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The Pros and Cons of Living in Silicon Valley during the AI Boom Dec 01, 2024

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As the AI era emerges, the debate about the best place to live to take advantage of it for your career has started up again. Is Silicon Valley still the best place to live when a new trend starts?

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IS SILICON VALLEY STILL THE CENTER OF TECH INNOVATION?

Amazon, Microsoft, Space X , BYD, TSMC, are not in Silicon Valley

THE PROS AND CONS OF LIVING IN SILICON VALLEY DURING A BOOM?

Density of ideas
Density of people that obsess over technology
Work from Office vs. Work from Anywhere
Location of customers - and physical vs. digital
Ability to make money vs. life changing money
Non-work considerations (family, non-work activities, etc.)

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Using GenAI for DevSecOps Nov 27, 2024

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Andrew Manoske (@a2d2, VP Products @Kindo) talks about the intersection of GenAI and DevSecOps, the WhiteRabbitNeo model, and learning adversary behavior.
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Kindo (homepage)
WhiteRabbitNeo (open source project)
Open Source GenAI models advances support for CyberSecurity and DecSecOps teams

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and your current areas of focus.
Topic 2 - You come from a security background. Every conversation we have with security teams is “attackers have more tools, more money and more time”. Is security an almost unwinnable game without a new way of thinking about the equation?
Topic 3 - It seems like AI has the potential to give Security teams (or anyone in IT) more of a chance, if used properly. How are you thinking about giving teams the right security AI powers?
Topic 4 - Let’s talk about WhiteRabbitNeo. “WhiteRabbitNeo is uncensored and trained to act like a modern adversary.” What does this mean in practical terms?
Topic 5 - Where is the potential for the right set of AI models + Agents to make a significant impact towards better on-going security?
Topic 6 - There will be lots of things aimed at being AI for Security. How would you tell someone how to sort through what is useful vs. AI-washed or not likely to be useful?
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Searching for the Netflix of the AI Era Nov 24, 2024

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In the Cloud Era, Netflix was held up as the lighthouse for what was possible with cloud. So who is the Netflix of the AI era, and are we learning enough about AI yet?

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New research shows widespread adoption of GenAI
NetflixOSS (homepage)

WHAT DID NETFLIX DO FOR THE CLOUD ERA?

Provided a face for a new style of doing work
Provided validation that a new model could work
Encouraged people to explore older, “bad practices”
Began to define metrics of what the new world could look like

WHY DO WE NEED A NETFLIX OF THE AI ERA?

Because AI can apparently do everything, but what are some specific things?
What are the new ways of thinking about old problems?
Has it been proven to improve teams, or mostly individuals?
Do we need a Couch to 5k set of use-cases? Starting use-cases
Or is AI going to be a big-bang approach?

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Building AI Models for IT Operations Nov 20, 2024

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Sunil Mallya (@sunilmallya, Co-Founder & CTO @_FlipAI) talks about building AI models to help IT Operations teams simplify troubleshooting, incident response and pattern detection.
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Flip AI (homepage)
Enterprise AI Agents: Bringing LLMs to Enterprise Data

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show.
Topic 2 - Let’s begin by talking about your broader view of where IT Operations is today for large companies. What are their biggest challenges, and where are their opportunities for big improvements?
Topic 3 - One of the biggest challenges for IT Operations is so many systems, so many tools, so many data sources and the difficulty of coordinating (troubleshooting, incident response, pattern detection, etc.) across them. Is there a modern approach that’s emerging about how to make this better?
Topic 4 - Where does the potential of AI models come into play here? It is more focused on being able to ask the system for diagnosis, or can it start getting closer to taking independent actions?
Topic 5 - How do you train an AI model with so many different pieces of customer data?
Topic 6 - Let’s talk about AI Agents and what they can begin to accomplish within an Enterprise.
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Times of Uncertainty lead to eras of Creativity Nov 17, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

SEGMENTS COVERED IN THE SHOW:

Good Old Fashioned Cloud News
The AI Innovation Continues

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Improving Developer Productivity with AI Coding Assistants Oct 30, 2024

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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

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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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