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Serverless Trends within AWS May 19, 2021

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Julian Wood (@julian_wood, Sr. Developer Advocate @AWSCloud) talks about the evolution of serverless from niche to mainstream applications, and how the technology stack has evolved to a broad set of use-cases.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Serverless, let’s talk about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s begin with “What is Serverless at AWS in 2021?” Sometimes it’s Lambda, sometimes it's a database, sometimes it's a CDN edge service. When is it App-Centric and when is it NoOps-centric?

Topic 3 - AWS Lambda has expanded in functionality quite a bit over the years. Walk us through how it’s evolved across languages, event-sources, functions vs. containers, etc.

Topic 4 - How do you think about Serverless use-cases? What are common usage patterns?

Topic 5 - For a while, Lambda was mostly focused within the AWS ecosystem. Is it expanding to include 3rd-party services, or custom-built tools from customers/companies?

Topic 6 - We’ve done a couple recent shows about event-driven applications. I tend to think about Serverless (or FaaS) as mostly event-driven apps. How is that space evolving?

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Technology never has an off-season May 16, 2021

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Technology never stops evolving. But people needs breaks to recharge, re-evaluate and re-establish goals. So how can we balance the two?

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WHY DOESN’T THE TECH-INDUSTRY HAVE AN OFF-SEASON?

It’s a business, and businesses tend to stay open
It’s an industry that expects growth, and growth requires new things (usually)

HOW TO MANAGE THE LACK OF AN OFF-SEASON

Nobody can go 24x7x365 year after year. Take care of your health.
Allow yourself to ignore some aspects of the tech industry. You don’t need to know everything.
Creating a framework for determining if something new is worth your time exploring.
Always have a side project where you are learning something. This could be adjacent to your work, or something completely different.
Begin to measure something that you’ve ignored, or never measured before. Find a way to improve it.
Find a way to take back some time in your life. You can automate something, drop something, change something, etc.
Find time to reconnect with people - mentors, groups,

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ksqlDB Database for Streaming Events May 12, 2021

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Michael Drogalis (@MichaelDrogalis, Product Manager @Confluentinc) talks about the evolution of Kafka, the challenges of data management with event-driven systems, and the ksqlDB Database.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into this new database, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s first talk about Kafka. What is it,. what does it do, and what are common use-cases that use Kafka?

Topic 3 - Kafka handles all these streams of data / events, but there are a bunch of other pieces needed to connect the data to the applications. What are those pieces, and where are their often challenges?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about this new project - ksqlDB. It’s real-time, it’s Kafka and it’s SQL. Walk us through how it was created and the types of challenges it solves for.

Topic 5 - How is ksqlDB different from using other SQL databases?

Topic 6 - What are some of the initial ways that you’re seeing ksqlDB being used? Is it beginning to allow new use-cases to emerge?

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Lessons learned...Mother's Day Edition May 09, 2021

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In honor of International Mother's Day, we focus today's show on the lessons learned from moms, and how they can impact and influence your life in tech (and beyond). Don't forget to call you mom.
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Mother’s Day

LESSONS LEARNED FROM MOMS

Moms want to get you started on the right path
Moms want you to look presentable
Be able to explain things to your mom
Sometimes moms just want to help
Don’t forget to call your mom

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Running Databases on Kubernetes May 05, 2021

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Anil Kumar (@anilkumar1129, Director of Product Mgmt @Couchbase) talks about how Kubernetes has evolved to support stateful applications, enabling Couchbase to run on Kubernetes, the advantages of Operators, and NoSQL adoption models.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing with Kubernetes, let’s talk about your background.

Topic 2 - Kubernetes started with a focus on “cloud-native apps”, then it became a blurring of infrastructure. How does Couchbase see the market evolving around Kubernetes, especially as a stateful service?

Topic 3 - There is frequently a debate about whether or not to run data services on Kubernetes, or run them off-cluster. How does Couchbase view this, and what are some things that Kubernetes does to improve how Couchbase runs?

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about some of the common use-cases you’re seeing for Couchbase, whether it’s on Kubernetes, or in the cloud, or out at the Edge.

Topic 5 - Do you see any multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud use-cases where Couchbase is a good fit, or is it too difficult to span databases across clouds?

Topic 6 - What areas around Kubernetes do you see evolving to help use-cases for Couchbase (i.e. other CNCF projects, etc.)?

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Is the Public Cloud growing fast enough? May 02, 2021

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Public cloud is expected to grow 23% (overall) in 2021. Is that a fast enough pace of growth, or are there still significant barriers to adoption and faster growth?
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IS THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING QUICKLY?

Q1 2021 vs. Q4 2020: AWS (+30%), Azure (+23%), GCP (+46%)
Growing faster than On-Premise, Existing IT (8.4%)

WHY ISN"T THE PUBLIC CLOUD GROWING FASTER?

Data Gravity - Moving data into the cloud is expensive and slow
Data Centers are long-term depreciation activities (10-20 years)
“App Modernization” budgets are small - as a % of IT budgets
SaaS is growing at 20% YoY
Cloud Costs are expensive and complicated to understand
Tech VC is still investing in Tech Startups
Security is always a Top 3 priority, and Cloud Security is different
A large portion of Enterprise and Gov’t isn’t connected to the Internet - and Mainframes aren’t in the cloud.
Retraining Cloud Skills takes time (Gladwell 10,000 hour rule)

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Expanding Open Source in the Cloud Apr 28, 2021

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Heikki Nousiaine (@hnousiainen, Founder/CTO at @aiven_io) talks about how Aiven delivers a broad set of open source data and messaging services via the public cloud, as a managed service.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into the work you’re doing to expand open source innovation, let’s talk about your background.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about Aiven and the services it provides - all the most popular open source “data-centric” projects (Kafka, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, InfluxDB, Grafana), on top of AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean and UpCloud - plus a bunch of popular integrations (logging, monitoring, authentication, etc.)

SRE / Support Models
Pricing Models
Integrating with the underlying cloud

Topic 3 - How do you typically engage with customers / developers? How much work is typically needed to get those teams initially successful with a given service?

Topic 4 - How does Aiven think about the cloud “shared responsibility model”, in terms of where Aiven’s service stops and the customer's engagement starts? Who is responsible for the data?

Topic 5 - What open source projects are on your radar for adding new services?

Topic 6 - As more technology companies are migrating applications to the cloud, or creating SaaS offerings, are there opportunities for companies to partner with Aiven on the breadth of services you offer?

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If Kubernetes is Boring, What's Next Apr 25, 2021

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As Kubernetes evolves beyond 5yrs of adoption, many say that it is becoming “boring”. So where does the popular open source project and community go next?

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If Kubernetes is boring, what’s next for Kubernetes?

Kubernetes has now shipped 21 releases, which is nearly as many as OpenStack (24 releases), and more than VMware vSphere (12-15 releases).
Kubernetes is shifting from 4 releases a year to 3 releases a year.
On average, 170-180 companies are contributing monthly.
It’s widely available both in private cloud and public clouds
Large percentage of larger companies have projects running on Kubernetes

So what might be next?

To some extent, the projects surrounding and adjacent to Kubernetes are gaining attention and momentum - Serverless, Service Mesh, Multi-Cluster Management Tools, Security Tools, Operators, Helm Charts
Kubernetes is being used across Private Clouds, Public Clouds, a variety of Edge use-cases, and is gaining adoption by Telcos for 5G/Edge use-cases.
Beginning to see some thinking and frameworks around how to use Kubernetes as a Hybrid/Multi-Cloud control plane, not just for Cluster deployment.
Edge use-cases are interesting, since Edge has so many varied deployment models - Does Kubernetes need to be miniaturized? Does Kubernetes ship too often?
AI/ML/Analytics use-cases are exploding as most frameworks are making Kubernetes the default orchestration framework.
Gitops is starting to gain some momentum as an automated, single-source-of-truth management model for Kubernetes clusters and application deployment.
The new way of companies using the public cloud are now trying to figure out how to manage Cloud costs, especially as Kubernetes drives more self-service engagement with platforms.

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Why Silicon Matters in the Cloud Apr 21, 2021

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Garry Binder (@garrybinder, Chief Security Architect @Intel) talks about the challenges of public cloud scale, performance and security.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into today’s discussion, give us a little bit on your background and some of the areas you focus on.

Topic 2 - We’ve done quite a few shows with Intel over the years. This is where we were first introduced to how much work Intel does directly for the largest public cloud providers. Can you give us a sense of how much Intel has evolved to help the cloud providers deliver the scale and performance they do today?

Topic 3 - A few months ago we spoke about Confidential Computing. We all know that security is a challenge best solved with defense-in-depth. Can we talk a little bit about the intersection of embedded security in silicon, and being able to keep up with new performance challenges with the new Ice Lake architecture?

Topic 4 - How do we raise awareness that these native capabilities are available across all the cloud providers - AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, etc., when software features tend to dominate the headlines?

Topic 5 - What do you see as some of the next-generation security challenges that the cloud is well-positioned to (maybe) better handle that we could in data centers?

Topic 6 - Sometimes people see Intel as being one-step removed from the technology companies they directly engage with. What are some of the ways that people can more directly engage in all the programs (developer tools, reference architectures, etc.) that Intel creates?

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10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry Apr 18, 2021

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Over the course of a career, you'll have to make critical decisions about jobs, managers, salaries, technical vs. business focus, and career paths. These 10 tips can help to make better decisions.

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10 Lessons for Surviving the Tech Industry

Early in your career, get a certification, and work on something mainstream. Give yourself some foundations to build upon.
Early in your career, it’s OK to take risks on companies, if you are able to get a lot of experience (either breadth or depth).
Most people in tech don’t have a huge cash-out (IPO, Acquisition, etc.), but if you do, bank it to give yourself options (future savings, job hopping, change of career, etc.)
Have a side hustle. Have a mix of business and technical skills.
Always be learning something new. Being able to learn new stuff is the skill.
Find a community of people (online or live) that can be mentors, sounding boards, or just “trusted” people.
Find managers that support you, encourage you, and promote you. Sometimes ride with them on the next journey.
Title, salary, job scope or location…..you can only pick 2 (maybe 3Most people leave bad managers, not the company.
Work/Life balance is really hard to find. There’s no right answer, it’ll come and go in waves. Ride waves when they come, because they don’t always come back.
Work on your communication skills.

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