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Free Lunches Don't Last for Long Apr 02, 2023

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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

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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