash, KubeFwd, Stern
“Connect” - KubeFwd, Telepresence, Ksync
Development Orchestrators - Garden, Skaffold, Tilt

Topic 4 - In going through the different tools, what have you found are the ones that make the most immediate impact for developers?

Topic 5 - As Kubernetes get more popular and widely used, do you think it’s important for developers to have to learn about Kubernetes? Or do you think that the external tooling will abstract it enough for them to be productive without that knowledge?

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Dashboards, Metrics and Observability

25 september 2019 | 32 min

Chaos Engineering and Team Health

18 september 2019 | 32 min

SHOW: 415

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Paul Osman (@paulosman, SRE Engineering Manager @UnderArmour) about aligning business value to Chaos Engineering, measuring its impact, and changing team culture to embrace the chaos.

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Paul’s Books (Microservices with JavaScript, Microservices Development)
[video] Embracing Chaos - DevOps Day Austin
[Velocity] Managing Chaos: Chaos Engineering and Team Health
Under Armour Homepage
“Chaos Engineering” on previous episodes of The Cloudcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into Chaos Engineering, let’s talk a little bit about your background and some of the things you did prior to joining Under Armour.

Topic 2 - We’ve talked about Chaos Engineering a few times on the show before. At a company level, what are some of the things (Connected Health) where it makes sense for Under Armour to be investing in Chaos Engineering and developing expertise around this discipline?

Topic 3 - Walk us through how a team at Under Armour thinks about Chaos Engineering, from the business need to think about scheduling it (or not scheduling it), measuring it, and then communicating the results back within your team and to management.

Topic 4 - I think people think that Chaos is a periodic event, like a DR test, but in reality, it needs to be somewhat of an on-going activity. How do you connect the dots between this on-going Chaos and actual problems in your systems - and how/when to measure problems (or what to measure)?

Topic 5 - What is the most difficult part about getting the team culture to understand that Chaos is an important part of day-to-day activities and dealing with “failure” being part of the system?

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Knative Serverless

11 september 2019 | 31 min

Everything is a Little Bit Broken

4 september 2019 | 35 min

SHOW: 413

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Heidi Waterhouse, (@wiredferret, Developer Advocate @LaunchDarkly) about the challenges of balancing stability and agility, from a technology perspective and a cultural perspective.

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Donate to the Red Cross for victims of Hurricane Dorian

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re going to talk about broken systems today, but before we get into that, let’s talk about your background, and what types of things you work on at LaunchDarkly.

Topic 2 - As we start seeing companies adopt a lot of these new technologies and methods (Agile, DevOps, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud-Native Apps, Continuous Integration, etc.) we’re seeing them go through this interesting transformation of having to think differently about how things should work and how they might break. This is an area that you talk about quite a bit.

Topic 3 - There is a 5 9s mentality and there is a release daily intro production mentality that sort of seem at odds with each other. How do we start figuring out how to manage that big space in between those two world views? Or can they be the same?

Topic 4 - By adding in error budgets, layered access, and other accommodations for failure and for designing our systems for function over form or purity - we learn how to add resiliency to their system by learning to trust but mitigate their reliance on the perfect performance of their underlying tools.

Topic 5 - You get to talk to a lot of developers and architects. What are some of the best ways that you’ve seen them not only grasp these concepts but communicate them up to their management chains so they educate them about the terminology and concepts?

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2019 Mid-Year Industry Update

28 augusti 2019 | 40 min

SHOW: 412

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host of Software Defined Talk podcast) about the tech/cloud trends that have shaped the first half of 2019.

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Software Defined Talk Podcast

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. I’ve been listening to your show, Software Defined Talk, for quite a while. Tell us about your show, your co-hosts and the types of things you discuss on the show?

Topic 2 - What are some of the biggest trends you’ve seen (or been discussing) so far in 2019? Anything really surprise you?

Big IPOs in 2019 - AirBnB, Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, WeWork, Zoom, etc. - the GigEconomy
The rise of Kubernetes, the decline of Cloud Foundry
OSS licensing wars
VMware seems to be acquiring a new company every week
- VMware + Heptio + Pivotal + Bitnami= ?
- VMware now has a managed offering in AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, GCP, Alibaba

Topic 3 - AWS has continued to be the leading public cloud for a decade now. Do you see anything slowing AWS down?

Topic 4 - There were lots of articles earlier in the year about big public cloud contracts between web companies and the public cloud (hundreds of millions in cloud spending). Many of those companies are now struggling as they have gone IPO. If they struggle to make revenue (and subsequently their cloud payments), do you see this having any effect on sentiment about public cloud?

Topic 5 - There is starting to be some noise in the news and the markets about a potential economic slowdown. How much do you think about what that might mean to the tech industry, and subsequently buyers and users of tech? Sometimes in slower times, we see the creativity of new tech emerge (2001 - mass websites; 2007/8 - AWS and iPhone, 2019/2020 - ??)

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Blockchain beyond the Database

21 augusti 2019 | 39 min

SHOW: 411

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Brian Platz (@bplatz, CEO/Co-Founder at @Flureee) about blockchain use-cases outside of cryptocurrencies, immutable data, graph databases, and building APIs on data.

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Fluree Homepage - Business Application Platform
Brian Platz on Hackernoon [podcast]

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Fluree and the breadth of technologies that power the stack, let’s talk about your background and what drove you to create Fluree.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the problems - why does the industry need a new data management stack? What types of use-cases or data-management problems does the Fluree stack address?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the Fluree stack, because it brings together several technologies (e.g. Blockchain, GraphQL, etc.) that have gotten a lot of hype, but people aren’t always sure how they should be used.

Topic 4 - When we step back and look at the Fluree stack, we see a focus around distributed architectures, immutability, graph data richness. Much of this sounds like it aligns to aspects of what is known as the Semantic Web. Are there connections there?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about your philosophy about API management and exposing data at the data-layer instead of the app-layer. What are the pros and cons of this sort of trade-off, and what are some of the things either data or app teams need to consider with this approach?

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Etsy's Big Data Cloud Migration

14 augusti 2019 | 32 min

New Challenges for IT Professionals

7 augusti 2019 | 39 min

SHOW: 409

DESCRIPTION: Corey Hynes, (@CoreyJHynes, CEO Learn on Demand Systems, @LoDSystems) talks about the need for hands-on ways to learn new skills, train IT professionals, and how innovative companies and individuals are adapting to the new culture of tech learning challenges.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re obviously passionate about helping people learn with this podcast, but why don’t you tell us about your background and what makes you passionate about helping people learn at Learn on Demand Systems.

Topic 2 - While we spent a lot of time covering the evolution of cloud technologies, the way that people learn today has evolved enormously as well. Help us understand the breadth of ways that Learn on Demand helps people learn - from Labs to Challenges to other forms?

Topic 3 - One product that you recently started offering is called “IT Pro Challenges”. We’ve heard you say in other forums that you’re a big believer in hands-on learning. How does IT Pro Challenges help make sure that people get the actual skills they are learning?

Topic 4 - A big part of learning is motivation - finding the time to learn, finding the motivation to try something new. What are some of the things that Learn on Demand Systems does to help motivate people to engage in the various types of learning systems you offer?

Topic 5 - What is your message to people (individuals, managers, etc.) watching all these new technologies emerging and trying to figure out how to either pick the right learning/technology path for themselves, or generally putting a plan in place to improve themselves?

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The Rapidly Evolving Network

31 juli 2019 | 43 min

SHOW: 408

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Devesh Garg (Co-Founder/CEO of @arrcusinc) about the growth of Arrcus, the evolution of the network (5G, IoT Edge, DC to Cloud, SDN), and the new economics of networking.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been just about a year since we last spoke, you were just launching the company (amazing engineering experience and advisors). What has the last year of disrupting the networking industry been like? Tell us how the latest round of funding will help Arrcus grow.

Topic 2 - Everything is connected now (way behind user-devices), everything is collecting and transmitting data, and we have no patience for the delay. Paint us a picture of how the network is evolving to deal with 5G, AI/ML at the edge, DC to Cloud interconnects, etc.

Topic 3 - Arrcus has been focused on bringing better speeds and agility to networking. As more networking moves to SDN and SoC, how have companies been able to measure the gains that come from these new approaches to networking?

Topic 4 - Arrcus recently announced multiple high-density 100GbE and 400GbE routing solutions for Hyper-scale Cloud, Edge, and 5G networks and ArcIQ, “AI-driven analytics platform that provides enhanced real-time visibility, control, and security”. Tell us about the new solutions and how this changes the model for network and cloud operations teams

Topic 5 - What have you found to be the most critical areas of focus for the modern network operator, especially given the pace of innovation that offers them not only opportunity but also the challenges of keeping up with change?

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Amazon's journey to MARS

24 juli 2019 | 38 min

SHOW: 407

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Stu Miniman, (@stu, Sr Analyst, Host of @theCUBE, and GM of Content at SiliconANGLE Media) about the Amazon re:MARS event, and how it addressed technology trends in Smart Cities, Drones, Voice-Controlled Apps, IoT, Alexa, AR/VR, and AI/ML.

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Amazon re:MARS event
SiliconANGLE - theCUBE
Stu’s work at Wikibon
Stu on The Cloudcast #129 (Jan ‘14) and #308 (Aug ‘17)

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You get to talk to more communities that we do. What are some of the interesting topics, trends or people you’ve seen over the last few months of traveling and events?

Topic 2 - Jeff Bezos has apparently been hosting his own MARS event for a while now. Why did it become an Amazon event now?

Topic 3 - MARS is Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space. Some of that overlaps with AWS (Machine Learning, Automation), and some is on the fringe of AWS (Space). Who was attending this event and what were the overall themes?

Sessions include Smart Cities, Drones, Voice-Controlled Apps, IoT, Alexa, AR/VR, AI/ML

Topic 4 - There seem to be a number of sessions that included venture capital. Do you see this event as being less like a normal tech event, and more like a blurring of tech and VC, because some of these topics could involve significant levels of funding (smart cities, manned space travel, etc.)?

Topic 5 - AWS recently had an event called re:Inforce, which was targeted at Security. Do you think we’re beginning to see the disaggregation of re:Invent into specialty events and sub-categories of technology interests?

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Elastic for Search & Analytics

17 juli 2019 | 34 min

SHOW: 406

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Steve Kearns (@skearns64, VP Product Mgmt @Elastic) about how search is being used in many ways of our day-to-day life, how search has evolved to be a core element of Analytics platforms, and how Elastic search is evolving to help the next generation of developers in area like APM, Security, Metrics, etc.

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Elastic Homepage - Open Source Search & Analytics
Elastic-On-Tour

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into your work at Elastic, can you tell us a little bit about your background?

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics of search. Everyone knows about how they use Google for their day-to-day activities, but what are some of the common uses of search in a business or IT context that people might not think about or know about?

Topic 3 - Elastic is mentioned very frequently in the “search” discussion, but then it’s also included in a number of popular “stacks” (ELK stack, EFK stack, etc.). How does Elastic think about search being a core component of many other stacks (Metrics, APM, Security, etc.), some of which you may not have any immediate visibility to?

Topic 4 - What are some of the evolutions that are happening around search (or broader stacks) that are interesting to developers?

Topic 5 - How does Elastic think about how or when customers (or developers) are consuming Elastic technologies, across OSS, commercial software and SaaS offerings?

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Understanding Graph Database Patterns

10 juli 2019 | 29 min

SHOW: 405

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Emil Eifrem, (@emileifrem, Founder/CTO @Neo4j) about the emergence of graph databases, common use-cases, and how developers are thinking about new ways to leverage graph databases.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been the CEO of Neo4j for over a decade now. How has the landscape around application-usage of data changed in the most significant ways?

Topic 2 - For many decades, most data-centric applications were built around Relational Databases (SQL Databases). These days, application patterns and use-cases have expanded significantly. How do graph databases fit into these new trends?

Topic 3 - With all the new patterns emerging, there are both business reasons and technical reasons for choosing the right database platform. How do you find the business-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? How do you find the technical-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice?

Topic 4 - Every company that’s involved with the commercialization of open source projects is trying to figure out the best way to manage a portfolio between OSS, software offerings and cloud offerings. How does Neo4j think about that balance?

Topic 5 - Getting developer momentum and mass around a set of patterns is critical. How does Neo4j think about enabling developers, and what are some of the things you’ve done to accelerate their success and consistent learning?

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A Climate Code of Conduct for Events

26 juni 2019 | 29 min

SHOW: 404

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Alexis Richardson (@monadic, CEO @weaveworks, Chair of TOC @CNCF) about the carbon footprint of technology conferences and a growing interest in making them more environmentally friendly.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve just now wrapped up the spring conference season and you’re helping to kick off a new focus on an interesting aspect of conferences.

Topic 2 - Obviously climate change is a big talking point in political campaigns right now. Do you think that’s what is driving this discussion around conference now (vs. another moment in time)?

Topic 3 - You’re helping to create a “Climate Code of Conduct”. It’s still early, but what are some of the guiding principles that are being explored?

Topic 4 - Given the complexity of all that could be involved in improving the climate impact of conferences, do you think it’s more important to start making smaller changes (low-hanging fruit) or establishing really bold guidance?

Topic 5 - Have any discussions about this started with any conferences yet? If conference organizers are listening, how would you suggest they potentially engage with the group that is discussing this?

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How Lyft Built a Service Mesh with Envoy

19 juni 2019 | 31 min

Machine Learning with Kubeflow

11 juni 2019 | 34 min

The Power of Community Engagement

5 juni 2019 | 32 min

Many Paths of an Engineering Journey

29 maj 2019 | 45 min

How Big is your Public Cloud bill?

22 maj 2019 | 31 min

SHOW: 399

DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on following the money in cloud computing. Then Brian talks with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist @ Duckbill Group) about the economic realities of being all-in on the public cloud.

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Corey on Eps.307 of The Cloudcast
Last Week in AWS (Newsletter)
Screaming in the Cloud (podcast) - 2nd rate Cloud podcast, never listen to this!

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve become a multi-media star since your last appeared (newsletter, podcasting, stand-up comedy, co-hosting theCUBE, live blogger, etc.).

Topic 2 - In case you haven’t noticed, revenues in the public cloud have grown quite a bit in the last few years. And not a day goes by without some web company announcing their monthly AWS spend. Walk us through the world of an organization that is a reasonably heavy spender in the public cloud. Are there steak dinners and rounds of golf still involved?

Topic 3 - We hear about long-term contracts being negotiated with public cloud providers. How do these negotiations go, and where are customer’s leverage points?

Topic 4 - What are the typical stages of Cloud Adoption and Cloud Grief?

Excitement - bypass IT, everything seems cheap
Curiosity - so many new services to explore and use
Confusion - so many services, they don’t all fit on the dashboard, where are the neglected services running?
Fear - the bills come in and they are more than we expected

Topic 5 - Do you find that legacy IT is actually brought along on the journey to large-scale public cloud usage? If so, what is the transition process for people/groups used to CAPEX and Hardware and ELAs and Data Centers?

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Focusing Apps only on Business Value

15 maj 2019 | 36 min

Simplifying Application Development and Integration

8 maj 2019 | 28 min

Advancements in Webscale Logging

1 maj 2019 | 26 min

A VC's Perspective on AI and Security

25 april 2019 | 30 min

SHOW: 395

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Dr. Steve Herrod (@herrod, Managing Director at General Catalyst @gcvp) about the transition from CTO to VC, the role of AI and Security in today’s startups, the impact the public cloud has on his evaluations, and tips for selecting the right companies and leaders.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s now been 6 years since your transition from VMware to the VC world. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned?

Topic 2 - When you were a CTO, you were building a comprehensive portfolio. How does that perspective change when you’re looking at a broad range of portfolio companies?

Topic 3 - Your companies tend to skew towards cybersecurity, where AI is going to play a significant role. How do you think about them from a technology perspective, and how much does the cloud’s resources for data modeling help or challenge them?

Topic 4 - What’s your perspective on the role of open source software for enabling your companies?

Topic 5 - Given your background, how much do you get involved in growing the engineering talent at your portfolio companies?

Topic 6 - Any tips for potential startups wanting to pitch high-level VCs?

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Understanding Time-Series Database Patterns

17 april 2019 | 35 min

SHOW: 394

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Evan Kaplan (@evankaplan, CEO of InfluxData) about why companies choose time-series databases, commons use-cases, how time-series patterns align to changing business goals, and how to translate business demands to developer capabilities.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been the CEO of InfluxData for a few years, but please share with the audience your background and how you came to lead InfluxData.

Topic 2 - For many decades, most data-centric applications were built around Relational Databases (SQL Databases). These days, application patterns and use-cases have expanded significantly. How do time-series databases fit into these new trends?

Topic 3 - With all the new patterns emerging, there are both business reasons and technical reasons for choosing the right platform. How do you find the business-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? How do you find the technical-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice?

Topic 4 - Every company that’s involved with the commercialization of open source projects is trying to figure out the best way to manage a portfolio between OSS, software offerings and cloud offerings. How does InfluxData think about that mix, and what are you seeing in terms of customer-demand trends?

Topic 5 - Getting developer momentum and mass around a set of patterns is critical. How does InfluxData think about enabling developers, and what are some of things you’ve done to accelerate their success and consistent learning?

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Network Reliability Engineering

10 april 2019 | 42 min

SHOW: 393

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matt Oswalt (@mierdin, NRE @JuniperNetworks) and Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad, Product Marketing Manager @JuniperNetworks) about how networking has adapted to DevOps and SRE, internally marketing the evolution to teams, and how NRE Labs are helping network engineers get up to speed.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Google announces Hybrid Cloud platform - "Anthos"

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Derick and welcome back Matt. Tell us about your background and some of the things you’re working on now at Juniper.

Topic 2 - We talked a couple weeks ago with Gustavo Franco from Google about SRE, you guys have been working on something you’re calling “NRE”. Tell us about the NRE concept and how this fits into the world of Networking and DevOps.

Topic 3 - Networking hasn’t been a very static thing in a long time (DHCP, WiFi access, VPNs), but now we also have applications joining and changing on a regular basis (CI/CD pipelines, containers, etc.). So how is that world changing the demands on “DevNetOps”?

Topic 4 - What are you guys working on to tangibly move people forward in this space? Are there any resources or projects they should be aware of?

Topic 5 - When you’re a foundational technology, such as networking or storage, it can be tough to adapt rapid DevOps type activities or culture. How much of NRE or DevNetOps is tooling (automation, controllers) and how much is culture changes?

Topic 6 - Change is always a journey. What are some of the steps that you’re seeing people take towards NRE or DevNetOps, and maybe what are some of the common early mistakes they make?

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Navigating the Engineering Career Paths

3 april 2019 | 35 min

Real-World SRE Perspectives

28 mars 2019 | 35 min

SHOW: 391

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Gustavo Franco (@stratus, Customer Reliability Engineer at Google) about real-world experience as SRE/SRE Manager and CRE Manager, a discussion about how to measure SRE success, as well as how to onboard the SRE/CRE concepts and processes to new teams.

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Gustavo's Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/150125

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and some of the things you work on today as it relates to SRE and CRE teams.

Topic 2 - Let's talk about what SRE is intended to do, and maybe how it differs (or is the same) from existing teams that might be labeled "Ops" or "DevOps". Maybe we can also talk about some of the types of skills that highlight what SRE does.

Topic 3 - What are some of the ways to avoid an SRE (or CRE) team just becoming the band-aid team to fix all the things that developers don't want to put into code because they are under deadlines (security, bug fixed, scalability, etc.)?

Topic 4 - We're hearing more about these terms "AIOps" and "ChaosEngineering". How much can SRE/CRE teams augment applications through tools that either bring deeper insight (e.g. AIOps) or create scenarios that developers can't emulate (e.g. Chaos)?

Topic 5 - You've been around SRE/CRE for a while now. What are some of the positive and negative lessons you've learned and could share with the audience?

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Exploring the SaaS Business Model

20 mars 2019 | 31 min

SHOW: 390

DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Aneel Lakhani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) about the difference between traditional Enterprise software and B2B SaaS offerings, how the sales and marketing models work, and how development and operations is significantly changed with SaaS.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Amazon is introducing private investors to high-risk start-ups in a new pilot program - https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/aws-pilots-pro-rata-program-to-connect-investors-with-start-ups.html
The top 25 VCs investing in SaaS right now - https://growthlist.co/blog/saas-vc
The State of DevOps Report survey is now open - https://google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0v2VZMeA2Eha365?sp=8

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Aneel’s Background: From engineering and product roles at IBM to marketing and go to market roles at Cisco and a number of SaaS startups, with a brief stint as a Research Director at Gartner. Has been a frequent speaker at events like Velocity and been on many podcasts, including this one, Andreessen Horowitz’s, and Microsoft’s Open Source Show.

GTM Fit Summit - Go To Market Fit - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsuZzi-Hm3
Marketing 102 for Engineers - Roughing Out a Funnel - https://hackernoon.com/marketing-102-for-engineers-ddf3b7fa61e6

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for quite a while, but tell our audience about your last 10 years in gaining a ton of experience around startups and SaaS-based businesses.

Topic 2 - A few weeks ago, in the middle of a Twitter conversation, you said “SaaS changes everything”. Let’s start with the most basic things. How is a SaaS-delivered business different than a traditional software business? (development, go-to-market, marketing, profitability (or loss) models)

Topic 3 - Digging into the sales and marketing funnel, walk us through what typically happens from awareness to sign-up to early/free trial to actual customer engagement, and how a SaaS company is measuring along the way.

Topic 4 - Help us understand the economics of product development in a SaaS business. Not only do you have the normal costs/challenges of building the software, but you have the ongoing costs of running the SaaS operations.

Topic 5 - What are some of the critical metrics and measurements that the SaaS company and their VCs are typically looking at?

Topic 6 - What is the thought process of SaaS companies about their service eventually becoming an AWS service at the next re:Invent?

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AIOps for Security and Breach Protection

15 mars 2019 | 28 min

New Tools for Cloud Native Developers

6 mars 2019 | 25 min

Show: 388

Description: Brian talks with Eric Rudder (@ericrudder; Co-Founder and Executive Chairman @PulumiCorp) about the evolving tools and supply-chain for both developers and operations in a cloud-native world.

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Cloud News of the Week

Lyft announces IPO plans and explains AWS spending (including a big contract with AWS)
https://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-ipo-amazon-web-services-2019-3
A Reddit discussion on AWS limits
https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/aun29l/a_new_candidate_for_the_list_of_stupidest_aws/
Wikibon - Hybrid Cloud Taxonomy
https://wikibon.com/hybrid-cloud-taxonomy/
ServerlessConf 2019 - New York (October 7-9)
https://nyc2019.serverlessconf.io/

Show Interview Links:

Pulumi - https://www.pulumi.com

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background prior to Pulumi, and your motivation for creating Pulumi.

Topic 2 - Pulumi’s stated goal is “Create, deploy, and manage modern cloud apps and infrastructure”. Break that down for us, as it cuts across a lot of different job functions and (currently) different tooling being used today.

Topic 3 - Between serverless and containers, it’s been pretty well acknowledged that the developer experience has a long way to go. Lots of burden put on the developer to understand the underlying systems. How does Pulumi attempt to simply or standardize around this challenge?

Topic 4 - You obviously have a bunch of experience with developer communities from your days at Microsoft. Getting developers to standardize on things in mass is not a simple task. What are some of the ways to create movement to newer tools or technologies?

Topic 5 - What are some of your expectations about how much of the software supply-chain, from writing code to testing/securing code to deploying will have to get disrupted with new cloud-native applications (containers, serverless, etc.) and how much do you feel like is solved enough to leave in place?

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Discussing Service Mesh Architectures

27 februari 2019 | 31 min

Show: 387

Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Armon Dadgar (@armon, Founder/CTO @HashiCorp) about the problems service mesh can solve, the underlying technologies, control plane vs. data plane considerations, and who is making decisions about service meshes within an IT organization.

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Cloud News of the Week

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Hashicorp - http://hashicorp.com
What is a Service Mesh - https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/what-is-a-service-mesh
Consul - https://www.consul.io/

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a couple years since HashiCorp has been on the show, so give us an update on the company - big round of funding ($100M) in November.

Topic 2 - A couple months ago we saw you in a video called “What is a Service Mesh?”. It was intended to be a “let’s make this simple” and you realize that a Service Mesh could be a lot of things - L4-L7 routing, Proxy, Encryption, Authentication, Application patterns. Is a Service Mesh solving a new problem, or is it pulling together lots of things that have existed at L4-L7 and application stacks in the past?

Topic 3 - “Service Mesh” has become a pretty crowded and fragmented market over the last couple years. HashiCorp Consul has been around since 2014 (was originally “Service Discovery”) and now there’s Linkerd, Istio, Envoy and a bunch of variations. As you talk to people in the market, how are they evaluating the options out there?

Topic 4 - Consul has evolved from Service Discovery to Service Mesh, and seems to have come from more of an authentication and security perspective (some others tends to be more routing-centric). Are there use-cases when one Service Mesh is a better fit than others, or should we expect that all/most of them will more or less converged on features over the next 12-24 months?

Topic 5 - Can you give us some examples of how companies are using Service Meshes today (parts or all of the capabilities) and what teams are usually driving the adoption (infra/ops, security, app-dev, etc.)?

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Evolution of Public Cloud Integrators

20 februari 2019 | 31 min

Show: 386

Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Jeff Aden (@aden_jeff, Founder/EVP at @2ndWatch) about the evolution of 2ndWatch as a Cloud Integrator as AWS has grown and shifted their focus from startups to Enterprise customers.

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Cloud News of the Week

Google’s managed hybrid cloud platform is now in beta - tcrn.ch/2SfJXxg
Google Buys Alooma -https://gweb-cloudblog-publish.appspot.com/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-announces-intent-to-acquire-alooma-to-simplify-cloud-migration/amp/
This Silicon Valley VC Firm Raised $500 Million To Invest Ahead Of Growth-Stage Giants Like SoftBank - on.forbes.com/6011ET2a9

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Jeff. Tell us about your background, the founding of 2nd Watch, and how the company has evolved over the last few years.

Topic 2 - We got to know 2nd Watch at one of the first re:Invent shows, as they had one of the largest booths on the floor. At the time, they were listed as one of AWS’s best partners. Today, 2ndWatch provides management tools, migration tools, systems-integration capabilities. How does 2ndWatch think of themselves?

Topic 3 - What are the concerns of your customers today, and how does 2ndWatch think about matching customer demands and the types of tools/services/capabilities that you provide today?

Topic 4 - We’d like to pick your brain about the usage and insights you’re seeing from your customers usage of AWS. It’s mentioned that 100% are using DynamoDB, 53% are using Elastic Kubernetes, and are fast growing section are using things likes Athena, Glue and Sagemaker. What are some of the types of applications that you’re seeing customer build that leverage these new models?

Topic 5 - With technologies like Outpost being announced, after so many years of AWS saying “Cloud or legacy Data Center”, how do you see this impacting the thought process of customers or potential customers?

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Mid Career Job Changes

15 februari 2019 | 42 min

Multi-Cloud Security

6 februari 2019 | 32 min

A Serverless Look Ahead for 2019

30 januari 2019 | 41 min

An AI and ML Look Ahead for 2019

23 januari 2019 | 41 min

Show: 382

Description: Brian talks with Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Machine Learning & AI analyst, advisor & host of “This Week in Machine Learning & AI” podcast) about trends in the industry, the evolution of AI at the edge, new research areas in 2019, and a discussion about adding AI and ML to business applications.

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This Week in Machine Learning & AI Homepage - http://twimlai.com
Kubernetes for Machine Learning, Deep Learning and AI (eBook) - https://twimlai.com/kubernetes/
Sam Charrington on Eps.321 of The Cloudcast - http://www.thecloudcast.net/2017/11/the-cloudcast-321-understanding-ai-and.html

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Happy New Year and welcome back to the show, it’s been just over a year. For those that didn’t hear that show or might be new to TWIML & AI, tell us about your background and some of your AI/ML focus now.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with the things that are considered “mainstream” with AI & ML today. Fraud detection, recommendation engines, facial recognition, speech recognition, auto-completions. What’s missing from that list, and how “commodity” have those technologies, tools, datasets, cloud services become?

Topic 3 -On the flipside, what are some of the areas where research or just the massive cloud providers are focused today?

Topic 4 - A couple years ago it seemed like TWIML & AI was a mix of technology discussions and business/social impacts. This past year seemed to be a deeper focus on the underlying technologies. What’s the current state of the balance between AI & ML for computing improvement vs. concerns about personal privacy, etc.?

Topic 5 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.?

Topic 6 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2019, whether it’s technology or trends or something else?

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An ITOps & Infrastructure Look Ahead for 2019

16 januari 2019 | 37 min

A Cloud-Native Apps Look Ahead for 2019

9 januari 2019 | 31 min

A DevOps Look Ahead for 2019

3 januari 2019 | 28 min

Show: 379

Description: Brian talks with Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell, Sr. Technology Advocate @Splunk and co-host of @SpeakingInTech) about the state of DevOps and NewOps heading into 2019.

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Show Interview Links:

Josh’s Blog - https://josh-atwell.com
NewOps Days - http://www.newopsdays.org/
DevOps Days - https://www.devopsdays.org
DevSecOps - https://www.devsecops.org/
Site Reliability Engineering - https://landing.google.com/sre/

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us a little bit about your background, why you’re drawn to the DevOps space, and maybe some of your goals for 2019.

Topic 2 - What is the state of DevOps heading into 2019? We’ve seen it evolve from The Phoenix Project and “10 Deploys a Day” CI/CD to Infrastructure as a Code and HugOps.

Topic 3 - It feels like DevOps is sort of at a crossroads, with a bunch of newer things emerging, from SRE to DevSecOps to NewOps. It that the market being uncomfortable with DevOps, or sort of a 2nd-generation set of knowledge emerging?

Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, DevOps always seems to attract the CI/CD tools and then the Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt tools, and now there is somewhat of a shift to immutability with things like Containers/Kubernetes or even serverless. Is there a technology focus for DevOps in 2019? How does NewOps fit into this space?

Topic 5 - From a culture perspective, there’s been HugOps and Blameless Post-Mortems and Empathy, all focused on cohesity between business and technical in owning challenges/goals/results. Are there culture-side frameworks that are emerging and gaining traction?

Topic 6 - As you listen to the community, what we some of the most common tips and suggestions that you find help people and groups to be more successful in the DevOps domain?

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2018 Year in Review

31 december 2018 | 51 min

Show: 378

Description: Aaron and Brian review the biggest news, trends and topics of 2018.

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Cloudcast Housekeeping:

Thank you to our sponsors, both A Cloud Guru and DataDog
64% of Krispy Kreme Funding - http://bit.ly/Cloudcast-Donuts2019
51 Shows, Avg Listens (show): 18-20k (+19%), Avg Rank iTunes Technology: 63
Over $50B in M&A and VC Funding for guests (all-time)
Acquired: Red Hat, Rightscale, CoreOS, GitHub, Evident.io, Loggly, CloudHealth, VictorOps, Bonsai
IPO: Pivotal
Funding: SWIM.AI, Stryth Leviathan, Atomist, Kasten, Lightstep, Rubrik, Hashicorp, A Cloud Guru

Show Notes:

Previous Year Cloudcast Predictions: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014,
Top Tech Trends (expected) in 2019 (via CBInsights)
Commercial Open Source Software Companies ($100B)
Cloudability - State of the Cloud (2018)

Big Trends:

Gartner IaaS MQ is down to 6 companies (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba, IBM, Oracle)
AWS growing +40% ($25B revenues) and Azure revenues ~ $28-30B (but not explicitly broken out) - AWS claimed at re:Invent to have 51% market-share.
Big acquisitions around Open Source (Red Hat, GitHub, Hortonworks)
A new push by Open Source companies (Redis, Confluent) to change their licensing model to help protect them from public cloud providers taking their software and not giving back - http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2018/12/14/open-source-confronts-its-midlife-crisis/
Big funding and investments around HCI and Backup HCI
Kubernetes continues to dominate containers and cloud-native (see: @PodCTL podcast)
New CEO at Google Cloud (Thomas Kurian)
Blockchain seems to need a new PR agency
Interest rates are rising (2 more raises are projected in 2019), which changes all the VC models

Tech Stocks (2018):

S and P 500: (-12.2%), DJIA: (-12%), NASDAQ: (-8%)
AAPL: (-12%), AMZN: (+14%), CSCO: (+5%), FB: (-29%), GOOG: (-7.5%), IBM: (-30%)
MSFT: (+11%), NFLX: (+25%), NTAP: (-1%), NTNX: (+1%), ORCL: (-11%), RHT: +43% (acquired by IBM)
PVTL (0%), SAP: (-8.5%), SFDC: (+18%), VMW: (+13%)
How are SaaS priced after 2018 correction? - https://tomtunguz.com/just-where-are-saas-companies-priced-after-the-2018-correction/

CI/CD and Drone.io

21 december 2018 | 25 min

Application Delivery and Snapt

13 december 2018 | 29 min

Serverless Management and Knative

6 december 2018 | 29 min

All of the 2018 AWS reInvent Announcements

1 december 2018 | 33 min

Revolutionizing Big Data Apps

28 november 2018 | 33 min

Reinventing Software Collaboration

21 november 2018 | 34 min

Getting Started with UX Research

14 november 2018 | 20 min

Tales From a DevOps Transformation

7 november 2018 | 24 min

What We Know (now) About Serverless

1 november 2018 | 25 min

(Part III) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars

25 oktober 2018 | 22 min

Show Number: 368

Overview: Brian talks with Mee-Jung Jang (@MeeJungJang, Managing Director @TechStars) about starting the program, engaging with MetLife as a corporate partner, the structure of the TechStars program, how the companies move forward beyond Demo Day, and what's next.

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Mee-Jung Jang, TechStars
MetLife Digital Accelerator, Powered by TechStars
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you came to be part of TechStars and this program at MetLife?
Topic 2 - In our previous shows, we’ve spoken to all of the founders and gotten their perspective. What were your early goals as the leader of this program, and what has surprised you throughout the process?
Topic 3 - Walk us through the stages of the program for these companies? It’s more than just, “Have an idea, go execute that idea.”
Topic 4 - You’ve been both a Founder/Entrepreneur and Attorney, so you’ve seen your fair share of ideas. How do you manage to know when you listen, when to give advice, and when to hold your tongue?
Topic 5 - What has been your perspective, as an outsider to the area, of the RTP/Triangle area in terms of culture, people, community, etc.?
Topic 6 - What happens next for all of these companies that we profiled, and when does the program get started again for Year 2?

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(Part II) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars

17 oktober 2018 | 51 min

(Part I) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars

10 oktober 2018 | 52 min

Taking Spinnaker for a Spin

3 oktober 2018 | 26 min

Interactive Learning for Cloud-Native

26 september 2018 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #363 - IoT and APIs

20 september 2018 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #362 - Security & Service Meshes

12 september 2018 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #361 - Single Pane of Glass at USA Today

5 september 2018 | 30 min

Brian talks with Bridget Lane (@bridgetnomnom; Software Developer, Gannett & USA TODAY) about how USA Today | Gannett has transformed their internal teams over the past 3 years to be more agile and able to deliver software faster to support 100s of publications. We also discuss career evolution and advice to anyone wanting to quickly advance their skills.

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Velocity Conf - "Single Pane of Glass at USA Today"
VELOCITY CONF NYC Discount Code (25% Off) - "CLOUD"
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about yourself and some of the things you’re working on at Gannett | USA Today.
Topic 2 - You’re still very young, but yet you’re working on API Management, complex automation, CDNs, containers, CI/CD pipelines. How did you gain experience in so many areas so quickly?
Topic 3 - You’re talking about how USA Today has been evolving to break down organizational silos and adopt new technologies to make the team more efficient. Can you walk us through some of that evolution?
Topic 4 - What does a day-in-the-life or a week-in-the-life of an environment like USA Today look like, with constantly new content, crazy deadlines, demand for 24x7x365 availability, etc.?
Topic 5 - What have been some of the lessons learned over this transformation - good lessons, mistakes, things that might be applicable to any company?
Topic 6 - The transformation is both organizational/cultural and technology? What technologies tended to give you the biggest improvement or new advantage?

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The Cloudcast #360 - Multi-Cloud Cost Modeling

29 augusti 2018 | 24 min

Brian talks with Joe Kinsella (@joekinsella, Founder and CTO of @CloudHealthTech) about public cloud evolution, and how customers are viewing multi-cloud (or hybrid-cloud) as their planned architecture, and how well they are able to manage costs across multiple cloud environments.

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CloudHealth Website
CloudHealth acquired by VMware (August 2018)
CloudHealth Blog
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been nearly a year since you were last on. How are you seeing the public cloud evolve in 2018?
Topic 2 - Looking at market share reports, there’s still a distribution of usage - from AWS to Azure to GCP to “Other”. Are you seeing companies want multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud, or is it a matter of them really aligning with a single public cloud?
Topic 3 - Do you think companies understand that each public cloud does billing and cost modeling differently?
Topic 4 - Any tips or tricks you’ve seen that help to make it possible to normalize the differences between the billing and cost models? Tools exist, but how much friction is that creating on usage decisions?
Topic 5 - Do you think the public clouds are doing enough to make public cloud usage understandable, or is cloud-cost complexity just an extension of how complex IT cost modeling has always been? Are there areas where this is getting better?

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The Cloudcast #359 - Exploring the Realities of Innovation at Scale

22 augusti 2018 | 32 min

Brian talks with Dr. Bruce Davie (@_drbruced, VP & CTO, VMware Asia Pacific & Japan) about differences in APAC markets, what drove large-scale adoption of new technologies, how to rethink scaling new innovation, the variety across APAC and how to be constantly learning to grow your career.

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FutureNet Podcast
Bruce’s CTO Blog
Bruce Davie’s (author) Books
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. For our audience that hasn't been around networking as much, can you share with us some of your background.
Topic 2 - Sometimes our perspective on things is too US-centric. You’ve worked around the world and are now back in APAC (Melbourne). What are some of the technology things in that part of the world that would surprise people in North America?
Topic 3 - You’ve been speaking about IoT recently. Is it just the population density that makes APAC a faster adopter of IoT technologies, or are there other considerations that are creating this trend? Are regulations a factor, or mobile-phone usage, or something else?
Topic 4 - IoT tends to be a conversation that’s driven by a new business opportunity - it’s less about connectivity (e.g. old IT needs). How is the conversation happening between the business leaders asking for IoT and the technology leaders that have to implement it?
Topic 5 - We used to (sort of) think about networking (bandwidth, routing, device density) somewhat separate than security. But if densities get really high, or IoT devices are involved in country-mission-critical functions, can people afford to think about them separately?
Topic 6 - Are you finding that the APAC region is doing unique things to train up the skills needed for IoT / denser networking / SDN, or is the pace of change happening so fast that they have to learn on the job?

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The Cloudcast #358 - Exploring the Business Side of Open Source Software

15 augusti 2018 | 34 min

Brian talks with Joseph Jacks (@asynchio, advisor to CNCF, creator of KubeCon, co-Founder Kismatic, Entrepreneur) about different ways to view OSS business models, and how he's been tracking commercial OSS companies through his COSSCI Index.

Show Links:

Open Consensus - Data Driven Perspectives on Open Source Software
$100M+ Revenue - Commercial Open Source Software Company Index (COSSCI)
Bessemer Venture Partners Cloud Index
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us some of your background and some of the things you’re working on these days?
Topic 2 - You created a tracking of Commercial Open Source Software Company Information (COSSCI, “cozy index”). How did you go about collecting the information, some of which isn’t public?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about “open core” and how you’re thinking about the thickness of the core.
Topic 4 - To a certain extent, OSS velocity relies on VC funding to gain traction. VC funding typically wants an exit. Do you think there are enough successful OSS exists to keep seeing VC funding flow in, or do you think public cloud making OSS-as-a-service will slow that down?
Topic 5 - Looking out a few years, you obviously have some models in your mind about how Commercialization of OSS could play out. What are some of the “truths” that you believe are not up for debate, and what are some areas you think might significantly change?

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The Cloudcast #357 - NFV, SDN, IoT from a Hackers Perspective

2 augusti 2018 | 36 min

Aaron talks with Ray Watson (@RayRedacted, VP of Global Technology, Masergy) about a wide range of emerging technology topics, including NFV, SDN, IoT, Hybrid Networking and Managed Security. They also explore the evolution of Hacking.

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Massergy Homepage
Ray at Black Hat - ”BlackHat 2017: 5 Generations of Hacking”
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Ray, tell the listeners a little about yourself and your background. Your day job sounds cool, what does a VP of Global Technology do day to day?
Topic 2 - We haven’t done an independent trends show in awhile. I wanted to step back today and pick your brain on a few topics. We’ve talked a good bit about most of these topics over the years but I admit some of these areas have lost their “buzz” in recent years. So, A bit of a lightning round: NFV, SDN, IoT
Topic 3 - You spoke at Black Hat in 2017, what was your topic and how was the experience? I’ve never been and pretty sure I shouldn’t go...
Topic 4 - Your company, Masergy, was names as a Gartner Magic Quadrant Visionary for Network Services. I’m really interested in this category as I haven’t followed it much in the past. Masergy seems to be an intersection of hybrid cloud networking and security. Does this mean you are more of a services/consulting organization utiliting other products or are you developing your own products? (lots of follow on questions to ask here based on answers) Hybrid Networking? Managed Security?
Topic 5 - What are some of the design and solutions challenges you face today? What pitfalls would you recommend listeners avoid when thinking about this space?
Topic 6 - I suspect this topic may be a little non-traditional for some of our listeners, where can folks go to learn more?

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The Cloudcast #356 - Disaggregating Networking Software

26 juli 2018 | 29 min

Brian talks with Devesh Garg (Co-Founder/CEO of @arrcusinc) about the launch of Arrcus, the evolution of data networking and variations in market segments, and what makes ArcOS unique in a world of network operating systems.

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Arrcus Webpage
Arrcus raises $15M in VC Funding
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show and congratulations on the launch. Tell us a little bit about the founding team and what market gap Arrcus saw when starting the company.
Topic 2 - Before we get into discussing the company and the technologies, let’s talk about some recent shifts in the market. We’ve seen companies moving more workloads into the public cloud, consolidation in the chip market, as well as some of the web scale companies starting to be involved in networking gear. How do some of these changes influence your thinking about the market opportunity?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the core product, ArcOS. Gives us the basics, and some of the focus areas where you believe it provides unique differentiation in the market.
Topic 4 - Networking has always been a hardware-centric game. SDNs eventually sort of skewed towards security. We’ve watched the software-defined storage market struggle with software-only solutions, because of performance or ops-consistency or just how people expect to buy (HW+SW). You have people on the team with experience in the white box technologies. How do you overcome some of those challenges?
Topic 5 - With the network having very distinct areas (core data-center or leaf-spine; access, 5G edge, CDNs, etc.), what are some of the critical business-case decisions that the network directly impacts? What does that conversation look like with the business owner?
Topic 6 - We’ve seen where networking skills are a very distinct category in the past, and things like CLI-awareness are critical. Do you expect the market that you’re selling to will have the need for this being a strong affinity?

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The Cloudcast #355 - Exploring IoT Edge

20 juli 2018 | 29 min

Aaron talks with Farah Papaioannou & Kilton Hopkins (@kiltonhopkins), co-founders at @EdgeWorxIO, about the evolving architecture of edge computing and some of the common misconceptions, where and how to store, run, and transport data while being mindful to security.

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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Introductions: Farah - VC turned Entrepreneur - Also involved with SolidFire early? Kilton - IoT for the City of San Francisco and IoT program director for Northeastern University

Topic 2 - What can you tell us about the new venture?

Topic 3 - Before we dig into the platform, what is your definition of edge? Do you see it as Stacey did in her article as multiple layers of edge (device, gateway, processing cluster, cloud)

Topic 4 - What problem are you trying to solve? Explain what you mean by running applications at the data source and solving the problem of latency on round trips?

Topic 5 - OK, with the basics out of the way… Do you envision this as a platform? If so, what kind of platform and what applications (or micro services) would be a good fit? Are some/all of this open source? Where is the secret sauce (proprietary mesh framework between edge and cloud?)

Topic 6 - Lastly, what security measures do we have to worry about and what challenges do customers face in this space at present?

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The Cloudcast #354 - Prepping for a Product Launch

12 juli 2018 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show

4 juli 2018 | 43 min

Aaron and Brian talk about the first half of 2018: Acquisitions and IPOs, Rating and ranking the Public Cloud, a look at aspects of Private Cloud, Containers and Kubernetes, HCI and GDPR, as well as their perspectives on AI and IoT.

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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - It’s been a busy year for Cloudcast alumni in 2018

Microsoft acquires GitHub - 7.5B 
BonsaiAI acquired by Microsoft 
Pivotal IPO - $555M 
Evident.io acquired by Palo Alto - $300M 
CoreOS acquired by Red Hat - $250M 
Splunk acquires VictorOps - $120M 
Elastic (formerly ElasticSearch) - announced IPO plans 
Loggly acquired by Solarwinds

Topic 2 - How would you handicap the public cloud market (leaders, laggards, emerging trends)?

Gartner only has 6 companies in their IaaS Magic quadrant 
AWS keeps growing (apparently 30-35% of public cloud spending) 
Microsoft keeps acquiring 
Google is still TBD, but we’re going to GoogleNEXT in July 
Alibaba is growing and starting to hear about more US companies using AliCloud 
IBM and Oracle still seem like large Enterprise vendors

Topic 3 - Brian’s involved with containers, Aaron’s involved with Storage and HCI and some cloud integration, what’s interesting in those areas? What are the biggest trends you’re seeing in the private cloud / data center market?
Topic 4 - We’ve been trying to incorporate more AI and IoT into the shows this year. What have you learned so far, what has surprised you, where do you still have questions?

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The Cloudcast #352 - Considering New Hosts for The Cloudcast

27 juni 2018 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #351 - Reviewing DockerCon 2018

18 juni 2018 | 24 min

Brian talks with Kendrick “Kenny” Coleman (@kendrickcoleman) about DockerCon 2018 - the announcements, the overall vibe of the event, and how the community is evolving around the event.

Show Links:

Docker Announcement - Federated Application Management
Docker Announcement - Kubernetes on Windows Server
Kenny's Podcast - Bourbon Pursuit
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. First off, before we get into DockerCon, give us an update on Bourbon Pursuit.
Topic 2 - Many years ago, when you first came on the show, you were attending one of the first Cloud Foundry Summits, so I guess you’re sort of becoming one of our official Cloudcast event correspondents. Give us an overview of DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco.
Topic 3 - Last year (in the US) it was all about “Moby”. Then in Europe it was beginning to be about Kubernetes. This year it seemed to be, as Darren Sheppard (@ibuildthecloud, Rancher CTO) put it “an enterprise sales pitch”. Obviously a lot has changed with Ben Golub and Solomon Hykes leaving Docker.
Topic 4 - What were some of the technologies or talks that interested you this week?
Topic 5 - Docker has always tried to be the “Apple” of containers - focused on simplicity, clean design. Did you hear any feedback from attendees about how they are accepting the shift to Kubernetes, or other changes they are making?

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The Cloudcast #350 - Accenture Cloud Platform

7 juni 2018 | 29 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Michael Liebow (@mliebow, Global Managing Director, @AccentureCloud) about evolving the Accenture culture to deliver on-demand cloud services, working across multiple cloud platforms, managing complex cloud billing models, and leveraging serverless technology to improve operations.

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Accenture Cloud Platform
Accenture Cloud Blog
Michael Liebow on theCUBE at AWS:reInvent
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve done some fairly significant things (Gov’t, VC/Board, CEO, International Business, Startups, etc.) prior to joining Accenture. Tell us about your background and some of your focus areas at Accenture.
Topic 1a - Let’s start by talking about the Accenture Cloud Platform (ACP) and how it has adapted to the Accenture culture (consulting). How do you bridge a culture of broad projects to a cloud offering with defined services?
Topic 1b - What do Accenture clients expect from the Accenture Cloud Platform both in terms of technology as well as culture/organizational shifts (e.g. DevOps, Digital Transformation, move into new markets, etc.)?
Topic 2 - In large corporations, what are realistic timelines before technology changes or cultural changes start to make a material impact on the business?
Topic 3 - Recently the ACP team was recognized for some new innovation around “tagging” cloud assets in multiple environments. How important is it to be able to bring basic concepts like tagging to corporations for consistency (terminology, asset management, compliance, billing, etc.)?
Topic 4 - We’ve heard that there is some pretty unique technology behind the scenes of the ACP - e.g. the entire platform runs as a set of serverless functions. Is this true, or what other tidbits can you share with us about building a global, multi-tenant cloud platform?

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The Cloudcast #349 - VMware Cloud Networking

31 maj 2018 | 28 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Peder Ulander (@ulander, VP Marketing, Networking and Security @VMware) about still being interesting, the evolution of software-defined networking, how to interconnect cloud networks, and which roles and skills are needed to manage today's cloud networks.

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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You were once the Most Interesting Man in the Cloud, so what are you doing now?
Topic 2- VMware pioneered virtual networking back when VM Admins and Network Admins had to figure out how to network virtual machines, but the world has moved well beyond on-prem VMs. Where is VMware bringing software-defined networking now? Follow Up: As someone who pioneered the concept of cloud (and owned cloud.com), where do you see the future of networking? Is it all software? Do you own www.cloudnetworking.com?
Topic 3- Walk us through the basics and differences between NSX-V and NSX-T?
Topic 3 - Public clouds have their own internal networks, so help us understand what role VMware plays in networking once a company gets outside the 4 walls of the data center?
Topic 4 - Is this where VMware Virtual Cloud Network comes into play? Help listeners out that aren’t familiar with the product?
Topic 5 - Who is a Virtual Cloud Network Admin? Is that a VM-admin or Container-admin or SRE or DevOps team or something else?
Topic 6 - Have you ever seen Dom Delfino and the singer Pitbull in the same room together?

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The Cloudcast #348 - Bringing Serverless to Rock 'n Roll

24 maj 2018 | 24 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Michael Garski (Director of Software Engineering @FenderDigital) about building serverless applications for their Fender Play digital learning platform. He explains how the Lambdas are built, version controlled and tested, as well as provides into the broader architecture and how their Dev and Ops teams are integrated.

Show Links:

Fender Website
Fender Digital
Fender Play
Combining DynamoDB and Amazon Elasticsearch with Lambda
[Podcast] Serverless Performance, Monitoring and Best Practices from Fender
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - We appreciate you reaching out to tell us about your experience. So let’s talk about your background prior to Fender and some of the things you focus on at Fender.
Topic 1a - Are you a guitar player? Do you have a favorite guitar riff?
Topic 2 - We’re going to talk about how you use serverless (AWS Lambda) for Fender Play, but before we do that, I want you to walk us through that the guitar player experiences in the Play framework.
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the challenges in delivering this framework that lead you to consider using Lambda (and other AWS services).
Topic 4 - Let’s dive into the architecture that you’ve built. What have been easier to evolve and what challenges have you run into?
Topic 5 - Fender Play starts with a free trial and then can evolve to a paid service. How much did your engineering team connect those subscription requirements with your choice of using serverless technologies?
Topic 6 - What are some lessons or best-practices that you’d recommend to someone new to serverless (either in development or ops).

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The Cloudcast #347 - The Critical Skills for AI and ML

17 maj 2018 | 23 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Chao Han, (VP & Head of R&D at @Lucidworks) about critical Data Science skills for AI and ML, how Data Scientists engage with Business Leaders, the Lucidworks AI platform, and emerging research in the AI/ML space.

Show Links:

Lucidworks Homepage
Apache Lucene
Apache Solr
Kaggle
A Cloud Guru - Big Data Certification
Python Programming for Beginners
R Programming for Beginners
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, as it’s very rich both in the breadth of technology as well as the industries where you’ve applied your skills.
Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics of what companies do when they hire or engage data scientists. At what point do they typically shift their thinking (or problem solving) from needing Statistical Analysis to understanding when and where AI or ML are a better fit?
Topic 3 - Lucidworks specializes in Enterprise Search, and is one of the primary sponsors of both Apache Lucene and Solr. How do those technologies fit into the Enterprise today, and who are newer AI/ML frameworks being built in conjunction with them?
Topic 4 - As you’re working with Data Scientists, where do you see their interests evolving, or what types of problems interest them today? How do you connect and communicate this to business challenges and business leaders?
Topic 5 - Can you share some of the research that you’ve been recently focused on that begin to start making it easier for non Data Scientists to start answering questions in a faster or easier manner?

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The Cloudcast #346 - What is Observability?

9 maj 2018 | 30 min

Brian talks with Christine Yen (@cyen, Co-Founder at @honeycombio) about the concept of Observability, why it's needed with new application and failure patterns, how to think about testing in production, and how to manage the collection of Observability data.

Show Links:

Honeycomb Homepage
Honeycomb Blog
[Velocity Conf] “End-to-End Observability for Fun and Profit”
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into the topic of Observability, tell us about your background and how you ultimately came to founding Honeycomb?
Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics - what is “Observability” and is this new or different from the thing we’ve called “Monitoring” for a long time? What’s changing that is driving the need for Observability?
Topic 3 - Digging into Observability, there seems to be this question of “how do we know if something is up?”. That seems both simple and complex (in context). Let’s talk about what that means in a distributed system.
Topic 4 - So Honeycomb collects data about applications in a bunch of different ways - logs, agents, monitoring APIs, etc. - What does Honeycomb do to all that information to start making it useful?
Topic 5 - I’ve heard your co-founder Charity Majors (@mipsytipsy) talk about this idea that Honeycomb allows people ask questions of the data. What does this mean?
Topic 6 - I was reading your blog about Fender Guitars using Honeycomb for their applications. Fender isn’t a Silicon Valley company. How are non-Valley companies beginning to use these Observability models?

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The Cloudcast #345 - Understanding Google Cloud Databases

2 maj 2018 | 30 min

Brian talks with Dominic Preuss (@deesix, Director Product Management @GoogleCloud) about the breadth of GCP's database portfolio, the adoption of GCP within the Enterprise, Big Data usage, and how the concept of "serverless" applies to database infrastructure.

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Google Cloud Databases and Storage
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Google Cloud Spanner (GCPPodcast)
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell us about your background, as well as your area of focus at Google, because you’ve done some pretty interesting things in a bunch of different disciplines.
Topic 1a - What’s the general mood at Google Cloud Platform these days, and what’s some of the sentiment that you hear from customers?
Topic 1b - For anyone that hasn’t dug into GCP, give us an overview of the various types of database services that GCP offers today.
Topic 2 - Does GCP see more demand for DB-migrations or new DBs in the cloud? What are the top couple of usage models?
Topic 3 - How are you finding that DBAs adapt to working on DBs in the cloud, or are the consumers of the services now application developers because the DBs are managed?
Topic 4 - It seems like we hear more about “big data” use-cases with GCP than traditional SQL DB usage. What are some of the things that attract companies to GCP for NoSQL, Analytics, or global-scale DBs?
Topic 5 - We’re starting the hear the concept of “serverless” being used in the context of operations of the underlying infrastructure - different from a function for an application. Can you give us a sense of how you see this trend in the context of databases?

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The Cloudcast #344 - Bringing AI to Edge Computing

25 april 2018 | 31 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, CTO) and Simon Aspinall (@saspinall, CMO) at new AI startup SWIM.AI about the changing landscape of the cloud and edge, the vertical industry opportunities with edge computing, how AI is being applied to real-time events, and how SWIM is enabling new thinking for those use-cases.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Let’s put some voices with names, since we have two Simons today.
Topic 1a - You’re both coming off of successful companies that you built or grew (Simon Crosby - Bromium, Zen Source), (Simon Aspinall, Virtustream). What motivated you to get involved in both the AI and Edge Computing space?
Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics. There’s lots of data happening at the edge. This means there is lots of potential value at the edge. But the computing and network at the edge is different than the centralized cloud. Walk us through how to extract that potential value?
Topic 3 - SWIM’s technology is called EDX. How does EDX get deployed, and what needs to live around it to make it valuable to companies. Are there edge and cloud components?
Topic 4 - We were learning about EDX and came across the concept called “digital twins”. What does this mean and what does it do?
Topic 5 - What are some of the initial use-cases that you’re finding interesting in EDX?

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The Cloudcast #343 - Container Vulnerability Scanning

19 april 2018 | 26 min

Aaron and Tyler Britten talk with Liz Rice (@lizrice, Technology Evangelist @AquaSecTeam) about what's easy—and what's not—about finding and patching security vulnerabilities in containers. This is a cross-over show with @PodCTL podcast.

Show Links:

Liz’s talk at Velocity Conf - “What’s so hard about container vulnerability scanning?”
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Aqua Security Homepage
Liz Rice’s Blog
[Video] Kubernetes, Metadata and You (KubeCon 2017 Austin)
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Liz. Tell us a little bit about your background and the types of things that you’re working on these days.
Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics. A container is defined by a file (e.g. Dockerfile) that the user/developer/operator defines. How can a vulnerability get into that file?
Topic 3 - Is it up to the CI/CD system or host OS (where the container runs) or container orchestrator (e.g. Kubernetes) or container registry to figure out if a vulnerability exists?
Topic 4 - How do most container registries today manage vulnerability lists, container scanning and potential mitigations? What are the difficult parts of those tasks?
Topic 5 - Most containers today are Linux containers. Are you seeing anything happening (yet) around how to manage Windows containers vulnerabilities? Is the assumption that Microsoft will fix this through one of their existing tools, or are things happening in the open source community as well?

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The Cloudcast #342 - Understanding Databases in AWS

12 april 2018 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #341 - Modeling & Managing Enterprise Applications

5 april 2018 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #340 - Adding AI into Software Platforms

29 mars 2018 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #339 - Understanding Cryptocurrencies & Markets

22 mars 2018 | 33 min

Aaron talks with Jesse Proudman (@jesseproudman; Founder of @StrixLeviathan) about entrepreneurship, his new company Strix Leviathan, the basics of cryptocurrencies and markets, how these markets are evolving and what's next for their platform.

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Jesse’s been around for awhile and a Cloudcast alum, link to Cloudcast #116
Strix Leviathan Website
Strix Leviathan Techcrunch Article
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Topic 1 - Jesse, catch everyone up on the last few years. You had a good exit at BlueBox and then went on to a DE (Distinguished Engineer) position at IBM.
Topic 2 - Tell us about your journey to founding Strix Leviathan and this interesting intersection of AI and cryptocurrency. Was this a hobby that turned into a passion which turned into your next thing?
Topic 2a (Lightning Round) - Some cryptocurrency basics

What is a cryptocurrency? What does it use as it’s basis of value?
How do the cryptocurrency markets work? What are the basic elements someone needs to understand?
Cryptocurrencies have been crazy volatile for the last few years. Is it good to have currency be so volatile?

Topic 3 - Cryptocurrency is in the early days. What are some of the struggles today you see and the challenges folks entering this market are facing. For instance in a TechCrunch article you mention API issues with trading as an example of the infancy of the platforms. What do you think happens to the market in the both the short and long term?
Topic 4 - What problem is Strix Leviathan ultimately trying to solve for?
Topic 5 - It appears the engine today is two parts: a cryptocurrency tracker (data ingestion) and a trading engine. Correct? Where does the AI part fit into all of that? Is it doing the analysis and making recommendations on trades or does it actually perform the trades?
Topic 6 - Just this week you received a $1.6M funding round. What’s next for the platform and where are you headed?
Topic 7 - You took a slightly unconventional approach to startup with BlueBox, what lessons did you learn that you will bri

The Cloudcast #338 - Governance and DevSecOps

15 mars 2018 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #337 - Cutivating IoT From Farm to Cloud

8 mars 2018 | 30 min

Brian talks with Steve Ridder (@saridder, CEO @teralytic) and Dan Casson (VP Engineering, @teralytic) about #AgTech, nanofabrication, engaging with large, complex ecosystems, building modern IoT platforms, and how data is helping to advance one of the oldest industries in the world.

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Teralytic Homepage
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Teralytic Sensors Help Farmers Manage Their Fertilizing
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how people from NYC and Silicon Valley know more about soli than farmers with their boots in the dirt?
Topic 2 - Let’s talk about soil, NPK (Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium) levels and how frequently the “playing field” in farming is changing? What are the big challenges in managing soil? How significant are soil differences around the world?
Topic 3 - Before we get to the technology (in the sensor and the cloud), let’s talk about the business side of IoT sensors. You have to have mass production (edge devices), ridiculously simple sensor installations, run wireless infrastructure (?), run a cloud SaaS infrastructure (or just sell the data to brokers?) and do farmers have IT departments to translate all this techie stuff?
Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the technology in the IoT edge sensors. They have to be precise, inexpensive, and future proof? How much is industrial engineering vs. computer science?
Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the technology in the analytics cloud? These devices only transmit every 15mins. What does a cloud stack look like?
Topic 6 - Any advice for techies, or industry experts, to find the people to collaborate with in these vertical solutions?

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The Cloudcast #336 - The Evolving Role of Cloud Communities

1 mars 2018 | 28 min

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja, Director Influence Marketing @VMware, Co-Host @Siftspod podcast) about the change dynamics of tech communities, how people self-select into new communities (or channels), the changing rules of IT buying, whether techies needs some business skills, and tips/tricks for mentoring the next generation.

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Beyond Cat6, Finding Mentors, Feeding Relationships, Furthering Your Career
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Introduction of Amy, what’s new, blah, blah, blah...
Topic 2 - The world has become a fragmented place; people find their safe “communities”. We can sort of do that in tech, but not as much because people change jobs more now. What’s your State of the Union for tech communities these days?
Topic 3 - Are you seeing the interactions with communities change (good or bad) as the rules within tech change - open source, public cloud, work in the office, etc..?
Topic 4 - We talked for a while, to technical communities, about “moving up the stack”, where the stack was all technology. Do you think we should be talking more about “moving across the cubicles” from technical awareness to business awareness?
Topic 5 - As you’ve moved around and upwards, you’re now mentoring people within the industry. Any success stories to share, or tips & tricks that might relate well to a newer generation, or just someone making a new change?

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The Cloudcast #335 - Managing Waste in the Cloud

22 februari 2018 | 25 min

Brian talks with Andy Richman (Product Manager @ParkMyCloud) about which groups are responsible for cloud costs, how expectations and behaviors are changing as applications move to the cloud (Finance vs. DevOps), do we need DevFinOps, the technology that's making it easier to reduce costs, and tips for driving better cost management.

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Topic 1 - Introduction of Andy
Topic 2 - This survey was focused on “waste” in a public cloud environment. Public cloud was supposed to be less expensive and more agile. Are you seeing people having to reset expectations?
Topic 3 - There seem to be two phases of managing costs in the cloud. One is focused buying the right instances at the right time. The other is focused on more day-to-day operations. Are you seeing this sort of separation of functions, and is one a finance function and other a DevOps function?
Topic 4 - Let’s get back to “waste”. We went down this road with virtualization many years ago - just turn off what you don’t use. It was the “turning it back on” that actually scared people. What are you learning about more intelligent ways to manage the “turning off/on” process?
Topic 5 - AWS has started making more of their services “Ops-less” (sort of), like Lambda, and now Aurora, where you don’t have to think about the infrastructure planning as much. Do you find that people ask why more of the cloud isn’t like this, or they understand that not all workloads run (as before) in these environments?

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The Cloudcast #334 - The Future of Edge Computing

15 februari 2018 | 34 min

Brian talks with Derek Collison (@derekcollison, Founder and CEO at Synadia Communications) about the future of edge computing, the impact of AI/ML on edge systems, and how Telcos and open source communities will evolve with edge computing opportunities.

Show Links:

NATS - Open Source messaging
NATS - A new nervous system for distributed cloud platforms
Derek Collison on theCUBE
Everybody’s in the Edge Game (Data Center Knowledge podcast)
How Edge Computing is changing the network
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve spoken with you many times over the years, but first time on the podcast. Your background is very well documented, so maybe give us a little glimpse into your latest company - Synadia Communications.
Topic 2 - (Public) Cloud Computing has grown in lock-step with the growth of the smartphone (since 2007), creating a specific pattern of application/communication and data collection. What are the forces that are driving all the attention around the Edge Computing evolution (e.g. sensors, smart cars, peer-to-peer patterns, etc.)?
Topic 3 - What do the economics of Edge Computing look like today? Where are the big bottlenecks, or areas for big disruption? Does it vary widely depending on the application (e.g. sensor data vs. streaming vs. telemetry) , or geography (e.g. dense cities, transportation networks, rural areas, etc.)
Topic 4 - You’ve talked about the Google Brain project for a long time. We’ve seen growth around centralized AI/ML for the last 5-7 years. Do you expect a different mode of AI/ML that has to emerge because Edge Computing patterns will be significantly different than centralized models, or do they need small adaptations?
Topic 5 - You’ve need heavily involved with messaging technologies over the years, from TIBCO to NATS. Can you share some insight into how messaging (or async communications) that might need to evolve at the edge, in more distributed types of systems?

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The Cloudcast #333 - Infrastructure 3.0 for AI and ML

8 februari 2018 | 32 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Lenny Pruss (@lennypruss, Partner at Amplify Partners) about the evolution of application and infrastructure architectures, how AI/ML are radically changing how applications are designed, the new inputs to application systems, and how VCs are investing in companies that can augment new cloud services.

Show Links:

Lenny Pruss @ Amplify Partners
Infrastructure 3.0: Building blocks for the AI revolution
Software 2.0
Infrastructure 2.0
CNCF Cloud-Native Landscape
Google AutoML
AWS & Microsoft announce “Gluon”
AWS DeepLens
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you eventually got into the VC side of the business.
Topic 1a - Infrastructure and applications evolve in 'lock-step', so where are we today in terms of this evolution and where are we going?"
Topic 2 - You mention this concept of “connectivity vs. cognition” is what makes ML/AI radically different from software of previous generations. Let’s discuss what that means.
Topic 3 - “The result is an application that is “smart,” but exceptionally data-intensive and computationally expensive”. What are the problems this creates on today’s infrastructure?
Topic 4 - “For ML/AI to reach its full potential, it must graduate from the academic discipline it is today into an engineering one. What that means in practice is that there needs to be new abstractions, interfaces, systems, and tooling to make developing and deploying intelligent applications easy for developers.” - Give us some of the first steps that will make this happen.
Topic 5 - As a VC, you’re in the business of finding the companies that might turn this into a reality. Who are some of those companies that are on your radar?

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The Cloudcast #332 - A Cloud Perspective from Israel

2 februari 2018 | 42 min

The Cloudcast #331 - Has SRE replaced DevOps?

25 januari 2018 | 39 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, CEO @rackngo; Kubernetes Cluster Ops Co-Chair) about the consistency, continuum and confusion between the concepts of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

Show Links:

Google SRE Book
DevOps vs. SRE
DevOps vs. SRE (Rob on Datanauts)
Love DevOps? Wait until you meet SRE?
Open Source PXE
"L8istSh9y" - Rob's Edge & Automation Podcast
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - What is the State of DevOps today? On one hand, there’s Gene Kim’s DevOps Reports (all is great), on another hand is DevOps Days which has become about Empathy, and somewhere in between are companies struggling with all of this silo-busting and automation and constant change. So where are we?
Topic 2 - The DevOps community seemed to want to reject all sort of labels and titles (DevOps engineer, DevOps certified, etc.) and how there is this “SRE” (Site Reliability Engineering) concept. Is this just a new name for DevOps?
Topic 3 - Like NetFlix had microservices, so everybody needed microservices - Google has SRE, so now everyone needs SRE? How does SRE fit into a non-Google company?
Topic 4 - Many Infra/Ops-centric people have been trying to learn automation and some basic programming (e.g. Python, Powershell/Scripting). SREs are often described as programmers that live in the Ops world. Can these current Infra/Ops people evolve to SRE?
Topic 5 - Do you find that DevOps or SRE apply more (or less) to using certain types of technologies vs. other technologies?

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The Cloudcast #330 - Oracle’s Next-Generation Cloud IaaS

18 januari 2018 | 35 min

Brian talks with Clay Magouyrk (@cmagoyrk, Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) about the architecture of the Oracle cloud, how it manages bare-metal VMs and containers, how Oracle integrates on-premises and cloud workloads, and how it integrates with PaaS and SaaS services.

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (blog)
Oracle Cloud Architecture
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (docs)
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Can you tell us about your background prior to joining Oracle and how it helped you design the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?
Topic 2 - There was a lot of buzz about Oracle redesigning their infrastructure cloud. Can you walk us through the architecture and how Oracle delivers bare-metal, VMs and containers? Are they separate environments, or all integrated?
Topic 3 - How does Oracle Cloud deliver networking - intra-cloud, from region-to-region, and integrated with on-premises applications?
Topic 4 - Oracle often talks about “same cloud architecture in both public and private”. Other public clouds are designed differently than most on-premises environments. Can you talk about what’s the same and what is typically different in the Oracle Cloud? What do customers have to adjust to in the Oracle Cloud?
Topic 5 - How do Oracle customers manage to integrate different Oracle Cloud services (e.g. containers, PaaS services, SaaS services, security, etc.)?

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The Cloudcast #329 - Tech Trade Shows in 2018

11 januari 2018 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #328 - Creating a Tech Podcast

4 januari 2018 | 36 min

The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions

27 december 2017 | 59 min

Aaron and Brian have many, many, many thoughts on the tech that shaped 2017, and make some predictions about 2018 and beyond.

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Previous Year Predictions: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014,
15 Trends Shaping Tech in 2018
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Show Notes

Mergers and Acquisitions

Biggest Tech M&A of 2017 and VC Funding is down
Big Mergers: Amazon+Whole Foods; CVS+Aetna; Intel+Mobileye; AT&T+Time Warner; Disney+21st Century Fox

2017 Trends

Storage companies are becoming HCI companies (thoughts on owning a server supply chain vs. software defined vs. commodity hardware)
Containers are becoming more mainstream - but so many misleading “surveys”
Nobody has a clear advantage in “hybrid cloud” architectures
Public cloud is a portfolio game and data acquisition game, not a cost reduction game
Building new applications is still a small % of corporate applications
There’s such a big gap between cloud releases and non-cloud releases (timeframes, updates, informing the market, etc.)

2018 Cloudcast Areas of Interest

What happened to DevOps? Is it now in Phase 2 as “SRE”, or is it unobtainable?
What’s happening in China? How will it impact the rest of the Global markets?
Will AI & ML become tangible to non-Data Scientists? What’s the Fantasy Football of AI & ML, for business?
Where and how will voice technologies (Alexa, Google Home, etc.) fit in long term?
How will we track the Public Cloud tipping point?
What is Serverless most disruptive to, or is it additive to app-dev market size?
Should we track “Serverless” by the ServerlessConf or AWS events?
Should we be following “edge computing”? What are the core focus areas?

2018 Predictions

Continued decline of the middleman in all industries
Awareness of Cloud Computing “costs” becomes more mainstream
Does Security even matter anymore? What bigger events can happen?

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The Cloudcast #326 - The 10 Biggest Stories of the Year

23 december 2017 | 49 min

The Cloudcast #325 - The Next Step in Development Automation

15 december 2017 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #324 - Data Management as a Kubernetes Service

10 december 2017 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #323 - OpenTracing for Distributed Microservices

9 december 2017 | 24 min

The Cloudcast #322 - Build and Deploy Cloud-Native Apps

21 november 2017 | 26 min

Aaron talks with Marc Holmes (@marcholmes, VP Marketing @Chef) about the exploding usage of containers, how application management is changing, how Chef is rethinking the tools they provide to SysAdmins, Ops and Developers, and how Chef Habitat is evolving in Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry environments.

Show Links:

Chef Habitat
Introducing Habitat Builder
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been at Chef for a couple years now, and previously at Docker (and several other emerging tech companies). Can you give us some perspective on where you see the market today in this time of rapid transitions?
Topic 2 - We both come from a technical background and found ourselves customer facing and eventually on the business and marketing side. How has that transition been and what motivated you to make the change?
Topic 3 - About a year ago, Chef introduced Habitat, which was a fairly large “re-think” from the previous Chef platforms, which was more focused on SysAdmin / Ops teams. Give you give the audience an overview on Habitat, for anyone that’s not familiar with the basic concepts?
Topic 4 - Sometimes people will say that the existing Config Management tools are no longer needed now that we have containers, since they describe everything within their tools / files. How might you respond to those types of arguments?
Topic 5 - A few weeks ago Chef introduced Habitat Builder. How does this differ from Habitat?
Topic 6 - We see that Habitat is now supporting integration with platforms like Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes. How are you seeing the uptake of those platforms in the market, or what’s driving their adoption?
Topic 7 - As you’re engaging with more companies that are building Cloud Native applications, what are some of the things they do that make them successful with these new apps, new operational models, new types of IT cultures?

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The Cloudcast #321 - This Week in ML and AI

16 november 2017 | 35 min

Aaron & Brian talk with Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Host of This Week in ML & AI Podcast) about the differences between AI and ML, how to manage data gravity, the maturity of the technology, press coverage, and the societal impacts of AI and ML.

Show Links:

This Week in AI & ML Podcast
CloudPulse Strategies
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known you for a while as being heavily involved in Cloud since the early days, but you’ve been involved with AI and ML for quite a while now too. Tell our audience about your background and what you’re up to today.
Topic 2 - Is there a difference between AI and ML? What are some good examples of each?
Topic 3 - Let’s start with the basics. AI and ML always get talked about as a spectrum between basic things we all live with (like Google doing an auto fill on a search) to the scary SkyNet, Terminator stuff. Where are we on the maturity curve of AI and ML?
Topic 4 - What are some of the key technology elements that people should be aware of with AI and ML? Do we make a mistake by mentioning them today (e.g. AI and ML), and are they very different?
Topic 5 - Can we talk about data and data models/set and data gravity as it relates to AI and ML? Do you bring the data to the engine, or the engine to the data? How do companies deal with this today?
Topic 6 - AI and ML also have the ability to have major societal impacts on our work, from jobs to human privacy to better access to healthcare or studying global warming. Can you talk about how this interaction of technology and human interests is being covered in the press & media?
Topic 7 - Beyond listening to your show each week, what are some good resources for listeners to go learn about AI and ML?

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The Cloudcast #320 - Docker adds Kubernetes, now what...

9 november 2017 | 31 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, Author and International Man of Tech Knowledge) about the evolution of the container ecosystem, the maturity of container technology, Docker's announcement of Kubernetes support and what's next, and how IT professionals are learning about containerizing applications.

Show Links:

Nigel Poulton’s Blog
The Kubernetes Book
Docker Fundamentals (Course)
Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm...and the Winner is…?
Cloudcast Eps. 269 - Nigel discusses Docker
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Hard to believe it’s been over a year since you were last on talking about Docker. How has the container market changed, from your perspective, over the last year?
Topic 2 - You recently wrote “The Kubernetes Book”. Give us the cliff notes version of what readers will learn from the book?
Topic 3 - As you were researching this book (and your trainings around the topics), what things did you learn about Kubernetes that you’d like to use as an Admin/Ops or Developer?
Topic 4 - Docker recently announced intentions to add Kubernetes support to DockerEE. Given Docker’s history of wanting to control their technology, are you surprised they are adding Kubernetes support?
Topic 5 - Do you think their customers will care that Docker has limited contributions to Kubernetes, in terms of supporting it for the Enterprise in the long-run?
Topic 6 - Have you had a chance to dig into how Docker is going to implement this dual-scheduler architecture? Do you think that Docker eventually depreciates Swarm?
Topic 7 - What advice do you have for people trying to learn about containers and Kubernetes?

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The Cloudcast #319 - Evolution of Prometheus Monitoring

2 november 2017 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #318 - Evolution of Cloud Data Management

27 oktober 2017 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #317 - The State of the Serverless Ecosystem

20 oktober 2017 | 39 min

Brian talks with Ryan Brown (@ryan_sb, Sr. Software Engineer @Ansible, Author of ServerlessCode) about the overall state of the Serverless community after the recent ServerlessConf 2017 NYC, the breadth of focus areas for developers and business, the ways to integrate serverless into existing applications, and areas for newbies to the space to get started.

Show Links:

ServerlessCode
Managing Serverless Framework with Ansible
Slides from Ryan's talk
Ben Kehoe’s “DiffOps”
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - You’ve been heavily involved in Serverless since the very days, working on things like the ServerlessCode site as a side project. How are you seeing the community evolve?

The DevOps crowd was there

Lots of “is it NoOps or Not?” discussions

Nobody is actually NoOps. There’s a common understanding (underlined by people like Charity Majors) that someone in your org is always responsible for stuff working, or else you die.
DiffOps is one term that encompasses the “you have responsibility, but one of your responsibilities is to farm out as much as is reasonable to your provider”

Any viable open-source elements emerging?

Lots of toy-ish “oh you can run FaaS on k8s” around, but when you get serious:
Serverless Framework/Zappa/Sparta/Apex
OpenWhisk

Some VC funding, but nothing massive yet

IOPipe raised at least one round
Serverless has a spot in the HeavyBit, and some funding
Stackery has about 2 million in funding
The real “VC’s” in serverless tooling are the cloud mega-providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Google) and the biggest teams I know of are all subteams there

How many customers vs. vendors at the event?

Basically 2x the first ServerlessConf, up to 450/460 attendees

Topic 2 - You gave a talk called “Harmonizing Serverless and Traditional Applications“. Outside of greenfield companies, that seems to be the common questions that companies are asking. What topics did you cover in your talk?

The Cloudcast #316 - Automating to Improve Cloud Spending

12 oktober 2017 | 26 min

Brian talks with Jay Chapel (@parkmycloudjay, Co-Founder/CEO of ParkMyCloud) about the complexity of cloud pricing models, how IT and DevOps teams view spending differently, how to integrate monitoring and automation, and who is critical to making buying decisions in the cloud.

Show Links:

ParkMyCloud Website
ParkMyCloud Blog
Per Second Billing for AWS EC2 and EBS
Per Second Billing for Google Cloud
[PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, why you started ParkMyCloud and how you’ve seen the market evolve since you got started (in 2015).
Topic 2 - ricing in the public cloud world has gotten both more complicated (e.g. no clouds do it the same way) and simpler (e.g. sustained usage discounts, free tiers, per-second billing, etc.). How do you see the market evolving, and how much of a barrier/burden is pricing “complexity” to public cloud adoption?
Topic 3 - You position ParkMyCloud separately for “For DevOps” and “For IT”. How are you seeing those as two distinct use-cases or types of teams?
Topic 4 - ParkMyCloud not only monitors cloud costs and recommends areas for savings, but also includes automated tasks to take advantage of those optimizations. Tell us about the automation capabilities and how your customers get comfortable with that level of control in the platform.
Topic 5 - What are you seeing as the public cloud buying process these days? Who is involved, what criteria do they consider, and how do various stakeholders (CFO, Project Managers, Developers) continue to get cost visibility?

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The Cloudcast #315 - How Newbies are Learning Today

5 oktober 2017 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #314 - Managing the Container Herd

28 september 2017 | 28 min

Aaron talks with Shannon Williams (@smw355, Co-Founder Rancher Labs) about the state of the container ecosystem, the evolution of Rancher, and the explosive growth of Kubernetes.

Show Links:

Rancher Labs Website
Comparing Docker Swarm and Kubernetes whitepaper
[PODCAST] @PodCTL - Containers | Kubernetes - RSS Feed, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn and all your favorite podcast players
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Shannon, How many times has it been now? The last time we spoke to Rancher was at DockerCon EU, 2015 and we spoke to Darren Shepherd. A lot has changed as we’ll get into but first, introduce yourself and how are you doing these days?
Topic 2 - Before we dig into details, what is your take on the state of the container industry currently? What are some themes you’ve seen over the last two years?
Topic 3 - For those that don’t know, explain both Rancher and RancherOS. What problem are you trying to solve with each?
Topic 4 - Rancher as I understand it specializes in application provisioning to both Kubernetes and Docker Swarm either on-prem on to public clouds, correct? Where does Rancher leave off and Kubernetes or Swarm takes over? How is long term management of the application handled? Folks should check out the whitepaper on comparing orchestrators, I took a look last night and it is well done and “down in the weeds”
Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Rancher 2.0. There are some really great things in there, tell the folks about what’s just released.
Topic 6 - What are the common use cases you are seeing with your early customers? Are customers using Rancher for existing projects (Hadoop, ELK Stack) using the catalog or are they integrating directly in their CI/CD pipelines? Both?

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The Cloudcast #313 - Making Sense of New Technologies

22 september 2017 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #312 - An Introduction to Istio

14 september 2017 | 21 min

The Cloudcast #311 - Google Cloud & Kubernetes

7 september 2017 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #310 - The Mid-Year 2017 Update

1 september 2017 | 38 min

Aaron and Brian talk about the new partnership with A Cloud Guru, as well as a 2017 Mid-Year update around all things cloud - VMworld ecosystem, Serverless Ecosystem, Kubernetes for All, etc..

Show Links:

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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Something looks and sounds different from normal. Why don’t you tell our listeners what’s going on?
Topic 2 - Impressions from the VMworld 2017 Keynotes and show floors?
Topic 3 - In talking to the A Cloud Guru team, we’re starting to see a big trend of people getting cloud training and certifications. Should we be doubling back on fundamental technologies to supplement more complex shows?
Topic 4 - Are we in a technology lull right now? We had containers a couple years ago, and serverless like 12-18 months ago, but right now it feels like an expansion phase. Thoughts?
Topic 5 - Let’s talk about some of the trends we’re seeing at this point in 2017:
All vendors supporting Kubernetes (AWS, Oracle, Microsoft)
Is it strange that we’re heard almost nothing from Docker since DockerCon and their announcements of a new CEO and the “Moby” project?
We’re beginning to see some funding in the serverless space (IOpipe, Skippbox acquired by Bitnami, Iron.io at Oracle) and that crazy $140M for Databricks and calling themselves “serverless data science and AI”
Topic 6 - We saw Amazon acquire Whole Foods recently, as well as getting back into the retail markets (people-less stores). Do you think we’ll start to see their movement into all these adjacent markets impact customers adopting AWS? Apparently Target is now moving off AWS.
Topic 7 - AUDIENCE QUESTION: We’ve never really focused on SaaS applications, outside of SaaS-based tool that help IT. Does our audience think we should focus on SaaS applications, and if so, which verticals should we target?

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The Cloudcast #309 - Secrets Management for Secure Microservices

30 augusti 2017 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #308 - Can VMware cross the Cloud chasm?

25 augusti 2017 | 39 min

Brian talks with Keith Townsend (@ctoadvisor, The CTO Advisor) and Stu Miniman (@stu, Wikibon | theCUBE) about the upcoming VMworld 2017 event, VMware’s relevance in a cloud-centric world, the Dell merger 2yrs later and the advice they would give Michael Dell or Pat Gelsinger.

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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, both of you. What’s new in your worlds and what trends are on your radar these days?
Topic 2 - A couple weeks ago The Register forecasted that VMworld is a shrinking event and a stark contrast to the growth of AWS re:Invent. From your perspective, what’s the state of the VMware ecosystem these days?
Topic 3 - With Dell being private but VMware is still public, and their stock being up about 2.5x since the merger ($40-100), is there any sense of how money is flowing within VMware (e.g. R&D) vs. flowing over to pay Dell’s debts?
Topic 4 - You both get access to the VMware executive team during the week of VMworld. What questions do you wish you could ask them, but it’s not appropriate during the interview or Q&A formats that exist?
Topic 5 - Can you explain VMware’s “Cloud Strategy” to us?
Topic 6 - HCI (HyperConverged Infrastructure) is growing very quickly and all the vendors now have an HCI play (Nutanix, DellEMC VxRail, HPE Simplivity/Nimble, Cisco SpringPath, Red Hat HCI, etc.). Does the market need this many similar offerings? Which one of these is non-existent in 3-4 years?

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The Cloudcast #307 - Cloud Careers, After the Whispers

16 augusti 2017 | 36 min

The Cloudcast #306 - PaaS Adoption from Around the World

11 augusti 2017 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #305 - Last Week in AWS

4 augusti 2017 | 30 min

The ServerlessCast #8 - Managing Serverless Performance

28 juli 2017 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #304 - Ansible, DevOps and Containers

17 juli 2017 | 34 min

The Cloudcast #303 - Public Cloud at a Tipping Point

30 juni 2017 | 27 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Bernard Golden (@bernardgolden, CEO of Navica) about the future of the cloud computing marketplace, the expected rates of growths and areas that could impact forecasts positively or negatively.

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Bernard Golden’s website
[Blog] Cloud Computing hits a tipping point
[Forbes] Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts, 2017
[WSJ] WalMart to Vendors - Get off AWS’ Cloud
[Seeking Alpha] Oracle Earnings Recap: Cloud Tipping Point Has Arrived - To A Degree

Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve been recognized as a Cloud Computing thought-leader for many years. What are you up to these days?

Topic 2 - You’ve been advocating for public Cloud Computing for a while now. What’s changed that you’re now calling this a Tipping Point?

Topic 3 - We’ve seen AWS growth-rates slow for the last 7 quarters. But we’re also seeing slower growth in some older on-premises vendors (e.g. IBM, HPE). Do you think these two trends are linked together, or the law of big numbers, or something else?

Topic 4 - We saw Walmart announced this week that they are going to start influencing (or mandating) that their suppliers not use the AWS cloud. In the past, we saw them mandate that suppliers must have facilities located in Bentonville, AR (Walmart HQ) to reduce the costs of meetings. We’ve heard other vendors avoid AWS due to competition. Do you think we start to see non-technical trends start to make an impact on cloud decisions?

Topic 5 - In your recent blog, you seem to imply that only the AAG (AWS, Azure, Google) cloud platforms will dominate going forward. What do you think about platforms like Salesforce? Or open source projects (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Hadoop)? Or companies building services on top of AAG that could just become features embedded in AAG?

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The Cloudcast #302 - How Many IoT Engineers Does it Take to Enable a Lightbulb

23 juni 2017 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #301 - SRE and Infrastructure Operations

15 juni 2017 | 37 min

The Cloudcast #300 - The Good, the Bad and the Boring

9 juni 2017 | 39 min

Aaron and Brian talk about the evolution of Cloud Computing over that past 6+ years - The pace of change, the impact of open source and foundations, the critical elements of public cloud, and what has been a surprise.

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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - We’re done nearly 7 days of shows (~160hrs), had 30 companies acquired, and over 3M+ listens. Thank you to everyone that listens and tells a friend. Rate the show on iTunes!

Topic 2 - Looking back at the last 6+ years, what has surprised you the most or been the most expected? Pace of change? Rise of public cloud?

2011 - AWS at ~$250M/qtr; 2017 - AWS at $3.66B/qtr
The Clouderati crowd
OpenStack / Foundations
Lack of Mega Mergers (“EMC Federation” model?)
No one really talks IaaS, Paas, SaaS anymore
All the $1 Billion investments in cloud…
AWS grew to support Amazon, Google Cloud is spin off and not core to growth
Kubernetes as the “final architecture” / or is it serverless...

Topic 3 - Follow the money - How has VC funding been tracking? What about exits?

VC investments in infrastructure have become rare, markets have moved on
Lots of money went into big data; now going into AI. Is it paying off?

Topic 4 - We’ve both now worked in open source. What impact have you seen this have on the tech industry? Interesting chart from Joseph Jacks about OSS-centric startups

Big customers get invested and are vocal about it
Small customers just want stuff to work and don’t want to hire experts
Is public cloud the monetization model for OSS?

Topic 5 - The divide between those on the cloud bandwagon (e.g. meetups, AWS/Serverless/CNCF events) and those not (e.g. Interop) seems to be growing. The revenues don’t exactly track this, but how do you see the next 3-5 years of the industry playing out for people in the industry?

Infrastructure vendors will be squeezed and consolidated
Public Cloud will give way to the next “Big 3-4”. It was IBM, Cisco, HP, Dell, etc. Now it is AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and SaaS based offerings

Topic 6- Where are we thinking about going with the show? AI, Business-Centric SaaS Apps, Multi-Cloud realities (or horrors)

Topic 7- Let’s end on something boring. There has been some talk about the need to make some element of technology boring (e.g. infrastructure). Do you think that’s possible in the competitive technology markets? We’ve seen on smartphones, virtualization, etc.

Simon Wardley - Everything goes to Commodity over time

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The Cloudcast #299 - The Discipline of Chaos Engineering

26 maj 2017 | 21 min

The Cloudcast #298 - An Introduction to Linkerd

18 maj 2017 | 28 min

The ServerlessCast #7 - Go Sparta Framework

13 maj 2017 | 12 min

The ServerlessCast #6 - Event-Driven Design Thinking

11 maj 2017 | 18 min

The Cloudcast #297 - Bonsai and Enterprise Industrial AI

7 maj 2017 | 27 min

The ServerlessCast #5 - ServerlessConf and IBM OpenWhisk

2 maj 2017 | 14 min

The ServerlessCast #4 - ServerlessConf and Azure Functions

30 april 2017 | 18 min

The Cloudcast #296 - KubeCon, DockerCon, Azure Functions and Bears, Oh My!

21 april 2017 | 45 min

Aaron and Brian review KubeCon 2017 (Berlin), DockerCon 2017 (Austin) and Aaron’s trip to Seattle to learn more about Azure Functions. They also read a bunch of sponsor ads for sponsors they don't have. Use offer code CLOUDCAST to get awesome discounts and free stuff (or not).

Show Links:

Get a free eBook from O'Reilly media or use promo code PC20CLOUD for a discount - 40% off Print Books and 50% off eBooks and videos
CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Videos
Microsoft Azure Functions
Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions
Azure Logic Apps
Docker to Moby Changes | LinuxKit | containerd
theCUBE at DockerCon (videos)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about CloudNativeCon + KubeCon

About 1200-1500 attendees
Lots of Kubernetes projects (60+)
Microsoft bought Deis
IBM now supports Kubernetes
New focus on making the UI/UX better

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about your visit to Seattle to learn more about Azure FunctionsAzure Functions

Languages they use
Event Driven and Trigger Based Code
Terminology is very developer friendly, specifically Enterprise Developer friendly
Use cases were very real world, customer references were presented well
I could see the use case and the problem it solves (compared to others it seems abstract at times)
Bindings were a differentiator
I was surprised by the number of external bindings. Of course there were all the MSFT internal ones, but you had JIRA, github, Trello, Asana, etc. It was impressive to see the binding ecosystemApp Insights - ability to debug/trace/monitor
Logic Apps is like a visual pipeline to build step functions into a workflow
Came in not knowing really anything and came away with a very clear picture of how they plan to be successful and I give them good odds for sure. Hell, they're Microsoft...

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what got announced at DockerCon 2017

Docker to Moby (what does that mean??)
LinuxKit - DIY Linux, UniKernel, Windows
Enterprise Apps, Oracle, Microsoft

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about what we expect to see/hear at ServerlessConf Austin

Differences between various implementations
Users vs. Vendors vs. Consultants
Are they all cloud-specific or will we see a cloud-agnostic serverless emerge
Understand the Serverless Framework
Better understand use-cases and application patterns

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The Cloudcast #295 - Integrating Cloud Security and Cost Management

12 april 2017 | 32 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Aaron Newman (@aaronnewman, CEO / Co-Founder of @CloudCheckr) about the need for consolidated operations tools in the cloud, how to manage security across multiple clouds, how cloud costs can correlate to security, and the new challenges of compliance in public clouds.

Show Links:

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CloudCheckr Website
CloudCheckr - 14 Day Free Trial
CloudCheckr Blog
AWS Startup Interview with Aaron Newman

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s jump right into the company. CloudCheckr seems super interesting to us because it appears to be a consolidation of everything operations. Everything from Security, Cost, Availability, Compliance and Usage. What problems are you trying to solve in the market today?

Topic 2 - You have a security background based on your previous startups, what made you take your application level expertise and apply this to cloud?

Topic 3 - CloudCheckr supports both AWS and Azure today. From a security standpoint, compare and contrast them for us.

Topic 4 - What is CloudCheckr’s strategy when it comes to both identification and resolution of security compliance?

Topic 5 - Another big aspect of CloudCheckr is cost awareness. How does cost awareness relate to security?

Topic 6 - [from recent press-release] “CloudCheckr currently services over 150 AWS and Azure authorized resellers and provides support to nearly 40% of all AWS Premier Consulting Partners.” Can you talk a little bit about your business model and the interaction between customers and partners?

Topic 7 - Last month CloudCheckr announced $50 million in Series A funding. You have expressed mixed feelings in the past about accepting VC money. We have a lot of listeners that follow this space closely. What are your thoughts here on the tradeoffs and what advice would you give to up-and-coming founders out there?

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The ServerlessCast #3 - From Garage to 200k Users in 4 weeks

7 april 2017 | 40 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Sam Kroonenburg (@samkroon, Founder of A Cloud Guru) and Peter Sbarski (@sbarksi, Founder of A Cloud Guru) about why they built their platform on serverless, the state of the serverless community/market, the trends they have seen evolve at ServerlessConf events, and how different offerings and platforms are quickly evolving.

Show Links:

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A Cloud Guru Blog
The Cloudcast Eps. 240 - Becoming an AWS Guru
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the podcast. We last spoke a little over a year ago on the initial topic of public cloud training. Y’all threw in a little blurb at the end that you were doing all of this on a framework you were starting to call “serverless”. Things have exploded from there. Give us an update on A Cloud Guru first of all.

Topic 2 - Let’s jump into Serverless and the state of the “industry” since then. You are operating one of the “oldest” serverless frameworks around and have built a very successful business on it. Tell us first of all about the current state of operations at A Cloud Guru. How have things progressed in the face of some pretty incredible growth over the last 2 years.

Topic 3 - Serverless Conference is coming up in Austin at the end of the month. A Cloud Guru has been the principal organizer of the conference. How have the events changed and matured? What was your favorite session or moment from past events? What do we have to look forward to in Austin?

Topic 4 - For anyone that’s watching the serverless movement from the sidelines, how would you summarize it’s current status today? Is it just AWS Lambda and a fragmentation of everything else?

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The Cloudcast #294 - DevOps Before It Was Cool

2 april 2017 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #293 - Silicon Hollow, From Coal Miners to Coders

22 mars 2017 | 38 min

Brian talks with Justin Hall (@jhalljhall, President of @BitSourceKY) and Payton May (Creative Director of @BitSourceKY) about how they are using developer skills to help rebuild a region that has been impacted by the decline in the coal mining industry. We discuss how they training former coal miners, how they are building apps to address serious issues in their community, and recent media highlighting their efforts and projects.

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Bitsource Website
The Next Blue-Collar Job is Coding (WIRED Magazine)
Meet the Company Teaching Coal Miners to Code
SOAR - Sharing Our Appalachian Region

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background (both in technology and elsewhere) as well as some of the areas where BitSource is focused?

Topic 2 - Tell us about Pikeville, Kentucky and why it’s not like Silicon Valley.

Topic 3 - BitSource Founder Rusty Justice - “He cofounded Bit Source, a code shop that builds its workforce by retraining coal miners as programmers. Enthusiasm is sky high: Justice got 950 applications for his first 11 positions. Miners, it turns out, are accustomed to deep focus, team play, and working with complex engineering tech. “Coal miners are really technology workers who get dirty,” Justice says.”

Topic 3a - Tell us about the process you used to train these former coal miners? What tools or trainings did you use? How did you prioritize the types of projects to take on, that matched the skills you had available? [Did they have any existing technical skills?]

Topic 4 - When we spoke earlier, you mentioned that BitSource was working on an “Uber” like project, but with a much different goal of ride sharing. Tell us more about this project.

Topic 5 - You also mentioned that you’re being mentioned/highlighted in an upcoming HBO special. Can you tell us more about this? You've also been recognized for Fortune: "1 of 7 world changing companies to watch" and
Popular Mechanics: Breakthrough Award

Topic 6 - How can we help you tap into a broader technical community?

Feedback?

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The Cloudcast #292 - VMware, Beyond Virtualization

17 mars 2017 | 34 min

The Cloudcast #291 - Thoughts from Google Cloud NEXT 2017

12 mars 2017 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #290 - Managing Data Across Multiple Clouds

11 mars 2017 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #289 - Enabling Voice-First Ecosystems

24 februari 2017 | 37 min

The ServerlessCast #2 - Kubeless - Serverless Framework for Kubernetes

17 februari 2017 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #288 - Understanding Public Cloud Spending Trends

10 februari 2017 | 40 min

The Cloudcast #287 - Venture Capital and the Cloud Native Landscape

1 februari 2017 | 32 min

Aaron and Brian talk with RedPoint Ventures (Scott Raney (@sraney) General Partner at RedPoint Venture Capital (@redpointvc)) about the evolving role of Venture Capital, the Cloud Native Landscape, open source business models, how to many rapid change, and competing / partnering with AWS.

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The Cloud Native Landscape (Project) (with CNCF)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We always love to get a Venture Capital perspective on the show from time to time. Tell us about yourself and maybe a little bit about your current areas of focus.

Topic 2 - At the recent CNCF event (KubeCon, etc.), Dan Kohn introduced the Cloud Native Landscape, which was built in partnership with RedPoint Ventures. Help us understand the framework and how people are using it today.

Topic 3 - Many of the things on that landscape are either open source projects or companies that are commercializing some aspect of those projects. We’ve heard various theories on what those business models look like, but I’m curious about how you advise your companies in this space.

Topic 4 - Let’s talk for a second about the pace of change. Things are moving faster than ever. How do you advise companies to build their business, whether it’s long-term or IPO or M&A, or just survival techniques?

Topic 5 - Twilio is one of your portfolio companies, and they were highlighted at AWS re:Invent last week. AWS often creates services that overlap companies that run on the platform. How much does someone like Twilio worry that there will be something like “AWS Telephone” being announced in 2017?

Topic 6 - We just had an election here in the US and a certain amount of uncertainty and change is inevitable with any new administration. How does RedPoint think about this transition and how it impacts existing portfolio companies and your investment thesis for the future?

Feedback?

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The ServerlessCast #1 - Project Fission

24 januari 2017 | 24 min

The Cloudcast #286 - Balancing Monolithic Apps and Microservices

13 januari 2017 | 38 min

Brian talks with Burr Sutter (@burrsutter, Director of Developer Experience @RedHatNews) about the Java application community, how companies are managing their existing applications, how they can ship updates faster and with better quality, and the evolution of microservices in the Java world.

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Burr's YouTube Channel - Technology Demos
“The Fast Moving Monolith”
Microservices - How to Explain them to Your CEO"

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background (developer, technologies) and some of the things you’re focused on these days.

Topic 2 - You’re well known in the Java community, and the Java community is going through some changes over the last couple of years. Where is Java in it’s evolution from monolithic applications to microservices?

Topic 3 - One of the talks you often give is around this concept of “breaking up the monolith” (BUM). Give us the basics of what this means.

Topic 4 - For companies that have existing monolithic Java applications, what are some of the basics that are helping them ship faster or creating better quality code? Is this more about evolving middleware technologies or is it more about evolving culture and process?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about microservices in the Java world. There is the Spring framework and elements of the NetFlix OSS tools. Is that the evolution of Java, or are there additional options for companies?

Topic 6 - It’s January and everyone would like to get in better shape for the new year. What’s your Java application equivalent for people to eat better and exercise more? Or does everyone need to join the CrossFit of Java?

Feedback?

The Cloudcast #285 - Automation, DevOps & Reddit

11 januari 2017 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #284 - 2016 Review & 2017 Predictions

28 december 2016 | 68 min

Aaron and Brian review the state of The Cloudcast, review the biggest stories in 2016, and make predictions about 2017.

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2016 Predictions
2015 Predictions
2014 Predictions

Show Notes:
Housekeeping:

Listens up 70% YoY; 50 Shows in 2016 
2017 will be the 7th year of the show.
Thank you to 2016 Sponsors: Intel Cloud For All, Service Now 
[DONATIONS] Krispy Kreme Challenge 2017 
Most Popular Shows: Serverless, DevOps, Containers, Microservices) - all time shows all in 2016 
VC Funding + M&A activities: now over $7.6B ($2.65B VC, $4.98B M&A, 25 acquisitions) - last year closed just north of $5B.  
The Cloudcast listed on several “watch lists” for Blogs/Podcasts 
ServerlessCast (@serverlesscast) shows (red logo) in your pod-catcher 
Weekly | Bi-Weekly “what to watch” shows ~ 10mins - (blue logo) in your pod-catcher 
“The Technical MBA” project

Looking Back at 2016:

Tech Acquisitions + M&A + IPO:

Oracle bought NetSuite (SaaS consolidation)
Dell finalized acquisition of EMC/VMware/Pivotal (Hardware consolidation)
Nutanix IPO (down about 23%)

Software-Eating the World M&A:

Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club (personality, online only)
Walmart acquires Jet (like Amazon.com)
GE Digital acquires ServiceMax (field services via cloud)
Capital One gives away Echo at AWS re:Invent

Prediction Topic 1 - Technology

Enterprises and the Public Cloud - how does this evolve?  
Containers (ecosystem)
Serverless  
AI, Machine Learning, Data Gravity 
SDN? Remember that? 
(Hyper) Converged Infrastructure

Prediction Topic 2 - The Economy

VC funding has been down. Do we see fire-sale acquisitions? 
Have VC moved out of the segment that we discuss on The Cloudcast?  
Will more legacy vendors go private-equity (eg. Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, etc.)? 
Most have thrown in the towel on visions of public cloud 
If the economy goes bad, does that help SaaS or IaaS more (capex vs. open)?

Prediction Topic 3 - Politics

Will Trump pick a fight with Jeff Bezos?  
Will regulation impact things like autonomous driverless vehicles? 
Will there be any efforts to encourage work outside the major tech areas?

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The Cloudcast #283 - The Public Cloud

27 december 2016 | 50 min

The Cloudcast #282 - Managing Multi-Cloud Services

20 december 2016 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #281 - Monoliths and Microservices

13 december 2016 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #280 - DevOps from the Enterprise

29 november 2016 | 39 min

The Cloudcast #278 - Automatic DevOps for the People

18 november 2016 | 40 min

The Cloudcast #279 - Understanding Kubernetes Operators

18 november 2016 | 26 min

Brian talks with Brandon Phillips (@brandonphilips, CTO at @CoreOS) about “Operators” and the evolving capabilities to help companies operate Kubernetes and manage the application around Kubernetes.

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Introducing Operators - Putting Knowledge into Software (including FAQ)
"bootkube"
Brandon’s 1st visit to The Cloudcast (Eps. 107 - 2013)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Before we dig into some of the new stuff, I’d like to get your perspective on this past week at KubeCon and the state of the Kubernetes community as a whole.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this new concept you introduced, called “Operators”. What problem does it intend to solve and how can it help either Developers or Operations teams?

Topic 3 - Kubernetes has been adding these more sophisticated concepts that are more application-pattern aware (e.g. ReplicaSets, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, etc.). In reading through the FAQs on your website, it says that Operators can be complementary to things like StatefulSets. Can you give us the basics of what Operators does that the other capabilities don’t?

Topic 4 - Is there any reason Operators couldn’t also be used to manage the core Kubernetes elements (e.g. Controllers, etc.), similar to something like Cloud Foundry BOSH? Or is it mostly focused on application-level capabilities?

Topic 5 - One of the concerns I heard from several people at KubeCon was around things like backups - both for applications and the overall environment. Can Operators play a role here?

Topic 6 - Since each Operator is going to get built for a specific application, it seems like there is an opportunity for reuse by people in the community with similar applications. Does the CNCF (or CoreOS) plan to maintain a centralized repository of Operators, similar to what Chef/Puppet/Ansible have done in the past with their recipes, cookbooks, playbooks, etc?

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The Cloudcast #277 - DevOps Perspectives from the Front Lines

31 oktober 2016 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #276 - 3D Printing & Maker Movement

30 oktober 2016 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #275 - Microsoft, Millennials & Open Source

29 oktober 2016 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #273 - Open Data for Business

28 oktober 2016 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #274 - Stranger Things with Netflix Containers & OSS

28 oktober 2016 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #272 - The Kubernetes State of the Community

24 oktober 2016 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #271 - VMware and the Book Store

14 oktober 2016 | 36 min

The Cloudcast #270 - Are Container Standards Forking?

7 oktober 2016 | 40 min

The Cloudcast #269 - Putting Docker in Your Brain

23 september 2016 | 40 min

The Cloudcast #268 - Multi-Cloud Serverless Platform

16 september 2016 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #267 - Microservices Memoirs

9 september 2016 | 35 min

Brian talks with Lachlan Evenson (@LachlanEvenson, Sr. Solutions Architect @Deis) about their journey from a v1 to v2 hybrid cloud, how they created internal “ambassadors” for the cloud, how they better understood developer needs and started the adoption of containers, and how they thought about monoliths, microservices and the use of Kubernetes in their new v2 platform.

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Kubernetes and OpenStack Communities
Deploying OpenStack services on Kubernetes

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us some of your background in building cloud environments.

Topic 2 - Prior to this microservices journey, you had already gone through building a v1 cloud, that was very IaaS focused. Talk about the goals of that cloud, as well as the feedback you got from the “customers”, which were internal developers.

Topic 3 - Eventually you built a v2 cloud. What was the focus of that effort?

Topic 4 - [Culture] “Don’t break up the monoliths”. “Have ambassadors”. “Stay in the success zone”.

Topic 5 - [Containers] Talk about how you got developers to embrace containers.

Topic 5a - [Opinionated Platform] Many people talk about having an opinionated platform, but they focus on the side that runs the applications (e.g. container orchestration). You focused on being opinionated on the developer pipeline. Tell us why that was so important.

Topic 6 - [Consistency of Applications] What are some of the basic things you had to think about with microservices as you had to deal with things like network latency, tracing/logging, etc.?

Topic 7 - [Kubernetes] You've been involve in the Kubernetes community since the v1 announcement. Where do you see the community today?

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The Cloudcast #266 - Impressions from VMworld 2016

4 september 2016 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #265 - Designing and Deploying Containers at Scale

26 augusti 2016 | 20 min

The Cloudcast #264 - The Evolution of Digital Ocean

19 augusti 2016 | 27 min

Brian talks with Mitch Wainer (@mitchwainer; Co-Founder of DigitalOcean) and Nick Van Wiggeren (@NickVanWig; Storage Engineering Manager at DigitalOcean) about the overall cloud market, being focused on developers, how to think about geographic coverage and how many features that customers actually ask for.

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Block Storage at DigitalOcean

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background, and give us a little bit of the story of DigitalOcean - it’s this success story that not that many people know about.

Topic 2 - “the cloud” is a funny thing in that it can be focus on IT replacement, shadow IT, developers, platforms, etc. - but DigitalOcean has always been focused on developers. What does that really mean?

Topic 3 - A lot of cloud providers are chasing really long lists of “features” or “services”, but the DigitalOcean list is much shorter. Does that tell us more about developers preferring simplicity over features, or does it give us a sense of how ready developers are to use embedded services vs. the DIY mentality?

Topic 4 - Recently you announced a block storage offering. Give us some insight into the service/technology, and background on why it’s being announced now - it would seem like compute + storage was needed on Day 1.

Topic 5 - The Big 3 (AWS, Azure, Google) tend to get the bulk of the media headlines for cloud. Tell us something about your customer base that would surprise us about how developers use DigitalOcean instead of those bigger offerings

Topic 5 - DigitalOcean is a Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) backed company. I know that a number of our listeners read their blogs and listen to their podcasts. What do they bring to DigitalOcean as a VC?

Feedback?

The Cloudcast #263 - Monitoring Containers with Prometheus

11 augusti 2016 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #262 - Understanding Dropbox's Infrastructure Transition

2 augusti 2016 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #261 - Docker Image Compatibility

29 juli 2016 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #260 - Securing Container Workloads

20 juli 2016 | 24 min

The Cloudcast #259 - Multi-Instance vs. Multi-Tenancy in SaaS

14 juli 2016 | 29 min

Brian talks with Allan Leinwand (@leinwand, Chief Technology Officer @ServiceNow) about the key characteristics of an “Enterprise Cloud”, why architecture is important for SaaS applications and how customers can achieve high availability in the cloud.

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[blog] Introducing the Enterprise Cloud
[blog] Why Cloud Architecture Matters
[blog] The Quest for Near-Perfect Availability

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background (lots of interesting companies and roles) and what you’re focused on at ServiceNow today. [Maybe talk a little about what excites you about Enterprise apps vs. Consumer apps (e.g. Zynga)

Topic 2 - Technologists (mostly IT Ops) tend to be drawn to IaaS services because it looks like their current data center and there are lots of moving parts. SaaS (and to some extent PaaS) gets less attention because SaaS is supposed to hide complexity. What are the basics that many companies miss or don’t understand?

Topic 3 - You recently wrote a blog about Enterprise Cloud and Multi-Instance vs. Multi-Tenancy. Don’t things like VMs or Containers provide enough abstraction on compute resources?

Topic 4 - What are the realities of Security in a Multi-Instance vs. Multi-Tenancy environment, especially as it relates to audit and compliance and potential hacking?

Topic 5 - ServiceNow lives at the intersection of ITIL and DevOps - essentially the transition that many companies are trying to make with their applications and operations. How much of these transitions are the tools/platforms vs. people vs. architectures?

Topic 6 - What is your guidance to IT teams and developers as they start using the cloud more, or integrating new applications into their business?

Feedback?

The Cloudcast #258 - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

25 juni 2016 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #257 - Surviving in a Software-Eating World

22 juni 2016 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #256 - Can Open Source Companies Make Money?

16 juni 2016 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #255 - Serverless, NoOps and Jeff

8 juni 2016 | 36 min

The Cloudcast #254 - Container Deployments - Real Usage, Real Data

27 maj 2016 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #253 - Jumping Inside Complex CI/CD Systems

24 maj 2016 | 21 min

Brian talks with Shlomi Ben Haim (@ShlomiBenHaim; CEO of @JFrog) about social software distribution platforms, the challenges of CI/CD systems, how non-tech-centric companies are embracing software cultures and if there are emerging ways to make new software development easier.

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JFrog Users Conference (#SwampUp)
JFrog Artifactory
JFrog Bintray
JFrog Xra

Show Notes:

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your journey with JFrog over the last 7 or 8 years.

Topic 1a - For anybody that isn’t familiar with all the things that JFrog brings to market, can you give us the high level overview?

Topic 2 - There’s lots of talk these days about cloud-native apps and microservices and software eating the world. But I feel like there isn’t enough discussion about getting all that software into production, which is the most important part. How well do companies understand that challenge and what tools are available to help them get better at testing and deploying?

Topic 3 - Everybody wants to highlight that software delivery can go faster, but it’s a complicated system with lots of inputs and outputs. Let’s talk a little bit about the key areas where companies need controls in that delivery system - either for managing lots of inputs, or managing security, or making sure that updates don’t break too many things in production.

Topic 4 - There are lots of Silicon Valley customers that discuss and use DevOps because their core business is technology. Can you give us some insights into how this evolution to “every business is a software business” outside of technology-centric companies?

Topic 5 - Building software is difficult. Are you seeing any trends that show you that there are new ways to make it easiest and more accessible to more companies?

Feedback?

The Cloudcast #252 - Understanding IBM OpenWhisk

19 maj 2016 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #251 - IT Tricks that SaaS services Forget

12 maj 2016 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #250 - A Platform View of Application Migrations

29 april 2016 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #249 - snap by Intel and Cloud Telemetry

25 april 2016 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #248 - Trouble Inside Your Containers

21 april 2016 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #247 - How Do I Talk To An API?

16 april 2016 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #246 - The Quest for 1M Containers

14 april 2016 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #245 - The Chaotic State of IT in 2016

9 april 2016 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #244 - Engineers, Coffee & AWS Lambda

3 april 2016 | 33 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Donnie Flood (@floodfx) and Larry Ogrodnek (@ogrodnek) about their podcast @EngineersCoffee, their experience at Bizo, and their fascination with serverless computing (or events-based computing) with “Will it Lambda?”

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Topic 1 - Officially you are both formerly with a company called Bizo. Can you give us some of your background and the types of things you’ve built?

Topic 2 - We found your show because of a tweet about AWS Lambda, which we’re both really fascinated about lately. Did you start your show to talk about Lambda, or was that just coincidentally the first topic?

Topic 3 - What about Lambda is interesting to you guys?

Topic 4 - Help us understand the basics of Lambda. There’s lots of tutorials and books online, but it would be great to talk through some example that you have dealt with. Maybe you’re “Will it Lambda?” Concept.

Topic 5 - We’re seeing all the large cloud providers offer an events-based (serverless) offering now - Google Functions, Azure Functions, IBM OpenWhisk. Some are making them open-source. What do you see as the big areas that need additional work? Do you see this taking off of being a niche?

Topic 6 - We’re seeing all the large cloud providers offer an events-based (serverless) offering now - Google Functions, Azure Functions, IBM has a service in BlueMix. Some are making them open-source. What do you see as the big areas that need additional work? Do you see this taking off of being a niche?

Topic 7 - On your show, Donnie has mentioned many times his affinity to using more and more AWS services - sort of this “eliminate all the unnecessary lifting, focus on going fast” mentality. How did that come about, and do you think it’s applicable to non-startup companies?

Topic 8 - We've talked a lot about Lambda, but what other areas are you guys really interested in these days?

The Cloudcast #243 - Understanding Azure Stack

18 mars 2016 | 40 min

The Cloudcast #242 - Understanding Serverless Applications

11 mars 2016 | 34 min

The Cloudcast #241 - Technology Trends Outside Silicon Valley

5 mars 2016 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #240 - Learning How to Become an AWS Guru

26 februari 2016 | 28 min

Aaron and Brian talk with Ryan Kroonenburg (@acloudguru and @KroonenburgRyan, AWS Cloud Architect) and Anthony Stanley (@IamStan, AWS Cloud Architect) from A Cloud Guru about their passion for teaching, how they created A Cloud Guru, the framework for achieving AWS certifications and some examples of learners that got a big bump in pay after completing the courses.

This show is sponsored by Intel Cloud for All - http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/cloud-for-all/cloud-for-all.html

A Cloud Guru Homepage - https://acloud.guru/ 
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - #1 Paying Certification - http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/generic.asp?pageid=3855

Some insight into how A Cloud Guru is using AWS Lambda to build their architecture to scale and reduce costs:

Topic 1 - Before we get into what A Cloud Guru does, let’s talk about your backgrounds. Where have you been and what made you want to start this business?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about A Cloud Guru. What does the site offer and what can “learners” expect from the training courses?

Topic 3 - Ryan mentioned in the introduction video that he trained 30,000 people on AWS last year (or the last couple years) and you expect to reach 100,000 this year. That obviously means a lot of people using this platform to guide them. Tell us about the early feedback and things people want you to add?

Topic 3a - Every new business has a plan or a set of expectations. What has been the unexpected that you’ve seen and heard from the market?

Topic 4 - There was a recent survey from Global Knowledge that AWS Certified Solutions Architect is now the #1 Paying Certification. You mentioned that only 2000 people have that certification today, which feels a lot like the Cisco CCIE in 1997. Any ideas how much demand there is for that level of AWS certification?

Topic 5 - Obviously you’ll see a number of individuals taking the courses, but are you starting to see corporate update as well? Can companies buy bulk licenses from A Cloud Guru?

The Cloudcast #239 - Deploying Security without Borders

19 februari 2016 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #238 - Challenges in Operations, Containers and Microservices

12 februari 2016 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #237 - Cloud Native SDN

1 februari 2016 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #236 - Aligning App Performance to Business Success

14 januari 2016 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #235 - Does Everyone Need Google's Infrastructure?

7 januari 2016 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions

31 december 2015 | 70 min

Aaron and Brian do their annual 2015 WrapUp show. They look at the most interesting shows, trends and topics from 2015, as well as making predictions for 2016.

Show Notes:
Krispy Kreme Challenge Donations

Topic 1 - Is Public Cloud making any money?
Topic 2 - Is Open Source Software making any money
Topic 3 - Everything is becoming an integrated solution.
Topic 4 - Bi-Modal vs. Tri-Modal IT
Topic 5 - The continued rise of SaaS applications (and who manages them)
Topic 6 - The continued rise of non-vendor companies recruiting developers

Show Stats and Interesting Facts

60 Shows 
Official Podcast at Cloud Foundry Summit, MesosCon, LinuxCon, DockerCon, VelocityConf, OSCON 
Went over $5B in VC + M&A Funding for Guests

Most Popular Show(s) of 2015:

Eps.200 (Future of Connected Cloud; Christian Reilly)  
Eps.199 (Docker Security; Diogo & Nathan)
Eps.208 (DevOps; Nathan Harvey)

Aaron’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

Container ecosystem is beginning to mature 
Docker needs to go through Trough of Disillusionment 
Skill Sets Changing - Blogging will become a lost art 
GitHub or “GetOut” - people need to learn GitHub - see 30 Days of Commitmas (GitHub learning) 
Existence of Bi-Modal IT - There is no migration path between the two. 
“Infrastructure as a Code” replaces “Software-Defined” terminology  Infrastructure jobs will become the operations portion of DevOps (automate everything)

Brian’s 2015 Predictions - From 2014 show

Containers, Containers, Containers - competition for Docker in containers (VMware, CoreOS, etc.)? Moved from Containers to Systems. 
Containers/Docker were mentioned everywhere (AWS, Tutum, Microsoft, DigitalOcean) 
VMware pushes that “containers need VMs” 
AWS is finally starting to understand the Enterprise; bundling/integrating services 
Nobody values Cloud Management software 
How do the VCs justify all this investment in companies that drive open-source projects? 
What happens to all the SaaS tools platforms on AWS, can they survive economically?

Our Grades on Various Topics/Companies/Themes

OpenStack 
AWS 
Azure 
Google 
Cisco 
Other Public Clouds 
Private Cloud or Hybrid Cloud 
VMware 
Docker 
Cloud Foundry 
Open Source centric companies (CoreOS, Hashicorp, Mesosphere) 
Cluster-Management and Schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm) 
SaaS Applications

Brian’s 2016 Prediction Notes:

We’ll continue to see big bets (legacy vendors) and big failures
Very curious to watch the open-source VMware-replacements (Hashicorp, CoreOS, Docker, etc.) monetize their business 
We’ll begin to hear about some IoT success stories

Aaron’s 2016 Prediction Notes:
Industry Predictions: 

Docker Trough of Disillusionment will happen (push from last year) in favor of Open Standards 
We will consolidate down to a handful of large hardware and software vendors in one (Oracle, Cisco, Dell) and pr

The Cloudcast #233 - NATS - Cloud Native Infrastructure

23 december 2015 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #232 - Docker Security Part Deux

16 december 2015 | 13 min

The Cloudcast #230 - The Docker Ecosystem

15 december 2015 | 10 min

The Cloudcast #231 - Docker & Tutum Cloud

15 december 2015 | 10 min

The Cloudcast #229 - Weaveworks and New Stack Architectures

9 december 2015 | 14 min

The Cloudcast #228 - Using Rancher to Deploy and Orchestrate Containers

8 december 2015 | 12 min

The Cloudcast #227 - Docker Networking and Project Calico

7 december 2015 | 16 min

The Cloudcast #225 - VMware and Containers

28 november 2015 | 13 min

The Cloudcast #226 - Launching Spacecrafts with Containers

28 november 2015 | 14 min

The Cloudcast #224 - Getting Started with Docker Toolbox

27 november 2015 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #223 - Surprising Facts and Monitoring Docker

27 november 2015 | 15 min

The Cloudcast #222 - Microsoft Operations Management Suite

20 november 2015 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #221 - Self-Improvement as a Service

6 november 2015 | 39 min

The Cloudcast #220 - The World of Many Clouds

29 oktober 2015 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #219 - DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015

24 oktober 2015 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #218 - Learning from Blameless Post-Mortems

17 oktober 2015 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #217 - Platforms - Build, Buy or Rent

11 oktober 2015 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #216 - The Evolution of Cloud Operations

4 oktober 2015 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #215 - Open Source in Europe

27 september 2015 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #214 - Packaging DevOps Big and Small

14 september 2015 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #213 - What is Immutable Infrastructure?

10 september 2015 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #212 - Big Data and Mesos

4 september 2015 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #211 - Mesosphere DCOS

29 augusti 2015 | 26 min

Aaron talks with Ben Hindman (@benh; Co-creator of ApacheMesos, Founder of @mesosphere) about his time at Twitter, building Mesos, understanding problems at scale, how Mesos compares to Kubernetes, Mesosphere DCOS and the recent announcements with Microsoft.

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Links from the show:

Dave Lester from Twitter/ApacheMesos on #155
Understanding Mesos
Kenneth Hui’s Series on Apache Mesos
Microsoft / MesoSphere Announcement
Thanks for the MesosCon folks for having us! - MesosCon Homepage

Topic 1 - Give us some of your background and how you went from working on Apache Mesos at Twitter to becoming involved with Mesosphere?

Topic 2 - It’s been about a year since we talked about Mesos on the show. We’ve talked about Kubernetes a few times. Can you give us the basics of each of those technologies because sometimes people confuse them or think they are interchangeable or overlapping.

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Mesosphere and DCOS (Data Center Operating System). People talk about “durable and declarative” infrastructure for applications. How does DCOS accomplish this?

Topic 4 - Mesosphere includes not only systems and schedulers for the underlying container infrastructure, but also application-level schedulers. What are the differences, and how does a development team vs. an ops team interact with Mesosphere?

Topic 5 - What types of applications are you seeing Mesosphere customers running in this new environment? One thing we heard at VelocityConf was that there is work within Apache Mesos to look at adding support for stateful applications or stateful data - what’s the status of that?

The Cloudcast #210 - Open Source Foundations with Jim Zemlin

26 augusti 2015 | 13 min

The Cloudcast #209 - The Evolution of Private Cloud as a Service

19 augusti 2015 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #208 - Infrastructure as Code

13 augusti 2015 | 37 min

Brian talks with Nathen Harvey (@nathenharvey, Community Manager @chef) about how he became a Community Manager, his passion for DevOps, The Food Fight podcast, the future of configuration management and the best first steps to developing the skills to build infrastructure-as-code at your company.

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Topic 1 - Tell us about your background and how you evolved into doing Community Management - and what does community management mean for a mix of open source and commercial “stuff”?

Topic 2 - We listen to Michael Ducy’s Goat Farm podcast, and hear a number of people from Chef speak at various events. It feels like what Chef is focused on is more about hands-on cultural change than technology. Is that a fair assessment of how it’s evolving?

Topic 3 - I heard you speak recently at a Triangle DevOps event about Infrastructure-as-Code, which is a big concept, but it’s grounded in actual technology. But that topic always gets wrapped up in DevOps and all these other analogies (Unicorn, Goats, etc..). Does that get old for you, or is it just the nature of working on stuff that’s trying to change 20yrs of previous habits and culture?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about config management. There’s this new believe/buzz that maybe Docker eliminates the needs for previous config-mgmt system. Why are we hearing that discussion, and what are the broader realities of config-mgmt (and Infrastructure as Code)?

Topic 5 - I feel like we have a big problem brewing, if this Cloud Native apps (Microservices, 12-Factor, etc.) stuff takes off, because a lot of the principles of DevOps are so foreign in today’s Ops teams. What do you recommend to people to get to learning and doing things “the right way” more quickly?

The Cloudcast #200 - Future of Connected Clouds

28 juli 2015 | 43 min

The Cloudcast #207 - Managing Shared Cloud Resources

18 juli 2015 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #206 - Experience Building Large-Scale Clouds

14 juli 2015 | 34 min

The Cloudcast #205 - AWS CloudMgmt-as-a-Service

11 juli 2015 | 25 min

Brian talks to Joel Davne (@woggenager, CEO of @cloudnexa) and MJ DiBerardino (CTO @cloudnexa) about the evolution of System Integrators, the evolving AWS ecosystem, Cloud Management -as-a-Service, and what types of applications customers are using with AWS.

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Links from the show:

Cloudnexa Website
Cloudnexa Automates AWS Provisioning with vNOC
Cloudnexa on theCUBE at AWS:reInvent

Topic 2 - As public cloud was becoming more mainstream, a lot of people were saying that systems integrators (and maybe hosting providers) would go away. Talk about why you call Cloudnexa a “born in the cloud” company, and why your business models and technology are different than more traditional VAR/SI/Hosting models.

Topic 3 - Aaron and I are big fans of Simon Wardley, who often talks about AWS having an advantage because they not only learn from their customers, but also from the AWS ecosystem. What are you learning from the AWS marketplace that the mainstream media isn’t discussing?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about vNOC. I’ve been saying for a while that Management-as-a-Service is hugely important, because too many companies can’t figure out how to operate a cloud - and most really shouldn’t be (costly, slow learning curve, wrong skills).

Topic 5 - Whenever I read about Cloudnexa or hear you speak, the words “customer value” constantly come out. That goes from the service you offer to pricing models to migrations. Talk about how you think about that in this on-demand world.

Topic 6 - The AWS ecosystem is very powerful and diverse - we’ve had many of the companies on the show. You do some unique things in how you partner with other AWS ecosystem companies. Give us some input about what that means from both a technical perspective and business perspective.

The Cloudcast #204 - NGINX for Docker and Microservices

8 juli 2015 | 16 min

Aaron and Brian talk to Sarah Novotny (@sarahnovotny) about her involvement in multiple open source communities, how L4-L7 services interact with containers, how NGINX interacts with multiple aspects of the Docker ecosystem and architectural patterns she is seeing with container deployments.

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Links from the show:

NGINX Community
NGINX Plus
Thanks to the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube

Topic 2 - Your talk this week is about “Interconnecting Your Containers at Scale”, and the abstract includes the word “stevedore”. I had to look it up, and it means “the person that loads and unloads cargo on a dock” (appropriate metaphor for DockerCon). Be honest, did you know that word before this talk?

Topic 3 - NGINX makes a great load-balancer / proxy. It not only has to deal with dynamic scale and policies associated with apps, but it also maintains some amount of state. Let's dig into what that means with the ephemeral nature of containers.

Topic 4 - We had breakfast the other day and you were telling me that many NGINX conversations are often less about the specific features/functionality and instead are more application-architecture. Give us some examples of what that means for Cloud Native applications, or uniqueness for containers?

Topic 5 - Where are you seeing the important points of integration for NGINX? Is it at the container level, or higher-level services (eg. Swarm/Kubernetes/Mesos), or do you see more customized integrations with policy services or other application services?

The Cloudcast #203 - Docker Networking

6 juli 2015 | 30 min

Aaron and Brian talk to John Willis (@botchagulpe; VP of Customer Enablement @Docker) and Madhu Venugopal (@MadhuVenugopal, Sr.Director Networking @Docker) about the evolution from Socketplane to Docker Networking, the new plugin architecture in v1.7, who is the new Networking admin/ops and how to learn the container networking model.

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Links from the show:

Docker Tutorials (video)
DevOps Cafe (podcast)
Docker Networking (updates in v1.7)
Thanks for the Docker folks for having us! - DockerCon 2015 on YouTube

Topic 1 - We spoke with you just a few months ago, when you were working with Socketplane. What happened to those guys?

Topic 2 - Docker Networking has evolved into this concept/library called “libnetwork”. Help us understand the basic concepts of networking for Docker containers.

Topic 3 - We sat through the Docker Networking tutorial yesterday. As old-timey networking guys, a lot of the terminology was very different - Sandbox, Endpoint, Network, Namespaces. What’s a good learning resource to help us connect the dots between the old and the new?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the new plugin architecture for Docker. This extends to many area, including Networking and Storage. What does this mean for a networking partner that can to plugin to Docker?

Topic 5 - Can you talk about the interactions between Docker Networking and of the Service Discovery frameworks (eg. etcd, Swarm, Consul, etc.)?

Topic 6 - We’ve heard that the container framework is essentially - Developers own inside the containers; Ops own outside the containers. Does that still hold true for how Docker Networking works?

The Cloudcast #202 - DockerCon - Project 6 from Datawise.io

3 juli 2015 | 14 min

The Cloudcast #201 - DockerCon - Secure Hybrid Cloud OS with Apcera

29 juni 2015 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #199 - Docker Security

27 juni 2015 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #198 - Architecting Cloud Foundry

19 juni 2015 | 19 min

The Cloudcast #197 - Tectonic Shifts at CoreOS

17 juni 2015 | 21 min

The Cloudcast #196 - Inside Cloud Foundry Operations

16 juni 2015 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #195 - Farming Cloud Apps with Rancher

13 juni 2015 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #194 - DevOps Down to the Rack Level

10 juni 2015 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #193 - Andy Weir, Author of "The Martian"

6 juni 2015 | 20 min

Aaron and Brian talk to Andy Weir (@andyweirauthor), author of The Egg and The Martian. We cover the connection between Open Source Software and writing, Aaron gets geeky about the book, the latest on the upcoming movie, tips for new authors, and even talk a little bit about the Ready Player One universe.

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Links from the show:

Andy's Website
Andy's Keynote Talk at Cloud Foundry Summit
The Martian Movie (November 2015)
Lacero Short Story

Topic 1 - For those that aren’t familiar with The Martian, can you tell everyone a little bit about the book?

Topic 2 - The Martian been turned into a movie. I’ve read that you had a peek at the script. In the book there is a lot on internal dialog (no one to talk to on Mars), any insight into how this will be handled in the movie?

Topic 3 - Your book started out as a self published book. I read your AMA on Reddit, you recommend self publishing through Amazon as a great avenue for those starting out. What was the process like and any other suggestions for writers looking to break into the field?

Topic 4 - I’ve heard it took you a few years to write the book due to all the research involved. In your opinion, How close are we to being able to have a colony on Mars? What’s stopping us technology wise and where did you have to “fudge” a bit in the book?

Topic 5 - Another great book I’ve read recently is Ready Player One. You did a short story called Lacero based in the universe. It is a great short read and adds an amazing twist to the entire story. It’s really cool how such a short piece of work actually adds an amazing amount of depth to the original book. Where did the idea come from?

Topic 6 - What’s next?

Music Credit: Nine Inch Nails (nin.com)

The Cloudcast #192 - Pets, Cattle & Chickens

28 maj 2015 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #191 - Cloud Foundry + Netflix OSS

24 maj 2015 | 20 min

The Cloudcast #190 - Live from Cloud Foundry Summit

19 maj 2015 | 19 min

The Cloudcast #189 - Containers + Data Persistence

1 maj 2015 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #188 - The ContainerPocalyse Ahead

25 april 2015 | 41 min

The Cloudcast #187 - API Performance Monitoring

17 april 2015 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #186 - Understanding the Cloud Foundry Foundation

12 april 2015 | 44 min

The Cloudcast #185 - Masters, Minions and Pods - Kubernetes 101

5 april 2015 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #184 - Streaming Analytics for Distributed Applications

29 mars 2015 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #183 - Container-Centric Application Deployments

21 mars 2015 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #182 - Moving DevOps Forward with CI:CD

15 mars 2015 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #181 - Investigating the ELK Stack

7 mars 2015 | 41 min

The Cloudcast #180 - Understanding CoreOS Distributed Architecture

4 mars 2015 | 31 min

The Cloudcast - ByteSized - Stateful vs. Stateless Apps

25 februari 2015 | 13 min

The Cloudcast - ByteSized - Monitoring & Logging

25 februari 2015 | 11 min

The Cloudcast #179 - Managing Containers w/o a Tupperware Party

20 februari 2015 | 41 min

The Cloudcast - ByteSized - Containers

5 februari 2015 | 13 min

The Cloudcast - ByteSized - Git & GitHub

5 februari 2015 | 10 min

The Cloudcast - ByteSized - Config Management

5 februari 2015 | 13 min

The Cloudcast - ByteSized - CI/CD

5 februari 2015 | 12 min

The Cloudcast #178 - DevOps Defined Networking with Socketplane

30 januari 2015 | 37 min

The Cloudcast #177 - Operationalized OpenStack and NFV

22 januari 2015 | 24 min

The Cloudcast #176 - Dev, Ops & VC Perspective on Modern Apps

15 januari 2015 | 44 min

The Cloudcast #175 - Machine Data & DevOps

5 januari 2015 | 42 min

The Cloudcast #174 - 2014 Year in Review and 2015 Predictions

31 december 2014 | 46 min

The Cloudcast #173 - "Atlas" - Framework for DevOps Automation

11 december 2014 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #172 - The State of Containers

3 december 2014 | 41 min

The Cloudcast #171 - Evolving API Economy & Hackathons

13 november 2014 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #170 - Reigniting of the Cloud Wars

8 november 2014 | 36 min

The Cloudcast #168 - Containerized Continuous Delivery

29 oktober 2014 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #169 - DevOps Incident Management with BigPanda

29 oktober 2014 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #167 - Bringing Advanced Analytics to DevOps

24 oktober 2014 | 31 min

The Cloudcast #166 - Creating a Docker Cloud with Clocker

22 oktober 2014 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #165 - DevOps Automation as a Service

15 oktober 2014 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #164 - Full-Stack Real-Time Monitoring from the Cloud

3 oktober 2014 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #163 - Evolution of CoreOS

26 september 2014 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #162 - Building and Managing Scalable SaaS Services

25 september 2014 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #161 - Transitioning from CTO to VC

12 september 2014 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #160 - The State of The Cloud - MidYear 2014

5 september 2014 | 47 min

The Cloudcast #159 - Panamax - Docker Simplified

22 augusti 2014 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #158 - Private Cloud Management as a Service

14 augusti 2014 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #157 - Automating DataCenter-Scale Infrastructure

12 augusti 2014 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #156 - Making Complex Apps Look Simple

7 augusti 2014 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #155 - Scaling Twitter's Distributed Infrastructure with Mesos

31 juli 2014 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #154 - AppStore APIs and Data to Help Build Better Apps

16 juli 2014 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #153 - Building Better APIs for Business Success

10 juli 2014 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #152 - How Large Does Mirantis Loom over OpenStack?

2 juli 2014 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #151 - Continuous Security Responsibilities with AWS

27 juni 2014 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #150 - Evolving From Plumbers to Coders

26 juni 2014 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #149 - Perspective from Cloud Foundry Summit

18 juni 2014 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #148 - DevOps, WebScale & BigData at Gilt

6 juni 2014 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #147 - Scalable OpenStack in Europe & Globally

24 maj 2014 | 34 min

The Cloudcast #146 - Red Hat's Big Cloud Vision

22 maj 2014 | 28 min

The Cloudcast #142 - OpenDaylight meets OpenStack

17 maj 2014 | 24 min

The Cloudcast #143 - Containerize All the Things

17 maj 2014 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #144 - The OpenStack Rebel Alliance

17 maj 2014 | 37 min

The Cloudcast #145 - OpenStack at VMware

17 maj 2014 | 24 min

The Cloudcast #141 - Cloud Portability Without Leaving the Nest

28 april 2014 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #140 – More DevOps, Less Snowflakes

25 april 2014 | 37 min

The Cloudcast #139 - Docker, Project Atomic & OpenShift

17 april 2014 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #138 - Blocking on OpenStack's Storage Door

12 april 2014 | 34 min

The Cloudcast #137 - APIs and Sharing Files

2 april 2014 | 20 min

The Cloudcast #136 - 3D Printing & The Future of Manufacturing

26 mars 2014 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #135 - Scaling and DevOps at GitHub

13 mars 2014 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #134 - The Real Costs of Cloud Computing

12 mars 2014 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #133 - Cloud Foundry Foundation

6 mars 2014 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #132 - Cloud Apps need Borderless Security

28 februari 2014 | 31 min

The Mobilecast #22 - Acompli redefines BYOA & Email

27 februari 2014 | 58 min

The Cloudcast #131 - Distributed Chaos, Security's New Normal

20 februari 2014 | 31 min

The Mobilecast #21 - Bluebox Security & Redefining BYOD

19 februari 2014 | 42 min

The Cloudcast #130 - Hyper-Converged & Software-Defined Collide

11 februari 2014 | 30 min

The Cloudcast #129 - Cloud Chaos, HyperConvergence & Commoditization

31 januari 2014 | 45 min

The Mobilecast #20 - VMware acquires AirWatch

31 januari 2014 | 37 min

The Mobilecast #19 - Beer, Twinkies and Box

28 januari 2014 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #128 - Does Open Source Redefine the Cloud Supply Chain

16 januari 2014 | 32 min

The Cloudcast #127 - Got CloudOps Skills?

9 januari 2014 | 35 min

The Cloudcast #126 - 2013 in Review & 2014 Predictions

31 december 2013 | 43 min

The Cloudcast #125 - Building Advanced Cloud Services

12 december 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #124 - Cloud Operations

9 december 2013 | 37 min

The Cloudcast - Donuts, Donations and Dummies

27 november 2013 | 9 min

The Cloudcast #123 - Monitoring the Clouds from the Cloud

26 november 2013 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #122 - The Clash of the Cloudcasts

25 november 2013 | 16 min

The Cloudcast #121 – Does SaaS need better Security?

12 november 2013 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #118 - OpenStack VMware Interop and Nicira SDN

9 november 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #119 - OpenStack Neutron and Nuage Networks

9 november 2013 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #120 - OpenStack DBaaS

9 november 2013 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #117 - OpenStack API Deep Dive

6 november 2013 | 26 min

The Cloudcast #116 - Managed OpenStack and Cloud Foundry

5 november 2013 | 20 min

The Cloudcast #115 - Real World OpenStack

5 november 2013 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #114 - Evolving to SDN DevOps

21 oktober 2013 | 31 min

The Mobilecast #18 - BYOD for Everybody

13 oktober 2013 | 45 min

The Cloudcast #113 – Is Data Center Management a House of Cards?

4 oktober 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast #108 - OpenStack Neutron and SDN

18 september 2013 | 22 min

The Cloudcast #109 - Canonical's Plan to Rule the World and Bacon

18 september 2013 | 17 min

The Cloudcast #110 - Overcoming PaaS Deployment Barriers

18 september 2013 | 25 min

The Cloudcast #111 - Real World Puppet Manifest Development

18 september 2013 | 15 min

The Cloudcast #112 - The Journey From VMware to OpenStack Part 2

18 september 2013 | 27 min

The Cloudcast #104 - DevOps and SaltStack

17 september 2013 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #105 - OpenDaylight and SDN Evolution

17 september 2013 | 23 min

The Cloudcast #106 - Xen Project Update

17 september 2013 | 14 min

The Cloudcast #107 - CoreOS and Linux Containers

17 september 2013 | 15 min

The Cloudcast #101 - Software-Defined Storage

16 september 2013 | 29 min

The Cloudcast #103 - OpenStack Summit Training User Feedback

16 september 2013 | 20 min

The Cloudcast #102 - OpenStack Foundation and Piston Cloud

16 september 2013 | 28 min

The Mobilecast #17 - Blackberry, What's Next?

15 september 2013 | 44 min

The Mobilecast #16 - Enterprise Mobility Mgm't Space

12 september 2013 | 33 min

The Mobilecast #15 - The Apple Announcements

10 september 2013 | 38 min

The Cloudcast #100 - Constipated Unicorns and Cloud Bollocks

5 september 2013 | 43 min

The Mobilecast #14 - The Microsoft + Nokia Deal

3 september 2013 | 69 min

The Cloudcast #99 - Exploring Network Virtualization

31 augusti 2013 | 29 min

The Mobilecast #13 - Mobile Security

30 augusti 2013 | 45 min

The Cloudcast #98 - Real-life AWS Apps and DevOps

15 augusti 2013 | 37 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #12 - Data Ingestion

15 augusti 2013 | 35 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #97 - Docker.io and PaaS Containers

9 augusti 2013 | 27 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #11 - An Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Primer

5 augusti 2013 | 37 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #96 - Swift - More than OpenStack

5 augusti 2013 | 36 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #95 - Ansible - Next Generation DevOps Tools

31 juli 2013 | 28 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #10 - VMware End User Computing

31 juli 2013 | 31 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #94 - OpenStack Turns Three

27 juli 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #93 - The Journey from VMware to OpenStack

16 juli 2013 | 29 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #92 - Captain Morgan and the Real-Time Web

10 juli 2013 | 42 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #91 - CloudStack Collab - Users Helping Users

1 juli 2013 | 37 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #90 - Six Weeks to a Cloud

28 juni 2013 | 27 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #89 - Is Linux the Future of Cloud Networking

19 juni 2013 | 23 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #88 - SDN, Overlays, NFV, VXLAN, ODF and ...WTF??

13 juni 2013 | 33 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #9 - Apple WWDC Keynote Observations

11 juni 2013 | 42 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #8 - CISO and the Art of Mobility

10 juni 2013 | 39 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #87 - Manage the Workload not the Machine

25 maj 2013 | 28 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #7 - Mobile Etiquette to Management

23 maj 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #86 - From DevOps to Private PaaS

9 maj 2013 | 42 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #85 - Nested Clouds and Application Portability

2 maj 2013 | 37 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #6 - WiFi, Small Cells and Mobile

28 april 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #83 - Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud Options

19 april 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #84 - Red Hat OpenShift - Are We There Yet?

18 april 2013 | 35 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #5 - App Development & Lessons Learned at Festo

17 april 2013 | 34 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #4 - Data Categoritization and Security.mp3

15 april 2013 | 45 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #3 - Identity and Access Management

9 april 2013 | 38 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #81 - Data Gravity meets Lean Analytics

7 april 2013 | 66 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #82 - SDN, Big Data, Internet of Things and What's Next?

7 april 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #79 - DevOps Evolution and The Phoenix Project

29 mars 2013 | 47 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #2 - Health, Fitness and Wearable Computing

29 mars 2013 | 45 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #80 - Regional Cloud Madness

22 mars 2013 | 36 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #78 - Open Source Software 101

15 mars 2013 | 34 min

The Mobilecast (.net) #1 - A Year of Going Mobile Only

14 mars 2013 | 32 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #77 - OpenStack, PaaS, APIs, Platform Tools, Automation & News

10 mars 2013 | 40 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #76 - Bringing Depth to PaaS for Real-World Deployments

1 mars 2013 | 32 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #75 - Threat Protection vs. Threat Dectection

24 februari 2013 | 29 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #72 - Cloud-Enabling Memcached and Redis for NoSQL

14 februari 2013 | 19 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #74 - Enabling Business thru Mobility & Cloudcast Expansion

7 februari 2013 | 32 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #73 - DevOps, Managing Hardware as Code

31 januari 2013 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #71 - Enterprise Cloud - The Debate Rages on in 2013

13 januari 2013 | 37 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #70 - YearEnd Best and Worst FAILtacular

28 december 2012 | 5 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #69 - Cloud Garage Labs

21 december 2012 | 46 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #67 - NetApp/AWS - Cloud ONTap

7 december 2012 | 35 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #68 - Disrupting Open, Unified Storage with Ceph

7 december 2012 | 42 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #65 - Cloud Cost Concerns

28 november 2012 | 14 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #66 - Developing Apps for the Public Cloud

28 november 2012 | 13 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #64.5 - The Cloudcast Gives Back - Charity Challenge

21 november 2012 | 8 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #64 - Intel Inside the Data Center

16 november 2012 | 22 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #63 - The Cloud Foundry PaaS Ecosystem

15 november 2012 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #62 - Nebula, OpenStack & OpenStack Foundation

2 november 2012 | 43 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #61 - Why New Applications are Moving to NoSQL

25 oktober 2012 | 40 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #59 - Who’s Your Puppet Master?

4 oktober 2012 | 42 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #58 - Build a Cloud Day Roundtable

1 oktober 2012 | 30 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #57 - Futures Markets for Public Cloud Services

27 september 2012 | 29 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #56 - Securely Access Enterprise Files in the Cloud

26 september 2012 | 47 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #52 - Bromium’s vSentry Unveiled

19 september 2012 | 30 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #55 - 1st Annual Fantasy Cloud Draft

6 september 2012 | 46 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #54 - Cloud Providers Evolving into the Enterprise

4 september 2012 | 27 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #53 - CloudStack One Year Later

30 augusti 2012 | 38 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #51 - Technology Warfare and the Evolution of Cloud Economics.mp3

22 augusti 2012 | 50 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #50 - Managing Security and Compliance in Public Clouds

16 augusti 2012 | 49 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #48 - Putting the Security Cart before the App Horse

9 augusti 2012 | 37 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #49 - Application Automation and Enterprise PaaS

9 augusti 2012 | 42 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #47 - SDN, OpenFlow and Network Virtualization

27 juli 2012 | 35 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #46 - The Big and Small World of Cloud Computing

5 juli 2012 | 40 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #45 - Evolving Security-as-a-Service

28 juni 2012 | 31 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #44 - Bringing Freedom to Developers thru PaaS

25 juni 2012 | 28 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #42 - “Bromium: MicroVirtualization for Enabling MacroSecuritization”

20 juni 2012 | 58 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #43 - “Cloud - The Need for Transparency in a Complex World”

20 juni 2012 | 42 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #41 - Fifty Shades of RidiCuLUS Cloud

8 juni 2012 | 29 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #40 - “Mobility - Craplications to AppStores to APIs

7 juni 2012 | 45 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #39 - Enterprise Class Cloud Services

31 maj 2012 | 36 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #38 - Project Razor - Google Ops for Enterprise Clouds

23 maj 2012 | 22 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #37 - PaaS meets Data Gravity

17 maj 2012 | 43 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #36 - New, Open, Simplified Cloud Architectures

8 maj 2012 | 29 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #35 - Cover your *aaS, Cover your Costs

30 mars 2012 | 25 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #34 - New Networks for the Cloud.mp3

16 mars 2012 | 39 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #33 - DevOps - One Year Later

26 februari 2012 | 49 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #32 - APIs - The New Language of the Cloud

10 februari 2012 | 49 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #31 - Securing Virtual Desktops

9 februari 2012 | 27 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #30 - Laws in the Cloud

3 februari 2012 | 47 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #29 - Building PaaS Clouds for .NET Apps

27 januari 2012 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #28 - The Evolution of VARs in Cloud Computing

13 januari 2012 | 34 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #27 - 2011 in Review, 2012 Predictions

23 december 2011 | 49 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #26 - IT Women of the Cloud

10 december 2011 | 38 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #25 - The Intersection of IPv6 and Cloud

6 december 2011 | 43 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #24 - CloudPassage - Security in the Cloud

1 december 2011 | 30 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #23 - Going Mobile...

28 november 2011 | 53 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #22 - Live from CA World with Andi Mann

14 november 2011 | 30 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #21 - The Network Stack of OpenStack

23 september 2011 | 38 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #20 - The Evolution of OpenStack

22 september 2011 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #19 - Who Manages the Clouds?

15 september 2011 | 39 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #18 - VMworld - vCloud Director and vCloud Security

4 september 2011 | 27 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #17 - Cloud Foundry - The Application PaaS

23 augusti 2011 | 44 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #16 - Dell, Dude You're Getting a Big Data Cloud

20 augusti 2011 | 36 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #15 - The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud

7 augusti 2011 | 34 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #14 - State of the Podcast Address

2 augusti 2011 | 35 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #13 - Meeting the PaaS Master

15 juli 2011 | 30 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #12 - There’s a Pony in there... (Managing the Cloud)

16 juni 2011 | 47 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #11 - News, Stacks, Rants and More

5 juni 2011 | 38 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #10 - Clouds on the Storefront Horizon

1 juni 2011 | 44 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #9 - The Greatest Chad’s World Ever Sold

5 maj 2011 | 23 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #8 - Get off your PaaS and Build Clouds

27 april 2011 | 38 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #7 - From the News Desk

22 april 2011 | 35 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #6 - Is Cloud Computing Fashionable for IT?

19 april 2011 | 36 min

The Cloudcast (.net) #5 - ROI and Technology Shifts in Private Cloud

1 april 2011 | 54 min

The Cloudcast (.net) - Episode 4 - "DevOps & Developing New IT Skills"

26 mars 2011 | 33 min

The Cloudcast (.net) - Episode 3 - “President of the Private Cloud”

28 februari 2011 | 49 min

The Cloudcast (.net) - Episode 2 - "Same Guys, Less Wire"

20 februari 2011 | 7 min

The Cloudcast (.net) - Episode 1 - "Introduction Teaser"

2 februari 2011 | 2 min

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