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(Part II) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars Oct 17, 2018

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Brian talks with the founders from FIX Health, Portabl and Safely, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 2 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC.
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Company 1: FIX Health
[Update] FIX has secured a MetLife pilot to build a new short term disability product.
CEO: Mike Tinney
Atlanta, GA

Use game based entertainment to help a person re-prioritize physical activity and well being.
Already in the market. Launching a second product.
92% success rate vs. 56% typically from corporate programs
Do you target companies with certain demographics - enjoy playing games?

Company 2: Portabl
Founders: Mike Minnet and Ali Lanning
London, England

Creating Insurance and Benefits for Freelancers and the Gig Economy
Safety net with big company benefits
Offer traditional company well-being for freelance workers

Company 3: Safely
[Update] Safely grew their revenue by more than $500k since joining Techstars.
Founders: Andrew Bate and Lui King
Atlanta, GA

The Trust and Safety Company for the Rental Industry
Insurance development/change is very slow
Insurance isn’t top of mind for people’s needs
Algorithms help find the bad renters
This builds on the growth of AirBnB or VRBO?

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(Part I) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars Oct 10, 2018

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Brian talks with the founders from Buddy, Enroll Hero and FitBliss, as part of a behind-the-scenes engagement with TechStars and the MetLife Digital Accelerator in Cary, NC. This show is Part 1 of a series of interviews with companies that are innovating and disrupting the insurance industry, in cooperation with corporate partner MetLife in Cary, NC.
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Company 1: Buddy
[Update] Has a signed reinsurance commitment from their Lloyd's syndicate, so their product is fully backed
CEO: Charles Merritt
Richmond, VA
On-demand accident insurance to enable people to explore the world and have adventures.

Adventure/outdoor people
Extreme sports

Company 2: Enroll Hero

[Update] Secured pilots with MetLife and Northwestern Mutual
Founders: Mark Lee and Bryan Kocol
Santa Monica, CA
Helping people make it easier to get the right Medicare
“The TurboTax for Medicare”

10,000 people a day are turning 65
Direct to consumer business; challenges of building trust
“Total costs of care” vs. “Monthly Premium” costs

Company 3: FitBliss
[Update] Closed Salesforce as a customer and 10x'ed their revenues
CEO: Navid Rastegar
San Francisco, CA
"Optimize Well-Being and Productivity"

Integrate with many devices and services
Like a personal trainer or financial planner for well-being
Both an employee and employer tool

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Taking Spinnaker for a Spin Oct 03, 2018

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Brian talks with Andy Glover (@aglover, Director of Delivery Engineering @Netflix) about Spinnaker, release automation, the challenges of multi-cloud platforms, and how the community around the Spinnaker project has evolved.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background and how you came to be involved in the Spinnaker project.
Topic 2 - For anyone that’s not familiar with Spinnaker, can you give us the basic concepts of the technology, and some of the problems that it tries to solve?
Topic 3 - Lots of people are familiar with CI/CD tools like Jenkins. How does Spinnaker compare, or is it complementary to CI/CD tools?
Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the Spinnaker community. Obviously Netflix released the project (back in 2015), but how has it evolved and expanded through the community?
Topic 5 - What are some of the common ways that companies are using Spinnaker today?
Topic 6 - Are there easy ways for Developers or Ops teams to get started with Spinnaker today?

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Interactive Learning for Cloud-Native Sep 26, 2018

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Brian talks with Ben Hall (@Ben_Hall, Founder of Ocelot Uproar, creator of @TeamKatacoda) about the evolution of helping developers learn new Cloud-native technology skills, and how Katacoda is making that an online, browser-only reality.
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background in founding Ocelot Uproar, and how Katacoda got started.
Topic 2 - Katacoda is similar to a concept that I had a while ago, I called it Cloud Garage Labs, and I’m really glad Katacoda exists now. Tell us about all of the technologies that engineers can interact with today?
Topic 3 - Let’s walk through the user's experience. Beyond the browser and reading the interactive tutorial, what does a user have to do?
Topic 4 - Some of the topics are vendor-specific (e.g. Weave, OpenShift, etc.), but many are more generic. Who is creating them, maintaining them, and how do you choose to add new things? Are there costs to adding new topics?
Topic 5 - What is some of the backend technology that you’ve built in order for all these topics to be hosted and delivered in just a browser-based experience?
Topic 6 - Where do you want to see Katacoda expand to over the next couple years?

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The Cloudcast #363 - IoT and APIs Sep 20, 2018

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Aaron talks with Stuart Mitchell (@mokanix_api, CEO of Mokanix) about emerging trends in the IoT transport layer and the intersection of IoT and APIs.
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Topic 1 - Stuart, tell the listeners a little about yourself and your background
Topic 2 - With your background in telco and specifically Tata Communications, how did you develop your interest in IoT as the “next big thing”?
Topic 3 - Your company is called mokanix. It appears to have a different take on many other IoT guests we’ve had in that it has a focus on the intersection of SIM cards and APIs. Help folks that aren’t familiar with the basics of that need understand the problem.
Topic 4 - Would customers embed your API into their existing apps? How would this typically be implemented?
Topic 5 - Why would someone choose SIM technology over other tech for the transport layer
Topic 6 - How is security handled by the product? Can you lock out a card for instance if it is lost?

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The Cloudcast #362 - Security & Service Meshes Sep 12, 2018

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In a joint show between The Cloudcast and PodCTL, Brian and Tyler Britten talk with John Morello (@morellonet, CTO at @TwistlockTeam) about how Service Mesh technologies, such as Istio, can be used for more advanced security of containerized applications and Kubernetes environments.
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Securing Istio and Kubernetes
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and introduce us to Twistlock for anyone that isn’t familiar with the company.
Topic 2 - One of the most popular concepts in the world of containers and Kubernetes is “Service Mesh” (projects like Istio). Let’s talk about the basics of what a service mesh does.
Topic 3 - Service mesh provides routing capabilities, so let’s talk about where security comes into the picture.
Topic 4 - Service mesh introduces a concept in Kubernetes where you deploy multiple containers in a pod, one the application and one the service-mesh proxy. Does security introduce yet another container/agent into a pod?
Topic 5 - What sort of tools are available today for security professionals are service meshes are introduced into a container environment?

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The Cloudcast #361 - Single Pane of Glass at USA Today Sep 05, 2018

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Brian talks with Bridget Lane (@bridgetnomnom; Software Developer, Gannett & USA TODAY) about how USA Today | Gannett has transformed their internal teams over the past 3 years to be more agile and able to deliver software faster to support 100s of publications. We also discuss career evolution and advice to anyone wanting to quickly advance their skills.
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Velocity Conf - "Single Pane of Glass at USA Today"
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about yourself and some of the things you’re working on at Gannett | USA Today.
Topic 2 - You’re still very young, but yet you’re working on API Management, complex automation, CDNs, containers, CI/CD pipelines. How did you gain experience in so many areas so quickly?
Topic 3 - You’re talking about how USA Today has been evolving to break down organizational silos and adopt new technologies to make the team more efficient. Can you walk us through some of that evolution?
Topic 4 - What does a day-in-the-life or a week-in-the-life of an environment like USA Today look like, with constantly new content, crazy deadlines, demand for 24x7x365 availability, etc.?
Topic 5 - What have been some of the lessons learned over this transformation - good lessons, mistakes, things that might be applicable to any company?
Topic 6 - The transformation is both organizational/cultural and technology? What technologies tended to give you the biggest improvement or new advantage?

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The Cloudcast #360 - Multi-Cloud Cost Modeling Aug 29, 2018

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Brian talks with Joe Kinsella (@joekinsella, Founder and CTO of @CloudHealthTech) about public cloud evolution, and how customers are viewing multi-cloud (or hybrid-cloud) as their planned architecture, and how well they are able to manage costs across multiple cloud environments.
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CloudHealth Website
CloudHealth acquired by VMware (August 2018)
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been nearly a year since you were last on. How are you seeing the public cloud evolve in 2018?
Topic 2 - Looking at market share reports, there’s still a distribution of usage - from AWS to Azure to GCP to “Other”. Are you seeing companies want multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud, or is it a matter of them really aligning with a single public cloud?
Topic 3 - Do you think companies understand that each public cloud does billing and cost modeling differently?
Topic 4 - Any tips or tricks you’ve seen that help to make it possible to normalize the differences between the billing and cost models? Tools exist, but how much friction is that creating on usage decisions?
Topic 5 - Do you think the public clouds are doing enough to make public cloud usage understandable, or is cloud-cost complexity just an extension of how complex IT cost modeling has always been? Are there areas where this is getting better?

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The Cloudcast #359 - Exploring the Realities of Innovation at Scale Aug 22, 2018

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Brian talks with Dr. Bruce Davie (@_drbruced, VP & CTO, VMware Asia Pacific & Japan) about differences in APAC markets, what drove large-scale adoption of new technologies, how to rethink scaling new innovation, the variety across APAC and how to be constantly learning to grow your career.
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FutureNet Podcast
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. For our audience that hasn't been around networking as much, can you share with us some of your background.
Topic 2 - Sometimes our perspective on things is too US-centric. You’ve worked around the world and are now back in APAC (Melbourne). What are some of the technology things in that part of the world that would surprise people in North America?
Topic 3 - You’ve been speaking about IoT recently. Is it just the population density that makes APAC a faster adopter of IoT technologies, or are there other considerations that are creating this trend? Are regulations a factor, or mobile-phone usage, or something else?
Topic 4 - IoT tends to be a conversation that’s driven by a new business opportunity - it’s less about connectivity (e.g. old IT needs). How is the conversation happening between the business leaders asking for IoT and the technology leaders that have to implement it?
Topic 5 - We used to (sort of) think about networking (bandwidth, routing, device density) somewhat separate than security. But if densities get really high, or IoT devices are involved in country-mission-critical functions, can people afford to think about them separately?
Topic 6 - Are you finding that the APAC region is doing unique things to train up the skills needed for IoT / denser networking / SDN, or is the pace of change happening so fast that they have to learn on the job?

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The Cloudcast #358 - Exploring the Business Side of Open Source Software Aug 15, 2018

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Brian talks with Joseph Jacks (@asynchio, advisor to CNCF, creator of KubeCon, co-Founder Kismatic, Entrepreneur) about different ways to view OSS business models, and how he's been tracking commercial OSS companies through his COSSCI Index.
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Open Consensus - Data Driven Perspectives on Open Source Software
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us some of your background and some of the things you’re working on these days?
Topic 2 - You created a tracking of Commercial Open Source Software Company Information (COSSCI, “cozy index”). How did you go about collecting the information, some of which isn’t public?
Topic 3 - Let’s talk about “open core” and how you’re thinking about the thickness of the core.
Topic 4 - To a certain extent, OSS velocity relies on VC funding to gain traction. VC funding typically wants an exit. Do you think there are enough successful OSS exists to keep seeing VC funding flow in, or do you think public cloud making OSS-as-a-service will slow that down?
Topic 5 - Looking out a few years, you obviously have some models in your mind about how Commercialization of OSS could play out. What are some of the “truths” that you believe are not up for debate, and what are some areas you think might significantly change?

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