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Scaling Apple Apps with MacStadium Jul 10, 2024

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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

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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.

SHOW: 836

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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

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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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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

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

SHOW: 829
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Neo4j explores knowledge graphs and vector search (graphstuff.fm podcast)
See what graphs can do for you at Neo4j.com/developer

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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

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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)

SHOW: 828

SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #828

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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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