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A Modern Approach to App Modernization Oct 23, 2024

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
SHOW: 863

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SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #863 Transcript
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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

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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

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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

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

SHOW: 860

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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

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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

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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?

SHOW: 858

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