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Innovator's Dilemma Part 2 Oct 10, 2021

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Part 2 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.

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MAKING A MAJOR CHANGE IS ALWAYS DIFFICULT

Understanding the transition to cloud means understanding that almost everything about your technology stack and business stack will likely have to change, get re-invented, or built from scratch.

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS OR FAILURE THROUGH THE TRANSITION

To build or to buy? Do you understand the scope of the problem, the velocity of change this creates,and how well you can actually execute?
How do you acquire, and how do you manage internal conflict?
What will the new technology stack look like? Are you using the same design principles? Are you using the same architects?
How does this impact your business? What backstops (“cash cows”) does your business have to prop up the new business?

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Evolutions in Security Monitoring Oct 06, 2021

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Huxlee Barbee (@huxley_barbee, Head Security Prod Mktg @DataDogHQ) talks about the challenging odds of preventing security attacks, managing configuration mistakes, scaling security through monitoring, and security feedback loops in production.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s start by talking a little bit about your background, and where you focus your attention these days.

Topic 2 -According to many reports, configuration mistakes tend to lead to the most security breaches. Who is typically making the mistakes?

Topic 3 - Can you dig deeper on the dynamics between security on the one hand and developers and SRE engineers on the other hand?

Topic 4 - So what are some of the strategies and tactics for achieving optimum balance between these opposing interests?

Topic 5 - Should we think about platform (infra) security apart from workload (application) security?

Topic 6 - Can you talk to us about the differences between applying security to things that happen pre-production (e.g. CI/CD, software-supply chains) and things that happen in production?

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Innovator's Dilemma Part 1 Oct 03, 2021

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Part 1 (of 2) looking at a recent example of how The Innovator’s Dilemma is playing out between the biggest clouds and the challenging upstarts.

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The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)
AWS’s Egregious Egress (Cloudflare)
Announcing Cloudflare R2 Object Storage (without Egress fees)
Cloudflare’s Disruption (Stratechery)
Bandwidth Alliance
Cloudflare is eating the Cloud from outside in (swyx @ dev.to)
Overview of AWS Infinidash (Did The Cloudcast predict R2?)
Understanding Data Transfer in AWS (Last Week in AWS)

ONE COMPANY’S PROFIT IS ANOTHER COMPANY’S OPPORTUNITY

As AWS transitions from long-time leaders to a new leadership team, many industry upstarts are looking for ways to pick away at their most profitable (and customer-problematic) services, with new capabilities that may unlock completely new business models for companies.

CHEAPER NETWORKING, AGILE COMPUTING, and NEW COMPANY MODELS

Disruption rarely happens because of better technology, but more often because of changing economics. (Gracely’s Theorem)
AWS has long had very expensive networking costs, but it’s an area that really hasn’t faced competition.
AWS offered enough services that their customers made the choice to deal with the network costs vs. having to build things themselves.
Being the “everything” thing in computing always has its pros and cons. Computing has historically (last 40yrs) been moving to more distributed, modular architectures.
We’ve seen a number of companies begin to offer edge or serverless types of offerings (GitHub, Netlify, Google Run, various CDN offerings,
New ideas always emerge from difficult times (e.g. COVID pandemic) that we didn’t expect.
Will this create a new round of acquisitions? Will it trigger price wars?

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The State of Cloud Security Sep 29, 2021

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Josh Stella (@joshstella, Founder/CEO of @FugueHQ) talks about the differences between cloud security and data center security, the value businesses place on security implementations, and enabling governance in the cloud.

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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been a complicated world for security the last 12-18 months. Tell us a little bit about your background and the State of Cloud Security 2021 report.

Topic 2 - Between the SolarWinds hack, Microsoft database hack and daily breaches of 100M users, where are we with security these days? It seems as messy as ever, and yet it also seems like people aren’t that concerned anymore.

Topic 3 - Misconfiguration still seems to be a major issue. Isn’t Automation and Infra-as-Code and GitOps catching on? Policy-as-Code.

Topic 4 - We now have DevSecOps, which combines all these functions together. Who is ultimately responsible for Security?

Topic 5 - When companies move to the public cloud, they still have regulatory requirements. The cloud providers have “certifications” (e.g. SOC 2, NIST 800-53, GDPR, and HIPAA, so are they responsible now?

Topic 6 - How do we start matching the level of motivation the bad guys (hackers) have with the level of concern companies should have?

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Developing New Habits in COVID Sep 26, 2021

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COVID has changed the world over the past two years. But how many of the technology changes we’ve made will remain, and which ones may revert back to pre-COVID standards?

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CLOUD GROWTH THROUGH GLOBAL PANDEMIC

This week I had a discussion about the amount of change that happened over the past 18-24 months and whether or not that's normal (across industries)?

WHAT STAYS, WHAT CHANGES, and WHY?

Not every company or industry reacted the same.
Companies established new norms around remote work. This will impact future hiring.
Companies adopted more remote-friendly technologies.
Many customers began using more public cloud services (out of necessity) and it worked fine. They likely won’t abandon these technology choices.
Companies are focused on how to adjust to these new normals, so they’ll prioritize things that work (in the short-term)
Will this be a boom for people getting new cloud certifications?
Will companies eventually do cost-cutting on cloud spending, since it was “just do it!” last year?
Will this create the new “bi-modal” IT?

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Managing Tech Burnout Sep 22, 2021

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Michael Cucchi (VP of Product @PagerDuty) talks about the challenges of increased hours, more frequent incident responses and overall tech burnout as a result of the 2020-21 pandemic.
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PagerDuty (homepage)
State of Digital Operations report (PagerDuty)

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - PagerDuty recently published the 2021 State of Digital Operations report. What were some of the high-level takeaways?

Topic 3 - Obviously the pandemic has disrupted where people work for the last 18 months. But what are some of the other factors that are causing so much disruption for Operations teams?

Topic 4 - We’re seeing the number of critical incidents per month increase (average 105/month). Do you think that’s more a factor of companies having to change so much so quickly, or technical debts just continue to accumulate and the overall foundation is less stable?

Topic 5 - There are tools (ChatOps) that are augmenting how we collaborate, but do you think the lack of face-to-face interactions between teams is causing some of the increased challenges we’ve seen this past year?

Topic 6 - Any tips or tricks that you can give to Operations teams that are trying to manage this increased workload and may be struggling to keep up, or find the right balance between life and work?

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The Evolution of MongoDB Sep 19, 2021

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The transition of @MongoDB from an open source project to commercially successful public company to cloud provider has been an interesting transition. One that many other software companies are looking to emulate.

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FROM OPEN TO COMMERCIAL TO IPO TO CLOUD

Many software companies are trying to make the evolution from customer-operated to cloud-operated business models. MongoDB is an early lighthouse is showing the blueprint for success.

CHANGING (OR GROWING NEW) MARKETS IS VERY DIFFICULT

Solve a technical problem
Create a unique value proposition (simplicity)
[Marketing] Create (and lead) a growing community of users - via open source
[Monetization] Create open-core features to differentiate and solve unique problems
[New GTM, New Markets] Evolve the product to new delivery models
Grow into new markets, through different customer engagement models

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Remotely Managing All The Things Sep 15, 2021

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Ev Kontsevoy (@kontsevoy, Cofounder/CEO @GoTeleport) talks about the state of the art in remote management, especially for Kubernetes environments, and how Teleport simplifies security for remote access.

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Teleport (homepage)
Teleport raises $30M in new funding (Aug 2021)
Teleport Access Plane: Quickly access any computing resource anywhere
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you to create Teleport.
Topic 2 - Today we’re going to dive into Teleport, but we’d like to learn a little bit about the evolution of the company, as it didn’t begin as Teleport.
Topic 3 - For better or for worse, we now work in a very distributed world. Between workers being everywhere, and applications being both on-premises and in the public cloud, what sort of remote management challenges does this create?
Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, how does Teleport work?
Topic 5 - Teleport is made up of access to Servers, Kubernetes, Applications and Databases. How much does remote access change based on the target, or the team/person accessing it?
Topic 6 - What are some of the ways that Teleport makes things easier to manage remotely?

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Cloud Jobs - Stay, Leave or Quit Sep 12, 2021

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There’s been quite a bit of debate recently on whether or not to stay in a role, look around for something new, or just quit tech all together. What’s the right choice? Let’s explore some options and strategies.

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THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS CHANGED A LOT OF PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE

Remote work; lots of job prospects, and some new perspective on life has many people considering alternatives to their current situation.

SO SHOULD YOU STAY, LOOK FOR SOMETHING NEW, OR QUIT ALTOGETHER?

When to Stay

You enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
You’re learning and you see a path for growth or upward mobility
You or your family need the work (healthcare, location, stability, etc.)

When to Look Around

You’re underpaid or don’t have an upward mobility path
You want to make a change, and can’t do it within your company
You no longer enjoy the work, the team, the manager, the culture
A great (outside) opportunity is presented to you

When to consider quitting (usually as a last resort)

You’re in a dangerous or harmful situation
You just can’t find any passion in it
You have an alternative way to support yourself (and your family)

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Backing Up into the Cloud Sep 08, 2021

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David Hill (@davidhill_co, Product Strategy, Office CTO) and Sam Nicholls (Public Cloud Principle) @Veeam talk about the evolution of managing data in the cloud, and backup and security strategies.

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Veeam (homepage)
AWS Data Backup for Dummies
Veeam Backup for AWS on AWS Marketplace (Get 10 Backup Instances Free)
Choose Your Own Cloud Adventure with Veeam and AWS

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds.

Topic 2 - We live in a world of software, and clouds, and ransomware attacks and security threats and frequent changes to applications. Let’s start by talking about the big picture of what backup looks like these days.

Topic 3 - In a world that’s becoming increasingly more DevOps-centric, who now owns all of the elements around backups (testing plans, compliance, retention and cost-mgmt, etc.)

Topic 3a - What are some of the unique things Veeam does to make things simpler for those teams?

Topic 4 - We used to live in a world of redundant, cold hardware in a remote facility, and truck rolls to Iron Mountain, and manual steps. What has public cloud and automation done to the backup landscape?

Topic 5 - How does the economics change now that public cloud is such a critical piece of backup strategies? (saving data, faster recovery times, agility, etc.)

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