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The Cloudcast #298 - An Introduction to Linkerd May 18, 2017

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Brian talks with William Morgan (@wm, Founder/CEO of @buoyantio) about his background at Twitter, an introduction to Linkerd and the concept of Service Mesh, how Linkerd compares to other application logic, and the role of foundations (e.g. CNCF) vs. communities.
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Linkerd website
Buoyant webpage
Buoyant blog
Linkerd on Github
Announcing Linked 1.0
A Service Mesh Manifesto
CNCF Webinar - Introduction to Linkerd

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Let’s talk a little bit about your background and why you decided to bring Linkerd and ultimately Buoyant to market.

Topic 2 - Give us the basics of what Linkerd does and what it is useful for cloud-native applications?

Topic 3 - You talk about this concept called a “Service Mesh”. What is that and what does it provide for applications?

Topic 4 - There are existing alternatives to Linkerd in both the platform world (e.g. native Kubernetes services) and the application framework world (e.g. Spring Boot/Cloud). How do you help people sort out when one makes sense vs. another?

Topic 5 - Linkerd is now an official project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). CNCF now has many projects. Is Buoyant aligning their technology roadmaps to other CNCF projects, or do they tend to operate independently and be driven by customer/community demand?

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The ServerlessCast #7 - Go Sparta Framework May 13, 2017

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Aaron talks with Matt Weagle (@mweagle, Startup Entrepreneur and creator of the Go Sparta framework for AWS Lambda) about the origins of serverless, the state of the community, why so many developers attend and what he's solving with the Go Sparta framework for AWS Lambda.
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Sparta, a Go Framework for AWS Lambda
Go Sparta Homepage
Join the "serverless-forum" on Slack
Seattle Serverless Meetup

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - As a "serverless veteran", what are your thoughts on the state of serverless?

Topic 2 - Why do you think the serverless events tends to draw so many developers and practitioners vs. the normal crowd of vendors?

Topic 3 - How can people better engage with the community beyond this event? Are there Slack channels?

Topic 4 - Let's talk about the Go Sparta project, the Go framework for AWS Lambda.

Topic 5 - What are the use-cases that you see where serverless makes sense?

Topic 6 - What are the challenges that people are still struggling with?

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The ServerlessCast #6 - Event-Driven Design Thinking May 11, 2017

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Aaron and Brian talk with Paul Johnston (@PaulDJohnston, Serverless Consultant, CTO @Movivo) about running a company entirely on serverless, the on-going benefits of not maintaining servers, new application patterns with events, and what he wants to see from serverless in the future.
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Movivo website
Paul's Serverless Blog
ServerlessConf videos

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - You just gave a talk at ServerlessConf about how CTO's can consider using serverless for their products or services.

Topic 2 - Tell us about the origin of the term "Jeff" as it relates to serverless.

Topic 3 - Let's talk about the benefits that you're seeing in running Movivo completely on a serverless environment.

Topic 4 - How has your thinking changed about 3-tier applications and architectures vs. event-driven architectures?

Topic 5 - What is a "bulky function"? How to evolve from procedural thinking to event or asynchronous thinking?

Topic 6 - How do you think about optimizing the many functions that make up an application?

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The Cloudcast #297 - Bonsai and Enterprise Industrial AI May 07, 2017

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Aaron talks with Dave Cahill (@dcahill8, VP Sale and Marketing, Bonsai) about Enterprise/Industrial AI and emerging use cases. Topics include understanding various forms of AI, developer integration, and where and how AI will fit.
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Bonsai website
Bonsai - how it works
NewStack article on Bonsai
Forbes article on Challenges of AI
Bonsai and TensorFlow

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Tell everyone a little bit about Bonsai? What problem are you trying to solve?

Topic 2 - Everyone thinks robots when they think AI but this isn’t the case most of the time, correct? It’s more about sensors and data and the ability to make more accurate decisions faster?

Topic 3 - In a recent blog post, you mentioned that their is a Use Case Spectrum for AI that ranges from Augmentation to Autonomy. Help everyone wrap their head around that.

Topic 4 - Mark Hammond (Founder and CEO) talks about the democratization of AI, what does he mean by this?

Topic 5 - Mark has mentioned, AI will become a low level toolkit the way databases have. It took me awhile to wrap my head around what he meant by that. But, as I understand it, no one “builds” a database into their app anymore, is he saying that in order to reach mass adoption, most developers won’t build in AI in the future?

Topic 6 - You have three main phases to Bonsai BRAINs: Build, Teach, Use. Explain to folks out there what what that means. There is an example of teaching an AI to play the old Breakout style game on the front page of the website.

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The ServerlessCast #5 - ServerlessConf and IBM OpenWhisk May 02, 2017

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Aaron talks with Jason McGee (@jrmcgee, VP & CTO IBM Cloud) about IBM OpenWhisk and Bluemix. Topics include event driven vs. FaaS, on-prem solutions, open source, use cases and early adoption. Recorded at ServerlessConf in Austin. (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside)
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Show Notes:

IBM OpenWhisk

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The ServerlessCast #4 - ServerlessConf and Azure Functions Apr 30, 2017

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Aaron and Brian talk with Chris Anderson (@crandycodes, PM for Azure Functions) and Yochay Kiriaty (@yochayk, PM for Azure Functions) about Azure Functions and platform integrations from ServerlessConf in Austin. (Sorry for the background noise, we had to record outside)
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Getting Started with Azure Functions

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The Cloudcast #296 - KubeCon, DockerCon, Azure Functions and Bears, Oh My! Apr 21, 2017

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Aaron and Brian review KubeCon 2017 (Berlin), DockerCon 2017 (Austin) and Aaron’s trip to Seattle to learn more about Azure Functions. They also read a bunch of sponsor ads for sponsors they don't have. Use offer code CLOUDCAST to get awesome discounts and free stuff (or not).
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CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Videos
Microsoft Azure Functions
Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions
Azure Logic Apps
Docker to Moby Changes | LinuxKit | containerd
theCUBE at DockerCon (videos)

Show Notes:
Topic 1 - Let’s talk about CloudNativeCon + KubeCon

About 1200-1500 attendees
Lots of Kubernetes projects (60+)
Microsoft bought Deis
IBM now supports Kubernetes
New focus on making the UI/UX better

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about your visit to Seattle to learn more about Azure FunctionsAzure Functions

Languages they use
Event Driven and Trigger Based Code
Terminology is very developer friendly, specifically Enterprise Developer friendly
Use cases were very real world, customer references were presented well
I could see the use case and the problem it solves (compared to others it seems abstract at times)
Bindings were a differentiator
I was surprised by the number of external bindings. Of course there were all the MSFT internal ones, but you had JIRA, github, Trello, Asana, etc. It was impressive to see the binding ecosystemApp Insights - ability to debug/trace/monitor
Logic Apps is like a visual pipeline to build step functions into a workflow
Came in not knowing really anything and came away with a very clear picture of how they plan to be successful and I give them good odds for sure. Hell, they're Microsoft...

Topic 3 - Let’s talk about what got announced at DockerCon 2017

Docker to Moby (what does that mean??)
LinuxKit - DIY Linux, UniKernel, Windows
Enterprise Apps, Oracle, Microsoft

Topic 4 - Let’s talk about what we expect to see/hear at ServerlessConf Austin

Differences between various implementations
Users vs. Vendors vs. Consultants
Are they all cloud-specific or will we see a cloud-agnostic serverless emerge
Understand the Serverless Framework
Better understand use-cases and application patterns

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The Cloudcast #295 - Integrating Cloud Security and Cost Management Apr 12, 2017

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Aaron and Brian talk with Aaron Newman (@aaronnewman, CEO / Co-Founder of @CloudCheckr) about the need for consolidated operations tools in the cloud, how to manage security across multiple clouds, how cloud costs can correlate to security, and the new challenges of compliance in public clouds.
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CloudCheckr Website
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CloudCheckr Blog
AWS Startup Interview with Aaron Newman

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Let’s jump right into the company. CloudCheckr seems super interesting to us because it appears to be a consolidation of everything operations. Everything from Security, Cost, Availability, Compliance and Usage. What problems are you trying to solve in the market today?

Topic 2 - You have a security background based on your previous startups, what made you take your application level expertise and apply this to cloud?

Topic 3 - CloudCheckr supports both AWS and Azure today. From a security standpoint, compare and contrast them for us.

Topic 4 - What is CloudCheckr’s strategy when it comes to both identification and resolution of security compliance?

Topic 5 - Another big aspect of CloudCheckr is cost awareness. How does cost awareness relate to security?

Topic 6 - [from recent press-release] “CloudCheckr currently services over 150 AWS and Azure authorized resellers and provides support to nearly 40% of all AWS Premier Consulting Partners.” Can you talk a little bit about your business model and the interaction between customers and partners?

Topic 7 - Last month CloudCheckr announced $50 million in Series A funding. You have expressed mixed feelings in the past about accepting VC money. We have a lot of listeners that follow this space closely. What are your thoughts here on the tradeoffs and what advice would you give to up-and-coming founders out there?

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The ServerlessCast #3 - From Garage to 200k Users in 4 weeks Apr 07, 2017

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Aaron and Brian talk with Sam Kroonenburg (@samkroon, Founder of A Cloud Guru) and Peter Sbarski (@sbarksi, Founder of A Cloud Guru) about why they built their platform on serverless, the state of the serverless community/market, the trends they have seen evolve at ServerlessConf events, and how different offerings and platforms are quickly evolving.
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A Cloud Guru Website
A Cloud Guru Blog
The Cloudcast Eps. 240 - Becoming an AWS Guru
ServerlessConf Website - 10% discount using “TheCloudCast10” code
Videos from past ServerlessConf events
[DISCOUNT] Start Serverless Skills Bundle (4 courses) - (only $49 instead of $79)
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Show Notes:

Topic 1 - Welcome back to the podcast. We last spoke a little over a year ago on the initial topic of public cloud training. Y’all threw in a little blurb at the end that you were doing all of this on a framework you were starting to call “serverless”. Things have exploded from there. Give us an update on A Cloud Guru first of all.

Topic 2 - Let’s jump into Serverless and the state of the “industry” since then. You are operating one of the “oldest” serverless frameworks around and have built a very successful business on it. Tell us first of all about the current state of operations at A Cloud Guru. How have things progressed in the face of some pretty incredible growth over the last 2 years.

Topic 3 - Serverless Conference is coming up in Austin at the end of the month. A Cloud Guru has been the principal organizer of the conference. How have the events changed and matured? What was your favorite session or moment from past events? What do we have to look forward to in Austin?

Topic 4 - For anyone that’s watching the serverless movement from the sidelines, how would you summarize it’s current status today? Is it just AWS Lambda and a fragmentation of everything else?

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The Cloudcast #294 - DevOps Before It Was Cool Apr 02, 2017

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Aaron talks with Matthew Boeckman (@matthewboeckman, owner dryas.io, ex-VP of DevOps Craftsy) about life in the DevOps trenches at a high growth startup over the course of six years. Lessons learned, and a glimpse into what’s next in the industry.
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Dryas.io Website
Craftsy Website
Matthew's Articles on Dryas.io
Matthew's Articles on DevOps.com
VictorOps Blog
Beyond Blame: Learning From Failure and Success

Show Notes:

Topic 1 - We first met at AWS Re:Invent a few years ago while you were still at Craftsy and I was fascinated by your journey to where you are now. You were doing DevOps before it was cool. Tell us a little about your history and your run up to opening your own consulting business?

Topic 2 - What were your keys to success running both DevOps and Operations?

Topic 3 - As a practitioner, how much do you follow the DevOps community? Are there certain people or trends that you follow? What is interesting to you these days?