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Building Scalable Data-Streaming Cloud Services Jul 19, 2023

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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

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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

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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
Also, recently, Datadog announced a feature availability for DBM, the ability to create monitors and alerts on data surfaced from Datadog DBM. Here's a doc written by the engineers of Datadog on the feature announcement.
Try Datadog Database Monitoring with a free trial to begin tracking and analyzing query metrics from your database fleet.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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An Analogy for App Modernization Jul 09, 2023

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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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SHOW NOTES:

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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