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The Cloudcast #284 - 2016 Review & 2017 Predictions Dec 28, 2016

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Aaron and Brian review the state of The Cloudcast, review the biggest stories in 2016, and make predictions about 2017.
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2016 Predictions
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Housekeeping:

Listens up 70% YoY; 50 Shows in 2016 
2017 will be the 7th year of the show.
Thank you to 2016 Sponsors: Intel Cloud For All, Service Now 
[DONATIONS] Krispy Kreme Challenge 2017 
Most Popular Shows: Serverless, DevOps, Containers, Microservices) - all time shows all in 2016 
VC Funding + M&A activities: now over $7.6B ($2.65B VC, $4.98B M&A, 25 acquisitions) - last year closed just north of $5B.  
The Cloudcast listed on several “watch lists” for Blogs/Podcasts 
ServerlessCast (@serverlesscast) shows (red logo) in your pod-catcher 
Weekly | Bi-Weekly “what to watch” shows ~ 10mins - (blue logo) in your pod-catcher 
“The Technical MBA” project

Looking Back at 2016: Tech Acquisitions + M&A + IPO:

Oracle bought NetSuite (SaaS consolidation)
Dell finalized acquisition of EMC/VMware/Pivotal (Hardware consolidation)
Nutanix IPO (down about 23%)

Software-Eating the World M&A:

Unilever acquires Dollar Shave Club (personality, online only)
Walmart acquires Jet (like Amazon.com)
GE Digital acquires ServiceMax (field services via cloud)
Capital One gives away Echo at AWS re:Invent

Prediction Topic 1 - Technology

Enterprises and the Public Cloud - how does this evolve?  
Containers (ecosystem)
Serverless  
AI, Machine Learning, Data Gravity 
SDN? Remember that? 
(Hyper) Converged Infrastructure

Prediction Topic 2 - The Economy

VC funding has been down. Do we see fire-sale acquisitions? 
Have VC moved out of the segment that we discuss on The Cloudcast?  
Will more legacy vendors go private-equity (eg. Cisco, Juniper, NetApp, etc.)? 
Most have thrown in the towel on visions of public cloud 
If the economy goes bad, does that help SaaS or IaaS more (capex vs. open)?

Prediction Topic 3 - Politics

Will Trump pick a fight with Jeff Bezos?  
Will regulation impact things like autonomous driverless vehicles? 
Will there be any efforts to encourage work outside the major tech areas?

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The Cloudcast #283 - The Public Cloud Dec 27, 2016

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Aaron and Brian talk about the state of the public cloud, where each of the big 3 fit in the global IT picture, the big trends happening (mostly) in public cloud and what people should be tracking as we move into 2017.
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Predicting the End of the Cloud Era 
The Cloud Native Landscape (Project) (with CNCF)
GitHub Revenues

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Topic 1 - At the end of 2016, what is the general state of the Public Cloud, in all areas? (SaaS application, pricing?, Apple?, Facebook?

Topic 2 - Where does AWS sit in the global IT landscape?

Topic 3 - Where does Azure sit in the global IT landscape?

Topic 4 - Where does GCP sit in the global IT landscape?

Topic 4a - Does any other cloud matter except those Big 3? (e.g. Baidu, Alibaba, etc.)

Topic 5 - What trends, technology, problems, are emerging and should on people’s radar in 2017? (Open Source, SaaS, Serverless, IoT, Machine Learning, AI, Bots, GitHub

Topic 6 - What did we lose in 2016 from a Public Cloud perspective? (VMware, Cisco, HPE Helion, Oracle? ,Security, etc.)?

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The Cloudcast #282 - Managing Multi-Cloud Services Dec 20, 2016

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Brian talks with Joe Kinsella (@joekinsella, Founder and CTO of @CloudHealthTech) about his background at startups, the growth of the AWS ecosystem, how the buying patterns for cloud have shifted at customers, and how the rest of the industry compares to AWS.
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Joe’s Blog 
Joe’s “Cloud” Predictions for 2017

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. CloudHealth is winning awards and growing, but for people that don’t know about you, give us some background on yourself and the company?

Topic 2 - The AWS re:Invent show was a couple weeks ago. What’s the vibe of that marketplace? Compare it to the vibe you’re seeing from other cloud marketplaces?

Topic 3 - CloudHealth does a lot of interesting things in term of managing cloud resources - performance, cost management, multi-cloud. What are some of the biggest cloud-usage drivers you’re seeing today - who is the buyer, what are the types of applications, etc.?

Topic 4 - We’re many years into “cloud”, but it’s still not a completely mainstream thing for many companies. What lessons are people still learning and are those lessons now starting to get embedded into software/services?

Topic 5 - How has spending on the cloud evolved over the last couple of years?

Topic 6 - How do companies view IT vs. Shadow IT these days? Is it still a problem, or is Shadow IT being embraced more by the business because things are getting done faster?

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The Cloudcast #281 - Monoliths and Microservices Dec 13, 2016

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Brian talks with Anders Wallgren (@anders_wallgren, CTO of @ElectricCloud) about evolving technology and organizational culture, how to think about monolithic applications in today’s business context, the challenges of microservices, lessons learned from good CI practices, and emerging patterns to evolve existing applications.
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Electric Cloud podcast (C9D9)

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We had Sam Fell on about a year ago (Eps. #219) at DevOps Enterprise Summit 2015, but it’s good to reconnect with the folks at Electric Cloud. Give us some of your background and focus at Electric Cloud.

Topic 2 - I’ve been reading several of your blogs lately about monoliths and microservices and how companies manage transitions. Let’s dig into that a little bit, especially how you frame the evolution process.

Topic 3 - I feel like people can talk about DevOps and transformation and lots of other stuff, but if companies can’t do Continuous Integration (CI) well, then a lot of this stuff won’t ever happen. From a technology standpoint, is that the place for companies to start?

Topic 4 - We hear many people talk about using the Strangler Pattern for breaking up monoliths, or re-architecting them. Are there other well-known ways to manage these transitions?

Topic 5 - Obviously moving to microservices, or just building microservices makes your company a $Billion dollar unicorn, but what are some of the downsides? Not every company does very well as managing high levels of change and distributed-ness.

Topic 6 - Can you give us a few examples of companies that have successfully managed a monolith to microservices migration?

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The Cloudcast #280 - DevOps from the Enterprise Nov 29, 2016

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Brian talks with Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell, Cloudcast's Chief DevOps Correspondent) about the DevOps Enterprise Summit (#DOES16), DevOps success stories, how companies manage the evolution, common DevOps failures and any models that can be reused by other companies.
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State of DevOps Report 2016

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Topic 1 - Let’s talk about your experiences at DOES in UK vs. DOES in US.

Topic 2 - What stories of successful DevOps implementations did you hear about, and were there any commonalities in those stories?

Topic 3 - Are you seeing the successful companies focus more on people/process or cultural changes or automation/CI/CD or on application transformation as part of their DevOps journey?

Topic 4 - Have any models emerged that are showing companies how to move DevOps from greenfield environments or POCs or Centers of Excellence (COEs) to wider-scale adoption?

Topic 5 - How are people managing the distributed nature of “two pizza teams” and the overhead of keeping projects in sync?

Topic 6 - What are the common pitfalls or mistakes that companies need to avoid if they are moving down the path towards DevOps?

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The Cloudcast #279 - Understanding Kubernetes Operators Nov 18, 2016

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Brian talks with Brandon Phillips (@brandonphilips, CTO at @CoreOS) about “Operators” and the evolving capabilities to help companies operate Kubernetes and manage the application around Kubernetes.
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"bootkube"
Brandon’s 1st visit to The Cloudcast (Eps. 107 - 2013)

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Topic 1 - Before we dig into some of the new stuff, I’d like to get your perspective on this past week at KubeCon and the state of the Kubernetes community as a whole.

Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this new concept you introduced, called “Operators”. What problem does it intend to solve and how can it help either Developers or Operations teams?

Topic 3 - Kubernetes has been adding these more sophisticated concepts that are more application-pattern aware (e.g. ReplicaSets, DaemonSets, StatefulSets, etc.). In reading through the FAQs on your website, it says that Operators can be complementary to things like StatefulSets. Can you give us the basics of what Operators does that the other capabilities don’t?

Topic 4 - Is there any reason Operators couldn’t also be used to manage the core Kubernetes elements (e.g. Controllers, etc.), similar to something like Cloud Foundry BOSH? Or is it mostly focused on application-level capabilities?

Topic 5 - One of the concerns I heard from several people at KubeCon was around things like backups - both for applications and the overall environment. Can Operators play a role here?

Topic 6 - Since each Operator is going to get built for a specific application, it seems like there is an opportunity for reuse by people in the community with similar applications. Does the CNCF (or CoreOS) plan to maintain a centralized repository of Operators, similar to what Chef/Puppet/Ansible have done in the past with their recipes, cookbooks, playbooks, etc?

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The Cloudcast #278 - Automatic DevOps for the People Nov 18, 2016

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Brian talks with John Troyer (@jtroyer, CEO at @TechReckoning, a community for IT pros) about IT organizations are dealing with DevOps, the pace of change, open source software and communities
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The Geek Whisperers (podcast)

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Topic 1 - Catch us up - what’s going on in the world of Tech Reckoning?

Topic 2 - You and I have been having this on-going conversations about DevOps and trying to figure out how it relates to your “former” community at VMware, and the broader world of IT. (e.g. - need for infrastructure and IT infra skills)

Topic 3 - Now a days you are more engaged around open source communities. What are you seeing in terms of users vs. vendors vs. customers vs. a general understanding of these dynamics by the overall marketplace?

Topic 4 - You and I were both at KubeCon last week. What were your thoughts on that “community” and the overall set of communities around containers?

Topic 5 - Communities have evolved somewhat since you were at VMware. Things like Slack, GitHub, StackOverflow, the rise of Meetups, etc. are very different. What do you see that’s valuable and where do you see issues and complexities?

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The Cloudcast #277 - DevOps Perspectives from the Front Lines Oct 31, 2016

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Brian and Josh Atwell (@Josh_Atwell) talk with Chris Short (@ChrisShort, DevOps @SolarWinds) about the day-to-day role of a DevOps Engineer, how he chooses his tools and communications models, what he learned from the military that’s applicable to DevOps and how he uses his development skills to augment operations.
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“What the Military Taught Me About DevOps”

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Topic 1 - Tell us about yourself and give us some of your background.

Topic 2 - So you’re a day-to-day, do it for real DevOps engineer. What does that mean these days?

Topic 3 - You recently gave a talk at DevOps Days Detroit about “What the Military Taught Me About DevOps”. Tell us about your talk. What can we learn from the military vs. civilian companies (both good and bad)?

Topic 4 - What are you seeing as the differences between the DevOpsDays events and what you’re doing on a day-to-day basis?

Topic 5 - Does DevOps only work for companies that have cloud-native applications, or is it applicable to any applications or levels of technical debt?

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The Cloudcast #276 - 3D Printing & Maker Movement Oct 30, 2016

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Brian and Josh Atwell (@josh_atwell) talk with Harris Kenny (@harriskenny, VP Marketing @ Aleph Objects) about Lulzbot, the state of 3D printing, market segments, experimentation, innovation, new materials usage and how the Maker-Movement is impacting various aspects of the economy.
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Lulzbot Open Source 3D Printing

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Topic 1 - Background and what is Lulzbot?

Topic 2 - I understand open source software, but what is open source hardware?

Topic 3 - Help us understand the scale of 3D printing - when is it desktop vs. “industrial”, and what types of projects fit in either category?

Topic 4 - Help us understand the economics of 3D printing? What is it better than today and when does it become better than for other things in the future?

Topic 5 - There is this thing called “Maker Movement” and “Maker Faire”. What are these events and how does this align to open source communities?

Topic 6 - Big Question - We’re at the end of election season, which means people are talking about jobs. The US has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs over the last couple decades. Is 3D printing something that could help reverse this trend, since it involves more technology?

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