The Cloudcast
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A Cloud-First Look Ahead for 2021
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Jeremy Burton (@jburton, CEO @Observe_Inc; board member @SnowflakeDB ) talks about the differences between traditional IT companies and Cloud-First companies, from product planning and roadmaps, to customer engagements and marketing messaging. SHOW: 484 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
Topic 1a - For people that aren’t familiar, what does Observe bring to the market? Topic 2 - We wanted to do a little “before-and-after”, and focus on what it means to be a “Cloud-First” company. What are the most obvious differences between a company like Observe and a company like Dell or EMC? Topic 3 - From a product perspective, how do you think about roadmaps and the ways in which you enable new features for customers? Since Observe runs only in the public cloud, how much do you need to think about integrating with the native cloud services? Topic 4 - You have deep expertise in creating marketing messaging, but so much of how customers learn about your products is no longer the company website. How do you think about reaching potential customers, or generally getting your message into the market? Topic 5 - Traditional IT was often aligned to centralized buying and architecture groups. How much does Cloud-First change the consumption models for companies - experimentation, on-demand usage, dealing with scaling issues, etc. Topic 6 - Overall, what are some of the biggest lessons you’ve learned about the Cloud-First approach as you’ve transitioned over the last 3+ years. FEEDBACK?
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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An Event-Driven Apps Look Ahead for 2021
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James Urquhart (@jamesurquhart, Global Field CTO @VMware, O’Reilly Author) talks about event-driven application architectures, how it's changing real-time business models, and technology stack driven the evolution. SHOW: 483 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
Topic 2 - Let’s talk about this concept of “event-driven” and flow. Where did it come from, what does it do, why is it valuable to application designers? Topic 2a - What is a “flow” and how is it related to event-driven? Topic 3 - Events are data. We’ve had relational databases for data, and then we had NoSQL or eventually-consistent databases for data. Are events a new type of data, or a new way to deal with data in a different context? (channels, replays, etc.) Topic 4 - Can we talk through an example of an event-driven application, or an event-driven integration between multiple organizations? How is it new/different? What unique capabilities does it bring now? (Kafka, IoT, API Gateways, etc.) Topic 5 - Cloud made IT self-service. Serverless made Ops become on-demand. If I’m a business leader, what does event-driven give us? Topic 6 - Where are we in the maturity of event-driven architectures? What might be some of the next stages coming in 2021 or 2022? FEEDBACK?
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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A Hybrid Cloud Look Ahead for 2021
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Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard, Offer Manager @DXC + Co-Host of @SoftwareDefTalk) talks about the evolution of Hybrid Cloud, common deployment misperceptions and challenges, and major areas for improvement in 2021. SHOW: 482 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
Topic 2 - 10yrs ago, the software and hardware vendors created the concept of hybrid cloud, partially as a defense against public cloud, and partially as a reality check for existing usage. Now we have the public cloud rolling out both hybrid and multi-cloud offerings. How did we get here? Topic 3 - As you talk to different companies, what’s the reality of Hybrid Cloud today? What is it, what do companies expect it to be, etc? Topic 4 - What’s the biggest misperception about Hybrid Cloud that you’ve seen over the years and that you seen now (could be different things)? Topic 5 - What parts of Hybrid Cloud do you expect to gain traction over the next couple of years? Topic 6 - What areas do you see missing from a Hybrid Cloud architecture/approach today that need to be addressed?
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Introduction to Cloudcast Basics
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SHOW: Season 0, Show 1 - Introduction CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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2020 in Review, 2021 Predictions
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Aaron and Brian discuss the biggest trends from 2020, and make bold cloud computing predictions in 2021 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
FORMAT CHANGES in 2021
TRENDS and MAJOR STORIES from 2020:
2021 PREDICTIONS: Our 2020 Predictions from last year Aaron’s Predictions
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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AzureStack for Hybrid Cloud
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Carmen Crincoli (@carmencrincoli, Sr. ProgMgr @Microsoft) + Todd Christ (@toadster, Ent. Solutions Architect, @IntelBusiness) talk about the evolution of AzureStack, how HCI is being extended as a cloud service, and how COVID is creating new use-cases for on-premises and public cloud. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
Topic 2 - Let start by talking about AzureStack, in a broader context. The “brand” has been in the market for quite a while, but it really went through an evolution about a year ago - different services add, different buying options, etc. Help understand the broader AzureStack story. Topic 3 - When most people think of HCI, they think about Compute, Storage, and VMs - simplifying the complexity of those systems. Now the world is moving more to the cloud, but on-premises still remains. Let’s talk about the concept of HCI becoming an extended cloud service and how that’s evolving. Topic 4 - VMs, Containers, Backup/Recovery, Auto-Updates are now all built-in to AzureStackHCI. Which group (or groups) is managing AzureStackHCI in a typical company? Topic 5 - How important is it to support disconnected (from the cloud) AzureStack HCI instances? Can there be scenarios that are partially-disconnected? Topic 6 - Are you seeing any new or unexpected use-cases because of COVID-19, or now that HCI can be viewed as an extension of the public cloud?
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2020
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Brian provides some commentary on the state of AWS in 2020, and then reviews the highlights and announcements from AWS re:Invent 2020. SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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The State of Kubernetes
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Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, Docker & Kubernetes training) talks about the current and future state of Kubernetes, who is using it and why, implementation and operational challenges, and how get started and what tools he recommends SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Tell us about some of your most recent projects, and all the places where people can find your training? Topic 2 - Let’s talk about the State of Kubernetes, level of maturity of users/usage. Where do you think we are at the end of 2020? Topic 3 - Who do you find are trying to learn and use Kubernetes, more Infra/Ops, or AppDev, or somewhere in between (DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, etc.)? Topic 3a - Where do you see people succeeding, and where are they still struggling to adjust to the requirements of Kubernetes? Topic 4 - The ecosystem of projects around Kubernetes (immutable Linux, Operators, Service Mesh, Prometheus, OPA, Serverless/Knative, etc.) has gotten very broad. How do you find people are dealing with all these moving pieces? Topic 5 - There are a lot of ways to engage with Kubernetes these days - DIY (OSS), vendor distributions, Kubernetes on your laptop, web IDEs, Hosted Services (simple & complex). What do you recommend to people, or do you see trends about how people best engage with Kubernetes? Topic 6 - Do you think it’s OK that Kubernetes doesn’t have a “developer model”, but rather many different options? Do you think this evolves in 2021? FEEDBACK?
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Great Data Models Need Great Features
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Mike Del Balso (@mikedelbalso, CEO at @TectonAI) talks about lessons learned from Uber’s Michelangelo ML platform, enabling DevOps for ML data, and how Tecton enables features for data models. SHOW: 477
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s always exciting to talk to new companies. You were doing some pretty interesting things at Uber prior to starting Tecton, so tell us a little bit about that experience and then what motivated you to start Tecton? Topic 2 - There are lots of Data/AI/ML tools and platforms out there. Tecton talks about “great models need great features”. Give us a high-level overview of the Tecton platform and the perspective you bring to solving complex business problems. Topic 3 - After reading the papers on the Uber Michelangelo platform, it’s clear that today’s interactions aren’t a bunch of individual “decisions”, but layers of decisions made on ever-changing data (the UberEATS example). Why does business need a new approach to how they interact with data? Topic 4 - When I think about earlier approaches for companies to “harness data for analytics”, there was always the problem of data silos. Do you find that companies need to organize themselves different, not just organize their data, to be able to overcome those silo challenges? Does it take a much more product-centric approach vs. the traditional “analyst” approach? Topic 5 - Every new company and platform needs to find product-market fit. What do you see as early “fits” for the Tecton platform? Topic 6 - How much data-science expertise does a company need today to be able to leverage Tecton, and how much does the platform lower the barrier to entry? FEEDBACK?
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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eBPF & Cilium Cloud-native Networking
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Dan Wendlandt (@danwendlandt, CEO/Co-Founder @Isovalent talks about the evolution of cloud networking, eBPF and Cilium for programmable infrastructure, and blurring the lines between networking, security and service-mesh. SHOW: 476
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve been following your work for a while (Nicira, OpenShift networking, etc), but tell our audience a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - A few years ago I wrote an article that said, “if you’re in networking, the #1 skill you should learn is Linux”. Why has there been so much shift from “traditional networking” to so many new capabilities being implemented in software, and specifically Linux? Topic 3 - Help us understand these two new concepts - eBPF and Cilium. It’s new packet filtering, it’s container networking, it’s multi-cluster networking, it can help with observability - lots going on here. Topic 4 - What are some of the gaps in today’s networking/filtering/observability stacks that can improve with eBPF/Cilium? Topic 5 - We’ve seen quite a few companies evolve from expertise in an open-source project to commercial offerings. What lessons have you learned from other companies that shape how Isovalent will both go-to-market and also engage with ecosystem partners? Topic 6 - What are some of the common use-cases or applications you see that highlight the value of the Isovalent stack? FEEDBACK?
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Managing SAP in the Cloud
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Eamonn O'Neill (@eamser, Founder/EVP @LemongrassCloud) talks about the five paths of SAP cloud migrations, how SAP is evolving beyond ERP, and the responsibility models for SAP in the cloud. SHOW: 475
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. The world of SAP has evolved quite a bit over the last decade. Tell us about your background and what led you to focus on bringing SAP to the cloud. Topic 2 - A decade ago, SAP was very focused on this new HANA database and most people still thought of them as an ERP company. Since then, they have bought a lot of companies, especially in the SaaS space (SuccessFactors, Concur, Hipmonk, Qualtrics, etc.). Can you give us a high-level overview of what relationship SAP has with their customers these days? Topic 3 - Lemongrass is focused on helping customers move SAP to the AWS Cloud. What types of applications are being moved, and why are customers moving them? Topic 4 - Lemongrass talks about 5 Waves of Innovations to get SAP into AWS (Migrate, FinOps/SysOps/DevOps, 4/HANA, Big Data, AI). Where are most customers on that journey today? Does it tend to be consistent across industries? Topic 5 - AWS often talks about a “shared responsibility model” for application-availability or security. How does that model apply to SAP applications, and what role does Lemongrass play for customers on an on-going basis? Topic 6 - Have you seen the pandemic change how companies are looking at their SAP environments and whether or not it makes them do more in the cloud? FEEDBACK?
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Serverless Data APIs
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Evan Weaver (Co-Founder/CTO @Fauna) talks about FaunaDB, and enabling serverless, NoOps databases as new applications architectures emerge around APIs, Jamstack and other distributed systems. SHOW: 474
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 2 - Over the last few months, we’ve been digging into newer distributed architecture elements (Jamstack, GraphQL, Serverless, etc.). But we haven’t dug into the role of data in these architectures. Help us understand this 4th generation architecture, or client-serverless, and the role of data. Topic 3 - Data is still stored somewhere, but its usage is now made up of a bunch of data coming together in various contexts. How does Fauna fit into this new world when clients and APIs play as much of a role as “the database”? Topic 4 - As you talk to people that come from a SQL / Relational-DB background, how does the discussion go in terms of how things change and some of the common bottlenecks/problems that Fauna can solve for them? Topic 5 - Databases have traditionally been difficult to scale, protect, maintain, etc. How does you enable the data layer or API access to now follow a NoOps model? Topic 6 - Where are the best places for people to engage to learn more about how to not only use the Jamstack architecture, but apply the principles around Fauna for Data/API management? FEEDBACK?
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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Continuous Application Profiling
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Hugo Kaczmarek (Product Manager) and Markus Hirt (Director Engineering) @Datadoghq talk about continuous application profiling in production, having better visibility in application environments, and managing performance budgets. SHOW: 473
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 2 - Production used to be a pretty sacred and untouched environment. Now we’re seeing the need to create chaos in production, test in production, and know more about how things actually work in production. Let’s talk about this concept of “profiling”. Topic 3 - People often talk about having to “instrument their code” to be able to get feedback. How does that differ from profiling, and what unique things does an application need to be profiled in production? Topic 4 - On the surface, this seems like it would add quite a bit of overhead to the applications. How do you manage to find the right balance of performance and visibility? Topic 5 - Help us understand how profiling fits into the bigger picture of all the tools needs - Logging, APM, Observability, etc? Topic 6 - Is there a profile of who needs profiling? Is this every application team, or just for specific applications (e.g. event-streaming, etc.)?
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Confidential Computing
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Vikas Bhatia (@vikascb, Head of Product, Azure Confidential Computing) and Ron Perez (@ronprz, Intel Fellow, Security Architecture) talk about the technologies and architecture behind Azure Confidential Computing SHOW: 472
Topic 2 - Defense in Depth is a strategy that has long been in place in Enterprise computing. We’ve seen previous approaches that connected the OS or Application with the Hardware (e.g. Intel TXT). How has this space evolved over the last few years, and what are some of the reasons why we need another level of depth? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the technology basics of Confidential Computing. What are the software elements (Application, OS, SDK) and what are the hardware elements? Topic 4 - What is the normal migration path for a company to move workloads into Confidential Computing environments? Is this primarily for new workloads, or does it apply to existing applications too? Topic 5 - Azure has the ability to deliver either Confidential VMs, or recently added Confidential containers along with AKS. When does it make sense to be confidential in one part of the stack vs. other? Topic 6 - What are some areas where you’re seeing the broader ecosystem (e.g. technology partners or end-user customers) beginning to expand out the functionality of Confidential Computing? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Understanding the Jamstack
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Matt Biilmann (@biilmann, CEO/Co-Founder @Netlify) talks about the evolution of websites, the architecture of the Jamstack, the evolution of mobile + CDNs, and interacting with 3rd-party APIs. SHOW: 471
Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about how the web is consumed these days; what’s broken, and how are you trying to make it better? Topic 3 - What is Jamstack? How much is language, how much is frameworks, how much is architecture, and how much is a different way to think about Websites/Content/CMS? Topic 4 - So we have this website content distributed out to the CDN, how to 3rd-party APIs interact with the system (e.g. Stripe, Agolia, Twilio, AWS Lambda, etc.)? Topic 5 - CDN’s just used to serve content, and now they are running code at the edge. How do those interactions work? Topic 6 - You recently wrote that we might be hitting an inflection point for Websites/CMS’. Is that just a natural evolution of the distributed internet, or has anything in 2020 accelerated that? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Women of Color in Tech
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Susanne Tedrick (@SusanneTedrick, Author “Women of Color in Tech”, @IBM Technical Specialist) talks about the importance of STEM for young girls. the need for mentors and sponsors, and how to better create opportunities for women of color in tech. SHOW: 470
Topic 2 - For a lot of people, we’re trying to do more listening and learning these days. Let’s talk about women of color in tech. Topic 3 - As you now have this platform, what are some of the most common and most surprising conversations you’re having these days? Topic 4 - The book provides a number of examples of women in a variety of technical positions (leaders, engineers, pioneers, etc.). Tell us how important it is to see somebody that looks like you in positions you aspire to be in some day. Topic 5 - You do an excellent job of talking about women’s journey from early life to careers in tech. Every journey has hills and valleys and roadblocks. What are some of the roadblocks that other people could help women overcome and be more successful? Topic 6 - What are your favorite resources for people at different stages of their journeys - events, communities, mentors/sponsors, etc.? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Learn Streaming from the Experts
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Chris Short (@chrisshort, Technical Marketing @RedHat, @CNCF Ambassador) talks about how to deliver compelling technical learning via streaming services, how to engage audiences and communities, and how to improve virtual events. SHOW: 469
Topic 2 - We’re all adapting to a COVID-19 world. You’ve been creating a ton of learning content for OpenShift.tv. Let’s talk about the basics of what streaming content looks like (where to watch, demos vs. discussions, etc.) Topic 3 - What have you learned about this new way people are learning and engaging? Topic 4 - What are some of the technical tips and tricks to keep viewers engaged? Is streaming mostly a 1-way medium, or is there 2-way / multi-way communications happening? Topic 5 - What do people need to get started, if they want to use streaming for a project, or teach their teams (or their customers)? Topic 6 - With so many events going virtual, what are some emerging things about streaming that could help make virtual events (or any events) better in 2021? FEEDBACK?
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Security Management & SIEM
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Ariel Assaraf (@ArielAssaraf, CEO at @Coralogix) talks about the evolution of SIEM technologies, today's common use-cases, how SaaS migrations impact SIEM, and how AI/ML is improving functionality. SHOW: 468
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Ariel, welcome to the show, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in the SIEM space? FEEDBACK?
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Identity Across Multiple Clouds
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Brian Johnson (SVP Cloud Security Practice @rapid7) talks about the evolution of the Managed Security Provider market, manage security without borders, and the complexities of multiple identity and trust models. SHOW: 467
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You were the CEO/co-founder of DivvyCloud, which was recently purchased by Rapid7. Give us an overview of the Managed Security Provider market and some of the ways it’s evolved since the pandemic started. Topic 2 - In today’s world, there no longer is a security perimeter for companies in the way they’ve known for years. What is replacing how companies define perimeters - is identity the new perimeter? Topic 3 - Can you talk about what kind of Identity management companies need today, and maybe talk through some of the nuances across the disciplines like Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA). Topic 4 - Where does MFA (multi-factor authentication) sit within a strong IAM strategy? For example enforcing policies across cloud user accounts? Topic 5 - We’ve seen some data suggesting over 80%+ of organizations are using a multi-cloud strategy, can you talk about some of the challenges around trying to manage IAM acros clouds? For example (Different policies, tools and terminologies across clouds) Topic 6 - The security world is beginning to talk about “unified zero trust security models”. Can you talk about what that means and maybe give us a background about DIvvycloud/Rapid7 and how they are working to solve a lot of these topics around IAM.
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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How Tensorflow is Evolving
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Andres Rodriguez (Sr. Principal Engineer @Intel) talks about how Tensorflow v2 has evolved, use-cases and applications, frequent usage patterns, and the best ways to begin using Tensorflow. SHOW: 466
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a really interesting mix of industry, government and academic work around Deep Learning. Tell us a little bit about the areas you focus on. Topic 2 - Tensorflow is one of the most popular OSS projects on Github. Help us understand the types of data problems where Tensorflow is the best tool/framework (e.g. neural networks). What are some of the most popular capabilities? Topic 3 - Tensorflow is focused on looking at how data flows through graphs. Are there common types of ML problems that are more appropriate for using Tensorflow than other ML models? Topic 4 - Tensorflow is able to run on a broad set of hardware, but obviously there is a point where specialized hardware is needed for certain performance or scaling. What are some of the things that Intel is doing to help improve the experience with Tensorflow? Topic 5 - Tensorflow works primarily with the Python programming language. Beyond having some background with Python, what are some of the skills that are needed to get started and be successful with Tensorflow? Topic 6 - Having worked with Tensorflow for a while now, what are some of the learning paths that you’ve found successful (problems areas, communities of interest, tools, new skills, etc.)?
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Migrating to the Cloud
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Jeremy Winter (Partner Director of Azure Management at Microsoft) talks about what trends are driving migrations, how companies plan for success, useful tools & frameworks, and leading successful transitions. SHOW: 465
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had the opportunity to work on a number of things at Microsoft. Tell us about your current role, as well as how it’s been to see the transition at Microsoft from software company to cloud company? Topic 2 - Lets start with the concept of migration. Is there a framework that companies use to think about what to migrate to the public cloud? Topic 3 - Transitions and Testing feel like they are critical for any migration to be successful. How do companies manage to get through an application being in one location vs. being in the cloud? Topic 4 - As companies think about the economics &/or ROI of migration, how do they think about all the elements involved (e.g. cost to change an application, cost savings of not owning a data center, cost to re-skill existing staff or hire new, etc..)? Topic 5 - COVID-19 has changed everything these past 6 months. Have you seen the profile of a migration change significantly since the pandemic started, or have well-known migration profiles already in place? (e.g. different applications to migration, different pace of migration, etc.) Topic 6 - Do you find that migrations are being driven top-down at companies, or are they decentralized by groups? How are they being organized these days?
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Multi Cloud with Google Anthos
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Todd Christ (Sr. Solutions Architect @Intel) talks about Google Anthos, core elements, design considerations, mulitcloud, application modernization, and the latest services available. SHOW: 464
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a broad set of experiences in your career, how did you come into being focused on Cloud and Multi Cloud technologies and solutions?
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Robotic and Intelligent Process Automation
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Mike Kalinowski (@mxkalinowski, Senior Manager of Product at @Infor) talks about the basics of RPA, the challenges of automating diverse heritage systems, the emerging role of AI/ML in RPA, and the evolution of business analysts. SHOW: 463
Topic 2 - For anyone that isn’t familiar with the concept of RPA (Robotic Process Automation), can you give us a brief overview of the business problem it attempts to solve and the basic technology behind it? Topic 3 - We often hear about systems with APIs and how they can be automated and interacted with. But many back-end systems could be older, so how does RPA interact with these types of systems? Topic 4 - Oftentimes these automated workflows can involve inputs and outputs from various systems (applications). Who tends to be the owner of an RPA system, or does it blur the lines between groups? Topic 5 - As I look at what Infor OS provides around Intelligent Process Automation, very graphical, it seems like it overlaps with this “Low Code / No Code” trend/buzzword. Is there any reality to that, or are they very different things? Topic 6 - When I look at case-studies for RPA, the ROIs are usually incredible. How do companies often get started, and are there any gotchas you’d suggest people avoid?
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Introduction to GraphQL
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Tanmai Gopal (@tanmaigo, CEO Hasura) and Rajoshi Ghosh (@rajoshighosh, COO Hasura) talk about the evolution of GraphQL as an efficient way to engage with APIs and data models, and how Hasura Cloud helps simplify GraphQL for developers. SHOW: 462
Topic 2 - GraphQL is a technology that’s been around for a little while, but it might be new to our audience. Can you give us the basics of what it does, and what sort of problems it solves for application teams? Topic 3 - Many people are familiar with REST or RESTful APIs. Can you help us understand some of the reasons why we’re seeing a shift towards GraphQL for API interaction, or away from REST APIs? Topic 4 - What are some of the business trends that are driving the need for more data-modeled API queries? Topic 5 - Hasura Cloud is focused on helping companies query data across any cloud or any source. What are some of the unique things that Hasura does to help customers manage these hybrid/multi-cloud environments? Topic 6 - What are some of the easiest ways for companies to get started with GraphQL and positively impact their applications?
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Delegated Identity in the Cloud
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Christos Matskas (@ChristosMatskas, PPM Identity & Security) and John Patrick Dandison (@AzureAndChill, Principal PM Identity) at Microsoft talk about Identity in today's cloud, managing borderless environments, and how to best enforce identity. SHOW: 461
Topic 2 - Let’s start with some basics - in the world of Cloud, what is Identity? Topic 3 - Things get more complicated as we incorporate more things associated with people or accounts (e.g. multiple devices, VPNs) or distributed applications or 3rd-parties (e.g. contractors, etc..) How does that shift the Identity conversation? Topic 4 - How does a business attempt to not only keep track of all of this, but enforce it in various ways? (connected, disconnected, people leave, applications change, etc.) Topic 5 - What are some of the ways that Microsoft addresses all these complex Identity challenges? Topic 6 - Looking forward, what are some areas that are going to be the new frontier for Identity challenges, or some technologies that will make things easier?
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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How to Secure DevOps
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Dan “Pop” Papandrea (@danpopnyc, Field CTO @Sysdig Host @PopcastPop) talks about securing DevOps, how to secure containers and runtimes, and the cultural challenges of security in an agile world. SHOW: 460
Topic 2 - There’s a concept that’s now been around a couple years called “DevSecOps”. Originally it was “Sec” being jammed in there because it had been excluded from the early days of DevOps (at least in practice). Where are we with DevSecOps today? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about DevSecOps in the context of containers. We now have things like Container Scanning, Container Signing, and Immutable Infrastructure and yet security still concerns people. Isn’t the “software supply chain” supposed to weed out the vulnerabilities before they get into the production systems? Topic 4 - One of the challenges that companies have in adopting containers is that they were used to having root access to hosts, and containers live in the user space. How can security tools fit into a container world? Topic 5 - As you talk to lots of companies, how are they dealing with the cultural challenges that go along with implementing DevSecOps? Topic 6 - Any tips or suggestions you can share to help people avoid common DevSecOps mistakes, or accelerate best practices and wider adoption? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Introduction to Data Mesh
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Zhamak Dehghani (@zhamakd, Portfolio Tech Director @ThoughtWorks) talks about the concepts behind Data Mesh, the challenges and problems of Data Lakes / Data Warehouses, and how Cloud-native principles can be applied to Data. SHOW: 459
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We were introduced to you through the O’Reilly events, but you’ve been involved in software development and architecture for quite a while. Tell us a little bit about your background and your focus areas at ThoughtWorks. Topic 2 - About a year ago, you introduced this new concept called “Data Mesh”. Before we get into that, give us a little bit of background on the problems that previous generations of Data Warehouses or Data Lakes created. Topic 3 - Lets begin to walk through how Data Mesh is different from Data Lake. We’re not talking about just dumping all the various data sources into one “pool”, there’s a concept of “domains” within this big pool of data. What are the new concepts of source and consumption? Topic 4 - Explain the concept of how pipelines are tied into Data Mesh and how this allows the creation of new products/features from the Data Mesh. Topic 5 - You talk about the data being truthful, and then you bring an SRE concept of SLO into the truthfulness of the data. Explain how that might work? Topic 6 - Once a Data Mesh is in place, what are the “roles” (or teams) that have specific tasks, and who are the typical consumers of the Data Mesh platform? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Natural Language Understanding with AI for IT Support
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Vaibhav Nivargi (CTO & Founder @Moveworks) talks about Natural Language Understanding (NLU), interacting with users using chatbots, and augmenting customer service with AI. SHOW: 458
Topic 1 - Vaibhav, welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself and what got you started in the AI space? Topic 2 - We’ve done a number of AI/ML shows over the years, but we haven’t talked much about Natural Language Understanding or NLU. Let’s start there, can you give everyone an introduction? Topic 3 - Based on that, is the primary interaction with the end user through a chatbot or something similar? What are the primary use cases and tools you are seeing in the industry? Is this a Slack and/or Microsoft Teams integration? Unsolicited plug, I’m a customer in my day job… Topic 4 - We’ve been talking a lot on the show recently about the migration to SaaS based products. What is the model here? Is the AI central (cloud hosted) or private and in-house? Do you have the concept of a template AI and then each customer AI is an instance or is this a central AI that is called? How does it get customized and updated over time? What training is typically required and is this training on-going? Topic 5 - How do you prevent user frustration from “loops” or unanswered questions? I think of the voice automated telephone systems I’m not a fan of as an example. How would you handle language that isn’t built into the AI? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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2020 in Review - Midyear Edition
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Aaron and Brian review the first half of 2020, which feels like it’s lasted 6 years. SHOW: 457
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Back on March 18th, Aaron and Ken Hui did a show about “Working from Home Tips and Tricks”. Can you even remember your mindset back in March?
Topic 1a - Is 2020 the Year of Virtual Desktops? Have you seen any last shifts happening about people being remote? [are companies going to allow people to work remote?] Topic 2 - We’re starting to see the major clouds start to carve out some unique personalities:
Topic 3 - Should anybody be running their own software anymore?
Topic 4 - 2001 Internet Crash drove a ton of new innovation. 2008 Financial Crash led to the public cloud, but also lots of “cost savings” innovation. What does 2020 potentially bring? Topic 5 - We have to talk about conferences and tradeshows. Do they return in 2021? What have we learned from the virtual ones in 2020? Topic 6 - Any insights / predictions about the rest of 2020? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Building a Next-Generation of Serverless
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Tim Zonca (@timzonca, CEO at @stackeryio) talks about the next evolution of the serverless developer experience, the maturity of customer adoption, how much customer appreciate not having to manage infrastructure, and how to manage the journey to serverless.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve had a pretty diverse career in terms of elements of making developers successful. Tell about your background and how you became CEO at Stackery almost a year ago. Topic 2 - It’s hard to believe that AWS Lambda launched about 5.5 years ago. Obviously the serverless ecosystem has grown and expanded quite a bit since then. Where do you see serverless in terms of both maturity of the technologies, and maturity of customer adoption? Topic 3 - Lets talk about what the Stackery platform brings to the serverless ecosystem. Topic 4 - As you talk to prospective customers, how much different is it to discuss not have to be burdened by underlying resources vs. previous conversations you’ve had about applications? How long does it usually take them to grasp the magnitude of the changes in development? Topic 5 - How much of a “traditional” developer experience still exists with serverless (write code, write tests, pipelines, etc.) and what are some immediate things they will see that’s different? Topic 6 - Having been at Puppet you obviously saw many DevOps transformations. What are some of the steps on a typical Serverless transformation for companies? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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MLOps, GPUs and AI Developers
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Dillon Erb (@dlnrb, CEO @HelloPaperSpace) talks about what exactly is MLOps, Serverless AI platforms, and how developers can utilize GPUs for AI/ML. SHOW: 455 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw PodCTL Podcast is Back (Enterprise Kubernetes) - http://podctl.com SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Dillon, welcome to the show, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved in this space? Topic 2 - I’ve had a running joke on the show that a market doesn’t exist until you attach Ops to it. Today we’ll talk about MLOps. Give everyone an introduction for those not familiar. Topic 3 - What exactly is a Serverless AI Platform? How does this differ from traditional CI/CD platforms that our listeners would be used too? Is this abstracting away the infrastructure layer for MLOps teams? Topic 3a - Switching gears from Ops to Developers, what do you mean when you say that you make it easy for developers to use GPUs? What do developers need to know about hardware-level stuff like GPUs that they didn’t need to know with CPUs? Topic 4 - As with all things emerging tech, the use cases are constantly evolving. What are the early initial use cases that you are seeing? Are there unique things that emerge for gaming or media applications? Topic 5 - How does access to data models fit into all of this? Topic 6 - I noticed your company did some articles on Covid-19, can you explain what is going on there? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Security Visibility from Observability Data
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Marc Tremsal (@mtremsal, Director Product Management @datadoghq) talks about the intersection of observability and security, if SRE needs a DevSecOps transition, using security data for modeling, and tips to make immediate impacts on overall security.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve played a role in helping to design systems that secure some of the most critical environments in the world. Tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - We’ve talked about monitoring, observability and in various ways “security”, but how do you see all those things beginning to come together more these days? Topic 3 - As we get into more distributed environments, especially for security (authentication, encryption, key-management, proxies, etc.), how should people think about a framework to have visibility and be able to take action across these distributed systems? Topic 4 - Is this visibility of security-related activities (or potentially security-associated) mostly useful for real-time security threats (e.g. “we’re being attacked”), or can it also be used for more long-term types of activities (planning, threat modeling, chaos engineering, etc.)? Topic 5 - Can you share with us any customer-centric stories of how this is helping companies deliver better services, or more uptime for their services? Topic 6 - What are some tips you can share with the audience today that would help them make immediate impacts to how them monitor for security? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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AI for the Mainstream
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Venkat Rangan (Co-Founder & CTO @ Clari) talks about AI and application into more mainstream areas and revenue generation.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Venkat, you have a very interesting background as a technologist in our industry. Give everyone a brief introduction and if you don’t mind also tell everyone a bit about being a member of the Forbes Technology Council. I believe you are our first guest from there. FEEDBACK?
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Continuous Reliability
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Tal Weiss (@weisstal, Co-Founder/CTO of @OverOpsHQ) talks about the challenges of frequently deploying applications, understanding cloud-native patterns, and helping developers debug problems in production.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been a software developer, an entrepreneur and worked on some pretty challenging technical areas - tell us a little bit about your background. What motivated you to start OverOps? Topic 2 - We are quickly moving to a world where software is no longer a “big bang” planning activity, but lots of continuous activities, loosely coordinated. What sort of challenges does that create for production applications? Topic 3 - OverOps talks about this concept of Continuous Reliability. What does this mean in a world where cloud-native patterns are teaching people that they should build systems that are designed around unreliable infrastructure? Topic 4 - How does OverOps begin to make it easier for developers to debug production problems, especially when there are many tools collecting lots and other information about systems? Topic 5 - Where do you see the most progress for companies that have these highly variable, fast-moving application environments improving the most? Is it the evolution of SRE teams, or visibility tools, or something else? Topics 6 - Any tips you can pass along to our audience for reaching continuous reliability? FEEDBACK?
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May 27, 2020 |
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Network Security with Adaptive DDI
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Andrew Wertkin (Chief Strategy Officer @ BlueCat) talks about Enterprise DNS, DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM), and the differences between Adaptive network security and public cloud security.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Andrew, tell everyone a little about yourself. FEEDBACK?
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May 20, 2020 |
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Cloud BI for Everyone
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Pedro Arellano (@DSSPedro, Head of Product Marketing, Looker) talks about the evolution of Business Intelligence (BI), how BI is used by more than data scientists, the importance of visualization, and creating new ways to correlate data sources.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been around the data industry for a while, and were part of the Looker team that was acquired by Google Cloud in 2019. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what excites you about the Business Intelligence space. Topic 2 - We live in a world where we are presented with large amounts of data on a daily basis, but most of us aren’t data scientists. How does Looker’s approach to Business Intelligence appeal to the masses? Topic 3 - Usually BI requires a significant investment in ETL technologies to be able to bring together many different data sources. How does Looker overcome that, or apply “data models” across a variety of data sources. Topic 4 - Looker has always emphasized the visualization elements of data. Some data scientists live in spreadsheets or Jupyter notebooks. How important do you find it is to be able to visualize complex data, especially as it needs to be used to communicate across groups within a company? Topic 5 - Given that Looker allows many different types of data sources to be part of the analysis, do you do anything in working with customers to help them think about “new” data sources that could provide new correlations or viewpoints to their business? Topics 6 - What are some of the examples of new ways that you’re seeing companies use Cloud BI, either to enable new teams to have business insights, or collaborate better across teams? FEEDBACK?
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May 13, 2020 |
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Making Microservices Work at Scale
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Sarah Wells (@sarahjwells, Technical Director for Operations & Reliability at @FT) talks about how she's evolved her career with the changes at FT, how they chose to use microservices, how their internal culture has evolved and how they think about funding and maintaining service ownership.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We often speak with experts working on the technology-vendor side of the industry, but you’re building in a much different way. Tell us about your background, and introduce us to the work you’re doing today at the Financial Times. Topic 2 - For the last 4 years, you’ve been talking a lot (publicly) about building and using microservices. Give us some background on your journey, and some of the reasons why your teams have chosen this architecture. (experimentation, A/B testing) Topic 3 - You work in a world that reports on the financial success (or failures) of other companies, but how do you measure your own success? How do you put them in perspective/ Topic 4 - Lets talk about service ownership. Who owns a service, how long do they own a service, do they ever go away? Topic 5 - Any tips or tricks that you’d be willing to share with our audience about driving successful culture within your team or across other teams? FEEDBACK?
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May 06, 2020 |
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Managing App Sprawl with SaaSOps
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Aaron talks to Jim Brennan (CPO @ BetterCloud) about SaaSOps and the challenges of managing SaaS applications in a world when IT is becoming decentralized.
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Jim, welcome to the show. tell everyone a little about yourself and what has you so passionate about making SaaS better? FEEDBACK?
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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Cloud Observability with ELK and Grafana
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Tomer Levy (@TomerLevy, Co-Founder/CEO of @Logzio) talks about how open source communities have evolved to enable Observability, how teams embed Security into their DevOps processes, and tips for managing better collaborations and communications in distributed teams. SHOW: 447
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 2 - Observability is a hot topic these days, how are we seeing the open source community and open source tools evolve in this space? Topic 3 - We've seen an explosion of application traffic and data over the last few years. What are some of the things that tools like the ELK stack and Grafana have done to help with this scale, as well as making life easier for DevOps teams? Topic 4 - You have a background in security. Is it possible to have a DevOps team these days without it being DevSecOps? What are some of the things you’ve seen that are making security more manageable in these fast-changing environments? Topic 5 - None of us know when these work-from-home conditions are going to change, or how long the impact might be on a “new normal’. Any tips or suggestions for newly remote teams to be successful around operations? How important is it for engineers to better manage complexity and costs during this time? Topics 6 - What are some of the ways that Logz is using your experience in data collection and data visualization to give back to help during these trying times? Topics 7 - Can you tell us about your upcoming online event -- OpenObservability -- and how the agenda and speakers will cover some of these items in more detail with their unique insights? FEEDBACK?
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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SRE Lessons from the Trenches
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Emil Stolarsky (@emilstolarsky) and Jaime Woo (@jaimewoo), co-founders of @IncidentLabsInc talk about experiences running web applications at scale, evolving into SRE roles, communicating SRE concepts across teams, and tips for initial success. SHOW: 446
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your backgrounds, and some of your experiences that lead you to focus on SRE. Topic 2 - SRE is still an evolving concept, and people are still learning about it. How do you frame a conversation with people about how SRE works? How much is technology-centric and how much is culture/process-centric? Topic 3 - We’re all living in an unusual time, given the current COVID-19 pandemic. How do you see SRE changing as work environments change (e.g. WFH) or volume or change-rate is dramatically impacted? Topic 4 - What have you found are successful communication and collaboration models for SREs engineers with their associated teams (or other stakeholders)? Topic 5 - How well do you find different groups understand the concepts around error budgets and SLOs? Topic 6 - If people are just now getting started with SRE, what are some early tips (or tools) that you recommend for them to have initial success (or avoid failures)? FEEDBACK?
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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A Practical Approach to Cloud-native Patterns
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Ian Crosby (@IanDCrosby, Managing Director @ContainerSoluti) talks about how Cloud-native applications are as much about new technology patterns as they are about new organization patterns, collaboration patterns and risk-management patterns. SHOW: 445
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, as you’ve been around software development and this move to cloud-native for a little while now. Topic 2 - Lets begin by talking about patterns. What are some common application patterns, and how do they begin to change when we’re talking about cloud-native patterns? Topic 3 - What are some of the more commonly used cloud-native patterns? Are they more focused on the underlying technology (e.g. containers, Kubernetes, etc.) or more focused on the actual application (e.g. 12-factor, etc)? Topic 4 - Have you found that some patterns are easier for groups (or companies) to adopt than others? Topic 4a - “Why are patterns useful in Cloud Native?” or “How do you get started using patterns?” are two topics/questions which may be interesting. Topic 5 - Have you found that some patterns are easier or more difficult to maintain over time? Topic 6 - What are some common tips that you share with communities or your clients to help them find early success to build confidence? FEEDBACK?
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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SecOps in the Cloud
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Nati Hazut (Co-Founder & CEO, Polyrize) talks about security in the cloud, ZeroTrust, SecOps, Non-Human Entities and why the old perimeter model no longer works. SHOW: 444
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - You have an interesting background in both the Israel military and cyber-security. Can you give a quick introduction for everyone please? FEEDBACK?
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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GitHub Actions and the DevOps Lifecycle
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Chris Patterson (@chrisrpatterson, Product Manager for GitHub Actions @GitHub) talks about the evolution of GitHub from a collaboration-centric platform to a DevOps-centric platform, as well as discussing the expanding role of GitHub Actions for developers, DevOps and SREs. SHOW: 443
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, as you’ve been working on developer productivity for quite a while? Topic 2 - We’ve been watching this trend of GitHub moving from a place where developers put code, to a place where they collaborate around code, and now it’s expanding out to a full lifecycle around both the code and running applications. Let’s talk about that evolution. Topic 3 - Help us understand the basics of GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages. Topic 4 - What sort of feedback was coming in from developers that pushed GitHub to get more involved in the complete DevOps lifecycle? Topic 5 - Can you talk about the growth of Actions/Packages since they launched in early 2019? What are some of the interesting use-cases you’ve seen? Topic 6 - If you’re able to give us a glimpse into the future, what are some of the other areas where GitHub can expand Actions, or you’re starting to see users push it’s capabilities? FEEDBACK?
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Tips for Working from Home
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Aaron talks to Ken Hui (@kenhuiny - Solutions Architect, AWS) about advice on working from home. We've been working remotely for over 20 years and this may we offer some tips and tricks to stay productive. Stay safe everyone SHOW: 442
Topic 1 - No tech topic this week. We’re going to talk a bit today about working remotely. This may be new and unexpected to some of you. To talk about this I invited past guest and occasional co-host, Ken Hui. Between Ken and I, we have worked together at a few different places in the past and probably have 20+ years working from anywhere. Welcome back Ken! For those that live under a rock and don’t know you, tell everyone a little about yourself and what you’re up to these days. FEEDBACK?
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Next-Generation Developer Collaboration
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Aaron Upright (@IAmAaronUpright, Co-founder of @ZenHubHQ) talks about the challenge of developer collaboration and project prioritization, integrating tools within GitHub, best practices for teams, and the importance of making tools that technical and non-technical team members can understand. SHOW: 441
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background, and ultimately what led you to co-found ZenHub? Topic 2 - Let’s start by talking about what ZenHub delivers. We’re very interested in the potential of GitHub and the things it’s doing directy, but we’re also interested in this ecosystem that’s enhancing GitHub. Topic 3 - What are some best-practices around road mapping and prioritizing activities that could be shared? Topic 4 - What are some best-practices around allowing greater transparency of roadmaps with multiple teams? (what are the pros and cons)? Topic 5 - ZenHub is an example of a toolset that's built entirely around GitHub capabilities. Do you think we'll begin to see more companies just built around GitHub and move away from externally-connected toolsets? Topic 6 - Are most of your interactions with software companies, or are you also interacting with businesses whose primary focus is something other than being a software company? FEEDBACK?
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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API Driven Edge Networking and 5G
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Sunay Tripathi (@SunayTripathi, Founder and CTO, @MobiledgeX) talk about Edge Networking, why 5G will be a huge leap forward, evolving use cases beyond AR/VR, and creating a clean developer experience by abstracting away the mobile transport layer SHOW: 440
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself, you have been at the intersection of Network Virtualization, Cloud, and now Edge for quite some time. Topic 2 - Let’s start at the start. What is your definition of Edge and what are some of the historical problems you see there? In this instance we are talking about network edge devices and not edge computing, correct? Topic 3 - Tell us a little bit about device/identity security at the edge. Topic 4 - When I think about device based AR/VR, I think about gaming as the primary use case that I’m exposed to as a consumer but we are talking about much more than that. What are some of the prominent use cases you are seeing and are trying to solve for? Topic 5 - How does the increase in bandwidth at the transport layer, in particular worldwide 5G come in to play? Is this just a “bigger, faster pipe” or does it require a heavy implementation lift to adopt? How does world geography play into this? Some areas of the world are dominated with edge/handheld devices for almost all daily life now... Topic 6 - We don’t talk about PaaS as much on the podcast lately but would it be safe to characterize MobiledgeX’s technology as a development PaaS for edge devices? Topic 7 - Tells us about MobiledgeX’s upcoming initiative, Seamster. As I understand it this will bring vendors and developers together, correct? FEEDBACK?
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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DevOps and Incident Response Evolution
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Chris Riley (@hoardinginfo, DevOps Advocate, @Splunk) talks about the state of DevOps, the evolution of Incident Response with Machine Learning, Service vs. Site Reliability, and using Incident Response to increase quality of development SHOW: 439
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell everyone a little about yourself, you’ve been active in the DevOps space for quite some time. FEEDBACK?
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Scalable Databases on Kubernetes
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Peter Mattis (@PeterMattis, Co-founder/CTO of @CockroachDB) talks about the evolution of scalable SQL databases, the challenges of globally scalable data management, how Kubernetes has evolved to manage stateful applications, and lessons learned running Kubernetes and CockroachDB. SHOW: 438
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into our discussion, tell us a little bit about your background in working on scalable technologies. Topic 2 - Today we’re going to mash together a couple of popular (and complex) topics - the growing use-cases on Kubernetes, and the growing need to synchronize data for anywhere access. Let’s start with the data side of the equation - tell us about the basics of your creation, CockroachDB, and the challenges it solves. Topic 3 - What are some of the use-cases that are driving more scalable SQL usage vs. more traditional SQL database models? Topic 4 - When Kubernetes first got started, the focus was on scalable stateless (cloud-native) applications. How are you beginning to see the trend towards companies becoming more comfortable with stateful applications (e.g. databases) on Kubernetes? Topic 5 - One of the new technologies that’s making it easier to get databases onto Kubernetes is “Operators”. CockroachLabs has been one of the leading platforms supporting this technology. Can you talk a little bit about your experience with Operators and how it images the way Kubernetes teams (developers or platform teams) about databases on Kubernetes. Topic 6 - What are some of the lessons learned from deploying CockroachDB onto Kubernetes? FEEDBACK?
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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A "AI & ML" Look Ahead for 2020
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Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Host of TWIML & AI Podcast) talks about AI & ML trends in 2020, frameworks to understand usage patterns, hot new technology to explore, how long projects take to succeed, and the inherent bias built into every AI & ML model. SHOW: 437
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Let’s start with the broad set of TWIML activities that you’re working on these days. Topic 2 - You focus on AI & ML every week, across a lot of different domains and usages. It’s a broad scope. If you had to focus it on Enterprise/Business leaders, how do you structure a conversation around how to align business opportunity and technology choices? Topic 3 - What are some of the most commonly used technologies being deployed around AI/ML systems? Any big shifts over the last couple of years? Topic 4 - You’ve been around Cloud Computing and DevOps communities, which required companies to go through some people/process change to achieve success. What are the people/process changes that you typically see with AI/ML environments? Topic 5 - If somebody asked you how they can put a timeline on when they’ll see value around their AI/ML, is that a realistic ask? What are the factors that go into achieving success in AI/ML projects? Topic 6 - What are some of the interesting usages of AI/ML that you’ve seen in use recently? Topic 7 - There has been quite a bit of discussion recently about bias in AI/ML algorithms. Can you explain what this means and how it could impact the system’s decision making? FEEDBACK?
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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New Trends in Serverless
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SHOW: 436 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw Topic 1 - Welcome to the show; Tell us about your background, as you’ve worked for a number of interesting companies prior to Datadog. Topic 2 - Datadog recently released a report about trends in serverless usage. Before we dive into some of the highlights and insights, tell us about the scope of the report.
Topic 3 - Highlights from the State of Serverless report
Topic 4 - As you’re analyzing this usage data, what are some of the things you’re thinking about as a Product Manager for functionality that you can provide to help better monitor these rapidly changing environments? FEEDBACK?
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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A “API” Look Ahead for 2020
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SHOW: 435 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotw
Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show; It’s been a while, let’s reintroduce you to our audience. Tell us about the types of things you work on. Topic 2 - There are so many things going on with APIs these days, sometimes it’s hard to know where to start. Do you have a framework that you use to help companies think about APIs? Topic 3 - Are there different perspectives that developers have if they are dealing with APIs for monolithic applications vs. microservices applications vs. external APIs? Topic 4 - What is some of thinking around dynamically changing environments (e.g. DevOps, Agile) and APIs (versioning, testing changes, etc.)? Topic 5 - What are some of the more critical things that you’re always reinforcing and educating people about APIs? Topic 6 - We’re seeing more companies emerge that just deliver APIs as part of an ecosystem of services. How has this changed application development? FEEDBACK?
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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A “Service Mesh” Look Ahead for 2020
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SHOW: 434 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show; you’ve been on PodCTL in the past. Tell us about your background, as you’ve been very active with application developers and distributed systems for quite a while. Topic 2 - A few years ago, Service Mesh came onto the scene as a big deal (Istio, Linkerd, etc.) and people were trying to figure out what it was, what it did, etc. The technology has evolved quite a bit, but people are still oftentimes confused. How should we think about what a Service Mesh does (or doesn’t do)? Topic 3 - What are the most common use-cases when Service Mesh is being used? What are some of the places where Service Mesh is discussed, but probably shouldn’t be used? (API-Gateway, code in an application, etc.) Topic 4 - Sometimes we have a technology space that has lots of implementations (e.g. Kubernetes, Swarm, Mesos, etc.) that eventually converge into a single industry choice. But Service Mesh still has lots of implementations. Are they all really different? Will we see industry convergence around a standard? Do we need a standard? Topic 5 - What are some of the areas where you expect that we’ll see advancements in Service Mesh in 2020? Topic 6 - What are some of the best ways for people to start either learning more about Service Mesh, or trying out the technology to see if it makes sense for them? FEEDBACK?
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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The Unicorn Project with Gene Kim
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s hard to believe it’s been 7 years since you were last on the show. Before we get into the Unicorn Project, let’s talk briefly about some of the other things you’ve been doing since The Phoenix Project (DevOps Handbook, DevOps Enterprise Summit, etc.) Topic 2 - Let’s do a Cliff Notes version of The Unicorn Project. It picks up 2-3 years after The Phoenix Project - what are the challenges now facing Parts Unlimited? Topic 3 - Without giving away the ending, there is a sense that the Unicorn Project team essentially says that DevOps is dead and they are going to do things a new way. Is that the message of the story? Topic 4 - The hero of this story (Maxine) is what I’d call a “25x engineer”. She’s portrayed as super-elite in her engineering skills. I’ve also noticed that the State of DevOps report is also now adding a focus on these super-elite teams. Is that a good thing to focus on, since so few teams identify like that? Topic 5 - This book talks about 5 “ideals”. How would you stack rank them in terms of ease or difficulty in achieving?
Topic 6 - In Unicorn Project, you have a very broad set of characters. Do you do this so that a broad set of people can identify within these challenging environments? FEEDBACK?
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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A "SaaS" Look Ahead for 2020
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SHOW: 432 SHOW SPONSOR LINKS:
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For anyone that doesn’t know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you focus on now. Topic 2 - What is SaaS in 2020? (Delivery model, acquisition and usage model, experimentation model, etc.). Is it a finite thing, or has it been componentized? Topic 3 - Is it possible to build software and then make it SaaS, or do the business and software have to be built in parallel with the SaaS offering? Topic 4 - Does anyone actually “migrate” (successfully) existing types of applications to SaaS, or should the focus of SaaS be on breaking free from old approaches? Topic 5 - We’re seeing many “tools” companies become “platform” companies and offer things that blur the lines between SaaS and something else (GitHub, Salesforce, etc.). Does this become the way that they compete against AWS or Azure? Topic 6 - Why do you think AWS doesn’t have a broader set of SaaS offerings at this point? FEEDBACK?
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Jan 10, 2020 |
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A "Data" Look Ahead for 2020
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Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. For anyone that doesn’t know you, tell us a little bit about your background, and some of the areas you focus on now. Topic 2 - Let’s start by having an executive-level discussion about “data”. Everyone loves talking about developers and applications, but how do you explain to an executive about the value of managing data as a core business asset? What makes data so valuable in 2020? Topic 3 - The world used to be “big servers” + “big relational database” + “storage array”. Now that model is blow up into 100s of distributed elements, lots of technology choices, lots of locations. Is there a way to think about data in these distributed models? Topic 4 - What are some of the emerging data standards that people should be aware of, or learning more about? [alternatives to 5G] Topic 5 - Data moved from a cost “liability” a while ago, to an “asset” as we started talking about Data Lakes and AI/ML models. Have you found any metrics or conversations that people understand (in the “analytics context”) about how we justify keeping data - or trying to acquire more data. Topic 6 - We’ve got cheaper ways to store data, faster networks coming (e.g. 5G, alternative options) and cheaper/faster CPUs (e.g. ARM). When these dynamics change, new things emerge that we’ve never thought of before. Are you starting to hear people discuss interesting new business ideas yet? FEEDBACK?
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Jan 03, 2020 |
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2019 in Review & 2020 Predictions
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Dec 25, 2019 |
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2010's Decade in Review & Reader Mailbag Questions
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READER MAILBAG QUESTIONS: Question 1 - If you had to advise someone that’s 25, 35 and 45 about “career path” in IT, what tips might you give them? - Thomas T. Question 2 - You guys see a lot of different technologies through the interviews. Which new ones do you think have longevity and which ones are potentially overhyped? - Michael C. Question 3 - What “disruptive technology” is a more important skill to learn? - Erika B. Question 4 - What the most misunderstood concept in IT today? Seema J. Question 5 - Why do you think our industry is so obsessed with the idea that the new technology will completely eliminate the old technology? Has that ever really happened? - Jacob H. |
Dec 19, 2019 |
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Bringing DevOps to the Database with Automation
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - We talk about DevOps a lot on this show. And we talk a lot about various types of databases. But for some reason, we very rarely talk about them together. Why is that? It’s not as if the world of cloud-native applications are all stateless. Topic 3 - What do you see as the most common challenges that companies have with bringing databases into this world of more frequent software changes (DevOps, Agile, etc.)? Topic 4 - You’re involved in an open-source project called “LIquibase”, which is focused on database schema change management. How does that help database move into a more automated world? Topic 5 - Do you find that a lack of automation around databases is a bigger challenge from a continuous deployment perspective, or a security/patching perspective? (or both) Topic 6 - People are very fearful of databases going down, which restricts them from making changes. How do you suggest companies getting more comfortable in making frequent changes to databases? FEEDBACK?
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Dec 13, 2019 |
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Reviewing AWS re:Invent 2019
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Dec 07, 2019 |
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Building an Effective Developer Program
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 2 - Before we dig into the New Relic Developer Program, we wanted to get your perspective on what “developer” means these days - Is it AppDev, DevOps, Data Scientist, Business Analyst? How do you try and put personas around different “developer” needs? Topic 3 - One of the things I find in working with businesses that are going through transformational change (via technology) is how many don’t understand that their new world (“enabling developers”) will begin to look like a technology vendor’s approach to the market (“enabling developers”). Do you find your customers begin to adopt their internal programs to look like the program that you’ve rolled out with New Relic One? Topic 4 - What are some of the most important/critical aspects of the program, and how do you measure its progress, its success, or its areas to improve? Topic 5 - How did you think about balancing the need for content for newer developers (or new to the platform) vs. more expert-level developers? Topic 6 - How important is community to making the program a success, and helping it scale? FEEDBACK?
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Reviewing Microsoft Ignite 2019
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Insight and feel from the show floor and the event Topic 2 - Azure Arc Topic 3 - Project Cortex Topic 4 - Baby steps in GitHub integration FEEDBACK?
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Azure Cloud Adoption Framework
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome Evelyn and Brian. Let’s start at the start, can both you give a brief intro? Topic 2 - You both represent the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework team. What is it and how did it come about? Topic 3 - You have a concept the really resonates with me and customers I’ve spoken too, the idea that no one’s cloud journey is the same. There is a formal blueprint to success. Define a strategy, plan the business outcomes, prepare the environment, implement the initial changes and migrations. From there we move to the operations stage that includes governance and management of operations. Topic 4 - Is this a product? A service? A blueprint? What is the most common pain you see in your customers? Why? Topic 5 - Do you have customer success stories and common examples/use cases you can share? FEEDBACK?
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Simplifying Healthcare Interactions
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Smiletronix (@Smiletronix) - Yashar Faranjani (@yashar_f), Co-Founder & CEO - Personalized dental health screenings, handheld device
Lazarus (Cambridge, MA) - Ariel Elizarov (@aelizarov12), Co-Founder & CEO - AI for cancer screenings
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Evolving Trust on the Internet
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: The Difference (@thedifferenceAI) - Bea Arthur (@BeaArthurLMHC), Co-Founder/CEO - on demand therapy via phone (or Alexa)
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Understanding HTTP/S, CDNs and Edge Proxies
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into a broader discussion, tell us a little bit about your background. Topic 1a - We’ve followed your “zines” via Twitter for a while. They cover quite a large number of topics. Give us some background on how you started taking this self-learning process and turning it into a visual medium? Topic 2 - You’ve recently been doing a bunch of work around HTTP. Most people know HTTP as the thing they type into a web-browser (sometimes). Let’s dig into why it might be important for people to know more about how the lifecycle of HTTP can impact their application performance. Topic 3 - Lots of the content we access on the Internet is stored/cached in CDNs around the world. Walk us through the basics of how CDNs work, and some of the interactions between HTTP and CDNs that can either improve performance or generally make an application’s life miserable. Topic 4 - Beyond CDNs, another big element that impacts HTTP traffic is load-balancers. Many people understand how basic IP-load balancing works, but how can it be different between L4 and L7 load-balancers? Topic 5 - Now how does encryption factor into all of this, as things like HTTP or TLS become part of the traffic? What are some of the guidelines that either developers or infrastructure teams should be thinking about with regard to those encrypted streams? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Buying & Selling SaaS Services
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite a broad background in the SaaS space. Can you tell us a little bit about your background prior to founding Chili Piper? Topic 2 - The buying of IT services has become so distributed, not only the buyers, but the influencers, and the actual sellers. Can you help us better understand the bigger picture about the processes involved in information gathering, decision-making, and then the on-going relationship with the services being bought? Topic 3 - Chili Piper brings together, or orchestrates, the ability to gather and use information from lots of tools that help sales, marketing, and analytics teams (Hubspot, Marketo, Eloqua, Salesforce, Twillio, etc.). How does the work you do translate into the teams that need either a bigger picture, or sometimes a smaller more granular picture of the market? Topic 4 - Can you talk about some examples of how your customers leverage the Chili Piper technologies to improve their performance or market perspective? Topic 5 - Are the tools and techniques that Chili Piper brings to market specific to the SaaS business model, or could they equally be applied to other more CAPEX-centric or Contract-centric business models? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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From the Battlefield to the Boardroom
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell about your background prior to joining Amplify Partners. Topic 2 - There’s an interesting thread that weaves its way through aspects of your career - being able to build intelligent models to understand and predict somewhat unstable environments. Can you walk us through the process of how those models and the analysis comes together? Topic 3 - There’s a level of responsibility through the supply-chain of our industry. I feel like VCs have a responsibility to not only spot trends, but also spot frauds. How does your background and experience help you determine good investments, or strong potential trends? Topic 4 - One of your focus areas is machine intelligence. What is the state of machine intelligence today, and where are some of the areas that encourage you that it can become more widely used? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Building a Cloud Practice in Azure
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we talk about Nerdio, tell us about your background prior to joining the company, and about your focus today. Topic 2 - We spend quite a bit of time on this show talking about the technology offerings of Azure (and other clouds). Give us a sense of what the partner ecosystem of companies building enabling services on Azure looks like today. Topic 3 - Lets talk about how Nerdio interacts between Azure services and Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Help us understand the interaction between that ecosystem. Topic 4 - Traditionally, MSPs had the advantage of being regionally close to customers, and having some ability to differentiate based on vertical markets. How has their world evolved over time, what are their biggest struggles today, and how does Nerdio help them be more successful? Topic 5 - We often look at Azure holistically, through the broad lens of 100s of services. Is it better to look at them in groups of services, targeting a specific market segment or market vertical? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 09, 2019 |
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Developer Tools for Kubernetes
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell a little bit about your background, and some of the things that you do in your day-to-day of Developer Relations with Garden. Topic 2 - Kubernetes is a weird system because it involves containers and schedulers, neither of which developers really want to deal with. So why has Kubernetes become so popular, if it’s potentially not that friendly for developers? Topic 3 - There has been a lot of activity in open source communities to create ways to make it easier for developers to work with Kubernetes. Some of those have been “PaaS” offerings (s2i, buildpacks, etc.), and some have been new tooling (e.g. Helm, Draft, Skaffold, Forge, Telepresence, Garden, and Tilt). Can you tell us about some of the new tooling - how do they map to developer needs?
Topic 4 - In going through the different tools, what have you found are the ones that make the most immediate impact for developers? Topic 5 - As Kubernetes get more popular and widely used, do you think it’s important for developers to have to learn about Kubernetes? Or do you think that the external tooling will abstract it enough for them to be productive without that knowledge? FEEDBACK?
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Dashboards, Metrics and Observability
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell about your background prior to joining Grafana Labs. (worked with Julius Volz at Soundcloud, guest on The Cloudcast on Eps.263 and Eps.319). Topic 2 - I saw a tweet the other day that said, “CIO directive to cut contracts because they have 37 monitoring tools and still the reliability is poor...". Your talk at VelocityConf is about the hype around observability and monitoring. What is the state of Ops visibility? Topic 3 - Let’s start by talking about good hygiene and good practices. What types of things should Ops teams, SREs and even Developers always been doing to have good visibility of their environments? Topic 4 - What are the big mistakes that companies make, or what anti-patterns are becoming more pervasive? Topic 5 - As a builder of tools, and an operator of tools, what are some of the things you wish more Dev knew, but maybe don’t know what to ask? FEEDBACK?
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Chaos Engineering and Team Health
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into Chaos Engineering, let’s talk a little bit about your background and some of the things you did prior to joining Under Armour. Topic 2 - We’ve talked about Chaos Engineering a few times on the show before. At a company level, what are some of the things (Connected Health) where it makes sense for Under Armour to be investing in Chaos Engineering and developing expertise around this discipline? Topic 3 - Walk us through how a team at Under Armour thinks about Chaos Engineering, from the business need to think about scheduling it (or not scheduling it), measuring it, and then communicating the results back within your team and to management. Topic 4 - I think people think that Chaos is a periodic event, like a DR test, but in reality, it needs to be somewhat of an on-going activity. How do you connect the dots between this on-going Chaos and actual problems in your systems - and how/when to measure problems (or what to measure)? Topic 5 - What is the most difficult part about getting the team culture to understand that Chaos is an important part of day-to-day activities and dealing with “failure” being part of the system? FEEDBACK?
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Knative Serverless
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Almost a year ago, you launched TriggerMesh with Mark Hinkle. How is the business doing? Topic 2 - A couple of years ago, you helped create a technology called Kubeless, to do Serverless/FaaS on Kubernetes. And then Knative came along. For people that aren’t familiar with Knative, can you give us a Tl;DR on what it is and how it has evolved as a standard for Kubernetes? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the different elements of Knative and how each one of them is evolving - Build, Serving and Eventing.
Topic 4 - Can we talk about the differences between “Serverless” and “Functions-as-a-Service”, especially in the context of different frameworks, and event sources? Topic 5 - Triggermesh has been very early in delivering Serverless or Functions-as-a-Service via Knative. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned (use-cases, customer preferences, area of education) over the last year? Topic 6 - Do you have any insight into some of the things that might be coming next in Knative? FEEDBACK?
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Sep 11, 2019 |
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Everything is a Little Bit Broken
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re going to talk about broken systems today, but before we get into that, let’s talk about your background, and what types of things you work on at LaunchDarkly. Topic 2 - As we start seeing companies adopt a lot of these new technologies and methods (Agile, DevOps, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Cloud-Native Apps, Continuous Integration, etc.) we’re seeing them go through this interesting transformation of having to think differently about how things should work and how they might break. This is an area that you talk about quite a bit. Topic 3 - There is a 5 9s mentality and there is a release daily intro production mentality that sort of seem at odds with each other. How do we start figuring out how to manage that big space in between those two world views? Or can they be the same? Topic 4 - By adding in error budgets, layered access, and other accommodations for failure and for designing our systems for function over form or purity - we learn how to add resiliency to their system by learning to trust but mitigate their reliance on the perfect performance of their underlying tools. Topic 5 - You get to talk to a lot of developers and architects. What are some of the best ways that you’ve seen them not only grasp these concepts but communicate them up to their management chains so they educate them about the terminology and concepts?
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Sep 04, 2019 |
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2019 Mid-Year Industry Update
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. I’ve been listening to your show, Software Defined Talk, for quite a while. Tell us about your show, your co-hosts and the types of things you discuss on the show? Topic 2 - What are some of the biggest trends you’ve seen (or been discussing) so far in 2019? Anything really surprise you?
Topic 3 - AWS has continued to be the leading public cloud for a decade now. Do you see anything slowing AWS down? Topic 4 - There were lots of articles earlier in the year about big public cloud contracts between web companies and the public cloud (hundreds of millions in cloud spending). Many of those companies are now struggling as they have gone IPO. If they struggle to make revenue (and subsequently their cloud payments), do you see this having any effect on sentiment about public cloud? Topic 5 - There is starting to be some noise in the news and the markets about a potential economic slowdown. How much do you think about what that might mean to the tech industry, and subsequently buyers and users of tech? Sometimes in slower times, we see the creativity of new tech emerge (2001 - mass websites; 2007/8 - AWS and iPhone, 2019/2020 - ??)
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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Blockchain beyond the Database
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we jump into Fluree and the breadth of technologies that power the stack, let’s talk about your background and what drove you to create Fluree. Topic 2 - Let’s start with the problems - why does the industry need a new data management stack? What types of use-cases or data-management problems does the Fluree stack address? Topic 3 - Let’s talk about the Fluree stack, because it brings together several technologies (e.g. Blockchain, GraphQL, etc.) that have gotten a lot of hype, but people aren’t always sure how they should be used. Topic 4 - When we step back and look at the Fluree stack, we see a focus around distributed architectures, immutability, graph data richness. Much of this sounds like it aligns to aspects of what is known as the Semantic Web. Are there connections there? Topic 5 - Let’s talk about your philosophy about API management and exposing data at the data-layer instead of the app-layer. What are the pros and cons of this sort of trade-off, and what are some of the things either data or app teams need to consider with this approach? FEEDBACK?
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Aug 21, 2019 |
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Etsy's Big Data Cloud Migration
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CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK: SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into your work at Etsy, tell us a little bit about your background prior to Etsy - you’re pretty good at math. Topic 2 - You’ve been working on two very interesting projects at Etsy - both building/evolving the data platform, and helping to manage the migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Let’s start by talking about the Etsy data platform. Topic 3 - What have been some of the business drivers that are pushing the data platform to collect more information, to become more cloud-native, and to better enable data pipelines? Topic 4 - At some point in 2017-18, Etsy decided to migrate some of the platforms to Google Cloud. Tell us about that decision-process, and how the migration has been going. What have been some of the lessons learned? Topic 5 - How does working with Google Cloud (or just being in the public cloud) help accelerate the work that you’re doing on evolving the Etsy data platform? FEEDBACK?
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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New Challenges for IT Professionals
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’re obviously passionate about helping people learn with this podcast, but why don’t you tell us about your background and what makes you passionate about helping people learn at Learn on Demand Systems. Topic 2 - While we spent a lot of time covering the evolution of cloud technologies, the way that people learn today has evolved enormously as well. Help us understand the breadth of ways that Learn on Demand helps people learn - from Labs to Challenges to other forms? Topic 3 - One product that you recently started offering is called “IT Pro Challenges”. We’ve heard you say in other forums that you’re a big believer in hands-on learning. How does IT Pro Challenges help make sure that people get the actual skills they are learning? Topic 4 - A big part of learning is motivation - finding the time to learn, finding the motivation to try something new. What are some of the things that Learn on Demand Systems does to help motivate people to engage in the various types of learning systems you offer? Topic 5 - What is your message to people (individuals, managers, etc.) watching all these new technologies emerging and trying to figure out how to either pick the right learning/technology path for themselves, or generally putting a plan in place to improve themselves? FEEDBACK?
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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The Rapidly Evolving Network
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been just about a year since we last spoke, you were just launching the company (amazing engineering experience and advisors). What has the last year of disrupting the networking industry been like? Tell us how the latest round of funding will help Arrcus grow. Topic 2 - Everything is connected now (way behind user-devices), everything is collecting and transmitting data, and we have no patience for the delay. Paint us a picture of how the network is evolving to deal with 5G, AI/ML at the edge, DC to Cloud interconnects, etc. Topic 3 - Arrcus has been focused on bringing better speeds and agility to networking. As more networking moves to SDN and SoC, how have companies been able to measure the gains that come from these new approaches to networking? Topic 4 - Arrcus recently announced multiple high-density 100GbE and 400GbE routing solutions for Hyper-scale Cloud, Edge, and 5G networks and ArcIQ, “AI-driven analytics platform that provides enhanced real-time visibility, control, and security”. Tell us about the new solutions and how this changes the model for network and cloud operations teams Topic 5 - What have you found to be the most critical areas of focus for the modern network operator, especially given the pace of innovation that offers them not only opportunity but also the challenges of keeping up with change? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Amazon's journey to MARS
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You get to talk to more communities that we do. What are some of the interesting topics, trends or people you’ve seen over the last few months of traveling and events? Topic 2 - Jeff Bezos has apparently been hosting his own MARS event for a while now. Why did it become an Amazon event now? Topic 3 - MARS is Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics and Space. Some of that overlaps with AWS (Machine Learning, Automation), and some is on the fringe of AWS (Space). Who was attending this event and what were the overall themes?
Topic 4 - There seem to be a number of sessions that included venture capital. Do you see this event as being less like a normal tech event, and more like a blurring of tech and VC, because some of these topics could involve significant levels of funding (smart cities, manned space travel, etc.)? Topic 5 - AWS recently had an event called re:Inforce, which was targeted at Security. Do you think we’re beginning to see the disaggregation of re:Invent into specialty events and sub-categories of technology interests? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 24, 2019 |
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Elastic for Search & Analytics
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we get into your work at Elastic, can you tell us a little bit about your background? Topic 2 - Let’s start with the basics of search. Everyone knows about how they use Google for their day-to-day activities, but what are some of the common uses of search in a business or IT context that people might not think about or know about? Topic 3 - Elastic is mentioned very frequently in the “search” discussion, but then it’s also included in a number of popular “stacks” (ELK stack, EFK stack, etc.). How does Elastic think about search being a core component of many other stacks (Metrics, APM, Security, etc.), some of which you may not have any immediate visibility to? Topic 4 - What are some of the evolutions that are happening around search (or broader stacks) that are interesting to developers? Topic 5 - How does Elastic think about how or when customers (or developers) are consuming Elastic technologies, across OSS, commercial software and SaaS offerings? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Understanding Graph Database Patterns
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been the CEO of Neo4j for over a decade now. How has the landscape around application-usage of data changed in the most significant ways? Topic 2 - For many decades, most data-centric applications were built around Relational Databases (SQL Databases). These days, application patterns and use-cases have expanded significantly. How do graph databases fit into these new trends? Topic 3 - With all the new patterns emerging, there are both business reasons and technical reasons for choosing the right database platform. How do you find the business-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? How do you find the technical-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? Topic 4 - Every company that’s involved with the commercialization of open source projects is trying to figure out the best way to manage a portfolio between OSS, software offerings and cloud offerings. How does Neo4j think about that balance? Topic 5 - Getting developer momentum and mass around a set of patterns is critical. How does Neo4j think about enabling developers, and what are some of the things you’ve done to accelerate their success and consistent learning? FEEDBACK?
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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A Climate Code of Conduct for Events
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. We’ve just now wrapped up the spring conference season and you’re helping to kick off a new focus on an interesting aspect of conferences. Topic 2 - Obviously climate change is a big talking point in political campaigns right now. Do you think that’s what is driving this discussion around conference now (vs. another moment in time)? Topic 3 - You’re helping to create a “Climate Code of Conduct”. It’s still early, but what are some of the guiding principles that are being explored? Topic 4 - Given the complexity of all that could be involved in improving the climate impact of conferences, do you think it’s more important to start making smaller changes (low-hanging fruit) or establishing really bold guidance? Topic 5 - Have any discussions about this started with any conferences yet? If conference organizers are listening, how would you suggest they potentially engage with the group that is discussing this? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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How Lyft Built a Service Mesh with Envoy
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background and some of the things you work on at Lyft. Topic 2 - Lyft was the original creator of the Envoy proxy project. As Lyft was going through their migration from a monolith to microservices, when did they realize that they needed to start creating a service mesh. Topic 3 - What functions of Envoy does Lyft use for both networking and security? Topic 4 - How does Lyft manage who interacts with the Service Mesh, since it has impacts on the applications (microservices) and the infrastructure teams (networking, security)? Topic 5 - What recommendations would you make to any other teams that are evaluating Envoy or Service Mesh technologies? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Machine Learning with Kubeflow
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, especially as you’ve come to be involved in both open source and machine learning or AI. Topic 2 - You’ve been involved in the KubeFlow project since its creation a couple of years ago. Can you introduce us to the project and how it’s evolved over the last couple of years? Topic 3 - The stated goal of KubeFlow is to make machine learning workflows simple, repeatable and scalable. Can you walk us through some of the ways that KubeFlow is beginning to achieve these goals? Topic 4 - For those people that understand Kubernetes, can you explain how KubeFlow interacts with Kubernetes, and maybe a little bit about how KubeFlow gets value from Kubernetes for these ML workloads? Topic 5 - What are some of the new areas in this space that you’re excited about? Topic 6 - For people new to this area, what are some of the easier ways for them to get started? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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The Power of Community Engagement
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. What types of things are you working on these days, especially in the context of people getting support from communities? Topic 2 - Tell us about the feedback you’re getting from community members about the importance of technical skills vs. industry-specific knowledge or skills. Topic 3 - You often recommend “doing an interview” to gauge how well prepared someone is to find a new job, or understand new jobs. Can you elaborate on some examples of how to do this - the “frienderview”. Topic 4 - Is it ever a good time to align your resume to the current buzzwords of the industry? How far away are your current skills from where you want to be? Topic 5 - What are some tips for learning the domain-specific terminology as people move into new industries? Topic 6 - How are you finding ways to Spark Joy in your communities? FEEDBACK?
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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Many Paths of an Engineering Journey
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show, it’s been way too long. What are you up to these days? Topic 2 - We wanted to bring you back on because you’ve gone through quite a few transitions as an engineer, from infrastructure to cloud to vendor-side to customer-side. Can you share some of the ways that you were able to make transitions, and how you overcame concerns about some of the big leaps? Topic 3 - Some projects are a success (EMCworld Labs), often wildly successful. How did you deal with success, and then how did you deal with the ongoing maintenance once the shininess wore off? Topic 4 - Some projects are less successful (vCloudAir). How did you personally handle some of the problems, and how did you grow from it? Topic 5 - You’re in an engineering leadership role now (and have been for the last few years). How has that changed your perspective, and what are some of the lessons you’ve learned? Topic 6 - Can you quickly tell the stories of all the Nick Weavers? FEEDBACK?
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May 29, 2019 |
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How Big is your Public Cloud bill?
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. You’ve become a multi-media star since your last appeared (newsletter, podcasting, stand-up comedy, co-hosting theCUBE, live blogger, etc.). Topic 2 - In case you haven’t noticed, revenues in the public cloud have grown quite a bit in the last few years. And not a day goes by without some web company announcing their monthly AWS spend. Walk us through the world of an organization that is a reasonably heavy spender in the public cloud. Are there steak dinners and rounds of golf still involved? Topic 3 - We hear about long-term contracts being negotiated with public cloud providers. How do these negotiations go, and where are customer’s leverage points? Topic 4 - What are the typical stages of Cloud Adoption and Cloud Grief?
Topic 5 - Do you find that legacy IT is actually brought along on the journey to large-scale public cloud usage? If so, what is the transition process for people/groups used to CAPEX and Hardware and ELAs and Data Centers? FEEDBACK?
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May 22, 2019 |
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Focusing Apps only on Business Value
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s been way too long. Tell us about your new company and some of the things you’ve been working on. Topic 2 - The last time you were on it was the earlier days of serverless. Since then, you’d stayed active around serverless, but have been vocal about how the space has evolved. Where has your experience taken you over the past couple of years? Topic 3 - You talk (and write) a lot about only focusing on building business value. That’s a hard concept for some technologists to grasp, as they always believe there is some amount of technical debt to own. How do you communicate your perspective on this to people? Topic 4 - The last time you were on, we talked about thick clients and Netlify and some things that were new to us. What are some of the tools/services you really like these days? Topic 5 - You’re trying to re-establish the home and auto insurance bundling business. There are big names in this space. How does your technology philosophy allow a small startup to compete against very well established (and funded companies)? FEEDBACK?
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May 15, 2019 |
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Simplifying Application Development and Integration
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background prior to Manifold, and what motivated you to focus on this new model of application development and integration. Topic 2 - I know one truth about developers, that they prefer things to be simple or taken care of for them. Beyond that, I’m not sure of any absolute truths. It seems like Manifold is somewhere near the intersection of Low-Code and PaaS and Integration Services (API Gateways or Middleware) and CI/CD. Beyond simplicity, how do you describe what Manifold does? Topic 2a - What is the interaction between the Manifold services and Prefab.cloud services? Topic 3 - I really like the idea of shared projects and shared billing. How much do you find that overlapping or re-inventing slows down developers? Topic 4 - Can you help us understand the business model or community model? Topic 5 - Can you share any examples of how Manifold has helped companies and teams accelerate their application development models? FEEDBACK?
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May 08, 2019 |
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Advancements in Webscale Logging
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about some of your background prior to joining Datadog, and about your focus areas today. Topic 2 - Let’s start with some conceptual buckets - how do you sort out the differences when people say “monitoring” vs. “logging” vs. “observability”? Topic 3 - Logging has the inherent tradeoff between the desire to “log everything” and the limitation of costs to log (and retain everything). What are some of the trends to potentially make this tradeoff more manageable? Topic 4 - At some point, the tradeoff between sending logs, filtering logs, storing logs all boils down to a financial trade-off of immediate costs vs potential costs associated with failure. How do you see those conversations playing out in real life? Any suggestions on a framework for doing those types of analysis? Topic 5 - What role do you see AI playing in the future of Logging/Observability? It seems like that needs to become the next big step if the industry solves the challenges of logging/storage more and more. FEEDBACK?
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May 01, 2019 |
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A VC's Perspective on AI and Security
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. It’s now been 6 years since your transition from VMware to the VC world. What are some of the lessons you’ve learned? Topic 2 - When you were a CTO, you were building a comprehensive portfolio. How does that perspective change when you’re looking at a broad range of portfolio companies? Topic 3 - Your companies tend to skew towards cybersecurity, where AI is going to play a significant role. How do you think about them from a technology perspective, and how much does the cloud’s resources for data modeling help or challenge them? Topic 4 - What’s your perspective on the role of open source software for enabling your companies? Topic 5 - Given your background, how much do you get involved in growing the engineering talent at your portfolio companies? Topic 6 - Any tips for potential startups wanting to pitch high-level VCs? FEEDBACK?
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Understanding Time-Series Database Patterns
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You’ve been the CEO of InfluxData for a few years, but please share with the audience your background and how you came to lead InfluxData. Topic 2 - For many decades, most data-centric applications were built around Relational Databases (SQL Databases). These days, application patterns and use-cases have expanded significantly. How do time-series databases fit into these new trends? Topic 3 - With all the new patterns emerging, there are both business reasons and technical reasons for choosing the right platform. How do you find the business-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? How do you find the technical-level thought process happening (contributing, influencing) around platform choice? Topic 4 - Every company that’s involved with the commercialization of open source projects is trying to figure out the best way to manage a portfolio between OSS, software offerings and cloud offerings. How does InfluxData think about that mix, and what are you seeing in terms of customer-demand trends? Topic 5 - Getting developer momentum and mass around a set of patterns is critical. How does InfluxData think about enabling developers, and what are some of things you’ve done to accelerate their success and consistent learning?
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Apr 17, 2019 |
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Network Reliability Engineering
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Derick and welcome back Matt. Tell us about your background and some of the things you’re working on now at Juniper. Topic 2 - We talked a couple weeks ago with Gustavo Franco from Google about SRE, you guys have been working on something you’re calling “NRE”. Tell us about the NRE concept and how this fits into the world of Networking and DevOps. Topic 3 - Networking hasn’t been a very static thing in a long time (DHCP, WiFi access, VPNs), but now we also have applications joining and changing on a regular basis (CI/CD pipelines, containers, etc.). So how is that world changing the demands on “DevNetOps”? Topic 4 - What are you guys working on to tangibly move people forward in this space? Are there any resources or projects they should be aware of? Topic 5 - When you’re a foundational technology, such as networking or storage, it can be tough to adapt rapid DevOps type activities or culture. How much of NRE or DevNetOps is tooling (automation, controllers) and how much is culture changes? Topic 6 - Change is always a journey. What are some of the steps that you’re seeing people take towards NRE or DevNetOps, and maybe what are some of the common early mistakes they make?
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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Navigating the Engineering Career Paths
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, as well as some of the things you’re working on these days at Stripe. Topic 2 - We’ve discussed the career mindset of people more on the sales/marketing side of companies, but you’re beginning to look at this within engineering teams. Let’s start with the framework of how you think about that for yourself and then for people within your team. Topic 3 - What are traditional vs non traditional IC and manager paths you can explore? Topic 4 - How do you think about the engineer vs manager track? Does it always have to be these two options, or are you seeing other paths, maybe more senior options as an IC? Topic 5 - What are some variations on the above for underrepresented groups?
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Apr 03, 2019 |
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Real-World SRE Perspectives
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us about your background, and some of the things you work on today as it relates to SRE and CRE teams. Topic 2 - Let's talk about what SRE is intended to do, and maybe how it differs (or is the same) from existing teams that might be labeled "Ops" or "DevOps". Maybe we can also talk about some of the types of skills that highlight what SRE does. Topic 3 - What are some of the ways to avoid an SRE (or CRE) team just becoming the band-aid team to fix all the things that developers don't want to put into code because they are under deadlines (security, bug fixed, scalability, etc.)? Topic 4 - We're hearing more about these terms "AIOps" and "ChaosEngineering". How much can SRE/CRE teams augment applications through tools that either bring deeper insight (e.g. AIOps) or create scenarios that developers can't emulate (e.g. Chaos)? Topic 5 - You've been around SRE/CRE for a while now. What are some of the positive and negative lessons you've learned and could share with the audience?
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Exploring the SaaS Business Model
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SHOW INTERVIEW LINKS: Aneel’s Background: From engineering and product roles at IBM to marketing and go to market roles at Cisco and a number of SaaS startups, with a brief stint as a Research Director at Gartner. Has been a frequent speaker at events like Velocity and been on many podcasts, including this one, Andreessen Horowitz’s, and Microsoft’s Open Source Show.
SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. We’ve known each other for quite a while, but tell our audience about your last 10 years in gaining a ton of experience around startups and SaaS-based businesses. Topic 2 - A few weeks ago, in the middle of a Twitter conversation, you said “SaaS changes everything”. Let’s start with the most basic things. How is a SaaS-delivered business different than a traditional software business? (development, go-to-market, marketing, profitability (or loss) models) Topic 3 - Digging into the sales and marketing funnel, walk us through what typically happens from awareness to sign-up to early/free trial to actual customer engagement, and how a SaaS company is measuring along the way. Topic 4 - Help us understand the economics of product development in a SaaS business. Not only do you have the normal costs/challenges of building the software, but you have the ongoing costs of running the SaaS operations. Topic 5 - What are some of the critical metrics and measurements that the SaaS company and their VCs are typically looking at? Topic 6 - What is the thought process of SaaS companies about their service eventually becoming an AWS service at the next re:Invent?
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Mar 20, 2019 |
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AIOps for Security and Breach Protection
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SHOW NOTES: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. You have quite an interesting and impressive background. Can you talk a little bit about your work in academia prior to RiskIQ, and then what drew you to this space? Topic 2 - RiskIQ focuses on helping companies mitigate massive security attacks. For people that don’t live in the security domain, can you give us a sense of what one of these attacks and breaches look like? Topic 3 - Can you give us a sense of how many of these massive attacks are utilizing new techniques, or is it variants of existing techniques, or just old techniques looking for new (vulnerable) targets? And are there tools to help companies understand how to prioritize against these? Topic 4 - Where are we in the industry in terms of the intersection of security best practices that IT teams can control, and when ML-driven capabilities can augment for more proactive security? Topic 5 - What are some of the things that you’re recommending to companies that are helping to make immediate impacts to them preventing or reducing massive breaches?
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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New Tools for Cloud Native Developers
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your background prior to Pulumi, and your motivation for creating Pulumi. Topic 2 - Pulumi’s stated goal is “Create, deploy, and manage modern cloud apps and infrastructure”. Break that down for us, as it cuts across a lot of different job functions and (currently) different tooling being used today. Topic 3 - Between serverless and containers, it’s been pretty well acknowledged that the developer experience has a long way to go. Lots of burden put on the developer to understand the underlying systems. How does Pulumi attempt to simply or standardize around this challenge? Topic 4 - You obviously have a bunch of experience with developer communities from your days at Microsoft. Getting developers to standardize on things in mass is not a simple task. What are some of the ways to create movement to newer tools or technologies? Topic 5 - What are some of your expectations about how much of the software supply-chain, from writing code to testing/securing code to deploying will have to get disrupted with new cloud-native applications (containers, serverless, etc.) and how much do you feel like is solved enough to leave in place? Feedback?
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Mar 06, 2019 |
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Discussing Service Mesh Architectures
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. It’s been a couple years since HashiCorp has been on the show, so give us an update on the company - big round of funding ($100M) in November. Topic 2 - A couple months ago we saw you in a video called “What is a Service Mesh?”. It was intended to be a “let’s make this simple” and you realize that a Service Mesh could be a lot of things - L4-L7 routing, Proxy, Encryption, Authentication, Application patterns. Is a Service Mesh solving a new problem, or is it pulling together lots of things that have existed at L4-L7 and application stacks in the past? Topic 3 - “Service Mesh” has become a pretty crowded and fragmented market over the last couple years. HashiCorp Consul has been around since 2014 (was originally “Service Discovery”) and now there’s Linkerd, Istio, Envoy and a bunch of variations. As you talk to people in the market, how are they evaluating the options out there? Topic 4 - Consul has evolved from Service Discovery to Service Mesh, and seems to have come from more of an authentication and security perspective (some others tends to be more routing-centric). Are there use-cases when one Service Mesh is a better fit than others, or should we expect that all/most of them will more or less converged on features over the next 12-24 months? Topic 5 - Can you give us some examples of how companies are using Service Meshes today (parts or all of the capabilities) and what teams are usually driving the adoption (infra/ops, security, app-dev, etc.)?
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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Evolution of Public Cloud Integrators
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show Jeff. Tell us about your background, the founding of 2nd Watch, and how the company has evolved over the last few years. Topic 2 - We got to know 2nd Watch at one of the first re:Invent shows, as they had one of the largest booths on the floor. At the time, they were listed as one of AWS’s best partners. Today, 2ndWatch provides management tools, migration tools, systems-integration capabilities. How does 2ndWatch think of themselves? Topic 3 - What are the concerns of your customers today, and how does 2ndWatch think about matching customer demands and the types of tools/services/capabilities that you provide today? Topic 4 - We’d like to pick your brain about the usage and insights you’re seeing from your customers usage of AWS. It’s mentioned that 100% are using DynamoDB, 53% are using Elastic Kubernetes, and are fast growing section are using things likes Athena, Glue and Sagemaker. What are some of the types of applications that you’re seeing customer build that leverage these new models? Topic 5 - With technologies like Outpost being announced, after so many years of AWS saying “Cloud or legacy Data Center”, how do you see this impacting the thought process of customers or potential customers? Feedback?
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Feb 20, 2019 |
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Mid Career Job Changes
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Welcome back to the show. Want to talk about the pros and cons of various types of jobs in and around the IT industry - Vendors, Integrators, Contractors, Consultants, IT within a Company (Customer) Topic 2 - Most of the 2000s and about half of the 2010s were a huge boom for remote workers. It feels like that trend is reversing. Lots of Silicon Valley companies are reversing it, the major Public Cloud providers are specific about location, IBM had a push back towards offices. Walking the fine line between a remote team or an in office team. Also, challenges to stepping into leadership. Some leadership is not remote friendly historically Topic 3 - If you decide that you want to work around “emerging” technologies, you’re usually having to decide between a few critical factors - travel, visibility/marketing/advocating, salary certainty, and career path. Topic 4 - “Move up the stack” or “Move towards value” - Is this something that is realistic for people that have 5+ years in a skill set? What are some realistic things people could do in this domain? Topic 5 - What are some examples you’ve seen or recommends you’ve been given about how to make these transitions? Feedback?
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Feb 15, 2019 |
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Multi-Cloud Security
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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A Serverless Look Ahead for 2019
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Happy New Year, hope you’re having a good 2019. It’s been a while since you were last on the show. As the creator of Jeff, what have you been up to lately? Topic 2 - Let’s talk about a basic thing that seems to confuse people. What’s the new definition, or the actual difference (if there is any), between “Serverless” and “Functions as a Service”. Topic 3 - I’ve seen you mention several times on Twitter that, “Few people really understand how powerful serverless can be. They focus on the wrong things.” Help us get focused on the important parts. Topic 4 - I’ve also seen you say that “with serverless, infrastructure is a rounding error.” Walk us through the economics of your experiences with serverless, and how you think about “profitable software”. Topic 5 - Why do you think it seems like so many of the other cloud offerings are so far behind AWS Lambda? Topic 6 - At a high level, what is working well in serverless, and what is still complicated or missing? What’s your wishlist for 2019? Feedback?
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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An AI and ML Look Ahead for 2019
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Happy New Year and welcome back to the show, it’s been just over a year. For those that didn’t hear that show or might be new to TWIML & AI, tell us about your background and some of your AI/ML focus now. Topic 2 - Let’s start with the things that are considered “mainstream” with AI & ML today. Fraud detection, recommendation engines, facial recognition, speech recognition, auto-completions. What’s missing from that list, and how “commodity” have those technologies, tools, datasets, cloud services become? Topic 3 -On the flipside, what are some of the areas where research or just the massive cloud providers are focused today? Topic 4 - A couple years ago it seemed like TWIML & AI was a mix of technology discussions and business/social impacts. This past year seemed to be a deeper focus on the underlying technologies. What’s the current state of the balance between AI & ML for computing improvement vs. concerns about personal privacy, etc.? Topic 5 - What’s the “getting started” curve look like for companies that want/need to add or integrate AI & ML into their applications? What are some numbers you hear about cost of engineers, sizes of datasets, number of experiments and models needed to run, etc.? Topic 6 - What are some of the things you’re really looking forward to in 2019, whether it’s technology or trends or something else? Feedback?
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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An ITOps & Infrastructure Look Ahead for 2019
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Welcome to the show. For anyone that isn’t already a listener to one of the many Packet Pushers podcasts, give us a little bit on your background. Topic 2 - From an ITOps perspective, it seems like the last few years have been focused on “Software-defined” or “Hyper-Converged”, “Hybrid Cloud” and various forms of Automation. How much of those are real concerns of ITOps, and how much of that is vendor hype? Topic 3 - As the usage of the public cloud grows, how much do you see ITOps professionals feeling like they can influence architecture and design, or feel like they are having to shift their focus to other tasks? Topic 4 - You’ve been around the industry for a while, both as a practitioner (hands-on engineer) and now with a broader industry perspective. What are the biggest changes you’ve seen over the last couple years, and what are the areas that just never seem to change/evolve? Topic 5 - We know that application teams are becoming more ingrained in business decisions (lines-of-business, etc.), but is that same thing happening with the ITOps teams as well? Topic 6 - What are some of the ITOps and Infrastructure trends that you expect to be following/exploring more in 2019? Feedback?
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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A Cloud-Native Apps Look Ahead for 2019
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us a little bit about your background, and what motivates you to continue to dig into every aspect of Cloud-native application development? Topic 2 - Developers have lots of opinions and approaches to building software. Have you seen much in terms of commonality or consistency about how developers are building cloud-native applications? Topic 3 - What are some of the areas that developers really love today, and some areas where developers are really frustrated? Topic 4 - A decade ago, it was all about the LAMP stack. We hear about the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack, but also lots of discussions about things like Kafka and more real-time applications. Are you seeing trends around application stacks, or is it really about lots of options now as applications move to microservices (and serverless)? Topic 5 - SED covered quite a few aspects of Machine Learning in 2018. What are some of the things you’ve learned about ML usage and how it’s impacting application developers? Topic 6 - What are some of the topics that you’re really interested to explore in 2019? Feedback?
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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A DevOps Look Ahead for 2019
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Show Notes: Topic 1 - Happy New Year. Tell us a little bit about your background, why you’re drawn to the DevOps space, and maybe some of your goals for 2019. Topic 2 - What is the state of DevOps heading into 2019? We’ve seen it evolve from The Phoenix Project and “10 Deploys a Day” CI/CD to Infrastructure as a Code and HugOps. Topic 3 - It feels like DevOps is sort of at a crossroads, with a bunch of newer things emerging, from SRE to DevSecOps to NewOps. It that the market being uncomfortable with DevOps, or sort of a 2nd-generation set of knowledge emerging? Topic 4 - From a technology perspective, DevOps always seems to attract the CI/CD tools and then the Chef/Puppet/Ansible/Salt tools, and now there is somewhat of a shift to immutability with things like Containers/Kubernetes or even serverless. Is there a technology focus for DevOps in 2019? How does NewOps fit into this space? Topic 5 - From a culture perspective, there’s been HugOps and Blameless Post-Mortems and Empathy, all focused on cohesity between business and technical in owning challenges/goals/results. Are there culture-side frameworks that are emerging and gaining traction? Topic 6 - As you listen to the community, what we some of the most common tips and suggestions that you find help people and groups to be more successful in the DevOps domain? Feedback?
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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2018 Year in Review
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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CI/CD and Drone.io
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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Application Delivery and Snapt
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Serverless Management and Knative
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Both of you are Cloudcast alumni. Tell us about this new company that you’ve started. Topic 2 - Sebastian, the last time we spoke with you, you had created the Kubeless project (at Skipboxx), just before selling it to Bitnami. That was when “Serverless on Kubernetes” was beginning to get very fragmented. Since then, Knative has come along to try and bring some unity around Serverless on Kubernetes. Give our listeners some basic understanding of how Knative works. Topic 3 - Let’s talk about TriggerMesh. Introduce us to the technology, and the role it plays in a Serverless or Knative or FaaS management environment? Topic 4 - Where do you expect to see the most innovation around Knative - Serving, Builds or Events? What are some of the areas where TriggerMesh is focused? Topic 5 - What are some of the serverless use-cases that you’re hearing about from early customers? Topic 6 - What are some of the things that customers are beginning to ask for that have surprised you? Feedback?
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Dec 06, 2018 |
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All of the 2018 AWS reInvent Announcements
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Dec 01, 2018 |
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Revolutionizing Big Data Apps
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Give us a little bit of your background and what motivated you to start Rockset. Topic 2 - Sometimes we have founder guests that have a past of previous startups. And sometimes we have founder guests that are introducing something that sounds like it breaks most of the previous rules we’ve known. Let’s walk through what Rockset is attempting to deliver - “Apps without Pipelines”, “Serverless search”, “Schemaless ingest”, “natively uses SQL.” Topic 3 - Let’s talk about some of the use-cases that might not have been possible before Rockset, or were overly complex or expensive before Rockset? Topic 4 - You highlight that all of this is accessible via SQL, which is widely known and used by both technologists and typical data analysts. When you combine this with serverless concepts, is the focus of Rockset very much on making it easier for the masses to build and use data-centric applications? Topic 5 - What is some of the early feedback that you’re getting from users or the community about how the RockSet approach is different for them?
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Reinventing Software Collaboration
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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show, both us you. Give us a little bit of your backgrounds, and how you got together to start Clubhouse. Topic 2 - Tell us about the Clubhouse platform. It’s focused on helping companies build software more rapidly and with better collaboration. What was broken about software development before Clubhouse came along? Topic 3 - Both of your have been involved in software development for many years. We love talking to founders that have a built a product that they need/want to use. What were some of your moments that convinced you that it was time to build something new vs. being frustrated with what existed? Topic 4 - Let’s talk about the Clubhouse platform. What makes it unique, and what are some of the benefits of bringing together things like Stories, Project Metrics, Kanbana boards, integrated Collaboration into a single platform vs. many tools. Topic 5 - The Enterprise version of Clubhouse just shipped. The company already has more than 1000 active customers. What have you learned from them that helped shape the Enterprise product?
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Nov 21, 2018 |
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Getting Started with UX Research
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Nov 14, 2018 |
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Tales From a DevOps Transformation
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Show Number: 370 Overview: Aaron talks with Lee Eason (@leejeason; Director of DevOps at Ipreo and the co-founder of Tekata.io) at All Things Open about his DevOps transformation for all of the organization’s 30+ products and 65+ scrum teams leading to a dramatic reduction in manual work and an increase in quality and customer satisfaction across the board. Cloud News of the Week:
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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What We Know (now) About Serverless
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Show Number: 369 Overview: Aaron talks with Pam Selle (@pamasaur; Software Engineering Lead at @IOPipes) at All Things Open about the current state of Serverless applications, Serverless monitoring, and the evolution of Serverless DevOps. Cloud News of the Week: Show Interview Links:
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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(Part III) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars
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Show Number: 368 Overview: Brian talks with Mee-Jung Jang (@MeeJungJang, Managing Director @TechStars) about starting the program, engaging with MetLife as a corporate partner, the structure of the TechStars program, how the companies move forward beyond Demo Day, and what's next. Show Links:
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Oct 25, 2018 |
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(Part II) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars
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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. Show Notes:
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Oct 17, 2018 |
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(Part I) MetLife Digital Accelerator Powered by TechStars
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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. Show Notes:
Company 2: Enroll Hero [Update] Secured pilots with MetLife and Northwestern Mutual
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Taking Spinnaker for a Spin
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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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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Interactive Learning for Cloud-Native
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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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Sep 26, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #363 - IoT and APIs
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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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Sep 20, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #362 - Security & Service Meshes
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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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Sep 12, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #361 - Single Pane of Glass at USA Today
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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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Sep 05, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #360 - Multi-Cloud Cost Modeling
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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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Aug 29, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #359 - Exploring the Realities of Innovation at Scale
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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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Aug 22, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #358 - Exploring the Business Side of Open Source Software
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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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Aug 15, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #357 - NFV, SDN, IoT from a Hackers Perspective
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Aaron talks with Ray Watson (@RayRedacted, VP of Global Technology, Masergy) about a wide range of emerging technology topics, including NFV, SDN, IoT, Hybrid Networking and Managed Security. They also explore the evolution of Hacking.
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #356 - Disaggregating Networking Software
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Brian talks with Devesh Garg (Co-Founder/CEO of @arrcusinc) about the launch of Arrcus, the evolution of data networking and variations in market segments, and what makes ArcOS unique in a world of network operating systems.
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #355 - Exploring IoT Edge
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Aaron talks with Farah Papaioannou & Kilton Hopkins (@kiltonhopkins), co-founders at @EdgeWorxIO, about the evolving architecture of edge computing and some of the common misconceptions, where and how to store, run, and transport data while being mindful to security.
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Feedback?Topic 1 - Introductions: Farah - VC turned Entrepreneur - Also involved with SolidFire early? Kilton - IoT for the City of San Francisco and IoT program director for Northeastern University
Topic 2 - What can you tell us about the new venture?
Topic 3 - Before we dig into the platform, what is your definition of edge? Do you see it as Stacey did in her article as multiple layers of edge (device, gateway, processing cluster, cloud)
Topic 4 - What problem are you trying to solve? Explain what you mean by running applications at the data source and solving the problem of latency on round trips?
Topic 5 - OK, with the basics out of the way… Do you envision this as a platform? If so, what kind of platform and what applications (or micro services) would be a good fit? Are some/all of this open source? Where is the secret sauce (proprietary mesh framework between edge and cloud?)
Topic 6 - Lastly, what security measures do we have to worry about and what challenges do customers face in this space at present?
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #354 - Prepping for a Product Launch
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Aaron and Brian talk about some of the behind the scenes details on product launches - both new products and on-going updates.
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Topic 3 - What do you consider a successful product launch?
Topic 4 - How have product launches changed over the years, for things you’ve worked on? Topic 5 - What are some commons mistakes you see companies make with launches? Feedback?
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Jul 12, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #353 - The 2018 Mid-Year Show
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Aaron and Brian talk about the first half of 2018: Acquisitions and IPOs, Rating and ranking the Public Cloud, a look at aspects of Private Cloud, Containers and Kubernetes, HCI and GDPR, as well as their perspectives on AI and IoT.
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Topic 1 - It’s been a busy year for Cloudcast alumni in 2018
Topic 2 - How would you handicap the public cloud market (leaders, laggards, emerging trends)?
Topic 3 - Brian’s involved with containers, Aaron’s involved with Storage and HCI and some cloud integration, what’s interesting in those areas? What are the biggest trends you’re seeing in the private cloud / data center market?
Feedback?Topic 4 - We’ve been trying to incorporate more AI and IoT into the shows this year. What have you learned so far, what has surprised you, where do you still have questions?
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #352 - Considering New Hosts for The Cloudcast
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Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja) about the World Cup, women in tech events, and brainstorming about potential new hosts and formats for The Cloudcast.
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #351 - Reviewing DockerCon 2018
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Brian talks with Kendrick “Kenny” Coleman (@kendrickcoleman) about DockerCon 2018 - the announcements, the overall vibe of the event, and how the community is evolving around the event.
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #350 - Accenture Cloud Platform
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Aaron and Brian talk with Michael Liebow (@mliebow, Global Managing Director, @AccentureCloud) about evolving the Accenture culture to deliver on-demand cloud services, working across multiple cloud platforms, managing complex cloud billing models, and leveraging serverless technology to improve operations.
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #349 - VMware Cloud Networking
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Aaron and Brian talk with Peder Ulander (@ulander, VP Marketing, Networking and Security @VMware) about still being interesting, the evolution of software-defined networking, how to interconnect cloud networks, and which roles and skills are needed to manage today's cloud networks.
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May 31, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #348 - Bringing Serverless to Rock 'n Roll
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Aaron and Brian talk with Michael Garski (Director of Software Engineering @FenderDigital) about building serverless applications for their Fender Play digital learning platform. He explains how the Lambdas are built, version controlled and tested, as well as provides into the broader architecture and how their Dev and Ops teams are integrated.
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May 24, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #347 - The Critical Skills for AI and ML
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Aaron and Brian talk with Chao Han, (VP & Head of R&D at @Lucidworks) about critical Data Science skills for AI and ML, how Data Scientists engage with Business Leaders, the Lucidworks AI platform, and emerging research in the AI/ML space.
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May 17, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #346 - What is Observability?
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Brian talks with Christine Yen (@cyen, Co-Founder at @honeycombio) about the concept of Observability, why it's needed with new application and failure patterns, how to think about testing in production, and how to manage the collection of Observability data.
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May 09, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #345 - Understanding Google Cloud Databases
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Brian talks with Dominic Preuss (@deesix, Director Product Management @GoogleCloud) about the breadth of GCP's database portfolio, the adoption of GCP within the Enterprise, Big Data usage, and how the concept of "serverless" applies to database infrastructure.
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May 02, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #344 - Bringing AI to Edge Computing
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Aaron and Brian talk with Simon Crosby (@simoncrosby, CTO) and Simon Aspinall (@saspinall, CMO) at new AI startup SWIM.AI about the changing landscape of the cloud and edge, the vertical industry opportunities with edge computing, how AI is being applied to real-time events, and how SWIM is enabling new thinking for those use-cases.
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Apr 25, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #343 - Container Vulnerability Scanning
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Aaron and Tyler Britten talk with Liz Rice (@lizrice, Technology Evangelist @AquaSecTeam) about what's easy—and what's not—about finding and patching security vulnerabilities in containers. This is a cross-over show with @PodCTL podcast.
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #342 - Understanding Databases in AWS
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Brian talks with Steve Abraham (Principal Solutions Architect @ Amazon Web Services) building and migrating databases in the cloud, how companies are managing migrations, the demands for open source databases, and how the worlds of database and serverless are intersecting.
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #341 - Modeling & Managing Enterprise Applications
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Aaron talks with Rahul Ravulur (@ravulur, Co-Founder & CEO of @AppOrbit) about how companies are managing the transition from Legacy applications to Cloud-native applications, the challenges of modeling new environments, and how deployments have changed in the past decade.
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Apr 05, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #340 - Adding AI into Software Platforms
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Brian talks with Srinivas Krishnamurti (@skrishna09; Founder/CEO of Zugata) about the evolution of workplace management, how companies should think about problems that might require AI, the level of complexity needed to add AI to existing platforms, and how to manage the Human-to-AI interactions in software.
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #339 - Understanding Cryptocurrencies & Markets
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Aaron talks with Jesse Proudman (@jesseproudman; Founder of @StrixLeviathan) about entrepreneurship, his new company Strix Leviathan, the basics of cryptocurrencies and markets, how these markets are evolving and what's next for their platform. Show Links:
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #338 - Governance and DevSecOps
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Brian talks with Josh Stella (@joshstella, CEO of @FugueHQ) about what DevSecOps means, how companies manage the tension between Developer agility and Operations stability, how to codify Governance via code, and early steps to success in DevOps culture.
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #337 - Cutivating IoT From Farm to Cloud
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Brian talks with Steve Ridder (@saridder, CEO @teralytic) and Dan Casson (VP Engineering, @teralytic) about #AgTech, nanofabrication, engaging with large, complex ecosystems, building modern IoT platforms, and how data is helping to advance one of the oldest industries in the world.
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #336 - The Evolving Role of Cloud Communities
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Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja, Director Influence Marketing @VMware, Co-Host @Siftspod podcast) about the change dynamics of tech communities, how people self-select into new communities (or channels), the changing rules of IT buying, whether techies needs some business skills, and tips/tricks for mentoring the next generation.
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #335 - Managing Waste in the Cloud
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Brian talks with Andy Richman (Product Manager @ParkMyCloud) about which groups are responsible for cloud costs, how expectations and behaviors are changing as applications move to the cloud (Finance vs. DevOps), do we need DevFinOps, the technology that's making it easier to reduce costs, and tips for driving better cost management.
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #334 - The Future of Edge Computing
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Brian talks with Derek Collison (@derekcollison, Founder and CEO at Synadia Communications) about the future of edge computing, the impact of AI/ML on edge systems, and how Telcos and open source communities will evolve with edge computing opportunities. Show Links:
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The Cloudcast #333 - Infrastructure 3.0 for AI and ML
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Aaron and Brian talk with Lenny Pruss (@lennypruss, Partner at Amplify Partners) about the evolution of application and infrastructure architectures, how AI/ML are radically changing how applications are designed, the new inputs to application systems, and how VCs are investing in companies that can augment new cloud services.
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #332 - A Cloud Perspective from Israel
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Brian talks with Ariel Munafo (@ArielMunafo, TotusCloud) and Amit Dunsky (@amit_dunsky, high-T Cloud Computing), co-hosts of the CloudTalk Podcast about the Cloud Computing market in Israel. This is a co-branded show and will also be published on CloudTalk podcast channel.
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Feb 02, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #331 - Has SRE replaced DevOps?
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Aaron and Brian talk with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, CEO @rackngo; Kubernetes Cluster Ops Co-Chair) about the consistency, continuum and confusion between the concepts of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #330 - Oracle’s Next-Generation Cloud IaaS
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Brian talks with Clay Magouyrk (@cmagoyrk, Vice President at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) about the architecture of the Oracle cloud, how it manages bare-metal VMs and containers, how Oracle integrates on-premises and cloud workloads, and how it integrates with PaaS and SaaS services.
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #329 - Tech Trade Shows in 2018
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Aaron and Brian attend a lot of technology events throughout the year. They give their suggestions to trade show organizers and attendees for getting the most of out 2018 events.
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #328 - Creating a Tech Podcast
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Aaron and Brian give some tips and suggestions for anyone wanting to start a tech podcast.
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Jan 04, 2018 |
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The Cloudcast #327 - 2017 in Review & 2018 Predictions
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Aaron and Brian have many, many, many thoughts on the tech that shaped 2017, and make some predictions about 2018 and beyond.
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Dec 27, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #326 - The 10 Biggest Stories of the Year
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Aaron and Brian talk about the biggest news stories and trends that happened in 2017.
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Feedback?Container Stuff 1. Docker - New CEO; Docker > Moby; 2. Kubernetes winning the Container Orchestration Wars - but do we now only talk about it being boring and irrelevant? Cloud Stuff - When do we hit the Cloud Tipping Point 3. Azure getting bigger, but big enough? ($20B run-rate; includes O365) 4. AWS re:Invent - can it be stopped? ($18B run-rate) 5. Google Cloud - still ??? (says almost 2,500 employees) Infrastructure Stuff 6. New Blue Print Emerging? Hyper-Converged Infrastructure & “Secondary Storage” all with public cloud integration. Also virtualization vs. containers orchestration 7. VMware’s cloud direction? - Big 3 Public Clouds have placed their bets (AWS/VMware, GCP/Nutanix/Cisco/VMware, Azure/Azure Stack) 8. Where does Serverless Fit? Does it? Is it a Public Cloud only play? Stuff we don’t understand - We have been Emerging Tech, Where is the next emerging tech? 9. BitCoin / Blockchain - did you bet your mortgage on it? Aaron’s interesting conversation around this recently 10. AI & ML - AWS is trying to make it easier (DeepLens); everyone including AI in their products
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #325 - The Next Step in Development Automation
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Aaron and Brian talk with Rod Johnson (@springrod, Co-Founder & CEO @atomist) about the evolution of development frameworks, developer productivity, the Spring community, and how Atomist is helping simplify the experience of developers interacting with containers and Kubernetes and microservices.
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Dec 15, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #324 - Data Management as a Kubernetes Service
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Brian talks with Niraj Tolia (@nirajtolia, Co-Founder/CEO of @KastenHQ) at KubeCon about the evolution of data management with cloud and containers, the Kasten K10 platform and open source Kanister project, how Kubernetes is changing how we interact and manage data, and how a new approaches to data management can benefit from the CNCF community of projects.
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #323 - OpenTracing for Distributed Microservices
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Brian talks with Ben Sigelman (@el_bhs, Co-Founder/CEO of @LightStepHQ) at KubeCon about his experiences at Google, the evolution of Open Tracing, the public launch of Lightstep, how operations teams are adapting to microservices applications, and how Lightstep is interacting with new CNCF projects like Envoy and Istio.
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Dec 09, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #322 - Build and Deploy Cloud-Native Apps
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Aaron talks with Marc Holmes (@marcholmes, VP Marketing @Chef) about the exploding usage of containers, how application management is changing, how Chef is rethinking the tools they provide to SysAdmins, Ops and Developers, and how Chef Habitat is evolving in Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry environments.
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #321 - This Week in ML and AI
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Aaron & Brian talk with Sam Charrington (@samcharrington, Host of This Week in ML & AI Podcast) about the differences between AI and ML, how to manage data gravity, the maturity of the technology, press coverage, and the societal impacts of AI and ML.
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #320 - Docker adds Kubernetes, now what...
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Aaron and Brian talk with Nigel Poulton (@nigelpoulton, Author and International Man of Tech Knowledge) about the evolution of the container ecosystem, the maturity of container technology, Docker's announcement of Kubernetes support and what's next, and how IT professionals are learning about containerizing applications.
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Nov 09, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #319 - Evolution of Prometheus Monitoring
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Brian and Tyler Britten talk Julius Volz (@juliusvolz, @PrometheusIO co-founder, promcon.io founder) about the evolution of Prometheus monitoring, from v1.0 to v2.0. We discuss the updated features and scalability, as well as best practices, lessons learned in production, and how Prometheus might interact with emerging projects such as Istio, Envoy and Linkerd.
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #318 - Evolution of Cloud Data Management
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Brian talks with Kenneth Hui (@kenhuiny, Technical Marketing Engineer) and Andrew Miller (@andriven, Technical Marketing Manager) at @Rubrik about how Cloud Data Management is changing with the evolution of distributed systems and the use of the public cloud.
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Oct 27, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #317 - The State of the Serverless Ecosystem
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Brian talks with Ryan Brown (@ryan_sb, Sr. Software Engineer @Ansible, Author of ServerlessCode) about the overall state of the Serverless community after the recent ServerlessConf 2017 NYC, the breadth of focus areas for developers and business, the ways to integrate serverless into existing applications, and areas for newbies to the space to get started.
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Topic 1 - You’ve been heavily involved in Serverless since the very days, working on things like the ServerlessCode site as a side project. How are you seeing the community evolve?
Topic 2 - You gave a talk called “Harmonizing Serverless and Traditional Applications“. Outside of greenfield companies, that seems to be the common questions that companies are asking. What topics did you cover in your talk? |
Oct 20, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #316 - Automating to Improve Cloud Spending
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Brian talks with Jay Chapel (@parkmycloudjay, Co-Founder/CEO of ParkMyCloud) about the complexity of cloud pricing models, how IT and DevOps teams view spending differently, how to integrate monitoring and automation, and who is critical to making buying decisions in the cloud.
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #315 - How Newbies are Learning Today
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Brian talks with Tanya Selvog (@AWSNewbie, Jr. Web-Developer, Full-Stack Developer in training) about how new(er) engineers are learning skills, engaging with learning communities, and adapting to a changing job market for software developers.
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Oct 05, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #314 - Managing the Container Herd
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Aaron talks with Shannon Williams (@smw355, Co-Founder Rancher Labs) about the state of the container ecosystem, the evolution of Rancher, and the explosive growth of Kubernetes.
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #313 - Making Sense of New Technologies
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Brian talks with Alex Williams (@alexwilliams, Founder of The New Stack) about the evolution of Cloud-Native technologies, the challenges of trying to keep up with rapid change, making sense of data that explains the industry, and how to stay connected to the communities of people driving the technology changes.
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Sep 22, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #312 - An Introduction to Istio
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Brian talks with Jason McGee (@jrmcgee, VP & CTO IBM Cloud) about the origin of the Istio project, the challenges of large project teams, how Istio helps application teams, and the evolution of cloud-native application frameworks on Kubernetes.
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #311 - Google Cloud & Kubernetes
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Brian talks with Chen Goldberg (@GoldbergChen, Director of Engineering, Container Engine & Kubernetes) and Mark Mandel (@Neurotic, Developer Advocate, Co-Host Google Cloud Platform podcast) at Google.about the state of Kubernetes maturity, how Google manages cloud services and open-source projects, Developers perspectives on Kubernetes, "boring" applications, Kubernetes Federation, and trends around Kubernetes community participation.
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #310 - The Mid-Year 2017 Update
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Aaron and Brian talk about the new partnership with A Cloud Guru, as well as a 2017 Mid-Year update around all things cloud - VMworld ecosystem, Serverless Ecosystem, Kubernetes for All, etc..
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #309 - Secrets Management for Secure Microservices
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Brian talks with Seth Vargo (@sethvargo, Director of Technical Advocacy @HashiCorp) about the evolving security footprint of modern applications, the increasing needs for secrets management with microservices, the challenges of managing encryption, how to maintain highly available environments, and the evolution of Pittsburgh as a tech city.
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Aug 30, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #308 - Can VMware cross the Cloud chasm?
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Brian talks with Keith Townsend (@ctoadvisor, The CTO Advisor) and Stu Miniman (@stu, Wikibon | theCUBE) about the upcoming VMworld 2017 event, VMware’s relevance in a cloud-centric world, the Dell merger 2yrs later and the advice they would give Michael Dell or Pat Gelsinger.
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #307 - Cloud Careers, After the Whispers
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Brian talks with Amy Lewis (@commsninja), John Troyer (@jtroyer) and Matthew Broberg (@mjbrender) from the Geek Whisperers podcast (@geek-whisperers) about the closing of their podcast/community, the evolution of cloud careers, and lessons learned from community interaction.
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Aug 16, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #306 - PaaS Adoption from Around the World
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Aaron and Brian talk with Thurupathan Vijayakumar (@ThuruTweets, Solutions Architect | Developer | Microsoft Azure MVP) about cloud deployments in Asia, the business drivers for using public cloud services, the challenges of data sovereignty, and how companies are managing their organizations to align to microservices.
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Aug 11, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #305 - Last Week in AWS
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Aaron and Brian talk with Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig, Cloud Economist/Last Week with AWS) about the complexity of AWS bills, the rapid expansion of AWS services, the challenges of “best practices” and the biggest AWS trends and mistakes.
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- Big Data (Dynamo, Redshift, Kinesis) - IoT - Snowball or Snowmobile (raw data movement) - ECS (containers)
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Aug 04, 2017 |
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The ServerlessCast #8 - Managing Serverless Performance
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Jul 28, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #304 - Ansible, DevOps and Containers
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Brian talks with Robyn Bergeron (@robynbergeron, @Ansible Community Architect) about managing large OSS projects, how teams adopt DevOps culture and tools, the role of Containers with Ansible, the spread of OSS operations tools, and the role of automation with Serverless.
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Jul 17, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #303 - Public Cloud at a Tipping Point
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Aaron and Brian talk with Bernard Golden (@bernardgolden, CEO of Navica) about the future of the cloud computing marketplace, the expected rates of growths and areas that could impact forecasts positively or negatively.
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Jun 30, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #302 - How Many IoT Engineers Does it Take to Enable a Lightbulb
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Brian talks with Thomas Munn (@symgryph, Principal IoT Security Researcher at Cree Lighting) about the challenges of moving from manufacturing to software, planning for IoT-scale deployments, securing millions of devices, and how Ansible and Azure Cloud help solve scaling challenges.
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Jun 23, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #301 - SRE and Infrastructure Operations
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Brian talks with Rob Hirschfeld (@zehicle, Founder/CEO of @RackN) about the concepts of SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), the challenges of maintaining infrastructure software, emerging tools and the next-generation of operations.
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #300 - The Good, the Bad and the Boring
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Aaron and Brian talk about the evolution of Cloud Computing over that past 6+ years - The pace of change, the impact of open source and foundations, the critical elements of public cloud, and what has been a surprise.
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Topic 1 - We’re done nearly 7 days of shows (~160hrs), had 30 companies acquired, and over 3M+ listens. Thank you to everyone that listens and tells a friend. Rate the show on iTunes! Topic 2 - Looking back at the last 6+ years, what has surprised you the most or been the most expected? Pace of change? Rise of public cloud?
Topic 6- Where are we thinking about going with the show? AI, Business-Centric SaaS Apps, Multi-Cloud realities (or horrors)
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Jun 09, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #299 - The Discipline of Chaos Engineering
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Brian talks with Kolton Andrus (@KoltonAndrus, CEO of @GremlinInc) about his background at Amazon and Netflix, the discipline of Chaos Engineering, the challenges of breaking things in production, and Gremlin Inc’s approach to building better applications and systems.
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May 26, 2017 |
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The Cloudcast #298 - An Introduction to Linkerd
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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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May 18, 2017 |
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The ServerlessCast #7 - Go Sparta Framework
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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. Show Links:
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