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Times of Uncertainty lead to eras of Creativity Nov 17, 2024

It’s not a reach to say that we’re currently in a time of uncertainty, across technology, economic and political spectrums. But historically, times of uncertainty have often led to unexpected creativity.

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STUFF THAT FEELS UNCERTAIN OR FRAGMENTED RIGHT NOW

Transition of US political parties (regulation, leadership, reaction to the unknown, friend or foe of Silicon Valley)
Stock market is somewhat bullish, but credit markets aren’t aligned
Social media seems more fragmented (good & bad), so what does this do to information flows, learning, discussions, etc.
Speculation is that AI LLM models are starting to plateau
Cloud providers aren’t really talking about anything but AI
VCs seem to be excited about the potential of acquisitions again, but who?
Netflix can’t seem to figure out streaming live TV, at least at scale - but Amazon can?

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Multi-Cloud Network Observability Nov 13, 2024

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 Nov 10, 2024

While there will be plenty of evaluation of how the 2024 US elections played out, we take a look at 13 tips that we can learn from the campaigns that can be used for tech communications.

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CAN THE TECH INDUSTRY LEARN ANYTHING FROM POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS?

It’s very difficult to disrupt the incumbent or most well-known name
It’s more difficult to prove “what if” (future) vs. something that already happened
Figure out messaging velocity and variability (change the story vs. stick to the story)
Plans tend to defeat a lack of plans (or vagueness)
Fear is as powerful a motivator as hope/joy/possibilities
Complex topics (eg. democracy, DevOps) are difficult for people to understand, if they aren’t well defined.
People tend to make decision with their wallet, based on their current situation
Are you speaking to a niche audience, or a large audience?
If your competition defines you, you need to reframe it quickly
If your competition finds a liability, you need to address it quickly
Sometimes small things can be the center of the discussion
Know where your audience is getting their information from (traditional vs. modern channels)
Are you trying to get people to align on an issue, or a set of virtues (align to a group)?

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Cloud News of the Month - October 2024 Nov 06, 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from October 2024.

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Link to October 2024 news and articles

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Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants Oct 30, 2024

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.
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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 Oct 26, 2024

When you’re asking VCs for $6B+, you probably need to promise more than normal returns. So let’s just change all of humankind over the next 5-10 years. Seems simple enough.

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“Machines of Loving Grace” (Dario Amodei - Anthropic)
Why AI companies are dropping the doomerism (Decoder from The Verge)
“The Intelligence Age” (Sam Altman - OpenAI)

THINGS THAT AI COULD IMPROVE (according to Dario Amodei)

Biology and Health
Neuroscience and Mind
Economic Development and Poverty
Peace and Governance
Work and meaning

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A Modern Approach to App Modernization Oct 23, 2024

Edward Hieatt (@edwardhieatt, Chief Customer Officer @mech_orchard) talks about the challenges of app modernization, leveraging AI, and the process to succeed from legacy to modern.
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Mechanical Orchard (homepage)
Startup led by ex-Pivotal CEO lands $50M to modernize apps (TechCrunch)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and then give us a little bit of background on Mechanical Orchard.
Topic 2 - Many of the MO team come from Pivotal (especially Pivotal Labs), as well as being involved with the Agile Manifesto, Extreme Programming, etc. How did the mission of the company get focus on modernizing existing applications?
Topic 3 - Modernization projects have traditionally been really costly, with a low success rate. Why is now the right time to focus on this area?
Topic 4 - I’m really interested in how MO technology works. It seems like a variation of a digital twin, mixed with some AI capabilities. Give us the big picture of how this is a different approach to modernization.
Topic 5 - How much culture/process change is needed with MO to be successful?
Topic 6 - What do the stages of success look like with your approach to application modernization?
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More Keynote Presentation Tips Oct 20, 2024

After several months of travel and giving keynote at multiple events, Brian gives some new tips for building keynotes, capturing audience attention, managing regional differences and avoiding mistakes.

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Building a Keynote Presentation (Cloudcast Eps. 798)

THE CHALLENGES OF KEYNOTES ACROSS DIFFERENT LOCATIONS

Different types of keynotes - Entertainment (celebrity), Vision (CEO), Informative (multiple)
Different types of keynote audiences - Technical, Business, Mixed
Different types of keynote context - New, Updates,
Different styles of keynote - Storytelling, Demonstrations, Multiple Speakers/Panels
Other considerations - Audience language, Slides vs. Words, Size of the room, Length of presentation slot, Before/After sessions.

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Data Lakehouses & Apache Iceberg Oct 16, 2024

Alex Merced (@AMdatalakehouse, Senior Tech Evangelist, @dremio) talks about everything data and we dig deep into Apache Iceberg and DataLakehouses.
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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? Oct 13, 2024

Are we sure that the next big thing in AI is going to come from OpenAI, or even one of the big cloud providers with $Billions to spend? History tells us that it might come from someone smaller.

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WHERE DID THE CRITICAL “NEXT” INNOVATIONS COME FROM?

Internet infrastructure (router) came from Cisco
Web Browser / Web Server came from Netscape
Mainstream Linux came from Red Hat
Social Media came from Twitter, Facebook
Cloud came from Amazon
Smart Phone came from Apple
AI came from ?? (OpenAI, NVIDIA)
What’s Similar? What’s Different?
Funding, Founders, Market Competitors

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Influence Marketing in Emerging Tech Oct 09, 2024

Emily Freeman (@editingemily) and Forrest Brazeal (@forrestbrazeal), co-founders of Freeman and Forrest talk about the intersection of technical products and marketing and the evolution of marketing to reach an increasingly technical audience including the rise of influence marketing.
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Freeman and Forrest (homepage)
DevOps for Dummies (book)
97 Things every Cloud Engineer should know (book)
Forrest Brazeal (homepage)
Developing Multi-Cloud Skills (Eps.602 Cloudcast)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.
Topic 2 - Where does the line between technical and marketing stop and start
Topic 3 - Is there a new blueprint being created for how to have conversations about new technologies, or helping people find useful information? [new media | influencers]
Topic 4 - Give us a sense of how crowded the markets are today, and why it’s so important to be able to communicate about the value/impact of the technologies.
Topic 5 - Let’s talk about how projects get paid for - priorities, awareness, etc.
Topic 6 - What does good and bad look like these days?
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5 AI Trends to Keep an Eye on Oct 06, 2024

The AI landscape is moving quickly. Here are 5 recent trends to keep an eye on for the last quarter of 2024.

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5 (+1) AI ITEMS TO KEEP AN EYE ON

Do business leaders understand what LLMs do?
Small models vs. Large models vs. One-size fits all models
Does OpenAI funding unlock a new round of hype funding?
Does anything (company, technology) reduce the dependency on NVIDIA GPUs?
What are the Top 10 revenue generating AI apps, after ChatGPT and GitHub CoPilot?
What is the framework or “middleware” that unlocks the next breakthroughs in AI?

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Cloud News of the Month - September 2024 Oct 02, 2024

Brian Gracely, Aaron Delp, and Brandon Whichard discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from September 2024.
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Link to September 2024 news and articles

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues
Trend 1 - AI Regulation is having mixed results (multiple products not released in EU now, California’s AI Act gets a veto)
Trend 2 - OpenAI is making and burning through money at historic levels, only 3 of the original 13 are left. Anyone wanting AI for good has moved on
Trend 3 - Google finally releasing some AI tools and chips with potential (NotebookLM, AlphaChip). Also, Aaron no longer uses Google to search, feels last generation now and maybe these new tools are a way back for them?

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Tech Heroes and Imposters Sep 29, 2024

Do we put too much emphasis on the leaders of the tech industry and not enough on the millions that support it?

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THE BIG NAMES GET A LOT OF ATTENTION

We talk a lot about how much CEOs make
We talk a lot about the CEOs creating/executing strategy (good or bad)
We talk a lot about “rockstars” (see: Workday “rockstars” commercials)

BUT DO THE REST OF US ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING OF ANY VALUE?

Do the rest of us live the Ricky Bobby life, “if you’re not first, you’re last!”
Should we feel bad when we advocate for ourselves, since that’s how the merit/raise system works?
Should we be embarrassed

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Modern Identity Verification and Threat Detection Sep 25, 2024

Rick Song (@rickcsong, CEO @Persona_IDV) talks about the evolution of identity verification and threat detection.
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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? Sep 22, 2024

This past week, Amazon announced a new RTO policy that required 5 days a week in the office. What types of impacts could this have on tech workers and the tech industry?

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Amazon announces new Manager/Employee Ratio and RTO policy for 2025

IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

People have adapted their life to working from home
People have adapted their families to working from home
Daily commutes seem like a poor use of resources

IT’S BEEN 4.5 YEARS SINCE PEOPLE WERE IN THE OFFICE - FULL TIME

Being around co-workers does tend to increase collaboration and idea sharing
RTO is more difficult on certain employee (especially care-giving women)
RTO is an effective way to reduce headcount without defined “layoffs”
RTO may feel more impactful to mobility-able tech workers

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AI for the Legal industry Sep 18, 2024

Jay Madheswaran (Founder & CEO @ Eve) talks about bringing AI to the legal vertical and the intersection of AI/ML of increased efficiency for legal firms.
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Eve Homepage

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into the legal industry and AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background. Give everyone a brief introduction.
Topic 2 - What made you focus on the legal industry? When I think of forward leaning industries that quickly adopt new technologies, I don’t think of legal. What are the most common use cases?
Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about the tech behind the scenes. Do you use foundational models and then fine-tune them? Do you have your own custom models? What are your thoughts on the current state and future of models for specific industries or verticals?
Topic 4 - Legal is a highly regulated space; how do your customers (law firms) think about data security and compliance? Tell everyone a bit about how all of this works.
Topic 5 - Do your clients use RAG for custom information that needs to be brought into the models? How does all of that work for customer data?
Topic 6 - When I think about legal, I think about two big areas. We covered compliance and the financial side of this, but what about the billing and financial side? How is ROI on legal AI calculated? Where and how does a legal AI help? Is this measured in hours saved, which translates into dollars saved?
Topic 7 - Let’s close by discussing the people aspect. We keep hearing AI is going to take everyone’s jobs away. What are your thoughts on how this supplements vs. replace staff?
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Understanding the Global differences around Enterprise Cloud Sep 15, 2024

Back from some recent travel, we look at why it’s important to listen to people from around the world to understand the differences between how global regions adopt technology.

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LARGER FACTORS PLAY A SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN TECHNOLOGY OUTSIDE THE US

Diffusion of information
Currency exchange
Government laws, embargoes, tariffs
Language and timezone differences
Local culture, norms, expectations

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Cloud News of the Month - August 2024 Sep 11, 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely)and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from August 2024.
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Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues
Trend 1 - What will be the ripple effects of Intel’s struggles?
Trend 2 - Is this a bump or a bubble for NVIDIA?
Trend 3 - Why do companies have such a hard time with a 2nd act?
Trend 4 - Why you should always take the big job if it’s offered to you.

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Unstable Pillars for the Next Generation? Sep 08, 2024

The future of search advertising, the future of chips, the future of open source, AI monetization and government regulation of tech are all uncertain. What does that mean for the future?

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ARE CORE PILLARS OF THE TECH INDUSTRY UNCERTAIN FOR THE FUTURE?

Google and antitrust
Intel and chips
Open source and licensing
AI and monetization
Governments and regulation

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Understanding the Gartner perspective on Cloud (and more) Sep 04, 2024

Paul Delory (@pacdelory, Research VP @Gartner_Inc for Technical Professionals) shares insights about cloud computing, cloud costs, VMware, Platform engineering and IaC.

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On The CUBE discussing VMware in April: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wIClYI6bDQ
Software Development Times discussion Platform Engineering: https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/analyst-view-whats-new-whats-now-and-whats-next-in-platform-engineering/

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into a broad set of topics today, give us a little bit about your background and what you focus on today.

Topic 2 - The hyperscalers have grown quite large over the last decade, but as we came out of COVID, many of their customers were concerned about the cost of cloud. Are we seeing a new rationalization coming around cloud costs and accountability of costs?

Topic 3 - We’ve all read the headlines regarding changes to VMware by Broadcom. Alternatives to VMware would be big decisions for many companies. As a neutral independent, how are you framing your thinking about the VMware ecosystem and the decisions being made about the future of virtualization?

Topic 4 - Over the last decade, we’ve seen so many new technologies. To get value from them, they require more cross-functional collaboration. These days we tend to call that Platform Engineering. How well do you see the evolution of people and processes being adopted, and how much more needs to happen?

Topic 5 - Behind the scenes of every transition over the past decade (Cloud, AI, Cloud-native) is the adoption of automation. This seems like a no-brainer, but actual adoption is lumpy across companies. What are some of the hard parts of automation that aren’t discussed enough?

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Slow Data, Fast Data and Adapting AI models for your business Sep 01, 2024

With so much rapid change happening around AI models, is there a framework for when to build models, train models, fine-tune models, use RAG or something else? Let’s explore…

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HOW SHOULD WE DECIDE WHICH AI MODEL TO USE FOR OUR APPLICATION?

Build, buy, use open source, augment with your own data - so many decisions
How often do you update models with new data?

HOW DO WE BRING OUR COMPANY DATA / KNOWLEDGE TO OUR AI MODELS?

Large Static Models - Predictive AI
LLMs + Slow-Changing Data - Align the Model
LLMs + Fast-Changing Data - RAG
LLMs + Agent-Learned Data - Agentic AI

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How DevOps is helping to rethink the need for VPNs with Modern Security Aug 28, 2024

Emrul Islam (Head of Platform Innovation @TwingateHQ) talks about the evolution of remote access, application security, and enabling DevOps teams to drive security transformation.

SHOW: 851

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.

Topic 2 - To properly solve cloud access & security pain points, companies need a tool that works for IT, DevOps, & Security teams

What are the challenges when trying to secure cloud access today?
What role do each of the stakeholders play in addressing these?
How much can technology really help address these challenges?

Topic 3 - How is Twingate architected differently to address these new challenges?

How do existing systems work?
What sort of architecture is required?

Topic 4 - Why is it a struggle to get these teams aligned on the right solution

Is there a disconnect between competing requirements and security?

Topic 5 - What is the opportunity for Devops teams to influence remote access and security architecture?

Why automate security?
How much can be automated?

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From Kingmakers to co-pilots, what's the future for developers? Aug 25, 2024

Is the market shifting from evaluating software as an economic driver to re-evaluating the cost of software in the context of how AI can improve, augment or replace developers?

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AWS CEO says developers might stop coding soon (Business Insider)
Amazon CEO highlights the impacts of co-pilots on code (Andy Jassy)
I’m tired of fixing customer’s AI-generated code
The New Kingmakers (Stephen O’Grady)
Exploring Generative AI (Martin Fowler)
The Death of the Junior Developer
Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers (The New Stack)

THE CLOUD WAS BUILT UPON ENABLING DEVELOPERS (“BUILDERS”)

The value of the developer exploded over the last decade
Software has reshaped most industries over the last decade

WE’RE MOVING FROM THE ECONOMICS OF SOFTWARE TO THE ECONOMICS OF DEVELOPERS

Code assistants for AI are the early leader in driving AI revenue
Do we have developer “productivity” or “creativity”?
Does AI have more impact on legacy code or new code?
How does the role of Junior vs. Senior developer change?
What happens to System Integrators?

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The Scale of Cloud Networking Aug 21, 2024

Vinay Tripathi (Senior Member of IEEE, Production Network Engineer @Google) talks about the evolution of backbone networks for the Cloud and Internet, future technologies and career opportunities.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into cloud networking, let’s talk a little bit about your background and some of the areas you focus on today.
Topic 2 - Let’s start with something big - the anatomy of cloud backbone networks. What is the makeup of a typical cloud backbone network?
Topic 3 - What are some of the unique challenges and solutions that you need to think about in terms of scaling, reliability, securing, and maintaining these massive networks, along with the innovative solutions being implemented
Topic 4 - Looking forward, what are some of the emerging trends like intent driven networks, software defined global WAN, and the impact of AI/ML on cloud backbone infrastructure.
Topic 5 - Some people in the networking industry are concerned about the future of network engineers. Career Paths in Cloud Networking: skills and knowledge required for a successful career in this field, along with potential career paths.
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Reflections on the Cloud Evolution - with a special guest Aug 18, 2024

The summer lull has us reflecting on how the evolution of cloud computing has shaped the existing era that’s trying to figure out AI. With a special guest introduction.

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WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST LEADING OFF THE SHOW - AFTER 13 YEARS

WHAT PARTS OF THE CLOUD EVOLUTION HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR TODAY?

[BAD] Shadow IT set Enterprise IT back 5-10 years, with the same responsibilities
[GOOD] Technology experimentation has become the norm, from technologists to business leaders.
[BAD] We still don’t really know how to measure the cost or return (ROI) of technology spending.
[GOOD] We have a new appreciation for the power of software and software development to change businesses and markets.
[BAD] But we still haven’t figured how to normalize great software development
[GOOD] Open source communities (e.g. CNCF, etc.) provided a blueprint for bringing new innovation to the marketplace
[BAD] We saw how long it took for Cloud to be disruptive, but now that valuations are so high, we haven’t learned patience for new disruptions.
[GOOD] The “cloud” way of doing things has laid the foundation for what might/will come next.

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Data Center Buildouts for AI Aug 14, 2024

Scott Jarnagin (Founder/CEO of Caddis Cloud Solutions (Caddis Cloud Solutions)) talks about the challenges of building modern data centers to handle the growing demands of AI.
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Caddis Cloud Solutions (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Caddis Cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.
Topic 2 - Let’s begin by looking at the bigger picture intersection of today’s data centers and the growing demand for AI capabilities. How much of a change will current data centers have to go through to be able to support AI at any sort of scale?
Topic 3 - How are cloud providers, hosting companies and enterprises evolving to meet the increased demands driven by AI and other high-intensity computing processes?
Topic 4 - How would you typically advise an enterprise to think about matching the AI needs to the current and future capabilities of the market? How do they make sure their AI plans aren’t going to get sidetracked with the wrong datacenter/cloud choice?
Topic 5 - Are there elements of government development/involvement for datacenter expansion that companies should be aware of as they make future plans around AI?
Topic 6 - How frameworks does Caddis Cloud typically use to help guide companies that are looking at near-term and long-term data center plans
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5 Storylines that will shape Cloud and AI in 2H 2024 Aug 11, 2024

They may not be major stories, but these 5 headlines will play an important role in how AI and the Cloud evolve in the 2H of 2024.

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VCs are looking to get out (Business Insider)
Microsoft earnings (31%), Google earnings (29%), Amazon earnings (19%) - QtoQ earnings for the hyperscalers

THE ECONOMY WILL BE THE STORY OF 2H 2024 DUE TO THE US ELECTIONS

BUT WILL ANY OF THESE OTHER STORIES GET THE ATTENTION THEY DESERVE?

Are VCs going to be out on AI startups?
Will tech antitrust discussions become prominent in the US elections?
When will we start seeing all the early-2024 AI demos turn into reality?
How much are the hyperscale cloud earnings boosted by AI spend vs. usage?
Will any alternatives to VMware start to show progress in displacing the virtualization leader?

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Cloud News of the Month - July 2024 Aug 07, 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely), Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss the top stories in Cloud and AI from July 2024.

SHOW: 845

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LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JULY 2024 CLOUD NEWS

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Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues
Trend 1 - What do you tend to do (at work, or outside work) when things seem overly bad in lots of areas?
Trend 2 - Are people starting to feel like AI is more sizzle (hype) than steak (reality)?
Trend 3 - As you’re looking at 2HCY24 now, with all the things that happened in July, are you expecting anything new/different than you thought a couple months ago?
Trend 4 - Are we likely to be in “wait and see” mode for the rest of the year, with all the political uncertainty?

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Technology and Politics Collide Aug 04, 2024

For many years, Silicon Valley was considered to be somewhat apolitical. But the last decade has changed the relationship with governments. What’s causing the changes?

SHOW: 844

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TECHNOLOGY IS A CRITICAL DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH

VCs are becoming more visible and vocal in their political agendas
Billionaires have the wealth, power and influence of nation states
European and APAC tech policy are more defined than US

DOES GROWTH ALLOW YOU TO AVOID RESPONSIBILITY OR ACCOUNTABILITY?

Has there been an “unwritten” agreement between WashDC and Silicon Valley?
Crypto is not just another technology
Issues: Antitrust, Taxes, Future of AI, etc.

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The Evolution of Data Platforms Jul 31, 2024

Jeff Denworth, (@JeffDenworth, Co-Founder of @VAST_Data) talks about building data platforms for new AI application demands.
SHOW: 843
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VAST Data (homepage)
Understanding AI IO performance (whitepaper)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into VAST Data, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.
Topic 2 - As we talk about datacenter or cloud architectures, right now GPUs are king. This is causing a complete rethinking of data center architectures. But what is this doing to the storage side of the equation?
Topic 3 - To a certain extent (in the context of AI), GPUs are this massive change from CPUs in that cost almost isn’t considered because of the great fear of falling behind in AI model building/usage. But storage has always been a performance+price discussion. Does that discussion still exist when companies must choose all-flash storage to keep up with GPU IO demands?
Topic 4 - We’ve obviously seen a lot of new innovation around GenAI models over the last couple years, but what have you seen from Enterprise companies in terms of real adoption, AI use-cases, etc?
Topic 5 - How are you finding Enterprise companies balancing the current requirements around infrastructure modernization (maybe driven by new VMware licensing, etc.) with AI demands?
Topic 6 - Do you find that data platform teams are having to make many adjustments to their environments or skills, especially since all-flash technology has been around for at least a decade?
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Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability Jul 28, 2024

If this past week’s Crowdstrike outage taught us anything, it’s that we seem to have forgotten the basics of how to run highly available environments. But what other critical skills are deteriorating?

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WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

Systems are more interconnected and more critical
Companies under-staff critical operations
Developers are the new kingmakers, but where are all the kings?

PEOPLE DON’T IGNORE STABLE FOUNDATIONS, THEY FORGET ABOUT THEM

Not enough people have home labs, or go after certifications
The industry highlights the content creators, instead of the builders/fixers
There might be an opportunity to restart a focus on foundational skills

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Enabling Voice AI in Applications Jul 24, 2024

Scott Stephenson (@deepgramscott, CEO of @deepgram) talks about building Voice AI into your applications.
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Deepgram (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Deepgram and Voice AI, let’s talk a little bit about your background and then what led you to start the company.
Topic 2 - Let’s start by stepping back and looking at the bigger picture. Many of us have interacted with voice technologies, from Siri to Alexa to various call-center “agents”. From a maturity perspective, where are we in terms of voice-centric interactions with computing systems?
Topic 3 - When businesses think about including computer-aided voice-centric interactions to their applications, what’s the typical thought process for where it makes sense to the business, how it represents their brand, etc.?

Topic 4 - How does Deepgram bring Voice AI to applications? What do developers have to think about when adding Voice AI to an existing application, or to think about building a voice-centric application from the start?
Topic 5 - What are some of the most common use-cases when Voice AI adds new value to the application? What areas are starting to push the edges of possible?
Topic 6 - How do companies usually go about collecting user-feedback about the voice-centric interactions?
Topic 7 - If you look forward a year or two, where do you see Voice AI types of technologies evolving?
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Overcoming the Hurdles of Deploying Platforms Jul 21, 2024

Modern applications require modern platforms and team collaboration to deliver velocity, stability and security. So how do we overcome the hurdles to making platform adoption work?

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WHY DO PLATFORMS MAKE SENSE FOR MODERN APPLICATIONS?

Reduce the cognitive load on application teams
Deliver self-service capabilities where it makes sense
Deliver consistent services across teams, with efficient operations
Reduce costs, reduce snowflakes, etc.

WHAT ARE THE PLATFORM HURDLES, AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM?

The jump from initial projects to scalable delivery across apps and teams
Application teams wanting snowflake environments
Buying and budgeting centers not aligning to platform delivery
Getting application team buy-in to platform services
Getting cross-functional team alignment and coordination
Balancing stability and pace of innovation

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The Mid Year (2024) Mailbag Jul 17, 2024

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.

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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? Jul 14, 2024

Since the GenAI era took off, most of the discussion has been about AI in the public cloud. But is there a market for AI in the Private Cloud as well?

SHOW: 838

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DATA GRAVITY AND BUSINESS CONCERNS ABOUT GEN AI

Most large companies keep their data on-premises
Companies are concerned about mixing their data with public LLMs
Companies are unsure about hallucinations and their quality of their offerings

WHAT WILL THE ENTERPRISE MEASURE FOR GEN AI SUCCESS?

Some GenAI projects will measure replacement activities (e.g. chatbots for call centers)
The enterprise hasn’t established a baseline for acceptable incorrect information yet
Enterprises may use the public cloud GPUs to train or tune private models
Enterprises will large the consumer market in usage of GenAI - need to identify use-cases

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Scaling Apple Apps with MacStadium Jul 10, 2024

Chris Chapman (CTO at @MacStadium) talks about Mac-centric backend development, DevOps tools chains, and the best ways to take advantage of MacStadium.

SHOW: 837

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MacStadium (homepage)
Mac Virtualization, using Orka 3.0

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into all things MacStadium, give us a little bit of your background, as well as some of your focus areas as CTO of MacStadium

Topic 2 - Everybody I know has an iPhone, and so many people use a Mac (or iPad) as their daily computing device. Help us understand the breadth of companies that use Macs for the backend of their application environments?

Topic 3 - We spend a lot of time focusing on DevOps and the things people do to run cloud environments. Honestly, it’s a mess of all sorts of tools. Apple has always made the complex seem simple. What does Mac-centric DevOps look like?

Topic 4 - We know (mostly) where cloud-provider responsibilities stop and customer-responsibilities start in places like AWS. Does that change much in MacStadium?

Topic 5 - You are/were the creator of Orka, virtualization for Macs. Walk us through the basics of how that works, and it seems like it would be extremely powerful when looking at CI pipelines.

Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways that companies take advantage of MacStadium?

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The Challenges of Maintaining Freedoms Jul 07, 2024

In technology, we’re afforded many freedoms that enable us to work, live and play in new ways. But it’s important to reflect on technology freedoms and how they might change in the future.

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TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES US WITH A LOT OF FREEDOMS

Freedom of jobs, of location, or company or group to work with
Freedom of technology choices
Freedom to choose when to use technology vs. human skills

BUT THE FREEDOMS DON’T ALWAYS COME WITHOUT A PRICE

Companies get acquired and technologies go away/discontinued
Technologies stop being supported
Technologies might get too expensive to continue to use
Laws might change how/what technologies can be used
Some services are free, in exchange for your data

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Cloud News of the Month - June 2024 Jul 03, 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhicard) discuss stories in Cloud and AI from June 2024, and then get into spirited discussions about RTO and Tech Exec poaching.

SHOW: 835

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SHOW NOTES:

LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR JUNE 2024 CLOUD NEWS

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues
Trend 1 - Will the AI boom take a summer vacation?
Trend 2 - Have AI expectations set up Enterprise CIOs for a rude awakening?
Trend 3 - We’re at the mid-year point. All the cloud providers are focusing on AI. Do you expect that we’ll see a long period of stalled cloud innovation, or do you expect any interesting moves in the 2nd half of the year?
Trend 4 - The big tech companies are now all sitting on record-setting market capitalizations. Do you expect any of them to go on an acquisition spree?

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Identifying Successful Open Source Projects Jun 30, 2024

As open source companies and projects enter a transition phase of funding, licensing, community participation, let’s look at the characteristics of successful open source projects.

SHOW: 834

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WHAT DOES SUCCESS MEAN IN OPEN SOURCE?

There are 1000s of widely used open source projects, from Linux to Java to MySQL to Docker to Kubernetes to MongoDB
Less projects are successful from a monetization perspective, but that’s about individual business models
Plenty of companies during the 2010s-2020s treated open source as “marketing” and not really a development model

WHAT DOES COMMERCIAL SUCCESS LOOK LIKE IN OPEN SOURCE?

Wide usage infrastructure - Linux, Kubernetes, OpenStack
Complex projects vs. “it just works”
Critical security - Vault
Complex data services - MongoDB, Kafka
Many companies contributing (share the costs) - Linux, Kubernetes
Management / Observability Engines - Crossplane, Prometheus
Programming Languages - Java, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, etc.
Cloud services hiding complexity
Cloud services stretching across clouds
Single vendor projects - often move to non-OSS licensing
Single vendor projects - difficult to maintain at scale

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WASM, Developer Experiences and Kubernetes Jun 26, 2024

Matt Butcher (@technosophos, CEO at @FermyonTech) talks about the evolution of WASM, the relationship with Kubernetes, and managing Developer Experiences with platforms.
SHOW: 833
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #832 Transcript
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SHOW NOTES:

Fermyon (homepage)
Fermyon Open Source
Building Apps with WebAssembly (Cloudcast Eps. 633)
Kubernetes is (not) a cost optimization problem (InfoWeek)

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a couple of years since the last time you were on. Great to have you back. For anyone that didn’t listen to that show, or doesn’t know you, give us a quick update on your background.
Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the Web Assembly community and the work around the open source project. Where does it stand today, what are the main focus areas?
Topic 3 - Fermyon delivers WASM as a PaaS platform and is focused on “serverless” delivery for applications. You’ve got a background in PaaS; what lessons have we learned about PaaS and what’s changed over the years?
Topic 4 - A couple years ago, Web Assembly (WASM) was on the short-list of “Hot” topics at KubeCon, even though it just launched. Fast forward to 2024, and it feels like it’s hard to get visibility on anything that isn’t called AI. How is WASM navigating the CNCF communities these days?
Topic 5 - WASM has an interesting relationship with Kubernetes. How do you think about the relationship? What do people get right, and what do they keep getting wrong?
Topic 6 - What are some of the interesting use-cases people are using WASM for thess days?
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DevSecFinPlatMLOps Jun 23, 2024

As we look at the continued expansion of the CNCF Landscape and the end of Cloud 1.0 era, are there any trends or patterns that identify which technology or categories will succeed vs fail?

SHOW: 832

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SHOW NOTES:

What’s Stranger than AI? These new Job Titles (ZDNet)
“Outliers” book and the “10,000 Hours Rule” (Malcom Gladwell)

CAN TECHNOLOGY OVERCOME OUR DESIRE TO NOT COLLABORATE?

Should technology cross functional areas?
Can technology be successful when crossing functional areas?

CAN CROSS-FUNCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SUCCEED?

Service Mesh
PaaS / Developer Portals
GitOps
FinOps
XX as code

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Zapier + AI integration Jun 19, 2024

Reid Robinson (@Reidoutloud_, Lead AI Product Manager @Zapier) talks about automation, application integrations and how to integrate AI in projects with Zapier
SHOW: 831
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #831 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

Zapier AI homepage
Zapier integration with OpenAI
Zapier Central - AI Workspace to Teach AI Bots to work with Apps
Zapier Chatbots - Build AI Chatbots
Zapier Canvas - Diagram AI Workflows

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, Reid. Before we get started, tell us a little bit about your background, and what you focus on now at Zapier.
Topic 2 - Lots of individuals and companies use Zapier for a wide variety of automated tasks and application integrations. Recently, the company has added a number of ways to integrate AI into those workflows. At a high-level, how did you go about thinking about adding AI into the platform?
Topic 3 - What are some of the most common AI usage-patterns and integrations that you’re seeing companies build around?
Topic 4 - As Zapier began to integrate with OpenAI (or any 3rd-party LLM), how did you think about it as a source of integration? What did you have to think about regarding filtering, security and hallucinations with ChatGPT?
Topic 5 - We often hear discussions about AI agents interacting with other AI agents to complete tasks, or evolve the outputs of multi-step, complex tasks. Is that an area where we might expect to see things like the new Zapier AI tools playing a role?
Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways to get started building AI apps around these new integrations and tools?
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How Today's AI is like the Early 2020s Jun 16, 2024

Let’s explore how today’s early AI era is like the unicorn-filled, heavily VC-funded early 2020s. (Part 3 of 3)

SHOW: 830

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SHOW NOTES:

Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)
Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)

THE EARLY 2020s were SHAPED by COVID and FREE CASH

VCs were pouring money into startups; “unicorns” were a daily occurrence
Many assumed that “today’s normal” would be the “forever normal”
Business models were drowned out by technology fascination

DO CURRENT AI ECONOMICS AND FUNDING LEVELS MAKE SENSE?

VCs and cloud providers are funding infrastructure like it’s 1997-2000
Business models around AI are still being sought out
Funding valuations have no basis in anything real, at least not yet
Are we near an AI (economic) crash, or at least deflation of the bubble?

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Modern Approaches to Continuous Integration Jun 12, 2024

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
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #829 Transcript
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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 Jun 09, 2024

The introduction of cloud computing brought about a significant change on how we use technology with our businesses. Let’s look at the historical parallels to today’s AI for the Enterprise. (Part 2 of 3)

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #828

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SHOW NOTES:

Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)
Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)

WHAT SHAPED THE EARLY 2010s?

2008 financial crash and less money available for technology (uncertainty)
Increased frustration with corporate IT organizations (too much “no”)
The possibilities of mobile computing and socially connected societies (abundance)

EARLY CLOUD WAS ALL ABOUT BREAKING AWAY FROM CORPORATE IT

It’s a new generation of computing, so the future winner is unknown.
Many companies are trying to have centralized IT policies - one size fits all
Data governance and legal liability is driving corporate policies (education needed)
Consumer AI is widely available and applicable to some job functions
Executives are starting to talk about “AI First” policies
Cloud-native and Cloud-migrated were very different things, with different results

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Cloud News of the Month - May 2024 Jun 05, 2024

Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, from @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from May 2024

SHOW: 827

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #827 Transcript

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SHOW NOTES:

LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR MAY 2024 CLOUD NEWS

Segments Covered in the Show:

Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues
Trend 1 - Is anyone going to talk about Cloud anymore?
Trend 2 - Is AI a real conversation with Enterprise yet, or does AI need to go through a consumer period first?
Trend 3 - Every large acquisition was deemed a “terrible mistake” within a few months, according to the press - (e.g. Hashicorp, VMware)
Trend 4 - Is April to June the new “trade show season”, or will it just be “always on” in the new AI world?

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How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s Jun 02, 2024

Let’s put today’s AI era into some historic context by looking at the similarities and parallels to the explosion of the 1st wave of the consumer Internet. (Part 1 of 3)

SHOW: 826

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SHOW NOTES:

Building the Information Super Highway (pre-2000)
Executives discuss the Information Super Highway
2001 - A DotCom Bubble Odyssey (Cloudcast Eps.772)
Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)
Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)

WE’RE FASCINATED BY THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGY CHANGING EVERYTHING

2000s era Internet was going to change everything
GenAI is predicted to change everything

MOST TECHNOLOGY’S SHIFT HAPPEN WITH CONSUMERS FIRST

GenAI still can’t validate accuracy (e.g. hallucinations)
GenAI is still extremely expensive to create, maintain
GenAI still doesn’t have a widely-adopted business model
Shadow GenAI groups will emerge in the Enterprise
People are still mostly thinking about GenAI as a way to offload things they don’t want to do vs. improving their existing skills

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Understanding and Advising CIOs May 29, 2024

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
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #825 Transcript
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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? May 26, 2024

When you see the headline “<ex-employee> says <company> AI strategy is in chaos”, what does it really mean? Is any company’s AI strategy NOT in chaos at this point?

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SHOW NOTES:

Ex-Google says Google's AI strategy is in chaos (Decoder)
The Transformer Paper from Google (foundation of GenAI)
NVIDIA coverage on Stratechery (Ben Thompson)
DBRX LLM from Databricks
Artic LLM from Snowflake
OpenElm LLM from Apple
OpenAI and Apple sign deal, Apple still wants a Google option
IBM and Red Hat bring Open Source to AI with InstructLab

WE OVERESTIMATE IN 1YR, AND UNDERESTIMATE IN 10YRS

“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” - Bill Gates

DOES ANYONE REALLY HAVE THEIR AI STRATEGY FIGURED OUT?

NVIDIA
Google
OpenAI
Microsoft / Azure / GitHub
Amazon / AWS
Meta
Apple
IBM / Red Hat
Oracle
Snowflake
Databricks
VCs
Startups

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Using AI to Build Tech Communities May 22, 2024

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

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #823

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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 May 19, 2024

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

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #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 May 15, 2024

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
SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #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 May 11, 2024

Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI.

SHOW: 820

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820

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SHOW NOTES:

InstructLab Project (github homepage)
LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots (research paper)
Granite LLMs (IBM research - Hugging Face)
- 7b-base model
- 7b-lab model
InstructLab: What is contributing to AI LLM models was easy? (Redmonk)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS

Call you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your life

OPEN SOURCE MEETS AI

The big AI question: 1 model, or many models?
2023 was the year of model diversity, and the beginnings of “open” models (Llama 2, Mistral, etc.)
Can we make it easier to contribute to an open model?
Can we create communities around models?
Can we reduce the costs of expensive parts of AI?
How can businesses bring their knowledge to a model, without security concerns about their data? (options like RAG (retrieval augmented generation) exist)

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Front-End Clouds and Web Development May 08, 2024

Malte Ubl (@cramforce, CTO @Vercel) talks about Front-End web development and clouds, how AI impacts front-end infrastructure, and impacts to the business.
SHOW: 819
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Our topic for today is front-end development and front-end clouds, and we’ll also explore AI-generated front ends. Our guest is Malte Ubl, CTO at Vercel. Malte, welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background on your time at Vercel and Google Search.
Topic 2 - Let’s start at the start. We hear all the time about front-end developers and back-end developers. What is your definition of a front-end and, more specifically, a front-end cloud?
Topic 3 - What are the most common use cases you see today? What problem are you solving when you talk to organizations?
Topic 4 - How much of a front-end is typically integrated with 3rd party services, and how much is build your own?
Topic 5 - Where does AI fit into this from a developer's perspective? Are we to the point where we can develop a front-end from a prompt?
Topic 6 - Let’s talk about the business side of this. Do companies typically have a “front-end problem”? If so, what does it look like, and how do they know?
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Identifying Leadership Traits to Follow May 05, 2024

What are the key characteristics and red flags with today’s leaders in the tech industry? How to identify the leadership skills, the team building skills, and the execution skills.

SHOW: 818

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #818

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SHOW NOTES:

WHERE ARE THE LEADERS IN THEIR CAREERS?

Are they a 1st time manager?
Have they managed distributed teams? Managed multiple teams?
Have they managed a P&L?
Have they had significant success in the past? What was their role?

LEADERSHIP SKILLS, TEAM BUILDING, EXECUTION AND RED FLAGS

Are you joining an established “team” or group that’s worked together before?
Is the leader repeating a previous success, in a similar or different domain?
What motivates the leader? What is their view on competition?
What are the leader’s best skills? Do they recognize this?
Does the leader augment their skills with the team around them? Do they recognize this?
Does your personality mesh with the team you’re joining, or are you expecting to be a change agent?

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Cloud News of the Month - April 2024 May 01, 2024

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) talk about all the major news stories in Cloud and AI from April 2024
SHOW: 817
TRANSCRIPT: Cloudcast #817 - CNOTM - April 2024
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SHOW NOTES:

LINKS TO ALL ARTICLES FOR APRIL 2024 CLOUD NEWS

Segments Covered in the Show:

Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
Trend 1 - 2024 is going to be a year of big announcements
Trend 2 - We’re starting to see some (early) reality set in with AI
Trend 3 - Lots of things are being lost between Broadcom/VMware and AI discussions

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Open Source and Business…sigh Apr 28, 2024

Every few years we have to be reminded that open source isn’t a business model. Let’s talk about the business dynamics that everyone seems to keep forgetting.

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Adam Jacobs discusses open source and business (The Changelog)
“figure out how to play nice with competition” (Twitter)
The will never be another Red Hat - Economics of OSS (a16z)

OPEN SOURCE IS A LICENSE, NOT A BUSINESS MODEL

There are rules around software licenses (e.g. Apache, GPL, etc.)
There are no rules about how people feel about software, creators or maintainers

FREE, FREE TIERS, EXTENSIONS, CLONES

Red Flags: Writes most of the code, took VC funding (multiple rounds)
Green flags: Lots of diverse (companies) contributors
Yellow flags: Foundation owns copyright
“There’s the business side and there’s the hippie side of OSS”
“I have endless ambitions”
“I didn’t build a forever entity”
“When is the rug pull going to happen?”
If a company takes VC funding, is open source anything more than a marketing vehicle?
“Docker figured it out and now they are doing like $100M”. Did they?
When is OSS personal, and when is it a company?
Will there never be another Red Hat, or just not another Linux?
How much is too much when determining if a company should give things away for free?

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Sizing AI Workloads Apr 24, 2024

John Yue (CEO & Co-Founder @ inference.ai) discusses AI workload sizing, matching GPUs to workloads, availability of GPUs vs. costs, and more.
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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 Apr 21, 2024

For some strange reason, “maintenance” has been in the news quite a bit lately. Is there ever a time when maintenance is enjoyable, or appreciated?

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IS MAINTENANCE EVER APPRECIATED OR ENJOYABLE?

Spent the day surrounded by maintenance activities (oil, AC, power-wash)
The costs of maintenance are real and opportunity
Maintenance often goes unappreciated and unseen
Naming: Release Notes, Technical Debt, Chaos Engineering

TECHNICAL DEBT VS. MAINTENANCE

Should we encourage a lack of maintenance vs. innovation as a priority?
Should we encourage active maintenance with lower hard costs?
Is there a way to put respect on maintenance? (e.g. OSS maintainers)
Do we undervalue maintenance (e.g. Backup/Recovery, DisasterRecovery, etc.)?
What maintenance best practices do you use? What are the good and bad of them?

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Synthetic Data for AI Apr 17, 2024

Kalyan Veeramachaneni (@kveeramac, CEO/Founder @DataCebo) discusses the generation and value proposition of synthetic data for GenAI.
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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 Apr 14, 2024

With the AI Era upon us, the challenge of trying to learn and make sense of the technologies, the business opportunities and the pitfalls is both exciting and equally terrifying.

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WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU REALLY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW IN TECH?

Cloud was all new, but not completely
The pace of cloud innovation seemed fast, but not in comparison to AI
The focus was around one cloud vs. a new source every week

PICK A TOPIC, READ, BE CONFUSED, LOOK FOR CONFIRMATION, RINSE, REPEAT

Where to start the learning process?
Where to pick a source of learning?(Coursera, MIT online, blogs/videos/search, etc.)
How to determine legitimacy of the sources?
How far to learn before stopping to make sense?
Trying to relate it to something you already know?
How and when to ask questions?

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Building Media and Streaming Platforms Apr 10, 2024

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.

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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? Apr 07, 2024

What will be the adoption patterns for AI within the Enterprise? Will it follow the early days of Cloud Computing, or will new and different patterns emerge?

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WHAT WERE THE PATTERNS FOR ENTERPRISE IT AND CLOUD?

Shadow IT
High-scalability or Short-term Projects (and experimentation)
Migration via “Cloud First” initiatives
Difficult stuff came last

WHAT’S DIFFERENT ABOUT AI vs. CLOUD?

CPU to CPU was easier to calculate vs. CPU + GPU
Have we learned any lessons about how to value people's productivity?
Does Enterprise AI need a Crawl, Walk, Run scenario? Do they need to be sequential and linked?
Are Enterprise AI use-cases well defined?
How long is the Enterprise willing to fail at experiments?
What’s the Enterprise tolerance for GenAI “flaws” (e.g. hallucinations, lack of citations, etc.)
Will GenAI rejuvenate Predictive AI projects in the Enterprise?

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Cloud News of the Month - March 2024 Apr 03, 2024

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest tech stories, announcements, and trends from March 2024.

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LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR MARCH 2024 CLOUD NEWS

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Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
Trend 1 - KubeCon EU 2024
Trend 2 - Microsoft continues to branch out from OpenAI as a partner
Trend 3 - NVIDIA held a pretty massive GTC event

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The $69B bet against replacement Mar 31, 2024

Let’s dig into the mindset behind the VMware price increases that have been happening since Broadcom acquired the company in 2023.

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What VMware might look like under Broadcom (Eps.629, June 2022)
What to do about VMware (Day Two Cloud, Feb 2024)
VMware 10X Price Increase Leaves Companies Looking for Alternatives
VMware pricing in the Broadcom Era

BROADCOM IS FITTING VMWARE INTO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL

At least with acquisitions, Broadcom has a well-defined set of business metrics they expect from their companies
Broadcom acts somewhere like private equity in terms of investment, innovation, revenue generation

IT'S A BOLD STRATEGY BROADCOM, LET’S SEE IF IT PAYS OFF FOR THEM

In essence, the bet is that there is no replacement for VMware in the Enterprise
The timing is interesting with the shifting of budgets for AI projects
It puts customers in a position to pay more for limited upside, but having to distinctly cut other areas of their technology budget (risk the business)
Customers have some options, but again they risk the business (e.g. hold off on security patches)
Once a company accepts the new pricing, what guarantees are there about no additional big increases in the future?
How much will this impact the longer-term vendor-customer relationship?

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LLM Security and Privacy Mar 27, 2024

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

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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 Mar 24, 2024

If you’re planning to deploy AI for your business, here’s 5 important capabilities your business needs from the cloud era in order to be successful.

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The Year Ahead in Cloud and Expectations for AI in 2024 (Altitude podcast)

IF YOU WANT TO DO AI WELL, YOU NEED TO HAVE DONE CLOUD WELL

When we first started doing cloud, the smart people would say, “If you don’t do IT well today, you won’t do cloud well in the future”.
The same pattern will repeat itself with AI

5 IMPORTANT CLOUD CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO SUCCEED WITH AI

Automate everything - Make automation mission-critical
Build the right abstractions and flexibilities (e.g. sharing GPUs, Devtools, etc.)
Leverage platforms to bring together Data Science, MLOps and AppDev
Know how much things cost (e.g. FinOps)
Socialize success, and socialize learnings across teams

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Building an AI Product Company Mar 20, 2024

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.

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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 - 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? Mar 17, 2024

For years, the CNCF has been the central governance body for cloud-native projects. But are there too many projects now? What if the CNCF was less governance and more like private equity?

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WHY DOESN’T THE CNCF RECOMMEND A CLOUD-NATIVE STACK?

Originally the CNCF was just trying to get projects to use them for governance.
Many people wanted them to “define” a cloud-native stack.
Defining a stack would have held back their business model - accepting projects and adding sponsors

HOW MANY PROJECTS WOULD GET “CNCF APPROVED” IF THEY TOOK A PRIVATE EQUITY APPROACH?

CNCF currently has 184 projects, up 4x over the last 4 years.
14% graduates, 20% incubating, 62% sandbox
Does the CNCF suffer from the “Big Tent” problem that caused so many issues with OpenStack?
KubeCon keynotes are just a list of projects giving status updates - they could be an email.
How many projects should the CNCF sponsor? How many categories should remain?
How would a private equity group apply metrics to CNCF projects?

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Integration and Observability of 3rd Party APIs Mar 13, 2024

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.

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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 - 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 Mar 10, 2024

2024 is the year of business accountability across all aspects of the software industry. This means that all variations of the free tier are going away in one way or another.

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WHY DID THE FREE TIER(S) EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Why do free tiers exist? Marketing awareness, experimentation,
Why is talking about making money, or profitability considered taboo?
Why do we reconcile the love of employees and the hatred of paying for software?

WHAT ARE THE TRADE-OFFS WHEN THE FREE TIER GOES AWAY?

Are free tiers and free open source software the same thing?
Are “wants” and “value” the same thing?
What should be free in the software world?
Should end-users want the backers of a project or company to be successful?
Will VCs continue to back companies that have free tiers, or companies that spend on marketing, or is the game needing new (undefined) rules?

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Cloud News of the Month - February 2024 Mar 06, 2024

Welcome to the "second monthly" Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest tech stories and five trends from February 2024.

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LINKS TO ALL THE ARTICLES FOR FEB 2024 CLOUD NEWS HERE

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Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues - Speed Round
Trend 1 - Microsoft is branching out from just OpenAI as a partner, as they should
Trend 2 - Selling Customer Data for AI training is Suddenly a Revenue Stream (and a source for lawsuits if it isn’t)
Trend 3 - Chips are cool again - Everyone wants to go after NVIDIA, including NVIDIA
Trend 4 - Google has more downs than ups - Will AI eat the search business?
Trend 5 - Hugging Face leads OSS alternative AI but also has bad actors

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Anatomy of a Side Hustle Mar 03, 2024

Lots of people want to turn their hobby or passion into a money-making activity, or as the kids call it “a side hustle”. Let’s explore how to do it, and some mistakes to avoid.

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SO YOU WANT TO MAKE MORE MONEY?

When do you decide to make more money?
Is anyone willing to give you money? Is it profitable money?

HOW MUCH MORE ARE YOU WILLING TO WORK?

Why are you doing this? What’s the goal? Is there a goal?
Are you doing this with anyone else? Are you aligned? Always aligned?
Are you willing to put in the hours? Does anyone else care about your hours?
How much are you willing to invest in order to learn?
Are you OK with failing?
Do you understand how people make money in your niche?
How will you address conflicts of interest? Where do those come from? Do they matter?

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Observability and Visualizing Data with Grafana Feb 28, 2024

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 Feb 25, 2024

If you have to build a keynote presentation, or any presentation for a large audience, what are the key areas to focus on? Here’s some tips on story-telling and audience engagement.

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BUILDING THE OVERALL STORY

Think of your presentation as a story. It can be hero/villian, preacher approach (tell, tell, tell), an analogy, partially educational. Lots of different approaches work.
Put yourself in the audience’s shoes. Who are they? Would they want to hear your story?
What does the audience get out of your talk?

THE KEY AREAS TO FOCUS ON

Are you bringing the right level of energy for the room? Are you educating, or motivating, or introducing new ideas?
Are you bringing empathy for your audience, or are you trying to portray confidence/leadership?
Are you at the right level for the audience? Technical vs. Business. Prior knowledge required? What about a mixed audience?
How are you interacting with the audience? Do they provide any feedback (raising hands, laughing at jokes, applause, etc.)?
Plan for 2-3 minutes per slide. Try not to waste any slides.
If you’re introducing new ideas, don’t make people listen AND read at the same time. Keep the visual simple and easy to view.
“Sell” the important parts. Emphasize them. Alter the pace to ensure people get it.
Use data (stats, graphs, charts) that make concepts easier to understand, or better emphasized.
Use comparisons - especially with new ideas.
Demonstrations can be valuable, but make sure it’s at the right level for the audience - and that it works (pre-recorded is an option)

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Validation and Guardrails for LLMs Feb 21, 2024

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 Feb 18, 2024

Stu Miniman (@stu, Senior Director of Market Insights @RedHat) talks about the experience of The Sphere (@SphereVegas) in Las Vegas

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. I think it’s fair to say that you’re a veteran of Las Vegas. How many times do you think you’ve been out there for tech-event related things?

Topic 2 - With tech events coming back, and even non-tech events going live again, Las Vegas is going to be a destination for a lot of people around our community. What did you know about The Sphere prior to visiting this past week?

Topic 3 - Tell us about the basics of The Sphere. How do you get there? Where is it in Las Vegas? What’s the entrance like?

Topic 4 - Beyond the movies or concerts in the stadium, what else is going on in the building?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about the actual stadium experience. What’s the seating like, what are you seeing, how’s the sound?

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks for anyone considering a visit to The Sphere?

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APIs and AI Gateways Feb 14, 2024

Marco Palladino (@subnetmarco, CTO/Co-Founder @thekonginc) talks about the evolution of APIs, the need for consolidation and integration of AI APIs, and introduces the AI Gateway.

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SHOW NOTES:

Kong (homepage)
What is an AI Gateway?
Kong launches AI Gateway (Marco's blog on Kong homepage)
Kong introduces AI Gateway (Silicon Angle)
Hugging Face (AI model community)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s discussion, tell us a little bit about your background at Kong and prior to Kong.
Topic 2 - Now that the world is obsessed with AI and AI Models, what roles do APIs continue to play for applications?
Topic 3 - You’ve lived through the API marketplace days. Do you see a lot of differences between API marketplaces and model marketplaces (e.g. like HuggingFace)?
Topic 4 - You’ve talked recently about the concept of an AI Gateway, somewhat as an evolution of an API Gateway. Walk us through this new concept.
Topic 5 - API Gateways can provide a lot of protection for known things by looking into various headers, security keys, and packet data. Can you imagine AI Gateways being able to have insights into model data to do things like Prompt Control, Hallucination Control, etc.?
Topic 6 - We’ve seen the merging of API Gateways (North/South) and Service Mesh (East/West) traffic as new application patterns emerged. Do you think we’ll see new traffic patterns again with AI traffic and AI model interactions?

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The Curious Case of AI, Funding and Cloud Credits Feb 11, 2024

Big 3 cloud providers investing in AI with cloud credits. $7 trillion dollar big plans. VCs concerned about AI valuations. It feels like a new set of rules are being created.

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ARE CLOUD CREDITS THE NEW VENTURE CAPITAL?

“Microsoft's Q2 2024 earnings report states that AI services contributed 6 percentage points of growth to Azure revenue. This is an increase from 3 percentage points in the previous quarter.”

KEEP AN EYE ON AI USAGE “TRENDS” FROM THE BIG CLOUD PROVIDERS

Is this a problem for VCs?
Is this “good” revenue for the cloud providers?
Are they just smart for utilizing an asset that they can monopolize?
How to track user-growth (e.g. OpenAI) and cloud-usage-growth (e.g. Big 3)
How much will people invest to build an alternative to NVIDIA?

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Cloud News of the Month Feb 07, 2024

Welcome to the inaugural Cloud News of the Month. Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest tech stories from January 2024.

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Topic 1 - Let’s begin with the state of work - employees vs. management.
Topic 2 - Lots of changes finally announced by Broadcom about the new VMware (here, here)
Topic 3 - We’re starting to see the end of the Unicorns of 2021. This feels like it’s going to be a quiet crash.
Topic 4 - The CNCF and Linux foundation released some project velocity numbers. Looks like Kubernetes, GitOps, Telemetry, Backstage are at the top, with some noise around Envoy/Istio/Cilium
Topic 5 - There was a lot of buzz around Basecamp’s numbers for repatriating back to their private cloud.
Topic 6 - AI Speed Round...

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Bundling, Unbundling and Ensh*tification Feb 04, 2024

Some say the Internet has gone to sh*t. Between bundling and unbundling, how does “ensh*tification” happen, and are there ways to prevent or reduce it?

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How does anyone use the Internet? (SDT eps.451)
“Enshitification” - The 2023 Digital Word of the Year
Enshitifcation is also known as platform decay (Wikipedia)
How to success in business by bundling and unbundling (Jim Barksdale)

IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, IT’S EASY TO BUNDLE THINGS TOGETHER

The only way to unlock valid is through bundling and unbundling
There is a fine line between innovation, growth and platform creep.
Nobody likes when free stuff goes away or gets complicated

CAPITALISM, FREE-ISM, AND ALIGNMENT OF INCENTIVES

Expected growth rates are set by the companies.
People in tech are always asking “what’s next?”
There’s a difference between early adopters and mainstream

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VCs and Open Source and Funding Jan 31, 2024

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 Jan 28, 2024

Every company is trying to figure out how to harness the power of AI. Let’s look at some frameworks to accelerate innovation, allow for experimentation, and manage long-term success.

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Harnessing AI’s Full Potential for Enterprise Adoption (Forbes)

GETTING STARTED AND ESTABLISHING THE FUNDAMENTALS

Does the business have an existing Data Science team?
Does the business have an existing culture of experimentation?
What is the business trying to change or improve?

EARLY SUCCESS, MATURITY MODELS, AND ENTERPRISE COMPLEXITIES

Aligning AI Strategy With Business Goals
Cultivating An AI-Friendly Culture
Skills And Expertise
Ethics And Trust
Data Management And Protection

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Wiring the Winning Organization Jan 24, 2024

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.
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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 Jan 21, 2024

Lots of trends happen in technology, but which ones of them are significant changes vs. just adjacencies to previous trends. Let’s explore technology shifts vs. drifts.

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WHAT IS A SHIFT AND WHAT IS A DRIFT?

What is a Shift? What is a Drift?
Does it obviously help you save money?
Does it obviously help you make money?
Does it just seem to replace something else in a new way?

HOW IMPORTANT IS OBVIOUS ECONOMIC IMPACT?

Is “We can respond to the business faster” just code for “We’re not sure what the impact will be?” How many new ideas happen per year?
Why aren’t TCO or ROI more obvious with every new technology?
Mainframe (shift), Mini (drift), PC (drift?), Mobile (drift?), Virtualization (shift), Serverless (drift), Kubernetes (drift), AI (shift)
The shift vs. drift is sometimes dependent on the user/use-case

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AWS vs. Azure Jan 17, 2024

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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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? Jan 14, 2024

Return to Office, Layoffs, Acquisitions,and Shareholder Accountability are dominating the worker-level discussions in early 2024. Let’s dig into what’s really happening.

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Amazon’s Silent Sacking (blog) and Changelog podcast
Signs it’s time to leave a company (Adrian Cockroft)
Tech company layoffs in January
Broadcom ends VMware partner program

WHY IS ALL OF THIS HAPPENING NOW?

This is similar to the 2022-2023 transition (unexpected + fast)
Companies are quick to cut and slow to restart/accelerate
Companies often overestimate needs and under-estimate fixes
There are new competitive dynamics happening all over tech
There will be lots of bankruptcy and acquisitions in 2024

2024 WILL BE A YEAR OF ACCOUNTABILITY

The pendulum of workers vs management is swinging back to management
15 minutes of “blame management” fame might be short lived
Business doesn’t necessarily work like Reddit trends
Focus on alignment to revenues, customer success
Focus on results, not excuses
Actively look for efficiencies and inefficiencies

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2024 Look Ahead - Surviving the Q1 Kickoff Jan 10, 2024

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, @SoftwareDefinedTalk) talk about surviving the annual planning process and Q1 goals, KPIs, politics, priorities, etc

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Topic 1 - The new year is upon us. What sorts of strategies do you use (or have you used) to deal with the onslaught of 2024 planning, Q1 goals/KPIs, etc.? Are you a fast-starter or trying to lay low?

Topic 2 - What are some of the ways that you’ve seen people deal with the annual goals that seem overwhelming (or hard to project) in January?

Topic 3 - What are the biggest pitfalls for being too aggressive too early in 2024? What are the biggest upsides for being aggressive?

Topic 4 - Even though the calendar flips in December, it doesn’t mean everything starts over (or starts new). How do you deal with the projects that have completely different priorities on January 1st vs. December 31st?

Topic 5 - Who are the key people you’re trying to align with in Q1? Is it managers, or finance, or strategy people….or someone else?

Topic 6 - Any big disasters to avoid in Q1 that can ruin the rest of the year?

Topic 7 - Final thoughts on winning at the beginning of the year?

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Is Cloud just a feature now? Jan 07, 2024

More than a decade into cloud, is cloud just a feature of the systems we build these days? What else might become features in the near future?

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IS THE CLOUD JUST A FEATURE NOW?

On-demand pricing
On-demand resources
Someone else manages it for you
API access to systems
A wide breadth of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services

WHAT MIGHT BECOME A FEATURE OF MODERN SYSTEMS?

DevOps becomes integrated Co-Pilots via LLMs
FinOps gets built into the systems, like vMotion from VMware
Pre-Testing, Pre-Planning gets built in (like System Initiative)
Chaos engineering gets built-in
Collaboration gets built-in
The OS becomes like containers and gets deterministic
Upgrades are built-in
Training, Docs, Examples are built-in

LESSONS LEARNED

The cross the chasm adoption isn’t just for a specific technology, it’s for bigger systems too
Rarely does the new thing completely replace the old thing (mobile excluded)
Innovation will need to continue to be creative (e.g. open source, pricing, etc.)
“Failures” are usually just incremental steps

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2024 Look Ahead - Using AI to Enable Personal Productivity Jan 03, 2024

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

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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 Dec 24, 2023

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

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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 Dec 20, 2023

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.

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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 Dec 17, 2023

Aaron and Brian answer mailbag questions from the community about the future of open source, future of VMware, the Big 3 Clouds and how AI will impact the next era of cloud.

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Q1: What are the bigger picture dynamics happening around open source?

Q2: Lots of companies talk about wanting to modernize applications, but it seems really complicated? Is there anything on the horizon to make it easier?

Q3: What have you seen as the most important things to make modernization work well?

Q4: Do you have any thoughts about Broadcom taking over VMware?

Q5: Has anything really changed in the dynamics between the three big cloud providers, or do you expect AWS to just stay in the lead for the foreseeable future?

Q6: During the Phases of Cloud shows, you talked about it beginning to start a new phase of the cloud. What expectations do you have for the next phase?

Q7: There have been a bunch of AI shows lately. If I’m not a Data Scientist, should I bother listening to those shows?

Q8: A bunch of us at work are experimenting with various AI technologies, but we’re being told by our employer that it might violate some legal issues and expose some work data. Any thoughts?

Q9: Do you have any plans to do any Cloudcast Basics series about some of the AI technologies?

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SaaS Analytics and Dashboards Dec 13, 2023

Karel Callens (@KarelCallens, CEO/Founder @luzmo_official) talks about the importance of SaaS Analytics and how to build dashboards into SaaS services while maintaining security and compliance

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Luzmo Homepage

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Karel, tell us a little bit about your background, and what brought you to create Luzmo (formally Cumul.io)
Topic 2 - Our topic today is SaaS Analytics. Let’s start with SaaS as an industry. We’ve covered the rise of SaaS here on the show over the years, but we haven’t really dug into the operations and analytics side in the past. Why is there a need for SaaS analytics? What problem are we trying to solve?
Topic 3 - How does the concept of data visualization come into play when building out SaaS? What are the benefits, and what are we saving? Is this time to value? Service cost
Topic 4 - How does data locality and regulations in the industry impact this? Take GDPR or CCPA, for example. Are they working as intended?
Topic 5 - What are the most common use cases you see with your customers today
Topic 6 - Are there limits or best practices to data exposure in a service? Just because you can expose something doesn’t mean you should. How do you recommend organizations tackle the proper balance?

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How AWS has evolved on Day 2 Dec 10, 2023

What were the major announcements at 2023 AWS re:Invent? What did we learn about their AI strategy? What did we learn about how they continue to evolve the business?

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SHOW NOTES:

AWS MANAGES THE TRANSITION FROM ONE CLOUD ERA TO THE NEXT

Reviewing AWS’ AI strategy
NVIDIA DGX Cloud in AWS
Further alignment with Anthropic
AWS Q
Cost Optimization Hub
Memory-optimized Graviton 4 ARM compute nodes
zero-ETL integration for a number of database and data-ingestion platforms
Aurora Limitless Database
IBM DB2 comes to AWS
Project Kuiper - Satellite Internet

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LLMOps & Conversational Intelligence for AI Dec 06, 2023

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 Dec 03, 2023

How did the modern cloud evolve from the earliest days of AWS to today’s AI boom? What roles did open source, mobile apps, microservices and the sharing economy play?

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SHOW NOTES:

All the show notes from this week's show.
2001 - a dotCom Bubble Odyssey (Part 1 of 3)
Building the Foundations of Modern Cloud (Part 2 of 3)

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Culture, Teams and Adoption of FinOps Nov 29, 2023

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.

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SHOW NOTES:

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 Nov 26, 2023

How did the 2001 dotCom bubble burst lead to the 2008 housing crisis and how did it impact the technology markets? And the OpenAI Coup-oops!

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SHOW NOTES:

All the background research for the show

A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE OPEN AI COUP ATTEMPT

Sam Altman (CEO) got fired, then returned

HOW DID DOTCOM BUBBLE LEAD TO HOUSING CRASH AND CLOUD?

Google made Internet advertising available to every business
SaaS companies emerge, to replace core business functions
The “sharing economy” took off (music, pictures, blogs, etc.)
Shadow IT caused problems for Corporate IT

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Behind the scenes of building Platform Engineering Nov 22, 2023

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 Nov 19, 2023

What happened in the lead-up to the Internet Bubble burst of 2001? What went right, what went wrong, and what lessons did we learn? (Part 1 of 3)

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SHOW NOTES:

All the Shows Notes Research

Original Tweet that inspired the show: https://x.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1719827334834913283?s=20

“Looking for recommendations: what’s the best book ever written about the dotcom bubble? Specifically looking for something that captures the emotions of that time as well as the mechanics”

THE BROWSER, THE NETWORKS, THE CARRIERS AND POSSIBILITIES

Information was freely exposed to the Internet (and Intranets)
It was Digital Transformation 1.0 era - Everything on the Internet
The New Industrial Revolution
Lots of focus on new Online Purchasing
Lots of focus on new Telecommunications services (VoIP, VoD, etc.)
Lots of focus on new media partnerships

EVERYTHING ALWAYS GOES UP, EVERYDAY, RIGHT?

Massive network build outs
Lots of Engineers and MBAs moved out to Silicon Valley
Every startup built their own data-centers, networks, applications, etc.
IPOs were happening every week
Telecom vendors vs. Internet/Networking vendors
Stock prices going up $1-2 per day

LESSONS LEARNED:

Infrastructure has to match the ambitions
Business models always come back to revenues and profitability
Each wave can create the new big winners (and losers)
Understand Manias vs. Fundamentals (where in the wave are we?)
Stupid money eventually finds a bottom

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Intro to Vector Databases Nov 15, 2023

Jeff Huber (@jeffreyhuber, Founder/CEO @trychroma) talks vector databases, data integration, RAG, Embedded models, and AI integration.

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

Topic 2 - Our audience, like many out there, is learning AI as fast as they can. So, let’s start with a few basic concepts. What is a vector database, and why is it important to AI?

Topic 3 - Does this only help foundational models? What goes into the integration into a model, and can this be used with any model?

Topic 4 - Is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) possible without a vector database?

Topic 5 - What are the trade-offs between fine-tuning a model (adding the data in) vs. RAG (keeping the data external)?

Topic 6 - What else is needed to create an “AI Stack”?

Topic 7 - Let’s talk about Chroma. First off, there is the OSS project which has been a huge success. Over 3 million downloads and 9.5k Github stars and inclusion into some 10k plus projects. Tell everyone a little bit about Chroma and what makes it different. You recently also announced a major milestone, over one million instances running

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Is AI the new Oppenheimer event? Nov 12, 2023

AI is reaching the point where there is wild speculation, potential regulations, and opinions on if it will destroy humanity. So how does anyone make sense of all of it?

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SHOW NOTES:

OpenAI’s former top safety researcher says there’s a ’10 to 20% chance’ that the tech will take over with many or most ‘humans dead’
The Dawn of the AI Era 2022-2023 (Acquired Podcast)
An AI Capitalist Primer
Techno-Optimist Manifesto (a16z)
The AI Bill of Materials (Redmonk)
US Gov’t Executive Offer on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI (Oct 2023)
Regulating AI by Executive Order (Steven Sinofsky)
The Philanthropy of Silicon Valley
“The Trolley Problem”

ARE WE UNDER OR OVER REACTING TO THE AI POSSIBILITIES?

Oppenheimer said the possibility of destruction was “near zero”
OpenAI research said it’s 10-20% chance of human destruction

WHAT ARE THE OPEN, REGULATIVE AND STRUCTURAL GUARDRAILS OF AI

What is good or bad with AI?
Should societal concerns be considered? By whom?
Should environmental concerns be considered? By whom?

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Testcontainers to Reduce Developer Frustration Nov 08, 2023

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 Nov 05, 2023

Your favorite product just announced something new and you’re upset. Why didn’t they tell you about it ahead of time? Why didn’t they ask for your feedback? How does a launch work?

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WHY DID THEY ANNOUNCE IT NOW?

What is being announced?
How impactful is the announcement? (private, public markets, partnerships)
How strategic is the announcement?
Why didn’t they give anybody a heads-up?

WHAT HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES? WHAT ARE THE OPTIONS & ALTERNATIVES?

Who (or what groups) are involved with an announcement?
Who is trusted and not trusted? What rules or guidelines are in place?
How does the media involvement work?
What if you leak it ahead of time to gauge feedback and reactions?
What if you screw it up?
Can you walk it back or change it?

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Improved Security thru Attack Path Analysis Nov 01, 2023

Tim Miller (@broadcaststorm, Technical Marketing Engineer, Outshift by @Cisco) talks about new ways to approach the overwhelming security challenges created by cloud-native apps and multi-cloud.

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Panoptica (homepage)
Outshift by Cisco (Emerging Technologies)
Panoptica - Open Clarity (open source projects)
Tim Miller (LinkedIn)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a bit about your background and what you focus on these days at Outshift by Cisco.
Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the security challenges that come with modern applications and cloud environments.
Topic 3 - The classic challenges of security have always been too many tools, not enough people, lots of misconfigurations, tons of red on the dashboard. Are there new approaches that are trying to address these challenges?

Topic 4 - Talk to us about this concept of “Attack Path Analysis”. What is it? What is it trying to accomplish that we didn’t/couldn’t do before?
Topic 5 - How does Panoptica address many of these challenges? How does it integrate with the many areas of the entire picture, from IaC to CI/CD to Observability?
Topic 6 - What are some differences that DevOps teams might experience by using Attack Path Analysis?
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A New Perspective on The Cloudcast Oct 29, 2023

Aaron and Brian talk about new changes coming to The Cloudcast over the next couple of weeks and months. New shows, new focus areas, and new schedules.

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SHOW NOTES:

BETWEEN COVID AND THE ECONOMY, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED IN PODCASTING

Commutes stopped, so the 30 minute show became less important
VC funding is slowing down, people are more focused on results vs. “new”
AI is a regular part of the conversation, but how much is too much?

WHAT WILL CLOUDCAST 2.0 LOOK LIKE?

Moving to three shows a week: Sunday Perspective, Tuesday Umbrellas & Sunnies, Thursday On The Horizon
Cloud News of the Week moves to Cloud News of the Month
Bring in a more regular conversation about AWS, Azure, GCP functionality
Bring in more regular guests (roundtables, etc.)
More “Look Ahead” length shows, more shows with Aaron & Brian
Better balance of New Stuff and What Can We Do Today
Do you want us to do Video?
Do you want us to put out a Newsletter?

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Alternative Options beyond PaaS for AppDev success Oct 25, 2023

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.

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SHOW NOTES:

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 Oct 22, 2023

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 Oct 18, 2023

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

SHOW: 763
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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? Oct 15, 2023

Between open source, open core, ad-supported and SaaS, software-focused business models are being questioned. Will new business models emerge in the next few years?

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The Software Paradox (Stephen O’Grady - Redmonk)
GitHub CoPilot hits $100M ARR
Unity CEO steps down after pricing changes
Free or Free is Often Complicated (Eps.738)
The Future of Software? (Eps.740)
Cloud and Software Economics (Eps.744)
Will LLMs replace OSS software licenses? (Joseph Jacks)

ARE THERE ANY VALID SOFTWARE BUSINESS MODELS LEFT?

Software business models keep running into road blocks
VC funding is slowing down, and interest rates are rising
Can OSS as marketing survive?

WILL THE NEXT GENERATION PAY FOR SOFTWARE, IN ANY WAY?

SaaS seems to work, if you can survive the burn rate to capture customers.
Is SaaS too expensive? Will variations emerge?
Any changing models (free to fee, open core, etc.) disenfranchise the users
OSS is getting less funding
Gaming is tied to engines and app stores
Will AI open up new business models? New licensing models?

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Leveraging FinOps to Scale a Startup Oct 11, 2023

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.
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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 Oct 08, 2023

With many companies doing annual reviews this time of year, we go through some guidance, tips and tricks and strategies for navigating reviews with your manager, and reviews with your teams.

SHOW: 760

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HOW TO MANAGE THE PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

The annual review is a year-long project, but most people only focus on the 3-4 weeks around it.
It’s about what you do, but it’s also about what you do that’s visible beyond your team.
Know how your company measures success and structures rewards/promotions/recognition.

THE GOOD, BAD AND THE UGLY OF THE ANNUAL REVIEW

HR controls the process, and your manager generally doesn’t want to deal with it.
Most companies allocate a strict budget, which is top-down.
Most companies grade on a broad bell curve; most people end up in the middle.
It’s good to understand concepts like grade levels and mid-points of compensation.
“Pay transparency” is probably not what you think.
Some (not all) bosses aren’t thinking about your career, so you need to own it
Promotions usually take a few cycles to happen. Ask around to understand that process.
For example, don’t expect the startup CEO to give you the best advice for your career, their interests may diverge from yours, asking more experience people how they do X may result in outdated advice.

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DevOps Automated Governance Oct 04, 2023

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

SHOW: 759
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SHOW NOTES:

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 Oct 01, 2023

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? Sep 27, 2023

Aaron Delp and Brian Gracely discuss the possibility of another major cloud provider emerging as the economy changes and new application workloads begin to take shape.

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Do you remember back when AWS was starting to take off, and Simon Wardley used to talk about how IBM or HP or Cisco or EMC/VMware should have been the ones building the utility cloud services?

Topic 2 - We’re now at a stage when all anyone can talk about is AI (Generative AI, LLMs, etc.) and GPUs. So which one is more powerful, the Models/Data or the Infrastructure?

Topic 3 - Is it possible that NVIDIA could start building their own cloud? Do they potentially want to own a more vertical experience?

Topic 4 - Obviously the buildout costs are enormous, but are they that much different from what the Big 3 are trying to do in retrofitting existing data centers, or hiring to build their own mini-Nuclear reactors?

Topic 5 - Who could potentially be a partner to NVIDIA in building out this type of cloud in the near-term? (Equinix, national governments, cities-of-the-future, sovereign wealth funds, etc.)

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Every company is a Hardware company Sep 24, 2023

What happens when every software company needs to be a hardware company first? And how are leading VC firms potentially predicting that the 2000s will be repeating themselves?

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SHOW NOTES:

AI’s $200B Question (Sequoia)
5 years and $15B later, a fiber venture fails (Global Crossing)
Dot com bubble
The history of Switch Data Centers
Interest rates over the last 30 years
The Cost of Cloud, A Trillion Dollar Paradox (a16z)
VCs vs the Cloud (Eps.656)

BACK IN THE DOT COM DAYS, WE ASSUMED THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE INTERNET

Let's remember how we transitioned from the late 1990s to the early 2000s
VCs used to have a $50M "hardware tax" on investments
Cloud and Low Interest Rates changed everything
New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models

NOW WE ASSUME THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE AI (and GPUs)

Interest rates have come back up to 2001 levels
VCs are back to paying the "hardware tax", and aren't happy
New Technology with Simple UI + Infrastructure Buildouts + Unknown Business Models
Let's see if history repeats itself.

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Training and Labeling Foundational AI Models Sep 20, 2023

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Sep 17, 2023

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 Sep 13, 2023

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

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SHOW NOTES:

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 Sep 10, 2023

As digital transformations are happening to major industries, we’ve moved into an era where legal issues could become more prevalent than the technologies.

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SHOW NOTES:

BREAK THE LAW NOW, AND ASK FOR FORGIVENESS LATER?

From ride-sharing to crypto to generative AI, the gray areas of the law or property ownership are at the center of the major digital transformations
The open source community is debating what is proper licensing, and should licensing ever change?
Are we at the beginning of LegalOps or LiabilityOps?

IS THE LIABILITY IN BUSINESS MODEL, IP, PRIVACY, FRAUD OR CORRUPTION

What are companies liable for? Fair-use of data? AI Models? AI recommendations? AI actions?
What laws do cloud providers need to be concerned about?
What do customers need to be concerned about?
What do systems-integrators need to be concerned about?

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Updates to Infrastructure as Code Sep 06, 2023

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 Sep 03, 2023

As we celebrate Labor Day (at least in the US), a few labor-centric topics are starting to dominate the headlines - Return to Office (RTO) and AI Augmentation. Let’s discuss how they might play out.

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SHOW NOTES:

GO TO THE OFFICE, WORK FROM HOME, OR SOME SORT OF HYBRID?

Why is the RTO being pushed? (Innovation, Collaboration, Teambuilding, Cost of Buildings, etc.)
Does either side (Labor vs. Mgmt) have leverage?
How will people talk about AI-driven productivity?

AI IS PROMISING TO DRIVE PRODUCTIVITY, BUT AT WHOSE COST?

Should you go into the office?
What are the benefits of being in the office? (proximity to power, more collaboration, visibility)
Should you lean into AI augmenting or replacing a job function?
Will AI go after basic jobs, middle jobs or unique jobs?

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Economics & Optimization of AI/ML Aug 30, 2023

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 Aug 27, 2023

Let’s talk through some of the challenges that Enterprises will have with AI - from data location to GPU location, to model biases, to data privacy to training vs. execution.

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SHOW NOTES:

An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman on the AI Hype Cycle (Stratechery)

ARE THERE EXPECTATIONS OF “OLD AI” vs. “NEW AI”?

Are business leaders thinking about unique AI applications and use-cases, or just “ChatGPT-everything”?
Formal data scientists vs. citizen data scientists?
Will this just be an application, or have an impact on every aspect of a business and the IT industry?

WILL ENTERPRISE AI BE DIFFERENT THAN CONSUMER AI?

The industry is actively working on a broad set of models that can be used for different use-cases.
It's commonly accepted that AI models need to be trained near the sources of data.
Many businesses are concerned about including their company data into these public models
Many businesses will want to deploy tuned models and applications in data center, public cloud and edge environments.
New AI applications will be required to meet security, regulatory and compliance standards, like other business applications.

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Streaming alternatives to Kafka Aug 23, 2023

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? Aug 20, 2023

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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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 Aug 16, 2023

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 Aug 13, 2023

If every company has become a software company, is it still easy to be a profitable software company? Lots of things are changing around the economics of software.

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BEING A SOFTWARE COMPANY - JUST BUILD A MOAT

Are we sure every company wants to become a software company?
Lots of software licensing changes in the news
Making money as a software business, at scale, is difficult

PEOPLE DON’T LIKE MOATS AROUND THEIR SOFTWARE

Open source is good for collaboration
Open source could be good for marketing
Software margins attract VCs
Open source mostly hates software margins
What happens to all the software companies funded by VCs over the last 3 yrs?

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Trends in API Security Aug 09, 2023

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

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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 Aug 06, 2023

Does it ever feel like all the technologies are just things layered on top of each other? Does it ever feel like platforms are a combination of Pizza Hut and Taco Bell?

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WHEN EVERYTHING IS A PLATFORM, FOR PLATFORM ENGINEERING TEAMS

Is everything really now on the shoulders of the Platform Engineering team?
Are all platform engineering teams all combined together?

BE CAREFUL ABOUT CREATING THINGS WITH NO MEANING

“It still stands as the best summary of the state of living we call Now imaginable. No business or brand means anything, no meaning cannot be bundled for the purpose of the sales team, nothing is too special that it can’t be balled up into a late night chaos meal thrown straight into the mouth of drunken capitalism.” - Holly Anderson and Spencer Hall, Channel 6

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What's Happening with SuperCloud? Aug 02, 2023

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.

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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? Jul 30, 2023

What does the future of the software business look like? How much of an impact will SaaS and AI have on the profitability of software?

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Are Software Companies Bad Business? - Clouded Judgment
Aggregation Theory - Stratechery

SOME VCs ARE QUESTIONING IF SOFTWARE IS A GOOD BUSINESS

VCs are concerned about the rate of return (and cash-flow) or software.
Is the future of open source software always SaaS offerings? Have we seen enough success with that model to say it’s a viable future business model?

WHAT ARE THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF THE SOFTWARE BUSINESS?

Is SaaS too fragmented, or will aggregated platforms emerge?
How much will AI add to the costs (or COGS) of software?
If software (especially SaaS) is bought by end-users or teams, will they appreciate AI automation vs. concern about jobs?
How does the pricing of SaaS evolve? Is it still per-seat, if AI can reduce the number of seats?
Are there channels for PLG software?
If every company is a software company, is software becoming a commodity?

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Building Large AI Models Jul 26, 2023

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.

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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 Jul 23, 2023

Some recent events in the tech industry have questioned the spirit of open source, the value of contributions, and the standards that various entities should be held to. This is not a new concept, and it’s often complicated.

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Meta’s LLAMA-2 is not Open Source (OSI opinion)
LLAMA-2 doesn’t fit the definition of open source (Twitter)
Are Software Companies Bad Businesses? (Clouded Judgment)
John Rockefeller Jr. and Grand Teton National Park
Grand Tetons National Park (Wyoming, USA)
History of Standard Oil, Trusts and Monopolies

THE TECH WORLD HAS A STRANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH FREE

This past week I didn’t think about tech very often
But coincidentally the world I was in had a historic overlap with some discussions in the tech world.

FREE IS GOOD RIGHT? WHAT ABOUT WHEN IT’S DEEMED TO BE NOT GOOD?

When do we determine that free is a good thing or a bad thing?
When do we determine that work or contributions are valuable? Or invaluable?
Are there always good actors and bad actors when something of value is involved?

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Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services Jul 19, 2023

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.

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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 Jul 16, 2023

Higher interest rates, fragmented platforms, WFH uncertainty, VC funding declines, generational blending and technology shifts are going to force a new level of quality to be demanded by businesses.

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SHOW NOTES:

A few charts about Q2 VC funding (Josh Wolfe)

“THAT’S A ZERO INTEREST RATE PROBLEM, BRO!”

The power dynamics have changed and continue to change (money, location, communications, etc.)
Dumb money is getting harder to find, hence ideas need to be better and execution needs to be better

EXPECTATIONS OF HIGHER QUALITY ARE GOING TO RISE SIGNIFICANTLY

The unicorn boom of 2020-2022 will face a reckoning by the end of 2023 or mid-2024
VC funding is getting harder to obtain
Higher interest rates are going to create higher (internal) hurdle rates within companies
Social media channels are fragmenting
Working collaboratively is getting more difficult because of both WFH fragmentation and generational fragmentation
Collaboration will be needed to teach what is expected and acceptable
AI is going to create a new level of “commodity” of tasks and product capabilities
Customers are going to have new pricing power as they watch vendor sales slow down

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Database Monitoring & Observability Jul 12, 2023

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

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Troubleshoot blocking queries with Datadog DBM
Datadog DBM
AlwaysOn availability groups with Datadog DBM
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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 Jul 09, 2023

Just as ChatGPT gave AI a simple user interface, Meta’s new Thread application is going to make it easy to explain app modernization to your management team.

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Meta launches Twitter-clone called “Threads”

IT’S GETTING OBVIOUS THAT TWITTER IS STRUGGLING AND YOU’D LIKE SOMETHING BETTER

It’s an important tool, but it’s not keeping up with the needs of the modern world
The alternatives all seems to have more questions than answers
But the pain is enough to consider modernization options

BUT WHAT ALL IS INVOLVED IN MOVING TO A MODERNIZED VERSION OF THE APP?

Let’s evaluate what’s there today. Do we see the good or what’s missing?
What can it replace today? What can’t it replace?
What’s the roadmap? Will the roadmap ever replace all that’s missing?
What’s important to us? Can we quantify it instead of just making it emotional?
How long do we need to live with the alternative, potentially in parallel?
What’s the learning curve? Can you re-training the user-base?
How do you migrate data? How much data will you lose?
How do you know if this will be successful when you start the modernization?

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2023 MidYear Update Jul 05, 2023

Brian and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Co-Host @SoftwareDefTalk) talk about the major trends in the 1st half of 2023, plus some predictions for the rest of 2023.

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Topic 1 - What are your Top 3 biggest stories/trends so far in 2023?
Topic 2 - What is your take on each of the Big 3 cloud providers in 2023?
Topic 3 - How long do you think this Platform Engineering era will last? Is it the new DevOps, or something else?
Topic 4 - Will this Cloud Cost Management trend just become a normal part of deploying to the public cloud, or become too burdensome and companies will keep apps in their Private Cloud?
Topic 5 - How do you see the current AI hype playing out in the Enterprise? Is it more impactful for developers, or operations, or back-office groups? Anything that you are really interested in yet?
Topic 6 - What has been your biggest surprise of the year, so far in 2023
Topic 7 - Any early predictions about the 2nd half of 2023?

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Kudos to Kelsey Hightower Jul 02, 2023

Kelsey Hightower (@kelseyhightower) announced his retirement from Google this week. What comes next is unknown, but let’s take a few moments to appreciate the lessons he passed along to everyone.

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THE WORLD IS FULL OF SMART PEOPLE - BUT NOT ALL SMART IDEAS GET COMMUNICATED

Lots of people in the DevRel world want(ed) to be like Kelsey Hightower
He was a little bit like Keiser Sozer; he left a small footprint behind.

HOW DID KELSEY HIGHTOWER MAKE AN IMPACT ON YOUR TECH CAREER?

He spoke from a position of authority, that he created and demonstrated
He believed that community was bigger (and more important) than company
He seemed to believe in the rule of “2 vs 1” - listen more than talk
He didn’t take himself too seriously
He connected with crowds of people, and individual people
He highlighted the good more often than he criticized the bad
He was always demonstrating the art of the possible

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Understanding the Snowflake Data Cloud Jun 28, 2023

Jeff Hollan (@jeffhollan, Director of Product @SnowflakeDB) talks about bringing apps to data, how orgs manage AI/ML, and the “enterprise” needs of Generative AI.

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Snowflake (homepage)
Snowflake Summit 2023
Snowflake Snowpark
NVIDIA NeMo Framework (build customized generative AI models)

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

Topic 2 - For those not familiar, give us a high-level overview of the breadth of services that the Snowflake Data Cloud provides?

Topic 3 - Challenges and patterns for orgs making data science / ML “real” in their company

Topic 4 - Evolution of data cloud platforms and emerging pattern of “bringing apps to the data” - the why and the how

Topic 5 - Generative AI / LLMs for enterprise - peeling back the hype, enterprise considerations, tech opportunities.

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Passions, Emotions, Friendships and Teams Jun 25, 2023

For most people, you're not always associated with a winning team. But for those moments when you are, it's so important to embrace it, enjoy it, and share it, because it often doesn't last long.

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“The Man in the Arena” - Theordore Roosevelt, 1910 (speech)
Perspective on Competition in Tech - Cloudcast #632

SOME PASSIONS GET INSIDE YOU AT A YOUNG AGE

When I was a young kid, I loved the College World Series.

SOMETIMES YOU WIN, SOMETIMES YOU LOSE, SOMETIMES YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING NEW

My team has historically been slightly better than average, but it was my team.
This year, they were incredible. Record-setting. The best in the country.
And the players all seemed to be good people. And the coaches are good people.
And the coach made sure to bring all of us along on the ride.
Most people are associated with teams that are generally above average.
We need to savor the great moments, no matter how long they last, because sometimes they end quickly.
Bring others along for the ride when things are good.

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Second Wave of DevOps Jun 21, 2023

Adam Jacob (@adamhjk, Founder/CEO of @thesysteminit) talks about the potential for DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, and the formation of new ecosystems.

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System Initiative (homepage)
System Initiative (demo)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - Before we dive into the announcements from today, let’s go back in time a little bit. What worked well at Chef, what worked well with DevOps 1.0, and what was broken?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about your philosophy with DevOps 2.0. What’s new, what needs to be started from scratch, and how do you see the ecosystem potentially forming around this new model?

Topic 4 - Walk us through the new system. Obviously demos and visuals will be available, but paint us a picture or a day (or week/month) with this new model?

Topic 5 - You’ve been working on this for a few years, and we suspect you’re getting feedback from people you trust and potential users. What sort of feedback are you hearing? What didn’t you expect to hear?

Topic 6 - What’s the best way for people to get started?

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Nobody wants to own Security Jun 18, 2023

Developers don’t want to be told “NO” by the Security team. They also don’t want to be responsible for security. Is Shift Left the right or wrong answer?

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Speed vs Security - Protecting CloudNative Environments
Cloud-native Security and Compliance (VMware Tanzu Talk)

THANK YOU TO ALL THE DADS OUT THERE ON FATHER’S DAY

Happy Father’s Day!

WHAT’S THE RIGHT ANSWER TO DEVELOPERS AND SECURITY?

Every IT survey places Security in the Top 3 priorities, year after year
Who is actually able to measure the value of good vs bad security?
The independent IT group called Security is frequently disliked
DevSecOps, Shift-Left and Secure Supply Chain has been invented to fix this
Developers generally don’t want to think about security, because it impacts their productivity and measured KPIs
Is this a platform problem, or CI/CD problem, or compliance/standards problem?
Will the challenge of security force more groups/companies to move away from microservices in the future?

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Developer Security Jun 14, 2023

Randall Degges (@rdegges, Head DevRel & Community @snyksec) talks about best practices of how to integrate security into application development environments.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give everyone a quick background.

Topic 2 - The intersection of development and security has become a hot topic in recent years. How did the issues start and what are the most common vulnerabilities or issues you run into?

Topic 3 - Security can really exist anywhere and we constantly hear about shifting left. When we are talking about developers and security, where in the process and pipelines should people, process and tools get involved?

Topic 4 - I know API security has become quite well known and is a common area, what are other areas developers need to consider? With the rise of AI, how does this impact?

Topic 5 - There is a big difference between discovery and remediation. How should developers address this?

Topic 6 - What is the difference between Snyk Open Source and the company?

Topic 7 - How do you convince both security and development teams to adopt a common platform? Is this a challenge and how do you overcome issues?

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The Hollowing Out of the Software Middle Jun 11, 2023

'Software companies taste like chicken,' says private-equity mogul. 'They’re selling different products, but 80% of what they do is pretty much the same'

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THE MARKET USUALLY ONLY SUPPORTS THREE OPTIONS

Walking around KubeCon,nearly every segment had 6-10 companies offering solutions
Markets can’t sustain more 3 in any category (Market Leader, Market Follower, Cheaper Option)
The Market can’t understand the differentiation of the 6-10 company market; 80% of the functionality is the same.
We’re coming out of Unicornpalozza (2019-2022)

OPEN SOURCE AND SAAS HAVE HOLLOWED OUT THE MIDDLE OF SOFTWARE

Open source typically highlights the creator, largest contributor to a project
Beyond that, open source is “integration” companies, or “lifecycle” companies
Large companies (or platforms) can buy up the “feature” companies to fill in their gaps
Companies in the middle have to build sales and marketing around mostly undifferentiated messaging or products.
SaaS allows companies to leverage product-led-growth, and micro-target to specific use-cases.
The successful middle (mid-sized, decent growth) will get picked off by PE
The unsuccessful middle (great tech, bad execution) may get picked off by large vendors
The unsuccessful middle (average tech, bad execution) will go under

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The Economics & Beyond of Object Storage Jun 07, 2023

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.

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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 Jun 04, 2023

They get requested all the time; a technology ROI model. But how do you build one, what does it tell you, and how are they relevant for technology purchases?

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WHY ARE MANAGERS ALWAYS ASKING FOR THE ROI?

Businesses, and IT groups, always have more projects than they have budget
How do they prioritize which projects to work on? Which ones to ignore?
People higher up don’t understand tech, but they understand finance.

WHY ISN’T ROI EASIER TO CALCULATE? AND DOES ANYONE CARE LATER ON?

ROI could be about making money, saving money, or reducing risk.
ROI Basics: Revenues, Costs, Time
Tech ROI is mostly a scoping activity - what are we including in the calculation?
Tech ROI could be short-term or long-term.
Finance Stuff: CAPEX, OPEX, Depreciation, Time-Value-of-Money, IRR, Hurdle Rate
Good ROI vs. Bad ROI?
Basics: Build a “Before and After” Model
Stuff included in ROI calculations: Expected Revenues, Expected Costs (all of them: technology, people, changes, etc.), Cost Savings/Eliminations, Productivity Improvements, Experience Improvements (Assumptions, Storytelling)
What if the decision-makers aren’t around when the ROI timeline ends?

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DevOps, OSS Communities & WASM in the Public Cloud May 31, 2023

Bridget Kromhout (@bridgetkromhout, Principal PM @Azure) & Ralph Squillace (@ralph_squillace, Principal PM @Azure) talk about DevOps, Public Cloud involvement with OSS communities, CNCF, WASM and OSS Communities.

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Topic 1 - Bridget, welcome back! It's been over 7 years since you were last on the show! Ralph, welcome to the show!

Topic 2 - Bridget, let’s talk about your journey. You were involved with Arrested DevOps Podcast & DevOps Days. Your career has changed a bit from the Developer Advocate path into the PM side. Tell us a little bit about that.

Topic 3 - For those that aren’t familiar, tell everyone about OSS @ Azure. How does Azure work with the Linux Foundation and the CNCF?

Topic 4 - Ralph, let’s talk about Web Assembly a bit. How did you get involved? How does Web Assembly fit into the bigger Azure architecture? How does it compare to Azure Functions?

Topic 5 - We last talked about WASM probably in the summer last year. Momentum appears to have picked up dramatically judging by interest at recent KubeCon events. From your perspective, how has the space evolved and changed in the last 12 months?

Topic 6 - How is Web Assembly different from the past promises of PaaS? What are some of the unique capabilities and use-cases that have evolved?

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AI is the new Bi-Modal IT May 28, 2023

As AI begins to go mainstream in IT, we’re now at the stage where projects will either be AI-enabled or not, creating the new Bi-Modal IT for the 2020s.

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EVERY VENDOR NOW HAS A PATH TO AI-INTEGRATED CAPABILITIES

When cloud emerged in 2010s, IT projects became Bi-Modal (technology & people)
Projects become classified as fast vs slow, old vs new
Groups become classified as fast vs slow, old vs new

WILL AI-ENABLED CAPABILITIES CHANGE HOW AI PROJECTS ARE MEASURED?

Expect AI to be asked about for every IT project, by leadership
Expect to see AI being pushed into every IT project
Every vendor is going to highlight the AI integrations in their products
Start learning how the economics change if IT is potentially part of a project
Expect people-reduction to be a real consideration with AI projects

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The Rise of Platform Engineering May 24, 2023

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.

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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 May 21, 2023

Are some of the flaws of the Cloud-native ecosystem and architectures starting to get exposed? Or is this just the natural evolution of new technologies?

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Good article from Adrian Cockroft on the Prime Video take on Serverless vs. Monoliths
AWS grows 16% as margins narrow
Here Comes the Anti-Cloud Crowd (The Cloudcast Feb 2023)

THE CLOUD-NATIVE MOVEMENT WAS BUILD ON A FEW PRINCIPLES

Public Cloud would be the dominant place to run apps
Public Cloud would be cheaper to build/operate than DIY or on-premises
Just use open source software
Build new applications with microservices
Multi-cloud is not a real thing anyone will do

IT’S VERY RARE THAT ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY REPLACES THE PREVIOUS TECHNOLOGY

CNCF / KubeConEU just had 10,000 people in attendance
We’re seeing backlash against some of the modern technologies as “one-size fits-all”.
We’re seeing cloud-cost-optimization becoming a focus area
We saw layoffs, and we continue to see companies not invest in internal skills
One story doesn’t make a trends (but it is easy to repeat)
From lulls and economic downturns have historically come great technology advances
Companies value experience and expertise

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Simplifying FinOps for AI Workloads in the Cloud May 17, 2023

Sam Clark (Technical Account Manager, @doitint) and Miguel Mendao (CTO @Recognyte) talk about managing the cloud costs of AI services, FinOps implementations, and spinning out new business services.

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DoIT (homepage)
DoIT Flexsave (dynamic cost management)

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

Topic 2 - We’ve spoken several times on the show about tools to control cloud cost management, but we don’t spend much time talking about the process of how companies decide it’s time to make it a focus area. Let’s talk about what thresholds tend to trigger customers to make cost management a focus area.

Topic 3 - Is cost management something that companies can think about ahead of time, or do they usually need to get past the excitement of being able to do things dynamically in the cloud first?

Topic 4 - Do you find that there are unique things in different clouds that customers should focus on around cost management? For example, you spend a lot of time with Google Cloud.

Topic 5 - Can you tell us some more about DoIT Flexsave, and maybe how it differs from some of the other types of cloud cost management tools out there? Are there typical savings that companies might expect to see?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best practices that DoIT uses with customers that are at different stages of cloud cost management, and want to get their bill under control?

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Recognizing the Adults in the Room May 14, 2023

Can we take the lessons we learned from our mothers (on Mothers Day), and apply some of those lessons to the known challenges of generative AI?

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DON’T FORGET TO CALL YOUR MOTHER, OR SUPPORT YOUR MOTHER

How did your mother support or encourage you?
What lessons from your mother do you carry forward to this day?
How often do you keep in touch with your mother?

EMBRACE CREATIVITY, AND DON’T BE AFRAID TO PARTNER WITH AN EXPERIENCED

Knowing if output from tools like ChatGPT are correct will often require domain expertise (at broad levels and nuanced levels). How to get that experience?
How will you do onboarding to new roles, with new hires without domain experience?
Thoughtful adults realize that they often don’t understand new trends, and will ask younger people to explain it. They embrace the unknown if it can be explained.

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Nautobot Network Source of Truth May 10, 2023

Jason Edelman (@jedelman8, Founder/CTO @networktocode) talks about the challenges of managing complex networks in a world of DevOps and automation.

SHOW: 717

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show Jason. Tell us a little bit about your journey with Network to Code, and your focus these days.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about network automation and how it’s evolved over the years. Give a sense of the scope of complexity that companies are facing these days.

Topic 3 - How has the concept of a CMDB for the network, or Network Source of Truth emerged to provide a more centralized view of all aspects of the network?

Topic 4 - How does the Nautobot framework work? What type of team or skill sets typically build and maintain it?

Topic 5 - What are some of the typical problems that Nautobot is able to solve for companies?

Topic 6 - How does Network to Code engage with companies to get their Nautobot environments running?

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How AI will impact Cloud-Native May 07, 2023

AI is at the center of many tech conversations these days. How will it potentially impact the Cloud-native ecosystem now, and into the future?

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SHOW NOTES:

Discussing AI in the Cloud-native Ecosystem (theCUBE at KubeConEU 2023)
What’s New - OPAL Co-Pilot Powered by GPT (from Observ)
Honeycomb Query Assistant (Honeycomb)
Using ChatGPT to document your software project (Aista)
Tech Assistant for Writing Code (StarCoder)

HOW WILL AI PLAY A ROLE IN CLOUD-NATIVE IT AND DEVELOPMENT?

Who will build models?
Where will the data/model be located?
Does the vendor vs. open source dynamic change when data models are involved?
What risks need to be mitigated?

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

Writing documentation
Configuration generation
Configuration Best-Practices - Interactions with Docs | Consulting Systems
Interactive Support - Bots, ChatOps, etc
AIOps - Self-correcting, self-adjusting systems
Chaos Engineering
Log Interpretation and Remediation
Writing Code | Pair Programming

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Behind the Scenes of a Major OSS Release May 03, 2023

Leonard Pahlke (@LeonardPahlke, CNCF Ambassador & K8s 1.26 Release Team Lead) talks about the behind the scenes activities of releasing a major open source project.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Leonard, this is another in a series on getting involved with the community. How did you get started with the CNCF and Kubernetes?

Topic 2 - What made you get started with the Open Source Software & the CNCF? If you had to recommend a path for someone to get started, would you advise them to follow the same path or a different path?

Topic 3 - It appears you started through the shadow program in Kubernetes 1.23 and worked your way up to Release Team Lead for 1.26. Tell everyone a little bit about the program and your experience. Are you going to do it again?

Topic 4 - I would imagine getting a new version of a large project like Kubernetes out the door is a lot of work and coordination of a lot of people. How did you handle that?

Topic 5 - Not all CNCF projects are as big as Kubernetes. How are the release cycles on smaller projects handled? Less Governance, Less Community Involvement, etc.

Topic 6 - You are the Co-Chair CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability, tell everyone a little about that and your goals and motivations there.

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Kubernetes Community and Career Building Apr 26, 2023

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

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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 Apr 23, 2023

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

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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 Apr 19, 2023

Shawn Freligh (SVP/GM, Content Lifecycle Automation @UplandSoftware) talks about cloud delivery, AI and Security in managing document workflows and fax integrations.

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Upland Software - Enterprise Software for Getting Things Done
Interfax - Cloud based Fax
Upland Filebound named 2022 Gold Medalist in ECM Data Quadrant

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

Topic 2 - How does technology like fax maintain a foothold in the market? How has fax technology evolved, in other words “survived?

Topic 3 - AI is a big topic in today’s market. Can fax benefit from current trends in AI?

Topic 4 - Security is of course top of mind for everyone – how do you view the security around fax?

Topic 5 - What markets are still reliant on fax technology and why?

Topic 6 - How do fax and digital transformation come together?

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How Incumbents Thrive and Survive Apr 16, 2023

How much of an impact has Digital Transformation really had on major markets? How often do unicorns disrupt incumbents? Let’s dig into the data over the last 30 years.

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SHOW NOTES:

How Incumbents Thrive and Survive (HBR) - Jullian Birkinshaw

CHANGE COMES SLOW AT FIRST, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN (or does it?)

Since 1995, 40% have stayed, 50% have merged/sold, 7-8% dropped out, and 50% of existing move up into F500.
The Blockbuster, Nokia and Kodak stories are outliers.

THE USER EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED, BUT THE COMPANIES BEHIND IT HAVEN’T AS MUCH

Disruption is about more than just newer/better technology
Existing brand relationships, trust, physical locations, supply-chains, partner-networks all play a key role for incumbents
Everyone is investing in digital transformation, for various reasons - user experience, data analysis, cost cutting, etc.
Four paths as an incumbent - [1] Fight back, [2] Double down, [3] Retrench, [4] Move away

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SBOM and Software Supply Chain Apr 12, 2023

Rob Szumski (@robszumski, Founder/CEO @Edgebitio) talks about the evolution of software supply chains, SBOMs, and managing software dependencies in the age of cloud-native apps.

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Edgebit (homepage)
Edgebit (YC Launch)
Introducing the Real-time SBOM
Understanding VDR and VEX
Open VEX supercharges SBOM (Cloud Native Podcast)
SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange)
SBOM Sharing Lifecycle Report

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Rob. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to start Edgebit.

Topic 2 - SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) has become a big topic, especially around the cloud-native community. Software and security have been around a long time, why the uptick in discussions around SBOM now?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the day-in-the-life of a typical team these days. Where are there holes in their current toolset and how are things potentially improving?

Topic 4 - Tell us about Edgebit. Where does Edgebit play a role in the Software Supply Chain?

Topic 5 - Edgebit take a broad view of a company’s software landscape, but a narrow view of action. Less of a boil the ocean approach. How do you find this approach is appreciated by developers vs. security teams?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways you expect to see the SBOM and Software Supply Chain over the next year?

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A Framework for Making Sense of AI Chaos Apr 09, 2023

AI is either having its 15 minutes of fame, or completely reshaping every aspect of technology (and maybe every aspect of life), right now. How is everyone comprehending this shift?

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NEW TECHNOLOGY TRENDS USUALLY COME OUT OF DOWNTURNS

SaaS came out of the Internet bubble burst
Cloud came out of the Housing bubble burst
AI isn’t new, but usable AI is coming out of COVID

HOW TO MAKE SENSE OF NEW + CHAOS + UNCERTAINTY

There’s lots of ways to dive in - learn the basics, build some intro applications, etc.
Follow the money, and find the frauds
Figure out the ecosystem and how to be involved
Figure out what might be sustainable vs. just being a wrapper
Don’t get overwhelmed by everything at once. Pick something that interests you, or applies to your job (or a side hustle)

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The Evolution of SaaS Business Models Apr 05, 2023

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

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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 Apr 02, 2023

Free is great, until it isn’t. Now that the unicorn buffet of VC funding has less cheap money, expect to see more announcements about free stuff no longer being free.

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FREE AS IN BEER, FREE AS IN PUPPIES, FREE AS IN LUNCH

Vendored open source software is free, until it isn’t

BE CAREFUL WHEN YOUR DEPENDENCIES ARE BASED ON SOMEONE ELSE’S COSTS

It’s hard to ask for money when something has been free forever.
Vendors will screw this up now and into the future
VCs love free marketing, but don’t love on-going costs without returns
Set your expectations right about “free” software. It might change without notice.

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Open Telemetry Mar 29, 2023

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

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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 Mar 26, 2023

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

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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 Mar 22, 2023

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.

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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 Mar 19, 2023

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 Mar 15, 2023

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 Mar 12, 2023

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 Mar 08, 2023

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 Mar 05, 2023

It’s now been 3 years since the world was disrupted by COVID-19. How has the tech industry been impacted, changed, and altered?

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GOOD PREDICTIONS, BAD PREDICTIONS, AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES

How long the pandemic would last
How much this would accelerate cloud adoption
How efficient remote work would make companies
The future of in-person events vs. virtual events

GOOD HABITS, BAD HABITS, AND LESSONS LEARNED

Too many companies assumed that late 2020 through early 2022 would be the new normal
The cloud providers all grew very fast, but none of them launched industry-changing new services, and have since laid off people
SaaS services did not figure out how to be more profitable, and have laid off people
Remove work hasn’t become more efficient, and it’s not creating new management / teamwork / collaboration challenges
We’ve created very unusual and awkward human interactions, and tried to normalize them
A new round of layoffs and economic uncertainty will end up creating another new set of behaviors - still TBD.

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Edge, InterConnects & CoLo Mar 01, 2023

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 Feb 26, 2023

The economics of the Internet are changing as the foundational ad-driven model is being disrupted. How will this impact the cost of things we’ve long enjoyed for free on the Internet?

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THE EVOLUTION OF HOW THE INTERNET WAS PAID FOR

Original Internet - Funded by the US Gov’t (ARPANET)
Walled Gardens - AOL, Compuserve
The Rise of Web Browsers, Search Engines and the Open Internet
The Rise of Consumer Broadband and Over-the-Top Services
Advertising as the dominant business model, and building moats

THE DISRUPTION OF THE AD-CENTRIC INTERNET AND ITS IMPACTS

Google moats for ads/search - Maps, Gmail, Android, Weather, Flights, Stocks, etc.
Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple have build huge ad businesses
Apple is disrupting mobile advertising with ATT
Microsoft is disrupting search with ChatGPT (and OpenAI)

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Cloud-Native Security & Usage Feb 22, 2023

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 Feb 19, 2023

Public cloud usage. Cloud-native application development. Developer relations. In a down economy, everything gets questioned. Expect a lot of naysayers and doubters.

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THE CURVE IS BENDING DOWN, SO QUESTION EVERYTHING

The public cloud is no longer economically viable
Distributed systems are not practical
Kubernetes is now too difficult to use
Developer relations (DevRel) is no longer needed by vendors

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EARLY ADOPTERS AND MAINSTREAM

Early adopters typically have a specific problem they are trying to solve
Near-term and long-term goals don’t always align
The ROI of technology doesn’t always happen immediately
Resume-driven-development is a real thing in good times
Economic downturns shine a light on practicality and profitability
Greed is a factor in good times and bad times

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Data Lakehouses and Apache Hudi Feb 15, 2023

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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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 Feb 12, 2023

Now that AWS, Azure, GCP earnings are slowing down across the board, let’s look at what this could mean in the near-term and long-term.

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AWS earnings - $21.4B, up 20% (down from 27% QoQ)
Microsoft Azure earnings - $21.5B, up 31% (down from 35% QoQ)
Google Cloud earnings - $7.32B, up 32% (down from 38% QoQ)
Google claims that Azure is losing money
Cloud leaders AWS, Azure, Google show the market is cooling down
2022 CAPEX spend by the cloud providers
Cloud players being cautious in 2023

THE GROWTH OF CLOUD PROVIDERS IS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWN

The cloud providers are still growing at a high rate
But the rate of grow, and CAPEX investment is slowing down
Is this the new normal?

WHAT’S CAUSING THE SLOW DOWN?

Increased interest rates, so slower overall spending across tech
Cloud cost optimization tools and company-wide programs
Enterprise companies managing to post-COVID “new normals”
SaaS companies cutting back, especially VC-funded companies
Lots of tech layoffs
Concern about Google (and Azure?) being profitable?
Will the new AI wars disrupt the focus of the cloud companies?
Will we see services cut back by the cloud providers?
Companies now have an opportunity to renegotiate costs?

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Composable Data Analytics Feb 08, 2023

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 Feb 05, 2023

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 Feb 01, 2023

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 Jan 29, 2023

While we all live in a world of constantly emerging and evolving technologies, sometimes new technologies are so different from the past that they are just difficult to explain the first time.

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LETS CONNECT THE DOTS BETWEEN THE EXPERIENCE OF TWO NEW TECHNOLOGIES

Introducing Cloud-native technologies to non Cloud-native people
Trying to figure out a Tesla Model 3 from the rental agency without the manual

HOW TO EXPLAIN NEW THINGS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT EXPERIENCE

What experiences do people have about the previous generation of technology?
Do you need to explain why the new technologies exist?
Do you need to explain why the new choices were made with the new technologies?
Do you frustrate people because the things they expect are different or missing?
Should you use analogies or comparisons to explain things?

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2023 Look Ahead to FinOps Jan 25, 2023

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jan 22, 2023

Does any technology make sense if the organization surrounding it is misaligned? Let’s look at some examples of the right and wrong ways to align the technology organization with business results.

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SHOW NOTES:

On Organizational Structures and the Developer Experience (Redmonk)

GREAT SLIDES AND DEMOS DON’T ALWAYS WORK IN THE REAL WORLD

Platforms vs. Services.
Centers of Excellence vs. Centralized Services vs. Distributed Services
Who makes the initial investment? Incremental investments? Who owns maintenance?
Business Goals? Technical Goals?

THINGS THAT WORK AND THINGS THAT OFTEN BREAK

What problem is trying to be solved? Does the consumer understand how to measure value received?
How are things funded? How does expansion happen? How do changes happen?
How are things measured? How well are measurements aligned?
Self-Service vs. APIs vs SLA’d Services (fixed services vs. reusable services)
Are platforms centralized vs. group-by-group?
Short-term goals vs. long-term goals?

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2023 Look Ahead to VC Funding Jan 18, 2023

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.

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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 Jan 15, 2023

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jan 11, 2023

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

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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jan 08, 2023

The evolution of Microsoft under Satya Nadella provides a blueprint for how to transition companies from one focus to another.

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW MICROSOFT EVOLVED FROM A CLOSED SW COMPANY TO CLOUD COMPANY

2001: $31B, 2007: $62B, 2014: $88B, 2019: $153B, 2022: $198B
90+ acquisitions since 2014
Office 365, Gaming (XBox), GitHub, LinkedIn

HOW TO FOCUS ON CHANGES, ADDITIONS, AND SUBTRACTIONS

2001: XBox, Office 365
2008: Azure
2017: Microsoft Teams
2018: GitHub
Be patient: Many of Microsoft’s investments required 10+ years to grow
Buy new capabilities: Acquisitions
Break the limitations to expand markets: Move to cross-platform support (Office on MacOS, SQL on Linux, Linux in Aure, Bing with Google) - see Red Hat with RHEL, IBM with IBM Cloud or Mainframe, Cisco with SW+Hardware
Embrace new business models: SaaS services, pay-as-you-go Cloud services
Invest for the Future: Microsoft has caught up to Google in CAPEX spending

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2023 Look Ahead to Platform Engineering Jan 04, 2023

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Dec 28, 2022

You asked, we answered. A year-end mailbag of the best of the questions we received from our community in 2022.

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SHOW NOTES:

Q1: The cloud has created a lot of big shifts over the last 10 years. Are there any “big winners” over the last 10 years that you see being disrupted anytime soon?

Q2: Why do you think so many people got crypto/Web3 wrong in 2022?

Q3: Why don’t you guys cover more about application modernizations and migrations? Isn’t that a huge part of IT groups portfolio and budgets?

Q4: Has the shift to wide-spread remote work been a good thing or a bad thing?

Q5: What advice would you give to someone in their 20s, 30s or 40s that would help them for the next 5yrs or 10yrs?

Q6: These economic shifts are freaking me out a little bit. How should I think about them?

Q7: I got to thinking about some of the new AI news (OpenAI, ChatGPT, etc.) that’s been coming out and it seems like a big deal. Will it be as big as it potentially seems?

Q8; Why do you think Andy Jassy took the Amazon CEO job, which seems like a lot of headaches, when the AWS job was going so well?

Q9: What do you wish you had done with your careers, assuming you could go back and change something(s)?

Q10: What are you thankful for this year?

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A Perspective on Perspectives Dec 25, 2022

Last Sunday Perspective of the year, so let’s look at how we put together the perspectives, and why it can be a valuable framework for evaluation and decision-making.

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SHOW NOTES:

HOW TO CREATE A PERSPECTIVE

Why did we create the Sunday Perspective shows?

CAN YOU USE THE SUNDAY PERSPECTIVE FRAMEWORK FOR WORK DECISIONS?

Understand things from different perspectives
Understand both the technologies and the economics
Understand how people will impact the decisions

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2022 Year in Review & 2023 Predictions Dec 21, 2022

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 Dec 18, 2022

Let’s look at the differences between when technology is in a boom-cycle vs. a bust-cycle, and what happens as things transition between cycles.

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HOW CAN WE TELL WHAT CYCLE WE’RE IN?

Right now, it feels like we’re in a bust cycle, or at least a correction-cycle, but how do we know what cycle we’re currently in - and more importantly - how do we know when the next cycle will begin?

THE GOOD TIMES, THE UNCERTAIN TIMES, AND THE BAD TIMES

History repeats itself, hence why it’s good to study history.
Follow the money. Is money cheap? Is money highly leveraged? What is motivating the money?
Does it make sense to a layperson?
Can the technology create a sustainable business model? Does it create an expanding ecosystem, or winner-takes-all?
Do the stories highlight the people, or the excesses of the people, or do they highlight value-creation? Stories are bolder in a boom.
Booms will start slow, will gain word of mouth, will sustain for a while, will begin to reach, and then crash hard. People are never quite sure when to jump into a boom. Reactions are faster in a crash.
Crashes happen quickly, as they are usually highly leveraged.
The winners in a crash are the ones with money to buy low, or are capitalized after a crash.

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Bringing The Cloud to IT Dec 14, 2022

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Dec 11, 2022

Looking at the Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022” for trends that will impact 2023.

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SHOW NOTES:

Battery Ventures “State of OpenCloud 2022”

HOW DO THE VCs LOOK AT THE STATE OF THE OPEN CLOUD MARKET?

VCs are still very bullish on cloud-native and open-source cloud companies
“Good growth” will be encouraged and rewarded
Software “multiples” are back to 2018-19 levels. The 2020s were crazy value inflation.

HOW CAN THAT INFLUENCE WHAT 2023 MIGHT LOOK LIKE?

Lots of companies are re-evaluating their spending levels and cost levels
Lots of highly “valued” private companies may become acquisition targets in 2023
Most of the job-cuts, thus far, haven’t been that large, as a percentage.
For software businesses, cloud-services are growing 3-5x their software business. Expect to see more companies moving to those offerings.
Cloud providers continue to show strong growth, even at a larger scale. Expect this to continue, although they are all shifting their focuses.
Software can be a driving force to enable productivity, so expect to see companies continue to focus on software-driven projects.
Lots of good insights into how the selling and buying model are evolving. Interesting if you’re evaluating companies beyond just what they offer.

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2022 AWS re:Invent Announcements Dec 07, 2022

Let’s look at the NEW announcements from AWS re:Invent. Not as many as usual, but some interesting new focus areas for AppDev, AppNet, and Security.

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SHOW NOTES:

2022 AWS re:Invent announcements (AWS Website)
2022 AWS re:Invent announcements (Cloudcast notes)

~130 new announcements (features, services, partner-related capabilities)

< 10 brand new services

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Thoughts from AWS re:Invent Dec 04, 2022

AWS re:Invent is the largest Cloud conference of the year, and it was back after a downturn from the COVID pandemic. What was the vibe in Las Vegas in 2022?

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WHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM AWS IN YEAR 2 OF ADAM SELIPSKY?

AWS is the profit center of Amazon
50-60,000 attendees
No longer focus on “why cloud is better”
Limited focus on how well AWS is doing (Gartner, scale, new releases, etc.)
Limited focus on cost savings, and no focus on price reductions
Great focus on “solutions” - 99% of the building blocks are in place

WHAT WAS THE VIBE FROM ATTENDEES AND PARTNERS/VENDORS?

2300 breakout sessions (KubeCon has 200+)
Less competition with technology partners
Lots of cloud cost-management companies
Very healthy community support
Concern about AWS competing the channel partners - consulting
Difficult to get a focus in the show - too many focus areas
More focus on data

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Building Vector Search Applications Nov 30, 2022

Edo Liberty (@edoliberty, Founder/CEO @Pinecone) talks about vector databases and building applications that leverage data in new and unique ways.

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SHOW NOTES:

Pinecone - Fully Managed Vector Search (homepage)
What is Vector Search? (InfoWorld)

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

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about trends in search. Beyond what we all experience with Google Search, how is more advanced search impacting applications and user-experiences?

Topic 3 - What is involved in building a modern search platform or application, in terms of data ingestion and indexing, scaling the platform, and day-to-day operations?

Topic 4 - How does Pinecone help search application builders? Where does the Pinecone platform stop and the application start?

Topic 5 - How do the AI models in Pinecone help the application builders?

Topic 6 - What are some examples of how vector search is helping companies today?

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The Be Thankful Episode Nov 27, 2022

It’s that time of year when we step back and consider the important things for which we are thankful.

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Alice’s Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie)
Alice’s Restaurant (Wikipedia)

BE THANKFUL ALL THE TIME, BUT BE THOUGHTFUL IN YOUR THANKFULNESS

Be thankful for good health
Be thankful for friends and family
Be thankful for traditions that bring you joy
Be thankful for the chance to learn, and to share
Be thankful for the opportunity to help others
Be thankful for people that challenge you, and offer opportunities to see the world

BE THANKFUL FOR SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH, THINK and GET ALONG

Sometimes life is dumb
Sometimes justice is blind
Sometimes you need to be part of something bigger
Sometimes you need to get along with others

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Developer Data Platforms Nov 23, 2022

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 Nov 20, 2022

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 Nov 16, 2022

Kayla Taylor (Sr. Product Manager @datadoghq) talks about taking control of cloud costs and managing costs along with observability and troubleshooting.

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Gain visibility and control of your cloud spend with Datadog Cloud Cost Management
Datadog introduces Cloud Cost Management

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

Topic 2 - Cloud cost management has become a very active focus area since the economy has been slowing down. How are you seeing customers, or engineering teams thinking about cost differently than before?

Topic 3 - Since Datadog provides so much visibility into active applications (APM, Observability, Troubleshooting), do you take a similar approach to Cost Management?

Topic 4 - Accountants understand costs, but not technology. Engineers understand technology, but do you find that they understand costs? How do you help them conceptualize costs and be able to make changes that impact their applications?

Topic 5 - What are some of the unique things that Datadog does with the new Cloud Cost Management offering? How does it tie into the other aspects of Datadog?

Topic 6 - The service is new, but what are some of the surprising things you’ve observed about how companies are using this insight into their cloud costs?

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What if Twitter Goes Away? Nov 13, 2022

Twitter is going through some things. For the life of The Cloudcast, it’s been our ERP, CRM, Collaboration and PR engine. What if it goes away? Are there lessons to be learned?

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SHOW NOTES:

The Cloudcast on Mastodon: @thecloudcastnet@hackyderm.io
How to Find Your Twitter Followers on Mastodon
Twitodon - Find Twitter Users you Follow

IT’S CRAZY NOW, BUT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN SORT OF CRAZY….AND USEFUL

Lots of apps tell you what you know, Twitter helps you find what you don’t know
Twitter can be real-time, or the beginning of deep-dive scrolling
Twitter is the most difficult to understand, but the most valuable

DEPENDENCE ON TWITTER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN A SINGLE CLOUD

Twitter removes the barriers of journalists, we get news and opinions and insights
Twitter has always given us a way to do research into new things
Twitter has helped us build friendships with people we’ve never met
Did we make a mistake in being too reliant on Twitter? Were there other options?

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From Monolith to Microservice with CI/CD Nov 09, 2022

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? Nov 06, 2022

Many people are asking about the future of KubeCon now that Kubernetes isn’t the central focus. How does it evolve? Is it like re:Invent or VMworld or something else?

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WHAT’S THE FUTURE OF KUBECON / CLOUDNATIVECON

KubeCon feels like it’s at a cross-roads now that Kubernetes is not the central focus of the event. So where does it go from here?

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE ISN’T A CENTRAL FOCUS?

Is it OpenStack Big Tent 2.0?
Is the CNCF trying to define a stack anymore, or just a governance home?
Is it VMworld post-2012?
Is it the re:Invent of Cloud-native technologies?
Could some company be the GTM for many of the companies at KubeCon?
Would it be good or bad to have individual project conferences?
Are the pre-event event good or bad for people trying to learn a specific domain?

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Reviewing KubeCon Detroit Nov 02, 2022

Aaron and Brian talk about all things KubeConNA (Detroit) 2022.

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Topic 1 - Let’s start with what was good or bad at CloudNativeCon/KubeCon. Overall vibes at the conference?

7,000 attendees, 300 vendor-companies, good amount of end-users
Good: Well-organized, live interactions
Bad: City choice, keynotes, Day1 & 2 pricing models
Is this Big Tent 2.0? (Aaron - I don’t think so…)

Topic 2 - Interesting technologies or technology trends?

Kubernetes is no longer the center of this conference
Service Mesh, WASM (Web Assembly), Cost-Mgmt, various forms of Security
Starting to see fragmentation (e.g. Cloud-Native Security is it’s own conference)

Topic 3 - Are we in a bubble? Lots of companies in each technology category? Will we see consolidation, failures or buyers?

What’s the mission for CNCF - place for projects to incubate with no “horse in the race”, all areas will eventually consolidate down to a few players over time?

Topic 4 - What’s next for KubeCon?

Can it survive as a big event without a central technology?
Will it splinter into lots of little events?
Did the CNCF turn this into too much of a marketing event?
What’s in it for the sponsors? Especially if it splits into different events?
Why do they keep making bad location choices? (Amsterdam 4/20, Chicago - Nov ‘23)

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The Open Source Dead End? Oct 30, 2022

What is the new intersection between open-source communities, vendors and VCs? Is it changing? Should we be concerned about the future of open source?

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SHOW NOTES:

The Dead End (Redmonk)

OPEN SOURCE ISN'T THE SAME AS 20 YEARS AGO

Open source is the new default for innovation, and many companies have made it their default. But do they think about open source and technology differently now?

IT'S THE DEFAULT, BUT THE USAGE EXPECTATIONS HAVE EVOLVED TOO

There's a difference between open source usage for infrastructure vs. app-dev
Who should care about open source licensing?
How much are VCs dictating the open source license strategy?
Does open-core have a place, or is it killing open source?
It is OK to treat customers and competitors differently?

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GitOps, Security and Modern CI/CD Pipelines Oct 26, 2022

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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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 Oct 23, 2022

Let’s take a look at the evolution of “SuperCloud”, and if it’s a trend, an architecture, an application model, or something else all together.

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NAMING IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES NEW CONCEPTS ARE HARD TO NAME

When something new comes along, do we spend more time talking about the name or the value of the new concept? Does anyone remember “Serverless”?

WHAT IS SUPERCLOUD, AND WHY MIGHT IT BE IMPORTANT

Multi-Cloud is a real thing (for various reasons), but Multi-Cloud-App is an anomaly.
Maybe it’s a SuperApp, instead of a SuperCloud
Clouds, Politics, Insurance
What happens if applications “span” availability zones? Span regions?
Can SuperCloud be a thing for the application, or mostly the data?
The cost of moving data makes these types of applications very difficult to build and manage.
Load-balancing, DNS, CDNs

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From QAos to Chaos Engineering Oct 19, 2022

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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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 Oct 16, 2022

Technical Debt has a branding problem, and in a shifting economy, it becomes increasingly important to have a focus on projects that drive positive ROI.

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WE GLAMORIZE INNOVATION BECAUSE ROI IS HARD TO MEASURE

There is an outward perspective that everyone wants to work on something new, because it gets a lot of attention. But there are plenty of opportunities to focus on foundational, stabilizing capabilities.

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

Think of things in terms of quarters, or six-months, or twelve-months
Where can you measure improvement?
Where can you leave things alone, but still have room to improve?
How can you link to improvement in other areas?
How can you have an incremental improvement mindset?

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90 Days of DevOps Oct 12, 2022

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%? Oct 09, 2022

It’s important to remember not to “equate fun with money”, especially when you have to do repetitive and boring things that aren’t fun and don’t get you more money.

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SOMETIMES THINGS GROW AND IT’S FUN

We’re hiring! Launches! Everyone is a rock-star! Nobody cares about accountability during the good times, because growth hides all the flaws.

SOMETIMES GROWTH COMES FROM BEING EFFICIENT

Google added 25k people per year (2019-2021)
- Do less hiring (less interviews, less new hire-stuff, less “where is?”)
- Don’t put the burden on the employees to fix leadership ambitions
Google “Simplicity Sprints”
Amazon “Amazon Software Builder Experience” (ASBX)
20% more productive
33% do repetitive work
Is this good or bad for the concept of Platform Engineering

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The Evolution of Infrastructure-as-Code Oct 05, 2022

Joe Duffy (@funcOfJoe, Founder/CEO of @PulumiCorp) talks about the evolution of cloud engineering and Infrastructure-as-Code.

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Pulumi (homepage)
Cloud Software will be built differently (Protocol)
New Tools for Cloud-Native Developers (Eps388 - Pulumi - 2019)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since Pulumi was last on the show (2019), so give us an update on how things are growing.

Topic 2 - There’s been a lot of change in the IaC market over the last few years - Ansible/IBM, Hashicorp/IPO, Chef/Puppet went to Private Equity, VMware bought Salt - Why do you think we’ve seen so much change in the market in such a short period of time?

Topic 3 - With more companies using the public cloud, and multiple clouds, what does Infrastructure-as-Code look like these days? Are there a new set of challenges to be solved?

Topic 4 - Pulumi has a development model that sort of straddles between IaC and applications. How does it get used in actual customer environments? Has it surprised you how it’s used by customers?

Topic 5 - What are some of the new ways in which Pulumi can take advantage of new cloud capabilities, or new trends you’re seeing from your customers?

Topic 6 - If someone was using a different IaC tool before, are there easy ways to migrate to Pulumi, or is there a steep learning curve?

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VCs vs. the Cloud Oct 02, 2022

VCs used to love the public cloud because it disrupted old guard vendors. Now the cloud is keeping more of the profits and the VCs are starting to fight back.

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VCs USED TO LOVE THE CLOUD

In the old days, the first $50M of VC funding went to Cisco, EMC, Sun and Oracle. And then the public cloud came along, and that shifted to the first $5M going to AWS.

NOW VCs ARE ACTIVELY FIGHTING AGAINST THE MONSTER THEY HELPED CREATE

VCs are learning that bandwidth costs never come down
VCs would like to get more of the profits, which are going to AWS
Now VCs are putting their money behind other clouds
Is this a trend that will continue?

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Secure Software Supply-Chain Sep 28, 2022

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 Sep 25, 2022

Headlines are boring. New technologies are boring. Companies aren’t changing the world right now. And all this boring is OK. Sometimes being pragmatic is a good thing.

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RIGHT NOW, THINGS SEEM PRETTY BORING

Crypto crashed and burned. Unicorns have to generate profits. The hyperscalers want to cut costs. From a headlines perspective, things seem pretty boring right now. And that’s OK.

BORING IS WHEN THINGS GET MORE AUTOMATED, MORE SECURE, AND REDESIGNED

Companies are focused on profitability.
Companies are focused on accountability.
Companies are slowing hiring, and rethinking resources.
Security is a focus area.
Automation is a focus area.
This is when things get redesigned for sustainability.

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Building Machine Learning Apps Sep 21, 2022

Tuhin Srivastava, (Co-Founder/CEO of @basetenco) talks about enabling Data Scientists to build better Machine Learning models and applications.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you started Baseten.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Data Scientists. Not an easy job. They build models and analyze data. But what typically happens after that? How do the models typically get seen and what needed to happen to make that possible?

Topic 3 - What parts of those pain points does Baseten focus on? How does Baseten bring together low-code (or serverless) concepts with the complexity that Data Scientists need to deal with day-to-day?

Topic 4 - What are some of the technologies running behind the scenes to make Baseten easy to use, or that are exposed to the Data Scientists?

Topic 5 - How does a Data Scientist typically get from “I have a useful model” to “I’m making this part of a useful application”? How does Baseten create building blocks to help them not have to be front-end or back-end engineers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the types of use-cases or applications that your customers have been building?

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Did we get Digital Transformation wrong? Sep 18, 2022

Digital transformation has seen a number of success stories, but it’s not always clear that it followed a DevOps Days pattern. Let’s explore what works and maybe doesn’t work.

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THE FOUNDATION FOR DEVOPS

Devs don’t want to do Ops
Blameless Post-Mortems don’t seem to be common
Hybrid Cloud didn’t really materialize into real applications

BUT HOW MUCH OF IT ACTUALLY WORKED OUT?

Do we need more top-down leadership to make it happen?
Do we need the annoying person to keep everyone on-track?
Do we need more mandates declaring old technology dead?

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Kubernetes Cost Optimization Sep 14, 2022

Shahar Yakov (@shahar_yakov, Product Manager @GranulateLtd, an Intel company) talks about the different factors in optimizing Kubernetes costs.

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

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about Cost Optimization. What’s a good framework to think about this problem? Is it a focus on over-provisioning, or optimizing applications, or a different approach?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common areas where Kubernetes needs to better manage costs? Is it more at the infrastructure layer, or at the application layer?

Topic 4 - Tell us about the recently launched gMaestro. How does it work, and what are the common ways that companies would begin to use it to optimize their environments?

Topic 5 - Are some optimizations more immediately impactful? Are some optimizations more focused on long-term cost savings?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to engage around gMaestro?

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When the Smart Guys get it Wrong Sep 11, 2022

In technology we do a lot of hero worshiping, especially the disruptors. What happens when their moats dry up and their great ideas start showing cracks?

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WE CELEBRATE THE BIG FUNDING, THE DISRUPTORS AND THE STORIES

When things are good - low interest rates, stock price is up, VC money is flowing in, disruption gets valued at high multiples - lots of stories get written about the disruptors. But when things change - the stories are written about their failures.

BUT THE DISRUPTION RARELY LAST FOREVER.

It’s important to match the disruption era with the economic era.
A lot of stories will be written about how badly the economics of the “disruptor companies” were during the halcyon days (Uber, WeWork, Netflix, etc.)
Frauds will be called out.
Culture will remain important, but impossible to replicate cultures will get dissected, and profitability will take precedence over culture.
The ecosystems of the largest companies will start to wonder if it’s still a good idea, as the largest expand their offerings.
Good new technologies will have lower visibility and have to build staying power.

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Istio Ambient Mesh Sep 07, 2022

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 Sep 04, 2022

Each year we celebrate labor with a day of no labor. Throughout our careers, labor means different things to different people. What does this Labor Day mean to you?

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Labor Day

SHOULD WE CELEBRATE THE LABOR OR THE OUTPUT OF LABOR?

Do you live to work, or work to live? Are you changing the world, or fine with incremental change?

HOW DOES YOUR VIEW OF LABOR CHANGE OVER THE COURSE OF YOUR CAREER?

In tech, there is never an end of work. Either at the day level, or at the volume level.
For a majority introverted industry, we seem to be OK working from home, but we also desire to do things in person (just not driving to the office)
It’s OK to have a broken relationship with labor after the pandemic. It’s been three years. Nothing is the same. Lots of habits developed. Lots of things broke.
Remember that you don’t always have the same relationship with labor throughout your career, and neither do your co-workers. It’s good to figure out where they are.
Breaks are good. Uninterrupted breaks are very important.

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Real-Time Data Cloud Aug 31, 2022

Tim Wagner (@timallenwagner, Co-Founder/CEO of @VendiaHQ) talks about accelerating multi-cloud application and data deployments, and the evolving role of serverless.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a while since you smashed servers on stage at a keynote. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you decided to leave AWS and found Vendia.
Topic 2 - The public cloud did a really good job of accelerating application growth, and data sprawl, but it didn’t really organize it very well. So we have apps across multiple clouds and data across multiple clouds. How do companies start to cope with this distributed “mess”?
Topic 3 - When does a customer’s application or data challenges become such that Vendia becomes a way to solve their problem?
Topic 4 - You’re known as Mr. Serverless. What role does Serverless play in the Vendia platform, and what other technologies are under the covers?
Topic 5 - What types of applications make the most sense on the Vendia platform?
Topic 6 - Blockchain is part of the Vendia platform. Why choose this for the backend data vs. some other database or storage technology?
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Cost Justification of Software Aug 28, 2022

Can you justify what you spend on software? On DevOps activities? Like actually put a number on it, not just explain that it’s needed to solve the digital challenges of the business?

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Hurdle Rate

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO CREATE AND RUN SOFTWARE?

How much does a better customer experience cost? How valuable is it to add new partners? Some questions are easy to measure, while others are not. So how do you measure them?

DOES YOUR PROJECT CLEAR THE HURDLE RATE?

Who decides if a project is important? Is viable?
How do you measure cost-savings projects vs. business expansion projects?
Does the CFO decide, or the CMO, or the CRO? Who resolves conflicts?
Are you prepared to have projects rejected due to missing the hurdle rate?

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The State of Serverless 2022 Aug 24, 2022

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 Aug 21, 2022

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 Aug 17, 2022

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

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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? Aug 14, 2022

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 Aug 10, 2022

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.

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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 Aug 07, 2022

As much as we talk about tech, our industry is people-centric. Knowing how to find a mentor, or eventually becoming a mentor is an important skill to have. So how does it work?

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WHY DO WE HAVE MENTORS WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY BOOKS?

When I was early in my career, I thought you could just ask executives questions. And you can, but you might not always get the answers you expect. So a lot of people read books. But sometimes it’s good to find the in-between.

HOW DOES THE MENTOR / MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

Is Mentor/Mentee a formal process?
When should you look for a Mentor?
What should the relationship look like? What are the dynamics?
What should both sides expect in the relationship?
Should you pay for a mentor?
When should you look outside your normal circle for some new insight?

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Multi-Cloud Control Plane for Apps Aug 03, 2022

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

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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 Jul 31, 2022

Ever since Developers became the New Kingmakers, DevRel has become a subsection of our industry. But what does it do, and is it helping Devs?

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What is DevRel?
DevRel success tips
Marketing to Developers is Not Hard
2022 Look Ahead - Developer Careers (Cloudcast Eps.582)

WHY DID DEVREL HAPPEN?

Software is eating the world - Marc Andreessen (2011)
Every company is a software company - (2013)
Developers are the New Kingmakers - Stephen O’Grady (2013)
Kubernetes the Hard Way - Kelsey Hightower (2015)

WHERE IS DEVREL TODAY?

Is it DevRel or DevEvangelist or DevAdvocate?
Is DevRel marketing?
Have you DevRel’d yourself into imposter syndrome?
Who do DevRel’s work for?
Can companies afford DevRel? Can they afford not to have DevRel?

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Managing Microservices Jul 27, 2022

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 Jul 24, 2022

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 Jul 20, 2022

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 Jul 17, 2022

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 Jul 13, 2022

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 Jul 10, 2022

Competition in technology has many levels - from individuals to groups to companies to technologies. We dig into how competition impacts in multiple different ways, throughout our careers.

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TECHNOLOGY COMPETITION IS NOT LIKE SPORTS COMPETITION

There is not "end of season" in technology
Technology carries the past forward (technical debt)
Technology doesn't have trades or relegation
The lifecycle of tech is different that sports fandom

COMPETITION IN TECHNOLOGY TAKES ON SO MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS

People stay at companies far less than before
People compete in technology at personal levels, at team/group levels, at company levels and at technology levels.

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Secure Cloud Migrations Jul 06, 2022

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 Jun 29, 2022

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.

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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 Jun 26, 2022

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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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 Jun 22, 2022

Kent Bennett (Venture Capitalist @bessemervp) talks about the 2022 State of Cloud report, the evolution of the SaaS business model, new monetization models, and the Great Resignation.

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SHOW NOTES:

2022 State of the Cloud (Bessemer Venture Partners)
Kent Bennett (Bio - BVP)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days at Bessemer.

Topic 2 - The media headlines for Cloud aren’t great these days. What are the headlines from your State of Cloud 2022?

Topic 3 - Help us understand how much money has come into the VC systems over the last couple years and where it’s being targeted.

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the $1 to $18 model in SaaS. How does that happen, and what separates the good companies ($18) from the good/mediocre companies ($7).

Topic 5 - You talk about “First Act” and indirect models, focused on all their companies that deliver pieces of a monetization model. How long do we expect that approach to last, because we see a wave of consolidation?

Topic 6 - A lot has been discussed about the “Great Resignation”. This has impacted both tech workers and non-tech. How do you see technology companies having an impact or influence on the global workforce?

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How Things will Change in a Tech Downturn Jun 19, 2022

It’s been 13 years since the last economic downturn impacted the tech industry. Many people don’t remember those days, or we’re part of it. Here’s what to expect.

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FOR THE YOUNGER PEOPLE, THAT WEREN’T AROUND FOR 2008

We’re had 10+ years of public cloud adoption
We’ve had 5+ years of microservices adoption (containers, Kubernetes, etc.)
We’ve seen Digital Transformation dominate the headlines

HOW WILL THE CONVERSATION AROUND TECH CHANGE?

We're seeing stories about moving back to Private Cloud
We're seeing stories that microservices are bad
We're seeing stories that Automation and Security spending will increase
We'll hear less and less about Digital Transformation
We'll hear about hiring slow downs, and some rationalization of salaries

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Observability for Machine Learning Jun 15, 2022

Alessya Visnjic (CEO, WhyLabs) talks about MLOps, the concept of ML Observability and why AI models can fail. Alyessa talks about the differences between data health and model health and why post production analysis of ML is so important.

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Topic 1 - Welcome Alessya! You are what is known in the AI/ML spaces as a veteran. For those who aren’t familiar with your previous work, how about a quick introduction and background.

Topic 2 - Give everyone a background in MLOps as it is still an emerging market. We are seeing an emerging trend of trust in data to train models. How did we get to this problem? Is this a transparency and observability problem once in production?

Topic 3 - How is model health different from data health? Post deployment of models can actually be a factor, things like data drift over time…

Topic 4 - What does a typical tool chain look like? Under the covers is this a logging platform to provide visibility into the model behavior to ensure accuracy over time? I would think every model is different, how do you “standardize/rationalize” the data to detect anomalies and incorrect results?

Topic 5 - Every new category of tools has leading use cases. Where are you seeing the most traction today and how can you best help practitioners?

Topic 6 - How can folks get started if they are interested?

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Visualizing the Cloud Jun 12, 2022

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

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 Jun 08, 2022

Miles Ward (@milesward, CTO @SADA) talks about managing the transition to public cloud, customer vs. provider responsibilities, and how to best leverage cloud provider innovations.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Dude, you’ve done some things. Tell us a little bit about your background at a few of these clouds that people have heard of.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about SADA. We’re really curious about the perspective of Google Cloud vs. AWS.

Topic 3 - Based on the revenue numbers, companies are using public cloud services a lot these days. The clouds seem great, because they take a lot of people’s plates. Do you think they realize who is actually responsible for their cloud deployments?

Topic 4 - Having build a number of best practices | well-architected designs, how do the cloud providers think about responsibility (let’s take security as an example) and how do they expect customers to take responsibility?

Topic 5 - What are the most common mistakes companies make in this shared responsibility model? What are the biggest gray areas?

Topic 6 - Let’s come back to Google Cloud. What are some of the cool things you’re able to uniquely do in Google Cloud that really add business value for your clients?

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Finding or Becoming a Mentor Jun 05, 2022

During uncertain times, many people seek the help of a mentor. On today’s show, we look at how to find a mentor, and how to consider being a mentor.

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HOW DOES THE MENTOR-MENTEE PROCESS WORK?

How to determine if you’re trying to find a job, or trying to find a mentor. And what does a good mentor-mentee relationship look like?

HOW TO FIND A MENTOR, HOW TO BE A MENTOR

Know if you’re job hunting or trying to find a mentor
Be visible in the community.
Define a scope of what you’re asking of the mentor
Come with ideas and potential solutions
Understand the time commitment needed for success

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CyberSecurity, Economics and Policy in 2022 Jun 01, 2022

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.

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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 May 29, 2022

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.

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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 May 25, 2022

Sam Lambert (@isamlambert, CEO @PlanetScaledata) talks about building a cloud-native SQL database from first principles, and how to eliminate the things people hate about database operations. This is cool stuff!

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SHOW NOTES:

PlanetScale - The Databases for Developers
Vitess - open source database
PlanetScale Rewind - Zero Downtime Reverts

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. In less than 10 years, you’ve had quite a career rise from “MySQL DBA” to some very high-profile roles. Tell us a little bit about your background, and where you focus now as CEO of PlanetScale.

Topic 2 - There have been an explosion of “Internet-scale” databases over the last 5 years. Where is the market today for these technologies?

Topic 3 - Scaling databases is difficult. Scaling them while still allowing compatibility with known skills is even harder. PlanetScale builds upon a project called Vitess. Walk us through the journey of how Vitress got started to where it is today.

Topic 4 - What do developers want to know about databases? What do they wish they could ignore or not worry about?

Topic 5 - In today’s world, what’s the right balance between what developers want and what’s needed under the covers (e.g. Ops, scaling, security, etc.) to make sure the data is always available? What are some of the quantum leaps that PlanetScale has taken to eliminate previous problems?

Topic 6 - What are some (customer) examples of things that PlanetScale does now that you wish you had in your previous DBA roles?

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Managing Thru Economic Donwturns May 22, 2022

As we wade into global economic uncertainty, let's look at what we can learn from previous (2001, 2008) economic downturns and how they impacted the tech industry.
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SHOW NOTES:

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM PAST ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE TECH INDUSTRY

LESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS

Get your finances in order
Make sure you're aligned to near-term business needs
Invest in yourself (health, family, learning, etc.)
Align with communities and mentors

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Running a Large-Scale SaaS Platform May 18, 2022

Danny Fields (CTO/EVP @Avalara) talks about operating large SaaS environments, customizations for customer demands, and transitioning from traditional software.

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SHOW NOTES:

Avalara - Tax Compliance Software for your industry
Danny Fields - EVP and CTO Engineering

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got a very broad background in engineering and leadership roles. Can you share with us a little bit of your evolution, and where you focus your time at Avalara?

Topic 2 - Give us a little bit of background on Avalara (SaaS for Tax Compliance), and a little bit of details on what it means to run a SaaS platform for such a complex product offering?

Topic 3 - You’ve been involved in a number of different SaaS platforms over the years. What are some of the biggest changes and challenges you face in running modern SaaS platforms today?

Topic 4 - Taxes are a very complex ecosystem, especially with all the variants around the world. How does a product team think about balancing the desire to deliver a consistent experience (SaaS operations) and customer demands for uniqueness?

Topic 5 - How do you think about balancing optimizations around Operations and taking advantage of all the new innovations happening in open-source, or from the cloud-providers, or just internal capabilities from your team?

Topic 6 - Any tips for anyone looking to get into SaaS operations, or transitions from traditional data center software delivery?

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Logging Governance and Sensitive Data May 15, 2022

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.

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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 May 11, 2022

Raman Sharma (@rasharm_, VP Product & Programs Marketing @DigitalOcean) talks about the evolution of Digital Ocean, the right tools for developers, and managing simplicity and scale.

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apply(conf) - May 18th & 19th, free virtual event!
Digital Ocean - The Developer Cloud

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Your career has followed a parallel path to the evolution of the cloud. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and especially your involvement with developers.

Topic 2 - It’s been a while since we last had DigitalOcean on the show. Before we dive into the technology stack, let’s talk about how DigitalOcean thinks about developer needs.

Topic 3 - Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Kubernetes, PaaS, Marketplace. Walk us through where DigitalOcean helps developers make it simple to use these primitives.

Topic 4 - What do developers ask you for next? Is it more capabilities, or different pricing, or something else to make their lives easier?

Topic 5 - What do your customer’s teams look like? Do they align to the primitives (e.g. cloud infrastructure teams), or is it more “you build it you run it”, or something else?

Topic 6 - Where are some of the areas where DigitalOcean is focused or sees new opportunities in 2022 and beyond?

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Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh May 08, 2022

In this new series, we’ll look at ways to explain complex technical topics. This week we’re looking at Service Mesh.

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HOW DOES A SERVICE MESH WORK? WHEN SHOULD YOU CONSIDER ONE?

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy.

LET’S EXPLAIN HOW SERVICE MESH WORKS.

We explain service mesh using a family household analogy, and how it changes over time. We relate this back to how an application evolves from a monolith to microservices.

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Cloud Marketplaces May 04, 2022

John Jahnke (CEO of @Tackleio) talks about the rise of Cloud Marketplaces, the evolution of B2B purchasing for cloud products, and the relationship between software vendors and cloud providers.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. And please give us a quick overview of Tackle.

Topic 2 - Everybody knows about the 100s of services that get announced by the major hyperscalers each year, but not as many people are aware that there’s more to the cloud than native services. Where do cloud marketplaces fit into the cloud ecosystem, and how have they evolved over the years?

Topic 3 - If we wanted to explain the value of a cloud marketplace to someone, what value does it provide to the various parties involved - the cloud, the marketplace owner, the software company using a marketplace, the customers using a marketplace?

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through the process of how a software company engages with a marketplace? Are they working to get their software into 3rd-party marketplaces, or building their own marketplaces, or something else?

Topic 5 - How do the Tackle marketplaces different from the AWS, Azure or GCP marketplaces?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to create a plan to leverage cloud marketplaces to better reach customers and specific markets?

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SLOs for Everyone May 01, 2022

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 Apr 27, 2022

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)
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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 Apr 24, 2022

Could you explain Twitter to a 5yr old? Some things are just difficult to explain, and this week we look at the challenges of trying to explain complex technical concepts to everyday people.

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Back to the Future of Twitter (Ben Thompson, Stratechery)

I GET HOW IT WORKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY DO?

Many of us use Twitter on a daily basis, but if you had to explain it to someone, could you explain what it is and what value it provides? Many of us are tasked with a similar challenge in trying to explain our day-to-day work.

EXPLAINING COMPLEX THINGS IS HARD. MAYBE THAT’S A SIGN THAT IT’S TOO TECHNICAL OR SHOULD BE BROKEN APART

What problem does something solve?
Who has that problem?
Does the problem need to be solved by a product or a platform?
Does the product align to one or many people’s jobs?
Does the platform align to one of many people’s jobs?
If it’s a platform, do the people with the problem want all of it?
Does the platform approach limit your ability to monetize it (e.g. too restrictive)?
Could you platform be valuable if it was broken up?

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DataCenter-as-a-Service Apr 20, 2022

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.

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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 Apr 17, 2022

Transitioning from a technical role to a “less” technical role can be scary. Let’s look at how you might evaluate a change, and some tips to succeed in the transition.

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I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATION

It’s completely normal to be concerned about losing your technical skills, the thing that has established your current value to your employer, if you transition to a more product or business-focused role.

HOW TO SUCCEED (OR AVOID FAILING) IN A TRANSITION

Your technical knowledge will still be extremely valuable.
Not all technical decisions are based on technology. Understanding economics, and business context, and flexibility options, and personalities involved are equally as important.
Understand what you’ll be building vs. managing. Is it stand-alone or part of something larger? What are the things you can influence and change?
Your people skills will be challenged, and rewarded.
Understand that you’re part of a large ecosystem of people that will determine your perceived success.
The choices of jobs expands when you’re closer to the people that use your technology.

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Database Caching as a Service Apr 13, 2022

Ben Hagan (@ben_hagan, Founder/CEO @polyScaleAI) talks about the challenges of database performance, distributed data and applications, and how caching-as-a-service can improve performance.
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Polyscale.ai - The Edge First Data Platform
Polyscale announces GA and Round-A of Funding

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re very much a data-centric person. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to found Polyscale?
Topic 2 - Before we dive into what Polyscale does, let’s talk about the problem that it solves for companies.
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about how Polyscale makes data-access faster, without having to rewrite a bunch of applications or databases. Help us understand things like placement, scaling, resiliency, etc.
Topic 4 - How much different will the experience be for an application-developer or DBA? How much visibility will be available to troubleshoot or make adjustments?
Topic 5 - How is Polyscale different from a CDN platform?
Topic 6 - What are some of the initial use-cases or problem areas where companies can take advantage of Polyscale capabilities?

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The Unexpected Pace of Technology Adoption Apr 10, 2022

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 Apr 06, 2022

William Collins (@@WCollins502, Principal Cloud Architect @AlkiraNet) talks about how to seamlessly build multi-cloud networks for any applications.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.
Topic 2 - Every survey that comes out says customers are going to be using multiple clouds for quite a while. Interconnecting all these services, either simply or in complex ways is now a reality. Walk us through how this challenge is typically approached?
Topic 3 - Walk us through the different options, from VPNs to SD-WAN to Cloud Interconnects. What are the pros/cons and trade-offs for companies?
Topic 4 - Has the COVID pandemic and all the remote work changed how companies network with the clouds? Are these expected to be temporary changes, or likely to remain long-term
Topic 5 - How does Alkira fit into the cloud networking picture? Does their approach to simplifying things help when companies are adopting things like DevSecOps, where networking might not be the primary focus?
Topic 6 - What are some ways that companies on their multi-cloud journey can benefit from simplified ways to enable security and inter-connections to the cloud?
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How DevOps is like Microsoft Excel Apr 03, 2022

DevOps mashes together two things, Dev and Ops. But in reality, it includes much more than that. But who owns DevOps? Does anyone use all of DevOps? And is DevOps a people, process or technology?

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WHEN DOES A TOOL STOP, AND A PROCESS BEGINS?

How would you define DevOps? Who owns DevOps?

MOST PEOPLE ONLY USE 30% OF THE FEATURES OF ANY TOOL

What happens if a company doesn’t go full DevOps?
What happens if a team, within a company, doesn’t go full DevOps?
Can there be more than one definition of DevOps within a company?
Is velocity the best measurement for DevOps?

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Automating Decisions, Processes and ML without Code Mar 30, 2022

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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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? Mar 27, 2022

Making changes to applications has always been difficult. DevOps and Microservices introduced new techniques to simplify that, but also introduced new challenges that can be difficult to manage. Should things be easier for Devs or Ops?

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Microservices: Why are we doing this? (Michael DeHaan)
Why developer freedom might be worth microservices headaches (Matt Asay)

DEVELOPERS WANT MORE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE AND MAKE CHANGES

Since the earliest days of PaaS, developers have wanted more freedom to choose how they build applications, and wanted less to distract them. But those trade-offs move the challenges of managing applications to different areas.

HAS DEVOPS FIGURED OUT HOW TO BALANCE THOSE TRADEOFFS PROPERLY?

PaaS platforms have challenges when the use-cases drift outside the guard-rails.
We can give developers freedom, but that often leads to silos or snowflakes.
We don’t need containers or immutable systems, but the alternatives can be prohibitively expensive or add security risks.
DevOps assumes that Devs and Ops can work together, but that assumes that individuals within teams all have the same goals, motivations and timelines.
Some technologies have emerged to fit into these new working models (e.g. Kubernetes, Service Mesh, etc.)
“If it’s 2pm on a Wednesday, and your team wants to roll out a new set of application features into production, how confident are you that the business won’t skip a beat?”

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Developing Multi-Cloud Skills Mar 23, 2022

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 Mar 20, 2022

There are transitional moments, often many, in your career when you just don’t think you can make the change. This week we look at the thought process of how to address those “don’t think I can” moments.

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Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, with Slash (podcast)

SOMETIMES HARD DECISIONS ARE HARD

There will be times in your life when you’d like to make a change, or take on a new skill or opportunity, but you tell yourself that you’ll never be able to do that.

THE JOURNEY IS OFTEN MORE INTERESTING THAN THE DESTINATION

At times it can seem like the new thing will take forever to learn, or that it’s too far out of reach. We talk about some examples of when changes happen, the thought process involved, and how to measure the next stage.

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Automating Crypto for Everyone Mar 16, 2022

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 Mar 13, 2022

We’re at an interesting crossroads. Technology is becoming more distributed, and yet the teams managing it are having to become more integrated. For successful companies, this is creating a different way to think about “platform” services.

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LOCATIONS, INFRASTRUCTURE AND APPLICATIONS ARE BECOMING MORE DISTRIBUTED

Data Center to Cloud. Zero-Trust Networks. Users (internal and external) are everywhere. Application Services are managed, or reached via an API.

WHAT DOES THE LAYER ABOVE INFRASTRUCTURE LOOK LIKE NOW?

We know that infrastructure is now “Cloud” and often managed by someone else, but what do we call the stuff about it? Some of it is Applications, some of it is Application-Services, and then there is a bunch of stuff that crosses boundaries between networking, security, API governance, application acceleration, etc..

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Managing the Business Impact of Data Quality Mar 09, 2022

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 Mar 06, 2022

Sometimes change happens fast, and sometimes change happens over a long period of time. Today’s show tries to put a few things in perspective around tech and non-tech change.

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WE WISH WE KNEW MORE ABOUT OUR AUDIENCE, AT A PERSONAL LEVEL

We have listeners from 130+ countries. Unfortunately podcast tools don’t give us individualized information about our audience. Over the last 5 weeks, we had 19 listeners from Ukraine. This past week, we had 0. We hope that they are all safe.

YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN A JOB WILL BE A GREAT JOB, GOOD JOB, OR BAD JOB

Over the years, Aaron and I have changed jobs within the tech industry several times. Sometimes we stayed for a little while and sometimes much longer. You never know how a specific job will be going into it, and sometimes it’s hard to have perspective on it while you’re in the job. The best you can hope for is a few great teams, or great projects, or working with great people, to offset that lots of things in tech don’t pan out like they are expected.

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Security Access as Code Mar 02, 2022

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? Feb 27, 2022

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 Feb 23, 2022

Kevin Hu (@kevinzenghu, Co-Founder | CEO at @Metaplane) talks about the concepts behind Data Observability and the unique challenges for Data Engineers.

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Metaplane (homepage)

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

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about the concept of what is a modern data engineer. What is this person doing, what are they responsible for, and who are their typical “customers” within a business.

Topic 3 - Beyond just huge volumes of data and trying to make the data usable (formatting, ETL, storage access, etc.), what sort of problems do data engineers encounter? How much is typically “first-party data” and how much comes from external systems?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about Data Observability. First off, what is it?. And second, how is it different from the Observability that we’ve seen from Datadog or Honeycomb or Observe or many others?

Topic 5 - What are the types of Data Observability problems that Metaplane is focused on solving for Data engineers? Are these usually done independently, or in collaboration with the application or business analyst teams?

Topic 6 - What are some of the immediate results (improvements) that companies see when adding Data Observability to their environments?

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DevOps, what's in a name? Feb 20, 2022

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 Feb 16, 2022

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 Feb 13, 2022

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 Feb 09, 2022

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 Feb 06, 2022

Our industry is fascinated with the origin stories of founders and the end of technology trends. In between, we seem fine with learning curves and technical debt.

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SHOW NOTES:

As Kubernetes matures, the Edge needs containment (The Next Platform)
Kubernetes Documentary - Part 1 (CNCF)
Kubernetes Documentary - Part 2 (CNCF)
41% drop in views for Serverless training (O’Reilly)

WHEN ONE TECHNOLOGY ENDS, DOES ANOTHER TAKE ITS PLACE?

During a recent interview, I was asked “How close to complete is Kubernetes?”. We also saw a survey saying that less people are interested in Serverless (knowledge/training). Kubernetes is far from complete, and Serverless was supposed to be the next thing.

WHY DO WE WORRY MORE ABOUT THE END OF A TECHNOLOGY AND LESS ABOUT TECHNICAL DEBT?

Is the technology media only interested in origin stories and ending stories?
Kubernetes is far from being complete, both as a project and the adjacencies around it. Why are we more interested in the end than in the middle (e.g. developer experience)?
Serverless was supposed to replace Kubernetes - why have we lost interest in Serverless?
Serverless didn’t have any “wars”, and it didn’t have any major startups or acquisitions (at least not yet)

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Building Cloud Services from Software Feb 02, 2022

Preeti Somal (@psomal, EVP Engineering @Hashicorp) talks about the evolution of Hashicorp Cloud Platform, creating cloud services from software projects, and the evolution of cloud SREs and SLAs.

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Hashicorp Cloud Platform (homepage)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re always excited to have women leaders on the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your focus areas at Hashicorp. Congrats on the UGA National Championship.
Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the Hashicorp Cloud Platform. We’ve covered Hashicorp software for years. How did HCP come about, and how has it changed how Hashicorp thinks about what you’re building (software vs. cloud services)?
Topic 3 - To create a cloud service out of an existing Hashicorp product (e.g. Terraform or Vault), does it just require creating an SRE team to run it, or do you have to rethink how the technologies are built and operated?
Topic 4 - How have Hashicorp customers adapted to consuming cloud services vs. running the software themselves? Sometimes the cloud services have to be more restrictive to deliver SLAs.
Topic 5 - Are you able to do anything unique in the cloud(s) that you couldn’t do as software products? Does multi-cloud provide any unique opportunities?
Topic 6 - Are you finding any new ways to interact with your communities now that Hashicorp is offering cloud services?

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After the Great Resignation Jan 30, 2022

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 Jan 26, 2022

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 Jan 23, 2022

We’re looking for some listener feedback on a new idea to help make it easier to learn about new technologies, and bring more new ideas into The Cloudcast community.

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CAN WE MAKE IT EASIER TO SHOW MORE TECHNOLOGY

We get 100s of requests to come on the podcast, but we struggle to find the best way to both highlight new technologies and fit them into 52 week in a year. So we'd like to try something new. #CloudcastDemos

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

It's often difficult to understand new companies and new technologies.
Demos are often times too much marketing, or don't answer the questions you have.
How can we make it easier to find the right technology for your business needs?
How can we find ways to expose more new technologies to our community, but also continue to be respectful of the valuable time of our audience?
Give us your feedback using #CloudcastDemos to @thecloudcastnet or show@thecloudcast.net

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2022 Look Ahead to web3 Jan 19, 2022

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 Jan 16, 2022

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jan 12, 2022

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jan 09, 2022

As we kick off 2022, it’s important to remember that behind all the interesting technology is people. And those people have been living under extraordinary circumstances going into their 3rd year.

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SHOW NOTES:

Software Defined Talk - Slack Channel

LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED, AND PEOPLE DON’T LOVE CHANGE

No matter where you are in life (or job), the New Year tends to make you self-reflect and re-prioritize the things that are important to you. And when this dynamic happens within teams, those two priorities don’t always align.

SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO PRIORITIZE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU

If you’re a team leader, remember to over communicate. Hallways don’t exist anymore, and Slack/Email threads often get ignored.
Take stock of where people are with regard to their priorities, their goals, and their frustrations.
Everything feels crazy these days in terms of recruiters and job offers and salary levels, but find a way to balance or evaluate “new, big!!” and what aligns to your goals.
Find ways to socially interact with people in fun ways.

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2022 Look Ahead, VC Funding Jan 05, 2022

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 Dec 26, 2021

As we wrap up 2021 and have some down time, here’s a list of things we’re reading to try and make sense of the big changes happening in cloud computing and around the web.

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SHOW NOTES - "FUTURE OF CLOUD COMPUTING" and "WEB 3 vs WEB2"
READING LISTS - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gjIUAnEhuudVm4t1MJ4dka7AqOPSng0pnUR4fOY25AQ/edit?usp=sharing

Other interesting Twitter Threads

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2021 in Review, 2022 Predictions Dec 22, 2021

Aaron (@aarondelp) and Brian (@bgracely) discuss the biggest trends from 2021, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2022.
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SHOW NOTES:
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 Dec 19, 2021

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 Dec 15, 2021

Gil Hoffer (@gilhoffer, Co-Founder / CTO @salto_io) talks about the challenges of managing and integrating SaaS applications, the blurring line between business and technical engineer, and software supply-chain for SaaS integrations.
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Salto (homepage)
Companies today have, on average, 800 SaaS applications
Salto (OSS code) - manage business applications by code

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have a broad background in engineering and entrepreneurship. Let’s talk about your background and what led you to create Salto.

Topic 2 - There is a big trend happening, where companies are using more and more technology outside of the “central IT” groups. This includes quite a bit of SaaS usage. But it also requires more than just vanilla SaaS. Let’s talk about this concept of a “business engineer”.

Topic 3 - How often do SaaS applications need customizations? How often does a business application require integrations across multiple SaaS services?

Topic 4 - Walk us through a day in the life of a business engineer, and what’s involved in some of the integrations? How much is being able to code, and how much

Topic 5 - Integrations can be complicated, not only to build, but also to maintain. How does Salto simplify the creation and life cycle of these integrations?

Topic 6 - Salto is available as OSS, software and SaaS. What seems to be the best usage model for certain use-cases or types of businesses?

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Thoughts on Cloud Outages Dec 12, 2021

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Dec 08, 2021

We review the new strategic directions of AWS under CEO Adam Selipsky, as well as major announcements from AWS re:Invent 2021.

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SHOW NOTES:

AWS re:Internet 2021 - What’s New
Top Announcements of AWS re:Invent 2021
“What’s New at AWS” on Twitter
The Official AWS Podcast: Keynote recaps each day and more
AWS OnAir: Livestreaming from the show floor

BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Private 5G
Managed WAN
Serverless Data Services
New Low-Code Development platform
Graviton v3
Mainframe Migration
IoT TwinMaker (digital twins)

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Lessons learned from Dell-VMware Dec 05, 2021

In 2015, Dell acquired EMC and VMware for a record-setting $67B. In 2021, Dell spun out VMware as an independent company. What lessons were learned?

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SHOW NOTES:

Dell offers $67B for EMC - 2015
Dell finalizes acquisition of EMC (and VMware) - 2016
3 Years Later, Was it Worth the Debt? (TechCrunch)
Dell’s Public Journey from Private Equity to VMware Share Swap (2018)
Dell spins out VMware - Dell (2021)
A New Day for VMware - VMware (2021)
EMC Revenues (2015-16)
Dell Revenues (2015-2021)
VMware Revenues (2015-2021)

WHAT WERE THE GOALS OF THE DELL ACQUISITION OF EMC?

Dell was trying to recover from having to go private in 2013. Wanted to consolidate the Enterprise infrastructure market. Wanted to have a one-stop-shop from desktop to enterprise infrastructure to security to applications to hybrid cloud.

WHAT VALUE DID DELL BRING TO VMWARE?

VMware - 26 acquisitions (2016-2021)
VMware grew revenues 66% (2016-2021), 11% annually
VMW shares grew from $70 to $118 (+68%)
Dell grew revenues from $50B to $94B (EMC revenues $25B)
VMware on AWS launched in 2016 - grown to around $3B business (26% revenues)
Michael Dell gets an A+ for financial engineering
Dell/EMC/VMware missed an opportunity to create an alternative to the Big3 cloud providers.

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See How Your Code Works Dec 01, 2021

Shanea Leven (@ShaneaLeven, Founder/CEO @CodeSeeio) talks about enabling development teams to better understand the complexities and interdependencies of their code throughout the lifecycle.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had an interesting background prior to CodeSee. Tell us a little bit about your journey, and what led you to create CodeSee.
Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about developer productivity and the types of things that create bottlenecks for teams. Help us understand where CodeSee fits into the flow of how applications are built and lifecycled.
Topic 3 - Teams change, teams grow, projects evolve over time. How does CodeSee help teams improve the learning curve of what’s in code and how to understand what came before them?
Topic 4 - Walk us through a day, or week, in the life of application teams that are working with CodeSee and without CodeSee. I’ve seen you use the term “Continuous Understanding” - what does that mean to you?
Topic 5 - Development teams have all sorts of tools in front of them. What are some of the interesting ways that CodeSee integrates with the other tools that are commonly put in front of them? GitHub recently called out a nice integration.
Topic 6 - We talk alot about developer productivity. How do you find companies measuring improvement when using CodeSee?

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Old Man Yells at the Metaverse Nov 28, 2021

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 Nov 24, 2021

Jim Walker (@jaymce, Principal Product Evangelist at @CockroachDB) talks about how serverless has moved from compute to backing data services, and focuses on improving application developer productivity.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention at Cockroach Labs. Give us a quick overview of CockroachDB.

Topic 2 - We’ve covered “Serverless” quite a bit on the show, mostly focused around compute services, but there seems to be a growing trend around serverless as it relates to data services. Can you give us some background on what’s driving these new capabilities?

Topic 3 - Implementations of Database-as-a-Service have been around for quite a while now. What’s new or different around service database offerings?

Topic 4 - CockroachDB is fairly unique in its ability to span locations (e.g. in essence be multi-cloud). Help us connect the dots between the core elements of CockroachDB, and where the new serverless capabilities enhance that (for an application, for a DB team, for an Operations team, etc.)

Topic 5 - What are some of the new use-cases that can potentially be unlocked with the new serverless offering?

Topic 6 - How do you expect the new serverless offering to change the way that application teams and operations teams interact with systems going forward?

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Being a Technical Product Marketer Nov 21, 2021

Many people ask us about technical product marketing - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful technical product marketer.

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HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETER

Is marketing just lies and double-speak? If a product or technology is great, does it even need marketing? These are the questions that people often ask themselves before exploring roles that have some aspect of “marketing” in their name.

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL TECHNICAL PRODUCT MARKETER

There are lots of different types of marketers - product-specific, go-to-market, regional, technical marketing, evangelist/advocate, etc.
There is value in lots of different skills around marketing - technical, speaking, writing, critical listening
The timeline of a marketer is somewhat different than a product manager. Both have to manage short and long-term. But marketing tends to be more focused on today’s problems/challenges/opportunities.
Marketers have to understand the technology, but also how to translate it to business problems and business value.
Marketers need to understand the difference between drills and holes.
The role of marketing has significantly changed in the last few years. We’ve moved from more directed marketing to more automated and data-driven marketing.

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Reviewing Microsoft Insight & GitHub Universe Nov 17, 2021

In October and November, Microsoft hosted the GitHub Universe and Ignite 2021 conferences, focused on Developers and Cloud Computing. We review the important announcements and analyze the future directions for Azure, GitHub, etc
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SHOW NOTES:

Azure - Bigger Announcements

Azure OpenAI Service - access to GPT-3
Azure Cognitive Service for Language
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure Managed Instance of Apache Cassandra
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Container Apps (preview)
Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes
(Java EE) Oracle Weblogic on Azure Kubernetes Service.
(Java EE) Websphere Liberty on Kubernetes/OpenShift
Enhancements to Azure DevOps (see GitHub)

GitHub - Bigger Announcements

Improved CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions
Improvements to GitHub Codespaces
Custom repository roles (security)
Improved “Issues” and “Discussions”

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Lessons from Hashicorp S1 Nov 14, 2021

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 Nov 10, 2021

Mike Rockwell (Global Head of Solutions @Megaport) talks about the evolution of Cloud connectivity, SD-WAN, SASE, and how Megaport is helping companies adapt to more needs for virtual edge networking.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways Megaport helps businesses connect to the cloud.

Topic 3 - Can you walk us through some of the various ways that businesses use to connect to the cloud and why they choose to use Megaport?

Topic 4 - Megaport recently launched a product named Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), which helps businesses connect branches to clouds within their SD-WAN and SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) solutions. You’ve announced some major partnerships with Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa. Tell us a little bit about MVE and these partnerships and how they’ll help customers.

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about modernizing their enterprise WAN - do they use MPLS, do they use SD-WAN, and what role does the cloud play in their network - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - Why do you think it’s so important for businesses to enable their SD-WAN or SASE solutions for multicloud? Tell us about a sample use case.

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How to Become a Product Manager Nov 07, 2021

Many people ask us about technical product management - the skills needed, the challenges, the career rewards - and how to work in those jobs. This week we explore what’s needed to be a successful product manager.

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HOW DOES SOMEONE BECOME A PRODUCT MANAGER

Many people in the tech industry believe that they know how to build a better mousetrap. But what does it really take to be a product manager? How is the job challenging, how is it difficult, and what does it take to be successful?

WHAT SKILLS ARE NEEDED TO BECOME A SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT MANAGER

Being a product manager means that you’re a crystal ball reader (predict the future), a technology expert, a business analyst, a salesperson, a great communicator, and an expert priorities manager.
Not all product managers are alike. It’s important to understand what part of the product (or all of the product) that you’re responsible for.
Cheap, feature-rich, or delivered quickly - pick any two.
You’re solving today’s problems and guessing about future problems, not always in that order.
You have to be a great communicator, even if you’re an introvert.
Are you going to work in an area where the company will be able to make your product successful?
You’ll make a lot of mistakes.
There is no end-game…..the game is always in motion.

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Networking the Hybrid Cloud Nov 03, 2021

Nick Davey (Sr. Product Manager, Cloud & SDN @JuniperNetworks) talks about the evolution of SDN networking for Kubernetes, cross-cluster and cross-cloud networking, and Tungsten Fabric.

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

Topic 2 - There’s lots of talk about Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud, but it’s often in the context of Kubernetes or an application running in multiple places. Let’s talk about how we interconnect clouds.

Topic 3 - How should we think about the networking interconnections between end-users, the service providers, and the public cloud providers?

Topic 4 - Help us understand the similarities and differences between the orchestration of workloads (e.g. containers and Kubernetes) and orchestration of networks (e.g. SDN, Contrail, etc.). Who needs to know about each system?

Topic 5 - How does this all evolve as things like Kubernetes, KubeVirt (VMs) extend out to the edge?

Topic 6 - What are some of the newer use-cases or application-types that are starting to push the need for new cloud networking technologies?

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Developer Platforms aren't Repeatable Oct 31, 2021

While developers are the new kingmakers, it’s rare that any two companies will use the same systems, the same platforms, or the same models to enable developers to be successful. Let’s explore why.

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The Developer Experience Gap (Remonk, 2020)
KubeConNA 2021 Key Takeaways
DevX Day KubeConNA 2021
Seed, Grow, Scale Developer Relations (PostHog)
CNCF Landscape (interactive map)

DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO TOOLS

Between open source tools, improved local hardware (laptops), online tutorials, free tiers, cloud-based tools, SaaS-based platforms and public repositories, there has never been a better time to be an application developer. Yet we still hear complaints about developer productivity, and developers feeling like too many things are in their path to success.

AND DEVELOPERS HAVE NEVER HAD MORE ACCESS TO PLATFORMS

In a perfect world, there would be a platform that would align to all of a developers needs and patterns, and make everything else “invisible”.
But platforms (by definition) have opinions, and limitations and have to eventually be maintained by someone (or groups).
Developers don’t like their tools to be dictated to them.
Developers don’t mind having access to too many tools, if they can somehow solve a problem, or a piece of a problem.
People aren’t staying in jobs long enough to really care about long-term technical debt, or the ramifications about their platform decisions.

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Real-life Digital Transformation in Banking Oct 27, 2021

Ken Meyer (EVP & CIO Consumer Technology at Truist Bank) talks about the 2yr transformation of Truist Bank (SunTrust and BB&T), managing multiple tech stacks, enabling a multi-cloud strategy, and internal communications and learnings.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking about your background, and the scope of the transformation you’ve been driving at Truist Bank.

Topic 2 - Beyond the merger of two large banks, how did you think about the business challenges that you were trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Walk us through how you tried to rationalize two technology stacks, and how you’ve been planning for a more cloud-centric future?

Topic 4 - Every transformation has to balance existing (“old”) and new. How did you work through priorities, leveraging new technologies, maintaining existing systems, learning curves, etc?

Topic 5 - Have you been able to create any unique ways to manage through the transition of so many technology stacks?

Topic 6 - How are you measuring progress, success, alignment to business goals, etc?

Topic 7 - How are you communicating the evolution to the teams, as well as management and stakeholders? Any lessons learned?

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Embrace Your Inner Maker Oct 24, 2021

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 Oct 20, 2021

Kevin Hoffman (@KevinHoffman, CTO at @Cosmonic_com, wasmCloud creator) talks about WebAssembly and wasmCloud, and how this new development paradigm can simplify application development.
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Cosmonic (homepage)
Webassembly (homepage)
wasmCloud (homepage)
Getting started with wasmCloud
The Webassembly stack (vs. containers, VMs)
Building a Containerless Future with WebAssembly
From Napkin to the Cloud - A Webassembly Journey
Programming Webassembly with Rust (Kevin Hoffman, new book)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to create wasmCloud.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about Webassembly. What is it (a language, a framework??), and what problems does it solve for developers?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about wasmCloud. Once you’ve built something leveraging Webassembly, how does it interact with wasmCloud?

Topic 4 - Everything in application development tends to be a progression from something prior. How did Webassembly evolve? Docker’s Solomon Hykes said that if wasm+wasi existed 7yrs ago, he never would have created Docker.

Topic 5 - Yesterday was WASM Day at Cloud Native Con. What were some of the highlights and focus areas?

Topic 6 - What are some of the early uses and usage patterns of Webassembly?

Topic 7 - What are some of the ways to get started with Webassembly and wasmCloud?

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Technical Debt isn't Free Oct 17, 2021

While many computing systems mirror systems in nature, one aspect that doesn’t is technical debt. The majority of spending is maintaining the existing systems, and yet very little attention is paid to how to reduce the on-going costs.

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IN NATURE, THE FALL BEGINS THE PROCESS OF RESETTING

In many parts of the world, Fall (or Autumn) gives us a last glimpse of the beauty of nature, but then it resets for another cycle of recuperation and regeneration. This is one of the aspects of nature that the tech industry doesn’t seem to emulate in their systems.

WE ACCEPT RESETS AND CHANGES ALL AROUND US, EXCEPT IN IT

Why don’t we create “life cycles” on commonly deployed systems?
Why don’t we prepare people for resets and “leap forwards” better?
Why isn’t there a part of our industry that attempts to innovate in this space, rather than just shift it to another party as “someone else’s problem”?
Why do we assume the same needs (support, uptime, etc.) of the technical debt as we do the new things we build to replace it?

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A New Distributed Cloud Architecture Oct 13, 2021

Jonathan Seelig (@j_seelig, Co-Founder/CEO of Ridge) talks about building the distributed cloud, remotely managing cloud resources, and the evolution of the edge.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and what led you to trying to create a new vision of “the cloud”.

Topic 2 - What types of problems exist with the current (mostly centralized) cloud architectures today? Or where are there new opportunities to rethink and introduce a new architecture?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the main concepts behind the Ridge architecture. How much does it borrow from your experience at Akamai, and how much of it is your team looking at the world differently?

Topic 4 - What are the core primitives of Ridge? How do companies engage with it?

Topic 5 - What are some of the near-term and long-term impacts that you expect companies would see in using the Ridge architecture vs. more centralized cloud architectures?

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Innovator's Dilemma Part 2 Oct 10, 2021

Part 2 (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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MAKING A MAJOR CHANGE IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT

Understanding the transition to cloud means understanding that almost everything about your technology stack and business stack will likely have to change, get re-invented, or built from scratch.

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE THROUGH THE TRANSITION

To build or to buy? Do you understand the scope of the problem, the velocity of change this creates,and how well you can actually execute?
How do you acquire, and how do you manage internal conflict?
What will the new technology stack look like? Are you using the same design principles? Are you using the same architects?
How does this impact your business? What backstops (“cash cows”) does your business have to prop up the new business?

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Evolutions in Security Monitoring Oct 06, 2021

Huxlee Barbee (@huxley_barbee, Head Security Prod Mktg @DataDogHQ) talks about the challenging odds of preventing security attacks, managing configuration mistakes, scaling security through monitoring, and security feedback loops in production.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days.

Topic 2 -According to many reports, configuration mistakes tend to lead to the most security breaches. Who is typically making the mistakes?

Topic 3 - Can you dig deeper on the dynamics between security on the one hand and developers and SRE engineers on the other hand?

Topic 4 - So what are some of the strategies and tactics for achieving optimum balance between these opposing interests?

Topic 5 - Should we think about platform (infra) security apart from workload (application) security?

Topic 6 - Can you talk to us about the differences between applying security to things that happen pre-production (e.g. CI/CD, software-supply chains) and things that happen in production?

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Innovator's Dilemma Part 1 Oct 03, 2021

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 Sep 29, 2021

Josh Stella (@joshstella, Founder/CEO of @FugueHQ) talks about the differences between cloud security and data center security, the value businesses place on security implementations, and enabling governance in the cloud.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a complicated world for security the last 12-18 months. Tell us a little bit about your background and the State of Cloud Security 2021 report.

Topic 2 - Between the SolarWinds hack, Microsoft database hack and daily breaches of 100M users, where are we with security these days? It seems as messy as ever, and yet it also seems like people aren’t that concerned anymore.

Topic 3 - Misconfiguration still seems to be a major issue. Isn’t Automation and Infra-as-Code and GitOps catching on? Policy-as-Code.

Topic 4 - We now have DevSecOps, which combines all these functions together. Who is ultimately responsible for Security?

Topic 5 - When companies move to the public cloud, they still have regulatory requirements. The cloud providers have “certifications” (e.g. SOC 2, NIST 800-53, GDPR, and HIPAA, so are they responsible now?

Topic 6 - How do we start matching the level of motivation the bad guys (hackers) have with the level of concern companies should have?

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Developing New Habits in COVID Sep 26, 2021

COVID has changed the world over the past two years. But how many of the technology changes we’ve made will remain, and which ones may revert back to pre-COVID standards?

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CLOUD GROWTH THROUGH GLOBAL PANDEMIC

This week I had a discussion about the amount of change that happened over the past 18-24 months and whether or not that's normal (across industries)?

WHAT STAYS, WHAT CHANGES, and WHY?

Not every company or industry reacted the same.
Companies established new norms around remote work. This will impact future hiring.
Companies adopted more remote-friendly technologies.
Many customers began using more public cloud services (out of necessity) and it worked fine. They likely won’t abandon these technology choices.
Companies are focused on how to adjust to these new normals, so they’ll prioritize things that work (in the short-term)
Will this be a boom for people getting new cloud certifications?
Will companies eventually do cost-cutting on cloud spending, since it was “just do it!” last year?
Will this create the new “bi-modal” IT?

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Managing Tech Burnout Sep 22, 2021

Michael Cucchi (VP of Product @PagerDuty) talks about the challenges of increased hours, more frequent incident responses and overall tech burnout as a result of the 2020-21 pandemic.
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PagerDuty (homepage)
State of Digital Operations report (PagerDuty)

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

Topic 2 - PagerDuty recently published the 2021 State of Digital Operations report. What were some of the high-level takeaways?

Topic 3 - Obviously the pandemic has disrupted where people work for the last 18 months. But what are some of the other factors that are causing so much disruption for Operations teams?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing the number of critical incidents per month increase (average 105/month). Do you think that’s more a factor of companies having to change so much so quickly, or technical debts just continue to accumulate and the overall foundation is less stable?

Topic 5 - There are tools (ChatOps) that are augmenting how we collaborate, but do you think the lack of face-to-face interactions between teams is causing some of the increased challenges we’ve seen this past year?

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks that you can give to Operations teams that are trying to manage this increased workload and may be struggling to keep up, or find the right balance between life and work?

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The Evolution of MongoDB Sep 19, 2021

The transition of @MongoDB from an open source project to commercially successful public company to cloud provider has been an interesting transition. One that many other software companies are looking to emulate.

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FROM OPEN TO COMMERCIAL TO IPO TO CLOUD

Many software companies are trying to make the evolution from customer-operated to cloud-operated business models. MongoDB is an early lighthouse is showing the blueprint for success.

CHANGING (OR GROWING NEW) MARKETS IS VERY DIFFICULT

Solve a technical problem
Create a unique value proposition (simplicity)
[Marketing] Create (and lead) a growing community of users - via open source
[Monetization] Create open-core features to differentiate and solve unique problems
[New GTM, New Markets] Evolve the product to new delivery models
Grow into new markets, through different customer engagement models

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Remotely Managing All The Things Sep 15, 2021

Ev Kontsevoy (@kontsevoy, Cofounder/CEO @GoTeleport) talks about the state of the art in remote management, especially for Kubernetes environments, and how Teleport simplifies security for remote access.

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Teleport (homepage)
Teleport raises $30M in new funding (Aug 2021)
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to create Teleport.
Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dive into Teleport, but we’d like to learn a little bit about the evolution of the company, as it didn’t begin as Teleport.
Topic 3 - For better or for worse, we now work in a very distributed world. Between workers being everywhere, and applications being both on-premises and in the public cloud, what sort of remote management challenges does this create?
Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, how does Teleport work?
Topic 5 - Teleport is made up of access to Servers, Kubernetes, Applications and Databases. How much does remote access change based on the target, or the team/person accessing it?
Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that Teleport makes things easier to manage remotely?

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Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit Sep 12, 2021

There’s been quite a bit of debate recently on whether or not to stay in a role, look around for something new, or just quit tech all together. What’s the right choice? Let’s explore some options and strategies.

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THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED A LOT OF PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE

Remote work; lots of job prospects, and some new perspective on life has many people considering alternatives to their current situation.

SO SHOULD YOU STAY, LOOK FOR SOMETHING NEW, OR QUIT ALTOGETHER?

When to Stay

You enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
You’re learning and you see a path for growth or upward mobility
You or your family need the work (healthcare, location, stability, etc.)

When to Look Around

You’re underpaid or don’t have an upward mobility path
You want to make a change, and can’t do it within your company
You no longer enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
A great (outside) opportunity is presented to you

When to consider quitting (usually as a last resort)

You’re in a dangerous or harmful situation
You just can’t find any passion in it
You have an alternative way to support yourself (and your family)

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Backing Up into the Cloud Sep 08, 2021

David Hill (@davidhill_co, Product Strategy, Office CTO) and Sam Nicholls (Public Cloud Principle) @Veeam talk about the evolution of managing data in the cloud, and backup and security strategies.

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Veeam (homepage)
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds.

Topic 2 - We live in a world of software, and clouds, and ransomware attacks and security threats and frequent changes to applications. Let’s start by talking about the big picture of what backup looks like these days.

Topic 3 - In a world that’s becoming increasingly more DevOps-centric, who now owns all of the elements around backups (testing plans, compliance, retention and cost-mgmt, etc.)

Topic 3a - What are some of the unique things Veeam does to make things simpler for those teams?

Topic 4 - We used to live in a world of redundant, cold hardware in a remote facility, and truck rolls to Iron Mountain, and manual steps. What has public cloud and automation done to the backup landscape?

Topic 5 - How does the economics change now that public cloud is such a critical piece of backup strategies? (saving data, faster recovery times, agility, etc.)

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Clouds, Chaos and Change Sep 05, 2021

The next 12-18 months are going to be all about changes, chaos and a three-ring circus between the major cloud providers. The status quo is likely going to change, as plenty of new names and faces, and big money, try to steer these giant ships.

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Castles in the Cloud (Greylock VC)
Rising Tension between AWS and Partners (Business Insider)
Microsoft hired ex-AWS executive Charlie Bell

ARE THE BIG CLOUDS TOO BIG TO DISRUPT?

It’s very difficult to sustain success in business, especially in highly competitive markets. And the market dynamics of today are ripe for change.

HOW DOES CHANGE HAPPEN FOR THE MARKET LEADERS

Leadership changes at the top.
Growth expectations exceed the company’s ability to scale growth.
The people that lead the original growth leave the company.
The people that backfill don’t have the same skills or mindset to succeed at the same level.
Competitors start to find new pressure points.
Companies move from products to solutions as the market evolves from early-adopters to mainstream and laggards.
Big money makes people make big decisions (outside your company) - going to “change the world”

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We’ve All Become The Cloudcast Sep 01, 2021

Aaron and Brian discuss how the on-going pandemic is creating a permanent habit of working remotely, and the challenges of trying to learn technology with less free time.

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Topic 1 - Origin story of The Cloudcast (brief)

Topic 2 - It’s now been 529 days since the world shut down (in the US). How many Zoom calls have you attended in that time?

Topic 3 - “It can take anywhere from 18 to 254 days for a person to form a new habit and an average of 66 days for a new behavior to become automatic.” What new, work-related habits have you formed?

Topic 4 - How do you expect people to keep up with new technologies?

Topic 5 - We’re at a weird stage, where lots of people say that they want to work-from-home (full or part-time), for various reasons (e.g. avoid commutes, cube-mates chews too loud, etc.), but also claim to be more burned out. Do you think people will take the time to learn new stuff?

Topic 6 - Has the pandemic changed anything about how you’re effective? Do you think it’ll be permanent, or do you still have the “we’ll get back to normal” mindset?

Topic 7 - Any tips or tricks to be an effective remote worker and tech leader?

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What does Security even mean anymore Aug 29, 2021

Security has been in the news quite a bit lately, both for failures and funding. But does security even matter anymore? Nobody knows.

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Coverage of recent Security commitments from Cloud Providers
2021 Top Security Breaches (Part I, Part II)
The State of Cloud Security Report (2021)
Microsoft warns thousands of cloud customers of exposed databases

DOES ANYONE ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT SECURITY?

“This is the worst cloud vulnerability you can imagine.”

WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR BEING BAD AT SECURITY?

The State of Cloud Security 2021 Report highlights several alarming facts, including:

36% of companies suffered a serious cloud data leak or breach in the past 12 months
8 out of 10 are worried that they’re vulnerable to a major misconfiguration breach
64% say the problem will get worse or stay the same

Every company makes security a massive part of every purchasing decision. And yet the market doesn’t seem to do anything when a massive breach happens. How is this still the state of security?

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Hiring a VP of Engineering Aug 25, 2021

Jason Warner (@jasoncwarner, MD @redpointvc), a veteran of GitHub, Heroku and Canonical, talks about the process and challenges of hiring a VP of Engineering.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background prior to Redpoint VC and what you’re now focused on in the VC world.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with “Why do you need to hire a VP of Engineering?” When does it matter as an early-stage startup, and why does it matter when a company is larger? {high leverage}

Topic 3 - What are you looking for in that hire? What is your process for creating a potential list of candidates? What criteria are most important for you to evaluate? {curve bender}

Topic 4 - We hear a lot about “engineering interviews” (technical). How much of that is involved in your hiring process, and how are you measuring the other disciplines that are needed for this role?

Topic 5 - If you’re hiring from the outside, how much do you involve the engineering and product teams, and how do you think about the value of internal-knowledge vs. external-knowledge?

Topic 6 - Once you identify the candidate, what steps do you take to encourage early success? How do you measure on-going activities?

Topic 7 - What advice do you have for people that are interviewing for these roles?
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The End of the Cloud Honeymoon Aug 22, 2021

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 Aug 18, 2021

Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg, CEO at @vercel) talks about simplifying life for front-end developers, the Next.js JavaScript framework, and the balance between great developers, great teams and great collaboration.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as a developer and entrepreneur. How did you eventually get to be leading Vercel?

Topic 2 - Vercel is a platform that’s designed to make life better for front-end developers. As a developer, how do you get in the head of what other developers want and need?

Topic 3 - With so many choices of languages, frameworks, clouds, etc., what do you find are the most important things about your platform to focus on?

Topic 4 - Is the goal to create great developers, or great collaborative environments, or do you primarily focus on the end result (e.g. great websites) and work backwards?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Next.js and why it’s grown in popularity with developers.

Topic 6 - What are some of the areas that are evolving or exciting for front-end developers over the next couple years?

Looking for a new Cloud job Aug 15, 2021

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:

Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification.

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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 Aug 11, 2021

Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, CTO @Swim) talks about how to understand the new business models and application uses of data capture and analytics at the edge.

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Swim.ai (homepage)
The Cloudcast #344 - Bringing AI to the Edge

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Former founder of XenSource and Bromium, now the CTO at Swim. You’ve always been at the forefront of solving complex challenges, so where is your focus these days?

Topic 2 - We’ve been covering “real-time” with a number of guests this year, but we don’t always connect the technology to the business outcomes. Where are we today, as an industry, of connecting this more fast-moving data with our ability to understand it in the context of business?

Topic 3 - As you’re seeing real-time data and persistent data mixed together, how are those teams organized for success (or failure)?

Topic 4 - What are some of the common misperceptions that you see about how to best handle either data at the edge, or streaming data?

Topic 5 - Swim is helping companies create real-time representations of their environments. What are some of the unique capabilities that you’ve seen this enable for companies?

Topic 6 - How are some of the most important things that companies can do to enable the opportunity with real-time data?

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The Cost of App Modernization Aug 08, 2021

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 Aug 04, 2021

James Labocki (@jameslabocki, Sr. Dir. Product Mgmt @RedHat) talks about Application Modernization and Migrations, the Konveyor OSS community, and moving apps towards cloud-native.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on Application Modernization?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of Application Modernization and Migration. How do companies think about it, rationalize it, and ultimately act on it?

Topic 3 - There are many ways to modernize applications. Let’s talk about the Konveyor community and the associated projects.

Topic 4 - Walk us through some of the experiences you’ve seen or heard from companies going through these migrations.

Topic 5 - What are some of the lessons learned over the past year of focusing on this?

Topic 6 - How can people get engaged with the Konveyor community?

The Surge in Tech VC Funding Aug 01, 2021

VC investment has been skyrocketing lately, but why? Let’s discuss some of the trends that are driving bigger investments in today’s startups.

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WHEN AN A-ROUND IS THE NEW C-ROUND

Why is so much money being invested by VCs over the last 12 months, and what trends are pushing them to make bigger bets?

LET’S FOLLOW THE MONEY AND THE NUMBERS

Global interest rates are very low, since 2017, accelerated by the COVID pandemic
Tons of government money was pumped into the global economy
Tech is consolidating around 3-5 major cloud providers, with massive tech amounts of capital and engineering.
There is really no longer a middle ground in the tech industry. There are startups and there are the big clouds.
Cloud providers make some acquisitions, but they need big numbers to move the needle.
Today’s technology challenges are large in scale - AI/ML, Self-Driving Vehicles, Genetic Testing (Vaccines, Pharmaceuticals) 5G, Energy Discovery and Optimization, Everything Delivery, etc.
The stock markets are continuing to reward tech profits, and markets are overly weighted in tech.
Cloud and SaaS has changed the sales and marketing model, as well as the CAPEX/OPEX model, so new companies can be modeled more consistently

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Digging into GitOps Jul 28, 2021

Christian Hernandez (Sr.Principal Tech Mktg Mgr @RedHat) talks about how GitOps works, it's relationship with DevOps, how it's implemented, and applying it to Infra and Apps.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you got focused on GitOps?

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the basics of GitOps. What is it, and what problems is it trying to solve?

Topic 3 - Let’s walk through a day in the life of how GitOps is actually used? Is it infrastructure specific, or can it also be used for applications, security, etc.?

Topic 4 - What are some of the common ways that companies get started using GitOps? Do they typically have to create a GitOps team, or is it an extension of existing groups/skills?

Topic 5 - Is GitOps specific to a certain technology (e.g. Kubernetes) or a specific type of application (e.g. 12-factor), or can it be applied to a wider set of technologies?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best resources you’ve found for getting started or being successful with GitOps?
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The Boss Says We're an Innovation Company Now Jul 25, 2021

Your leadership states that you’re no longer in an <xyz> company, but instead you’re now an innovation company. How will that transition play out over the next few years?

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SO THE BOSS DECIDES THAT YOU’RE AN INNOVATION COMPANY

For large companies, how do you manage a major transformation, which extends across both technology and culture?

WHAT WORKS, WHAT BREAKS, WHO STAYS and WHO LEAVES?

Airlines are fearful of video conferencing
Streaming companies are fearful of gaming companies
Automotive companies are about technology more than horsepower
When farm equipment companies become farmer data companies?

Gracely’s Theorem #2 - Digital Transformation is drawing a straight line between your company and your customers, via the Internet.

Who and What gets left out?
What gets prioritized?
Who is your competition?

What timelines have been communicated to the market, partners, stakeholders, customers?
What are the initial focus areas?
How do you plan to measure success?
What will be the wins in the first 3 months, 6 months and 12 months?
1. Do you understand the importance of communicating these wins?
How willing are you to ask for help, accept help, and pay for help?

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Identity Management for Developers Jul 21, 2021

John Pritchard (@indiapeloale, VP of Product & DevEcosystem @Okta) talks developer concerns with authentication and identity, and how to manage 3rd-party integrations and cloud services.

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Okta (homepage)
Outsourcing Identity Management for Busy Developers (The New Stack)

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

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the breadth of ways that Okta can now secure things for companies, applications, and developers. How do the pieces from Okta and (previously Auth0) fit together?

Topic 3 - As an application developer, where and when do I need to think about identity and authentication, and when is it a function of the infrastructure?

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through some common access and application patterns, so we have a better understanding of how many places that authentication, identity, access-mgmt come into play?

Topic 5 - From a bigger picture perspective, how do companies think about ownership and operations of these functional areas - do they own it, do they offload it to the cloud - what considerations do they need to make?

Topic 6 - How do developers typically engage with your teams and products/services? Do they need to be security experts first, or do you guide them through what to own and how Okta can offload core elements?

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Comparing Public and Private Cloud Costs Jul 18, 2021

Comparing cloud costs between different environments can be complicated. Let’s look at the different factors that should be considered when comparing costs between clouds.

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IS IT POSSIBLE TO COMPARE COSTS ACROSS CLOUDS?

A listener was asking for some guidance on how to build some tools to help them compare costs across clouds.

COMPARING COSTS IS VERY COMPLICATED, BECAUSE THE USE-CASES VARY SO MUCH.

Not going to provide a definitive price/amount
Not going to focus on cloud migration costs

Things to Consider:

How long will a project use the resources? (short-term vs. long-term)
How much will the project scale/grow, up or down? How frequently will it change?
How complex is your project/application? How many components are involved?
Are these centralized, shared resources or will they be used on a per-project basis?
How do you currently account for costs? What’s included? What’s not (typically) accounted for? (e.g. centralized services)
Do you have the ability to do various types of accounting for costs? (time, capacity, longer contracts, all-you-can-eat, etc.)?
How is networking accounted for? (traffic, traffic flows, speed, ports, volume, etc.)
How is the data center accounted for?
Is a free-tier part of the expectation? Is a POC or Trial part of the expectation?
Can your project be connected to the public internet? Can you provide usage metrics to external groups?

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State of Containers in the Public Cloud Jul 14, 2021

Michael Gerstenhaber (@mikezvi, Sr.Director Prod Mgmt @Datadog) talks about the public cloud container usage, the evolution of Kubernetes adoption, application usage patterns and what's next.

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Datadog's Container Report: 11 Facts About Real-World Container Use

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your transition from engineer to product manager.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk out container usage in the public cloud. Beyond the rapid pace of growth/usage, what trends are you following the most closely?

Topic 3 - What are some of the unique things that you have to do to monitor container usage, or provide unique data insights to containerized applications?

Topic 4 - We were surprised that only 50% of container usage is associated with Kubernetes. It’s been the de facto standard for the past several years. What else is orchestrating containers, or is it lots of one-off containers?

Topic 5 - Large clusters are dominated by large nodes. That seems somewhat counter-intuitive. What do you think drives this pattern?

Topic 6 - Lots of users are running older versions of Kubernetes. The CNCF has moved back to 3 releases a year. Do you expect that we’ll see longer life cycles supported in the future?

Topic 7 - Since the report was released, are you beginning to see any new trends that people should be keeping an eye on?

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The Transformation of Microsoft Jul 11, 2021

Since Satya Nadella became CEO in 2014, the transformation of Microsoft has been incredible. Let’s explore how he evolved the company from many previously missed opportunities.

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AREAS OF STRUGGLE FOR MICROSOFT pre-2014

Social Networking
Search
Mobile
Streaming Video
Mac vs. Windows

AREAS OF TRANSFORMATION UNDER SATYA NADELLA (since 2014)

Windows to OS Agnostic
Software company to Cloud computing company
Embrace Open Source Software
Gaming
Refocus on modern developers (VSCode, GitHub, OSS, etc.)
Microsoft Xbox and Surface (hardware)
Cybersecurity for the Internet
Not competing with customers and ecosystem
Collaboration systems

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Teach the Geeks to Speak Jul 07, 2021

Neil Thompson (@teachthegeek, Teach the Geek) talks about educating geeks and engineers in all fields of STEM about how to become a better communicator, storyteller and influencer.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Today we’re going to teach our audience some valuable skills. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about the intersection of geeks and how they communicate. In what ways do they feel comfortable communicating vs. uncomfortable communicating?

Topic 3 - We find that oftentimes geeks will focus more on their technical skills early in their career, and only later in their career do they recognize the importance of a broad set of communication skills. Do you find this to be a common pattern?

Topic 4 - What are some tips, tricks and ways to get better at communication? Which modes of communication (written, oral, story-telling, influence) are the most important?

Topic 5 - What are some ways that geeks can get the practice or experience needed to improve their communications?

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GitHub CoPilot, AWS Infinidash and the New Hotness Jul 04, 2021

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 Jun 30, 2021

Sanjiva Weerawarana (@sanjiva, CEO of @wso2) talks about the intersection of low-code and business applications, the Ballerina language, and the WSO2 iPaaS platform Choreo.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background as an inventor, prior to founding WSO2.

Topic 2 - We are at a stage where every business opportunity requires new applications, and every application requires integration with multiple systems. Let’s begin by talking about your philosophy behind the Choreo iPaaS platform.

Topic 3 - How do you view the intersection between low-code visual coding and the needs to get under the hood of the code for professional developers?

Topic 4 - What are some of the common application-types or usage-patterns you’re seeing with early users of Choreo? What are some of the patterns that have surprised you?

Topic 5 - Organizationally, do you see the iPaaS platform as being operated by an integrated team, or did you design it to be flexible about which teams/groups are engaged with or around the platform?

Topic 6 - There is quite a bit of intelligence and self-service built into the platform. Where do AI-driven guidance and self-service marketplaces fit into the way developers do their day-to-day jobs?

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Listener Mailbag Questions Jun 27, 2021

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 show@thecloudcast.net

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 Jun 23, 2021

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 Jun 20, 2021

A common question we often hear is, “How to improve our adoption rate of new technology?”

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WHY DO WE HAVE ALL THESE IN-THE-MIDDLE JOBS?

DevRel, Advocates, Evangelists, Strategists. We’ve all heard about these job titles, but what do people in those roles actually do? And are they necessary?

WHAT DO DEVREL, ADVOCATES, EVANGELISTS, TECHNICAL MARKETERS, STRATEGISTS DO, AND DO WE ACTUALLY NEED THEM?

Every project, every market, every new technology has both short-term and long-term goals. Companies need to find a way to balance both goals.
Successful teams, in every industry, have excellent in-between people.
In-between roles are a great way to learn the business, and build varied career paths. They usually aren’t career paths on their own. Many people don’t understand this.
DevRel / Advocate / Evangelist
Technical Marketing
Strategy

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Automated Data Labeling for AI Apps Jun 16, 2021

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 Jun 13, 2021

For more than 10 years we’re interviewed the people that changed the tech world. What are some tips and tricks to identify which trends emerge, survive and fail?

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IDENTIFYING TRENDS TO HIGHLIGHT ON THE PODCAST

522 shows, 57 companies acquired, $4.9B in VC funding, $58B in Acquisitions/IPOs
Track Record of Founding Team, Macro Trends, Societal Trends

VC TRENDS vs. TECHNOLOGY TRENDS vs. CUSTOMER BUYING TRENDS

There is a very long lifecycle between university research vs. early VC investments vs. early technology trends vs. customer buying trends. Often 10-20 years.
Gracely’s Theorem: “There are very few truly new ideas, rather there are mostly advancements because of improved CPUs and Networking speeds.”
The Platform vs. Feature test: A baseline platform or higher-level platform?
The Bed, Bath & Beyond test: Is it more than 50% cheaper than previous generations?
The Friction test: Does it remove significant barriers to previous generations?
The Don’t Fight a Land War in Asia test: Is it trying to be too many things to too many people?
The Follow-the-Money test: How do companies around this technology make money? Does the ecosystem make money? Are there adjacent paths to monetization?
The Culture Change test: People don’t like change, especially for change’s sake. Changing culture is one of the hardest things to do at most companies.
The Re-Education test: How much of a learning curve is required to make this technology successful?

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Building Private 5G Networks Jun 09, 2021

Rob Parsons (Practice Director, Network and Integrated Security, Insight Enterprises) talks about advances in edge computing, connections to edge using 5G, and CBRS (Citizens Broadband Radio Service) as an emerging use case.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s focus, tell us about your background and how you’ve come to focus on CBRS.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the basics of CBRS. What are the underlying technologies, how does it work?

Topic 3 - What are some of the most common use-cases for CBRS technologies? What are some of the problems it solves that can’t be solved with 5G/LTE or WiFi?

Topic 4 - What are some of the design considerations that companies need to make in deploying and maintaining CBRS systems?

Topic 5 - Is there an ecosystem of applications that are specifically built to run on CBRS systems, or are they more specific to the use-case (e.g. municipalities, manufacturing, etc.)?

Topic 6 - How much of a learning curve does CBRS present to teams that have networking and security background?

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Repatriation and Cloud Cost Management Jun 06, 2021

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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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 Jun 02, 2021

Gary Hoberman (@GaryHoberman, Founder / CEO of @Unqork) talks about No Code vs. Low Code, Bringing No Code into the Enterprise, and evolving industry experience.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into today’s topic, let’s talk about your background and what motivated you to found Unqork.

Topic 2 - There are a ton of ways that some technologies get positioned as silver bullets or catch-all. First of all, how do you think about this space from the perspective of a business user?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the distinction between “low-code” and “no-code” and how the tradeoffs or differences actually impact users of the system.

Topic 4 - With systems like these, there is an expectation that the system has quite a bit of knowledge, which creates these “highly opinionated” workflows. You’ve worked at large companies, which also have opinions based on existing culture or experience. How do you work groups through adopting these newer concepts?

Topic 5 - This segment of the market is extremely “hyped” at this stage, with lots of companies. Help us understand how to put a frame around understanding the various options that are available in the market.

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The State of Serverless May 26, 2021

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 May 23, 2021

The tradeoff between building more features on existing platforms vs. building more new individual services is always a complex decision. Let’s look at the pros and cons of each.

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PLATFORMS vs. SERVICES vs. INCREMENTAL CHANGE

Platforms deliver a broad set of horizontal or vertical services
Services tend to be focused on individual capabilities
Features can be added to either, but where to add the feature?
Services could be built on top of each other, but then is it a feature or a service?

DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO MAINTAIN A SERVICE FOREVER?

Should you ever deprecate a service (e.g. turn it off, not be backwards compatible)?
Can you leave the service “on” if nobody is using it?
When do you decide to build a new service instead of just extending or improving another one?
Do you have to create tools to migrate from one service to another?
Do you have to create interoperability from one service to another?
At what point have you added too many features to a platform (or service) to where the market (or internal customers) think that it’s too heavy - even when features don’t have to be used?

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Serverless Trends within AWS May 19, 2021

Julian Wood (@julian_wood, Sr. Developer Advocate @AWSCloud) talks about the evolution of serverless from niche to mainstream applications, and how the technology stack has evolved to a broad set of use-cases.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Serverless, let’s talk about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin with “What is Serverless at AWS in 2021?” Sometimes it’s Lambda, sometimes it's a database, sometimes it's a CDN edge service. When is it App-Centric and when is it NoOps-centric?

Topic 3 - AWS Lambda has expanded in functionality quite a bit over the years. Walk us through how it’s evolved across languages, event-sources, functions vs. containers, etc.

Topic 4 - How do you think about Serverless use-cases? What are common usage patterns?

Topic 5 - For a while, Lambda was mostly focused within the AWS ecosystem. Is it expanding to include 3rd-party services, or custom-built tools from customers/companies?

Topic 6 - We’ve done a couple recent shows about event-driven applications. I tend to think about Serverless (or FaaS) as mostly event-driven apps. How is that space evolving?

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Technology never has an off-season May 16, 2021

Technology never stops evolving. But people needs breaks to recharge, re-evaluate and re-establish goals. So how can we balance the two?

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WHY DOESN’T THE TECH-INDUSTRY HAVE AN OFF-SEASON?

It’s a business, and businesses tend to stay open
It’s an industry that expects growth, and growth requires new things (usually)

HOW TO MANAGE THE LACK OF AN OFF-SEASON

Nobody can go 24x7x365 year after year. Take care of your health.
Allow yourself to ignore some aspects of the tech industry. You don’t need to know everything.
Creating a framework for determining if something new is worth your time exploring.
Always have a side project where you are learning something. This could be adjacent to your work, or something completely different.
Begin to measure something that you’ve ignored, or never measured before. Find a way to improve it.
Find a way to take back some time in your life. You can automate something, drop something, change something, etc.
Find time to reconnect with people - mentors, groups,

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ksqlDB Database for Streaming Events May 12, 2021

Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis, Product Manager @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of Kafka, the challenges of data management with event-driven systems, and the ksqlDB Database.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into this new database, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s first talk about Kafka. What is it,. what does it do, and what are common use-cases that use Kafka?

Topic 3 - Kafka handles all these streams of data / events, but there are a bunch of other pieces needed to connect the data to the applications. What are those pieces, and where are their often challenges?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about this new project - ksqlDB. It’s real-time, it’s Kafka and it’s SQL. Walk us through how it was created and the types of challenges it solves for.

Topic 5 - How is ksqlDB different from using other SQL databases?

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial ways that you’re seeing ksqlDB being used? Is it beginning to allow new use-cases to emerge?

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Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition May 09, 2021

In honor of International Mother's Day, we focus today's show on the lessons learned from moms, and how they can impact and influence your life in tech (and beyond). Don't forget to call you mom.
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Mother’s Day

LESSONS LEARNED FROM MOMS

Moms want to get you started on the right path
Moms want you to look presentable
Be able to explain things to your mom
Sometimes moms just want to help
Don’t forget to call your mom

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Running Databases on Kubernetes May 05, 2021

Anil Kumar (@anilkumar1129, Director of Product Mgmt @Couchbase) talks about how Kubernetes has evolved to support stateful applications, enabling Couchbase to run on Kubernetes, the advantages of Operators, and NoSQL adoption models.

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Topic 2 - Kubernetes started with a focus on “cloud-native apps”, then it became a blurring of infrastructure. How does Couchbase see the market evolving around Kubernetes, especially as a stateful service?

Topic 3 - There is frequently a debate about whether or not to run data services on Kubernetes, or run them off-cluster. How does Couchbase view this, and what are some things that Kubernetes does to improve how Couchbase runs?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about some of the common use-cases you’re seeing for Couchbase, whether it’s on Kubernetes, or in the cloud, or out at the Edge.

Topic 5 - Do you see any multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud use-cases where Couchbase is a good fit, or is it too difficult to span databases across clouds?

Topic 6 - What areas around Kubernetes do you see evolving to help use-cases for Couchbase (i.e. other CNCF projects, etc.)?

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Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough? May 02, 2021

Public cloud is expected to grow 23% (overall) in 2021. Is that a fast enough pace of growth, or are there still significant barriers to adoption and faster growth?
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IS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY?

Q1 2021 vs. Q4 2020: AWS (+30%), Azure (+23%), GCP (+46%)
Growing faster than On-Premise, Existing IT (8.4%)

WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER?

Data Gravity - Moving data into the cloud is expensive and slow
Data Centers are long-term depreciation activities (10-20 years)
“App Modernization” budgets are small - as a % of IT budgets
SaaS is growing at 20% YoY
Cloud Costs are expensive and complicated to understand
Tech VC is still investing in Tech Startups
Security is always a Top 3 priority, and Cloud Security is different
A large portion of Enterprise and Gov’t isn’t connected to the Internet - and Mainframes aren’t in the cloud.
Retraining Cloud Skills takes time (Gladwell 10,000 hour rule)

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Expanding Open Source in the Cloud Apr 28, 2021

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 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 Apr 25, 2021

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 Apr 21, 2021

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 Apr 18, 2021

Over the course of a career, you'll have to make critical decisions about jobs, managers, salaries, technical vs. business focus, and career paths. These 10 tips can help to make better decisions.

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10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry

Early in your career, get a certification, and work on something mainstream. Give yourself some foundations to build upon.
Early in your career, it’s OK to take risks on companies, if you are able to get a lot of experience (either breadth or depth).
Most people in tech don’t have a huge cash-out (IPO, Acquisition, etc.), but if you do, bank it to give yourself options (future savings, job hopping, change of career, etc.)
Have a side hustle. Have a mix of business and technical skills.
Always be learning something new. Being able to learn new stuff is the skill.
Find a community of people (online or live) that can be mentors, sounding boards, or just “trusted” people.
Find managers that support you, encourage you, and promote you. Sometimes ride with them on the next journey.
Title, salary, job scope or location…..you can only pick 2 (maybe 3Most people leave bad managers, not the company.
Work/Life balance is really hard to find. There’s no right answer, it’ll come and go in waves. Ride waves when they come, because they don’t always come back.
Work on your communication skills.

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Managing Unstructured Data in the Cloud Apr 14, 2021

Paige Hinckley, (Sr. Director Global Alliances & GTM @Qumulo) talks about the evolution of scalable file and unstructured data in the public cloud.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into discussing data in the cloud, let’s talk a little bit about your background, as you’ve been at the center of several recent technology transitions?

Topic 2 - Let’s start by understanding how the use of file data has changed over the years. So many applications involve video, or huge data lakes for analytics, or massive content repositories for research. How has the scale evolved over the years?

Topic 3 - Qumulo does some very unique things around scalability and performance that are very critical for industries like media/entertainment, healthcare, research. What are some of the use cases that best take advantage of Qumulo Q Cloud?

Topic 4 - As you work with companies moving file data to the cloud, what are some of the tips and lessons you’ve seen that lead to faster success?

Topic 5 - How does Qumulo work with partners in the tech industry to bring your innovation to customers?

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Lessons Learned from docker Apr 11, 2021

The docker project evolved out of the PaaS movement, unlocking polyglot cloud-native applications. But it was only a piece of the puzzle to enable platforms, applications and a broader ecosystem. What lessons can be learned from the docker ecosystem?

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HOW DID docker/DOCKER EVOLVE?

Between 2008 and 2013, dozens of PaaS platforms emerged. Within the platform, they all had a model for allocating compute resources, mostly through the use of Linux LXC and cGroups -- what would become containers. dotCloud was the PaaS company started by Solomon Hykes that eventually became Docker.

LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FUTURE

Containers were a fundamental building block for next-gen applications and platforms.
Docker/docker created a massive community of users, but frustrated the ecosystem of partners.
Project / Company naming conflicts are very hard to resolve (“docker” vs. “Docker”)
Successful ecosystems allow a broad set of participants to monetize different elements of the technology. Not having a monetization model is not a good plan.
Docker was the last software company to not monetize through offering a managed/SaaS cloud service.

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DevOps Efficiency through Integration Apr 07, 2021

Brendan O’Leary (@olearycrew, Sr. Dev Evangelist @GitLab, CNCF Board) talks about Developer Productivity, how to improve flow, integrated tool chains, and tips to improve organizational dynamics.

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GitLab Homepage

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Software supply-chains have been in the news quite a bit lately. Before we get into that, tell us about your background and what gets you passionate about developer productivity?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about “the State of Developer Productivity” in 2021. What are developers able to do well, and where are their big bottlenecks today?

Topic 3 - I constantly get questions of “do we fix this with better tools, or better organizations. I’m pretty sure the answer is a combination of both, but do you see one side or the other having a bigger impact?

Topic 4 - GitLab does a very good job bringing together the tools developers need across the software-supply chain. When do you see an integrated “platform” gain more adoption, and when does the developer desire for “pick our tools” tend to stay in place?

Topic 5 - Is the Solarwinds hack making a lot of companies rethink how they build software?

Topic 6 - What are some of the best tips you have to help developer teams get more efficient, more productive?

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Simpler Clouds on the Horizon Apr 04, 2021

Cloud was supposed to make computing easier, but it’s now as complicated or more complicated than legacy data centers and apps. Is there any future in a simpler cloud?

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DigitalOcean has an IPO

SIMPLIFYING CLOUD

APPLICATIONS - SaaS, RPA, Low-Code and PaaS v2

Small Business as-a-Service
Multinational Business-as-a-Service
DemandGen-as-a-Service

PRICING - Cost Management has its own complex ecosystem

The cloud bill is always an unknown

INTERCONNECTING SERVICES - Are the APIs easy enough to integrate

Mulesoft, Red Hat Integration, Apigee, etc. for the older stuff
Is cross-SaaS integration easy enough?

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Reliability as a Service Mar 31, 2021

Alex Hidalgo (@ahidalgosre, Director of SRE at @nobl9inc) talks about the evolution of SRE teams, implementing SLOs, and enabling AppDev and Ops teams to better manage reliability.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Congratulations on the launch of Nobl9. Before we get into that, let’s talk about your background and what got you focused on SREs and SLOs.

Topic 2 - We’ve spoken about the role of SRE quite a bit the last few years, but not as much about SLOs - and how to achieve them. Paint us some broad brush strokes about the world of SLOs today, and how they are different from SLAs or other commonly used measurements and metrics.

Topic 3 - So how do we start taking the SLO concepts and start making them actionable?

Topic 4 - How does a move to a SLO-centric model change the AppDev or the Ops teams?

Topic 5 - Is there a “low-hanging fruit” in an adoption of SLO-centric capabilities, or does it take quite a bit of top-down and bottom-up change?

Topic 6 - What’s a good way to get started with the Nobl9 platform?

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Three Types of Technology Leaders Mar 28, 2021

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 Mar 24, 2021

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? Mar 21, 2021

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 Mar 17, 2021

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 Mar 14, 2021

It’s smaller computers, doing limited tasks. So why is Edge Computing so complicated, and why are there so many definitions?
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THE COMPLEXITIES OF EDGE COMPUTING

No single definition of edge, because of so many use-cases

Branch office
Near-Edge
Far-Edge
Disconnected

Hardware can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

Custom-OS or COTS OS
General purpose HW or Specialized HW (GPU, NVMe, DPUs)
#of computing devices; volume of local storage

Networking can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

Are the devices always connected to the Internet?
How are disconnected environments handled?
How much bandwidth is available? Is it symmetric or asymmetric?
What are the traffic patterns of the applications? Local vs. Backhaul.

Security can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

How does Security happen on Day 0?
What are the security vs. usability tradeoffs? (direct user interaction)
How is security maintained? (CVE, Local Security services, etc.)

Maintenance can dictate quite a bit about edge characteristics

How much does it cost to deploy new edges?
How often are the edges expected to be upgraded?
How will maintenance happen? (Local tech, remote download, etc.)
How sophisticated is the Day 2 Ops? (Telemetry, Environmentals, Benchmarks, etc.)

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The Value of Value-Stream Mapping Mar 10, 2021

Steve Pereira (@SteveElsewhere, Value-Stream Whisperer @ Visible) talks about measuring, understanding business and technology process through Value-Stream Mapping.
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Visible (homepage) - Value Stream Consulting
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 Mar 07, 2021

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 Mar 03, 2021

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 Feb 28, 2021

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 Feb 24, 2021

Joseph “JJ” Jacks (@asynchio, Founder/General Partner OSS Capital) talks about how Commercial OSS has evolved, coopetition with cloud providers, and what's next for Commercial OSS business models and communities.

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Topic 2 - You’ve been tracking the commercialization of open-source projects for quite a while now. What big trends have you seen evolve over the last two decades (from Red Hat to MongoDB)

Topic 3 - Even in the face of new OSS-centric offerings from the cloud providers, we still continue to see companies getting funded. What is the sentiment in the VC-communities about what the new competitive landscape looks like? Are there new rules in the game?

Topic 4 - We’ve recently seen MongoDB and Elastic changing their licensing model to SSPL. The stock of both companies continues to rise. Is what they are doing a short-term “fix” to a competitive threat, or a critical mistake? Does licensing need to evolve as a company matures?

Topic 5 - Are there fundamental shifts in how OSS companies are created and eventually operationalized happening now?

Topic 6 - Where do you see commercial OSS trending over the next 5 years, and what big changes need to happen to make those realities happen?

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Public Cloud Look Ahead for the 2020s Feb 21, 2021

Looking forward at the biggest public clouds, what are the things we are sure of, the trends we expect to evolve, and the uncertainties that will shape the next 5+ years in cloud computing?
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THINGS WE KNOW - OVERALL GROWTH OF THE INDUSTRY

More adoption of SaaS applications (which run on Big 3)
More migrations of apps from data center to cloud
Huge CAPEX spending (low-interest rates) for Cloud + Other Businesses (Healthcare, Driving, Gaming, AR/VR, FinSvcs, etc.)
More rapid adoption of ARM in the cloud than data centers (40% lower costs)
Edge still has alot of evolution to go through (footprint, mgmt/updates, security, etc.)

TRENDS THAT WILL EVOLVE

Beginning to see a wave of Telco’s partnering with Big 3 (edge computing)
2nd/3rd-generation of being built as cloud-native first
Vendors partnering with Big 3 to be “native-services”
The data-centric OSS projects in the cloud

UNKNOWNS AND UNCERTAINTIES

Acquisitions
Changes in Leadership
Pricing Wars
Are there emerging players (Alibaba, Apple, etc.)?

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Asynchronous Development for Remote Teams Feb 17, 2021

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 Feb 14, 2021

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 Feb 10, 2021

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 Feb 07, 2021

As Amazon transitions to a new CEO, we look back at Andy Jassy's leadership at AWS from 2006 to 2021.

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HOW AWS SHAPED AND RESHAPED CLOUD COMPUTING (Andy's Influence)

Brought on-demand computing to IT infrastructure (and beyond)
Established that AWS was "the cloud"
Brought the Amazon psychology of "low-cost" to IT
Focused on "price reductions" and the new economics of cloud (vs. IT)
Focused on highlighting big name customers early (e.g. Netflix)
Refused to acknowledge competitors (in the early years)
Used data to see customer-usage patterns, to inform the next services.
Announced new capabilities all the time, not big releases.
And many more....

WHAT COMES NEXT FOR AWS?

Who takes over at the leader of AWS?
How does AWS manage slowing growth rates?
Taking over from a legend is never easy? What personality does the next leader bring?
Does Hybrid Cloud change how they go-to-market? How they partner?

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Automating Analytics Teams Feb 03, 2021

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 Jan 27, 2021

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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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 Jan 20, 2021

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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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 Jan 13, 2021

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.

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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 Jan 06, 2021

Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Offer Manager @DXC + Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talks about the evolution of Hybrid Cloud, common deployment misperceptions and challenges, and major areas for improvement in 2021.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell the audience a little bit about what you do in the day job, and then a little bit about Software Defined Talk.

Topic 2 - 10yrs ago, the software and hardware vendors created the concept of hybrid cloud, partially as a defense against public cloud, and partially as a reality check for existing usage. Now we have the public cloud rolling out both hybrid and multi-cloud offerings. How did we get here?

Topic 3 - As you talk to different companies, what’s the reality of Hybrid Cloud today? What is it, what do companies expect it to be, etc?

Topic 4 - What’s the biggest misperception about Hybrid Cloud that you’ve seen over the years and that you seen now (could be different things)?

Topic 5 - What parts of Hybrid Cloud do you expect to gain traction over the next couple of years?

Topic 6 - What areas do you see missing from a Hybrid Cloud architecture/approach today that need to be addressed?

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Introduction to Cloudcast Basics Jan 04, 2021

SHOW: Season 0, Show 1 - Introduction
OVERVIEW: From the creators of the Internet's #1 Cloud Computing podcast, Aaron Delp (@aarondelp) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely) introduce the new podcast, Cloudcast Basics. This podcast is designed to help anyone new to Cloud Computing get up to speed quickly. Each season will cover a specific topic, from the basics to more intermediate levels of depth.
Please subscribe anywhere you get podcasts (Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Amazon Music, Pandora, etc.). NOTE: Cloudcast Basics will be in a NEW podcast channel, separate from The Cloudcast channel that you currently subscribe to.
SHOW SUMMARY: This shows introduces the new podcast, Cloudcast Basics, and it also introduces Season 0 - "Introduction to Cloud Computing". Each month a new season will be released, focusing on a different technical or business aspect of cloud computing. It season is designed to allow the listener to progress from the most basic concepts to more intermediate levels of knowledge.

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Here are some great places to begin your cloud journey, if you're interested in getting hands-on experience with the technology, or you'd like to build your skills towards a certification.

A Cloud Guru - Training and Certifications
Cloud Academy - Training and Certifications
Katakoda - Self-Paced, Interactive Learning
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2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions Dec 23, 2020

Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021
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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 Dec 16, 2020

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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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 Dec 09, 2020

Brian provides some commentary on the state of AWS in 2020, and then reviews the highlights and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2020.
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Lots and Lots of Announcements from AWS (and some summaries)

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The State of Kubernetes Dec 02, 2020

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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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 Nov 25, 2020

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.

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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 Nov 18, 2020

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.

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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 Nov 11, 2020

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.

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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 Nov 04, 2020

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.

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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 Oct 28, 2020

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.

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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 Oct 21, 2020

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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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 Oct 14, 2020

Matt Biilmann (@biilmann, CEO/Co-Founder @Netlify) talks about the evolution of websites, the architecture of the Jamstack, the evolution of mobile + CDNs, and interacting with 3rd-party APIs.

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Netlify Edge Handlers (run code at the CDN edge)
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been trying to make websites easier for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and what motivates you about Netlify.

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about how the web is consumed these days; what’s broken, and how are you trying to make it better?

Topic 3 - What is Jamstack? How much is language, how much is frameworks, how much is architecture, and how much is a different way to think about Websites/Content/CMS?

Topic 4 - So we have this website content distributed out to the CDN, how to 3rd-party APIs interact with the system (e.g. Stripe, Agolia, Twilio, AWS Lambda, etc.)?

Topic 5 - CDN’s just used to serve content, and now they are running code at the edge. How do those interactions work?

Topic 6 - You recently wrote that we might be hitting an inflection point for Websites/CMS’. Is that just a natural evolution of the distributed internet, or has anything in 2020 accelerated that?

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Women of Color in Tech Oct 07, 2020

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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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 Sep 30, 2020

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.

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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 Sep 23, 2020

Ariel Assaraf (@ArielAssaraf, CEO at @Coralogix) talks about the evolution of SIEM technologies, today's common use-cases, how SaaS migrations impact SIEM, and how AI/ML is improving functionality.

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Topic 1 - Ariel, welcome to the show, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in the SIEM space?
Topic 2 - Let's start with some basics. SIEM (pronounced SIM with a silent E) or Security Information and Event Management isn’t new but it is the combination of a few different security trends. Explain to everyone your thoughts on the evolution of this industry and how we got here.
Topic 3 - How does it work and why is it important and what benefits? What are the primary use cases you see at Coralogix today?
Topic 4 - I have to ask the flip side, where are the rough edges and limitations typically?
Topic 5 - How does the trend towards migration of “as a service” offerings affect SIEM? What’s left to monitor?
Topic 6 - This sounds like an area where AI/ML could play a role as well, what advancements and trends do you see here?
Topic 7 - For listeners new to the topic, how can they get started and learn more?

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Identity Across Multiple Clouds Sep 16, 2020

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.

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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 Sep 09, 2020

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.

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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 Sep 02, 2020

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.

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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 Aug 26, 2020

Todd Christ (Sr. Solutions Architect @Intel) talks about Google Anthos, core elements, design considerations, mulitcloud, application modernization, and the latest services available.

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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 Aug 19, 2020

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.

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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 Aug 12, 2020

Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO Hasura) and Rajoshi Ghosh (@rajoshighosh, COO Hasura) talk about the evolution of GraphQL as an efficient way to engage with APIs and data models, and how Hasura Cloud helps simplify GraphQL for developers.

SHOW: 462
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You both have an entrepreneurial background. Tell us a little bit about yourself and then what drove you to start Hasura?

Topic 2 - GraphQL is a technology that’s been around for a little while, but it might be new to our audience. Can you give us the basics of what it does, and what sort of problems it solves for application teams?

Topic 3 - Many people are familiar with REST or RESTful APIs. Can you help us understand some of the reasons why we’re seeing a shift towards GraphQL for API interaction, or away from REST APIs?

Topic 4 - What are some of the business trends that are driving the need for more data-modeled API queries?

Topic 5 - Hasura Cloud is focused on helping companies query data across any cloud or any source. What are some of the unique things that Hasura does to help customers manage these hybrid/multi-cloud environments?

Topic 6 - What are some of the easiest ways for companies to get started with GraphQL and positively impact their applications?

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Delegated Identity in the Cloud Aug 05, 2020

Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas, PPM Identity & Security) and John Patrick Dandison (@AzureAndChill, Principal PM Identity) at Microsoft talk about Identity in today's cloud, managing borderless environments, and how to best enforce identity.

SHOW: 461
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Getting Started with Microsoft Identity (Microsoft Learn)
Manage Identity and access in Azure AD (Microsoft Learn)
MS Identity on Twitch (every Tuesday and Thursday)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve both been at Microsoft for a little while, but give us a little bit of your background and the things you focus on today.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - in the world of Cloud, what is Identity?

Topic 3 - Things get more complicated as we incorporate more things associated with people or accounts (e.g. multiple devices, VPNs) or distributed applications or 3rd-parties (e.g. contractors, etc..) How does that shift the Identity conversation?

Topic 4 - How does a business attempt to not only keep track of all of this, but enforce it in various ways? (connected, disconnected, people leave, applications change, etc.)

Topic 5 - What are some of the ways that Microsoft addresses all these complex Identity challenges?

Topic 6 - Looking forward, what are some areas that are going to be the new frontier for Identity challenges, or some technologies that will make things easier?
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How to Secure DevOps Jul 29, 2020

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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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 Jul 22, 2020

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 Jul 15, 2020

Vaibhav Nivargi (CTO & Founder @Moveworks) talks about Natural Language Understanding (NLU), interacting with users using chatbots, and augmenting customer service with AI.

SHOW: 458
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Moveworks Homepage

Topic 1 - Vaibhav, welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself and what got you started in the AI space?

Topic 2 - We’ve done a number of AI/ML shows over the years, but we haven’t talked much about Natural Language Understanding or NLU. Let’s start there, can you give everyone an introduction?

Topic 3 - Based on that, is the primary interaction with the end user through a chatbot or something similar? What are the primary use cases and tools you are seeing in the industry? Is this a Slack and/or Microsoft Teams integration? Unsolicited plug, I’m a customer in my day job…

Topic 4 - We’ve been talking a lot on the show recently about the migration to SaaS based products. What is the model here? Is the AI central (cloud hosted) or private and in-house? Do you have the concept of a template AI and then each customer AI is an instance or is this a central AI that is called? How does it get customized and updated over time? What training is typically required and is this training on-going?

Topic 5 - How do you prevent user frustration from “loops” or unanswered questions? I think of the voice automated telephone systems I’m not a fan of as an example. How would you handle language that isn’t built into the AI?

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2020 in Review - Midyear Edition Jul 08, 2020

Aaron and Brian review the first half of 2020, which feels like it’s lasted 6 years.

SHOW: 457
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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 Jun 24, 2020

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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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 Jun 17, 2020

Dillon Erb (@dlnrb, CEO @HelloPaperSpace) talks about what exactly is MLOps, Serverless AI platforms, and how developers can utilize GPUs for AI/ML.
SHOW: 455
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Topic 1 - Dillon, welcome to the show, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in this space?
Topic 2 - I’ve had a running joke on the show that a market doesn’t exist until you attach Ops to it. Today we’ll talk about MLOps. Give everyone an introduction for those not familiar.
Topic 3 - What exactly is a Serverless AI Platform? How does this differ from traditional CI/CD platforms that our listeners would be used too? Is this abstracting away the infrastructure layer for MLOps teams?
Topic 3a - Switching gears from Ops to Developers, what do you mean when you say that you make it easy for developers to use GPUs? What do developers need to know about hardware-level stuff like GPUs that they didn’t need to know with CPUs?
Topic 4 - As with all things emerging tech, the use cases are constantly evolving. What are the early initial use cases that you are seeing? Are there unique things that emerge for gaming or media applications?
Topic 5 - How does access to data models fit into all of this?
Topic 6 - I noticed your company did some articles on Covid-19, can you explain what is going on there?
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Security Visibility from Observability Data Jun 10, 2020

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 Jun 03, 2020

Venkat Rangan (Co-Founder & CTO @ Clari) talks about AI and application into more mainstream areas and revenue generation.
SHOW: 453
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Clari website

Topic 1 - Venkat, you have a very interesting background as a technologist in our industry. Give everyone a brief introduction and if you don’t mind also tell everyone a bit about being a member of the Forbes Technology Council. I believe you are our first guest from there.
Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dig back into AI as a topic. Let’s start at the start. In your current role you have been involved in technology over the years and Clari has been around for awhile. What compelled you to focus on this space?
Topic 3 - AI has suffered from a perception issue. It often is seen as unapproachable with a pretty high barrier to entry. We’ve spoken to companies in the past about specific industry or vertical applications (manufacturing for instance). Many architects and our listeners are practitioners vs. data scientists. How do we solve this problem and “bring AI to mainstream”
Topic 4 - In order for that to happen, what does our industry need? Is it SaaS based, services from public clouds, etc?
Topic 5 - Having been in field sales for years, it’s always been somewhere between complete and utter guesswork all the way to precision, rocket science level analysis. - What are your thoughts here and how can AI improve this situation?
Topic 6 - What’s next for industry? What are the use cases both today and in the future?

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Continuous Reliability May 27, 2020

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 May 20, 2020

Andrew Wertkin (Chief Strategy Officer @ BlueCat) talks about Enterprise DNS, DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), and the differences between Adaptive network security and public cloud security.
SHOW: 451
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Topic 1 - Andrew, tell everyone a little about yourself.
Topic 2 - Our topic today is all about network security and foundations. Over the years, our networks have become complex and we have multiple infrastructure systems to maintain such as on-prem DHCP, VPC connections to public cloud, public facing, etc. Tell everyone a little bit about the challenge and your findings with customers in the industry.
Topic 3 - I’ve heard Enterprise DNS and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), what’s the difference? Doesn’t everyone just use a spreadsheet still? :) What’s changed?
Topic 4 - How has an era of new devices (VOIP, IoT, Edge, etc.) affected management and security approaches?
Topic 5 - What are the tradeoffs and design considerations when it comes to all of the above (multiple clouds, multiple types of devices, multiple vendors with management tools). Are we talking about an overlay, a replacement tool? How does this unification happen? Aren’t there differences for instance in DNS implementations between vendors?
Topic 6 - What’s next for industry? What are the use cases both today and in the future?

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Cloud BI for Everyone May 13, 2020

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 May 06, 2020

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 Apr 29, 2020

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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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 Apr 22, 2020

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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Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

Logz.io Homepage
Why We Founded Logz.io Video
Logz.io: Infrastructure Monitoring
Launching the Community COVID-19 Dashboard Project
Start your free Logz.io trial here, and receive a t-shirt, on us!

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 Apr 15, 2020

Emil Stolarsky (@emilstolarsky) and Jaime Woo (@jaimewoo), co-founders of @IncidentLabsInc talk about experiences running web applications at scale, evolving into SRE roles, communicating SRE concepts across teams, and tips for initial success.

SHOW: 446
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MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
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DivvyCloud - Achieve continuous security & compliance. Request a free trial today!
DivvyCloud’s 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report - Cloud misconfigurations cost enterprises $5 trillion in 2018 and 2019.

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

Incident Labs (homepage)
Ovvy (tool) - On-Call Management
Google SRE Book

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds, and some of your experiences that lead you to focus on SRE.

Topic 2 - SRE is still an evolving concept, and people are still learning about it. How do you frame a conversation with people about how SRE works? How much is technology-centric and how much is culture/process-centric?

Topic 3 - We’re all living in an unusual time, given the current COVID-19 pandemic. How do you see SRE changing as work environments change (e.g. WFH) or volume or change-rate is dramatically impacted?

Topic 4 - What have you found are successful communication and collaboration models for SREs engineers with their associated teams (or other stakeholders)?

Topic 5 - How well do you find different groups understand the concepts around error budgets and SLOs?

Topic 6 - If people are just now getting started with SRE, what are some early tips (or tools) that you recommend for them to have initial success (or avoid failures)?

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A Practical Approach to Cloud-native Patterns Apr 08, 2020

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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Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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DivvyCloud - Achieve continuous security & compliance. Request a free trial today!
DivvyCloud’s 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report - Cloud misconfigurations cost enterprises $5 trillion in 2018 and 2019.
MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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?

FEEDBACK?

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SecOps in the Cloud Apr 01, 2020

Nati Hazut (Co-Founder & CEO, Polyrize) talks about security in the cloud, ZeroTrust, SecOps, Non-Human Entities and why the old perimeter model no longer works.

SHOW: 444
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DivvyCloud - Achieve continuous security & compliance. Request a free trial today!
DivvyCloud’s 2020 Cloud Misconfigurations Report - Cloud misconfigurations cost enterprises $5 trillion in 2018 and 2019.
MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - You have an interesting background in both the Israel military and cyber-security. Can you give a quick introduction for everyone please?
Topic 2 - Brian and I both do not come from security backgrounds and I’m sure we have some listeners out there just learning. Let’s start at the start. SecOps, what is your definition and why is it important today?
Topic 3 - You recently published an article in Security Boulevard (link in show notes) on Non-Human Entities in the Cloud. I found it very fascinating. Can you tell everyone what that expression means and why it is so important in a cloud and SaaS world?
Topic 4 - What are the top challenges with security in the cloud today? I come from the days of the old secure perimeter model. What has changed and why? I would imagine automation and API driven systems have changed this perspective a lot.
Topic 5 - Tell us a bit about your company Polyrize. What problems are you trying to solve? What are the most common use cases? What are the challenges to securing multiple platforms (SaaS, IaaS, etc.)

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GitHub Actions and the DevOps Lifecycle Mar 25, 2020

Chris Patterson (@chrisrpatterson, Product Manager for GitHub Actions @GitHub) talks about the evolution of GitHub from a collaboration-centric platform to a DevOps-centric platform, as well as discussing the expanding role of GitHub Actions for developers, DevOps and SREs.

SHOW: 443
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Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

GitHub Homepage
GitHub Satellite (virtual conference, May 2020)
GitHub Actions
GitHub Actions API (new)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, as you’ve been working on developer productivity for quite a while?

Topic 2 - We’ve been watching this trend of GitHub moving from a place where developers put code, to a place where they collaborate around code, and now it’s expanding out to a full lifecycle around both the code and running applications. Let’s talk about that evolution.

Topic 3 - Help us understand the basics of GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages.

Topic 4 - What sort of feedback was coming in from developers that pushed GitHub to get more involved in the complete DevOps lifecycle?

Topic 5 - Can you talk about the growth of Actions/Packages since they launched in early 2019? What are some of the interesting use-cases you’ve seen?

Topic 6 - If you’re able to give us a glimpse into the future, what are some of the other areas where GitHub can expand Actions, or you’re starting to see users push it’s capabilities?

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Tips for Working from Home Mar 18, 2020

Aaron talks to Ken Hui (@kenhuiny - Solutions Architect, AWS) about advice on working from home. We've been working remotely for over 20 years and this may we offer some tips and tricks to stay productive. Stay safe everyone

SHOW: 442
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MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

Wash your hands
Don't touch your face
Practice Social Distancing

Topic 1 - No tech topic this week. We’re going to talk a bit today about working remotely. This may be new and unexpected to some of you. To talk about this I invited past guest and occasional co-host, Ken Hui. Between Ken and I, we have worked together at a few different places in the past and probably have 20+ years working from anywhere. Welcome back Ken! For those that live under a rock and don’t know you, tell everyone a little about yourself and what you’re up to these days.
Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics. What are the first steps to both keep your sanity and be productive? (Making sure your calendar is public, your company has a standard for chat/video/etc, don’t they? You are available during business hours, etc.) Set up a dedicated work space, etc. Don’t use Slack to replace email….
Topic 3 - At our last company together, Ken pushed hard for certain work from home inclusion rules, what were they? Video camera on, video camera off? People will always assume the worst.
Topic 4 - Weekly report on work to a distributed team: this week, next week, GYR status, upcoming PTO, etc.
Topic 5 - Have a start and stop time (that is friendly to your HQ)

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Next-Generation Developer Collaboration Mar 11, 2020

Aaron Upright (@IAmAaronUpright, Co-founder of @ZenHubHQ) talks about the challenge of developer collaboration and project prioritization, integrating tools within GitHub, best practices for teams, and the importance of making tools that technical and non-technical team members can understand.

SHOW: 441
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Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt
MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

ZenHub Homepage

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and ultimately what led you to co-found ZenHub?

Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about what ZenHub delivers. We’re very interested in the potential of GitHub and the things it’s doing directy, but we’re also interested in this ecosystem that’s enhancing GitHub.

Topic 3 - What are some best-practices around road mapping and prioritizing activities that could be shared?

Topic 4 - What are some best-practices around allowing greater transparency of roadmaps with multiple teams? (what are the pros and cons)?

Topic 5 - ZenHub is an example of a toolset that's built entirely around GitHub capabilities. Do you think we'll begin to see more companies just built around GitHub and move away from externally-connected toolsets?

Topic 6 - Are most of your interactions with software companies, or are you also interacting with businesses whose primary focus is something other than being a software company?

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API Driven Edge Networking and 5G Mar 04, 2020

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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MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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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 Feb 26, 2020

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
SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt
MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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 Feb 19, 2020

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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MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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 Feb 14, 2020

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
SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt
MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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 Feb 05, 2020

SHOW: 436
DESCRIPTION: 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.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show; Tell us about your background, as you’ve worked for a number of interesting companies prior to Datadog.

Topic 2 - Datadog recently released a report about trends in serverless usage. Before we dive into some of the highlights and insights, tell us about the scope of the report.

Are you able to tell anything about the types of companies being monitored? (industries, size of company, etc.)

Topic 3 - Highlights from the State of Serverless report

The majority of functions are still fairly small, and don’t run very long (small memory footprint).
Node.js and Python are the leading languages/frameworks being used (almost 90%)
Nearly half of EC2 users have adopted Lambda
Early adopters of Containers (ECS) have adopted Lambda - 80%+
Discuss which event-driven data sources are the most frequently used

Topic 4 - As you’re analyzing this usage data, what are some of the things you’re thinking about as a Product Manager for functionality that you can provide to help better monitor these rapidly changing environments?

FEEDBACK?

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A “API” Look Ahead for 2020 Jan 29, 2020

SHOW: 435
DESCRIPTION: James Higginbotham (@launchany; Founder, Author, API Architect) talks about frameworks for evaluating API usage, developer perspectives on APIs, versioning APIs and some thoughts on new trends in API usage.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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UpCloud - World’s fastest cloud servers
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MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
[DONUT RUN DONATIONS]

CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
SHOW NOTES:

James on The Cloudcast Eps.135 (“Building Better APIs for Business Success)
LaunchAny Homepage
Recent keynote: “APIs, Microservices, and Serverless: The Shape of Things to Come”

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show; It’s been a while, let’s reintroduce you to our audience. Tell us about the types of things you work on.

Topic 2 - There are so many things going on with APIs these days, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Do you have a framework that you use to help companies think about APIs?

Topic 3 - Are there different perspectives that developers have if they are dealing with APIs for monolithic applications vs. microservices applications vs. external APIs?

Topic 4 - What is some of thinking around dynamically changing environments (e.g. DevOps, Agile) and APIs (versioning, testing changes, etc.)?

Topic 5 - What are some of the more critical things that you’re always reinforcing and educating people about APIs?

Topic 6 - We’re seeing more companies emerge that just deliver APIs as part of an ecosystem of services. How has this changed application development?

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A “Service Mesh” Look Ahead for 2020 Jan 22, 2020

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.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

UpCloud - World’s fastest cloud servers
UpCloud (promo) - Sign up for free, receive a $50 credit and try us out!
MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
Try Datadog yourself by starting a free, 14-day trial today. Listeners of this podcast will also receive a free Datadog T-shirt
[DONUT RUN DONATIONS]

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 Jan 15, 2020

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.

SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:

MongoDB Homepage - The most popular database for modern applications
MongoDB Atlas - MongoDB-as-a-Service on AWS, Azure and GCP
Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics
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SHOW NOTES:

The Unicorn Project (homepage)
The Unicorn Project (resource guide)
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 Jan 10, 2020

SHOW: 432
DESCRIPTION: Aneel Lahkani (@aneel, Go To Market Consultant and Advisor) talks about how SaaS impacts today's cloud computing decisions, the challenges of running a profitable SaaS business, migrating to SaaS services, and how public clouds compete and partner with SaaS offerings.

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SHOW NOTES:

Exploring the SaaS Business Model (Cloudcast #390 - March 2019)
Product & Marketing for Engineers (Aneel’s Blog)

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 - What is SaaS in 2020? (Delivery model, acquisition and usage model, experimentation model, etc.). Is it a finite thing, or has it been componentized?

Topic 3 - Is it possible to build software and then make it SaaS, or do the business and software have to be built in parallel with the SaaS offering?

Topic 4 - Does anyone actually “migrate” (successfully) existing types of applications to SaaS, or should the focus of SaaS be on breaking free from old approaches?

Topic 5 - We’re seeing many “tools” companies become “platform” companies and offer things that blur the lines between SaaS and something else (GitHub, Salesforce, etc.). Does this become the way that they compete against AWS or Azure?

Topic 6 - Why do you think AWS doesn’t have a broader set of SaaS offerings at this point?

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A "Data" Look Ahead for 2020 Jan 02, 2020

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 Dec 25, 2019

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 Dec 19, 2019

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 Dec 13, 2019

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 Dec 07, 2019

SHOW: 427
DESCRIPTION: Brian reviews the big themes from AWS re:Invent 2019, as well as “most” of the new announcements.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

The big Cloudcast show notes document (with links to all the announcements)

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Building an Effective Developer Program Nov 27, 2019

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:

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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 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 Nov 21, 2019

SHOW: 425
DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian take a look at the Docker acquisition and review the Microsoft Ignite show and announcements

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Mirantis acquires Docker

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Microsoft Ignite

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Insight and feel from the show floor and the event

Topic 2 - Azure Arc

Topic 3 - Project Cortex

Topic 4 - Baby steps in GitHub integration

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Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Nov 14, 2019

SHOW: 424
DESCRIPTION: Aaron talks with Evelyn Padrino (@evepadrinosanta, Azure Customer Success) & Brian Blanchard (@brianblanchard, Azure Cloud Adoption Framework Team) about adopting cloud, patterns of adoption, use cases and how the Azure Adoption Framework is helping their customers.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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Azure Cloud Adoption Framework

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome Evelyn and Brian. Let’s start at the start, can both you give a brief intro?

Topic 2 - You both represent the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework team. What is it and how did it come about?

Topic 3 - You have a concept the really resonates with me and customers I’ve spoken too, the idea that no one’s cloud journey is the same. There is a formal blueprint to success. Define a strategy, plan the business outcomes, prepare the environment, implement the initial changes and migrations. From there we move to the operations stage that includes governance and management of operations.

Topic 4 - Is this a product? A service? A blueprint? What is the most common pain you see in your customers? Why?

Topic 5 - Do you have customer success stories and common examples/use cases you can share?

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Simplifying Healthcare Interactions Nov 07, 2019

SHOW: 423
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (Smiletronix and LazarusAI) about how technology is helping to give people more control over their health and use AI to improve doctor's ability to detect cancer and other deadly diseases.

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SHOW NOTES:

Smiletronix (@Smiletronix) - Yashar Faranjani (@yashar_f), Co-Founder & CEO - Personalized dental health screenings, handheld device

Does this augment dentists, or eventually replace the dental check-up?
Doctors tend to hate Web.md (everyone being an online doctor). How have dentists reacted to this service?
Being based in Europe, are there unique characteristics of European markets or healthcare that make this more applicable to adoption?

Lazarus (Cambridge, MA) - Ariel Elizarov (@aelizarov12), Co-Founder & CEO - AI for cancer screenings

Isn’t skin cancer (and moles) a fairly well-understood science at this point? What does AI bring to the equation?
How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?
Your skin is a lifelong part of your health. How would this service work over a lifetime?

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Evolving Trust on the Internet Nov 06, 2019

SHOW: 422
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with two entrepreneurs from the MetLife Digital Accelerator powered by Techstars program about their startups (The Difference, and Zogo Finance) about how people are trusting some of their most important and personal relationships and learning to new services offered via the Internet instead of face-to-face. We explore this generational change in how we've evolved to trust the Internet.

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SHOW NOTES:

The Difference (@thedifferenceAI) - Bea Arthur (@BeaArthurLMHC), Co-Founder/CEO - on demand therapy via phone (or Alexa)

How has the personality profile of people changed/evolved such that they are OK with sharing personal information with “unknown” doctors?
How is patient information (doctor notes) managed between the patient, any given doctor, and the on-going doctors on the platform?
Is there a technology aspect that is reviewing calls and tagging discussions or making recommendations (e.g. helping the doctor or patient)?

Zogo Finance (@zogofinance) - Bolun Li, Co-Founder & CEO - Teaching kids personal finance through incentives

Who is typically creating the initial interaction for the child? (the child or the parent?)
What type of curriculum is involved? What’s the scope? Are there collaborative aspects between kids?
How do you walk the line between financial literacy learning and lack of trust for the banks since 2008?

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Understanding HTTP/S, CDNs and Edge Proxies Oct 30, 2019

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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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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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 Oct 23, 2019

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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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

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

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 Oct 16, 2019

SHOW: 419
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sarah Catanzaro (@sarahcat21, Principal at @AmplifyPartners) about approaches to evaluate complex markets and business models.
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

Australia, US negotiate CLOUD Act data swap pact

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Sarah’s Homepage at Amplify Partners

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell about your background prior to joining Amplify Partners.
Topic 2 - There’s an interesting thread that weaves its way through aspects of your career - being able to build intelligent models to understand and predict somewhat unstable environments. Can you walk us through the process of how those models and the analysis comes together?
Topic 3 - There’s a level of responsibility through the supply-chain of our industry. I feel like VCs have a responsibility to not only spot trends, but also spot frauds. How does your background and experience help you determine good investments, or strong potential trends?
Topic 4 - One of your focus areas is machine intelligence. What is the state of machine intelligence today, and where are some of the areas that encourage you that it can become more widely used?
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Building a Cloud Practice in Azure Oct 09, 2019

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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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 Oct 02, 2019

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Sep 25, 2019

SHOW: 416
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Björn Rabenstein (Engineer at @Grafana) about the intersection of Dashboards, Metrics, Monitoring and Observability.

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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

Grafana Labs Homepage
Björn’s talk at VelocityConf - “What remains of dashboards and metrics without the hype and anti-patterns”
Björn’s talk at SRECon - “SRE in the Third Age”
Björn’s GitHub and LinkedIn
Book: “Seeking SRE”

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell about your background prior to joining Grafana Labs. (worked with Julius Volz at Soundcloud, guest on The Cloudcast on Eps.263 and Eps.319).

Topic 2 - I saw a tweet the other day that said, “CIO directive to cut contracts because they have 37 monitoring tools and still the reliability is poor...". Your talk at VelocityConf is about the hype around observability and monitoring. What is the state of Ops visibility?

Topic 3 - Let’s start by talking about good hygiene and good practices. What types of things should Ops teams, SREs and even Developers always been doing to have good visibility of their environments?

Topic 4 - What are the big mistakes that companies make, or what anti-patterns are becoming more pervasive?

Topic 5 - As a builder of tools, and an operator of tools, what are some of the things you wish more Dev knew, but maybe don’t know what to ask?

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Chaos Engineering and Team Health Sep 18, 2019

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 Sep 11, 2019

SHOW: 414
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa, CTO/Co-Founder at @TriggerMesh) about the evolution of the Knative project.

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Triggermesh Homepage
Sebastian’s Knative Serverless talk at VelocityConf
Sebastian on previous episodes of The Cloudcast (here, here)
[Tutorial] Cloud-Agnostic Serverless (from KubeCon 2019)

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Almost a year ago, you launched TriggerMesh with Mark Hinkle. How is the business doing?

Topic 2 - A couple of years ago, you helped create a technology called Kubeless, to do Serverless/FaaS on Kubernetes. And then Knative came along. For people that aren’t familiar with Knative, can you give us a Tl;DR on what it is and how it has evolved as a standard for Kubernetes?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the different elements of Knative and how each one of them is evolving - Build, Serving and Eventing.

Building is now "Project Tekton"

Topic 4 - Can we talk about the differences between “Serverless” and “Functions-as-a-Service”, especially in the context of different frameworks, and event sources?

Topic 5 - Triggermesh has been very early in delivering Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service via Knative. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned (use-cases, customer preferences, area of education) over the last year?

Topic 6 - Do you have any insight into some of the things that might be coming next in Knative?

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Everything is a Little Bit Broken Sep 04, 2019

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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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 Aug 28, 2019

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 Aug 21, 2019

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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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 Aug 14, 2019

SHOW: 410
DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Kevin McHale (Senior Staff Engineer at Etsy) about the migration of their Big Data / Data Science platform from on-premises to Google Cloud, the business drivers for the migration, and the lessons the team has learned throughout the multi-year process.

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GitHub Actions now includes CI/CD

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SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into your work at Etsy, tell us a little bit about your background prior to Etsy - you’re pretty good at math.

Topic 2 - You’ve been working on two very interesting projects at Etsy - both building/evolving the data platform, and helping to manage the migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Let’s start by talking about the Etsy data platform.

Topic 3 - What have been some of the business drivers that are pushing the data platform to collect more information, to become more cloud-native, and to better enable data pipelines?

Topic 4 - At some point in 2017-18, Etsy decided to migrate some of the platforms to Google Cloud. Tell us about that decision-process, and how the migration has been going. What have been some of the lessons learned?

Topic 5 - How does working with Google Cloud (or just being in the public cloud) help accelerate the work that you’re doing on evolving the Etsy data platform?

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New Challenges for IT Professionals Aug 07, 2019

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 Jul 31, 2019

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jul 24, 2019

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 Jul 17, 2019

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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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 Jul 10, 2019

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 Jun 26, 2019

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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SHOW NOTES:

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 Jun 19, 2019

SHOW: 403
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Jose Nino (@junr03, Software Engineer @Lyft) about how they evolved from a monolithic application to 300+ microservices, including a service mesh using the Envoy proxy.

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Envoy Proxy [homepage]
Jose Nino’s talk at Velocity Conf

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and some of the things you work on at Lyft.

Topic 2 - Lyft was the original creator of the Envoy proxy project. As Lyft was going through their migration from a monolith to microservices, when did they realize that they needed to start creating a service mesh.

Topic 3 - What functions of Envoy does Lyft use for both networking and security?

Topic 4 - How does Lyft manage who interacts with the Service Mesh, since it has impacts on the applications (microservices) and the infrastructure teams (networking, security)?

Topic 5 - What recommendations would you make to any other teams that are evaluating Envoy or Service Mesh technologies?

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Machine Learning with Kubeflow Jun 11, 2019

SHOW: 402
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with David Aronchick (@aronchick, Head of Open Source Machine Learning @Azure) about the history of the KubeFlow project, how it has evolved as a community, and how KubeFlow is making it easier to get started with Machine Learning on Kubernetes.

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KubeFlow Homepage
Tensorflow Homepage
KubeFlow in 2018 - A Year’s Perspective (lots of projects details and slides)
How to adopt cloud-native machine learning with Kubernetes and Kubeflow

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, especially as you’ve come to be involved in both open source and machine learning or AI.

Topic 2 - You’ve been involved in the KubeFlow project since its creation a couple of years ago. Can you introduce us to the project and how it’s evolved over the last couple of years?

Topic 3 - The stated goal of KubeFlow is to make machine learning workflows simple, repeatable and scalable. Can you walk us through some of the ways that KubeFlow is beginning to achieve these goals?

Topic 4 - For those people that understand Kubernetes, can you explain how KubeFlow interacts with Kubernetes, and maybe a little bit about how KubeFlow gets value from Kubernetes for these ML workloads?

Topic 5 - What are some of the new areas in this space that you’re excited about?

Topic 6 - For people new to this area, what are some of the easier ways for them to get started?

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The Power of Community Engagement Jun 05, 2019

SHOW: 401
DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on community engagement. Then Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja, Director Influence Marketing @VMware) about the importance of finding a community for technical learning, career advice, mentorship, and helping you find the joy in your current or future jobs.

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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

“Clouds in your Career Journey? (presentation) (video)

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. What types of things are you working on these days, especially in the context of people getting support from communities?

Topic 2 - Tell us about the feedback you’re getting from community members about the importance of technical skills vs. industry-specific knowledge or skills.

Topic 3 - You often recommend “doing an interview” to gauge how well prepared someone is to find a new job, or understand new jobs. Can you elaborate on some examples of how to do this - the “frienderview”.

Topic 4 - Is it ever a good time to align your resume to the current buzzwords of the industry? How far away are your current skills from where you want to be?

Topic 5 - What are some tips for learning the domain-specific terminology as people move into new industries?

Topic 6 - How are you finding ways to Spark Joy in your communities?

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Many Paths of an Engineering Journey May 29, 2019

SHOW: 400
DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian continue the "Four for Four Hundred" shows, with a focus on engineering career opportunities. Then Brian talks with Nick Weaver (@lynxbat, Engineering Leader) about transitioning from customer to vendor, from junior to senior engineers, and the realities of Digital Transformation.

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Nick’s previous appearance on The Cloudcast - Eps 4, 33, 38, 172, 212
Nick’s Blogs The Sustainable Leader (formerly Nickapedia)

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it’s been way too long. What are you up to these days?

Topic 2 - We wanted to bring you back on because you’ve gone through quite a few transitions as an engineer, from infrastructure to cloud to vendor-side to customer-side. Can you share some of the ways that you were able to make transitions, and how you overcame concerns about some of the big leaps?

Topic 3 - Some projects are a success (EMCworld Labs), often wildly successful. How did you deal with success, and then how did you deal with the ongoing maintenance once the shininess wore off?

Topic 4 - Some projects are less successful (vCloudAir). How did you personally handle some of the problems, and how did you grow from it?

Topic 5 - You’re in an engineering leadership role now (and have been for the last few years). How has that changed your perspective, and what are some of the lessons you’ve learned?

Topic 6 - Can you quickly tell the stories of all the Nick Weavers?

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How Big is your Public Cloud bill? May 22, 2019

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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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 May 15, 2019

SHOW: 398
DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian kick off "Four for Four Hundred" by discussing the massive evolutions of the industry over the last 8 years. Then Brian talks with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison, Co-Founder/CTO at Branch Insurance) about the next generation of serverless technologies to help develop applications, focusing only on creating business value, communicating this new approach to engineers, and leveraging technology to take on big markets.

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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been way too long. Tell us about your new company and some of the things you’ve been working on.

Topic 2 - The last time you were on it was the earlier days of serverless. Since then, you’d stayed active around serverless, but have been vocal about how the space has evolved. Where has your experience taken you over the past couple of years?

Topic 3 - You talk (and write) a lot about only focusing on building business value. That’s a hard concept for some technologists to grasp, as they always believe there is some amount of technical debt to own. How do you communicate your perspective on this to people?

Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about thick clients and Netlify and some things that were new to us. What are some of the tools/services you really like these days?

Topic 5 - You’re trying to re-establish the home and auto insurance bundling business. There are big names in this space. How does your technology philosophy allow a small startup to compete against very well established (and funded companies)?

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Simplifying Application Development and Integration May 08, 2019

SHOW: 397
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Matthew Creager (@matt_creager, Co-Founder & VP Developer Relations @manifoldco) about the challenges of cloud silos, connecting apps to multiple cloud services, the importance of collaboration beyond just coding, and how Manifold makes it simpler to integrate apps to align to business needs.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

Manifold Homepage - Find, organize and connect the best cloud services

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background prior to Manifold, and what motivated you to focus on this new model of application development and integration.

Topic 2 - I know one truth about developers, that they prefer things to be simple or taken care of for them. Beyond that, I’m not sure of any absolute truths. It seems like Manifold is somewhere near the intersection of Low-Code and PaaS and Integration Services (API Gateways or Middleware) and CI/CD. Beyond simplicity, how do you describe what Manifold does?

Topic 2a - What is the interaction between the Manifold services and Prefab.cloud services?

Topic 3 - I really like the idea of shared projects and shared billing. How much do you find that overlapping or re-inventing slows down developers?

Topic 4 - Can you help us understand the business model or community model?

Topic 5 - Can you share any examples of how Manifold has helped companies and teams accelerate their application development models?

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Advancements in Webscale Logging May 01, 2019

SHOW: 396
DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Renaud Boutet (@boutetren, VP Product Management @datadoghq) about logging, monitoring, observability, and the challenges of balancing the collection of the right data with the costs of all the data.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

Datadog Homepage - Modern Monitoring and Analytics

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about some of your background prior to joining Datadog, and about your focus areas today.

Topic 2 - Let’s start with some conceptual buckets - how do you sort out the differences when people say “monitoring” vs. “logging” vs. “observability”?

Topic 3 - Logging has the inherent tradeoff between the desire to “log everything” and the limitation of costs to log (and retain everything). What are some of the trends to potentially make this tradeoff more manageable?

Topic 4 - At some point, the tradeoff between sending logs, filtering logs, storing logs all boils down to a financial trade-off of immediate costs vs potential costs associated with failure. How do you see those conversations playing out in real life? Any suggestions on a framework for doing those types of analysis?

Topic 5 - What role do you see AI playing in the future of Logging/Observability? It seems like that needs to become the next big step if the industry solves the challenges of logging/storage more and more.

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A VC's Perspective on AI and Security Apr 24, 2019

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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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

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 Apr 17, 2019

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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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

SHOW NOTES:

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 Apr 10, 2019

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"

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 Apr 03, 2019

SHOW: 392
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Uma Chingunde (@the_umac, Engineering Manager at @Stripe) about engineering career paths as an IC or Manager, how managers can be effective mentors, job rotations, and how diversity is an opportunity for every team.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK:

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

Uma Chingunde’s Background: https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/vl-ca/public/schedule/speaker/336620

Navigating the Mid-Career Plateau (Uma’s Velocity Talk)
Stripe Homepage - Online payment processing for internet businesses

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, as well as some of the things you’re working on these days at Stripe.

Topic 2 - We’ve discussed the career mindset of people more on the sales/marketing side of companies, but you’re beginning to look at this within engineering teams. Let’s start with the framework of how you think about that for yourself and then for people within your team.

Topic 3 - What are traditional vs non traditional IC and manager paths you can explore?

Topic 4 - How do you think about the engineer vs manager track? Does it always have to be these two options, or are you seeing other paths, maybe more senior options as an IC?

Topic 5 - What are some variations on the above for underrepresented groups?

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Real-World SRE Perspectives Mar 28, 2019

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 Mar 20, 2019

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

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

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 Mar 15, 2019

SHOW: 389
DESCRIPTION: Brian talks with Adam Hunt (CTO and Chief Data Scientist at @RiskIQ) about the breadth of security breaches, how AI/ML can play a role if used properly, and immediate steps to improve protection for breaches.

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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK
AWS Announced Open Distro for ElasticSearch
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/keeping-open-source-open-open-distro-for-elasticsearch/

Rebuttals or Commentary on Open Distro for ElasticSearch

Continuous Delivery Foundation launched by Linux Foundation
https://devops.com/the-linux-foundation-launches-continuous-delivery-foundation/

VC Investment in the Service Mesh space
Bouyant ($10M)
Tetrate ($12.5M)

SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS:

RiskIQ - https://www.riskiq.com/
Onboard Machine Learning Like a Junior Engineer - https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/04/onboarding-machine-learning.html

SHOW NOTES:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite an interesting and impressive background. Can you talk a little bit about your work in academia prior to RiskIQ, and then what drew you to this space?

Topic 2 - RiskIQ focuses on helping companies mitigate massive security attacks. For people that don’t live in the security domain, can you give us a sense of what one of these attacks and breaches look like?

Topic 3 - Can you give us a sense of how many of these massive attacks are utilizing new techniques, or is it variants of existing techniques, or just old techniques looking for new (vulnerable) targets? And are there tools to help companies understand how to prioritize against these?

Topic 4 - Where are we in the industry in terms of the intersection of security best practices that IT teams can control, and when ML-driven capabilities can augment for more proactive security?

Topic 5 - What are some of the things that you’re recommending to companies that are helping to make immediate impacts to them preventing or reducing massive breaches?
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New Tools for Cloud Native Developers Mar 06, 2019

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 Feb 27, 2019

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

Show Interview Links:

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 Feb 20, 2019

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 Feb 15, 2019

Show: 385
Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) about jobs around the IT industry, and the opportunities, challenges and trade-offs in making various types of mid-career job changes.

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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Want to talk about the pros and cons of various types of jobs in and around the IT industry - Vendors, Integrators, Contractors, Consultants, IT within a Company (Customer)

Topic 2 - Most of the 2000s and about half of the 2010s were a huge boom for remote workers. It feels like that trend is reversing. Lots of Silicon Valley companies are reversing it, the major Public Cloud providers are specific about location, IBM had a push back towards offices. Walking the fine line between a remote team or an in office team. Also, challenges to stepping into leadership. Some leadership is not remote friendly historically

Topic 3 - If you decide that you want to work around “emerging” technologies, you’re usually having to decide between a few critical factors - travel, visibility/marketing/advocating, salary certainty, and career path.

Topic 4 - “Move up the stack” or “Move towards value” - Is this something that is realistic for people that have 5+ years in a skill set? What are some realistic things people could do in this domain?

Topic 5 - What are some examples you’ve seen or recommends you’ve been given about how to make these transitions?

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Multi-Cloud Security Feb 06, 2019

Show: 384
Description: Aaron talks with Harry Sverdlove (@TheSecureWord, Founder & CTO Edgewise Networks) about the evolution of security to embrace both a micro-services and multi-cloud world.

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Topic 1 - Briefly Introduce yourself and tell everyone a little bit about your background.
Topic 2 - The topic of security historically has been a weakness for Brian and I, let’s start at the start and cover a few base topics first. What are some of the big challenges customers are facing today in hybrid and public cloud?
Topic 3 - I came from the “secure the perimeter” world back in the day. How has this concept evolved and does it still apply to operations today?
Topic 4 - Are we evolving into an anomaly detection mindset going forward? How does AI/ML assist (if at all) in this area vs. historical trends and pattern matching?
Topic 5 - As applications move to more cloud native architectures joined with a loose coupling of microservice, how does this change play into approaching the problem?
Topic 6 - Last question, what implications does multi-cloud present?

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A Serverless Look Ahead for 2019 Jan 30, 2019

Show: 383
Description: Aaron and Brian talk with Paul D. Johnston (@PaulDJohnston, Co-Founder ServerlessDays (creator of “Jeff”), CXO Serverless Consultant) about the current state of Serverless, Serverless vs. FaaS, how to economically think about functions of code, and areas where Serverless needs to improve.

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Cloud News of the Week

IBM signs deal with Vodafone - https://newsroom.ibm.com/2019-01-17-IBM-Vodafone-Business-Join-Forces-to-Drive-Innovation-in-Rapidly-Changing-World
IBM signs deal with Juniper - https://www.ibm.com/blogs/cloud-computing/2019/01/18/ibm-juniper-cloud-agreement/
Travis CI acquired by Idera - https://blog.travis-ci.com/2019-01-23-travis-ci-joins-idera-inc
Confluent, creators of Kafka, raised $125M in VC funding in a Round D, at a $2.5B valuation - https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/01/23/open-source-unicorn-confluent-reaches-25-billion-valuation-three-years-after-hiring-its-first-sales-rep/#67d93c3315e2
Microsoft buys Citus Data (open source Postgres SQL) - http://zd.net/2FQfF2v

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Paul’s Blog - https://medium.com/@PaulDJohnston
The ServerlessCast #6 - Event-Driven Thinking with Paul Johnson - http://www.thecloudcast.net/2017/05/the-serverlesscast-6-events-vs-functions.html
ServerlessDays - https://serverlessdays.io/

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Happy New Year, hope you’re having a good 2019. It’s been a while since you were last on the show. As the creator of Jeff, what have you been up to lately?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about a basic thing that seems to confuse people. What’s the new definition, or the actual difference (if there is any), between “Serverless” and “Functions as a Service”.

Topic 3 - I’ve seen you mention several times on Twitter that, “Few people really understand how powerful serverless can be. They focus on the wrong things.” Help us get focused on the important parts.

Topic 4 - I’ve also seen you say that “with serverless, infrastructure is a rounding error.” Walk us through the economics of your experiences with serverless, and how you think about “profitable software”.

Topic 5 - Why do you think it seems like so many of the other cloud offerings are so far behind AWS Lambda?

Topic 6 - At a high level, what is working well in serverless, and what is still complicated or missing? What’s your wishlist for 2019?

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An AI and ML Look Ahead for 2019 Jan 23, 2019

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
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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 Jan 16, 2019

Show: 381
Description: Brian talks with Ethan Banks (@ecbanks, co-founder of @PacketPushers) about the state of ITOps and Infrastructure heading into 2019.

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Ethan’s Blog - https://ethancbanks.com/
Packet Pushers Homepage - https://packetpushers.net/
Datanauts Podcast - https://packetpushers.net/series/datanauts-podcast/

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Welcome to the show. For anyone that isn’t already a listener to one of the many Packet Pushers podcasts, give us a little bit on your background.

Topic 2 - From an ITOps perspective, it seems like the last few years have been focused on “Software-defined” or “Hyper-Converged”, “Hybrid Cloud” and various forms of Automation. How much of those are real concerns of ITOps, and how much of that is vendor hype?

Topic 3 - As the usage of the public cloud grows, how much do you see ITOps professionals feeling like they can influence architecture and design, or feel like they are having to shift their focus to other tasks?

Topic 4 - You’ve been around the industry for a while, both as a practitioner (hands-on engineer) and now with a broader industry perspective. What are the biggest changes you’ve seen over the last couple years, and what are the areas that just never seem to change/evolve?

Topic 5 - We know that application teams are becoming more ingrained in business decisions (lines-of-business, etc.), but is that same thing happening with the ITOps teams as well?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ITOps and Infrastructure trends that you expect to be following/exploring more in 2019?

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A Cloud-Native Apps Look Ahead for 2019 Jan 09, 2019

Show: 380
Description: Brian talks with Jeff Meyerson (@the_prion, Host of @software_daily) about the state of Cloud-native application development heading into 2019.

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Software Engineering Daily - https://softwareengineeringdaily.com

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what motivates you to continue to dig into every aspect of Cloud-native application development?

Topic 2 - Developers have lots of opinions and approaches to building software. Have you seen much in terms of commonality or consistency about how developers are building cloud-native applications?

Topic 3 - What are some of the areas that developers really love today, and some areas where developers are really frustrated?

Topic 4 - A decade ago, it was all about the LAMP stack. We hear about the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack, but also lots of discussions about things like Kafka and more real-time applications. Are you seeing trends around application stacks, or is it really about lots of options now as applications move to microservices (and serverless)?

Topic 5 - SED covered quite a few aspects of Machine Learning in 2018. What are some of the things you’ve learned about ML usage and how it’s impacting application developers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the topics that you’re really interested to explore in 2019?

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A DevOps Look Ahead for 2019 Jan 03, 2019

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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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 Dec 31, 2018

Show: 378
Description: Aaron and Brian review the biggest news, trends and topics of 2018.

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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 Dec 21, 2018

Show: 377
Description: Aaron talks with Brad Rydzewski (@bradrydzewski, Co-Founder of Drone.io) about the current state of CI/CD in our industry.
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Drone.io Homepage

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Application Delivery and Snapt Dec 13, 2018

Show: 376
Description: Aaron talks with Dave Blakey, CEO and Founder of @SnaptADC, about the international startup scene, the evolution of application delivery and the emerging trends around the intersection of networking and DevOps.
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Serverless Management and Knative Dec 06, 2018

Show: 375
Description: Brian talks with Mark Hinkle (@mrhinkle) and Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa), Co-Founders of @TriggerMesh, about the evolution of serverless and functions-as-a-service in the Kubernetes ecosystem, the new Knative framework, and how companies are considering the use of functions for new applications.
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TriggerMesh Homepage - https://triggermesh.com/
The ServerlessCast #2 - Kubeless (Sebastien Goasguen) http://www.thecloudcast.net/2017/02/the-serverlesscast-2-kubeless.html
The Cloudcast #102 - Open Source 101 (Mark Hinkle) http://www.thecloudcast.net/2013/03/the-cloudcast-eps78-open-source.html

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Both of you are Cloudcast alumni. Tell us about this new company that you’ve started.

Topic 2 - Sebastian, the last time we spoke with you, you had created the Kubeless project (at Skipboxx), just before selling it to Bitnami. That was when “Serverless on Kubernetes” was beginning to get very fragmented. Since then, Knative has come along to try and bring some unity around Serverless on Kubernetes. Give our listeners some basic understanding of how Knative works.

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about TriggerMesh. Introduce us to the technology, and the role it plays in a Serverless or Knative or FaaS management environment?

Topic 4 - Where do you expect to see the most innovation around Knative - Serving, Builds or Events? What are some of the areas where TriggerMesh is focused?

Topic 5 - What are some of the serverless use-cases that you’re hearing about from early customers?

Topic 6 - What are some of the things that customers are beginning to ask for that have surprised you?

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All of the 2018 AWS reInvent Announcements Dec 01, 2018

Show: 374
Description: A review of all of the AWS 2018 re:Invent announcements
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Categorizing The AWS Roadmap

The retail approach to all shapes and sizes (EC2, DBs, etc)
The combined features (“solution”) approach
The “we don’t know” approach - becoming “serverless” (e.g. DB, LBs, AI)
Customers - what do we hate about a big vendor we use
Amazon is the 1st customer in a new business

AWS re:Invent 2018 Announcements (it's hard to get them all)

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Revolutionizing Big Data Apps Nov 28, 2018

Show: 373
Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Venkat Venkataramani (@iamveeve, Co-founder and CEO of @RocksetCloud) about building apps without pipelines, and serverless search and analytics with native SQL.

Cloud News of the Week:

All the News and Announcements from AWS re:Invent

Show Interview Links:

Rockset Homepage
Rockset announces $21.5M in funding
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and what motivated you to start Rockset.

Topic 2 - Sometimes we have founder guests that have a past of previous startups. And sometimes we have founder guests that are introducing something that sounds like it breaks most of the previous rules we’ve known. Let’s walk through what Rockset is attempting to deliver - “Apps without Pipelines”, “Serverless search”, “Schemaless ingest”, “natively uses SQL.”

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the use-cases that might not have been possible before Rockset, or were overly complex or expensive before Rockset?

Topic 4 - You highlight that all of this is accessible via SQL, which is widely known and used by both technologists and typical data analysts. When you combine this with serverless concepts, is the focus of Rockset very much on making it easier for the masses to build and use data-centric applications?

Topic 5 - What is some of the early feedback that you’re getting from users or the community about how the RockSet approach is different for them?

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Reinventing Software Collaboration Nov 21, 2018

Show: 372
Overview: Aaron and Brian talk with Kurt Schrader (@kurt, Founder/CEO of @Clubhouse) and Mitch Wainer (@MitchWainer, CMO of @Clubhouse) about the evolution of project management for software development teams.

Cloud News of the Week:

Google hires Thomas Kurian to replace Diane Greene - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/google-cloud-ceo-greene-being-replaced-by-former-oracle-exec-kurian.html

Show Interview Links:

Clubhouse Homepage - https://clubhouse.io/
Clubhouse Enterprise Edition - https://www.clubhouse.io/enterprise

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, both us you. Give us a little bit of your backgrounds, and how you got together to start Clubhouse.

Topic 2 - Tell us about the Clubhouse platform. It’s focused on helping companies build software more rapidly and with better collaboration. What was broken about software development before Clubhouse came along?

Topic 3 - Both of your have been involved in software development for many years. We love talking to founders that have a built a product that they need/want to use. What were some of your moments that convinced you that it was time to build something new vs. being frustrated with what existed?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the Clubhouse platform. What makes it unique, and what are some of the benefits of bringing together things like Stories, Project Metrics, Kanbana boards, integrated Collaboration into a single platform vs. many tools.

Topic 5 - The Enterprise version of Clubhouse just shipped. The company already has more than 1000 active customers. What have you learned from them that helped shape the Enterprise product?
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Getting Started with UX Research Nov 14, 2018

Show Number: 371

Overview: Aaron talks with Melissa Eggleston (@melissa_egg, Director of UX @teamworks | Co-founder of @ladiesthatuxDUR) at All Things Open about her work on UX research, how to ask the right questions, and balancing past research vs. analytics and new research

Cloud News of the Week:

Show Interview Links:

Melissa Eggleston - All Things Open
Teamworks Homepage
Melissa's Blog and Slides from "Getting Started with UX Research"
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Show Notes

Aaron and Melissa talk about her talk "Getting Started with UX Research", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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Tales From a DevOps Transformation Nov 07, 2018

Show Number: 370

Overview: Aaron talks with Lee Eason (@leejeason; Director of DevOps at Ipreo and the co-founder of Tekata.io) at All Things Open about his DevOps transformation for all of the organization’s 30+ products and 65+ scrum teams leading to a dramatic reduction in manual work and an increase in quality and customer satisfaction across the board.

Cloud News of the Week:

TriggerMesh Launches (Serverless Management)
Hashicorp Raises $100M Round of Funding
VMware acquires Heptio
IBM announces intent to acquire Red Hat

Show Interview Links:

Lee Eason - All Things Open
Ipreo Homepage
Tekata Homepage
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Show Notes

Aaron and Lee talk about Lee's talk "Tales from a DevOps Journey", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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What We Know (now) About Serverless Nov 01, 2018

Show Number: 369

Overview: Aaron talks with Pam Selle (@pamasaur; Software Engineering Lead at @IOPipes) at All Things Open about the current state of Serverless applications, Serverless monitoring, and the evolution of Serverless DevOps.

Cloud News of the Week:

Show Interview Links:

Pam Selle - All Things Open
IOpipe Homepage
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Show Notes

Aaron and Pam talk about Pam's talk "What We Know (now) About Serverless", from the All Things Open event in Raleigh, NC - October 22nd, 2018.

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(Part III) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars Oct 25, 2018

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 Oct 17, 2018

Brian talks with the founders from FIX Health, Portabl and Safely, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 2 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC.
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Show Notes:
Company 1: FIX Health
[Update] FIX has secured a MetLife pilot to build a new short term disability product.
CEO: Mike Tinney
Atlanta, GA

Use game based entertainment to help a person re-prioritize physical activity and well being.
Already in the market. Launching a second product.
92% success rate vs. 56% typically from corporate programs
Do you target companies with certain demographics - enjoy playing games?

Company 2: Portabl
Founders: Mike Minnet and Ali Lanning
London, England

Creating Insurance and Benefits for Freelancers and the Gig Economy
Safety net with big company benefits
Offer traditional company well-being for freelance workers

Company 3: Safely
[Update] Safely grew their revenue by more than $500k since joining Techstars.
Founders: Andrew Bate and Lui King
Atlanta, GA

The Trust and Safety Company for the Rental Industry
Insurance development/change is very slow
Insurance isn’t top of mind for people’s needs
Algorithms help find the bad renters
This builds on the growth of AirBnB or VRBO?

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(Part I) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars Oct 10, 2018

Brian talks with the founders from Buddy, Enroll Hero and FitBliss, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 1 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC.
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Company 1: Buddy
[Update] Has a signed reinsurance commitment from their Lloyd's syndicate, so their product is fully backed
CEO: Charles Merritt
Richmond, VA
On-demand accident insurance to enable people to explore the world and have adventures.

Adventure/outdoor people
Extreme sports

Company 2: Enroll Hero

[Update] Secured pilots with MetLife and Northwestern Mutual
Founders: Mark Lee and Bryan Kocol
Santa Monica, CA
Helping people make it easier to get the right Medicare
“The TurboTax for Medicare”

10,000 people a day are turning 65
Direct to consumer business; challenges of building trust
“Total costs of care” vs. “Monthly Premium” costs

Company 3: FitBliss
[Update] Closed Salesforce as a customer and 10x'ed their revenues
CEO: Navid Rastegar
San Francisco, CA
"Optimize Well-Being and Productivity"

Integrate with many devices and services
Like a personal trainer or financial planner for well-being
Both an employee and employer tool

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Taking Spinnaker for a Spin Oct 03, 2018

Brian talks with Andy Glover (@aglover, Director of Delivery Engineering @Netflix) about Spinnaker, release automation, the challenges of multi-cloud platforms, and how the community around the Spinnaker project has evolved.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you came to be involved in the Spinnaker project.
Topic 2 - For anyone that’s not familiar with Spinnaker, can you give us the basic concepts of the technology, and some of the problems that it tries to solve?
Topic 3 - Lots of people are familiar with CI/CD tools like Jenkins. How does Spinnaker compare, or is it complementary to CI/CD tools?
Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the Spinnaker community. Obviously Netflix released the project (back in 2015), but how has it evolved and expanded through the community?
Topic 5 - What are some of the common ways that companies are using Spinnaker today?
Topic 6 - Are there easy ways for Developers or Ops teams to get started with Spinnaker today?

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Interactive Learning for Cloud-Native Sep 26, 2018

Brian talks with Ben Hall (@Ben_Hall, Founder of Ocelot Uproar, creator of @TeamKatacoda) about the evolution of helping developers learn new Cloud-native technology skills, and how Katacoda is making that an online, browser-only reality.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background in founding Ocelot Uproar, and how Katacoda got started.
Topic 2 - Katacoda is similar to a concept that I had a while ago, I called it Cloud Garage Labs, and I’m really glad Katacoda exists now. Tell us about all of the technologies that engineers can interact with today?
Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the user's experience. Beyond the browser and reading the interactive tutorial, what does a user have to do?
Topic 4 - Some of the topics are vendor-specific (e.g. Weave, OpenShift, etc.), but many are more generic. Who is creating them, maintaining them, and how do you choose to add new things? Are there costs to adding new topics?
Topic 5 - What is some of the backend technology that you’ve built in order for all these topics to be hosted and delivered in just a browser-based experience?
Topic 6 - Where do you want to see Katacoda expand to over the next couple years?

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The Cloudcast #363 - IoT and APIs Sep 20, 2018

Aaron talks with Stuart Mitchell (@mokanix_api, CEO of Mokanix) about emerging trends in the IoT transport layer and the intersection of IoT and APIs.
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Topic 1 - Stuart, tell the listeners a little about yourself and your background
Topic 2 - With your background in telco and specifically Tata Communications, how did you develop your interest in IoT as the “next big thing”?
Topic 3 - Your company is called mokanix. It appears to have a different take on many other IoT guests we’ve had in that it has a focus on the intersection of SIM cards and APIs. Help folks that aren’t familiar with the basics of that need understand the problem.
Topic 4 - Would customers embed your API into their existing apps? How would this typically be implemented?
Topic 5 - Why would someone choose SIM technology over other tech for the transport layer
Topic 6 - How is security handled by the product? Can you lock out a card for instance if it is lost?

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The Cloudcast #362 - Security & Service Meshes Sep 12, 2018

In a joint show between The Cloudcast and PodCTL, Brian and Tyler Britten talk with John Morello (@morellonet, CTO at @TwistlockTeam) about how Service Mesh technologies, such as Istio, can be used for more advanced security of containerized applications and Kubernetes environments.
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Securing Istio and Kubernetes
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and introduce us to Twistlock for anyone that isn’t familiar with the company.
Topic 2 - One of the most popular concepts in the world of containers and Kubernetes is “Service Mesh” (projects like Istio). Let’s talk about the basics of what a service mesh does.
Topic 3 - Service mesh provides routing capabilities, so let’s talk about where security comes into the picture.
Topic 4 - Service mesh introduces a concept in Kubernetes where you deploy multiple containers in a pod, one the application and one the service-mesh proxy. Does security introduce yet another container/agent into a pod?
Topic 5 - What sort of tools are available today for security professionals are service meshes are introduced into a container environment?

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The Cloudcast #361 - Single Pane of Glass at USA Today Sep 05, 2018

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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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 Aug 29, 2018

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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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 Aug 22, 2018

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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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 Aug 15, 2018

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.
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Open Consensus - Data Driven Perspectives on Open Source Software
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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 Aug 02, 2018

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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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 Jul 26, 2018

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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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 Jul 20, 2018

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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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 Jul 12, 2018

Aaron and Brian talk about some of the behind the scenes details on product launches - both new products and on-going updates.
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Topic 1 - Topic 1 - Let’s start with the basics. What’s the typical checklist before a product launch?

Timeline and schedule (New Product Introduction (NPI) Checklists/Supply Chain aspects) 
Multiple groups (internal & external) involved 
Early customer involvement and feedback 
Go-to-Market (GTM) planning  • Multiple Transfers-of-Information (TOI’s) end to end

Topic 2 - The product is ready to go to market. How much “stuff” has to be created for all the groups that might care about the product?

Documentation & Message Guides 
Pricing Models (and SKUs) 
Field Training 
Customer Training 
Support Training 
Sales and Technical content 
Demos 
Press and Analyst Content 
Competitive Content

Topic 3 - What do you consider a successful product launch?
Topic 4 - How have product launches changed over the years, for things you’ve worked on?
Topic 5 - What are some commons mistakes you see companies make with launches?
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The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show Jul 04, 2018

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 Jun 27, 2018

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja) about the World Cup, women in tech events, and brainstorming about potential new hosts and formats for The Cloudcast.
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Man Who Has It All (Twitter Account)
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show.
Topic 2 - I want to talk about “women in tech” events, or sub-events at other events. I also want to talk about women on panel discussions.
Topic 3 - I’d like to bounce an idea off you about having some new hosts on the show, and potentially a different format for shows.
Topic 4 - How would you suggest we go about finding potential hosts?
Topic 5 - Your kids play soccer. You’re starting to play soccer. Do you have a pick for the upcoming World Cup? Do you have a favorite soccer podcast?

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The Cloudcast #351 - Reviewing DockerCon 2018 Jun 18, 2018

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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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 Jun 07, 2018

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.
Show Links:

Accenture Cloud Platform
Accenture Cloud Blog
Michael Liebow on theCUBE at AWS:reInvent
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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 May 31, 2018

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 May 24, 2018

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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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 May 17, 2018

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? May 09, 2018

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 May 02, 2018

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.
Show Links:

Google Cloud Databases and Storage
Dominic’s Blog on GCP Blog
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 Apr 25, 2018

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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SWIM.AI Website
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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 Apr 19, 2018

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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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 Apr 12, 2018

Brian talks with Steve Abraham (Principal Solutions Architect @ Amazon Web Services) building and migrating databases in the cloud, how companies are managing migrations, the demands for open source databases, and how the worlds of database and serverless are intersecting.
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AWS Cloud Databases
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and also the areas you focus on at AWS.
Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about the difference between new and existing databases. Does AWS see more demand for DB-migrations or new DBs in the cloud?
Topic 3 - What are some of the tools or services to migrate existing databases to AWS databases
Topic 4 - You’ve been a DBA in the past. How have you seen DBAs adapt to work on DBs in the cloud?
Topic 5 - What are some of the ways that AWS is improving or eliminating some of the need for constant DBA interactions and tuning, or "improving" the DBA experience? “Serverless databases”?
Topic 6 - Any tips for how companies address databases in a microservices world? Can you break up a monolithic database?
Topic 7 - How does AWS think about wiring together data-sources (databases, storage, etc.) with some of the advanced AI/ML services?

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The Cloudcast #341 - Modeling & Managing Enterprise Applications Apr 05, 2018

Aaron talks with Rahul Ravulur (@ravulur, Co-Founder & CEO of @AppOrbit) about how companies are managing the transition from Legacy applications to Cloud-native applications, the challenges of modeling new environments, and how deployments have changed in the past decade.
Show Links:

AppOrbit Website
AppOrbit GitHub
AppOrbit Emerges From Stealth (2017)
Launch of AppOrbit 2.0 Platform
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Topic 1 - Rahul, welcome to the show; give everyone a brief introduction and your background
Topic 2 - Tell us about your journey to leave VMware and found AppOrbit
Topic 3 - What are the common issues are you seeing the industry today around application deployment? What is going well and what challenges remain?
Topic 4 - How are the deployment challenges around “Cloud Native” applications different from “Legacy” applications in 2018? How has this thinking evolved over the last few years as customers are educated on the differences?
Topic 5 - How are customers using AppOrbit today?
Topic 6 - Where and how does application security fit into this model?

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The Cloudcast #340 - Adding AI into Software Platforms Mar 29, 2018

Brian talks with Srinivas Krishnamurti (@skrishna09; Founder/CEO of Zugata) about the evolution of workplace management, how companies should think about problems that might require AI, the level of complexity needed to add AI to existing platforms, and how to manage the Human-to-AI interactions in software.
Show Links:

Zugata Homepage
Zugata on The Cloudcast (Eps. 221)
Zugata Insights
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Topic 1 - Welcome to back the show. Remind people about Zugata and give us some updates on Self-Improvement as a Service.
Topic 2 - Zugata recently launched “Zugata Insights”

Improve Company Culture
Eliminate Gender Bias
Better Understand the Skills & Attributes of Top Performers

Topic 3 - Zugata is a SaaS-based platform. How do you add AI-centric services to a SaaS platform?
Topic 4 - What is the state of available technology to add AI capabilities (e.g. existing open source tools, or cloud-based services) vs. having to hire that skill vs. retraining in-house developers?
Topic 5 - Your tools directly interact with human-centric issues. How much adaptation has to happen to steer AI around human-centric decisions vs. non-human-centric decisions?

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The Cloudcast #339 - Understanding Cryptocurrencies & Markets Mar 22, 2018

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.
Show Links:

Jesse’s been around for awhile and a Cloudcast alum, link to Cloudcast #116
Strix Leviathan Website
Strix Leviathan Techcrunch Article
$1.6M Funding Round
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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 Mar 15, 2018

Brian talks with Josh Stella (@joshstella, CEO of @FugueHQ) about what DevSecOps means, how companies manage the tension between Developer agility and Operations stability, how to codify Governance via code, and early steps to success in DevOps culture.
Show Links:

Fugue Homepage
Josh Stella, Infrastructure as Code (on theCUBE)
Infrastructure Governance at the Speed of DevOps
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and why you decided to focus on DevOps, Security, Compliance and Governance.
Topic 2 - DevOps is culturally hard. Moving to the cloud is technically hard (move data, refactor apps, etc.). How do you guide people about what areas of those changes to tackle first, or put more focus on?
Topic 3 - DevOps is two opposing motivations trying to work in harmony. How does “Sec” fit in to create this DevSecOps concept?
Topic 4 - In the past, Governance and Compliance were primarily Security functions, and somewhat periodic “validation” functions. Now the technology allows them to potentially be constant guardrails and checks. What’s the state of Governance and Compliance?
Topic 5 - What guidance do you gives customers that ask how to get started in DevOps, Security, Compliance and Governance?

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The Cloudcast #337 - Cutivating IoT From Farm to Cloud Mar 08, 2018

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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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 Mar 01, 2018

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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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 Feb 22, 2018

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 Feb 15, 2018

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.
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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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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 Feb 08, 2018

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.
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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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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 Feb 02, 2018

Brian talks with Ariel Munafo (@ArielMunafo, TotusCloud) and Amit Dunsky (@amit_dunsky, high-T Cloud Computing), co-hosts of the CloudTalk Podcast about the Cloud Computing market in Israel. This is a co-branded show and will also be published on CloudTalk podcast channel.
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CloudTalk Podcast (in Hebrew)
TotusCloud
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background in Cloud Computing and what drove you to create your podcast?
Topic 2 - Let's talk about the differences in cloud cultures between the US vs Israel, in terms of venture-capital, adoption, support, innovation, etc.
Topic 3 - Let's discuss the regulatory issues affecting cloud adoption in each country.
Topic 4 - You both do some work with Israeli government agencies, what about cloud adoption by the government offices and agencies?
Topic 5 - Let’s also discuss local tech conferences as an index to how much the cloud is presence and how it indicates the cloud vendors' plans ahead.

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The Cloudcast #331 - Has SRE replaced DevOps? Jan 25, 2018

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).
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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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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 Jan 18, 2018

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
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Oracle Cloud Architecture
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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 Jan 11, 2018

Aaron and Brian attend a lot of technology events throughout the year. They give their suggestions to trade show organizers and attendees for getting the most of out 2018 events.
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Topic 1 - What events do you enjoy attending? Not enjoy attending?
Topic 2 - What works for you at events?
Topic 3 - What could be improved or added?
Topic 4 - What should be eliminated, or re-imagined?
Topic 5 - Should we see more “independent” events combined (or parallel to) “vendor” events?

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The Cloudcast #328 - Creating a Tech Podcast Jan 04, 2018

Aaron and Brian give some tips and suggestions for anyone wanting to start a tech podcast.
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Podcasting Suggestions (via The Cloudcast)
Sample Podcast Show Notes
Podcasting 101 - Tips & Tricks from Buzzsprout
Podcasting Microphones
Fiverr Voiceover Marketplace
Royalty Free Music
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Topic 1 - Why are you podcasting? (motivation, goals, understanding the marketing)
Topic 2 - How much of a commitment is podcasting? (scheduling, recording, editing, publishing)
Topic 3 - How do you get started? (costs, tools, determine format, finding guests, awareness)
Topic 4 - What are the most difficult aspects of hosting a podcast? (scheduling, prep-work, consistency)
Topic 5 - What is involved in recording, editing, publishing? (sound quality, edits, tools, studio vs. on-the-road recording)
Topic 6 - How do you manage to do this along with a day job? (timing of guests, conflicts of interest, topics)

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The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions Dec 27, 2017

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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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

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.)

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?

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 Dec 23, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest news stories and trends that happened in 2017.
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Container Stuff
1. Docker - New CEO; Docker > Moby;
2. Kubernetes winning the Container Orchestration Wars - but do we now only talk about it being boring and irrelevant?
Cloud Stuff - When do we hit the Cloud Tipping Point
3. Azure getting bigger, but big enough? ($20B run-rate; includes O365)
4. AWS re:Invent - can it be stopped? ($18B run-rate)
5. Google Cloud - still ??? (says almost 2,500 employees)
Infrastructure Stuff
6. New Blue Print Emerging? Hyper-Converged Infrastructure & “Secondary Storage” all with public cloud integration. Also virtualization vs. containers orchestration
7. VMware’s cloud direction? - Big 3 Public Clouds have placed their bets (AWS/VMware, GCP/Nutanix/Cisco/VMware, Azure/Azure Stack)
8. Where does Serverless Fit? Does it? Is it a Public Cloud only play?
Stuff we don’t understand - We have been Emerging Tech, Where is the next emerging tech?
9. BitCoin / Blockchain - did you bet your mortgage on it? Aaron’s interesting conversation around this recently
10. AI & ML - AWS is trying to make it easier (DeepLens); everyone including AI in their products
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The Cloudcast #325 - The Next Step in Development Automation Dec 15, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Rod Johnson (@springrod, Co-Founder & CEO @atomist) about the evolution of development frameworks, developer productivity, the Spring community, and how Atomist is helping simplify the experience of developers interacting with containers and Kubernetes and microservices.
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Topic 1 - Thanks for joining us today Rod, for those that aren’t familiar, give everyone a bit about your background prior to Atomist and your background with development platforms (sold SpringSource to VMware for $420M in 2009).
Topic 2 - You have seen a pretty amazing transition in development platforms over the last 5-7 years. What trends made you decide to start a new company?
Topic 3 - This leads us to your most recent announcement, a Series A round and launch of Atomist. Tell everyone about Atomist. As I understand it this is a development automation platform. What problems are you trying to solve?
Topic 4 - How is Development Automation different from traditional CI/CD?
Topic 5 - What use cases are applications are your customers doing today with Atomist? Is this primarily cloud native apps and development on public cloud platforms? How are folks both consuming and creating?

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The Cloudcast #324 - Data Management as a Kubernetes Service Dec 10, 2017

Brian talks with Niraj Tolia (@nirajtolia, Co-Founder/CEO of @KastenHQ) at KubeCon about the evolution of data management with cloud and containers, the Kasten K10 platform and open source Kanister project, how Kubernetes is changing how we interact and manage data, and how a new approaches to data management can benefit from the CNCF community of projects.
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The Cloudcast #323 - OpenTracing for Distributed Microservices Dec 09, 2017

Brian talks with Ben Sigelman (@el_bhs, Co-Founder/CEO of @LightStepHQ) at KubeCon about his experiences at Google, the evolution of Open Tracing, the public launch of Lightstep, how operations teams are adapting to microservices applications, and how Lightstep is interacting with new CNCF projects like Envoy and Istio.
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Lightstep Homepage
Open Tracing Homepage
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The Cloudcast #322 - Build and Deploy Cloud-Native Apps Nov 21, 2017

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.
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Chef Habitat
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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 Nov 16, 2017

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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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... Nov 09, 2017

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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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 Nov 02, 2017

Brian and Tyler Britten talk Julius Volz (@juliusvolz, @PrometheusIO co-founder, promcon.io founder) about the evolution of Prometheus monitoring, from v1.0 to v2.0. We discuss the updated features and scalability, as well as best practices, lessons learned in production, and how Prometheus might interact with emerging projects such as Istio, Envoy and Linkerd.
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Prometheus (homepage)
PromCon and PromCon Videos
Prometheus v1.0 on The Cloudcast(v1.0 launch)
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Topic 1 - Welcome back, it’s been about a year. Are you surprised at how much Prometheus has taken off since you first created it at SoundCloud?
Topic 2 - Prometheus 2.0 is now available (or soon shipping). What are the major things that are new in this release?
Topic 3 - What are some of the best practices you’ve found in deploying Prometheus in production?
Topic 4 - What are the biggest lessons learned, or things you wished you’d have known back then?
Topic 5 - Does Prometheus have a role in some of these emerging “service mesh” technologies like linkerd or Istio, that are trying to add more intelligence into application routing patterns?

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The Cloudcast #318 - Evolution of Cloud Data Management Oct 27, 2017

Brian talks with Kenneth Hui (@kenhuiny, Technical Marketing Engineer) and Andrew Miller (@andriven, Technical Marketing Manager) at @Rubrik about how Cloud Data Management is changing with the evolution of distributed systems and the use of the public cloud.
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Rubrik Website
Rubrik Blog
Why Rubrik? (whiteboard)
Rubrik raises $180M in VC funding (April 2017)
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Topic 1 - Ken, welcome back to the show. Andrew, welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds and what attracted you to go work for Rubrik?
Topic 2 - So in the last 12-14 months, Rubrik has taken $240M+ ($292M total) in VC funding and is adding 100s of people per quarter. I thought the days of VC investment in non-cloud infrastructure companies was over. What’s going on?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Rubrik’s core architecture and why it’s so different from what companies have used in the past?
Topic 4 - How much are people using the public cloud as a storage destination, and what has to happen differently to get data into the public cloud vs. what has to happen in a local data center?
Topic 5 - With Rubrik’s different architecture (software-centric, distributed processing, etc.), what new best-practices are starting to emerge?
Topic 6 - From what I can see, Rubrik is mostly focused on VM-centric environments. Any plans to get into container-centric environments?

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The Cloudcast #317 - The State of the Serverless Ecosystem Oct 20, 2017

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.
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ServerlessCode
Managing Serverless Framework with Ansible
Slides from Ryan's talk
Ben Kehoe’s “DiffOps”
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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 Oct 12, 2017

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.
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ParkMyCloud Website
ParkMyCloud Blog
Per Second Billing for AWS EC2 and EBS
Per Second Billing for Google Cloud
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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 Oct 05, 2017

Brian talks with Tanya Selvog (@AWSNewbie, Jr. Web-Developer, Full-Stack Developer in training) about how new(er) engineers are learning skills, engaging with learning communities, and adapting to a changing job market for software developers.
Show Links:

100 Days of Learning AWS
My First Alexa Skill
AWS Newbies Meetup - Austin, TX
Code Newbie
Women Who Code
General Assembly’s Web Developer Immersive Course
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. I found your name on Twitter because you have an interesting handle (@AWSNewbie) and you were telling a story about learning new technologies. Tell us a little bit about your background and how you’re evolving in the technology world.
Topic 2 - You decided to enroll in this immersive course (12-weeks). Tell us about that environment. What did you learn? What works, what doesn’t work, what’s the learning process, etc.?
Topic 3 - You talked about attending a Women in Code event in Austin and getting a chance to use some of the A Cloud Guru trainings. How does the AWS training compare to the web development training?
Topic 4 - You’ve mentioned that you’re engaged with the CodeNewbie community. Tell us about that group - how do people get engaged, what’s shared or discussed, how do people help each other?
Topic 5 - How are you able to apply these new learnings to projects or work activities? How do you market yourself to potential employers?

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The Cloudcast #314 - Managing the Container Herd Sep 28, 2017

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.
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Rancher Labs Website
Comparing Docker Swarm and Kubernetes whitepaper
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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 Sep 22, 2017

Brian talks with Alex Williams (@alexwilliams, Founder of The New Stack) about the evolution of Cloud-Native technologies, the challenges of trying to keep up with rapid change, making sense of data that explains the industry, and how to stay connected to the communities of people driving the technology changes.
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The New Stack (homepage)
Docker & Kubernetes eBooks
The New Stack Podcasts
The New Stack Videos
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s now been 3.5 years for The New Stack. Tell us about the various ways that you’re covering all these new technologies and trends and personalities.
Topic 2 - If you had to explain the 2014-2017 evolution to somebody new to all of this today, how would you summarize all the options (companies, technologies, foundations, etc.) to them?
Topic 3 - How should someone try and make sense of data that is around all these projects? (GitHub stars, survey data, VC funding, the lack of vendor financial reporting, etc.)?
Topic 4 - Do you feel like anything since 2014 has become “mainstream” yet (e.g. containers, DevOps, data analytics), or does mainstream mean something very different in today’s world of cloud services?
Topic 5 - This marketplace moves very quickly. People look to The News Stack to make sense of it for them. How do you and your team keep up and organize your thinking around all of this?

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The Cloudcast #312 - An Introduction to Istio Sep 14, 2017

Brian talks with Jason McGee (@jrmcgee, VP & CTO IBM Cloud) about the origin of the Istio project, the challenges of large project teams, how Istio helps application teams, and the evolution of cloud-native application frameworks on Kubernetes.
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Istio Framework
Istio on GitHub
Boston Istio Meetup
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For anyone that's not familiar with Istio, what is it, what cdoes it do, and what types of problems does it solve for developers?
Topic 2 - Istio is beginning to get some traction at meetups tradeshow talks. Where is it in terms of maturity, open governance, developer participation?
Topic 3 - Is Istio going to be broadly applicable to new applications (cloud-native, microservices), or do you see it trending towards a specific type of use case?
Topic 4 - Istio is being adopted by the companies and the technologies around Kubernetes, the CNCF, etc. Do you feel like the Kubernetes architectural approach is going to be the direction that we'll see going forward for modern application development and container usage?
Topic 5 - What are the best ways for companies or developers to start experimenting with Istio? Is it easy to get started? Is there training yet?

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The Cloudcast #311 - Google Cloud & Kubernetes Sep 07, 2017

Brian talks with Chen Goldberg (@GoldbergChen, Director of Engineering, Container Engine & Kubernetes) and Mark Mandel (@Neurotic, Developer Advocate, Co-Host Google Cloud Platform podcast) at Google.about the state of Kubernetes maturity, how Google manages cloud services and open-source projects, Developers perspectives on Kubernetes, "boring" applications, Kubernetes Federation, and trends around Kubernetes community participation.
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Topic 1 - Where do you see Kubernetes today in terms of maturity, breadth of capabilities, ease of use, etc.?
Topic 2 - How is Google's Engineering structured to manage GKE/GCP services, open source contributions and partner engagements?
Topic 3 - What are some of the common use-cases with GKE usage? Do you also track Kubernetes usage on GCP services to see where you need to expand/improve GKE?
Topic 4 - Is Kubernetes easy enough, or robust enough for developers today? If not, where does it need to expand? Should this be within Kubernetes, or in other areas like Istio (or other)?
Topic 5 - How do you see Kubernetes Federation evolving? What might be possible for end-customers over time?

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The Cloudcast #310 - The Mid-Year 2017 Update Sep 01, 2017

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..
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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 Aug 30, 2017

Brian talks with Seth Vargo (@sethvargo, Director of Technical Advocacy @HashiCorp) about the evolving security footprint of modern applications, the increasing needs for secrets management with microservices, the challenges of managing encryption, how to maintain highly available environments, and the evolution of Pittsburgh as a tech city.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background as a technologist and author.
Topic 1a - And since we’re going to talk about Vault, give us the basics of the Vault platform.
Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics. Why are we seeing so many more discussions about secrets management with microservices vs. legacy applications?
Topic 3 - What are the core challenges that microservices applications face with regard to secrets? Is it key management, or key rotation or encryption of secrets, or something else?
Topic 4 - Since secrets are so central to microservices, and critical to normal operations, how do you make sure that a platform like Vault is highly available? Or what happens if it goes out of service?
Topic 5 - If we’re talking about microservices, the conversation typically evolves to deploying them, which leads to discussions about container schedulers. Can you talk about the challenges that schedulers have with secrets and how Vaults helps to manage those challenges?

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The Cloudcast #308 - Can VMware cross the Cloud chasm? Aug 25, 2017

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 Aug 16, 2017

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja), John Troyer (@jtroyer) and Matthew Broberg (@mjbrender) from the Geek Whisperers podcast (@geek-whisperers) about the closing of their podcast/community, the evolution of cloud careers, and lessons learned from community interaction.
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - for us to talk to all of you together. Let’s start by talking about what Geek Whisperers was, and then why mom & dad have new hobbies.
Topic 2 - A lot has changed since you started, back in 2012. HW to SW. On-Prem to Cloud. Open Source. Vendor communities to lack of vendor trust. What are the big trends that wish you had a better grasp on?
Topic 3 - What does a 2012 Whisperer tell a colleague on career advice vs. a 2017 Whisperer?
Topic 4 - Do you buy into the idea that technology is moving much faster these days? And if so, have you found any good tips or tricks to staying ahead of it, no matter what part of the tech industry someone might work in (tech, sales, management, etc.)?
Topic 5 - What types of things worry you about our industry at this time?
Topic 6 - What are you hopeful about for either people in the communities you engage with, or for the next generation of folks that will have technology all around them?

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The Cloudcast #306 - PaaS Adoption from Around the World Aug 11, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Thurupathan Vijayakumar (@ThuruTweets, Solutions Architect | Developer | Microsoft Azure MVP) about cloud deployments in Asia, the business drivers for using public cloud services, the challenges of data sovereignty, and how companies are managing their organizations to align to microservices.
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re our first guest from Asia, joining us from Sri Lanka. Tell us about your background and the types of technology projects you’re working on today.

Topic 2 - Recently you wrote a book about building cloud applications on Azure. Can you talk about what attracted you to use Azure (vs. AWS or other clouds) - discuss some of the types of applications you’re building.

Topic 3 - You have an interesting perspective having worked with companies from multiple parts of the world. Can you give us some perspective on trends in Asia vs. other areas? What business demands are driving their technology decisions?

Topic 4 - How do the companies you work with manage data sovereignty and the location of public cloud data centers?

Topic 5 - What are some of the core technologies that you’re using these days? How much do you use native Azure services vs. containers vs. other technologies? How are you keeping up with learning those technologies?

Topic 6 - As you’re beginning to focus on microservices architectures, how are you finding global customers adapting to what that means within their internal IT cultures and processes?

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The Cloudcast #305 - Last Week in AWS Aug 04, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist/Last Week with AWS) about the complexity of AWS bills, the rapid expansion of AWS services, the challenges of “best practices” and the biggest AWS trends and mistakes.
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you decided to get into the “saving money” or “economics of technology” business?

Topic 2 - AWS is sort of a strange technology company to explain to someone that comes from traditional IT, in that they just release new features randomly. So it’s sort of like a SaaS, but it’s also like a big toolbox. Your newsletter helps, but how do you find that people are to keep up with the randomness of all the features?

Topic 3 - Do you think that AWS eventually gets too complicated for the broader market?

Topic 4 - Beyond the issues around costs/pricing, what are the big AWS trends that you’re tracking, or that your clients are using to improve their businesses?

Topic 5 - What are some of the big mistakes that companies make in using various AWS services, whether they are cost-related or security-related or availability/performance-related?

Topic 6 - Let’s play a quick speed round before we end the show. Give us a sense of pace of growth for each of these AWS services:

- Lambda
- Big Data (Dynamo, Redshift, Kinesis)
- IoT
- Snowball or Snowmobile (raw data movement)
- ECS (containers)Feedback?

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The ServerlessCast #8 - Managing Serverless Performance Jul 28, 2017

NOTE: Sorry about the patchy audio quality in spots on this episode, we didn't notice until we edited the show that both Adam's and Aaron's connections weren't the best this time. We cleaned it up the best we could. Thanks for listening!
Aaron and Brian talk with Adam Johnson (@adjohn, CO-Founder/CEO of @IOpipe)about the momentum of Serverless, the challenge of identify performance bottlenecks, if NoOps is real or not, how APMs have to evolve in a Serverless world.
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and walk us through the process of being part of the TechStars incubator program. Tell us a little bit about IOpipe.

Topic 2 - It took a little while for people to grasp the concept of serverless (e.g. AWS Lambda), but now it has a lot of momentum. What made you think it was the the right focus for the company a few years back?

Topic 3 - Why IOpipe? What problem does is solve? How is it “Included” in existing FaaS code today? How is that different from the Serverless Framework plugin?

Topic 4 - Serverless seems to be associated with the NoOps movement, since the underlying platform tends to do many things the Ops team used to do. Where does an APM platform like IOpipe fit into the discussion? Is it used by a Serverless Ops team, or mostly by Developers?

Topic 5 - What are some of the common performance challenges with Serverless that people should be aware of? Follow Up: What are some of the most common emerging use cases?

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The Cloudcast #304 - Ansible, DevOps and Containers Jul 17, 2017

Brian talks with Robyn Bergeron (@robynbergeron, @Ansible Community Architect) about managing large OSS projects, how teams adopt DevOps culture and tools, the role of Containers with Ansible, the spread of OSS operations tools, and the role of automation with Serverless.
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Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Let's talk about the Ansible community. You've been around large and fast moving communities for a while. What makes a healthy OSS community or project?

Topic 2 - I've been reading a number of surveys recently about important tech skills and Ansible is always near the top of the list. What do you think is driving that level of importance?

Topic 3 - We’re were both at a DevOps event with Gene Kim last week. Where do you see DevOps in the industry today in terms of success, best practices, etc. and what role does Ansible play with DevOps?

Topic 4 - Let's talk about containers. How is this space evolving? Lots of new tools, etc.

Topic 5 - Let’s talk about Serverless. Lots of talk about this being the ultimate NoOps movement. What do you hear from Ops engineers about how they plan to evolve with these new abstractions.

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The Cloudcast #303 - Public Cloud at a Tipping Point Jun 30, 2017

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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[Blog] Cloud Computing hits a tipping point
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[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 Jun 23, 2017

Brian talks with Thomas Munn (@symgryph, Principal IoT Security Researcher at Cree Lighting) about the challenges of moving from manufacturing to software, planning for IoT-scale deployments, securing millions of devices, and how Ansible and Azure Cloud help solve scaling challenges.
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Cree Lighting website
Open SCAP Framework
Ansible Tower
CentOS Hardening Tool
Prometheus Monitoring
AIDE - Advanced Intrusion Detection

Show Notes

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background in technology, as well as this project you’re currently working on.

Topic 2 - Cree is a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of lighting-class LEDs, lighting products and products for power and radio frequency applications. Today we’re talking about software development. Why is Cree making this evolution?

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about how you think about scaling a project like this, to 100s of millions of devices. Does the public cloud come into play?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the security challenges involved with managing the infrastructure, the data and all the security connections.

Topic 5 - What are some of the key lessons you’ve learned over the last year on this project?

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The Cloudcast #301 - SRE and Infrastructure Operations Jun 15, 2017

Brian talks with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, Founder/CEO of @RackN) about the concepts of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), the challenges of maintaining infrastructure software, emerging tools and the next-generation of operations.
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Google SRE Book

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Let’s start by talking about the concept of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering). Give us the basics and maybe explain how it differs from what people define in DevOps.

Topic 2 - Application development has been moving faster for quite a while (agile development, etc.). But now infrastructure/operations teams have to deal with faster software - especially around updates (e.g. Kubernetes releases every 3 months). How are companies managing this?

Topic 3 - Given that this pace of operations change may not slow down, how do you think about the challenge in terms of process/operations versus technology/tools?

Topic 4 - What are some of the steps that companies take to better prepare for this type of operational model? Tools, process, skills, etc.

Topic 5 - Do you see SRE as being a progression for existing infrastructure/operations people, or is this more focused on sysadmins or developers that want to get away from building applications?

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The Cloudcast #300 - The Good, the Bad and the Boring Jun 09, 2017

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 May 26, 2017

Brian talks with Kolton Andrus (@KoltonAndrus, CEO of @GremlinInc) about his background at Amazon and Netflix, the discipline of Chaos Engineering, the challenges of breaking things in production, and Gremlin Inc’s approach to building better applications and systems.
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background and why you like to break stuff.

Topic 2 - A lot of people have heard about this concept (tool) called “Chaos Monkey”, but you were part of teams that made this a discipline, called “Chaos Engineering”. Help us understand what that means and what it attempts to do.

Topic 3 - As people build distributed, cloud applications, they are often using a platform (e.g. Kubernetes) and application frameworks (e.g Spring Boot). Does there need to be alignment between the elements of Chaos Engineering (tools, etc.) and those platforms/frameworks?

Topic 4 - Topic 4 - We understand that technology now drives a 24x7x365 world, but the idea of intentional chaos in production seems crazy. How does a company get buy-in to start doing this stuff?

Topic 5 - What are some commons mistakes, design faults that companies make that Chaos Engineering often finds….and can help resolve?

Topic 6 - How does Gremlin fit into the world of Chaos Engineering?

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The Cloudcast #298 - An Introduction to Linkerd May 18, 2017

Brian talks with William Morgan (@wm, Founder/CEO of @buoyantio) about his background at Twitter, an introduction to Linkerd and the concept of Service Mesh, how Linkerd compares to other application logic, and the role of foundations (e.g. CNCF) vs. communities.
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Linkerd website
Buoyant webpage
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Linkerd on Github
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A Service Mesh Manifesto
CNCF Webinar - Introduction to Linkerd

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background and why you decided to bring Linkerd and ultimately Buoyant to market.

Topic 2 - Give us the basics of what Linkerd does and what it is useful for cloud-native applications?

Topic 3 - You talk about this concept called a “Service Mesh”. What is that and what does it provide for applications?

Topic 4 - There are existing alternatives to Linkerd in both the platform world (e.g. native Kubernetes services) and the application framework world (e.g. Spring Boot/Cloud). How do you help people sort out when one makes sense vs. another?

Topic 5 - Linkerd is now an official project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). CNCF now has many projects. Is Buoyant aligning their technology roadmaps to other CNCF projects, or do they tend to operate independently and be driven by customer/community demand?

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The ServerlessCast #7 - Go Sparta Framework May 13, 2017

Aaron talks with Matt Weagle (@mweagle, Startup Entrepreneur and creator of the Go Sparta framework for AWS Lambda) about the origins of serverless, the state of the community, why so many developers attend and what he's solving with the Go Sparta framework for AWS Lambda.
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Sparta, a Go Framework for AWS Lambda
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Seattle Serverless Meetup

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - As a "serverless veteran", what are your thoughts on the state of serverless?

Topic 2 - Why do you think the serverless events tends to draw so many developers and practitioners vs. the normal crowd of vendors?

Topic 3 - How can people better engage with the community beyond this event? Are there Slack channels?

Topic 4 - Let's talk about the Go Sparta project, the Go framework for AWS Lambda.

Topic 5 - What are the use-cases that you see where serverless makes sense?

Topic 6 - What are the challenges that people are still struggling with?

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The ServerlessCast #6 - Event-Driven Design Thinking May 11, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Paul Johnston (@PaulDJohnston, Serverless Consultant, CTO @Movivo) about running a company entirely on serverless, the on-going benefits of not maintaining servers, new application patterns with events, and what he wants to see from serverless in the future.
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - You just gave a talk at ServerlessConf about how CTO's can consider using serverless for their products or services.

Topic 2 - Tell us about the origin of the term "Jeff" as it relates to serverless.

Topic 3 - Let's talk about the benefits that you're seeing in running Movivo completely on a serverless environment.

Topic 4 - How has your thinking changed about 3-tier applications and architectures vs. event-driven architectures?

Topic 5 - What is a "bulky function"? How to evolve from procedural thinking to event or asynchronous thinking?

Topic 6 - How do you think about optimizing the many functions that make up an application?

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The Cloudcast #297 - Bonsai and Enterprise Industrial AI May 07, 2017

Aaron talks with Dave Cahill (@dcahill8, VP Sale and Marketing, Bonsai) about Enterprise/Industrial AI and emerging use cases. Topics include understanding various forms of AI, developer integration, and where and how AI will fit.
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Bonsai - how it works
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Forbes article on Challenges of AI
Bonsai and TensorFlow

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Tell everyone a little bit about Bonsai? What problem are you trying to solve?

Topic 2 - Everyone thinks robots when they think AI but this isn’t the case most of the time, correct? It’s more about sensors and data and the ability to make more accurate decisions faster?

Topic 3 - In a recent blog post, you mentioned that their is a Use Case Spectrum for AI that ranges from Augmentation to Autonomy. Help everyone wrap their head around that.

Topic 4 - Mark Hammond (Founder and CEO) talks about the democratization of AI, what does he mean by this?

Topic 5 - Mark has mentioned, AI will become a low level toolkit the way databases have. It took me awhile to wrap my head around what he meant by that. But, as I understand it, no one “builds” a database into their app anymore, is he saying that in order to reach mass adoption, most developers won’t build in AI in the future?

Topic 6 - You have three main phases to Bonsai BRAINs: Build, Teach, Use. Explain to folks out there what what that means. There is an example of teaching an AI to play the old Breakout style game on the front page of the website.

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The ServerlessCast #5 - ServerlessConf and IBM OpenWhisk May 02, 2017

Aaron talks with Jason McGee (@jrmcgee, VP & CTO IBM Cloud) about IBM OpenWhisk and Bluemix. Topics include event driven vs. FaaS, on-prem solutions, open source, use cases and early adoption. Recorded at ServerlessConf in Austin. (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside)
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Show Notes:

IBM OpenWhisk

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The ServerlessCast #4 - ServerlessConf and Azure Functions Apr 30, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Chris Anderson (@crandycodes, PM for Azure Functions) and Yochay Kiriaty (@yochayk, PM for Azure Functions) about Azure Functions and platform integrations from ServerlessConf in Austin. (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside)
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Show Notes:

Getting Started with Azure Functions

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The Cloudcast #296 - KubeCon, DockerCon, Azure Functions and Bears, Oh My! Apr 21, 2017

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).
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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 Apr 12, 2017

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.
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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 Apr 07, 2017

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.
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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 Apr 02, 2017

Aaron talks with Matthew Boeckman (@matthewboeckman, owner dryas.io, ex-VP of DevOps Craftsy) about life in the DevOps trenches at a high growth startup over the course of six years. Lessons learned, and a glimpse into what’s next in the industry.
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Dryas.io Website
Craftsy Website
Matthew's Articles on Dryas.io
Matthew's Articles on DevOps.com
VictorOps Blog
Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - We first met at AWS Re:Invent a few years ago while you were still at Craftsy and I was fascinated by your journey to where you are now. You were doing DevOps before it was cool. Tell us a little about your history and your run up to opening your own consulting business?

Topic 2 - What were your keys to success running both DevOps and Operations?

Topic 3 - As a practitioner, how much do you follow the DevOps community? Are there certain people or trends that you follow? What is interesting to you these days?

Topic 4 - Looking back, what would you have done differently?

Topic 5 - We have a lot of listeners that are just starting out, how would you recommend they get started?

Topic 6 - What made you decide to leave your role at Craftsy and hang out your own signpost?

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The Cloudcast #293 - Silicon Hollow, From Coal Miners to Coders Mar 22, 2017

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" andPopular Mechanics: Breakthrough Award

Topic 6 - How can we help you tap into a broader technical community?

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The Cloudcast #292 - VMware, Beyond Virtualization Mar 17, 2017

Aaron and Keith Townsend (@ctoadvisor) talk to Chris Wolf (@cswolf, VP & CTO, Global Field & Industry at VMware) about emerging trends in the Enterprise and he gives us some insight into where he thinks the industry will go in the next few years.
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Chris Wolf's Follow Up Post
Keith's CTO Advisor Website

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - It’s been a little over 3 years since you’ve gone over to VMware, leaving the analyst side at Gartner. How has the adjustment been? What’s been the biggest change?

Topic 2 - Tell us about how what trends you are seeing in the industry and what is interesting to customers you talk too.

Topic 3 - You wrote a blog series at the end of 2016 about the Third Industrial Revolution, tell everyone what you meant by that.

Topic 4 - We talk to a lot of CTO’s and VC folks, it is always great to get their personal views as well, what is interesting to you personally these days?

Topic 5 - Let’s talk VMware a bit, where do you see VMware’s vision talking the company in both the short and long term?

Topic 6 - Something we see a lot of interest in lately is Function Based computing, sometimes referred too as Serverless. Will VMware be pursuing this technology as the next technology horizon post containers? How would other infrastructure products such as NSX or VSAN fit into this picture?

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The Cloudcast #291 - Thoughts from Google Cloud NEXT 2017 Mar 12, 2017

Aaron and Brian review the Google Cloud NEXT 2017 event.
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Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud NEXT 2017 videos (Keynotes & Breakout Sessions)
Google Cloud Platform blog (all the new announcements at NEXT 2017)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - What were our overall thoughts on the show vs. our expectations coming into the week?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the Google Cloud Community event, hosted by Sam Ramji and Sarah Novotny, before the Google Cloud NEXT event.

Topic 3 - What is your impression of the 2017 show vs. the 2016 show? Have the changes been good?

Topic 4 - What has impressed you about the messaging and technology at Google Cloud NEXT 2017? What were your favorite technologies announced this week?

Topic 5 - What has surprised you or been disappointing about the messaging and technology at Google Cloud NEXT 2017?

Topic 6 - Where do you now put Google Cloud in relation to other public cloud vendors as well as other technology vendors that companies can choose to work with these days?

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The Cloudcast #290 - Managing Data Across Multiple Clouds Mar 11, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Joe Arnold (@joearnold, Founder/Chief Product Officer @SwiftStack)about the evolution from OpenStack to today’s public cloud world. They discuss how customers are managing, valuing and protecting data in multiple cloud environments, as well as how they should think about avoid large-scale cloud failures.
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Eps.96 with Joe Arnold - “More than OpenStack”

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Great to have you back on the show. Let’s talk about the evolution from the OpenStack community to the public cloud communities.

Topic 2 - With the growth of public cloud services, are you seeing companies doing new things with data that weren’t common in the private data-center days? New types of applications, or just different usage models?

Topic 3 - With all the talk about hybrid-cloud or multi-cloud, how are companies actually getting the data from one cloud into another?

Topic 4 - Is there a difference between running software-defined storage in multiple locations and having a platform that can interact with multiple cloud APIs?

Topic 5 - What is your guidance to companies that have large amounts of data, but also want to leverage multiple cloud platforms (for various reasons - cost, risk-management, local data services, etc.)

Topic 6 - It had been a while since there was a significant public cloud outage. With the recent S3 outage, do companies need to come back and ask new questions about how to think about data and the public cloud?

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The Cloudcast #289 - Enabling Voice-First Ecosystems Feb 24, 2017

Aaron talks with Alex Linares (@linaresa, Co-founder & CPO, @VoiceLabsCo) andTerren Peterson (@Terren_in_VA, Alexa Dev Champ, @CapitalOne) about the emerging voice operating system market, driven by products like Amazon Echo/Alexa and Google Assistance, as well as the range of applications and data analysis being built upon these platforms.
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Capital One DevExchange
VoiceLabs Website
Voice Report by VoiceLabs
Terren's Alex Champion Page

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - We’ve got two great guests tonight. Adam and Terren, please introduce yourselves and give us some of your backgrounds.
Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the “voice-first” market. It’s no longer cool for people to use their telephone for “voice calls”, but talking to computers is an exploding market. Give us the basics.
Topic 3 - Terren, you’re an “Alexa Dev Champ”. Give us a sense of what the Alexa skills mean for your work at Capital One? How does this tie into the future of banking or credit cards?
Topic 4 - Alex, Voice Labs is focused on the analytics behind these voice services. Can you give us a sense of not only the technology behind your analytics platform, but some of the interesting use-cases companies are able to create with your analytics?
Topic 5 - Cloud Computing has completely reshaped the role of IT and how developers interact with resources. How is this voice-first movement going to reshape industries, or open up new industry capabilities?
Topic 6 - Many people know the physical devices from Google or Amazon, but these capabilities are being embedded in many other devices. How far will we see the voice-first capabilities expand? (cars, phones, etc.)
Topic 7 - What’s the best way for developers to get started with this technology?

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The ServerlessCast #2 - Kubeless - Serverless Framework for Kubernetes Feb 17, 2017

Brian talks with Sebastien Goasguen (@sebgoa, Founder @skippbox)about his experience with containers, the focus of Skippbox, market demand for serverless, the architecture of Kubeless, and how the emerging serverless+kubernetes projects need to evolve.
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Skippbox acquired by Bitnami on March 7, 2017
Skippbox website
Kubeless - Serverless Framework for Kubernetes (GitHub)
“Docker Cookbook” by Sebastien Goasguen (O’Reilly)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us some of your background, as well as what you’re doing at Skippbox these days.

Topic 2 - Before we jump into “Kubeless”, let’s talk about what you’re hearing around serverless in the market today.

Topic 3 - Tell us about the Kubeless architecture.

Topic 4 - With different serverless functions, they initially support a limited subset of languages. Since Kubernetes is language agnostic, why does the limitation exist, or how complex is it to add new languages?

Topic 5 - You mention on the project’s GitHub page that there are other “serverless on Kubernetes” alternatives out there (Funktions, Fission, OpenWhisk, etc.). Do you expect that one of these projects will emerge, or do you see these starting to merge and just become a job type within Kubernetes?

Topic 6 - Let’s come back to Skippbox. You have a focus on Kubernetes and the tooling around making it easier to deploy and run. What are you seeing in the Kubernetes market and when are people engaging with Skippbox?

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The Cloudcast #288 - Understanding Public Cloud Spending Trends Feb 10, 2017

Aaron and Brian talk with Mat Ellis (@matellis, Founder/CEO of @cloudability) about the evolution of public cloud spending, the knowledge level of cloud buyers, how AWS is trending vs. Azure and GCP, the market for Reserved Instances and how companies are beginning to think about Serverless computing.
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Mat’s “Cloud Prediction” from 2008

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Great to have you back on the show. First off, how are things going at Cloudability? We see that Cloudability is now managing the costs of nearly 1/3rd of all AWS usage.

Topic 2 - The last time we talked, most of the public clouds did not report revenues, but we’re now seeing that broken out. Give us a high-level view of what’s happening with spending in the public clouds? How has it evolved over the last couple years?

Topic 3 - Cloudability has always had a strong focus on AWS, but what are you seeing in the market in terms of demand for Azure, GCP or IBM’s cloud?

Topic 4 - Cloudability focuses a lot on not just cost awareness, but helping companies be smart about planning purchases via Reserved Instances. How is the learning curve evolving for the market? Are their secondary markets emerging for Reserved Instances?

Topic 5 - Do you get asked a lot by companies to help them compare internal costs vs. public cloud costs?

Topic 6 - Let’s talk about “serverless”. How much interest do you hear about that, and what sort of costing questions are people asking?

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**The Cloudcast #287 - Venture Capital and the Cloud Native Landscape** Feb 01, 2017
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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RedPoint Ventures website

RedPoint “Memory Leak” Blog

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?

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The ServerlessCast #1 - Project Fission Jan 24, 2017

Brian talks with Madhura Maskasky (@MadhuraMaskasky; Founder/VP of Product @platform9sys) about managing distributed cloud platforms, the evolution from OpenStack to Kubernetes in the market, the demand for Serverless capabilities, Project Fission and the use-cases for Serverless.
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Platform9 Homepage

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Platform9 has evolved from a hosted OpenStack platform to hosted Kubernetes and Serverless. What trends are you seeing in the market to bring these new offerings to market?

Topic 2 - Both containers and new, cloud-native/microservices applications are getting a lot of attention. Do you find customers tying those two trends together, or is adoption somewhat independent?

Topic 3 - Let's talk about the serverless offering, Fission. Can you give us the basics of the technology and your thinking behind making it open source?

Topic 4 - What are you hearing the market about serverless adoption/interest, and is there a specific set of use-cases that you're initially targeting?

Topic 5 - Are the Fission and Kubernetes offerings linked together? If so, I'm curious about how much of a role you see containers and Kubernetes playing in the future of serverless implementations.

Topic 6 - Since Fission is open source, do you primarily see if being run on your platform (or a public cloud platform), or do you see a place for serverless application on-premises for customers?

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The Cloudcast #286 - Balancing Monolithic Apps and Microservices Jan 13, 2017

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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Red Hat Developers Blog
DevNexus (Java) Conference
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?

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**The Cloudcast #285 - Automation, DevOps & Reddit** Jan 11, 2017
Aaron and Brian talk with Jason Edelman (@jedelman8, Founder @networktocode), and Matt Oswalt (@mierdin, Software Engineer @stackstorm) about the state of automation in the industry, how people are evolving their skills, if any of this DevOps is real, and what’s it’s like to be Internet Famous for a day.
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Network to Code website

Jason’s Blog

Stackstorm website

Matt’s Blog - Keeping It Classless

Network Programmability & Automation (book - pre order)

Tech Field Day

"2 Types of IT Techies" - Reddit Thread

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show Jason and welcome to the show Matt. Tell about what you’re working on these days.

Topic 2 - What are the big trends (around automation) or popular practices that you’re seeing in the market these days?

Topic 3 - Both of you guys are essentially “self taught” software/automation engineers. But there’s a bunch demand for people to learn these skills and tools. How are you seeing people learn how to make automation helpful to their jobs?

Topic 4 - Matt, you’ve been at both mid-sized companies and web-scale companies and open source companies. Is there anything applicable between those two types of worlds that people can take for their jobs?

Topic 5 - You’re both focused on networking. How much of automation needs to be on software elements (e.g. SDN, etc.) and how much has evolved from existing systems?

Topic 6 - OK, let’s talk about this Reddit thing. First off, tell people what Tech Field Day is, and then give us the timeline about learning about this Reddit thread.

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The Cloudcast #284 - 2016 Review & 2017 Predictions Dec 28, 2016

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 Dec 27, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk about the state of the public cloud, where each of the big 3 fit in the global IT picture, the big trends happening (mostly) in public cloud and what people should be tracking as we move into 2017.
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Predicting the End of the Cloud Era 
The Cloud Native Landscape (Project) (with CNCF)
GitHub Revenues

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - At the end of 2016, what is the general state of the Public Cloud, in all areas? (SaaS application, pricing?, Apple?, Facebook?

Topic 2 - Where does AWS sit in the global IT landscape?

Topic 3 - Where does Azure sit in the global IT landscape?

Topic 4 - Where does GCP sit in the global IT landscape?

Topic 4a - Does any other cloud matter except those Big 3? (e.g. Baidu, Alibaba, etc.)

Topic 5 - What trends, technology, problems, are emerging and should on people’s radar in 2017? (Open Source, SaaS, Serverless, IoT, Machine Learning, AI, Bots, GitHub

Topic 6 - What did we lose in 2016 from a Public Cloud perspective? (VMware, Cisco, HPE Helion, Oracle? ,Security, etc.)?

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The Cloudcast #282 - Managing Multi-Cloud Services Dec 20, 2016

Brian talks with Joe Kinsella (@joekinsella, Founder and CTO of @CloudHealthTech) about his background at startups, the growth of the AWS ecosystem, how the buying patterns for cloud have shifted at customers, and how the rest of the industry compares to AWS.
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CloudHealth Website
CloudHealth Blog
Joe’s Blog 
Joe’s “Cloud” Predictions for 2017

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. CloudHealth is winning awards and growing, but for people that don’t know about you, give us some background on yourself and the company?

Topic 2 - The AWS re:Invent show was a couple weeks ago. What’s the vibe of that marketplace? Compare it to the vibe you’re seeing from other cloud marketplaces?

Topic 3 - CloudHealth does a lot of interesting things in term of managing cloud resources - performance, cost management, multi-cloud. What are some of the biggest cloud-usage drivers you’re seeing today - who is the buyer, what are the types of applications, etc.?

Topic 4 - We’re many years into “cloud”, but it’s still not a completely mainstream thing for many companies. What lessons are people still learning and are those lessons now starting to get embedded into software/services?

Topic 5 - How has spending on the cloud evolved over the last couple of years?

Topic 6 - How do companies view IT vs. Shadow IT these days? Is it still a problem, or is Shadow IT being embraced more by the business because things are getting done faster?

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The Cloudcast #281 - Monoliths and Microservices Dec 13, 2016

Brian talks with Anders Wallgren (@anders_wallgren, CTO of @ElectricCloud) about evolving technology and organizational culture, how to think about monolithic applications in today’s business context, the challenges of microservices, lessons learned from good CI practices, and emerging patterns to evolve existing applications.
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Electric Cloud website
Electric Cloud blog (Anders' writings)
Electric Cloud podcast (C9D9)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We had Sam Fell on about a year ago (Eps. #219) at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, but it’s good to reconnect with the folks at Electric Cloud. Give us some of your background and focus at Electric Cloud.

Topic 2 - I’ve been reading several of your blogs lately about monoliths and microservices and how companies manage transitions. Let’s dig into that a little bit, especially how you frame the evolution process.

Topic 3 - I feel like people can talk about DevOps and transformation and lots of other stuff, but if companies can’t do Continuous Integration (CI) well, then a lot of this stuff won’t ever happen. From a technology standpoint, is that the place for companies to start?

Topic 4 - We hear many people talk about using the Strangler Pattern for breaking up monoliths, or re-architecting them. Are there other well-known ways to manage these transitions?

Topic 5 - Obviously moving to microservices, or just building microservices makes your company a $Billion dollar unicorn, but what are some of the downsides? Not every company does very well as managing high levels of change and distributed-ness.

Topic 6 - Can you give us a few examples of companies that have successfully managed a monolith to microservices migration?

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The Cloudcast #280 - DevOps from the Enterprise Nov 29, 2016

Brian talks with Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell, Cloudcast's Chief DevOps Correspondent) about the DevOps Enterprise Summit (#DOES16), DevOps success stories, how companies manage the evolution, common DevOps failures and any models that can be reused by other companies.
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Josh’s Blog
Session Videos from DOES2016
DOES2016 on Twitter (#DOES2016)
State of DevOps Report 2016

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your experiences at DOES in UK vs. DOES in US.

Topic 2 - What stories of successful DevOps implementations did you hear about, and were there any commonalities in those stories?

Topic 3 - Are you seeing the successful companies focus more on people/process or cultural changes or automation/CI/CD or on application transformation as part of their DevOps journey?

Topic 4 - Have any models emerged that are showing companies how to move DevOps from greenfield environments or POCs or Centers of Excellence (COEs) to wider-scale adoption?

Topic 5 - How are people managing the distributed nature of “two pizza teams” and the overhead of keeping projects in sync?

Topic 6 - What are the common pitfalls or mistakes that companies need to avoid if they are moving down the path towards DevOps?

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The Cloudcast #279 - Understanding Kubernetes Operators Nov 18, 2016

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 #278 - Automatic DevOps for the People Nov 18, 2016

Brian talks with John Troyer (@jtroyer, CEO at @TechReckoning, a community for IT pros) about IT organizations are dealing with DevOps, the pace of change, open source software and communities
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Tech Reckoning - A Community of Enterprise Technologists
The Geek Whisperers (podcast)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Catch us up - what’s going on in the world of Tech Reckoning?

Topic 2 - You and I have been having this on-going conversations about DevOps and trying to figure out how it relates to your “former” community at VMware, and the broader world of IT. (e.g. - need for infrastructure and IT infra skills)

Topic 3 - Now a days you are more engaged around open source communities. What are you seeing in terms of users vs. vendors vs. customers vs. a general understanding of these dynamics by the overall marketplace?

Topic 4 - You and I were both at KubeCon last week. What were your thoughts on that “community” and the overall set of communities around containers?

Topic 5 - Communities have evolved somewhat since you were at VMware. Things like Slack, GitHub, StackOverflow, the rise of Meetups, etc. are very different. What do you see that’s valuable and where do you see issues and complexities?

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The Cloudcast #277 - DevOps Perspectives from the Front Lines Oct 31, 2016

Brian and Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell) talk with Chris Short (@ChrisShort, DevOps @SolarWinds) about the day-to-day role of a DevOps Engineer, how he chooses his tools and communications models, what he learned from the military that’s applicable to DevOps and how he uses his development skills to augment operations.
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“What the Military Taught Me About DevOps”

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Tell us about yourself and give us some of your background.

Topic 2 - So you’re a day-to-day, do it for real DevOps engineer. What does that mean these days?

Topic 3 - You recently gave a talk at DevOps Days Detroit about “What the Military Taught Me About DevOps”. Tell us about your talk. What can we learn from the military vs. civilian companies (both good and bad)?

Topic 4 - What are you seeing as the differences between the DevOpsDays events and what you’re doing on a day-to-day basis?

Topic 5 - Does DevOps only work for companies that have cloud-native applications, or is it applicable to any applications or levels of technical debt?

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The Cloudcast #276 - 3D Printing & Maker Movement Oct 30, 2016

Brian and Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell) talk with Harris Kenny (@harriskenny, VP Marketing @ Aleph Objects) about Lulzbot, the state of 3D printing, market segments, experimentation, innovation, new materials usage and how the Maker-Movement is impacting various aspects of the economy.
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Lulzbot Open Source 3D Printing

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Background and what is Lulzbot?

Topic 2 - I understand open source software, but what is open source hardware?

Topic 3 - Help us understand the scale of 3D printing - when is it desktop vs. “industrial”, and what types of projects fit in either category?

Topic 4 - Help us understand the economics of 3D printing? What is it better than today and when does it become better than for other things in the future?

Topic 5 - There is this thing called “Maker Movement” and “Maker Faire”. What are these events and how does this align to open source communities?

Topic 6 - Big Question - We’re at the end of election season, which means people are talking about jobs. The US has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs over the last couple decades. Is 3D printing something that could help reverse this trend, since it involves more technology?

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The Cloudcast #275 - Microsoft, Millennials & Open Source Oct 29, 2016

Brian talks with Heather Shapiro (@microheather, Technical Evangelist @Microsoft) about Microsoft's approach to Big Data, how visualization helps people grasp analytics concepts, helping students learn the basics of big data, and the millennial perspective on the tech industry today.
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Show Notes:

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

Topic 2 - Microsoft big data was Excel and visualization was Powerpoint. So what are you focused on today and what interesting things are you seeing people work on?

Topic 3 - What is a “Microsoft Developer” these days? What languages and frameworks are they focused on, or what tools and platforms?

Topic 4 - You’re a fairly recent grad, or “millennial”. What’s your outlook on the tech industry these days, and what areas of focus are interesting to you and your friends?

Topic 5 - What are the things that surprise you the most (or are most disappointing) about how us old people act in technology?

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The Cloudcast #274 - Stranger Things with Netflix Containers & OSS Oct 28, 2016

Brian talks with Andrew Spyker (@aspyker, Manager, Netflix Container Cloud) about his work on Netflix OSS, the evolution of Netflix’s Container Cloud, the Netflix culture and what other companies might be able to learn from their experiences.
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Netflix OSS
Building a Distributed and Automated Open Source program at NetFlix
Netflix and Containers - Not a Stranger Thing

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Great to finally have you on the show, we’ve been trying to get you on for several years. What are you working on these days?

Topic 2 - What is Netflix OSS these days? Is it a hiring movement, or a “maybe move off AWS movement”, or is it getting non-Netflix adoption?

Topic 3 - You used to work at IBM. What have you learned at Netflix (culture, process, etc.) that could be applied to non-Netflix companies?

Topic 4 - We’ve see some of the Netflix OSS tools getting embedded into the Container and PaaS platforms (e.g. circuit breaker, chaos monkey, etc.)

Topic 5 - You’re also working on containers platforms at Netflix. Containers are a big deal for many companies these days. What has Netflix learned that could be valuable to other companies?

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The Cloudcast #273 - Open Data for Business Oct 28, 2016

Brian talks with Melissa Nysewander (@mnysewan - Fidelity, Director of Data Science) about the state of data-science, how companies are using open and proprietary data, how to explain the value of data science within your organization, and how companies are recruiting data science talent.
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your talk, “Open Data for Business”. What are some of the highlights?

Topic 2 - You talk says that you, “Advocate for data-driven decision making and the application of scientific methods to solve business problems”. What is the business conversation around big data?

Topic 3 - For the non-analytics person, where are we with big data these days?

Topic 4 - You also have a background in teaching and research. “Data” is now part of every aspect of our lives, so what path might kids in school take today to be prepared for this world?

Topic 5 - If you don’t have access to university research, what are the best places to learn or engage with communities??

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The Cloudcast #272 - The Kubernetes State of the Community Oct 24, 2016

Brian talks with Joseph Jacks (@asynchio; Founder @KubeCon; Kubernetes engineering @Apprenda) about the upcoming KubeCon conference, the evolution of the Kubernetes community, why customers are putting the technology into production, areas of improvement and where SIs and ISVs are looking to expand the technology for various markets.
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KubeCon 2016
OpenShift Commons Gathering
CloudNativeCon
Prometheus Day
Cloud Foundry’s Service Broker API Role in Kubernetes and Open Source Platforms

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - It’s Year 2 of KubeCon. Momentum in the Kubernetes community has been growing really quickly. Give us the update on the event. Who are some of the companies that will be speaking about their experiences with Kubernetes?

Topic 2 - We first met about a year and a half ago, before Kismatic (your previous company) went public. Back then it was lots of Kubernetes POCs, but now it seems like more and more Kubernetes in production. How are you seeing the market evolve and what’s driving it?

Topic 3 - Companies have a lot of choices about how to manage containers these days - Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, DIY approaches, etc. What are you hearing about why companies are choosing Kubernetes?

Topic 4 - No architecture is without faults or issues. What challenges do you still see for Kubernetes adopters, or the top priorities for the Kubernetes community?

Topic 5 - Where are you seeing opportunities to interact with the Kubernetes community (for ISVs, Cloud Providers, Emerging Technology areas, etc.)?

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The Cloudcast #271 - VMware and the Book Store Oct 14, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with Greg Knieriemen (@knieriemen, @SpeakingInTech podcast) and Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor, CTOAdvisor podcast) about today’s announcement of VMware vCloud on AWS.
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - What happened today? What are the basics that we know about this announcement?

Topic 1a - Why didn’t this happen 2, 3 or 4 years ago?

Topic 2 - Why do you think each of these companies agreed to this deal/arrangement?

Topic 3 - What does this say about VMware? About the Dell/EMC relationship with VMware? About the vCloud Network of SPs? About Dell and Azure?

Topic 4 - What does this say about AWS?

Topic 5 - Who are the potential winners and potential losers, and where do the ripples in the industry go from here (or do they)?

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The Cloudcast #270 - Are Container Standards Forking? Oct 07, 2016

Brian talks about why there are rumors and discussions in the industry about “forking” docker and other potentially emerging container standards.
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CoreOS creates “Rocket” (rkt)
Tracking Container Standards
Carrying Patches vs. Forking Projects
Kelsey Hightower on The Cloudcast (Eps.261 - Container Formats) 
Introducing OCID
Understanding OCID, or CRI-O
Are vendors planning to fork Docker?

Show Notes:
[NOTE: Towards the end of the show, I got one element incorrect. I mixed-up the OCI and CNCF. OCI is focused on container standards, and Kubernetes and Prometheus are governed under CNCF. The mistake does not materially impact the area of discussion around Topic 4a. Apologies for the mistake.]

Topic 1 - Are there standards for containers today?

Topic 2 - What is a “fork”, and why would there be talk of a fork for docker containers? What does it mean to “carry patches”?

Topic 3 - Why are all of these discussions happening now? What has changed in the container ecosystem?

Topic 3a - Where do the container orchestrators (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm, Nomad, etc.) fit into all these discussions?

Topic 3b - Should customers/companies care about all this standards-body or vendor hand-waving?

Topic 4 - What’s the difference between OCI (Open Container Initiative) and Docker?

Topic 4a - What are OCID and CRI-O?

Topic 5 - What does all of this mean going forward?

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The Cloudcast #269 - Putting Docker in Your Brain Sep 23, 2016

Brian talks with Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, International Man of Tech Knowledge) about the evolution from VMware to Docker communities, teaching ops/sysadmins about Docker, how to keep up with the faster pace of change and where he sees the Docker/docker ecosystem evolving.
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Nigel’s Blog
Docker for SysAdmins [book]
Docker Training [via PluralSight]
In Tech We Trust [podcast]

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us who this guy is that keeps popping up in various Docker-related sources of information.

Topic 2 - How does a Storage and Virtualization guy get into Docker and containers? We thought Docker was for developers.

Topic 3 - Between the book and the training videos, what has been the feedback from people, especially VMware admins (or any I/O Admins) about how they are learning Docker?

Topic 3a - How are Ops Admins able to keep up with the pace of change with Docker, especially since they are used to 1yr+ update cycles from VMware, etc.?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the Docker portfolio and the docker ecosystem. How do you see those two things evolving?

Topic 5 - Are you hearing much about Windows and containers?

Topic 6 - How do you see the next couple years of this ecosystem, as well as the virtualization ecosystems playing out?

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**The Cloudcast #268 - Multi-Cloud Serverless Platform** Sep 16, 2016
Aaron and Brian talk with Chad Arimura (@chadarimura, Founder/CEO of Iron.io) about the history of Serverless/Event-Driven/FaaS/Jeff computing, the differences in frameworks in the market, common customer use-cases and the need for multi-cloud platforms.
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Iron.io Homepage

Iron.io on GitHub

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us some of the background on Iron.io and how we’ve gotten from the start to where this serverless movement is going these days.

Topic 2 - As the serverless movement has started to gain momentum, we’ve been seeing Iron.io mentioned in more and more partnership announcements with platform companies (Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, Cloud Foundry, etc.). Gives us the basics of the Iron.io technologies - How does it augment these platforms?

Topic 3 - There seem to be lots of events-driven platforms / frameworks emerging. What are the core elements that developers and operators should be considering?

Topic 4 - Iron.io has been doing this for quite a while. What are some of the application and design patterns that customers use the Iron.io platform to accomplish?

Topic 5 - What are some of the business challenges that are solved with these events-driven architectures? How do you have a business-level conversation around “serverless”?

Topic 6 - Where are the open source elements of Iron.io and which parts are commercial?

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The Cloudcast #267 - Microservices Memoirs Sep 09, 2016

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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Microservices Memoirs (video / presentation)
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 Sep 04, 2016

Brian talks with Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) about the announcements from VMworld 2016 as well their strategy, customer and technologist feedback, and where this large community is moving forward. They also look at some of the changes and challenges facing legacy vendors vs. cloud vendors.
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VMworld 2016 Sessions (recordings)
Tech Field Day at VMworld 2016

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about the overall vibe at VMworld 2016. Technologists viewpoint, customers viewpoints, etc.

Topic 2 - Were you surprised at how much VMware acknowledged the large public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google, IBM) after downplaying them or FUD’ing them for so many years?

Topic 3 - Regardless of the re-naming (Cloud Foundation, Cross-Cloud), VMware is still pushing the SDDC. Lots of vendors now have a complete stack story (Cisco, Oracle, Red Hat, Microsoft, VMware, etc.). Do you see the complete story resonating, or is it still pieces and parts depending on buying areas (Apps vs. Infrastructure)?

Topic 4 - What is your take on their “Cloud Native” story, between VMware Integrated Containers and Photon Platform?

Topic 5 - Michael Dell said that the Dell strategy (going forward) is very focused on Private Cloud, and also included VMware’s revenues streams / cash flows as part of the math to make that huge merger work. So is that VMware’s future - primarily a company selling into private data centers?

Topic 6 - The NSX / Cross-Cloud SaaS-delivered services seem to be one of the core innovation areas. Walk me through your thoughts on that, especially the delivery model.

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The Cloudcast #265 - Designing and Deploying Containers at Scale Aug 26, 2016

Brian talks with Jeremy Eder (@jeremyeder; Performance Engineering at @RedHatNews) about the CNCF’s 1000 node cluster, designing large scale cloud-native environments, how testing has evolved with containers and sharable lessons from this build-out.
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CNCF announces free access to 1000 node cluster
Deploying 1000 nodes of OpenShift on CNCF Cluster
OpenShift Homepage - @openshift
OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker - Performance, Scalability, Testing [Github]
Jeremy Eder's Blog

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background, and some background on how you got involved with the CNCF Cluster testing.

Topic 2 - There are tons of details about your project in the blog post (see show notes), but let’s talk about some of the core things you were able to demonstrate with this testing (OpenStack, OpenShift, OOB Management, Application Deployments, etc.)

Topic 3 - Creating a POC and architecting a large-scale environment are very different tasks. Let’s discuss some of the major design considerations you needed to work out.

Topic 4 - During the build, where were the major time savers or areas where automation was the only way to accomplish your goals?

Topic 5 - Tell us about the applications that were running on the cluster? How did you decide what to test? How do you monitor the environment once it was up and running?

Topic 5 - What lessons can you pass along to anyone looking to architect or test a larger-scale environment? Any scars and scabs that people can avoid?

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The Cloudcast #264 - The Evolution of Digital Ocean Aug 19, 2016

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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DigitalOcean Homepage
DigitalOcean - 2nd Largest Hosting Company in the World (NetCraft)
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?

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**The Cloudcast #263 - Monitoring Containers with Prometheus** Aug 11, 2016
Brian talks with Julius Volz (@juliusvolz; Co-Creator of Prometheus) about Project Prometheus, the challenges of monitoring containers, working within the CNCF and where the project will expand.
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Prometheus Homepage (project)

Getting Started with Prometheus

One year of Prometheus development

Prometheus Conference (PromCon)

Julius’s Homepage

Julius’s GitHub Page

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Our first guest from Germany. Give us a little bit of your background and how you got involved in creating Prometheus.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the basics of Prometheus. What are the core elements and what problems did you intend for it to solve? [From Prometheus homepage: “Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit originally built at SoundCloud.”]

Topic 3 - Prometheus is part of the CNCF, which is also where Kubernetes resides, but it can work with lots of different frameworks. Is there a size of deployment where you’ve found that Prometheus starts to make sense?

Topic 4 - Adrian Cockcroft has talked a number of times about the challenges of monitoring these fast moving, fast changing systems. What are the biggest challenges of these types of systems that Prometheus is about to solve today?

Topic 5 - We’ve traditionally seen (larger) projects come out of a vendor (e.g. Google), into an open source community. Prometheus came out of SoundCloud, which is more of an end-user. How are the projects different in terms of getting community involvement and adoption?

Topic 6 - It’s still early in the project’s life, but have you heard of any Cloud projects that want to offer Prometheus-as-a-Service?

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The Cloudcast #262 - Understanding Dropbox's Infrastructure Transition Aug 02, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with James Cowling (@jamesacowling; Storage Team Lead @Dropbox) about the Dropbox migration from AWS, project “Magic Pocket”, building distributed systems, lessons learned and how much better something must be before making a massive change.
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Dropbox Homepage
Dropbox Tech Blog
Dropbox’s Exodus from AWS (Wired Magazine)
James’ Homepage

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re a little bit Internet-famous due to the Wired Magazine article this year, but give us your background and how you got involved with Dropbox.

Topic 2 - There were obviously business reasons why Dropbox did this, but walk us through your thinking about the challenges of designing “Magic Pocket” (codename of the project).

Topic 3 - What does the application and operations team of a large distributed application (or platform) look like? What are the roles? What are the primary concerns and focus areas?

Topic 4 - What did you get right on Magic Pocket and what surprised you as it went into production? What lessons could other people learn from your experience?

Topic 5 - Are you able to share any “today” measurements about where Dropbox is today vs. 2012? People are obviously interested in big migrations and if it was worth all the time/cost/effort.

Topic 6 - What lessons could people learn from this huge migration effort? What was the thought process between business decisions and technical decisions….and how did the process work over the timeframe?

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Screen Shot 2016-07-29 at 3.59.14 PM.png — **The Cloudcast #261 - Docker Image Compatibility** Jul 29, 2016
Brian talks with (@kelseyhightower; Kubernetes Lead @GoogleCloud) about confusion in the marketplace around Docker “compatibility”.
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Kelsey’s Github Page (code, training, workshops, demos)

Kelsey on The Hot Aisle (podcast)

Kelsey on Kubecast (podcast)

Kelsey on Google Cloud Platform (podcast)

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. For anyone that doesn’t know you, tell us about your current role with Google

Topic 2 - This tweet created quite a storm yesterday, https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/758790198603845632. It felt like it started as an acknowledgement of the breadth of the ecosystem, but then went sort of sideways.

Topic 3 - Break down some of the concepts in play for us - Container Format, Container Runtime, Open Container Initiative (OCI), etc.

Topic 4 - Help explain some of this in laymen’s terms for us - isn’t the Docker code open source? Are we getting close to a point where people will have to fork this if they want to use other schedulers?

Topic 5 - Shifting gears a little bit - Kubernetes for beginners - where to start?

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The Cloudcast #260 - Securing Container Workloads Jul 20, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with Randy Kilmon (VP of Engineering at @black_duck_sw) about the open source vulnerabilities, securing containers and managing the lifecycle of rapidly changing software.
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Black Duck Software Homepage
[blog] 3 Steps to Building Container Security
[blog] Black Duck’s Open Source Security report

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and your areas of focus at Black Duck Software.

Topic 2 - For anyone that’s not familiar with Black Duck, what role does Black Duck play in looking at open source licensing vs. actively helping with security and vulnerabilities?

Topic 3 - One of your areas of focus is containers and container security. Obviously containers is top of mind for lots of people. What’s the reality of container security and what are the areas where people should focus their attention?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about “pre-container” (developers) security vs. “post-container” security (operations). What are the “gates” applications should be going through, and where are people making mistakes today?

Topic 5 - Can we talk about managing security in the container vs. security in the host?

Topic 6 - We have a number of listeners that are going down a journey with containers, either directly (e.g. Docker) or via PaaS platforms (e.g. Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, etc.). What’s your guidance to them?

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The Cloudcast #259 - Multi-Instance vs. Multi-Tenancy in SaaS Jul 14, 2016

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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Service Now Homepage
[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?

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The Cloudcast #258 - Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Jun 25, 2016

Brian talks with Dan Kohn (@dankohn1, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation) about the role of foundations, the CNCF, the emergence of containers, co-opetition in the marketplace and how web scale technologies are getting used by Enterprise companies.
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Topic 1 - You were recently named Executive Director of the CNCF. You have background with the Linux Foundation and strong entrepreneurial experience. Tell us about yourself.

Topic 2 - CNCF got started with Kubernetes, but “Cloud Native Computing” is a very broad domain. What’s the charter of CNCF and how should we think about it in relation to the many other foundations that exist today (Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, Open Networking, etc.)

Topic 3 - Foundations are tricky because of the balance between technology advances and competitive markets. How do you view your role in helping to structure that balance?

Topic 4 - This past week at DockerCon, Docker announced some changes to their technology which will potentially have an impact on Kubernetes and customer choice. Obviously CNCF can’t influence a specific vendor’s approach to the market, but how does leader of a foundation react when the potential market dynamics change?

Topic 5 - How often do you expect to get out and talk to end-customers and how does their feedback get incorporated into foundation activities?

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The Cloudcast #257 - Surviving in a Software-Eating World Jun 22, 2016

Brian talks with Matt Colyer (@mcolyer; Product Manager at @github | Founder of Flagr and Easel) about the evolution of “software is eating the world” - how application development is evolving; how companies are changing the organizations and process; how IT organizations are dealing with open source software and how SaaS applications like GitHub have to evolve.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background, not only at Github, but also as a developer and entrepreneur prior to Github.

Topic 2 - We all know the famous “software is eating the world” quote from Marc Andreessen, but this means that more companies must be building their own software. Let talk about what Github sees from that perspective - establishing software development as a core business competency. (“insourcing”)

Topic 3 - It’s been interesting to watch more companies, not just vendors, actively participate in open source communities - not just using the software, but actively contributing to existing projects and starting their own projects.

Topic 4 - The public cloud has awesome services available, but not every company feels like they can use the public cloud, so we’re seeing more “on-premises” offerings from public cloud companies. Can you talk about the benefits and challenges of these offerings?

Topic 5 - What’s a trend that you’re seeing from smaller companies that you don’t think enough larger business follow today, but could be easily adopted to make them better at software development or just more agile as a business?

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The Cloudcast #256 - Can Open Source Companies Make Money? Jun 16, 2016

Brian talks with Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco, Technology Fellow at @BatteryVentures) about the recent Battery Ventures Open Source Summit (#BVOSS), trends in open source business models and how VC are thinking about investing in companies that leverage open source software.
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Battery Ventures Homepage
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Battery Ventures Open Source Summit - #BVOSS on Twitter
RedMonk discussion of Accel Partners Open Source conference
Rob Hirshfeld’s thoughts from the event
Are VC’s a Funding Bridge for OSS Projects?

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - It’s been awhile since you were on last. What are you focus areas these days?

Topic 2 - Related to OSS-centric companies, Aaron and I discuss the “will they make any money” question all the time. BV had an event focused on this recently. What was the event?

Topic 3 - There seemed to be a theme that OSS projects need to be delivered as-a-service. I saw a tweet that said, “Uber theme at #bvoss today: we need an OSS license that prevents AWS to make money off of our OSS code.”

Topic 4 - There were several large end-customers (e.g. - banks) in attendance, talking about their OSS projects. Are they making any significant contributions to these projects, or is this mostly an effort to help them hire developers?

Topic 5 - So what were the major takeaways from the conference?

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The Cloudcast #255 - Serverless, NoOps and Jeff Jun 08, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk about the 2016 Mid-Year State of the Cloudcast (and Cloud), what they expect to see in the 2nd half of 2016, why they are interested in the Serverless movement, and why there will be a new serverless-focused podcast soon.
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Topic 1 - State of the Cloud - Mid-2016: the dangers of public cloud revenue (lack of) transparency, money still pouring into Cloud-native platforms (too many choices?), the legacy vendors are churning, if crazy valuations crash (Uber, etc.) lead to people eventually falling off the cloud-native bandwagon?

Topic 2 - The 2nd-half of 2016 - Expectations:

Topic 3 - Why are we curious about Serverless?

Topic 4 - What do we know about Serverless? - Go read Sam’s article. He uses the term unit of scale but I also think using the term demarcation point also works. Data Center = server, IaaS = OS, PaaS = Application, Serverless = Application Function - You can not overprovision or underprovision Lambda, it is just there like S3 and is called as needed and autoscales for you.

Topic 5 - The JeffCast? Discussing our plans around a Serverless podcast - Serverless + IoT (the next 5-10 years), partnering with others, trying to consolidate some great content

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The Cloudcast #254 - Container Deployments - Real Usage, Real Data May 27, 2016

Brian talks with Kim Weins (@kimweins, VP of Marketing) and Tim MIller (@Miller_Tim, VP of Engineering) at @Rightscale about market adoption of DevOps and Containers, migrating applications to containers, and the challenges of a container-centric deployment to production.
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Topic 1 - Give us a sense of the scope and scale of the Rightscale platform and how involved it is in companies and applications that are leveraging the fast growing public cloud.
Topic 1a - What were the biggest takeaways that you observed in the data from the 2016 Cloud / DevOps report?
Topic 2 - Why did Rightscale take on “Project Sherpa” in the first place?
Topic 3 - What were the initial big hurdles, red flags or things that told you that maybe this wasn’t a good idea? How did you overcome those challenges?
Topic 4 - What were some of the lessons you learned through the transition? Did you take a bimodal approach, or was this an “everybody” transition, or was there another people/culture/process approach?
Topic 5 - On the dev-side, containers are getting much better understood. How did you manage the ops portion?
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The Cloudcast #253 - Jumping Inside Complex CI/CD Systems May 24, 2016

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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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?
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**The Cloudcast #252 - Understanding IBM OpenWhisk** May 19, 2016
Brian talks with Stephen Fink (@sjfink, Distinguished Research Staff Member @IBM) about serverless computing, the architecture of IBM OpenWhisk, the open source community involvement and the use-cases he sees for this emerging technology.
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OpenWhisk Source Code on GitHub

OpenWhisk on IBM BlueMix

[Example - video processing] “Dark Vision”

[Example - video processing] “Skylink”

[Example - “Node Red” coordination for IoT devices]

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us some of your background in IBM’s Research group.
Topic 2 - “Events-based” and “Serverless” are terms that are starting to become more widely used. What types of challenges (use-cases) did you hear from developers that led you to create OpenWhisk?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the OpenWhisk architecture. The OpenWhisk model consists of three concepts:

trigger: a class of events that can happen 

action: an event handler — some code that runs in response to an event 

rule: an association between a trigger and an action 

Topic 3a - What are some of the really important things that people need to know about OpenWhisk? How it is different from other serverless frameworks that are starting to come into the market?
Topic 4 - Let’s walk through some of the early use-cases you’ve seen (or built).
Topic 5 - OpenWhisk has gotten some attention because it’s open-source. It’s still early, but where do you expect to see the most contribution - core OpenWhisk or at the edges around things that are specific to application factors?
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The Cloudcast #251 - IT Tricks that SaaS services Forget May 12, 2016

Brian talks with Gina Minks (@gminks, PMM for @SpanningBackup) about the growth of SaaS applications, who pays for SaaS, who manages SaaS and the most frequent mistakes companies make in using SaaS applications.
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it’s been since Eps.68. What are you up to these days?

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the SaaS market in general. It’s about a $75-80B market in 2016, growing at 20% CAGR. What big trends are you seeing in SaaS?

Topic 3 - We’ve both been around “traditional IT” for a while. What do you see that’s different about SaaS - who buys it, what’s the process, how do they think about on-going maintenance, etc.?

Topic 4 - Let’s get into your world - backing up SaaS applications. Give us the basics. What are the big mistakes most people make? Where does the backed up data go?

Topic 5 - The challenge with SaaS is that some applications go away, or they radically change their pricing model. Are there now utilities that will convert data to use other SaaS services?

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The Cloudcast #250 - A Platform View of Application Migrations Apr 29, 2016

Aaron talks with Sinclair Schuller (@sschuller; CEO/Founder of @Apprenda) about news at Apprenda, the Kubernetes community, legacy apps vs. cloud native apps and why architecture is critical in a PaaS platform.
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Topic 1 - How are things going at Apprenda? It’s been way too long...l

Topic 2 - What is the state of “Platforms” these days? Are they structured vs. unstructured, Docker-capable vs. Non-Docker, or some other dominant architectural characteristics?

Topic 3 - Do platforms actually help companies build applications “faster”, or are they mostly there to automate the infrastructure and services under a platform?

Topic 4 - We read a whitepaper talking about how Apprenda helped a customer migrate 70+ applications to the platform in a really short period of time. What do these migrations look like?

Topic 5 - Apprenda recently added Kubernetes. What are the details around that and what value does it bring to customers?

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The Cloudcast #249 - snap by Intel and Cloud Telemetry Apr 25, 2016

We're giving away two OSCON passes! Aaron talks with Matt Brender (@mjbrender, Developer Advocate for Intel Software Defined Infrastructure) about what it is like to be a Developer Advocate and snap by Intel for cloud telemetry.
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Topic 1 - Let’s start at the start, you have had an interesting journey to date in your move into your current role. Give everyone a brief intro to your journey and how you ended up at Intel

Topic 2 - We’ve had both Jonathan and Nick on a few times now so we won’t rehash the Intel SDI group, but I did want to talk about Nick’s blog post introducing snap by Intel. Specifically this concept of automating around stages of IRO (Intelligent Resource Orchestration) and the phases - Watching, Deciding, Acting, Learning. Is Intel creating SkyNet?

Topic 3 - Let’s dig into the snap framework announced in December. This brings to life the stages we previously mentioned through framework plugins for Collecting, Processing, and Publishing

Topic 4 - What will be the early use cases? When and where does Intel envision folks using this framework and for what purpose?

Topic 5 - How has the community embraced this so far? What challenges do you have as a Developer Advocate? What’s next for both snap and SDI in general?

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The Cloudcast #248 - Trouble Inside Your Containers Apr 21, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with Tim Gerla (@tybstar, VP Product) and Dan Nurmi (@dannurmi, CTO) at @Anchore about their background as entrepreneurs, the challenges of container security, the challenges of CI/CD and security and how to avoid slowly down developers.
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Topic 1 - Get an understanding of the team and their background
Topic 2 - What customer challenge is Anchore attempting to solve? What are some of the scary security/container stories out there?
Topic 2a - Let’s talk about awareness of this security challenge, especially amongst Dev teams vs. Ops teams.
Topic 3 - Anchore was founded by people from Eucalyptus and Ansible, which were very popular open-source projects. Does Anchore have an open-source model as well?
Topic 4 - How does Anchore fit into existing "container" systems and PaaS like Docker (or Docker Data Center), Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, etc.? Don't some of those systems already have security elements built in?
Topic 5 - How does Anchore fit into some of the CI/CD systems, where developers could be adding random things into containers?
Topic 6 - Topic 6 - How does the reporting and management framework fit into other existing security systems for the CISO?

The Cloudcast #247 - How Do I Talk To An API? Apr 16, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk to Kendrick “Kenny” Coleman (@kendrickcoleman; Developer Advocate @EMCcode) about the basics of interacting with APIs. They also discuss how the millennial generation is changing the media industry and if/how The Cloudcast should change.
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Beginner’s Guide to REST and HTTP
Learn how to use different REST APIs
Swagger API Framework

Topic 1 - What are you up to these days?
Topic 2 - We need help. Everything is an API these days and we don’t speak API. What are the basics we need to understand and the tools we need?
Topic 3 - Any good API tips and tricks for beginners?
Topic 4 - You were recently at a conference that discussed how the millennial generation is changing the media industry. What is changing, what do we need to know and how do we need to change the podcast?

The Cloudcast #246 - The Quest for 1M Containers Apr 14, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk to Mitchell Hashimoto (@mitchellh, Founder of @HashiCorp) about the lack of VC funding for an open source Death Star, customer interest in Microsoft Azure, the need for bigger/faster schedulers, developer patterns and Zero-Trust Datacenter.
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Nomad 1,000,000 Container Challenge

Topic 1 - It’s been a little over a year since you were last on the show. Things are changing really fast in the market. What are you seeing in the market?
Topic 2 - Hashicorp recently made all of their tools Microsoft Azure compatible. Where are you seeing interest from your customers in Azure?
Topic 3 - A few months ago, Docker showed that Swarm could support 30,000 containers. Cloud Foundry supposedly supports 25,000 containers. And then Nomad came out with 1M containers. Why does anyone need that many containers?
Topic 4 - There is a lot of dogma in the market about “platforms”. Are we getting close to a big market shakeout or consolidation, or will the confusion continue for a while?
Topic 5 - You always give us some perspective on a broader way to view application management. We don’t talk much about security on the show because we’re clueless, so give us some insight.

The Cloudcast #245 - The Chaotic State of IT in 2016 Apr 09, 2016

Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@CommsNinja, Co-Host of The Geek-Whisperers) about the chaotic state of the IT industry, how much location impacts day-to-day work, and how people are making positive transitions in their work.
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Topic 1 - Is the IT industry in a more chaotic state than it’s ever been?

Public Cloud vs. IT vendors 
Open Source Software vs. IT vendors 
People openly looking for new jobs  
IT customers being very confused about what to buy/use/trust 
Are we at the end of a 20yr cycle (Vendor-VAR-Customer-TechSwimLanes)?

Topic 2 - What’s the pulse of your community? What are the most frequently asked questions (on-the-record and off-the-record)?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about location. 10 years ago, teleworking was all the rage. Now, it feels like we’re back to a Silicon-Valley-centric world.
Topic 4 - What do you feel like a lot of people are focused on, which is actually a bad thing or a false hope? What are the good things that people are focused on?
Topic 5 - What do you feel like a lot of people are focused on, which is actually a bad thing or a false hope? What are the good things that people are focused on?

The Cloudcast #244 - Engineers, Coffee & AWS Lambda Apr 03, 2016

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** Mar 18, 2016
Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA; Director of Program Management @Microsoft) and Ryan O’Hara (Director Private Cloud Solutions @Microsoft) about how Microsoft is attempting to bring the Azure Cloud down into customer’s data centers.
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Tuesday's with Corey - Video Series

Topic 1 - You’ve both been at Microsoft for a good amount of time. Give us a little bit of your background and maybe some insight into how all these changes in Redmond are happening?
Topic 2 - Give us the basics of Azure Stack and how it differs from previous Windows Server or Cloud Platform System “cloud” offerings.
Topic 2a- Azure Stack has been in “preview” for a couple months now. What has been the customer feedback? What didn’t you expect?
Topic 3 - We’ve done this show for 5+ years and one theme is constant - operating a cloud is very difficult. Does Azure Stack just deliver the software, or is there an operational element from the Azure Cloud included?
Topic 4 - Linux is a thing at Microsoft now. How will Azure Stack handle both Windows and Linux workloads?
Topic 5 - Azure Cloud has a very large set of services now. How should customers think about how much of that will make it into Azure Stack?

The Cloudcast #242 - Understanding Serverless Applications Mar 11, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with Joe Emison (@JoeEmison; Founder and Chief Technology Officer @ BuildFax) about building a digital business, the challenges of platforms, and why he’s moving more applications to serverless computing.
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Joe’s Blog - InformationWeek
Building Serverless Applications - Interop 2016

Serverless References:

Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your background. We like to have builders on the show, but you actually help real builders.
Topic 2 - You’re giving a 4hr talk at Interop in May about “Building Serverless Applications”. Let’s start with the basics of Serverless - why does it exist, what problem does it fix? what is it, what does it do?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the existing serverless “services” out there and how they work. What works, work needs to evolve, how do they work with other services?
Topic 4 - Does software exist today to have these serverless capabilities on-premises, or is this just a public cloud capability today?
Topic 5 - You mentioned in a Twitter thread earlier this week that there are multiple services that are “better than AWS Lambda today”. Can you elaborate on that a little bit?

The Cloudcast #241 - Technology Trends Outside Silicon Valley Mar 05, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with Keith Townsend (@CTOAdvisor) about emerging technology trends, how Enterprises around the world differ from the Bay Area, the organizational challenges of containers, and his CIO/CTO advice for large companies.
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Topic 1 - Let's talk about your background, community involvement, and in particular your recent move from Consultant to IT practitioner.
Topic 2 - You stay up to date on most of the modern technologies, but also work in large Enterprise in the Midwest. How different is the Bay Area echo chamber from your view of the world?
Topic 3 - Let's talk about containers and DevOps. How do you see that fitting into today's IT organizations? What has to change? What won't change?
Topic 4 - We're seeing more "overlay" technologies in the market, from containers or SDN or aspects of security (we talked to Illumio on Eps.239). How do you see those working in silo'd IT environments? Who pays for them?
Topic 5 - If you were a CIO, in an industry that's getting more competitive with a digital competitor, how would you start thinking about allocating resources, uplifting (or rehiring) skills, organizational culture, etc.?

The Cloudcast #240 - Learning How to Become an AWS Guru Feb 26, 2016

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.
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A Cloud Guru Homepage - https://acloud.guru/ 
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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 Feb 19, 2016

Aaron and Brian talk with Alan Cohen (@ascohen, Chief Commercial Officer @illumio) about disrupting long-held technology architectures, the challenge of deploying and operating new technologies, and how Illumio security is designed to work around multiple cloud environments.
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Topic 1 - Give us the 101 on Illumio - Who is the team, What do you build, What's the problem space. Let's talk about your background - Airespace, Nicira, some Advisory companies - you're sort of a "Serial Disrupter".
Topic 2 - The last few weeks we've been talking about the operation challenges of all these cool new technologies (cloud, cloud-native, . Deployment problems, networking problems. Security is right up there at the top of the list of problems. Let's talk about how Illumio Adaptive Security Platform works.
Topic 3 - Security is a little bit like a magician's conference. Lots of cool tricks, and then competitors start trying to disprove it. As a company that's only a couple years old, what's been your biggest surprise that customers have tried to de-mystify and just haven't been able to do?
Topic 4 - This week Illumio made an announcement that seems to take this security model from the application-level to the user-level. What does this mean in the bigger picture of corporate security?
Topic 5 - RSA is coming up in about a week, which is sort of the Super Bowl of Security. Besides the FBI/iPhone privacy stuff, what are the big issues that people should be paying attention to, especially if they are focused on the evolving parts of their business?

The Cloudcast #238 - Challenges in Operations, Containers and Microservices Feb 12, 2016

Brian talks with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, Founder/CEO of RackN) about the evolution of OpenStack, Containers, his company RackN and Digital Rebar, and how Microservices and DevOps go hand-in-hand.
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Topic 1 - It’s been a long time since you were last on the show (Eps.16), back when you were at Dell in 2011. A lot has changed since then. What have you been up to?
Topic 2 - You been heavily involved in OpenStack since the earliest days, serving in board roles, contributing role, working on architectures. You’ve also been critical of several areas around operations. What’s the state of OpenStack from your perspective?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about Digital Rebar and the challenges involved in using resources in different environments - bare metal, containers, VMs, various clouds.
Topic 4 - You recently wrote a great article in The New Stack about how you migrated Digital Rebar to a microservices architecture. Give us the lessons learned in that migration process.
Topic 5 - Given all the tools and frameworks and platforms available to developers and operations today, why is it so important to align application architectures (microservices) with modularity of the tools and frameworks? Can monoliths and microservices exist across DevOps

The Cloudcast #237 - Cloud Native SDN Feb 01, 2016

Brian talks with Chris Marino (@chris_marino, Founder/CEO of Pani Networks) about the his new startup, the evolution of networking for Cloud Native applications, and the opportunities to change networking as application models radically change.
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Romana Slack Channel - romana.slack.com

Topic 1 - We’ve known each other for a while, but give our audience some details about your background and what you’re building with Pani.
Topic 2 - You highlight that there are 4 types (use-cases) of SDN in the market today: Enterprise, Carrier (NFV), SD-WAN and now Cloud Native. Let’s talk briefly about each one.
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the basics of how the Romana Project works - addressing, tenants, IPAM, service discovery
Topic 4 - There’s an interesting trend happening where more intelligence and awareness is getting pushed up into higher-level systems like OpenStack, Kubernetes, etc. - how does this align to an application team vs. an operations team?
Topic 5 - How can people learn more about Pani and Romana, and start to play with the technology?

The Cloudcast #236 - Aligning App Performance to Business Success Jan 14, 2016

Brian talks with James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart, Senior Vice President of Performance Analytics @SOASTA) about the evolution of the digital economy, performance testing applications, understanding business impact of performance, and how companies are evolving in this new economy.
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it’s been a little while. Tell us what you’re doing these days.
Topic 2 - We now live in a (mostly) digital world, where applications are the face or experience of many businesses. Where does SOASTA fit into this new world?
Topic 3 - Last summer, I was at VelocityConf and saw this massive display (for SOASTA) and it looked like the control center in movies for a Space Shuttle launch. Turns out it was the launch of the mPulse platform. It was very business centric, which was unique and unusual for a highly technical conference.
Topic 4 - Lots of talk about microservices and distributed applications. Also, lots of talk about how this becomes orders of magnitude more complex. How are application teams explaining this to their businesses, and how does SOASTA help them manage this?
Topic 5 - Mobile devices are everything these days, and they have very different usage/access patterns. From a Performance/Analysis perspective, what are some of the most important things companies need to think about?
Topic 6 - We’re starting to see more and more traditionally “non-technical” companies that will have massive application challenges in the future (e.g. connected vehicles). What’s your advice to them beyond just “be sure you’re testing early and often”?

The Cloudcast #235 - Does Everyone Need Google's Infrastructure? Jan 07, 2016

Brian talks with Alex Polvi (@polvi, Founder/CEO of @CoreOSLinux) about how startups measure innovation, the evolution of both Tectonic solution and CoreOS projects, the evolution of Kubernetes and how many companies are building digital presences (web/mobile).

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Topic 1 - Let's start with product updates. It's been about six months since we talked with Redbeard (Brian Harrington) about CoreOS and security at OSCON. What's new with CoreOS (Tectonic, Kubernetes 1.0, Clair, etc.)
Topic 2 - Kubernetes get most of the attention, but let's talk about "Clair" since it aligns to CoreOS's goal of securing the Internet. What is it and how does it work?
Topic 3 - Tectonic was announced as GA in December. How has the shift from project/product based offerings to more solution-centric offerings changed your interaction with the market?
Topic 4 - As best I can tell, your customers seem to be digital-centric companies (Samsung, Jive Software, etc.) with customer-facing applications. Is that the ideal customer profile for where CoreOS is today?
Topic 5 - The other day you sent a tweet that mentioned how many releases that CoreOS had done in 2015. And I've seen about 6-10 more companies send a similar tweet. First time I've seen the release metric be the end-of-year measurement at a company level. Why is that happening now?
Topic 6 - What's the sentiment in Silicon Valley these days about startups? Interest rates moved up a little bit, many unicorns ($1B valuations) were created in 2014-2015. Are the investors saying anything to startups in early 2016 that's different than 2014 or 2015?

The Cloudcast #234 - 2015 WrapUp + 2016 Predictions Dec 31, 2015

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.
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