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Logging Governance and Sensitive Data May 15, 2022

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Pranay Kamat (Prod Mgmt @datadoghq) talks about the challenges is protecting sensitive data, internal vs. external attacks, evolution of DLP, the role of Governance in DevSecOps.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk about your background and the areas where you focus at Datadog.

Topic 2 - We continuing to see headlines about critical data being stolen, which is a trend that doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Give us a picture of where we are with the problems that are still causing this, and what new things companies can do to prevent it.

Topic 3 - Where are some of the differences between traditional Data Loss Prevent (DLP) strategies and strategies that proactively look at logs to identify data access and breaches?

Topic 4 - We often think about attacks coming from the outside, but oftentimes attacks happen from inside the house (directly or indirectly). How important is it to be able to control access to logs and what is visible within logs to prevent internal attacks and vulnerabilities?

Topic 5 - What are some of the more dynamic, modern ways to identify sensitive traffic and tag it properly so systems can act on it?

Topic 6 - It’s often said that security is everyone’s issue. In modern teams (DevOps, DevSecOps, etc.), where are you seeing as the owner of this Governance and Sensitive data?

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Simplifying Cloud for Developers May 11, 2022

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Raman Sharma (@rasharm_, VP Product & Programs Marketing @DigitalOcean) talks about the evolution of Digital Ocean, the right tools for developers, and managing simplicity and scale.

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Digital Ocean - The Developer Cloud

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Your career has followed a parallel path to the evolution of the cloud. Let’s talk a little bit about your background, and especially your involvement with developers.

Topic 2 - It’s been a while since we last had DigitalOcean on the show. Before we dive into the technology stack, let’s talk about how DigitalOcean thinks about developer needs.

Topic 3 - Compute, Storage, Networking, Databases, Kubernetes, PaaS, Marketplace. Walk us through where DigitalOcean helps developers make it simple to use these primitives.

Topic 4 - What do developers ask you for next? Is it more capabilities, or different pricing, or something else to make their lives easier?

Topic 5 - What do your customer’s teams look like? Do they align to the primitives (e.g. cloud infrastructure teams), or is it more “you build it you run it”, or something else?

Topic 6 - Where are some of the areas where DigitalOcean is focused or sees new opportunities in 2022 and beyond?

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Explaining Technical Topics - Service Mesh May 08, 2022

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In this new series, we’ll look at ways to explain complex technical topics. This week we’re looking at Service Mesh.

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HOW DOES A SERVICE MESH WORK? WHEN SHOULD YOU CONSIDER ONE?

A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy.

LET’S EXPLAIN HOW SERVICE MESH WORKS.

We explain service mesh using a family household analogy, and how it changes over time. We relate this back to how an application evolves from a monolith to microservices.

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Cloud Marketplaces May 04, 2022

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John Jahnke (CEO of @Tackleio) talks about the rise of Cloud Marketplaces, the evolution of B2B purchasing for cloud products, and the relationship between software vendors and cloud providers.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background. And please give us a quick overview of Tackle.

Topic 2 - Everybody knows about the 100s of services that get announced by the major hyperscalers each year, but not as many people are aware that there’s more to the cloud than native services. Where do cloud marketplaces fit into the cloud ecosystem, and how have they evolved over the years?

Topic 3 - If we wanted to explain the value of a cloud marketplace to someone, what value does it provide to the various parties involved - the cloud, the marketplace owner, the software company using a marketplace, the customers using a marketplace?

Topic 4 - Can you walk us through the process of how a software company engages with a marketplace? Are they working to get their software into 3rd-party marketplaces, or building their own marketplaces, or something else?

Topic 5 - How do the Tackle marketplaces different from the AWS, Azure or GCP marketplaces?

Topic 6 - What are the best ways for companies to create a plan to leverage cloud marketplaces to better reach customers and specific markets?

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SLOs for Everyone May 01, 2022

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No Brian (Gracely) for a Sunday Perspective this week. We have Brian Singer (@brian_singer, CPO @nobl9inc) talking about Service Level Objectives (SLO), what they are, why they matter, and how to use SLOs to focus on innovation vs. technical debt.

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The Cloudcast #502 - Reliability as a Service

Topic 1 - Brian, welcome to the show! We had Alex on the podcast last year and look forward to continuing the SLO conversation. Give everyone a brief introduction.

Topic 2 - If someone isn’t familiar with SLO’s (Service Level Objectives), how do you define them? Why do they matter? What problem do they solve? How are they different from SLA’s?

Topic 3 - Is this a transition from max reliability to instead look at errors as a “budget”? How can you manage a certain window of unreliability and keep customers happy?

Topic 4 - How do you create SLOs? Who creates them? Is this an SRE connecting up to existing systems or new tooling and plumbing? Does it fit into an existing GitOps workflow for instance - SLOs-as-Code? Is there automation triggers that happen when conditions are met?

Topic 5 - How does an SRE know which metrics matter? I would imagine not all downtime is equal? How does this correlate with business KPIs? Do you fine tune over time?

Topic 6 - The big question is always the focus on technical debt vs. innovation. Does this help and if so how?

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CI/CD Monitoring and Flaky Testing Apr 27, 2022

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Borja Burgos (@borja_burgos, Director of Product @datadoghq) talks about monitoring and measuring CI/CD environments, “shift left” for security and test coverage, and understanding test coverage patterns.

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Datadog acquires Undefined Labs (2020)
Borja on The Cloudcast (Eps.231) to discuss Tutum Cloud
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Master is the new Prod, Devs are the new Ops

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve got quite an impressive track-record as an entrepreneur and founder. Tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the things you’re now focused on at Datadog.

Topic 2 - You wrote that “Master is the new Prod, and Devs are the new Ops”. Can you help us unpack the concepts that you were trying to convey?

Topic 3 -.How widespread is the understanding that it’s important to monitor CI/CD environments, vs. the more traditional focus of monitoring production environments?

Topic 4 - What are some of the areas where CI visibility or synthetic CI/CD testing helps improve application quality and overall availability in production?

Topic 5 - All of these efforts to test earlier, integrate earlier and have visibility earlier sound like the “shift left” movement. Are those things difficult to do, since many companies have siloed teams?

Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that your team has been able to take the technology from Undefined Labs and bring it into the broader scope of capabilities that are available through Datadog?

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Explaining Twitter to a 5yr old Apr 24, 2022

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Could you explain Twitter to a 5yr old? Some things are just difficult to explain, and this week we look at the challenges of trying to explain complex technical concepts to everyday people.

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Back to the Future of Twitter (Ben Thompson, Stratechery)

I GET HOW IT WORKS, BUT WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY DO?

Many of us use Twitter on a daily basis, but if you had to explain it to someone, could you explain what it is and what value it provides? Many of us are tasked with a similar challenge in trying to explain our day-to-day work.

EXPLAINING COMPLEX THINGS IS HARD. MAYBE THAT’S A SIGN THAT IT’S TOO TECHNICAL OR SHOULD BE BROKEN APART

What problem does something solve?
Who has that problem?
Does the problem need to be solved by a product or a platform?
Does the product align to one or many people’s jobs?
Does the platform align to one of many people’s jobs?
If it’s a platform, do the people with the problem want all of it?
Does the platform approach limit your ability to monetize it (e.g. too restrictive)?
Could you platform be valuable if it was broken up?

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DataCenter-as-a-Service Apr 20, 2022

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Ian McClarty (President @PhoenixNAP) talks about the evolution of the CoLocation and DataCenter-as-a-Service market, cloud repatriation, how software has changed the economics and working closely with hyperscalers.

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PhoenixNAP - Data Center, Dedicated Servers, Cloud and CoLocation Services

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve run PhoenixNAP for more than a decade. Give us some sense of the evolution of the CoLocation | Managed Services market over that time.

Topic 2 - Lots of people focus on the cloud hyperscalers, but there are a ton of business needs that they can’t satisfy - whether it’s location, or dedicated resources, or offloading skills, etc. What are the biggest challenges that your customers are facing these days?

Topic 3 - The breadth of capabilities that you offer has really evolved - from locations, to capabilities, to flexibility you can offer customers. How much has the industry shift to software-defined-services enabled that to accelerate?

Topic 4 - What is a typical relationship that your customers have between you and the hyperscalers? It seems like there are a lot of potential synergies that benefit everybody.

Topic 5 - What differentiates the CoLocation | Managed Cloud providers these days? And where do you see that evolving?

Topic 6 - What are some of the most common ways that your customers take advantage of the value you provide them - whether it’s technology, or people skills, or capacity planning or locations?

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Transitioning from Engineering to Product Apr 17, 2022

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Transitioning from a technical role to a “less” technical role can be scary. Let’s look at how you might evaluate a change, and some tips to succeed in the transition.

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I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR REPUTATION

It’s completely normal to be concerned about losing your technical skills, the thing that has established your current value to your employer, if you transition to a more product or business-focused role.

HOW TO SUCCEED (OR AVOID FAILING) IN A TRANSITION

Your technical knowledge will still be extremely valuable.
Not all technical decisions are based on technology. Understanding economics, and business context, and flexibility options, and personalities involved are equally as important.
Understand what you’ll be building vs. managing. Is it stand-alone or part of something larger? What are the things you can influence and change?
Your people skills will be challenged, and rewarded.
Understand that you’re part of a large ecosystem of people that will determine your perceived success.
The choices of jobs expands when you’re closer to the people that use your technology.

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Database Caching as a Service Apr 13, 2022

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Ben Hagan (@ben_hagan, Founder/CEO @polyScaleAI) talks about the challenges of database performance, distributed data and applications, and how caching-as-a-service can improve performance.
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Polyscale.ai - The Edge First Data Platform
Polyscale announces GA and Round-A of Funding

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’re very much a data-centric person. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to found Polyscale?
Topic 2 - Before we dive into what Polyscale does, let’s talk about the problem that it solves for companies.
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about how Polyscale makes data-access faster, without having to rewrite a bunch of applications or databases. Help us understand things like placement, scaling, resiliency, etc.
Topic 4 - How much different will the experience be for an application-developer or DBA? How much visibility will be available to troubleshoot or make adjustments?
Topic 5 - How is Polyscale different from a CDN platform?
Topic 6 - What are some of the initial use-cases or problem areas where companies can take advantage of Polyscale capabilities?

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